Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is about reaper origins
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I agree. To me, Sovreign's "beyond your comprehension" line didn't do much for me the first time and had me rolling my eyes and going "sure, buddy, whatever you say" each time I heard it afterwards. The notion that the Reapers are designed to think this way so as not to question whether it's right to do what they do occurred to me after ME3 and I think it's fascinating in its own way. I don't think it diminishes how scary they are because what made them scary is not being unknowable, it's a being an ancient and innumerable horde of nigh-unstoppable abominations that can turn even the most strong-willed individuals into gibbering puppets or nightmarish monstrosities and that unfailingly and regularly commit genocide on a scale which is in and of itself barely fathomable to the human mind. Finding out more about them in ME2 made them more frightening to me, not less so.lumenadducere said:
It's not really a mystery, is it? It's a dead Reaper (Btw, if the Reapers wipe out all traces of the cycle when they finish with it and go back to dark space, why do they keep leaving behind their dead buddies just floating around for anyone to find and prematurely alert the galaxy of indoctrination and such?).
Specfically, it's a dead Reaper that got hit up by a gun so large that it took out half the planet that it was built on, and it was pretty much dead.
Until a Batarian team came in, started doing some research, and woke it up (as is usual when dead reapers are investigated), at which point it vamoosed out of there and used something in Batarian space to use as an alternative method of getting the Reapers into the galaxy.
Specfically, it's a dead Reaper that got hit up by a gun so large that it took out half the planet that it was built on, and it was pretty much dead.
Until a Batarian team came in, started doing some research, and woke it up (as is usual when dead reapers are investigated), at which point it vamoosed out of there and used something in Batarian space to use as an alternative method of getting the Reapers into the galaxy.
I don't give a shit about the "Origins of the Reapers" because it's tied to the deus ex machina star child and if it's $15 for a 2 hour shooting gallery then the DLC is going to drop even further off my radar in fact it already has.
Looking forward to it. The SP DLC was mostly high quality with ME2, so this should be a real treat.
I really like that Bioware have supported the crap out of this game post-release.
I really like that Bioware have supported the crap out of this game post-release.
Shut... the fuck... up...Elmoth said:
If I accidentally read one more montage of stupid moronic statements...
You know what, fuck this site...
I was stupid to think that the people here had anything remotely resembling intelligence and thought.
You guys are just the Youtube comment section without the 500 character limitations.
Fuck You, and good day.
So maybe don't buy the DLC.oconneki said:
I'm with you though. I mean I loved all of the ME games, but I'd prefer to keep the mystery of the Reapers a mystery.
Reading the description of this DLC, I'm reminded of a line spoken towards Tugg Speedman in Tropic Thunder - "You never go full retard."
Considering the sorry state of affairs Bioware turned the Reapers into in 3, they may as well just go all the way and destroy them for good. Now, after learning in the first game that they were "each a nation, independent", yet allied for one cause because they believed the ends justified the means, we suddenly have a "good" Reaper.
If this was being released as part of ME2, I probably would have been gung-ho for it. Yet, considering how irrelevant ME2's DLC is to 3 (especially LotSB, which was shoved under the rug at the beginning of the third game when Traynor took over most of Liara's duties), and given how pointless the game because you get the same set of circumstances regardless of whether you played Paragon/Renegade, rushing or being a completionist, there's little point.
Apparently the DLC will give a couple extra lines of dialogue in the ending according to IGN - big whoop. I remember when the last game gave you alternate conversations/cutscenes or flavour text as a reward for trying new things, not making you pay $10 for the courtesy of slightly clarifying something that was broken beforehand.
Considering the sorry state of affairs Bioware turned the Reapers into in 3, they may as well just go all the way and destroy them for good. Now, after learning in the first game that they were "each a nation, independent", yet allied for one cause because they believed the ends justified the means, we suddenly have a "good" Reaper.
If this was being released as part of ME2, I probably would have been gung-ho for it. Yet, considering how irrelevant ME2's DLC is to 3 (especially LotSB, which was shoved under the rug at the beginning of the third game when Traynor took over most of Liara's duties), and given how pointless the game because you get the same set of circumstances regardless of whether you played Paragon/Renegade, rushing or being a completionist, there's little point.
Apparently the DLC will give a couple extra lines of dialogue in the ending according to IGN - big whoop. I remember when the last game gave you alternate conversations/cutscenes or flavour text as a reward for trying new things, not making you pay $10 for the courtesy of slightly clarifying something that was broken beforehand.
Sure. With multiplayer content (mostly a ploy for microtransactions). I guess one good thing I can say is that at least they're not making you charge an arm and a nose for that SP weapon pack, considering most of the content is already in MP (and can even be unlocked without the pack by editing a file in the game folder).Still Life said:
Because the 12-18 year old male demographic is somehow lesser than you? Because the demographic that you sit under is just so much better then those lesser ones. Maybe that's not what you meant by that, maybe you think it's ok to infer that you are better then the "unwashed masses." Regardless I don't much care you sounded arrogant, and I don't like arrogance.Elmoth said:
Not quite, I'd like to see what more stupidity I can extract, I've extracted plenty and there's plenty more to come I'm sure.Elmoth said:
I can see you are already starting to speak the increasingly popular tongue of stupid people,
"Ah duuuur no youuu" what exactly does it translate to in the now fading obsolete language of plain English?
Please respond, I eagerly await the idiocy that your feeble little mind will order your fingers to write.
Changing a game's target demographic is not a bad thing in and of itself, but EA makes it a habit, to the point of it being their defining characteristic.Eddie the head said:
Running down the list, we had:
Ultima (changed from an isometric RPG - one of the "founding fathers", so to speak - into a third-person hack-and-slash tailored for fans new to the series, losing its continuity in the process)
Command & Conquer (despite a couple good installments, EA tried to turn it into an FPS franchise, which was critically/commercially panned)
Nox (a multiplayer fantasy battle game turned into a single-player RPG over the objections of its developers)
The Sims (kept adding toilet humor to later installments and expansion, dulling down the material in the process)
Dragon Age (similar to Ultima; went from a traditional-style RPG heralded as one of the best franchises in recent years to a middling hack-and-slash that disregarded large chunks of story and character development)
Mass Effect (became a glorified third-person shooter with some RPG elements that was intended for new players - the difference between the first and third games are quite surprising)
It's a theme with EA. They take franchises that start out as mature, deep or thoughtful and gradually convert them into something else entirely, usually at the cost of the hardcore fanbase.
