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[Skvindt]

I have a dartboard with the Mass Effect logo on it and throw darts at it whenever I feel bored or enraged at Mass Effect.

I also have a little shrine with candles lit around it for satanic worship as a conduit for my undying fury towards the tragedy and outrage that was Mass Effect 3.




In all seriousness though no, I don't do this. Hopefully the NSA realizes this is just a silly joke and doesn't come after me. #paranoid

[Han Shot First]

I never hated it.

I hated the original endings, but before the finale I had been thinking that Mass Effect 3 was easily the best game of the series. I still hold that opinion, despite my mixed feelings on the post-EC endings.

Modifié par Han Shot First, 17 février 2014 - 06:08 .

[Reorte]

dreamgazer wrote...

iakus wrote...

Good thing you don't have to hunt down all those dog tags to trigger a five second breath scene...

Why yes, the war assets are, indeed, more important and integrated with the story than ME1's filler content.

Story-wise they were (although there's nothing wrong with a bit of side stuff). The way you gathered them was mixed though, at best.

ME1's concept of a side mission was the best but ME2's edged it in overall satisfaction for me - the concept wasn't as good due to the linearity but the implementation was so much better. Just a pity that ME3 didn't manage to combine the good of both. Having a war assets mission pack as a DLC might not have been too bad an idea IMO, with the scanning just being a placeholder for it.

[Linkenski]

 I used to, and I will always hate ME3 because it was the biggest broken promise I have ever felt in gaming in my entire life.

I used to hype up the good-looking games all the way back to when I was 11 years old and for the most part they lived up to expectations. The first time I was disappointed by a game I had been looking forward to all year was Zelda: Twilight Princess, but it was still a very enjoyable game through and through and I do still love it.

With Mass Effect 3, I hated it litterally by the very second the game began. Something just felt... not like it used to somehow, and once it started going it was just disappointment after disappointment. Admittedly it gets good in the middle stretch of the game, but still not better than ME1 or ME2 for my liking because it was so big in scale that I found it to be too unrealistic for how Mass Effect used to be. I just didn't buy it with how convenient every character appeared or how they could suddently magically cure all krogans because of the Shroud (which was never mentioned before ME3 btw) and towards the end it was an outright trainwreck.

I hate ME3 with a burning passion. I rarely visit here because I rarely think about it, but whenever I do it can actually break my mood a little TBQH.

[Cribbian]

Never hated it. Still consider it to be the most disappointing game I've ever played though.

[CirusTheVirus666]

Did I hate Mass effect 3's ending when it first came out? Its complicated, I have to admit I was really disappointed initially. I was never a fan of Mass Effect when it first came out, I dismissed it as another bioware game. Then Mass effect 2 came out and everyone kept talking about how to keep everyone alive on the final battle, I dismissed it again, I didnt want to get involved, bioware let me down in the past so I really didnt like anything they made. Then two weeks before the release of ME3, my best friend kept on bothering me to play the mass effect series, so I went out and bought both of them after getting bombarded by his texts about the game.  Then after a week of letting the games collect dust, I started playing them. Mass Effect was a frustrating game, I didnt know how to use upgrades, which stats to increase, the boss battles - Liara's mother for instance, seriously took me about 25 times to be the first half of the fight, and another 20 for the second half. Seriously moving one step before getting hit with a stasis move and then getting gunned down within 5 seconds after that. I almost resorted to the rage/smash of the controller like a 12 year old now adays. Then once finishing ME1, I was relieved, it was amazing, at the end of the game, I considered it one of the best games that I have every played.

