I keep thinking that I'm going to do my uber-ultimate super-duper mega playthrough of each game in sequence and all available DLC... but in reality, I will probably just mull around with DAI until my present playthrough is finished and then go back to working on a mod I've had on a back burner for way too long.
What game is said mod for? Also...what does this mod do?
Its ok the Extended Cut saved it.
It really didn't. It addressed none of the deep problems with the ending, only glossed over a new coat of paint on a sinking ship. There were serious problems with basic plausibility, a genre violation, and overall a very poor ending concept. It put the player who was paying attention into an impossible position; there was every warning sign imaginable that Shepard would be very unwise indeed to trust anything the apparition in front of him said, or suggested, but the game didn't even allow the player to express scepticism, in the dialogue, about what he was seeing being real, OR the apparition being honest.
The extended cut didn't add any such dialogue options either - and I know exactly why. Because if such obvious, and very called for scepticism WAS expressed by Shepard, there's nothing at all the apparition could say to mitigate those doubts, as the very form he took proved he was already in Shepard's head. After such scepticism, the "reject" option would have been the only reasonable path, but then the game would have ended up punishing the player for taking the only reasonable option.
The only thing that would have saved the ending would have been a complete re-write, scrapping at least everything after the last scene with Anderson, and creating a new ending, with a different concept. Alas, that was not to be. 
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I personally thought and felt the same about the ending and the extended cut. It just did not... cut it for me.
I personally thought and felt the same about the ending and the extended cut. It just did not... cut it for me.
Ba dum tss.
Honestly though I felt like it improved it but I still chuckle that it took them esentially three DLCs to dig themselves out of the hole they created. Two of them which were paid.
Add Deus Ex and the two story DLCs for Witcher 3 to that list. In fact, IGN just reviewed Hearts of Stone and gave it a 9.0Play Fallout 4, Tomb Raider, Starcraft legacy of void, etc etc.
Dragon age always can be replaced!
Play Fallout 4, Tomb Raider, Starcraft legacy of void, etc etc.
Dragon age always can be replaced!
I'm sorry what was that?
I have an easy solution. It's called:
And just realise this game will be at its worst on release and a year later THAT much better because of mods...
I have an easy solution. It's called:
And just realise this game will be at its worst on release and a year later THAT much better because of mods...
It just works
PS: Where is this thread going? :3
Well, quite a few people have been saying how it looks like Bethesda has taken ques from Bioware with Fallout 4, so maybe that will slate your thirst until Dragon Age 4.
Yeah, I hope so too! I think I'll be getting it.
By tomb raider? Not bloody likely. The last one was probably the second worse game I have played....on last console generatio certainly.
I got Tomb Raider recently (it was [and is?]) free on the One, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Its ok the Extended Cut saved it.
I'm one of the few people who kind of likes it better without the Extended Cut. Or at least not any better. It's like a long, drawn-out sucker-punch instead of a quick one 
Also thanks for the suggestions, people!
Its ok the Extended Cut saved it.
BioWare wrote themselves into a corner. They spent two games hyping up the unstoppable, species-harvesting, galaxy-ending killing machines, and when the time came to actually fight them...they had nothing. The whole "dark energy" plot got scrapped, and the best they could come up with was the Catalyst: the big ass machine that nobody knows what it does, how or why, but let's pour all our resources into it anyway because why not. The Extended Cut was nothing but an attempt to make the Diabolus ex Machina of the Star Child seem remotely plausible. And it failed miserably.
I am a huge fan of BioWare and their work, and even defend most of it to people who don't like it. But the end of Mass Effect 3 - and really a lot of the game in general - was some of the laziest writing I've seen, and that includes the Extended Cut.
At least in a series like Dragon Age, where a lot of how the universe works is left intentionally vague, you can get away with half-baked attempts at godhood. When you try to shoehorn that crap into the end of Mass Effect, where everything has adhered to a particular vein of logic, people are going to notice.
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