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If you IGNORE THE ENDING, what are your thoughts on ME3?


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Myrmedus

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Ignoring the end it's probably the best game I've ever played.

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tenacious_err

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It's the best game I've ever played. I know it has flaws, obviously, but for me as a gamer this is EXACTLY what I want in a game. The Mass Effect series is my favorite series of games, hands down. Honestly, if I didn't absolutely love it I wouldn't be hanging out on forums hoping for a different ending.

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Talogrungi

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Loved the combat, loved the story, loved the atmosphere, loved pretty much everything.

Except two things; the lack of morality represented in the endings, and that it appears Bioware lied to us when they said it was possible to achieve the "best possible ending" (i.e. 8000 military strength) without multiplayer.

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Harorrd

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The game was awsome, however the ending.... THE ENDING....

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Holoe4

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It's a pretty solid game, they just took too many things that we had in the previous games out...

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I think, overlooking the ending, that this game was almost everything I was hoping for. I would have liked more of my former squad mates (Kasumi and Thane, for example!). Granted, I loved what they did with Thane, I was disappointed with how little they got used.

The ending of the Geth/Quarian mission was, for me (as a Tali romancer) the absolute best moment of the game. After the drama involving Tali's loyalty mission in ME2, to be hear a very distraught and desperate Tali pleading with her fleet to stop attacking the Geth, and being overridden, and her begging me to stop Legion......I admit, I have to reload the mission and play it both ways, just to see how both options turned out (I wasnt able to access the peaceful resolution, sadly), and I was floored with both results!

Which really burns my buns, to know that Bioware could write such an epic masterpiece to conclude a backstory that spanned three games (the geth/quarian conflict)....and yet completely and utterly botch the game ending, which should by all rights be more epic!

But...I digress. The game overall was phenomenal, and I loved every minute. The game was tense at times, there were examples of desperation in even minor NPCs (the weapon vendor on the citadel stockpiling his best weapons for use in the barter system he knows will occur post-Reaper). Even Joker being disappointed that everyone on the Citadel was more concerned with gardening tips rather than the war....it just oozed awesomeness.

Kudos to Bioware. They ALMOST had the epitome of a perfect game.

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crapmonster13

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Its near perfect. There were a few things that bugged me. Journal system was a joke and this particular game was the buggiest for me out of all three. Also the whole initial experience with install/Origin was more of an ordeal then it should have been

But all that aside (forgetting the endings) it was seriously one of the most amazing games I have had the pleasure of playing. The character interactions and the way in which most of the series' long conflicts were resolved exceeded my expectations.

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Zalitara

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Ignoring the ending. It was almost perfect. A clear 10/10. Amazing, and everything I ever wanted from ME3. But ignoring the ending is impossible.

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One of the best games I ever played
but like the rest...

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asminho

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best ME game

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The worst thing I can think to say about ME3 is that it's easily the most linear game in the series. The removal of the neutral dialogue option and the inability to tackle the main quest line in multiple orders are a little irksome but not too big a deal. The half assed quest log was also a bit baffling.

The sense I got playing the game was that the devs knew what the wanted to accomplish going in, pay offs for all the brewing conflicts, large battle set pieces, etc, and in order to accomplish those things they had to make some sacrifices, not unlike Shepard himself. Overall, though, I really liked the game and am on the second play through at the moment.

As to the hot topic around BSN I don't really mind that all the endings were depressing I just wish they were a bit more personalized. Ideally I would've like some epilogue scenes detailing the effects of my choices on the various species in particular and on galactic civilization in general.

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some issues that i was surprised with since they already had these done well in #2, quest logs don't update which makes you forget which you've done, what if i came in after 4 days of not playing and forget where i was? and why did they remove armor-related upgrades, matter of fact, what's up with the armor? 3 maybe 4 new sets? and 5 old ones? they added a ton of new weapons why not more new armor? not a single new full-head helmet? so the only one you can wear in zero g spaces is the old ones. and auto-saves dont seem to work as well as before. but besides that, a whole lot of praise

great action, improved graphics, more athletic shepard, and my only time playing whithout exclusively using the pause strategic menu (shift key on PC's)
a game has never made me care about the music. my cousin once asked me what i thought of the song that plays when you meet legion in ME2, all i said was "there was a song there?" but mass effect 3 made me listen, and without it the scenes wouldn't feel right.
a game has never made me teary-eyed, and while mass effect 3 didn't either, it came the closest to. seeing mordin give himself up to save a once-adversary, and doing so humming a tune we all remember made the scene really powerful, mordin was my favorite squad-mate in ME2, and his sacrifice only made me like him more.

39 hours, 10 minutes of pure excitement amd anticipation
39 hours, 40 minutes of confusion and disappointment

Modifié par rok_it_powuh, 11 mars 2012 - 11:59 .


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jijeebo

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If it wasn't for the ending, Mass Effect 3 is undoubtedly one of the best games I have ever played ever since forever. Ace cakes characters and locations, amazeballs combat, music, sfx and an epic arsenal of weapons that made me feel like a ridiculous badass.

That does, however, make the entire situation even worse... Damn you last 10 minutes, damn you.

