How best to ruin Mass Effect 3

[A Sad Soul]

Shepard becomes depressed over the loss of Kaiden/Ashley during the Battle of Virmire 4 years prior, and decides to jump out the Normandy's airlock.

EDI then finds a cure for Joker's Vrolik's Syndrome, and he takes over where Shepard left off, inevitably saving the galaxy from impending doom.

Oh, wait... You said worse. Crap.

In that case, Joker dies.

 

[Tim Mazzola]

Garrus dies as part of the story.

 

[TheKmanofAwesometon]

Add a melee, gernades, and keep the rest of the combat indentical to ME2, also remove all classes besides soldier. Include 6 characters all of which are brand new and are killed off periodically throughout the story. Every single dialouge option is predetermined at the beginning of the game by selecting the good or evil storyline. Top it off with renaming it Gears of War 4

 

[Harry Mason]

Overanalyze the shit out of everything instead of just enjoying a great game on its own merits...
Oh wait. That's how a player can ruin a Bioware game...

A far as a developer "ruining" it? The two best ways are to change something or not to change something. Those both really get people riled.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Turns out Shepard had been in a coma the whole time since Eden Prime. And the whole reaper thing is still true.

 

[rofl jet]

The Reapers are defeated by the common cold...

 

[Formica Archonis]

STEP 1: Write MaleShep's lines like Duke Nukem.
STEP 2: Write FemShep's lines like June Cleaver.
STEP 3: Swap the scripts.

 

[Ir0n Squid]

Simple: The Illusive Man...is your father. Or at least a distant cousin...by marriage...twice removed...recognized only on Volus occupied worlds.

And this:

Garrus dies as part of the story.

 

[johnstamos]

they could make you pick up 50 million guns and attachments like the first game,
bring back the mako, keep the planet anal probe, thermal clips.
but i guess the biggest thing would be for there to be a piss easy final boss fight like Mass effect 2 seriously the entire impossible through the collector ship was 50 thorns in your side hard and awesome, then u fight a big metal skeleton with glowing shoot these here points.
do you know how many times i died fighting saren in the first game, neither do i but it was a lot.

but as far as the epic story of the game best way to bumfudge the whole thing i think would be to alter the concept of the reapers, there massive power and seemingly endless numbers being made to seem any less monolithic as they have been previously portrayed, when you destroyed sovereign in the first game after scampering all over the citadel exterior up to that final cinematic of it being obliterated, it was awesome. i might cry a bit if i end up flying the collector ship blasting reapers space invaders style.

 

[Stealthygamer]

Your shepard is mute and has every std in the universe

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

-The game opens with Shepard about to take a group photo of the Mass Effect 2 crew. As all your surviving members group together, a massive Reaper arm smashes through the ceiling, killing them all instantly.
-Gathering resources is now done by filling out the proper acquisition paperwork. They are each 15 pages of spreadsheets.
-Saren miraculously returns, with no indication of his...injuries...other then an eye-patch.
-Enact the "Replacable Gun" system. Rather then just replacing heat sinks, the player will simply replace the entire gun once it overheats.
-Switch to the "Fable" method of NPC interaction. (see: "farting at them")

 

[thenamelessloser]

Also referring back to my idea that the Mass Effect games could be really an in universe MMORPG. The Illusive Man is a hacker player . He doesn't want humans to loose because unlike the majority of players in Mass Effect he finds the hard working humans and how they are destroying the game balance and preventing the Reapers from destroying civilizations and creating a restart as refreshing. This also explains why he cares so little about the suffering caused by the Cerebus experiments since he still sees all the sapient characters in the game as AI.

 

[thenamelessloser]

Doing everything people in this sub-forum [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/category/325/index] want you to do. Warning: click on threads at own risk.

Why the hell does the english option have a CANADIAN flag next to it?!

i know! i'm seeing it a lot, what's with that?

Because Bioware is a Canadian company I guess.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

everytime you start as a female shepard it shuts off the game and your console/pc


when you do roll male, and you start the game, your ship is attacked AGAIN although this time tali's facemask gets ripped off by grunt being a double agent for the reapers and her face gets super puffy and explodes everywhere and the camera gets a super close up of her face before that happens, and then garrus beats you in the back of the head and drags you off to the reapers with grunt and you get "liquified" into the next human reaper.


and scene.....