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Retake Mass Effect on Facebook
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PAX East Platoon
Adamantium93, So about those "Insightful' and "Philosophical" endings...
HoldTheLine, A website who's main asset is a forum which has gone to great length to unify the community.
Retakemasseffect.org, This is a resource site with fun things like daily initiatives (like an N7 avatar generator) to get people involved.
Retake Mass Effect Banner Templates
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Mass Effect 3 Resource Site with collection of statements and reports
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Is "clarification" DLC enough?
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Since we're getting paid DLC, is it enough for Bioware to just "clarify"?
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Bioware's Promises pre-game release and their PR response analysed
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Podcasts
This Week in Games 04/21/12 - Brent Weeks discusses ME3

Latest News/blogs
Random drabble from a country kid outside her comfort zone in the great Eastern megapolis
Forbes, Mass Effect 3 Ending 'Provoked A Bigger Fan Reaction Than Any Other' In Video Game History
IBT,'Mass Effect 3' Ending: Bioware, EA Guilty Of False Marketing? Legal Repercussions?
“Mass Effect 3 is Having a ‘Mass Effect’ on Its Consumers for Better or Worse”
Forbes, What Do the Fans Want? Talking with Retake Mass Effect
Game Front, Mass Effect 3 Ending: Change Could Have Empowered Game Writing
Kotaku Power 40
***Attention*** Mass Effect Survey Scam
Forbes, EA Shrugs Off Worst Company in America Title
Forbes, EA is the Worst Company in America, Now What?
BBC News, Mass Effect 3 to get extended ending at no cost to gamers
BioWare Announces Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut
Bioware blog,Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut
Forbes,Fans Victorious: Mass Effect 3 to Expand Ending with Free 'Extended Cut' DLC
Forbes, BioWare Announces Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut - But Is It A Victory For Fans?
"Mass Effect 3" Ending: Did Fan Protests Cause EA Stock Price To Drop?
Giant Bomb, Sticking the Landing
Forbes, The Real Precedent Being Set By Mass Effect 3 Protests
Forbes, Six Reasons Why Changing The Mass Effect 3 Ending Won't Threaten Its 'Artistic Integrity'
Killer Kittens from Mars, Charity sees the need, not the cause - German proverb
International Business Times, ‘Mass Effect 3’ Ending: Disappointed Fans Send Bioware 402 Cupcakes In Protest
California Literary Review, Reaping the Harvest of Poor Choices
Fprbes, Mass Effect 3 Protesters Sending Cupcakes to Bioware
Forbes, Why Most Websites Have to Make Nice to the Industry
Forbes, New Ending Setting Precedence?
Forbes, Commander Shepard Actor Mark Meer Weighs In On Mass Effect 3 Ending And DLC
Forbes on indoctrination theory
Forbes reports on Dr. Ray Muzyka's statement
Forbes, Why Child's Play Stopped Taking Donations From Retake Mass Effect
Forbes, Further Thoughts on Mass Effect 3's Ending and Future DLC
Forbes, Mass Effect 3 And Corporate Influence Over Commercial Art
CVG, Mass Effect 3: 86% think BioWare blew the ending
BBC news technology section
Dr. Ray Muzyka's statement on 21st March 2012
GotGame, The
customer is always right.
NY Daily News about Retake Mass Effect
The Telegraph in UK reporting about our movement
The wall street journal, Why the Ending of Mass Effect 3 Started a Furor
IBT, ‘Mass Effect 3’ Ending: ‘The New Yorker’ Weighs In On Fan Protests

Videos
'Mass Effect 3' Ending FAIL ('The Wanted' Parody) - Terence Jay Music
Mass Effect 3 Hamster Ending
Angry Joe, Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC Discussion
G4TV, Feedback: Mass Effect 3 Ending Controversy
Mass Effect 3: Never ending nightmare.
Jim Sterling gets it!
he Mass Effect 3 Indoctrination Theory: Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage (SPOILERS)
Retake Mass Effect - A Character Tribute
I Am the Very Model of a Mass Effect Enthusiast (SPOILERS)
Global EDMONTON, Cupcake protest against Mass Effect 3
RetakeMassEffect - Fan Testimonies
Mass Effect 3 Ending: Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage (SPOILERS)
Archengeia number 1, Mass Effect 3 Ending: My Thoughts, What Could Have Been, What Should Have Been
Archengeia number 2, Mass Effect 3: My Thoughts, Continued; Potential, Illusive Man, and Cerberus
Archengeia, Q&A: The Answers
Archengeia number 3, Mass Effect 3: Responses to Comments, The Importance of Choice, and The Indoctrination Theory
Archengeia number 4, Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC, The Analogy, and The Choice We Face
Smudboy, Mass Effect 3: Bookends of Destruction Part 1
Smudboy, Mass Effect 3: Bookends of Destruction Part 2
Smudboy, Mass Effect 3: Bookends of Destruction Part 3

Alernative endings created by fans
StElmo, Mass Effect 3 Alternative Cut Down Ending, Paragon Femshep
Mass Effect 3 "Extended Fan Cut"
Mass Effect 3 - Alernate ending, Liara as LI
Mass Effect 3: Re-Edited Ending
Mass Effect 3 - Alternate Fan Ending - Liara Version


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Modifié par DJBare, 22 avril 2012 - 09:29 .

