Bioware wins this round. Good attempt by gamers with money burning holes in their pockets though.

I wonder how long it took them to figure out that the cupcakes weren't sent as a compliment?

Two-three minutes?

I'm guessing several hours.

Approximately 23 hours...

I just finished the game.

What in the name of Jumping Jehoshaphat was that.

On the homestretch on my Insanity playthrough.

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lol

Just started this up last night. Not very far into it, but after beating 2 in only 6 days, I can say I'm hooked. Good to see Ashley back as a playable character and is that Freddie Prinze Jr. as James?

Indeed it is

Completely unrelated
 

Isn't he gay?

Woooooowee. Kai Leng is a bitch and half to put down on insanity. Must have went through 10+ tries.

Agreed. His little hand cannon is such bull shit.

I want Kai Leng to have my (next) children.

Defending the missile battieres right now in the final stage on insanity, but with the huge influx on bad guys pouring in, my game froze on me 3 times today. :mad:

Try again tomorrow when my nerves calm down.

I would hate that bit on Insanity. It got hairy enough on normal.

WWSF!

YO ADRIAN, I DID IT!

Just beat it on insanity, all the luck in the world went my way on that last mission. Blood pressure and stress levels are slowly returning to normal.

Extended cut is coming... It's even free.

Really didn't see the free part coming.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/biowar...130000574.html

Maybe now people will quit crying about the ending to the game.

They might make it worse, if that's physically possible.

I don't see why so many people are pissing and moaning. The game series is amazing and has high replay value. Gamers today are just spoiled, whiny cunts.

Someone would have set fire to their office if they charged for it. They knew it would have made for even worse press and they needed to do something to calm their fan base down.

The fact that it is coming out in the summer and not next week gives me hope that they are putting some serious thought and production value into it, and not just rushing some garbage out.

The ending kills the replay value actually. Lets put it this way - I couldnt wait to play ME1 and 2 again after I beat them because the story was so damn good. Now, I havent picked up the controller since I beat ME3 since I dont see any point to play again if thats going to be the ending everytime. You can bet thats how alot of other people feel.

I disagree. With that ending, Mass Effect 3 has zero replay value. It even harms the replay value of the first two because who really gives a damn who lived and died in the first 2 games? Even in the cliffhanger endings of the first 2, a lot was different in terms of dialogue depending on what you did and with that epic feeling that something big was going to happen in 3 and then.... Nothing. Nothings really wrapped up, the same stuff happens just in a different shade.

The only thing I got after the ending was the feeling that I wish I bought it on console so I could trade it in immediately after finishing it. They've said this has a "more personal ending" so hopefully it does. That's all I want.

I still say it was planned and the only difference the vitriol over the ending accomplished was that they will now give it away for free. That's unless there's no new missions in there and it is basically downloading a cutscene. If they tried charging for that it would have been batshit insane, even for EA.

Either way, I love these games and will likely replay all 3 after I beat 3. Only this time, I'm going to make Shepard the biggest douche in the universe.

Ha! If this ending debacle actually comes out alright and it's worth playing trough again, I'll be the goody two shoes, since I was mostly douche on the first playthrough.

:lol:

So it's not really going to change the endings, so much as add stuff to them? Suppose we'll see.

It's going to add a scene where the last 15 minutes of the game were a dream and Dallas is still alive.

Or it could be that Shepard was never real at all? Maybe he's trapped in The Matrix?

Based on the female voice actor for Shepard, no new dialog is currently planned for the Extended Cut which confirms as of now it literally will be just new cutscenes to be added to the current multi-colored endings.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-a-new-ending/

Also EA is still getting a ton of hate mail for expanding the same-sex relationships for ME 3 and primarily giving the option to make the male Shepard be gay.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...e-sex-content/

Anyone expecting the rewards from last weekend's multiplayer promotion won't be getting them any time soon after Bioware discovered a significant percentage of people either hacked or used exploits to cheat to get those rewards.
http://lifesanrpg.com/61/mass-effect...owing-exploits

Operation: Beachhead will be the challenge for this weekend.
http://blog.bioware.com/2012/04/05/operation-beachhead/

This game is really getting to me now.

It's specifically an epilogue. Which avoids like 80% of the issues raised.

You lying liar. Why must you lie like that? Dallas didn't change their story, Mass Effect fans wanting a change in the story is completely unprecedented!

What are you, some kind of moron?

That post is going to show up in one of Reqtum's flood o quotes deal, completely missing the intent of the statement.

Seems like spoiler tags are no longer a big deal on this page, but just in case...

Agreed.

It pretty much was a linear game.

Sadly. Still fun.

And that's my biggest problem. The first 99% of the whole series was so fun and addicting. I've never been so careful with what decisions I've made in a game, not wanting to affect the universe in the wrong way. So for it all to end like...that is just so fucking disappointing

Hey, maybe the new ending content will...*sigh*

Well there is the whole scene if you got at least 5000 war assets.

Only if you k the Rs and Ss.

I'll take your owrd on that.

Probably should have been a hint that seeing the consequences of our actions didn't live up in ME2, either.

Take personal choices into account in a way that the ending didn't and Bioware/EA still justifies?

Fixed that for you.

Also, that was only in one ending, wasn't it?

I got it in 2 of them KK.

Really? Pretty much everyone else is indicating otherwise. That's also a big hole in the Indoctrination theory (Like it needed anymore).

Got it in the red and the green.

Well, you argue a good point, but the internet's never steered me wrong before, so I'm going to have to call you a liar

You might as well, my girlfriend does.

