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[LoneEffect]

On Saturday morning I loaded a ME3 save, sat for about 5 minutes then shut down the game, then logged out of the Data Pad on my phone. For the remainder of the weekend watched Breaking Bad: it has better endings in EVERY episode.

Whether we made a dent, I don't know. EC/DLC is supposedly coming, but it isn't enough for me. That DLC isn't going to change the fact that the ending is ruined, forever, no cut-scene is going to change, modify, or edit the ending.

Before ME2 and BW was acquired by EA, I began getting concerned for the franchise. ME2 showed me the series was snowballing to hell. I didn't love ME2, I liked it, kinda, I felt disconnected, disjointed with the new characters. Oddly, the ending of ME2, which I thought was epic, completely overshadowed the fact I didn't care for the full game. Now, the franchise ending has completely discounted the entire series, for myself, I am not speaking on behalf of anyone else.

When I heard MP was going to be included with ME3, my first thought was, ME3 is going to be a disaster. I was right. I will never, nor will I ever play ME3 MP, that was my omen. Don't feed the omen.

This is the second franchise I have loved that has completely failed me. Shep is my favorite game character and I don't even know if he is dead, alive, floating in space, burnt to a crisp, asleep, indoctrinated, delusional, half robot, a new harbinger, or what. For all I know he and Saran are room mates in a mental hospital.

[Craven1138]

Played campagin for a while saturday, but I couldn't even go through single mission, ending is still tainting whole game for me :/ So it was like 15-20 minutes (I wanted to check my single-player weapons). Then little while on multi. Nothing yesterday. Nothing today too, but maybe I'll pop in just so that origins sees me online saturday and monday, but not on sunday.

[d1ta]

Phwaahh.. Finally back on the BSN (hardest part is to NOT open the BSN, LoL)
Had my brother played on the 28th, fully shut the game on the 29th as planned..

[DiegoProgMetal]

When I was "on" Saturday I went to the shooting range and tested my weapons. Some are useless! lol... Sunday, sent the "off" message via twitter and I think that's it. Did my part in the effort.

[xxskyshadowxx]

I don't have a Twitter account, so I didn't participate fully in the way intended. I did load up the game on Saturday though. I watched a cut scene, played about 5 minutes of the game, then shut it down and played....of all things,...a JRPG after.

I have so little interest in Mass Effect now that even the few minutes I played was annoying. I am pretty sure that the folks they catered to when they created this game will continue to play uninterrupted though. I wonder how many other BioWare games those folks will buy tho'. One wonders if sacrificing a loyal fan base will be worth it in the long term.

[jbauck]

I also have no twitter account - I was able to play for hours. Awhile back, before I wasn't 100% sure that there was no super-secret ending that didn't suck, I had started an NG+. Once that faint hope was dashed, I half-heartedly plugged away at it after the EC was announced ... but I was stuck right before Cerberus attacked the Citadel. Couldn't bring myself to play through that ... but Saturday I did, and I shot Udina, and that specific thing was actually satisfying.

Then I played MP. Didn't play Sunday.

[Mariel800]

jbauck wrote...

I also have no twitter account - I was able to play for hours. Awhile back, before I wasn't 100% sure that there was no super-secret ending that didn't suck, I had started an NG+. Once that faint hope was dashed, I half-heartedly plugged away at it after the EC was announced ... but I was stuck right before Cerberus attacked the Citadel. Couldn't bring myself to play through that ... but Saturday I did, and I shot Udina, and that specific thing was actually satisfying.

This is pretty much exactly what I did - I had my second playthrough stuck just before the attack on the Citadel but since this was my Thane-manced Shepard I couldn't bring myself to play past that point... But on Saturday I managed to play from then up to the start of Priority:Earth. No way was I playing through *that* again, until the EC comes out - and even then, I'll see

The hardest part yesterday was not logging on here at all, since I've been on every day since I finished my first playthrough. Meh.

