Hipinion Plays Mass Effect 3

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

If you flushed the rachni in the first game instead of saving her, do you still get that side quest or is it just wiped from ME3?

if you saved her, she's indoctrinated despite promising not to be
if you killed her, there's a new queen and p.s. she's indoctrinated

I don't think the one you saved is indoctrinated, they just imprisoned her and indoctrinated all the others.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I mean, not that it matters.

Anyway I guess we're like halfway through and it's pretty enjoyable so far.

[iambic]

If you flushed the rachni in the first game instead of saving her, do you still get that side quest or is it just wiped from ME3?

if you saved her, she's indoctrinated despite promising not to be
if you killed her, there's a new queen and p.s. she's indoctrinated

I don't think the one you saved is indoctrinated, they just imprisoned her and indoctrinated all the others.

right, whatever. you have to fight the rachni throughout the game regardless of any decision, and the only bearing the sequence has on anything is getting some war assets or not.

(war assets affect almost nothing in the game)

[Merciel]

We're midway through the quarian/geth sequence and have been delaying it to do side quests while we can still have Tali in our group.

So far the quarians seem like massive assholes who should probably just go ahead and die. I don't know if it was the game's intention for them to be this unsympathetic, but man, being forced onto their side is frustrating.

[This Guy]

Just started playing this weekend. Fresh new game so I'm using the default story-line. My two notes so far:
Mordin is my nigga. Dude is awesome.
Mass Effect 3 may be the gayest game ever.

[Feech La Manna]

I finished the game and I still have no idea what all those war assets did

[surly]

so I'm slowly coming to the realization that I can't have any krogans in my party. this game fucking blows

[sevenarts]

I finished the game and I still have no idea what all those war assets did

spoiler warning: nothing

[The Unblinking Eye]

I finished the game and I still have no idea what all those war assets did

spoiler warning: nothing

Come on, they were important. Don't you know that they changed the color of the beam at the end?

[miss black america]

also you get a quick scene after the credits if you become a sith

[This Guy]

I don't want to, and I'm not trying to, but I think I'm going to end up having sex with the gay shuttle pilot. He invited me for drinks in Purgatory.

[iambic]

I finished the game and I still have no idea what all those war assets did

spoiler warning: nothing

Come on, they were important. Don't you know that they changed the color of the beam at the end?

don't even really do this. they give you the green colour explosion as an option, and with enough of them you get the 'secret' ending of Shepard taking a breath, but otherwise all they do is determine whether some soldiers cheer at the end or earth gets wreckt.

[nibelheim]

pretty content to have only completed 2 missions and bailed

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

jeph jacques killin it on tumblr

[internethandle]

so i finished this. i'm going to be pretty general but i guess i'll go white: my initial endgame reaction was not really negative at all, but then i read that gamefront article iambic posted and much of the dissatisfaction seems legitimate to me, too. i don't know, i guess the article and much of the annoyance seems predicated on the belief that the series itself didn't already contain some pretty gaping plot holes and inconsistencies, jumping of the shark etc. prior to the conclusion. the player choice issue and to a lesser degree the "philosophical" incongruency seem like the best points made.

i enjoyed the tone of the ending, though, i guess - it was rather dark, even sort of surreal or dream-like. it was jarring to see shepard so disheveled and physically near death when he's been this completely impervious everyhero badass throughout the series if you ignore the whole dying to the collectors thing at the beginning of me2. it's pretty clear that bioware rushed the every living fuck out of cobbling an ending together to meet some likely EA-imposed deadline, but if they were going to do that the result we're given was more interesting to me than it could have been.

speaking of how the ending seems "dark," i guess this is now how the rabid frenzied endgame "activists" are attempting to bridge their cognitive dissonance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZOyeFvnhiI

[chairkicker]

i enjoyed the tone of the ending, though, i guess

the final push and the moment shepherd wakes up in the shapeless interior citadel, keepers among the wreckage, is note perfect at least

[iambic]

i don't know, i guess the article and much of the annoyance seems predicated on the belief that the series itself didn't already contain some pretty gaping plot holes and inconsistencies, jumping of the shark etc. prior to the conclusion.

I do agree with this, but since the majority of Mass Effect players don't, the ending is singularly bad for them

[Feech La Manna]

Shepard dying is probably the least offensive thing about the ending to me, but I'm guessing that's not true for a lot of the people complaining

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

This exchange bothered me:

Shepard: "Organics and synthetics don't have to destroy each other."
Reaper: "The Battle for Rannoch disproves your assertion."

If a self-organizing AI were that bad at logic it would never even figure out where its input stream was.

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

also to tie this into current events i'll bet the board 50 dollars that the ending of mass effect 3 is just a longform adaptation of the crossroads video as well.

wait if i understand the nerd outrage on this ending

i was totally right on this

can somebody paypal me 50 dollars now?

[Merciel]

We just did the Prothean beacon on Thessia.

Holy shit Kai Leng is the worst character.

And holy shit that was the worst puzzle.

[Merciel]

The heroic sacrifices of the asari pilots and whatnot almost worked, but then that incredible bullshit sequence in the temple oh my god.

[Feech La Manna]

I'm blanking, what was the puzzle? Running around in a circle clicking things?

And yeah, Kei Leng is just a massive editorial failure. You would think someone at some point would say "this might not be the best idea."

[internethandle]

having javik along helped things a bit in the temple in terms of doing the "puzzle" re: dialogue between him and liara but yeah it was completely ridiculous

once you kill kei leng you're even more awestruck how awful he was/is

[internethandle]

for those of you who have finished jesus fucking christ this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... _9LTcwYic#!

[Merciel]

I'm blanking, what was the puzzle? Running around in a circle clicking things?

Yup, that was it!

I mean that was it. There's not even a puzzle. It is mindblowingly stupid.

[chairkicker]

that's what most of the sidequest add up to as well

-go click five terminals on the citadel. thank you, that is all
-find the computer terminal on this base. now find the terminal to shut this shit down/overload it hell, but choose a member of your team to do so for five minutes while you fight off this incoming wave of enemies that you also fought when you landed there

that is pretty much it. replace terminals with people as you like

[trope]

I just started this and I had to make a new face for my guy and I made him look too much like Bruce Campbell and now I can't take anything seriously.

Also these grenades are some bullshit.

[iambic]

This exchange bothered me:

Shepard: "Organics and synthetics don't have to destroy each other."
Reaper: "The Battle for Rannoch disproves your assertion."

If a self-organizing AI were that bad at logic it would never even figure out where its input stream was.

you're going to love the ending

[Merciel]

that's what most of the sidequest add up to as well

Yeah I know. We've done all the sidequests already (the ones they've given us, anyway).

It's more offensive when it's part of the main quest, though, and especially when they spend so much time hyping up OOH WHAT IS THE SECRET KEY and THIS IS SO SECURE AND TOP-SECRET AND MYSTERIOUS and then what the fuck it's not even a puzzle, you just click things and the magic power of Shepard being Shepard unlocks the mystery and whaaaaa

like what the fuck guys, there are THREE Uncharted games you could have ripped off for big set-piece puzzles.