[Loki]

This weekend's multiplayer operation -

Operation Raptor

[acesn8s]

Well, I finished my single player game 2 nights ago. Didn't like the ending, thought it was dogshit.

Spoiler

I hated the catalyst, didn't like the squad choices, thought that Kai Leng was almost a big of a let down as Darth Maul, and hated the extra mini game aspects of Dream squence, Rannoch Reaper lock-on, and unlimited pistol - shoot the husks to get into the beam.

[Gothos]

acesn8s, on 28 March 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Well, I finished my single player game 2 nights ago. Didn't like the ending, thought it was dogshit.

Spoiler

I hated the catalyst, didn't like the squad choices, thought that Kai Leng was almost a big of a let down as Darth Maul, and hated the extra mini game aspects of Dream squence, Rannoch Reaper lock-on, and unlimited pistol - shoot the husks to get into the beam.

Spoiler

Husks? Marauder Shields - Never Forget! He tried to save you from the ending!

This post has been edited by Gothos: 28 March 2012 - 09:39 PM

[Loki]

acesn8s, on 28 March 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Well, I finished my single player game 2 nights ago. Didn't like the ending, thought it was dogshit.

Spoiler

I hated the catalyst, didn't like the squad choices, thought that Kai Leng was almost a big of a let down as Darth Maul, and hated the extra mini game aspects of Dream squence, Rannoch Reaper lock-on, and unlimited pistol - shoot the husks to get into the beam.

I think you're the first person to post here who didn't like the game beyond just the ending.


@Gothos - Enemy with good intentions?

[acesn8s]

Loki, on 29 March 2012 - 03:13 AM, said:

acesn8s, on 28 March 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Well, I finished my single player game 2 nights ago. Didn't like the ending, thought it was dogshit.

Spoiler

I hated the catalyst, didn't like the squad choices, thought that Kai Leng was almost a big of a let down as Darth Maul, and hated the extra mini game aspects of Dream squence, Rannoch Reaper lock-on, and unlimited pistol - shoot the husks to get into the beam.

I think you're the first person to post here who didn't like the game beyond just the ending.


@Gothos - Enemy with good intentions?

You know what's funny, as frustrated as I am with parts of the game . . . I started a 2nd play-through as a Renegade Engineer.

This will probably be it though. I'll just go back to ME2 and finish it with each class on Insanity.

[Gothos]

Myself, I think I'm gonna be revisiting ME1 at some point again. Probably once I'm done with Insanity in ME3 - just 2 achievements left.

[Primateus]

Because of a complete system reinstall I have to start all over from scratch, I approve of this!

Edit: Okay, now I approve less because I can't get access to my Bring Down the Sky DLC

This post has been edited by Primateus: 29 March 2012 - 12:36 PM

[acesn8s]

Gothos, on 29 March 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

Myself, I think I'm gonna be revisiting ME1 at some point again. Probably once I'm done with Insanity in ME3 - just 2 achievements left.

Ahhhh, don't you just look forward to driving around on planets and managing weapon and armor upgrades, plus assigning all those ammo powers? I think that is the only thing keeping me from going back to start a FemShep from ME 1.

[Gothos]

The Mako was awesome! To be quite honest, it's the ending that makes me want to go back to those days when the galaxy was a thriving, verdant, beautiful place with only a hint of future terror. Also, Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard.

[Eltar]

Right before ME3 came out I went back and did a complete run through of both ME1 and ME2 as a male shep. Doing so refreshed my memory of all the minor and major characters in the series and made all the decisions of ME3 that much more emotional

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Thane Krios' death had to have been the saddest thing that I have ever seen in a video game. I shed tears over it.

Right now I'm playing through as a renegade fem shep and loving it. Is it just me or does Jennifer Hale put more effort into fem shep's evil persona than she does in fem shep's nice one?

This post has been edited by Eltar: 29 March 2012 - 01:39 PM

[Eltar]

By the way, after having played Battlefield 3 and then replaying Mass Effect, I learned that the Mako handles almost exactly the same as a Battlefield 3 helicopter.

[Gothos]

Eltar, on 29 March 2012 - 01:37 PM, said:

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Than Krios' death had to have been the saddest thing that I have ever seen in a video game. I shed tears over it.

Spoiler

MORDIN! When he starts singing his scientist salarian song in The Shroud, the tears just flow freely, dammit!

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong. Goodnight, you beautiful, crazy bastard.

[Eltar]

Spoilers for ME3 and TtH's

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That was a also beyond sad. I felt my heart clench as when Moridin's scene. But I as much as I like Mordin, I just have a soft spot for Thane. And Thane's death coupled with Kai Leng's bitch slap to Shepard's face on the Asarian homeworld made me despise Kai Leng more than any other video game character in history. More than even 343 Guilty Spark. But it's because of moments like Mordin and Thane that I LOVE Mass Effect 3. It hits you hard and makes the game utterly unforgettable. It's like reading TtH's and finding out that Rake dies. It happens in a completely awesome and fitting manner, but it is still incredibly painful.