[Nharia1]

Okay... its now 0230. I think I'll be going to bed now, night/morning/ afternoon all~! *waves then tac cloak ninja jumps out of a window and glides away*

[DJBare]

Nharia1 wrote...

Okay... its now 0230. I think I'll be going to bed now, night/morning/ afternoon all~! *waves then tac cloak ninja jumps out of a window and glides away*

Rest well Nharia.

[toffeetrooper]

Nharia1 wrote...

Goodwood wrote...

Nharia1 wrote...
*pulls a face at the mention of coffee* Blegh none for me thanks....
I'll stick with ice water for right now, since it's 0213.... Which means its time for me to be getting to sleep...

Finally, someone else who abhors coffee!

I could have sworn that you already knew about that... Like everytime Toffee and Chmarr are on, one of them happens to mention coffee and I'm always like "gimme root beer"

here you go

[toffeetrooper]

Jetfire99 wrote...

Morning Toffeeetrooper and to the rest of you.

morning jet

[Mokiki]

Good Morning guys hope you had a nice saturday.

Amusing Facebook ad even if it isn't aimed at Mass Effect.

[VivaLaWhatsername]

Hey all, I am back and I don't have to go anywhere for the rest of the night YAY! lol.

How is everything, anything much happen in the last 8 hours?

[toffeetrooper]

xHezz90 wrote...

Hey all, I am back and I don't have to go anywhere for the rest of the night YAY! lol.

How is everything, anything much happen in the last 8 hours?

hey hezz, just got on myself

[VivaLaWhatsername]

toffeetrooper wrote...

hey hezz, just got on myself

Well Hey, and welcome back hehe 

[Phoenix NL]

xHezz90 wrote...

toffeetrooper wrote...

hey hezz, just got on myself

Well Hey, and welcome back hehe 

Hey Hezz *hugs*

[toffeetrooper]

xHezz90 wrote...

toffeetrooper wrote...

hey hezz, just got on myself

Well Hey, and welcome back hehe 

thank you i'm  just lurking as usual, not much going on it seems.
wish bioware would give us something solid.
they say patience is a virtue, i will have to work on it.

[VivaLaWhatsername]

Phoenix NL wrote...

Hey Hezz *hugs*

*hugs* Hey you.

Hope you're well?

toffeetrooper wrote...

thank you i'm  just lurking as usual, not much going on it seems. 
wish bioware would give us something solid.
they say patience is a virtue, i will have to work on it.

Haha yeah I am semi-turning into a lurker as well, just too much goin on these days in RL I come on quick look and hey and then leave lol.

I openly admit that I am a very impatient person so it's hard for me to try and be patient, I think personally I am doling a pretty good job.

[Phoenix NL]

xHezz90 wrote...

Phoenix NL wrote...

Hey Hezz *hugs*

*hugs* Hey you.

Hope you're well?

*snip*Haha yeah I am semi-turning into a lurker as well, just too much goin on these days in RL I come on quick look and hey and then leave lol.

I openly admit that I am a very impatient person so it's hard for me to try and be patient, I think personally I am doling a pretty good job.

I'm good thanks. It is hard having to wait to hear something. It would be nice to have at least a snippet of more concrete information but I think we're all being amazingly patient all things considered!

[toffeetrooper]

xHezz90 wrote...

Haha yeah I am semi-turning into a lurker as well, just too much goin on these days in RL I come on quick look and hey and then leave lol.

I openly admit that I am a very impatient person so it's hard for me to try and be patient, I think personally I am doling a pretty good job.

i think everyone here is doing well ( Mr Connery has ice in his viens he was born cool and patient).

edit: spelling

Modifié par toffeetrooper, 22 avril 2012 - 10:11 .

[evisneffo]

Back in the fray, and with a tummy-ache. Anyway, minor ramble incoming (aka. ending thoughts - burnt ochre edition)!

Some of you are probably more familiar with the show Taggart than I am, so forgive any liberties taken in this description. For those who don't know it, it's a Scottish detective show. The older episodes rival Bollywood movies in length -- three hours, give or take for ad breaks. You can imagine what kind of a story they can build in three hours: there are always a hundred things going on, a whole bunch of characters and lots of mystery and convoluted story threads.

And the thing is, I find the endings of these episodes are done really badly. Everything gains momentum in the last fifteen, twenty minutes. The final pieces of the puzzle fall into place and you realise (mostly) why everyone did what they did. The killer goes for his last victim. The police run up just as the would-be victim pushes him away and he stumbles into a ditch, dropping his weapon, a look of horror on his face. BAM. Credits.