Eager, I put in ME2, with only 3 days until the release of ME3, I was determined to beat it.(yes, ME1 took be 4 days to beat, with a total of 20 hours(repeated plays now close in about 30 hours per playthrough, I work full time people lol). ME2 blew me away, the story, shepard dieing at the beginning, people moving on, all those relationships lost and a whole other crew to get to know now. After putting 38 hours in 3 days(two 17 hour days and one 4 hour day) I couldnt wait for the next part so when Tuesday came by, I called in sick from work and played ME3. I was instantly in love with everything, meeting up with old crew people, expanding other characters, new relationships. It was AMAZING! Then the story, everything was lining up to with what I wanted in my game, what I would do, genophage cured, geth/quarian peace, humanity on the brink of building a weapon that will save the galaxy. Then the Earth mission, I was crying at the goodbyes, the final charge, almost dieing from harbinger(this is the original ending btw, no EC). At this point, I was sorta surprised, I didnt have any fight with harbringer, oh well, I went to the beam and went up. I wasnt thinking to much at this point, I was strapped in for the ride, emotions riding high. Then I get to illusive man part and here, I was expecting some kind of boss fight, then nothing happened, I still cried as anderson died lol and then BAM, I met the star child thing. At this point after this brieft explanation, while still riding high from emotions, I knew my decision from the start, destroy.  So I picked and was shown a brieft cgi video of things happening that I didnt understand and then it ended with the credits rolling(I got the shepard breathing scence at the end of the credits).

At this point I was like oh, then maybe there are betting endings, so I went on youtube and looked it up and was disappointed that the endings were pretty much all the same. My disappointment slowly turned into anger over the course of the day after finishing it. I joined all those take back ME groups, I was on the forums spouting anger and rage, I was donating money to the childs play donation($60, the price I paid for the full ME3 game) and then over the next month, I was constantly on the boards, hoping for news of changing the endings.  It eventaully came 4-5 months later or so, I downloaded it and played it and eventaully those feelings of anger turned to meh, its ok now, not what I wanted but a passing grade. Eventually more DLC came out and it drew me back in, I loved all the DLC.  At the time, I did hate ME3 Ending, not the game but as of today, I still believe its a amazing game, I do not hate it but something is definately missing, I have played ME1/2 - 9 times each but only ME3 - 2 times and stopped midway in my third play through and havent touched it since the last DLC came out.

Do I still hate ME3? No, its an amazing game with a meh ending but for the lack of a better reasoning, I still cant bring myself to play it more.  Sorry for the rant, I thought I would give some back story as I didnt touch ME until 1 week before ME3 release and I know there are fans from the very beginning, I just thought from my perspective. You can see what a game can do to a person in such a short time without being a fan from the beginning so I can understand the rage to the hype, the broken promises that everyone was given and the lack of explanations.

[R4ZOR GHO5T]

 Never hated Mass Effect 3 as a whole, despised the ending and still do.

But the game as a whole? No, I do not hate it, it was the most dissapointing Mass Effect game to me (despite having a few epic moments) and compared to Mass Effect 1 & 2, it's not very good.

I'd give ME3 a 6/10.

[Invisible Man]

when I finished me3 for the first time (pre ec)... i didn't hate it (i guess i still don't), the ending just felt wrong, and I'm not talking about the plot holes a fleet of dreadnaughts could fly through. it's like there's something there that my eyes aren't seeing but my mind can, and my mind doesn't like it all that much. now i figure some people are going to say i don't get the endings, i assure you, i do, there's just something more there that i can't seem to glimpse. (the ec did fix a few of the plot holes, but it also made the plot more nonsensical)


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@r4zor gho5t
that's about the same rating i give me3

Modifié par Invisible Man, 17 février 2014 - 09:26 .

[MetalCargo999]

Indeed I do.  Not just the game, but the marketing that surrounded it as well.  Actually, I think that was worse than the game itself.  I've never been a fanboy of anything before, and realizing that game developers were willing to take advantage of such loyalty was disheartening and hurtful (not in an exaggerated sense either.  I get hurt when people lie to me or try to take advantage of me.  Prolly cuz I'm sensitive.  Sorry planet Earth.)
So yea basically I don't like it but sometimes I still lurk on the forums wondering, through some echo of emotions long gone in themselves, if I might find what it was I was looking for in the series to begin with.  Like a good story and game mechanics that complimented the story and genre in question.  That's never going to happen.  I'm visiting a tombstone.