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Mediocre, I'm afraid. Extremely rushed beginning, lack of dialogue wheels, lack of interrupts, boring deus ex machina plot with a giant ikea macguffin, facial incompatibility with preceding titles, lack of true feeling of urgency due to rarely ever running into Reapers, exploration removal and galaxy navigation being reduced to a galaxy map minigame. Palaven was a total copout (seriously, a grey moon is about as uninteresting as they could've made it), Thessia was way too short and offered us basically nothing, Kai Leng was just godawful, and so forth.

There's a point at which streamlining becomes content removal. ME3 arrived at that point.

A few highlights stood out which kept the game from being blatantly bad. Gameplay is solid, multiplayer is fun, some characters returning were a lot of fun; Thane and Jack mostly. Genophage plot arc was very interesting and well done. Quarians vs Geth were resolved rather neatly. No complaints there. Outside of the main story, the game found its strength.

Modifié par Eain, 12 mars 2012 - 12:04 .


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Shaknbac0n

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Forgetting the ending, ME3 was probably the best game in the series for me, no questions asked. The story had me on the edge of my seat at every end, the gameplay and weapon/ability variety was more than enough to make it really feel enjoyable to play. As for the ending, could have been worse, could have been better. But it still kind of pissed me off when I saw it. I guess it's worth another couple playthroughs, the gameplay's still enjoyable I guess.

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Clumsy Astronaut

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This game took me way back to my first RPG, it was like falling in love with gaming all over again. Then the endings hit and I wondered why Bioware butchered the perfect game. It WAS every bit as good as the original KOTOR which remains my fave RPG and with new ending DLC it would top that.

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Ignoring the ending, this is the best game I've ever played. Yeah there are a couple nitpicks(side quests on the Citadel by just hearing a conversation, imprecise cover during combat) but they are VERY few and far in between.

Mass Effect 1 had the story. Mass Effect 2 had the gameplay. Mass Effect 3 had them both.

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Merciless Almond

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 Besides the fact that Opie managed to hijack the computer at the end of the game Mass effect 3 was by far the best game that I have ever played.
I don't mind that you die at the end thats okay the idea of sacrifice thats okay but casper the genocidal ghost that was too far.
I also wanted to know what happened with the LI do they even make a difference or are they just a side show cause i was actually thinking Liara was pregnant (even a stomach rub would have been acceptable) at the end but there is no closure it's infuriating.
And why was normandy in a relay I was thinking to go the the conduit on Ilos but they never say anything.

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I loved the game.

After the list of bad omens and protests as long as my arm, ranging from the introduction of nultiplayer right through to the face import bug and Day 1 paid DLC, I was half expecting the game would cause my Xbox to explode or release the genophage against my entire extended family. I expected that it would be a corridor shooter with no dialogue or sound, from all the bad press and warnings around it.

The intro is ropey and I guess always will be, but after only 15 minutes on Mars I realised all my deep fears were totally misplaced. Sure, it's not perfect, there are lots of niggling issues - most stemming from the changes between ME1 and ME2, plus a new gripes thrown in, but just like the long loading times and texture pop-in issues of ME1, those problems ultimately don't take away from the overall spirit and structure of the game.

It's still well written, there are still choices, surprising and heart-wrenching drama is present. You laugh, you cry, you get angry, you get excited. There are very many choices, countless game permutations depending on past decisions, plus the game manages to be both a spiritual echo of ME1 while embracing the same gameplay feel as ME2. As the game draws towards the final act, you start wishing it would go on and on with more adventures and storylines, you pray it will end well even though you really know it won't, until finally all the FPS nonsense, dubious cash-in moments and Bioware/EA compromises fall away and leave you with the impressnio of a truly worthwhile, well-executed game.

The Charon relay sequence is breathtaking, possibly the only sight that could have ever eclipsed the Thresher Maw scene on Tuchanka. The entire free galaxy charges in as a last best hope for civilisation and you spend a gruelling thirty minutes knee-deep in enemies, pushing ever-closer to the final goal.

You're hit by a massive surprise, making you wonder if you might have even made a mistake in the game. Then the plot resolves itself, Anderson gets the only ending he really deserves, so does TIM, and it seems like everything is going to end absolutely spectacularly.

Then...something goes wrong. Like the huge foot at the end of the Monty Python opening credits, the ending just obliterates everything that comes before it.

Don't get me wrong - like a lot of people I'd be perfectly happy with the downer endings, even the Star-Child plot device, but for those to be the ONLY endings - the only possible options after so many choices and trials, feels so completely wrong.

But I'll stop now because I'm supposed to be ignoring all that. In all other respects, I thought it was great :)

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Adamantium93

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Favorite game of all time (without the ending.)

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Darth Spike

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the game was one of the best games i played. i was on the edge of my seat all the way up till the platform and star kid part.

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I think it's my fourth favorite game ever, endings or not.

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Conquerthecity

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Aside from the end it was everything I could have hoped for.

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sirgippy

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Ignoring the ending, it was all I had hoped for. 10/10

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MrDizazta

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Aside from the end, THE GAME WAS AWESOME! My god my emotions were so high.