Modifié par Mariel800, 30 avril 2012 - 02:53 .

[GroverA125]

It felt strained, actually. I wasn't playing for my own fun, and I didn't actually get any out of the hour or two I was playing. There's absolutely no point in doing so when all I get is to see everything I've worked for mean absolutely nothing. The next day however, was far more fun. Skyrim was not so boring, and I went through the same time happily, not cringing.

[Lunapur]

it was a long day but was worth it :)hope we are noticed.. i'm playing the game till almost near the ending then i'll have a break till the dlc,other playthrough i'll see we still love u Bio,pls don't let us down,whatever u do take all the time u need and pls give us some credit,we are on the other side of the lines it seems and i hope u'll get through to us.Be our Shepard :)Best of luck everyone

Modifié par Cosmina, 30 avril 2012 - 03:29 .

[OhDihBot]

Started to play the single player campaign with my imported Renegade character. It's funny; despite the fact that I loved the game all the way up to the ending, the fact that the ending was so bad really made me lose motivation to play through the SP campaign again. For both ME and ME2 I immediately started a Renegade character for a second play through immediately after I played my Paragon character, whereas here I had no motivation to do so.

At this point, I think I am just waiting for them to announce that the Indoctrination Theory is true (knock on wood) and release a quality ending to ensure that another play through would be worth the time. Make it happen Bioware!

Modifié par OhDihBot, 30 avril 2012 - 04:34 .

[Emeraldfern]

Aaand reporting back in after yesterday. Hopefully I did the twitter thing right (still not used to it...)

Hopefully we made some impact on Bioware!

[phagus]

I played the beginning of the game and finished Mars with an unplayed imported paragon adept. I guess I had the following thoughts when I replayed:
Gritted my teeth when I saw Shep looking at that kid playing with a model Ship (before the Reapers invaded Earth.)
Defense Drone as a special power seems useless, it just spawned behind Shep and did nothing.
Shockwave wasn't as satisfying to use as in ME2.
Noticed that the kid braces himself with his hands over his ears when the Reaper comes into view and makes its foghorn blast sound.(any implications for IT?)
Was glad to see that even Shep thought the Crucible sounded too good to be true (I might be reading too much into the dialogue though).
Squad members walk funny, (like Groucho Marx)
Autodialogue made it feel more like film than RPG, not sure whether thats a good or bad thing.
Thought the slowing in time as you shoot Dr Eva Core after she knocks out Ash (in my game) adds to the drama.
All in all I remembered how I felt when I first played ME3, I enjoyed it. Sure it has its bugs/annoyances (tearing graphics when in cover, getting stuck behind Jokers chair, journal doesn't update, tedious side missions , Reapers interrupting scanning gets annoying even if you play a game of chase with them, or scan just to taunt them to try to catch you) and problems with plot (crucible). But they don't spoil replayablity as much as knowing the ending does. Even after more than a month since I completed it, the ending still spoils that enjoyment, but not as much as I thought it would. I might be finally getting over the ending. Just waiting for the EC DLC to see if its worth completing this second run.

[Spike Spiegel06]

Started playing singleplayer for one mission, Priority: Surkesk then went to MP since I just couldn't bring myself to play single player given the flaskbacks of the horrible ending. Just couldn't find the motivation to play with my lvl 60 adept on insanity, even though I am kicking ass. The joy of watching enemies fly off the map just isn't satisfying anymore.

[roomeatthetop]

 i joined this forum just so I could stay away on Sunday.  I played ME2 yesterday for the 1st time since ME3 was rleased.  Iplayed with a new character and I enjoyed ME2 again. I think I will finish that play through before playing ME3 again.

[wolfstanus]

Seriously guys. Why not use the bigger thread? Bigger threads get noticed. Especialy when they keep getting bigger.

[OntologicalShock]

I couldn't get past character creation. I wanted to play through Tuchanka or so, but I still couldn't import my Shepard since that particular set of eyes has weirdo clipping issues — not to mention that the eye colors themselves are all fake and plastic looking for some reason. Instead, I went back and started playing ME2.

