Poll: Will you be playing the Extended Cut for Mass Effect 3 or looking it up on Youtube?

[Jfswift]

I'll probably play the Skyrim dlc first and then maybe play through mass effect on easy mode one more time. I might try femshep this time. I heard her voice actor was pretty good.

 

[Vegosiux]

Definitely downloading it. It seems like most people who are saying they'll just look it up on youtube are trying to make some smug statement which I find incredibly annoying.

Or maybe *gasp* we never bought ME3 at all because we were like "Fuck that EA and their antics" even before the ending issue.

So yeah I'll be looking it up on youtube. Maybe lurk around here first, see what the first feedback is, then look it up...

 

[psicat]

I'm downloading it. It gives me a great excuse to do a 4th and probably 5th play through of the game. Hopefully they just expanded on the endings and didn't do something stupid like completely change the ending to please the idiotic whiners.

 

[Kal-Adam]

I liked the original ending...

(Shields up)

 

[Shavon513]

In a fit of rage, I deleted my original playthrough.

I'm currently in the process of playing it again, but I only started yesterday.

I won't look for spoilers, I'll just be checking if people actually thought it was any good or not.

I should have done that, rather than sit at work all day being tempted by the trash EA created to placate us. At least they aren't chargin for it.

 

[Uber Waddles]

I liked the original ending...

(Shields up)

Everyone has their own opinion. And while some people did like the ending, the ending is still wrong. They dropped the ball so many times in those final sequences.

IF YOU HAVENT PLAYED ME3, DONT LOOK

If you choose to reject the indoctrination theory, then you have to accept that the ending is flawed. You have a hole in your body that should not be there (you were shot in the shoulder, not the gut). You are introduced to a new character and new arc in the final moments of the game - and this magical character only delivers about 20 lines. Not only that, but destroying the Relays has been done before - it created a Supernova like explosion that encompassed the quadrant of space you were in (Arrival DLC). This means blowing up the Relays would destroy Earth.

I could literally go on and on, but I wont. I liked the ending too, but the ending is just wrong. When we play through something, the laws of that world still exist. They broke the laws, they gave us a Deus Ex Machina ending and things that didnt work. If this was a new game, or the laws of Mass Effect werent so fleshed out, it would have worked. Hell, deleted the God Kid and the Relays blowing up would make the game work too. But its not what we were promised, and it doesnt work.

As for me, I will be watching it on YouTube. I sold my copy of the game after I was done with it. There was nothing left to work for.

 

[kommando367]

I'll get to it in a few weeks. After I'm done with Dawnguard.

 

[BreakfastMan]

I don't have X-Box Live, so... To the tubes for me!

*sigh* It really sucks not having X-Box live sometimes. Stupid Microsoft and not putting wifi capabilities in a basic 360. *grumble, grumble*

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I've been listening to Mass Effect 3 SpoilerCasts these past days during my D3 farm runs to see what other people think about it and made me start the game all over gain.

I will play it,but the bad thing about all this,is that I will have to play a ton of multiplayer to get my readiness back up.

 

[Ross Tuddin]

Hey I only started playing the Mass Effect series after 3 came out so i haven't actually finished the game yet, and i have a while as i have only rescued the Turian Leader.

Should i finish the game as it came or should i download the DLC and go for the altered ending?

 

[Neonsilver]

Hey I only started playing the Mass Effect series after 3 came out so i haven't actually finished the game yet, and i have a while as i have only rescued the Turian Leader.

Should i finish the game as it came or should i download the DLC and go for the altered ending?

Bioware didn't change the original ending, according to their FAQ. The extended cut expands the original ending with some epilogue to give more closure.

I don't think you will miss anything by playing it with the DLC.

 

[TheCommanders]

Playing it. It's free and the game goes back to where they suggest to start (the attack on Cerberus HQ) once you finish the game, automatically giving you a save point right there.

Wait, what? Just noticed this. So if I load up my save from right before I finish the game(somewhere in the final mission on Earth I'm assuming), go through the ending again, it'll kick me back to just before the Cerberus HQ mission to make sure I see all the content? I mean, on one hand that seems like a reasonable to do, especially for those that didn't make a save right before going to the Cerberus HQ and making it so people don't have to go through the entire game again. But how the fuck do they explain that? "Oh, wait, it was all a dreeeeeam...." or do they not even bother?

They don't even bother. I suspect the rational is they wanted people who didn't finish all the missions before starting the endgame to be able to revisit the character and finish them at a later date. Perhaps it was to appeal to those people who don't like it when games just end, like the one's who complained about Fallout 3's ending, but seeing how that's a different sort of game entirely, I doubt that's the case. Perhaps it means they were always planning to make an extending ending (either because they had more they wanted to do, or the Indoctrination Theory is correct). Who knows.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I'll play it. I've invested over 300 hours into the series. I may as well invest a few more. But I don't expect much.

 

[Neonsilver]

Playing it. It's free and the game goes back to where they suggest to start (the attack on Cerberus HQ) once you finish the game, automatically giving you a save point right there.

Wait, what? Just noticed this. So if I load up my save from right before I finish the game(somewhere in the final mission on Earth I'm assuming), go through the ending again, it'll kick me back to just before the Cerberus HQ mission to make sure I see all the content? I mean, on one hand that seems like a reasonable to do, especially for those that didn't make a save right before going to the Cerberus HQ and making it so people don't have to go through the entire game again. But how the fuck do they explain that? "Oh, wait, it was all a dreeeeeam...." or do they not even bother?

They don't even bother. I suspect the rational is they wanted people who didn't finish all the missions before starting the endgame to be able to revisit the character and finish them at a later date. Perhaps it was to appeal to those people who don't like it when games just end, like the one's who complained about Fallout 3's ending, but seeing how that's a different sort of game entirely, I doubt that's the case. Perhaps it means they were always planning to make an extending ending (either because they had more they wanted to do, or the Indoctrination Theory is correct). Who knows.

I think it's because they intended to sell dlc (obviously), but to actually play any dlc you would need a savegame where you are still able to explore the galaxy. Before the cerberus base is just the last point where this is possible.

 

[putowtin]

I'll be downloading and playing, but I'm not holding my breath, if I did that...

"I'd be dead!"

 

[Reaper195]

Well, I enjoy the ME games so I'll just be replaying the entire series.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Staying as far away from this garbage as I possibly can. BioBEware has no respect for its ragingly popular franchise turned ragingly stupid.

 

[somonels]

Neither, someone somewhere is bound to bring it up.

 

[ResonanceSD]

anc[is]I didn't buy ME3, some people can stick to their guns. I'll be watching it.

^ this. Wiki and youtube are better. I get the "story" without giving money to EA.

 

[Eleima]

I'll definitely be downloading and playing it. I only got my hands on my ME3CE a few weeks ago (long story, don't ask, I'm still bitter about that), so I only finished my Paragon FemShep playthrough. I'm polishing my Renegade MaleShep ME2 save (hadn't played the DLCs), so I'll be playing ME3 all the way through anyhow. Looking forward to the Extended Cut.