Also, because it's true in my case....
http://i1.cpcache.com/product/542425...=460&width=460

Resurgence DLC pack for the game's multiplayer arrives tomorrow for the PS3, PC, and Xbox 360.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ing-this-week/

No modes? Not worth it.

G, the new pack that comes out tomorrow is free.

She chose Control, didn't she?

She hasn't even beaten Mass Effect 1 yet.

According to Bioware, Sony is the main reason why the PS3 version doesn't have any weekend challenges instead of everyone assuming Microsoft bought them as exclusive goodies.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-3/

So now that the Better Business Bureau has said the Mass Effect 3 controversy does constitute false advertising, think people will shut the fuck up about "entitlement?"
...Probably not.

Ha. People quit bitching? Surely you jest KK.

I don't jet. And don't call me Shirley.

Wow.

Hmm?

I didn't expect that to win.

To be fair, the BBB isn't really a significant win. Since they have no real authority, all they can do is drop EA's rating.

I do think it kind of solidifies the complaint, but action from the FTC would be more a win.

I feel ya there. I think it's a bit bullshit to have to unlock the new classes. So far, I've only unlocked the Justicar.

I haven't played for a while now. Don't know if I'll go back.

I just got into the multiplayer yesterday and I am actually pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoy it.

Don't get me wrong, if you play with people that communicate, and know what they're doing, you're good to go. I hate getting stuck with assholes who are high levels, but always run off on their own and then get raped by Brutes, Banshees, or Phantoms and then bitch at you for not rushing in and reviving them because they don't want to use their medi-gel.

According to Bioware, Sony has just started to work with them to get the weekend challenges to become available for PS3 owners of the game.

EGM thinks the original reason why Sony refused might have been related to how Bioware uploads data to PSN servers and didn't want to allow anyone to access PSN without their permission.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-3/

Finally beat it. I made my final choice by accident by walking up to the big beam of light. I thought you had to walk up to it and then make your choice.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...7JCGGBASCEHA9N

On sale for $29.99 today, all platforms

Allied Goal: Kill 1,000,000 Cerberus Phantoms.
Squad Goal: Survive until extraction on any map and any enemy on Gold difficulty.


I don't know about Gold.

Beat Gold with 3 randoms on Saturday night. Wasn't as bad as I thought. Fuck a bunch of phantoms though.

If anyone ever wants to tackle gold, holla.

New operation this weekend btw.

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/05/09/operation-silencer/

My action figures finally shipped.

Also, new free DLC was released this week. 2 more maps, and a few new weapons and classes.

I'm picking up my Tali and Miranda today CS. Getting Garrus and Legion next week as well as a Garrus for the girlfriend. Homeworlds #2 also came out yesterday if you're interested.

Apparently this is going to be a launch title on the Wii U.

UK's Advertising Standards Authority clears EA and Bioware from false advertising charges for the UK region in regards to Mass Effect 3 and the issue of your choices do not really influence the game's final ending.

The multi-colored endings are good enough to be considered as keeping the promise EA and Bioware stated the series would fulfill with player choices.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-about-ending/

Extended Cut hits Tuesday!

Should be interesting.

1.9 GB of info. According to Bioware, you need to play from the Cerberus base onward to get the full effect of the ending. Well, looks like I'm starting over from scratch then!

Can't you just replay the checkpoint?

If you had a save there, I'd imagine so. The again, isn't that where the end of the game starts anyways?

Yeah sure. You got a save, you should be able to restart at the last checkpoint or mission.

Well then, I guess I know what I'm playing Tuesday night after work.

Also, I need to get by the comic shop and pick up my Liara Bishoujo.

I downloaded this and was about to start playing it and then I realized I can just watch them on youtube.

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It seems like Control is the best ending whereas Destroy doesn't make sense. Humans are just going to rebuild the relays by themselves? They have that knowledge now? Jeez, you merely put the final touches on one Prothean superweapon that has taken a bunch of civilizations eons to complete and now you have the balls to try and re-create the relays? How exactly?

Sythesis is ...weird? I dunno, it's a neat alternate option to have but it's just...freaky. Seeing them with lit up green eyes is off-putting and makes it seem like they're soulless zombies for the rest of eternity. But EVI gets upset at the end so there's obviously something there. It just seems like there's this underlying message there of synthetics destroying your soul/humanity.

And I guess this is the new 4th ending if you refuse all of those endings:

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Roxer, every species reverse engineered all their technology from the mass relays/citadel, it's not entirely impossible that they could be rebuilt by humans and the other species

Eh. Destroy made the most sense still. Figured they would have put the extra effort into it and had Shepard walking around since he was still alive at the end.

That's still only if you're at 100 percent paragon anyways right? I figured they would change that.

No. Battle readiness needs to be over 5000. Anything less, you're dead.

Next DLC packed leaked as a potential Easter Egg from the Extended Cut DLC.

A data file was found by someone digging what the Extended Cut pack contained and found out to be a potentially new mission concerning the Leviathan mentioned in both Mass Effect 1 & 3.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/yes-th...ct-3-dlc/4242/

Not many adding their two cents on the EC. What did yall think?

I say they took one of the worst endings I have ever seen (from a story this well done anyway) and made it into a bleh WWE storyline ending that never gave us the true payoff they built it up to be. So basically from a 1 to a 3.5. At least the slideshow had different scenes for my Paragon and Renegade Shepps.

Other than that, I mostly agree with Tommy Gunn.

Thoughts?