Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread [Spoiler tag free, beware]

[Nayr]

But I'd definitely recommend reading the MS comic. http://koobismo.deviantart.com/gallery/

Why?

Why does it take some fan fiction to resolve what should have been resolved to everyone's satisfaction in the original game?

Of course someone can write extra fiction to explain stuff somehow, but that does not mean that's what the original makers of the thing even intended. Its someone else just trying to put their own icing on a cake that arrived wholly made of shit. I'm sure what Koobismo wrote is excellent, but good God man.

For the record, I liked Mass Effect 3's ending, vanilla and extended. But if you want to be realistic, it's impossible to please everyone because of their wide range of opinion.

The comic is just fun to read. Make of that what you will. Either way, it's time to move on from ME3's ending fiasco, going your whole life being bitter about five minutes of a video game is just sad.

[Reg]

Actually the whole ME3 game ending ruckus was pretty much over and we'd all moved on.  Until you appeared out of nowhere and revived it.  Now that's what's really sad.

[Morat20]

Actually the whole ME3 game ending ruckus was pretty much over and we'd all moved on.  Until you appeared out of nowhere and revived it.  Now that's what's really sad.

Some of us haven't finished the game yet!

But, you know, we already knew about the ending. it was hard not to know. :)

[Lantyssa]

For the record, I liked Mass Effect 3's ending, vanilla and extended. But if you want to be realistic, it's impossible to please everyone because of their wide range of opinion.

That's a poor argument since they managed to mostly please everyone up until the last few minutes of the third game.

[Stormwaltz]

Also I got to finally slap Jacob for being a son of a bitch, money well spent.

But... but the priiiiiiiize... 

[Sjofn]

I would've picked him! I would've! But no, some writer decided to be a jerk. Slaps ahoy!

[Nayr]

Also I got to finally slap Jacob for being a son of a bitch, money well spent.

But... but the priiiiiiiize... 

Jacob cheated on the priiiiize while she was in lockup. And he knocked up the woman he cheated with. Some harlot named Brynn Cole who has FemaleHawke's voice.(lol, he cheated on FemShep with FemHawke.)

[Sir T]

For the record, I liked Mass Effect 3's ending, vanilla and extended. But if you want to be realistic, it's impossible to please everyone because of their wide range of opinion.

How is near universal "THIS ENDING FREAKING SUCKS!!!" a wide range of opinion?

[Lantyssa]

Because they didn't agree with him, so they don't count.

[Sjofn]

Also I got to finally slap Jacob for being a son of a bitch, money well spent.

But... but the priiiiiiiize... 

Jacob cheated on the priiiiize while she was in lockup. And he knocked up the woman he cheated with. Some harlot named Brynn Cole who has FemaleHawke's voice.(lol, he cheated on FemShep with FemHawke.)

First time I played, it was with my Jacob romancin' LadyShep, and the second she opened her mouth asking if Jacob was okay, I was like OH MY GOD LADYHAWKE STOLE MY MAN. Because I could already tell. I could already tell.

God, it still makes me angry. No fucking way they would've had the balls to do that with a character straight dudes romanced, which is why it pissed me off SO much. It's not so much that Jacob was any great shakes or anything, it's just the principle of the thing. 

[Stormwaltz]

"Hey kids, do you like the rock and roll?"

ME3 Citadel soundtrack was made available for free in high-quality .wav format, but it's only officially available through Origin (I have little doubt it will show up elsewhere soon enough). Sam Hulick is streaming his contributions on Soundcloud.

[Nayr]

"Hey kids, do you like the rock and roll?"

ME3 Citadel soundtrack was made available for free in high-quality .wav format, but it's only officially available through Origin (I have little doubt it will show up elsewhere soon enough). Sam Hulick is streaming his contributions on Soundcloud.

Grabbed it last night. 'Tis awesome.

My favorites being. . .

10 - The End
12 - Liara's Theme
20 - Farewell and into the Inevitable

Also I laughed a little when I saw "You may cry now..." in the comment for number 20. Indicating that was the song Hulick was referring to when he said that he was doing a song with a "high potential for tears."

