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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?

There is lots of C&C in the ME series and it shows in ME3. heck, on this very page is example of C&C with people claiming x can never happen then others come in and say no that can happen. Casey Hudson is awesome in the interview. the so callled 'fans' are pieces of crap morans. the endings are fine. the beginning not so much.

"To make matters worse a poor journal and tying those pointless sidequests to overall result." Journal works like the first two which were awesome. Why you hate so much? If anything, I like the fact they make the 'pointless sidequests' more important to the main quest. It makes them actually matter the grand scheme of things - espciially since ME3 is about stopping the reaper threat with any means possible. P.S. DE is so hooked on the ME series. He's its biggest fanboy. <>

Still trying to figure out why it cost so much. Not the actors since there's really no superstars in the film that would warrant paying them $20mil+. The action scenes/set pieces don't look to be any more expensive than other high profile movies. Yeah, it's sad that a movie that made $30mil in its first weekend is actually being referred to as a 'bomb. I find that ridiculous. I don't see it as a bomb just a victim of overspending.

"'specially Americans." That's hilarious.. because we know that people never intervered with other's lives before Amerika existed. In fact, Amerika (the coutnry) only exists because of outside interverence. in fact, many countries that exist today are because of outside interverence. It's nothing new. That doesn't make the actions in the article any less sickening. Just like the Amerikan solder who mass murdered Afghanis is a scumbag. or the Afghanis who went on a rampage over a stupid bookare punks as well.

"What makes the ME3 ending even worse is that BioWare cut 50% of the final dialogue with Anderson (it was recently unearthed) just to tag on that horrible final sequence for incomprehensible reasons. And actually, they cut a lot of other stuff that was in the leak as well." All games have cuts. *shrug* I haven't finished the game yet but I've been spoiled (internetz for the W!), and the endings sound fine to me. Big deal. Not Happy happy land. Whining about lack of consistency? Big deal, every game, book, movie, etc. has inconsistencies. It just seems to be the cool thing to do to bash BIO.. probably because it's cool to hate EA the 'evil empire'... yet still spend money on their games repeatedly. BIO has made games with worst endings that people 'loved'. And, many other games have had had muchw orse endings and no whining occured. *shrug* Then again, this is coming from someone who wondered why people whined over the endings of Obsidian's NWN2, and KOTOR2 as I found those fine as well. It is the internet. the main reason fofr its existence is to whine and mopan about stuff... heck, that's what this post is doing. L0L Damn internet.. you trolled me again. P.S. L0L @ the comic. :D

Meh. Whining about dark/sad endings is silly. BIO did say it was a 'dark' game so they give you 'dark' endings. That's cool. The beginning of ME3 is what people should be complaining about. Probably BIO's worst opening of any game ever.