[BaladasDemnevanni]

Mcfly616 wrote...

BaladasDemnevanni wrote...

You really need to stop making half-assed arguments like this. Tip for the future: "it's optional" isn't an argument.

In purchasing any product, the customer's goal is satisfaction. If I have to ignore large segments of the game, on which a significant amount of development time was spent, then I'm going to tell the developer either "fix or remove". From a consumer perspective, it's a complete waste of time.

No, I don't need to stop stating the truth. Tip for the future: learn to read and don't base your entire argument on completely optional and worthless content that nobody even said anything about except for you and your bud who brought it up outta left field.

Nobody forced you to go out of your way to go get something nonessential to the game. If you waste your own time doing something you don't like in order to get something you don't even need....well, you have nobody to blame but yourself. But ME2 on the other hand, it forced all of us to do Planet Scanning in order to beat the game. Call me crazy, but if I had the option to NOT do planet scanning and I was here complaining about it, I would slap myself repeatedly.

So out of curiosity, where in this craptastic post of yours did you actually counter-act my point?

Reading comprehension does wonders, you know. You might want to do  a bit of thinking on why customers make purchases in the first place. Hint: People don't benefit from content they don't use. So it's absolutely pointless to tell someone "it's optional" if their goal is maximum return on their investment. A substantial amount of resources went into Bioware's lame efforts at inventory and planet exploration. Resources which could be used for, well, anything else and increase the consumer's enjoyment.

Modifié par BaladasDemnevanni, 18 février 2014 - 01:19 .

[Dean_the_Young]

SRX wrote...

I have a dartboard with the Mass Effect logo on it and throw darts at it whenever I feel bored or enraged at Mass Effect.

I also have a little shrine with candles lit around it for satanic worship as a conduit for my undying fury towards the tragedy and outrage that was Mass Effect 3.




In all seriousness though no, I don't do this. Hopefully the NSA realizes this is just a silly joke and doesn't come after me. #paranoid

Don't be silly. The NSA doesn't care if you're a satanic worshipper. You aren't interesting enough to be spied on directly.

[Skvindt]

Dean_the_Young wrote...

SRX wrote...

I have a dartboard with the Mass Effect logo on it and throw darts at it whenever I feel bored or enraged at Mass Effect.

I also have a little shrine with candles lit around it for satanic worship as a conduit for my undying fury towards the tragedy and outrage that was Mass Effect 3.




In all seriousness though no, I don't do this. Hopefully the NSA realizes this is just a silly joke and doesn't come after me. #paranoid

Don't be silly. The NSA doesn't care if you're a satanic worshipper. You aren't interesting enough to be spied on directly.

Damn.  Burned!

[CronoDragoon]

Mcfly616 wrote...
Not sure what game you played. I had plenty of missions in ME1 that didn't force me to run down endless corridors.

Such as?

Never bothered picking up any minerals either. Not sure why you would do that unless you actually liked it.....you know, seeing as it's completely optional.

Ditto for scanning in ME2, so what's the issue there? You don't need to run around scanning for minerals to complete the game, only to get all the upgrades and have everyone survive the Suicide Mission. This makes planet scanning by definition optional. In ME3, you don't even need to planet scan or do any fetch quests to get the best endings.

But besides all that, it's a tough pill to swallow to tell people not to do optional content in ME1, since optional content constitutes the majority of the game. Even if I take your advice and skip all mineral gathering/dogtag collecting, we are still left with a game lacking story-driven content, which is my criticism of ME1 in the first place.

Modifié par CronoDragoon, 18 février 2014 - 05:44 .

[AlanC9]

CronoDragoon wrote...

Mcfly616 wrote...
Not sure what game you played. I had plenty of missions in ME1 that didn't force me to run down endless corridors.

Such as?