[Reciever80]

mmm...damn. Ended up playing MP since I had gotten home at 10:30 and only had thirty minutes to play before I had to go to sleep and wake up for work the next morning. Oh well.

Kept my PC off all sunday, played a bit of fifa with the friends from school.

[SwiftRevenant]

Played SP quite a bit on Saturday. Disconnected my Internet on my desktop and just putzed on my labtop watching NBA play off games.

[BigZ7337]

I started up my secondary Shepard and played the intro. Sadly the face was fugly even with the new update and I had to recreate it. Even though the intro is goofy I did still want to keep playing, with the femshep to hear all of her voice acting, but I think I'll wait till the Extended Cut comes out, or at least until I finish the Witcher 2.

[HurricaneGinger]

The rest of the game is still amazing in my book; the ending just takes away from the epicness that could have been achieved.

[GuardianAngel470]

I don't use twitter and didn't have my copy of ME3 so I couldn't participate fully but I made a point to log off of BSN completely in all my browsers and on all my computers.

Here's hoping they noticed.

[Reptilian Rob]

How did it feel?

I spent five hours in the shooting range and staring at Lirara's boobs/Garrus ass'.

That's how it felt.

[Shinobu]

Reptilian Rob wrote...

How did it feel?

I spent five hours in the shooting range and staring at Lirara's boobs/Garrus ass'.

That's how it felt.

Reading through this thread, I'm struck by how many people found playing the SP (even the non-ending parts) emotionally unpleasant. I'm so sorry to have put all of you through that!  We'll likely never know what effect this campaign had, but if nothing else, I hope Bioware reads this thread and sees what a toll the looming ending takes on the enjoyment of the whole game, not just the last 10 minutes.

I replayed all of Tuchanka but found the emotion and wonder of my first playthrough had been replaced by a sort of "dead" feeling. I just couldn't bring myself to *care* what happened (and the first time I had tears pouring down my face at the beauty of Mordin's sacrifice). How emotionally exhausted we must be getting. Later I watched some of my friends play and it brought back some of the excitement I had when the game first came out.

Bioware, please pay attention to your fans! All of these wonderful people just want to be able to play again without the dread of the ending hanging over them. Make this right.

[Reptilian Rob]

Shinobu wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

How did it feel?

I spent five hours in the shooting range and staring at Lirara's boobs/Garrus ass'.

That's how it felt.

Reading through this thread, I'm struck by how many people found playing the SP (even the non-ending parts) emotionally unpleasant. I'm so sorry to have put all of you through that!  We'll likely never know what effect this campaign had, but if nothing else, I hope Bioware reads this thread and sees what a toll the looming ending takes on the enjoyment of the whole game, not just the last 10 minutes.

I replayed all of Tuchanka but found the emotion and wonder of my first playthrough had been replaced by a sort of "dead" feeling. I just couldn't bring myself to *care* what happened (and the first time I had tears pouring down my face at the beauty of Mordin's sacrifice). How emotionally exhausted we must be getting. Later I watched some of my friends play and it brought back some of the excitement I had when the game first came out.

Bioware, please pay attention to your fans! All of these wonderful people just want to be able to play again without the dread of the ending hanging over them. Make this right.

It's ok...*Hugs*

I didn't do it for Bioware, I did it for a better future, for a better Mass Effect. 

[devSin]

I played on story mode (narrative difficulty) and just skipped through all the dialogue, so it wasn't that big a deal. I refuse to play past the coup, so I didn't try to endure the ending again or anything.

I also picked all renegade options, but it wasn't a lot of fun. It did have me running through again today to try to answer some questions about quest order, but I again just blasted through on narrative difficulty without paying attention to much.

Still no desire to actually play it, or any game of the trilogy, with the ending as it currently is.

Modifié par devSin, 01 mai 2012 - 05:39 .