The BioWare and Mass Effect Thread!

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lol that retarded little kid was Harbinger? As if the Reapers hadn't already declined enough. "lol guise instead of blowing up the Normandy 5 minutes into the game we will instead let Shepard run about the galaxy and trick his mind"

Whether or not that whole "the ending is indoctrination"-theory thing is true and therefore intentional (gotta have to give some credits to Bioware for having the balls to pull it of in that case) or not, should they indeed provide a DLC with a new ending, demanding money for it would be bordering on fraud and pushing it even for EA, imho.
After all people that bought ME3 did so in the assumption that it would provide an actual closure to the trilogy.

Hey, even over at BSN that would probably cause a major uprising.

So, historically, would this be the first time a game has (deliberately) shipped without an ending? Plenty of games have had post-ending DLC, but I think this could be the first game (of many to come ) to actually go this far.

No. Divinity 2: Ego Draconis did something similar.
Before Flames of Vengeance (the expansion) or Dragon Knight Saga, after beating the final enemies you found out that you actually (pseudo-spoiler below, highlight to read)

had been helping the bad guys all along and freed the bad guys evil girlfriend. As a reward you ended up trapped in a crystal in the afterworld.


Only after playing the expansion you would get the real ending.

Fallout 3?

Fallout 3. Bethesda will always reign supreme over these talentless rip off artists.

I remember playing some adventure game, that when things started to get remotely interesting ended with a IT WILL CONTINUE...
That was some trolling...

Fallout 3 had a proper ending, just a slightly dumb one. BS didn't really change anything about it.

To a degree, at least they wrapped up what you had done and what became of the area.
The game could have ended right there without Broken Steel and you would not have missed much.
It might have been a somewhat illogical (why sacrifice myself when the Mutant or ghoule npc would survive the radiation) or not overly satisfying ending but it seems better to me than what I gather from the discussion and videos of ME3.

Yeah, it's like an LP with fewer screenshots.

So wait, can someone sum up the story and ending of ME3? Why is it so horrible? Can't be bothered to look into it.

Most likely, Bioware planned nothing. They were (well, "are" is the more accurate term) just a bunch of massive hacks and believecd those abortions they called endings are appropriate. When the shitstorm started and the indoctrination fanfiction stories stated to surface, they realized that it may be a good idea to run with that, so now thay're playing coy, leading people on to buy themselves some time while they scrounge up together some DLC with the "true" ending that "confirms" the indoctrination hypothesis. Now, if they release that for free, they have good chances of placating the enraged masses, but if they ask money for that, then all bets are off and I'm stocking up on popcorn, because that's going to be the best entertainment one could get out of ME3.

So the only difference is the wave color or what? I dont understand the outrage behind those endings, the whole story sucked since ME1 day 1 and people are realising this just now? I really would love a short explaination WHY exactly there is such a huge shitstorm amongst the reta... fans of ME.

Yeah, this. I saw the vid before, but I still don't quite understand the butthurt. Fake C&C in a Bioware game? You don't say...

Maybe they messed up and meant that the 4th game will explain it all. *sigh* They could have done this simpler, by saying no this isnt the final ending and these endings take palce in Shepards mind. You know frack it, I dont even care, its just a game and I have others games that need finishing.

PS. I still like the the joke that colorblinds have only one ending.

I suppose you really need to play the whole game or at least see the previous 15 minutes prior to the cutscene to understand, but even someone who played ME1 or the ME2 DLC should spot some massive plot holes in that vid.

Seriously. I hope we'll see more crazy fan theories trying to make sense of the ending. SQUALL DIES AT THE END OF DISC 1.

Vanguard cannot into Banshee

Vanguard+Banshee =

The colors are wrong?

Adept is the best class.