In the last thread I believe he talked about the UNC missions as examples, since you can circle around the building or mine in the Mako before clearing it. I guess this means that a little of this nonlinearity disguises the linearity of the plot missions?

[ADelusiveMan]

I feel like the ending could have been loads better...but the Extended Cut kinda worked for me and while it wasn't what I was hoping for, it did give some closure to some characters. As for the game as a whole, no, I didn't hate then and I don't hate it now. I could easily call Mass Effect 3 my fourth favorite game of all time. Off the top of my head, I can't point to a game that got the feeling that ME3 did. The more you play the game, the more you kind of get the sense that time is running out, and it starts to get really bleak. The walls are closing in. So yeah, I don't hate it.

Really wished they had put out a little more story DLC though. I loved Citadel, but some more mythos stuff would have been more than welcome.

[liggy002]

No OP, I don't hate Mass Effect 3... it will always have potential, for a reasonable developer who would be willing to fix it. But I do hate Bioware and EA, very much so.  They ruined one of my favorite game series of all time and did not fix it properly.

Most of all, though, what makes me hate them is their attitude towards the fans.  They tried to pin it on us by calling us entitled whiners.  Also, EA takes game franchises, gobbles them up, and then destroys them.  This really is nothing new.

Modifié par liggy002, 19 février 2014 - 01:49 .

[Dorrieb]

I think it's the opposite; if I had hated ME3, then the ending wouldn't have mattered. It's because I let myself love the characters so much that the disappointment was so deep. I haven't changed my mind about it one bit, but I also haven't gone back to the characters since I left them hanging out forever at the end of the lovely Citadel DLC, almost a year ago. Out of sight, out of mind.

[Mordak55]

I never hated ME3, the endings yes. But I still played ME3+all the DLC several times. I just stopped playing after Anderson dies.

I do think that the story telling was not as good later in the game, and Priority Earth was poor in comparision.

I played ME1/2/3 for the story and character development over the shooting and kiling, altho I do think that the combat was best in ME3.

[DarkestDeceit]

More disappointed than anything, remember playing through the game and in general enjoyed it, got to the the last part with Marauder Shields and when the game end decision came along i honestly thought it was going to flash to a new scene were you had dreamed this part after being blown up / indoctrinated, then came the credits. Definitely not my favourite game ending.

[B.Shep]

Han Shot First wrote...

I never hated it.

I hated the original endings, but before the finale I had been thinking that Mass Effect 3 was easily the best game of the series. I still hold that opinion, despite my mixed feelings on the post-EC endings.

My opinion is similar except I pretty much enjoyed the Extended Cut, probably because I never believed in the IT and the EC delivery most of my reasonable expectations over the ending.

[sharkboy421]

I never hated ME3.  I hated (and still do) that for all the cool sci-fi ideas the ending uses, they do not fit with Mass Effect. 

This has always been my biggest source of disappointment, the endings just feel so disconnected from the rest of the series.  My initial reaction to the endings was one of confusion, "What did I just watch? That did not feel like Mass Effect."  The EC did what it set out to do in providing additional context and clarity about the endings and it only confirmed my initial reaction.

I hate that the endings uses some really cool sci-fi that is just disconnected from the rest of the series but I don't hate the endings themselves.  As for ME3 overall?  It is a fantastic game and I really do like it, though I like ME2 more.

[Pantegana]

ME3's endings for me are still a big "WTF", so is Cerberus turning from a small, secret and elitary secret organization. into some kind of all powerfull, evil syndicates, that has hordes of minions and countless (big) ships to throw at you like it was nothing.
But I don't hate ME3, I just hate the 2 features mentioned above cause I feel like they ruined what could have been my favourite game.
On the good side I'd say ME3 has the BEST combat system of the whole trilogy. Maybe the enemies aren't much varied but I love ME3's combat mechanics.

[AlanC9]

Countless big ships? How many showed up in Omega? (Never bought it) In the game proper all we see are a handful of cruisers.