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Why are people so concerned about the ending quality?
The entire ME3 story itself is a total cluster**** since they have to rely on a plot hole from the very beginning.
The massive plot hole is, why did the Reapers save Citadel for last? -
"That said, between ME 2, DA 2, and ME 3, I've come to the conclusion that BioWare has forgotten how to do good endings."
ME2's ending was fantastic.
DA2's ending could have been way better. No doubt about it.
This so called BIO 'fanboy' hasn't even finished ME3 so haven't perosnally experienced ME3 ending but what I've seen from the whining is the whining is over the top stupidity.
Agreed, ME2 had a cool ending and the last mission of the game was just one of the best things ever. I see where most of the hate comes from about ME3's ending, but I find it to be really exaggerated. Most people don't like how the choices provided to you at the end are unaffected by all of the choices you've made throughout all three games (which isn't 100% true but close enough). I for one saw this coming.
I'm confused? Are you saying that the choices in the previous ME didn't make a difference in the final outcome of the last game?
Yeah, whether you saved Krogans or not, Geth or Quarians, doesn't really matter in the end. You just pick 4 endings with slight variations on it. After the EC there is "Where are they now?" slide a la Black Isle, but it's kinda meh and a bit too late.
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Beautiful CGs, but I do hope they keep giving us sadistic choices like in previous games
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They are better this way, DA2 elves remind me of that Na'vi folks from Avatar. -
Doesn't the Normandy still land on planets?
Yeah, I kept asking the same question too, according to ME2, SR2 was supposed to be to heavy to fly on planets (with, I presume, Earth's gravity (1g)).
Normandy did rely on space fueling station and Citadel's dock for maintenance, both have no gravity acceleration.
But then in ME3 ending, it landed on Earth.
But eh, maybe they upgraded SR3 to make it lighter :|
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I don't hate Joker, I just really don't understand the Normandy's design. It's wrong.Also, Why y'all hatin' on space cripples? What did space cripples ever do to you?
Agreed :D
If they're planning to make a spaceship that doesn't land, why bother making it so aerodynamic? I mean, wings? in space? for what? extra target?
Normandy SR-2 is too... earthy IMO. It was designed like it was made for terrestrial flight.
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"I find it annoying to see that you have to do petty evil to gain her approval"
You don't have to do evil - petty or otherwise - to get her approval. Nice try though with the lie.
I was exaggerating of course.
Didn't really use her very much when I played DA, and it seems that she's the only one approving most evil things I done. Wouldn't know otherwise. Which I found to be weird, she's supposed to be "I don't care" character from the looks of it.
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To each their own, as it were.
Claudia Black is the only reason I got over my Bioware aversion to play DAO. Which isn't exactly sound decision making, but I didn't regret it.
It's ok, she played one of the most archetypal characters in DA (it's right there in the name: Morrigan) which somehow got reduced to being a pouty, awkward, teenager with social problems. Way to go character development!
This. I find it annoying to see that you have to do petty evil to gain her approval, which is a bit weird since she's supposed to be apathetic character.
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Was it ever the majority?There are plenty of people in the US protesting what the US does on a regular basis. Gitmo, Drones, and the NSA received a huge amount of flak in the public eye. You even have congressmen speaking out against this stuff. The trouble is they need a majority to enact change.
I mean, Obama promised to shut Gitmo down, and the majority elected him. And now the Gitmo is still running and funded.
Gitmo is a pretty complicated situation.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/30/why-gitmo-will-never-close/2/
The article really shows how limited the President's power is.
I see, I guess things are never that simple...
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There are plenty of people in the US protesting what the US does on a regular basis. Gitmo, Drones, and the NSA received a huge amount of flak in the public eye. You even have congressmen speaking out against this stuff. The trouble is they need a majority to enact change.
Was it ever the majority?
I mean, Obama promised to shut Gitmo down, and the majority elected him. And now the Gitmo is still running and funded.
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Thing is, I find many gay activists behave like Mr. Fry, so might as well
or maybe I was just bored and trolled, subtrolling Obsidian forums generates relatively well-mannered responses.
Ah. The old "I just failed so now you guys are all sub-****" response. Nice.
