Poll: Why does everyone hate ME3 so badly?

[JoesshittyOs]

Honestly the gameplay is great and I'll be replaying it.

However the story is utter shit on a stick served hot with a side of retard sauce. It has maybe 2 awesome moments which are quickly drowned out by the torrent of stupidity.

I... no.

The gameplay was improved, but this is the most ridiculous comment I've read on this thread (and there are some pretty ridiculous comments). If the gameplay is the one reason you're replaying the game, than you are insane. It's at least a 15+ hour game if you speed through it. More than 75% of that game is dialogue and navigating. Combat cannot hold a game like that up.

And in all reality, people are going apeshit on the story. They literally catered to almost every choice -even the remedial ones- from the past two games. Not only did something come out of it, that something is actually good (besides the endings which I hear are terrible).

 

[Jezzascmezza]

It's not true hate.
It's people getting all angry over what would best be described as "minor flaws," and exaggerating the living hell out of said minor flaws.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Spoiler: I believe this sums it up well.

Seriously, people always do this, they did it with Halo, Call of Duty, and every other game that is popular to those who aren't "hardcore"(Imagine that with immense sarcasm) gamers.

Yes because everyone who hates a game that happens to be does so because every morning they burn their tongue because they drank their coffee before it was cool. Yes I know I already told that joke in the moderator group but it needs to be said again.

 

[Counterclockwise]

I do agree that up until the ending the game was amazing. I really felt emotionally moved in a lot of instances, so props there! But there were a few issues.

Whenever there were cutscenes with shep pushing his earpiece in, his fingers would glitch into his hand. It was rather unsettling.

How much the child is pushed onto us. Holy crap do they try really hard to make us care about the kid. It just feels forced, and incredibly cliched. I get that he's a "symbol of humanity" but come on, do you really expect gamers to care about somebody they just met when there are teammates that matter much more to them? He gets like three four lines of generic dialogue. C'mon devs, you're smarter than that. (Stranger still he's the only kid you ever see)

And of course, the endings. You'd think that they'd learn from fallout 3's mistake. Or maybe they did and are planning to release DLC for it. Either way, everything felt great and epic up until after the run to the beam. At that point I thought I was in another dream sequence.

Oh and this is a personal grip, but did anyone else feel like the music couldn't hold a candle compared to ME2's? I understand the tone is more desperate, but come on, when all of your fleets are flying behind you and all that? Give me some ME2 finale music.

 

[SajuukKhar]

And of course, the endings. You'd think that they'd learn from fallout 3's mistake. Or maybe they did and are planning to release DLC for it. Either way, everything felt great and epic up until after the run to the beam. At that point I thought I was in another dream sequence.

Fallout 3 didn't make a mistake, its endings were great and concluded the game as it should have been.

The only "mistake" was releasing a game with good endings to a bunch of over-entitled and whiny gamers who complain over anything that isn't some overly drawn out ending dialog about everything your companions did, including what lunch they ate, for the next 36 years.

 

[Taldeer]

I loved ME3. The endings are the point of the entire thing. The mood of the entire game is setting us up for a hard ending, an unsatisfying, dark, hurtful choice, and then people complain about there not being sunshine and butterflies and how that huge, sprawling, independent world doesn't care about every one of our previous, little, ultimately insignificant choices. There's a lesson in there somewhere, isn't there? I think these endings, while they're not fun, and lovely, and sweet, are true, and make the game worth every minute of play.

 

[Vegosiux]

The only "mistake" was releasing a game with good endings to a bunch of over-entitled and whiny gamers who complain over anything that isn't some overly drawn out ending dialog about everything your companions did, including what lunch they ate, for the next 36 years.

Yes, hurling insults is a great way to get the point across.

Now, it would help if we actually knew what was that point.

You like the endings? Good, that's nice, I guess? Not sure I'll ever get to them myself, so I'm not going to judge, but I still don't think hurling insults is a good way to explain why they're supposedly good. Still, from what I have seen of ME3 personally, BW tried kind of hard to go for "dark, gritty and edgy". Very hard. Maybe too hard.

And so far, the anti-ending team had a better case...you know, their case wasn't built on "Everyone who disagrees is a self-entitled moron".

 

[synobal]

I really don't get why people say the ending are terrible. Maybe they were expecting a big list of 'what happened after the battle' but that doesn't really close the series out very well. People need to sit back down and look at the game as a whole. The entire game was an ENDING people and you chose it yourself. The choice at the end was simply the culmination of all that.

