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You completely missed the point. Don't be ignorant. Do you think BIO got the Unreal Engine for free and without permission of the rightful owners? Tsk, tsk.

"Isn't that always going to be a challenge in a series of games? How do you explain that Marvel Comic hero Shepard, saviour of the universe suddenly is as weak as a wet paper tissue at the beginning of the game? " Not a challenge at all. there was/is so many ways to deal with this issue. They took an easy way out. I'm glad they didn't take the easy way out with the ME3 ending. People who want Happy Happy Land Ending can go watch the smurfs. For those who complaining about plot holes.. well.. plot holes suck.. can't eally defend those but certainly nothing to get all indignant over. for those who wonder a clear cut ending where everything is spmamed at you verbatim... *yawn* so boring and so cliche been there done that. Lingering questions and mysteries is a good thing. P.S. If anyone seriously thinks/thoguht ME3 was the end of the ME series, they were smoking dope.

God forbid there's actual C&C. How horrible! You have to do/be x to get y! In a RPG! Perish the thought! "There's also the fact that in order for a rape victim to open up, you have to have sex with her. " Actually, that cna logically make sense since a one would think that a prior victim of rape would old wounds open up if they feel ready to have sex with someone after such a horrible thing happen leading to them talking aboutt hings they';ve enver talked about. if they are intimate enough to have have sex/make love with someone preusmably youa re intimiate/open enough with them to talk about serious issues (casual sex aside thoguh most rape victims doubtfully are into casual sex.. most anyways). I never had a relationship with Jack (I don't care much about the character) and I certainly didn't feel like I missed out or 'got cheated'. C&C is a GOOD thing; NOT a bad thing.

Shepard should ahve never 'died' at the start of ME2. It was a meaningless 'death' that added nothing.

Meh. The ME3 beginning is probably one of the top 5 worst things BIo has ever done.

I should also point out since I have nmo idea how the contract/lawsuit settlement between BIO/Atari/InterplayWOTC worked out who knows exactly how things with the Bg series monetarily and contractually works. For all we know, BIo let go of any of that.. or not.. who knows... But, that could also help explain why BG3 has been such a tough nut to make. Heh. Either way, I don't really think a BG remake in the IE is really neccessary. Just make a BG3 and be done with it.

Pop: I don't agree with everything in your review, but nice read. Good stuff.

"Hope he's not implying that, since Bioware has nothing to do with BG any longer. " Bio owns the IE and would still likely be owed monies from the profits. Just ask Interplay how it works when they refuse to pay up. R00fles! BIO may not own the BG IP but they do own the IE IP.

"warcraft warcraft 2 (plus expansion) diablo diablo 2 (plus expansion) starcraft (plus expansion)" Pretty mucha ll crap. Diablo 1 was okay. P.S. there are no forced roamnces in any BIO game. Ever. Why do people feel the need to lie? DA2 and ME3 are two of BIo's better games. BG1 is overrated (I know I overrated). KOTOR is definitely overrated as well. P.S.S. Bio is in fine shape. They ain't the ones canceling projects left and right and firing people (oops my bad 'laying off'). L0L Save your sympathies for the poor Obsidian peeps.

there are things wrong with ME3 but the ending9s)a re not one of them. Your choIces DO matter. Your chocies dteermine who lvies and who dies, how the races get along, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And, there are plenty of games with worst endings> Some of them are earlier BIO games even. 8shrug* It is just cool to hate on BIO because of Big Bad Evil EA... yet the funny thing is that the ahters will liekly be the first to preorder the next BIO game. A end of a game is mroe than than the last 5-10 minute cutscene to me so even if that 'sucks' the end game cna still be fantastic. P.S. of course there are 'story holes'... every game I have ever played has them. *shrug'.

Don't be doofuses, guys. Consqeucnes are more than lame screenshots/slides in the end game. ME3 has TONS of C&C. Tons. Both based on the earlier games and in ME3 actions.

I'd prefer a BG3. I tried laying BG on GOG and had to quit it. I'll probably get suckered into buying this version after it goes down in pirice and barely play it. *sigh*

The endings are fine. The C&C is there. Other parts of the game are questionable though. I styill cna't believe people are giving one of BIO's worst beginnings a pass. Seriously, the start on Earth is uber lame. Let's trash that if we need to trash something!

The lunatic fringe is WRONG in this case.

The only customer feedback that matter is $ not the lunatic rantings of the internet rabid fringe. People claimed that DA2's 'poor' showing would doom future BIO games like ME3 and it hasn't. Money talks, opinions stinks.

"When is someone a scumbag and not? Is there a checklist? Is there moral authority that passes judgement on this, or should it be mere wielder of the highest might? " Who arbitrates what borders to use to determine countries? Who arbitrates the difference between murder, manslaughter, and self defense killings? Who aribtrates between anything?

Gross indeed. I'd change but these forums only allow you to edit within the first few minutes of posting. L0L Now, it's stuck like that for all eternity. <>

Your Highness - Eh. 6/10

"other than Iraq I can't think of one" Removings scumbags like Hussein from power is always a good reason. Yeah, yeah, it was far from the only reason but soemtimes the **** needs to be removed the ol fashion hard way.

"They outright said they were planning one for ME2" First I heard of this.

"They did not technically get to keep the DA license, since they never found a publisher for it before EA bought them. I can't remember if EA bought the rights to ME from Microsoft, or if MS actually let BioWare keep the rights in the 1st place." BIO owned the DA license. And, the ME and JE IPs as well. MS owned crap. They were the publisher. That's it. MS couldn't 'let' BIo do anything. ME, JE, and DA arwe all BIO creaated and owned IPs (now EA). L0L MS 'let' them do ****. HA! It's not luck. BIO handled their business properly. Obsidian seems to be all over the place. They have successes and good contracts but thenc rash and burn elsewhere. Plenty of devs have found success these days. Don't blame others for Obsidian's fialures just like we shouldn't give credit to others for Obsidian's successes. Or should we give Bethesda all the credit for FO:NV being a fun game? L0LZ

"Since publishers have all the power in contract negotiations Obsidian didn't really make much profit with FNV," Only if the developer is weak. Before BIo got picked up by EA, they had quite a bit of power. It's why they were able to keep the ME/DA/JE IPs no matter what. But, you need to earn that kind of power and prestige. Obsidian hasn't yet. AS for the layoffs, friggin' sucks to be sure no matter what.

Choices do matter in the game. It matters throughotu the series including the endings. And, I've always heard that it's the journey that matters not the destination. Is that phrase out of style now?

"Is there anyone who thinks the ending was good. (game journalists don't count) No ?. End of discussion. " How horrible. not everyone shares your silly opinion. The majority of people are dumb. I thougt everyone on the internet knew this.. so the fact the 'majority' hate the endings automatially makes them good... right? There are litterally hundresds if notm thousands of games that have worse endings than ME3. But, BIO is a cool kid on the block and it's the 'in thing' to bash the cool kid.. even as you throw their money at them. P.S. This so called bio drone is such a fanboy that he rushed out and bought KOTOR MMO on the first day... oooo.. oops no I didn't.. I have touched the MMO at all... R00fles! P.S.S. Hilarious that the only comeback is 'only biodrones' would like the endings. I say only BIodrones would continue to buy stuff from a company they pretend to hate. Only biodrones would think KOTOR is better than ME and isn't overrated. Only a BIo drone would rag on a solid ending and make it seem worse than it is when there's a subpar beginning to the game that deserves to be ragged on but seems to get a pass. HA!

David who?