[goishen]

Grabbed it last night. 'Tis awesome.

It is awesome.   Liara's Theme is quite moving, and I actually loved her ending.    Especially when I had a dream about that very same thing like 5 or 6 years ago.

I've been too busy playing my Alliance Infiltration Unit to do much of anything else.

[kaid]

"Hey kids, do you like the rock and roll?"

ME3 Citadel soundtrack was made available for free in high-quality .wav format, but it's only officially available through Origin (I have little doubt it will show up elsewhere soon enough). Sam Hulick is streaming his contributions on Soundcloud.

Grabbed it last night. 'Tis awesome.

My favorites being. . .

10 - The End
12 - Liara's Theme
20 - Farewell and into the Inevitable

Also I laughed a little when I saw "You may cry now..." in the comment for number 20. Indicating that was the song Hulick was referring to when he said that he was doing a song with a "high potential for tears."

It was interesting playing the citadel DLC after you have already finished the game. It puts a very sad spin on what is a fun and amazingly amusing DLC. These guys are laughing and having fun even during the whole clone thing on the citadel and knowing how everything on the citadel ends in blood and horror.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, every once in a while I'd be like "fuck, when the end comes this makes it EVEN WORSE WAAAAAAH" and then something at the party would make me laugh and I'd smother that feeling back down.

[rk47]

I'm sure Anderson appreciates all the party Shepard's crew are throwing while he's getting his shit pushed in on Earth.

[Sjofn]

Hey man, he GAVE us that apartment. That ridiculously huge apartment.

[Nayr]

Hey man, he GAVE us that apartment. That ridiculously huge apartment.

That's no ordinary apartment. That's a fucking penthouse!

Also as the implications go, this is also apparently the same apartment that Anderson and Kahlee were living in during Mass Effect: Deception. The same apartment that Kai Leng bugged, broke into, and ate cereal.

I have to wonder now, how well do Alliance admirals get paid? lol And how does Anderson expect Shepard to afford its upkeep?

[Jeff Kelly]

He was Earth Councillor once so this penthouse was probably bought during his tenure as Councillor Anderson. Should pay a lot more than military too

[Nayr]

He was Earth Councillor once so this penthouse was probably bought during his tenure as Councillor Anderson. Should pay a lot more than military too

He's only councilor if you choose him to be. He still has the place even if you chose Udina instead.

And I don't think being Udina's bitch pays as well.


New subject:

One of the most beautiful parts of the Citadel DLC was Thane's memorial service. Shepard and Kolyat gathering people(Salarian Councilor, Garrus, Tali, EDI, Joker, Bailey, and Samara) in Shepard's apartment and them all talking about him(except Bailey and the Councilor, I guess the voice actors couldn't be gotten back), and ending it off with Kolyat telling Shepard that he's going to urge the Coucilor(who Thane died to save) to fund research into Kepral's Syndrome.

[Bunk]

I found it both sad and funny that the final line I heard from Zaeed (who's voice actor died shortly after making this DLC) was a comment about how he was planning on boobytrapping the coffee maker.

[Sjofn]

Basically every time Zaeed talked I was like and then .

[Nayr]

I found it both sad and funny that the final line I heard from Zaeed (who's voice actor died shortly after making this DLC) was a comment about how he was planning on boobytrapping the coffee maker.

Yeah, safe to say Zaeed and Garrus made my sweet penthouse into a deathtrap. lol

Garrus: So on the off chance you trigger an alarm you didn't know you had and hear a timer start counting down, then remember the code 6492, punch it into the keypad probably before the timer goes off. If you don't, well. . .  . . .blame Zaeed. And run like hell.

They should have rigged my Cereal cabinet and invited Kai Leng to come over for breakfast.

[Sjofn]

I hope you people ALSO did the much less boring party, because it is different. That's the one I did first, so while the low-key party had some awesome lines, I felt a bit bad for being such a boring host during that one. 