Well, I'm sorry if my comments are not to your liking. I simply don't put Iraq debacle above or below homophobia.
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That may be so. Though that's a bit of a red herring, since the fact that there may be better reasons to ban a country doesn't mean anything if the original reason being discussed is still applicable. Though I am pretty ambivalent to the idea of banning Russia or moving the Olympics since I doubt it'd accomplish much and in general, as stated, the Olympics represents a time when the world seems to hate each other a bit less (in most cases...).
Thing is, I don't put homophobia as something unique to ban a country. If UK got away with helping USA in Iraq War, then I see no reason why Russia can't get away with homophobia. Don't get me started on China. They are all no better and no worse for me, which is why I disagree with banning Russia just because they don't like gays.
Who is doing this at the moment?Maybe I am, but my comments are intended to address OP's supporting Stephen Fry comment, until it got blown out of proportion.The first comment was supposed to be small sidenote, commenting gay activism and Olympics instead of homophobic law in Russia, commenting on what OP wrote instead of the topic OP proposed. But folks picked it up and, as a good-willed forum resident, I should engage them until they are satisfied.
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I really don't see why horses can not be in the game. If games like sacred can have them why can't project eternity. Developers are morons if they treating this like a triple A title like silly Bioware does with everyone one of their mediocre games. Animations do not have to be world class for them to consider adding horses.
I imagine that planning for mounted combat takes more planning than throwing in some animations. Particularly when you're talking about mounted party vs party combat. (Or party on horses and cows vs zombie trees wearing cloaks riding aboleths wearing gandalf hats).
It would be really jarring if the world doesn't really utilize animal as a transportation. Maybe they will handwave it with "teleportation magic is much more practical," but even then it's stretching it. They should have some horses "parked" in towns at least.
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If Beth keeps going with east coast and Obsidian with West, I would imagine we could see Canada in the future. More likely with Obsidian's coast because Californiais done to death, moving north would be logical. Beth has only just startedfleshing out the east.
Or south into Mexico...
They did put a lot of effort in polishing Petro-chico and Raul's story, so you could be right.
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Thing is, I find many gay activists behave like Mr. Fry, so might as well
or maybe I was just bored and trolled, subtrolling Obsidian forums generates relatively well-mannered responses. -
I don't necessarily agree with the war in Iraq, but let's put a little of the blame on Saddam Hussein as well. It's really not related to this discussion though.
It's not a competition over who has the more righteous cause. You are basically dismissing vocal gay rights activists because they are too vocal? That's kind of the point of activism.
Regardless, whoever participated in the war must take responsibility for it, including Saddam, US, Poland, UK, Australia, etc.
Also, maybe... it's because... I don't like vocal activists! Shocking, right?
Maybe it's better on my ears if Mr. Fry simply condemned Russia for not liking gays, but he overreacted by attempting to strip Russia from Olympics, just because they don't like gays. I dunno about you, but that's too extreme for me.
And you're right, It's not a competition when they are all the same to me, that's why I personally don't like Mr. Fry's assessments on why Russia must be stripped out from Olympics.
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@Exodiark. Being from the same country as Steven Fry I think you need to have a good hard think about your argument.
Mentioning a handful of other 'ethical' issues doesn't make your case very clearly.
On what basis does Foxconn components equate to making capital punishment for being gay? Or being raped for being a low caste woman? On what basis does British colonial history make modern Britain complicit?
Both stephen Fry and I are modern Britain. I'd appreciate you being a bit more ****ing specific if you're accusing me of something.
*sigh* I said it already, like invading Iraq? and found out later that they don't have WMDs?
A war which destabilizes the entire Middle East region, and brought sufferings through war and revolutions? Could you imagine living in a city (Baghdad) where you could suddenly die just because you went shopping? Yes, that kind of destabilizations, car bombings, whatever.
I find it no worse or no better than not liking gays, and therefore I don't like Mr. Fry's assessments.
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OK, maybe the olympics is supposed to be about joining together. But it could be very powerful.
