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[ShadowLordXII]

To those players who've gone on to play ME 3, is it worth it to buy it now or wait and see what the Extended Cut DLC does to the Ending?

I'm kind of a latecomer to Mass Effect and couldn't buy the third one when it first came out.  But with all of the controversy over the ending, I'm wondering if it's even worth it...

Advice?

[PsiFive]

I'm in the same situation as you. I'm definitely waiting, though without much optimism. I''m quite prepared to leave the story as it finished at the end of ME2 and headcanon what I feel would happen next. The first two games have plenty of replay value for me anyway.

[The Razman]

Listening to other people isn't the way to go. You'll only know what you think when YOU play it.

[Abraham_uk]

ShadowLordXII wrote...

To those players who've gone on to play ME 3, is it worth it to buy it now or wait and see what the Extended Cut DLC does to the Ending?

I'm kind of a latecomer to Mass Effect and couldn't buy the third one when it first came out.  But with all of the controversy over the ending, I'm wondering if it's even worth it...

Advice?

Do you care much for online? That is the real question.

If the answer is yes, get the game now!
If the answer is no, you're better off waiting for a cheaper edition.


Why do I say this? Well online just isn't going to last very long. If you purchasse it in october, the online would probably be dead.

For me at least, the game was fantastic aside from the ending. I loved this game and would highly recommend it. Certainly better than Mass Effect 2 (and that's saying a lot).

[wellsoul2]

It's still a great game and worth it if you really like the characters and backstory.

[Aggie Punbot]

Ask yourself this: if you paid full price for the game right now and found the ending to be terrible, how angry would you be? If the answer is 'Very,' you should wait. If the answer is any variation of 'I'd be disappointed, but I'd get over it,' go ahead and get it now.

[Thylbanus]

After all the reviews both professional and amature, I've concluded that I will wait and see if the community get's what they want (dispite the statement to the contrary). If the EC fixes the problems and quiets most of the community, I'll get it. If the nerd rage continues (or, God forbid, it gets worse), I will not. My Shepard matters to me and I'll take his death at the end of ME2 over the mess of ME3. Most everyone agrees that the ending seemed tacked on at the last minute, that it was rushed. I can't count the number of fan reviews that said that 99% of ME3 was AWESOME, it's just the final 1% that broke the game for them. Or I shut off the game just before the 1%. But then, I'm going to wait for it to hit the $5 bin first.

[Baalsmistress]

As always it's a matter of expectations. Bioware delivered what they promised. Choice has far reaching implications for the Mass Effect universe, up to and including the xenocide of species, the nature of life.

The choices made throughout the series leave a long catalogue of effects on individual people, species, the galaxy as a whole. And like any other story, Mass Effect's shepherd story has a conclusion, which is a heroic finale for the character ending the threat of cyclic extinction. And you even get 3 choices as to how that happens.

Bioware delivered on their promises, but lots of the fanbase have utterly unrealistic expectations.

Will I buy it? Certainly, when I can do so via steam. I really really don't want to install Origin on my machine. I'm patient. I only played ME and ME2 in the past 3 months.

[PsiFive]

Baalsmistress wrote...

As always it's a matter of expectations. Bioware delivered what they promised.

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Bioware delivered on their promises, but lots of the fanbase have utterly unrealistic expectations.

Er, I don't think it was the fans who were telling everyone that there'd be 16 "wildly different endings" and that there wouldn't be a simple A, B or C choice presented by a deus ex machina. That was BioWare saying that, and if you think that what amounts to this courtesy of some hitherto completely unknown see-through sparkly star kid (who badly needs a see-through sparkly star adult to explain that you can't save organics from synthetics by having synthetics kill all the organics any more than you can fix something by smashing it to bits with a big hammer) is delivering on that promise then fair enough. Many others don't agree, and nor do they think it was all that unrealistic to expect a story without gaping plotholes big enough for the entire Reaper fleet to get through sideways. Little plotholes and internal inconsistencies that can be overlooked, fine, and ME1 and 2 certainly had their share, but they never had the entire relay network being destroyed having already established that destroying a relay is like a supernova, or people who'd been on a planet suddenly appearing on ships travelling to somewhere unspecified for no apparent reason. Oh, and also people taking showers while keeping their undies on.

So it looks to me like they wrote themselves into a corner that they couldn't write themselves back out of before the release date, which they didn't want to postpone. I really hope they can solve it with the DLC but I have a nasty feelng it's going to be some godawful sticking plaster retcon exercise justifying ships and people not being where they had been minutes before and making the shock revelation that < gasp > mass relays don't destroy the entire star system they're in if you blow them up in a certain special way. And if that sounds like 1980s soap opera at it's finest then you'll see why I'm not holding my breath for the DLC to solve much. Mad, because the Indoctrination Theory folks have served them up something much better and BioWare could quietly have gone with that and released it with a PR saying well done to everyone who worked out that Shepard was imagining the last half hour or whatever of the game. Yeah, well fartistic integrity and all that, but I can go to any gallery and see what I'd call conceptual bull**** being described as art any time I like. And if they charge for tickets I won't buy that either. :happy:

Add to that the day DLC arguments, an MMO mode that I have absolutely no interest in and which I'm not even sure I could use effectively because of the pretty mediocre internet speeds that I get (not uncommon in parts of Oz), but which I've heard is actually necessary to get at least one of the endings, plus the hateful mess that is Origin being made necessary even if you get it on physical media and there's no shortage of reasons for me to not buy it. Incidentally, that last thing means you and I will probably be waiting as long for it to be available on Steam as the PS3 mob will be waiting for Mass Effect 1 to be ported to their consoles. They said right here in these forums that they weren't going to sell it via Steam because they didn't like Steam's conditions, and since it doesn't seem all that likely that Valve will change things to suit EA or that EA will have a change of heart and remove the requirement for Origin it's a pretty safe bet that ME3 will always come afflicted with Origin and that it will never appear on Steam. Ever. Which to be honest is something I should probably thank EA for because otherwise I'd have pre-ordered it.

Modifié par PsiFive, 05 mai 2012 - 05:17 .

[tbb033]

If you've waited this long, might as well wait until you can get it super cheap. Only reason to pay full price for any game is if you have to have it the instant it comes out, and we're well past that point with ME3.

Modifié par tbb033, 05 mai 2012 - 10:10 .