Did ME3 ruin Mass Effect for you?
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I doubt I would be eager right out of the gate for another Mass Effect game just like I'm not all that eager to play the new Dragon Age they just announced.
The franchises aren't ruined for me Origins and Mass Effect are still two of the best games and I will go back and play them again countless times over the years I'm sure.
I'm kinda worn out on Mass Effect though and the games seem to be quite different from what I initially thought they were. So maybe it's less that I don't want to play in those franchises and more I don't want to play the games that Bioware are making now.
The franchises aren't ruined for me Origins and Mass Effect are still two of the best games and I will go back and play them again countless times over the years I'm sure.
I'm kinda worn out on Mass Effect though and the games seem to be quite different from what I initially thought they were. So maybe it's less that I don't want to play in those franchises and more I don't want to play the games that Bioware are making now.
I loved ME3, and the endings, so obviously I'm for whatever they offer up next. Obviously YMMV but I personally agree with the "Hulk's" review.
http://badassdigest.com/2012/08/06/film-crit-hulk-smash-a-few-words-on-the-ending-of-mass-effect-3/
Also, while I'm primarily a single player RPG kind of guy, the ME3 multiplayer really sank its claws into me. It turned out to be a lot of fun. (For me; YMMV and all that).
So Bioware has lost no cred with me even when they caved to the whiney entitlement fans and coughed up some extra endgame exposition.
http://badassdigest.com/2012/08/06/film-crit-hulk-smash-a-few-words-on-the-ending-of-mass-effect-3/
Also, while I'm primarily a single player RPG kind of guy, the ME3 multiplayer really sank its claws into me. It turned out to be a lot of fun. (For me; YMMV and all that).
So Bioware has lost no cred with me even when they caved to the whiney entitlement fans and coughed up some extra endgame exposition.
Not at all, I loved all three games. The ending to ME3 was disappointing at first but the EC fixed most of the issues I had. I still wanted some kind of Harbinger focus, even if it was similar to Soveriegn and I didn't enact the killing blow myself. I'll most likely buy another ME game on day one.
I didn't play ME3, so no it didn't. And I didn't play ME3 because of EA. So for me to play anything ME in the future EA will either have to lose control of the IP or learn some f*ing business ethics. As I don't see either happening anytime soon I don't see myself playing any future ME games either.
ME3's ending didn't ruin the franchise for me but it did ruin ME3. I love the first and second but I can't play the third knowing how "silly" the ending is. There are parts of 3 I liked (Tuchanka and Rannoch were awesome) but too me the ending showed me some of the flaws I kinda overlooked before then. I was playing through the second a few weeks ago and having so much fun with it and the story I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong...
Sorry, I only finished the game recently and I avoided the whole controversy before that. This kind of thread will probably continue for a while as we latecomers get to say our piece on the whole debaclePhlakes said:
Didn´t ruin it for me and of course i would buy a new mass effect product, the mass effect universe is probably THE best writen and visualised in gaming. Sure i agree the first endings before extended cut was not what you expected, tho the extended cut endings i think makes up for it.
The Mass effect series is probably one of the best games ever made, i had a blast playing it, i even had watered eyes at some part because of great story parts or just nerd gasm. Im not gonna judge a game series or bioware because they made ONE "misstake" with the ending.
Its like eating a cake, one of the best ones you ever had, but the last slice had some untasty cream in it and then go and say that the whole cake was awfull and never buy that kind again.
The Mass effect series is probably one of the best games ever made, i had a blast playing it, i even had watered eyes at some part because of great story parts or just nerd gasm. Im not gonna judge a game series or bioware because they made ONE "misstake" with the ending.
Its like eating a cake, one of the best ones you ever had, but the last slice had some untasty cream in it and then go and say that the whole cake was awfull and never buy that kind again.
Yes. It's only one of two fictional franchises for me that this has happened to, but when something raises my hopes with strong evidence that it will rise above the rest of the garbage, then falls apart, I can't bear to look at it anymore. I haven't picked up an ME game since I finished ME3, and I doubt I ever will again. It isn't just the endings, as disastrous as they were, but the whole "Victory through Sacrifice" theme seemed out of place for me. That stupid scene at the very beginning when the kid in the pipe died seemed like it was thrown in as a cheap "Children are dying. Nothing can be more evil!" device that really shouldn't have affected the story much at all, and it seemed contradictory to the knowledge that a Golden End is possible in 2. When a really good story collapses on me like that, I can't bear to look at even the good parts again, since they will always remind me of what could have been.
Well it wasn't just ME3 it was a combination of BiowarEA wanting the call of duty crowd, EA's insane dev cycle and EA's shitty business practices.
Yes it ruined not only Mass Effect but bioware. i sold all my ME copies for cheap and never going to buy bioware game again.
Nope. Loved it all, only issue I had was "that's all?" with the ending but I CBA playing through again with the extended cut and I refuse to watch cut scenes on youtube because spoilers are the source of all evil (except after like 3+ years, that's ok)
Call me a sap but I loved the little bit with the old man telling the kid about "The Shepard". Hell yes, I deserve to be a fucking legend.
100 hours of campaign boiled down to nothing. Choices didn't matter and the ending didn't make any logical sense. So yes, ME is ruined for me. I guess the more you love something the worse it is when you're disappointed. It can make a man really jaded. Unless Bioware finds a way to fix the ending of ME3 I will never buy anything from EA/Bioware. That's a decision I made after I finished ME3. All they had to do is make a normal ending that incorporated all of our previous choices and all of this shit could have been avoided. People would still love Bioware and everything would be peachy. But noooooooooo. They had to fuck it up in the last 10 minutes. Who does something like that?
the orginal ending sucked but the ec cut fixed most of my issues but i still loved every second of that game
Nope. My only big "problem" with ME3 was the mission journal. It was like "go find someone who may be able to know aunt poppy's secret apple pie recipe, we might have a clue that this person or entity is hiding somewhere in the universe", and then it didn't record much of your mission progress, so after talking to a lot of people who might have a clue or knew someone who could be of help, it would still just say "find that damn recipe" in your mission log.
Waited until the extended cut was out to finish the game, so it wasn't much of a deal for me.
Waited until the extended cut was out to finish the game, so it wasn't much of a deal for me.