The abrupt halt of that momentum throws me off every time. Given how long the episode is already, you'd think they would dedicate more time to the ending. You don't really get post-case-closing congratulatory scenes or visualisation of the police enjoying the pay-off of their work, although that's straightforward enough to mentally extrapolate. What you do get, however, is a story that comes full circle and generally makes sense. May be a crazy-ass story, but still a coherent one. There tend to be a lot of random scenes during the three hours, but in retrospect the vast majority will make sense. There may be room for questions ("why wait until the victim was at work to kill him?") but the biggest questions, the ones that carry the story, are answered.

You know what? That's more than we get from the ending of ME3. And it still makes me throw my hands up in the air.

I didn't sink 150 hours into the story and setting of this episode of Taggart. I didn't have any say in how the story played out. I didn't even pay to experience the story. These things, I did for ME3. That's what makes it a kick in the ovaries.

Modifié par evisneffo, 22 avril 2012 - 10:13 .

[VivaLaWhatsername]

Phoenix NL wrote...

I'm good thanks. It is hard having to wait to hear something. It would be nice to have at least a snippet of more concrete information but I think we're all being amazingly patient all things considered!

Glad to hear that 

I agree it is hard to wait. But you're right we are all doing an amazing job of being patient...maybe The Witcher 2 is helping a lot of us? lol though I haven't managed to play it in two days.

toffeetrooper wrote...

i think everyone here is doing well ( Mr Connery has ice in his viens he was born cool and patience).

Yeah he is so cool and calm 

[Phoenix NL]

xHezz90 wrote...

Phoenix NL wrote...

I'm good thanks. It is hard having to wait to hear something. It would be nice to have at least a snippet of more concrete information but I think we're all being amazingly patient all things considered!

Glad to hear that 

I agree it is hard to wait. But you're right we are all doing an amazing job of being patient...maybe The Witcher 2 is helping a lot of us? lol though I haven't managed to play it in two days.

I did get it but I haven't played it yet, just can't bring myself to switch the Xbox on at the moment.

[DJBare]

toffeetrooper wrote...


i think everyone here is doing well ( Mr Connery has Martini(shaken not stired) in his viens he was born cool and patient).

Though I do prefer a good quality single malt.

[VivaLaWhatsername]

Phoenix NL wrote...

I did get it but I haven't played it yet, just can't bring myself to switch the Xbox on at the moment.

Ah well you can play it anytime 
I've happily got over my game depression. I have been playing games like I always do, except I haven't touched a BioWare game.....which is a tad unusual for me. I am normally playing either Dragon Age or Mass Effect along with my current obsession game.

[toffeetrooper]

DJBare wrote...

toffeetrooper wrote...


i think everyone here is doing well ( Mr Connery has Martini(shaken not stired) in his viens he was born cool and patient).

Though I do prefer a good quality single malt.

lol, nice edit  +1 single malt for you sir

[Phoenix NL]

xHezz90 wrote...

Phoenix NL wrote...

I did get it but I haven't played it yet, just can't bring myself to switch the Xbox on at the moment.

Ah well you can play it anytime 
I've happily got over my game depression. I have been playing games like I always do, except I haven't touched a BioWare game.....which is a tad unusual for me. I am normally playing either Dragon Age or Mass Effect along with my current obsession game.

Well I've been playing on the PS3 but I tend to go in waves playing games. I'm sure in the next week or so I'll get back into it.

[DJBare]

toffeetrooper wrote...

lol, nice edit  +1 single malt for you sir

Thank you sir, now I'll let you in on a little secret, you know who the strongest character in Star Trek TNG was in my opinion?, Commander Data, he appears cold and analytical yet hints at caring about his crew mates, the same can be said of Spock, I'd rather keep my emotions intact, but there is something compelling about rising above those emotions.

[VivaLaWhatsername]

Phoenix NL wrote...

Well I've been playing on the PS3 but I tend to go in waves playing games. I'm sure in the next week or so I'll get back into it.

I mainly play on my PS3 lol. I must admit I do tend to go in waves aswell it's like

Wave 1: Constant game playing
Wave 2: Constant reading
Wave 3: Constant DVD watching

LOL

[Phoenix NL]

xHezz90 wrote...

Phoenix NL wrote...

Well I've been playing on the PS3 but I tend to go in waves playing games. I'm sure in the next week or so I'll get back into it.

I mainly play on my PS3 lol. I must admit I do tend to go in waves aswell it's like

Wave 1: Constant game playing
Wave 2: Constant reading
Wave 3: Constant DVD watching

LOL

That sounds about right. Just before ME3 came out I finished watching GiTS 1st & 2nd gig from start to finish

[Atrocity]

Phoenix NL wrote...

xHezz90 wrote...

I mainly play on my PS3 lol. I must admit I do tend to go in waves aswell it's like

Wave 1: Constant game playing
Wave 2: Constant reading
Wave 3: Constant DVD watching

LOL

That sounds about right. Just before ME3 came out I finished watching GiTS 1st & 2nd gig from start to finish

I tend to do everything at the same time. I watch tv series while lurking here and doing schoolwork, and sometimes there is even a windowed game going on. I have multiple games and books and series going on at the same time too. I just can't seem to focus solely on one thing at a time