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That leaker says too much. If he's real...it's a good thing he's gone already...or he'd be canned. Wonder what legal options there are for suing his arse. If he's fake, then it will be known VERY quickly...well at least within a month. However, I'd get the DLC. In a moment. It does clarify somewhat and give closure. It also means BW didn't ship a full game with a true ending. Doubt I'd get the next ME game based simply on that...unless it got STELLAR RAVE FAN reviews. Forget the pro reviews...they do nothing for me. Perhaps that's why they may not call it Mass Effect # More closure for ME3, sure. Though I still think it's ridiculous they have to attempt to be "creative" with Shepard instead of simply either killing him or letting him live. My bigger issue is with the Mass Shift portion. Are they that unoriginal that they have to come up with a very, very lame way to allow the player to play as Shepard ... without playing with "Commander Shepard"? High probability it's just a fake rumor. But on the off chance it's not, yeeesh. Especially since the easiest way of getting rid of Shepard no matter what happens is to forward 50 years or something. Frankly, it's not "murmur" that makes this fake to me, but the fact that it would suggest that Bioware actually considered that everybody would be stuck in Sol and that it might lead to some... reapercussions.

Now the question is whether they should charge for it or not, because since the original ending was arguably broken and didn't deliver the experience which was paid for. Don't really have an opinion on it, I already got fleeced by Gamestop, doesn't matter to me f I have to cough up the price of another sandwich in the posh and ludicrously expensive caf

You mean the last Reaper isn't going to be called "murmur"?

... The last I heard you needed 4000 or 5000 for the best, so you have either new or wrong info.

**** this ****

Now, I agree with Gorth here, in fact I'm noticing it myself. I'm pedestalising the rest of ME3, when it's true, it does have a lot of issues, many of them rather strange like the new fubared journal. Personally, am ok with the intro, though, but then again, boring and uninteresting intro has been par for the course in Bioware games since, well, KOTOR at least.

The awesomeness of how things change and work out on Tuchanka just makes the ending hurt even more.

More of the same. Problem's, of course, that they have to reboot it in some way, so tying it into the first two parts is going to be a challenge.

Since you preface your argument by saying you have no idea what you are talking about... And I agree, Bioware shouldn't change the ending because a bunch of fanboys are clamoring for it. They should change it because it ****ING SUCKS and they know it themselves.

I think you just stole the words I used to describe the reaction to the DA2 release. ;D

Well, in this case people are telling them they should've listened to their Senior Writer, which kind of takes the whole thing to another level (which I don't expect you or anyone else opposing the "movement" to accept).

Was removing random stuff from my hd (procrastinating, should be thesis-mopping-up), when I came upon a pic of my ex. Stung a bit, but was also nice reminder of having been with a really hot girl once.

He was the only character who got the fast forward treatment in all his dialogues after the first playthrough. In fact, I liked him a lot more in ME3. :D

IIRC paypal waives their fees for charities.

Perhaps, if you chose to participate in the discussion in other ways than criticising the topics chosen by others, the contents of the forum would be more to your liking?

I own a 102 year-old farmhouse in Wisconsin and an 8 year-old Volkswagen. VW was founded by Ferdinand Porsche so maybe that counts. Well, the Pi

I mostly agree with Bos_hybrid. However, in this particular case I find that _something_ needs to be done to the ending from making it less _objectively_ bad. I'd like something that the whole creative team can sign off on as a starting point, and ideally something that fits the series thematically, as well. I think that a colossal mistake has been made when comparing this to, say, the Lost ending and how "you can't please everybody when you have big fans"... When the issue is, that what they did is just simply ****ing terrible. Whatever they do know is probably still going to be subject to the "you can't please everybody", even in a best case scenario, but even that will be a colossal boost in quality over what we have now.

1.Liara 2.Tali 3.Miranda 4.Jack 5. Ash 6.Allers 7.Kaidan 8.Cortez 9. Garrus 10. Samantha Nep...... ... Never get involved in a discussion which requires preschool math on a Saturday morning... But, on topic, I'm also kind of peeved by this, and not least to the fact that I find cortez, allers and traynor to be a complete waste of space, especially since the ME2 guys n' gals apparently had a lot of content cut towards the end of the development. Now it's just a bunch of cardboard cutouts making hasty going-through-motions cameos...

That would be the stupidest thing to do. Not only is it the most hated, but it's the ending that makes the least sense, (space magic changed my DNA). Destroy or control will be the cannon endings. Hell with control they can bring the reapers back at anytime as antagonists. Assuming they don't just retcon the whole mess. And before someone chimes up about them not listening to the rants on their forums, give me another reason to why romances are so prevalent in their games. There where 10, count it, 10 unique romances in ME3. 6 for straight males (Miranda, Liara, Tali, Jack, Ashely, Allers) 2 for gay males (Kaiden, Cortez) 2 for straight females (Kaiden, Garrus) 3 for gay females (Liara, Allers Samantha) And yet there were posts about there still not being enough...... So perhaps the ranting coming from the bio boards will do some good for a change. Not sure how you get 10 unique by counting three of them twice, but, hey. :D

This one statement pretty much sums up what I think went wrong. At some point, the people writing (or if that one forum post allegedly written by a Bio writer is true, two individuals) the story got caught up in their own self perceived storytelling genius and went in a direction that they never stopped to think for a moment if the fans who buy/play these games would actually enjoy. The end product looks like the kind of thing they produced for their own enjoyment, with little regard for the people buying their games. Let's face it, the majority of fans don't like the ending. Even a lot of the fans who are defending BioWare and saying "don't change anything" or "it's their game, they can write what they want" also acknowledge the ending is weak. They simply don't agree that BioWare should be forced to change it. So I'd be curious to see how many people actually LIKED the ending. Not tolerated it, not disliked it but are fine with BioWare sticking to their vision, but actually LIKED it. That that number is very likely low suggests even more that BioWare didn't even think about anyone other than patting their own creative genius on the back when they decided that was the way to go. I'm sorry I can "like" this post only once without creating multiple accounts for it.

Look at your post count before you open your mouth. Should we add those of your collective accounts together for a similarly accurate picture?

Oh, and "you wouldn't change a book after it's published, either?!": http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/9150901

As an aside, I never really considered WHY two key Mass Effect people (lead gameplay designer Christina Norman and senior producer Jesse Houston) left during development/before the release... Both of them to Riot Games, in fact. One wonders if project leadership was related to the decision, or was it just the weather.

I'm surprised, you who usually see the positive in everything.

Well, using the 12 light years per day figure that was posited... it'd take... a while to get around. http://th09.devianta..._by_DWebArt.png that's 100,000 light years in diameter. The Krogan DMZ is closer to earth than anyone else, but the Turian worlds? You're boned. Rhannoc? You're gonna spend at least an entire generation in transit. Frankly, am not sure even the Quarian ships are designed to travel without mass relays, making those calculation purely theoretical. The ships are of a shorter range.