Sport hits ordinary people right in the conscience. Bruce and I can remember that more than anything else it was rejection from sports which made white South Africa have to think about apartheid. Because excellence in sport was a fundamental part of life in school and so on. Being internationally rejected was a constant reminder.
I take exception to exodiark's point about feeling entitled. as a matter of fact, you look round the world and womens' rights and homosexual rights give a pretty good ****ing yardstick for civil liberty and respect of individuality. And speaking personally, if I was potentially due to get locked up or even executed for something I had no goddamn control over I'd be pretty pissed off. It's exactly as ludicrous as criminalising skin colour or being poor.
Hmmm, to prevent further misunderstandings, the "entitled" thing I said is for some activists who put gay rights over anything, like say woman objectification, buying from Foxconn sweatshops, fake WMDs, blood diamonds, etc.
Gay rights is no more important than those issues, and I find it funny that Stephen Fry want Russia out of Olympics just because they don't like gays, while his country did things as ethically questionable as not liking gays and made it to the Olympics. Talk about over-entitlement.
No, being gay or gay activists doesn't automatically make you entitled. I simply addressed a vocal minority in gay communities.
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Well, I'm exaggerating a bit about being "bug-free," since it's rather impossible in large-scale games.
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There it is. Punishing the jocks. In this case, the sweaty armpits of Vladimir Putin.
Yes, but not for thought-policing reasons like "YOU CAN'T HATE GAAAAAYS!" more like "You broke a promise that you made before entering this school."
Don't say that! A drop of his sweat could inseminate men from all over the world. It's airborne!
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I said that (most) gay activists are bigot themselves, because they themselves can't tolerate people who oppose them.
Yes, I'm sure the sixteen year old gay kid getting his head cracked open in the high school men's locker room after gym class only needs to be educated about why the jocks are uncomfortable with his existence so he can coexist with them peacefully.
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Um, There are other measures to make them coexist peacefully without diminishing both the gay kid's and the jocks' point-of-view?
Punishing the jocks for violence is one example, because they agreed not to do it in the school grounds before they enrolled. It also acts as a deterrence for people who will try to do the violence thing again. Thus, the gay kid and the jocks coexist peacefully, even if they don't like each other
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True, but still, Obsidian made a very large game (60++ playtime hours) in 18 months, so I think PE deadline is not too ambitious or something
And Gamebryo is not inherently "buggy," there are other relatively bugfree gamebryo engine games you know
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I support Stephen Fry in his attempts to get Russia stripped of its right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, this kind of bigotry needs to be rejected and condemned by the world
I mostly commented on this statement, it sure sounded like you put homophobia above all, but good to know you're not that kind of activist
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Seriously, trying to find a connection between the invasion of Iraq and Russia's increased homophobia just demonstrates your ignorance.
No, what I tried to convey is there are many, maybe "better," reasons to ban a country from having Olympics other than not accepting gays.
Please spend some time understanding the definition of the word "bigotry" and when a country makes a bad decision to invade another country. You'll find that they are 2 totally different topics. Also I'm not sure if you are aware that the invasion of Iraq wasn't a law that was passed in the UK. It was a military decision and when the UK Olympics was held the War in Iraq was long over. Just a free history lesson for you.No, please re-read what I said:
"Lol gay activists and their sense of entitlement. They think accepting homosexuality are the pinnacle of mankind achievement or something, and you're somehow condemned if you don't like them. Funny how that fits the definition of bigotry."
I said that (most) gay activists are bigot themselves, because they themselves can't tolerate people who oppose them. Doesn't have anything with Iraq.
And Iraq war is declared over in 2011 btw, so it's not "long over." And the destabilization in Iraq is still felt until today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23590938
And yes I have an issue with discrimination on all levels, are you fine with it? What exactly is entitled about that?Yes, I'm fine with both discrimination and anti-discrimination, because I learned not to give a ***k as long as I keep surviving.
You are entitled when you think your cause are something more important than other things.
I don't have problems with accepting gays, I have a problem with people labeling it as the most important thing ever, ignoring other issues.
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I think yes, since DAI will have a lot to do with the Fade, maybe we'll get the chance to explore the Golden City?
Hope they don't use cheap shots like "The Maker is eeeeeeeevil" or something.