Akeotwawki wrote...
ME3 plays like a stand alone game. Nothing I've done in ME1 or 2 makes a bit of difference. That's what really irks me.
I've played it through 5 times (yes, I'm clearly a masochist) just to see if I can make it do anything different. Doesn't matter whether I saved the Council or not, clearly doesn't mean anything that I made Anderson a council member. Or that I destroyed the collector base. Most of the love interests are gone for femShep, (really? No James Vega?) unless she's lesbian. Doesn't matter if I blew up the Batarian relay or not. (They still haven't explained why she's essentially under house arrest if she HADN'T blown up the relay.) Doesn't matter if I rewrote the heretics or not. Doesn't matter who dies, they just substitute a generic character. Etc., etc.
In all cases, Shepard FAILS. Yes, he/she fails because while Shepard may kill/control/synth the Reapers - it's pretty much the end of the galaxy he/she has been trying to save. In every case the relays are destroyed (along with other stuff sometimes), sending the galaxy back to the (relative) stone age - at best. And, of course, if destroying the relay destroyed the Batarian system - then you also have to conclude that the system that had relays (like Earth's) were also destroyed.
I just finished my 2nd playtrough of ME3 and I must say that you choices do matter... depending on what you choose a pretty number will represent it in your EMS.
But with all seriousness from my 2 plays I noticed that wether Mording lives or not count as nothing... why? Because if Mording died then another guy - forgot his name - appears in his place and does almost everyhing the same way.
So when Mordin said someone else might have gotten it wrong then he was wrong.
I don't know about the other characters - yet - but I plan to do a playtrough of ME2 where I try to kill as many party members as possible and see if there's any difference.
I'm very curius about Than - Salarian councilor, Legion - Geth vs Quarian conflict,
And one other thing... Kasumi's mission in ME2. It does NOT mattert wether you kept or destroyed the greybox. You still get the same mission in ME3... the only difference is that if you destroyed then Kasumi says that she pieced together the info. WHAT???
Akeotwawki wrote...
Yeah. Great "art". Cudos.
And would someone please explain to me how Shepard is on the Citadel - in space, gets blown up, falls through the atmosphere (apparently), lands in rubble, and BREATHES?? I can't wrap my breain around that one at all.
Yes, Mass Effect 3 was designed as a stand alone game with multi-player in an attempt to bring in some COD or GOW or HALO players, apparently. They were NOT focused on concluding the trilogy with the previous 2 games in mind, at all.
My boggle is why would they do this? Why stray so far from a clearly successful formula? I really don't get it. It had to be some suit somewhere making the decision. Clearly wasn't anyone who knew and loved the game.
Maybe this was discussed before but on my 2nd ending I noticed that the 'Catalyst' says:
1) My solution...
2) We found a way...
So what doies this mean? Did I miss something ot is this just plain scripting error?
And the scene where Shepard takes a breath, why is it so quiet?
If this is 'after' the catalyst then I think we should hear happy soldiers.
If this is 'before' the 'catalyst' - I mean we just dreamed everything - then we should hear fighting.
Either way why is it so quiet? Should'nt we hear at least some noise?
And I don't know how the game calculates who steps out of the Normandy in the end but in my case I had Tali and James in my party and Tali + Garrus were the ones to step out after Jeff.
I knew Tali was cheating on me and she was just waiting for me to get shot by Harbinger so she could elope with Garrus.
But then again I did not notice on my first playtrough but after you drop down on the slope - to tun towards Harbinger - your squadmates are gone. It's not that they are not in your party, but I looked around everywhere and I just could'nt find them.
Could it be that they really chikened out and left me to die?
Or they simply used their heads and circled around to approach from another side so that Harbinger would shoot at me while they sneaked in.
The more I think about this the worse it gets... so I gues I'd better go to sleep. ( It's 10:30 pm here. )
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in the final converstaions with my LI and companions in London. I don't think any other developer has ever made a game series where the players grows so invested. 
the more i delve into this debacle........its like twisting the knife. 