 

[PurePareidolia]

I was pessimistic going in due mainly to the marketing and the devs saying a bunch of stupid stuff beforehand, but so far it's exceeding my expectations, and the (surprisingly little) bad is overshadowed by the good.

 

[Salakayin]

I have not played it, and the complaints that are valid make me extremely uneasy. But I still ain't buyin' it. Not while its attached to Origin, and definitely not what is on Origin at the price it is while I'm uneasy from complaints. So, I'm stickin' to my guns and my wallet. May seem unfair, but I'm nothin' but a man who sticks to his guns. I'm stubborn like that!

 

[synobal]

50% of hipsters hating on a popular thing to seem edgy and cool.
40% liked the game right up to the last 20 minutes or so
5% love the game, but fuck EA/Origin
5% hate gays

Wow so only 5% actually like the game according to your sources? I'd love to see your sources for the data.


Seriously though I think the vocal minority is up in arms here, the rest of us are to busy enjoying the game, and the endings too.

 

[PinochetIsMyBro]

50% of hipsters hating on a popular thing to seem edgy and cool.
40% liked the game right up to the last 20 minutes or so
5% love the game, but fuck EA/Origin
5% hate gays

What about those of us who fall into all three bottom catagories. Though I just don't like male gays, I am quite the red-blooded typical male hypocrite and more than happy to admit that I'm perfectly fine with attractive female on female action.

Couldn't talk to my pilot after the first conversation where he mentioned his husband. Barf. Had to listen to that recording of his gay pal in the bay everytime until I finally just talked to him again and X'd through everything to get it to stop. I get it, you're gay. You don't need to remind me everytime we talk.

 

[Wintermoot]

most people that hate it either:
A. hate it for EA (just like the RA3 hatedom)
B. hate it over it,s popularity
C. hate gay Sheppard (which is stupid because being gay is optional in the game)
or really hate it because it,s bad/didn't like it (I don,t know I don,t have ME3 because I hate EA/don,t have the money)

 

[Vibhor]

Well. Could you imagine how many development hours it would have taken to make your decisions actually matter? There would be slight changes to the ending based on various decisions that could have possibly branched off your story into multiple directions.

It's much easier and more cost efficient to just come up with a very poor plot device to make all your decisions useless and force you down a one ending path. Maybe around the time of Mass Effect 1 Bioware had this view for the ending of the series. But when EA came in Bioware changed completely. The rule now is it make it as quick and cheap as possible while appealing to as many audiences as possible.

They had all the time in the world. They sent copies of the game in space FGS. They had the time and money to ship out a good product but they half assed it just like you are saying.
I haven't played the game(I don't even plan to) but please, blatant fanboyism is not healthy for anyone.

Anyways, I stumbled upon a video

[youtube]http://youtu.be/0QLz0CqtMVc[/youtube]

It deals with the whole jeniffer hepler fiasco and summarizes the whole thing. It also shows the ineptitude of Bioware PR department and their lack of efforts in the game. It may or may not be a good watch but it sure enlightened me.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

So why should I subjugate to the monotone poorly written dialogue of Freddie Prinz Jr./ James Vega?

I'd argue that if they had just gotten a better VA for Vega that his dialogue would be just fine for what he is which is pure soldier, think in terms of CAG(aka Delta) or Force Recon. It's just that Jr. pulls that off about as convincing as Sean Connery does a Russian accent.

I guess it could be chalked up to: I just don't like that soldier-talk he always does. But I did like Ashely and Kaiden's speak (and Shepard's) in ME1 and ME3. It would've been interesting to see how I feel if they had a better voice actor for him.

Edit: But Freddie Prinz Jr. just kills that role. I don't think he ever raises his voice over a dull roar - among other things.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Is it me, or do all the options seem a bit biased?
They all seem to do with the problems either ruining the game, or you overlooking them. I'm sure there are people who think the game has NO problems.

Haven't actually played it yet, so I can't judge for myself, but still...

 

[Orks da best]

50% of hipsters hating on a popular thing to seem edgy and cool.
40% liked the game right up to the last 20 minutes or so
5% love the game, but fuck EA/Origin
5% hate gays

That is accrute, but it should be:
30/10/59/1

anyways, the game is awesome, I really like how the game references, shows, or supports choices from the previous games. Gameplay and writing is solid. The companions, or once companions have their moments of glory, sadness, happiness, or otherwise, makes you feel great to see them again. Honestly, its best to play mass effect 3, with having a few profiles from the previous games, just makes it more sweeter.