Damn you Bioware! Damn you for making me fall in love with your characters and then watch them die in completely epic and emotional fashions... may the characters rest in peace

This post has been edited by Eltar: 29 March 2012 - 02:02 PM

[Gothos]

Eltar, on 29 March 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

Spoilers for ME3 and TtH's

Spoiler

That was a also beyond sad. I felt my heart clench as when Moridin's scene. But I as much as I like Mordin, I just have a soft spot for Thane. And Thane's death coupled with Kai Leng's bitch slap to Shepard's face on the Asarian homeworld made me despise Kai Leng more than any other video game character in history. More than even 343 Guilty Spark. But it's because of moments like Mordin and Thane that I LOVE Mass Effect 3. It hits you hard and makes the game utterly unforgettable. It's like reading TtH's and finding out that Rake dies. It happens in a completely awesome and fitting manner, but it is still incredibly painful.

Damn you Bioware! Damn you for making me fall in love with your characters and then watch them die in completely epic and emotional fashions... may the characters rest in peace

Spoiler

Well, yeah, most of the game is awesome like that. It makes the endings all the more infuriatingly bad - they don't do the rest of the game justice. You have moments like on Tuchanka and Rannoch, fall of Thessia, and then... mystical starchild bullshit and coloured explosions. Really?

This post has been edited by Gothos: 29 March 2012 - 02:57 PM

[acesn8s]

Gothos, on 29 March 2012 - 02:56 PM, said:

Eltar, on 29 March 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

Spoilers for ME3 and TtH's

Spoiler

That was a also beyond sad. I felt my heart clench as when Moridin's scene. But I as much as I like Mordin, I just have a soft spot for Thane. And Thane's death coupled with Kai Leng's bitch slap to Shepard's face on the Asarian homeworld made me despise Kai Leng more than any other video game character in history. More than even 343 Guilty Spark. But it's because of moments like Mordin and Thane that I LOVE Mass Effect 3. It hits you hard and makes the game utterly unforgettable. It's like reading TtH's and finding out that Rake dies. It happens in a completely awesome and fitting manner, but it is still incredibly painful.

Damn you Bioware! Damn you for making me fall in love with your characters and then watch them die in completely epic and emotional fashions... may the characters rest in peace

Spoiler

Well, yeah, most of the game is awesome like that. It makes the endings all the more infuriatingly bad - they don't do the rest of the game justice. You have moments like on Tuchanka and Rannoch, fall of Thessia, and then... mystical starchild bullshit and coloured explosions. Really?

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and don't forget synth-hybrid organics crash landing on jungle worlds.

I did like Thane's request to tell Kai Leng that he got beat by a terminally ill Drell. Mordin went out with nobility as well. Jack - meh, Miranda - meh, Jacob - meh. Tali - meh (I was waiting to see if the Geth had a small Quarian population still on Rannoch). Grunt had a great comeback, wish he could have joined my squad; since Wrex wasn't an option. What was up with the Garrus bro-mance on the Citadel? Drinking a few brews and shooting bottles? I never realized that he was that intimidated by my Sentinel's sniping ability . . . maybe if it was an infiltrator specific cut-scene I could see playing out like that.

So I'm curious to what changes in my Renegade playthrough with a collector ship delivered to Cerberus, Morinth running around instead of Samara, etc).

[Loki]

Eltar, on 29 March 2012 - 01:37 PM, said:

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Thane Krios' death had to have been the saddest thing that I have ever seen in a video game. I shed tears over it.

I did too! And I never cry. I laughed at the end of the Titanic. I never understood why Bambi's mum being shot made other kids cry. I laughed so hard at the end of the Mist that Matt thought I was channelling Satan.

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But that ^ was gut wrenching and then later when K.L mocks it on Thessia - I saw red. I was ranting and raving for over an hour.

This post has been edited by Loki: 30 March 2012 - 04:13 AM

[Eltar]

Loki, on 29 March 2012 - 03:55 PM, said:

Eltar, on 29 March 2012 - 01:37 PM, said:

Spoiler

Thane Krios' death had to have been the saddest thing that I have ever seen in a video game. I shed tears over it.

I did too! And I never cry. I laughed at the end of the Titanic. I never understood why Bambi's mum being shot made other kids cry. I laughed so hard at the end of the Mist that Matt thought I was channelling Satan.

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But that ^ was gut wrenching and then later when K.L mocks it on Thessia - I saw red. I was ranting and raving for over an hour.

Agreed on everything. Completely.

And does that qualify as spoilers, Loki? I'm still new here and don't quite understand all the posting etiquette. The end bit, not the Bambi part (although I suppose there might be a few young people out there who haven't seen the movie...)

This post has been edited by Eltar: 30 March 2012 - 06:00 AM

[Loki]

Probably, yes. But I can't change your quote.

[Loki]

People saying that our choices aren't represented in the third game are really starting to piss me off. Sure, if you want to, you can say that the end doesn't represent your previous choices (though I disagree), but don't say that the game in its entirety doesn't.

As far as I'm concerned the ENTIRE third game is the accumulation of our choices. Mass Effect is a space opera - games one and two are the body of the story where you get to set up the final chapter. Mass Effect 3 is the final chapter.

[Gothos]

Spoiler

Rachni queen, collector base, saving the council - not so well represented as you'd think, yes?