[Stormwaltz]

They should have rigged my Cereal cabinet and invited Kai Leng to come over for breakfast.

Dude. Major missed opportunity.

[Nayr]

I hope you people ALSO did the much less boring party, because it is different. That's the one I did first, so while the low-key party had some awesome lines, I felt a bit bad for being such a boring host during that one. 

Yeah I did. Pretty funny. Wrex and Grunt competing who can say Shepard's name the most. James and Ashley hooking up and her making him repeat a line of Spanish over and over which translates to something about her curves and him having no brakes. And that giggle, damn, if Ash were sober she'd be mortified over that.

They should have rigged my Cereal cabinet and invited Kai Leng to come over for breakfast.

Dude. Major missed opportunity.

It'd almost be cooler than when Shepard renegade interrupts, breaks his sword, then shanks him in the side with the omni-blade and says "That was for Thane you son of a bitch."

But at least Thane got the last laugh, even if he did bite it. "That assassin should be embarrassed. A terminally ill drell kept him from reaching his target." (And let's not forget that Kai Leng is supposed to be the Reaper-tech equivalent of the Six Million Dollar Man in ME3. And he still got his arse kicked by a drell with bad lungs.)

[Sir T]

Thane was my favorite character in ME 2. No question :(

[Nayr]

Thane was my favorite character in ME 2. No question :(

He was definitely an interesting character.

In ME3, Thane's death got a lot of flak. But I think they did it pretty well. Thane, in the final stages of his illness, running through the war-torn Citadel to help Shepard, then giving his life to save the Salarian Councilor from Kai Leng. (And kicking his ass for awhile too.) It's just that his illness mixed with the stab wound was too much.

And in Thane's last moments, he doesn't forget his prayers, and even has one done for Shepard.

It just missed a good closer, which Citadel added.

[Morat20]

Watching Thane's death made me wish I'd used him more for ME2. (I still have an insanity run to do there anyways). Really, the line about a terminally ill drell besting Kai Leng was great.

Thane went out the best way he could -- exactly as he wanted. Efficient, deadly, completed the damn job, and still had time to say his prayers and good-byes.

I liked Thane's ending. It did justice to the character.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, I couldn't complain too much about Thane's death, I suspect any complaining about that was more out of a vague sense of frustration that the ME2 squaddies were mostly left out in the cold (understandably so, but still).

I still need to do the Citadel DLC with my Ashley is actually alive save, but nngh. I just don't like ME3 Ashley. She's annoying and she has duckface.

[goishen]

Or does she have duckface and is therefore annoying?  :P

Ashley never bothered me.  My only problem with Ashley, at least in the first one, is she starts talking about god.  Luckily, that kind'a gets killed.  But she's a lot better than Kaidan.  Good god, whatta douche.

[Sir T]

Actually one of the reasons I started my ME I playthrough was so I could let that fucker die this time. Lets see which would be more satisfying, leaving him with the nuke or letting him die in a pointless suicide diversion attack.. decisions decisions...

[goishen]

I've left him to die with the nuke more times than I can count.  I wanna make sure he's dead, and doesn't pop up again in ME3.   "Look, Shepard..."  "AHHHGHGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"  BLAM BLAM BLAM!

[Sjofn]

<shrug> I like Kaidan fine. I don't have Carth Baggage, though, which seems to color a lot of people's opinions of him. If I was going to accuse him of anything, it would be of being kinda dull in ME1. And Kaidan is less I TOLD YOU SO OMG OMG OMG than Ashley is about Cerberus, so in my mind he "wins" on that alone.

Basically, the only reason I even have and Ashley-is-alive save is because I used someone else's to start up a ME2 playthrough at some point. It always felt more "right" to leave her anyway, she's a lot more BITCH YOU BEST LEAVE ME BEHIND OR I WILL KICK YOUR ASS about it.

[Ingmar]

Not seeing any douche in Kaidan at all. He's just a sort of slightly boring nice guy.