Did ME3 ruin Mass Effect for you?

[The Last Nomad]

I've never played it so no, it didn't. Instead the so called 'fans' who bashed it constantly ruined for me. I loved talking about Mass Effect before the release of the third one because their was so much to the games that the conversation would always be different. After the ending though, nobody spoke about ME without mentioning it.

 

[Cekil1]

Or did the story ruin it for you?

I'll let you know once I finish it. Hearing all the rage over the ending made me instantly skeptical so, I'm guessing it's nowhere NEAR as horrifying as people are saying. I'm all too aware of the exaggerating nature that is fandom.

 

[Tdoodle]

In response to the title, no it didn't. While I didn't like the ending at all - and the alternate and annoyingly rosey extended cuts a little less - I still enjoyed the rest of the game, started another playthrough and have only recently stopped playing the multiplayer.

Would you ever buy a Mass Effect product again even in best case scenario?

In response to this, no I don't think I would. I certainly wouldn't rush out to buy it anyway. I liked the series but now that Shepard's story is done I am too. It's not like Dragon Age: Origins that was always hinting at a bigger story and wider implications in the epilogue. It's done and I'm not too bothered about going back to it now (the second playthrough never got finished).

 

[[REDACTED]]

While I haven't played mass effect 3, I've watched the ending and, yeah, it was horrendous. But it definitely doesn't ruin the series for me. If I was a Star Trek fan, I wouldn't renounce the entire series because some of the movies were terrible. When something sucks in a series I like, I generally just sigh heavily and go back to an installment that didn't.

 

[Starke]

Yeah, I'm done. Some of it was the ending... actually, a lot of it was the ending.

If Mass Effect 3 killed the franchise, ME2's giant space terminator baby, and Ashley/Kaiden's whining about why you didn't call them from the great beyond kneecapped it long before ME3 rolled around, though.

 

[gideonkain]

Ya, pretty much.

I never thought the series was all that great - good setting and characters but the gameplay went from a clunky KOTOR to a clunky Gears of War and then insulted my intelligence the last 10 minutes.

 

[Korolev]

No. I thought it did at first... for about 3 hours. Then I got over the ending and realized that 99% of Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 was great. Sure, for me it ended on a bad note, but it didn't erase the 200+ good hours (roughly 30 hours per game, and I've played through them more than once) I've had with the mass effect games. ME3, I will stress this, was a good game. Good as ME2? Hell no! But it was still GOOD. A bad ending doesn't erase how great the game was for 80% of its length.

If they make new Mass Effect games, I'll buy them. A little bit shaky on Dragon Age games though. DAII wasn't..... "terrible"... but it was very disappointing.

 

[dystopiaINC]

Nope still my favorite game series, ME3 being my favorite out of all of them. so yeah....

 

[Cybren]

i disliked most of mass effect 3 as a whole. I will not buy any more mass effect titles, and probably won't get anything by bioware unless i have it on good authority it's actively good, rather than just "looks interesting"

 

[Fredvdp]

While I see many flaws in the game's ending, I didn't dislike it, especially now that the extended cut is out. The ending is is not the worst part of Mass Effect 3. It's the increased amount of auto-dialog and limited choices when the dialog wheel dioes show up. It's the fetch quests. The plot holes throughout the game. Jessica Chobot. All of these make Mass Effect 3 the weakest game in the series. I think it's a good game, but after ME1 and ME2 I expected something a lot better. It was disappointing, but it didn't ruin the series for me.

 

[Murmillos]

I still play ME1 (PC) to this day... ME2 haven't touched since 6 months after it launched (got 5 Shepard's start to end), which I have eventually uninstalled. ME3, finished once, uninstalled and nuked Origin off my computer.

So yea, for me, ME2 and ME3 are not real games as far as I'm concerned. My only three minor issues with ME1 are:
(1) (if doing a new-new game) is the weapons aiming issue despite the fact that my guy is a N7 soldier... (IMO: they should have explained Shepard just came out from a major battle and has been out of combat for a few months, but still has the spirit they are looking for).
(2) For the entirety of the game, the loot glut; which unless you are saving up for the N7 weapons (that I care not to use), you can just stop picking up loot mid game.
(3) A few Mako maps; they could have used a bit more polish -- including level design and the fact that there was only 2 outpost designs.

Mass Effect (1), the real Space Opera. Shame ME2 and ME3 never lived up to that.

 

[SuperRobot64]

Depends if the next game was god or not

You need a game to be GOD to buy it? Damn those are some high standards right there.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

Depends if the next game was god or not

You need a game to be GOD to buy it? Damn those are some high standards right there.

You're the third person to make fun of me for my spelling mistake. ;-;

Although some people seemed to have that high of expectations for Mass effect 3 so I'm sure there are people out there that have godlike expectations for ME4.

 

[BleedingPride]

no. i thought me3 was great, and im happy with the extended cut as it is. epic game, epic trilogy, loved it from beginning to end. if i knew how it would turn out from the beginning, i'd still buy it.

 

[Rex Fallout]

Yeah it did. Won't be buying anymore Bioware or EA titles- at least not new. I'm tempted to buy them used just to spite EA. However- Ea drove Bioware into the ground and the terrible writing of the overarching plot and the Catalyst were just too much BS for me to stand. Plus, then we had the whole, Bioware made all these promises and kept none of them thing, AND the fact that our choices had no real consequence. I mean honestly, why did I keep my save files? They didn't matter at all.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

ME 2 ruined it for me ><

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Yes.

They turned a deep, galaxy spanning RPG into a pot-hole riddled shoot'em up. Now, I'm not saying having lots of shooting in your RPG is a bad thing, but when that's the only thing it has going for it, that's when I take offense.

I thought ME2 was a good game, if a bit shallow and carrying too many of the scars of committee design and a publisher breathing down their necks. Otherwise it had solid writing and an awesome endgame.

ME3 funnels you down a narrow corridor and doesn't let you out. There are plot holes you could drive a Reaper through, there's no satisfaction to be had in completing the story and gathering assets, because it all amounts to jack shit in the end.

The series was mishandled, and unless they're going to write the new mass effect games as elseworld stories where, I dunno, the Council declares war on us and be become a rogue nation, then maybe. Otherwise it'll just be a colossal waste of time.

 

[pspman45]

well...
I've completed Mass Effect 6 times, I've completed Mass Effect 2 over 18 times
I've completed Mass Effect 3 once.
after I realized that nothing I do will change anything in the grand scheme of things, I just didn't see a reason to play any of them again
call me crazy, but I just don't want to play those games anymore after completing 3