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Soon the compulsive whiners won't have anyone else to complain about but EA, since Activision will have 4 studios left, churning out fish and panda.

Hey, let's see how many page we can go on without talking about swtor at all!

Bad doggy, you're supposed to crap on the lawn, not in the thread.

I considered it, but then I decided I'd do something that I care more about, like watch Italy kick Germany's butt.

My point.

With ME2, they managed to make most of the DLC pretty relevant even if you did it after completion. Well, I guess Overlord didn't make much sense in most cases, and all the whinging about Kasumi was probably related to the fact that a lot of people never saw the amount of story integration she had. Arrival, of course, made most sense if played post-completion...

Or they're going to play time games and make it irrelevant (takes place either before, or way after. Considering Stargazer, probably WAY after...)

This is a good question. I only played through the Destroy ending from the moment Shepard gets beamed aboard the Enterprise ... err Citadel, and then watched the other endings on Youtube. So does the EC actually change anything before that point Shepard takes on Marauder Shields? Yes (which I already mentioned, but I figure a bunch of you are ignoring me anyway)

It's supposed to destroy all forms of Reaper technology which is why everything synthetic gets wiped. Of course, Shepard being Reaper tech. too and it being the only ending he could survive is kinda odd. Not everything synthetic is reaper tech. The geth, for example, have no Reaper hardware at all - they were created before the Reapers were discovered. It makes no sense to force Shepard to condone what amounts to genocide in order to get rid of the Reapers. ... Geth are software, they'll be using the best available hardware at any point in time... It does seem arbitrary, but it does kind of make sense.

Hahahahaha, what? Everyone I know who is jumping ship from WoW (myself included, a fair while ago) is doing so because it's becoming too dumbed-down and new-player oriented. Yeah, because old grognards are always the impartial judge of that... :D

There was exactly one item I wasn't sure I'd seen before the final rush to the light. From the rush onwards (including it), there have been a lot of changes, the meeting with the starchild is a lot longer and does now explain his origin and the "solution" a bit better. Of course, it also convinces me that it's barking mad, which impacts the choice I make.

Yes.

It's supposed to destroy all forms of Reaper technology which is why everything synthetic gets wiped. Of course, Shepard being Reaper tech. too and it being the only ending he could survive is kinda odd. No, it destroys all synthetics. I mean, both EDI and the Geth (as of ME3) have Reaper tech, but I guess they never thought of it. I agree it's stupid, but to the degree I care about it, I can pretend that there's an unreleased post-ME3 adventure where Councilor Shepard harnesses the resources of the universe to bring his loyal co-belligerents back.

I'd say it's less vague than not explicitly spelled out, but the version you (and many others, even before the EC) suggested would obviously have been better. I hear they were planning a way for "Destroy" to leave everybody alive in some special circumstances, but removed it since they didn't want a "happy" ending. Of course, even that came with the caveat that the Illusive Man was successful in bringing back an organic from the dead, so why not...

I would've liked them to add at least a couple of ME2 characters into the mix, but I can accept it as the price of the greatly improved NPC participation and reactivity (due to the amount of extra lines needed). Anything is better with more Yvonne Strahovski, though. Multiplayer expansion.

Mmmyeah... It's a lot better than the original, there's only one point where the additions really stretch the seams of credibility. Still not exactly ecstatic, but but... something I can maybe live with, even with the substantial amount of hours I've put into the trilogy? Edit: I had some of the vaguer stuff explained to me by someone with a different storyline, I can now say that I'm reasonably happy with it.

It's amazing how bad you will be treated when everyone knows you can't complain. Contract work stinks. The money can be pretty good though. This is one of those places where just having it on my CV is going to help tons later on. Spent two days feeling sorry for myself, have to get my ass into gear tomorrow and shift as much crap as I can. Oh, and my tv is behaving oddly, it's only decoding one channel properly. If I have to buy a new one, not taking a holiday might seem like a good idea.

Still more "life" than ~12 years...

Nothing really opens your eyes into how you are viewed in an organisation when everybody else's undone crap gets shifted to you so that they can go on their holidays and you have to cancel yours. I thought I'd outgrown this part.

It's Financial Suicide Simulator III. You play Greek hedge fund managers and score points, Angry Birds style, for jumping off of higher and higher office blocks belonging to financial institutions. I could use a copy of that, looks like I might have to cancel my holiday because of said Greeks. ****ers.

Probably. Of course, that ending might suck a bit less than the others, if your effective readiness is high enough.

Your point still stands, but is +5000 euros a month really 'middle class' where you are? Curious if people would really consider that typical in any way. Is that before or after tax? Makes a world of difference if you pay 38+ percent. A bit over 5k before taxes, and Meshugger is right on the money re: cost of living around here. I'd say it's about average, maybe a bit more for young people with an academic degree and actual gainful (private sector) employment, I have friends who are associate lawyers who make less, and bottom-rung (or close to it) coder friends who make more. I'm mostly happy, tbh, I'm just haemorrhaging money after a couple of years in grad school and basically neglecting everything.

Did they change what the extended cut was going to include? All I read was "cutscenes" and "cinematics" to further explain the endings. So if that's the case, and there's no actual new game play for the player, why is the file so large? Are they giving us a 30-minute movie to explain away the silliness? Most likely a number of voiced cut scenes showing how things ended in various places of the galaxy. Sort of like the old Fallout slideshows, but with higher production values You're probably right, but it does seem like a lot. They've just been talking about an "epilogue", so it could really be anything. This has the potential to be worse than the original ending, where I could still cling to the indoctrination theory security blanket.

I think everybody considers the system they live in to be worst, but generally I tend to lose my sense of humour when I have to pay like 38 % tax because I'm "rich" (ie. make over 5000 euros a month before taxes), but millionaires get off with a flat 28 % (because they can funnel it all into capital gains). Talk about the wealthy feeding the middle class to the poor to keep them peaceful.

My god, that interview is pathetic. "Left a lot to the player's imagination?" These guys honestly don't see why the ending in its original state was utterly unsatisfactory. I'm pretty sure they know exactly what was wrong with the game (by now, anyway), they're just singing the tunes of those who pay their salaries. And they can't lose face among the other sports car driving, stock option carrying, hipster beard wearing "artist" developers, now can they? 2GB is pretty interesting, considering similar releases in the past. DA:Awakening and Lair of the Shadow Broker similarly stretched the x360 maximum download limit...