Mass Effect 3 and Day 1 DLC

[Night]

See, they're geniuses, because they decided to release a shit ending first and destroy all the goodwill they've built up with gamers since they started!

SMRT

[ente]

The multiplayer is a lot of fun by the way. Krogan sentinel eats a brute for breakfest and then takes a dump on an atlas.

(dont play with randoms)

[Iseeyouseemeseeyou]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/3182...are-forums.htm

This is the feeling (Lead + EP) I've had about it since I saw the ending. Fuck those two jerkoffs.

[July]

If that theory holds true, then WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST RELEASE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Or to put it more bluntly...

That's an easy one. To milk more money on the DLC.

[Fartman]

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...3-Extended-Cut

Mass Effect™ 3: Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download for no extra charge.

[Zev]

the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download for no extra charge.

I'm pretty suprised by that, thought they would have tried to cash in on it somehow.

[Rer]

I'm pretty suprised by that, thought they would have tried to cash in on it somehow.

With all the rage? BioWare is in some sense making history in regards to "reworking an already finished product's story to cater to its audience". (Mind you I use the word finished quite lightly and with a twinge of sarcasm)

[Night]

The "additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes" worries me somewhat. While they might actually, you know, provide closure for the characters, that still won't address the basic shittiness of the ending and the nonsensical philosophies of the Reapers.

[ente]

I'm pretty suprised by that, thought they would have tried to cash in on it somehow.

If you happen to buy the game after the 12th of April, you will have to pay.

[Glomp]

Have you guys not got it yet? EA only ever shit on anything they are involved in.

[Fartman]

If you happen to buy the game after the 12th of April in 2014, you will have to pay.

fyp

[Kevin]

There is some pretty serious tinfoiling going on in some of the game's foums and blogs.

The best one i heard (best because it is best tinfoiling, and its a GREAT idea) is the Indocrinated Shep ending.

Basically, the theory goes that Shephard has slowly been indoctrinated as time continues, due to his contact with the reapers.

When Shepard is hit by the beam, that is the actual end of the real sequences. EVERYTHING that comes after is a 'dream' or 'indoctrinated' sequence. This is 'proven' by:

The radio comms saying no one made it
Your comrades disappearing
Anderson clearly not making it to the beam in the charge.
The strange looking 'dream trees' and odd textures around the approach to the beam when you get back up
The fact Harbinger isn't blasting the shit out of your slow ass when you get back up
Anderson then beating you to the control room
The Illusive man making you shoot anderson, and anderson not actually dying.
The fact that illusive man's option is paragon blue and anderson's destroy reapers is renegade red
The fact that the god-boy appears to be pushing you towards the blue or green ending, not the red
Shephard dies in both the green and blue ending
Shepard 'apparently' wakes up in london in the red ending.
The disjointed joker clip at the end which makes no sense at all.
There's also some really thin things about Shepards eyes looking like Sarens and TIM's as well in the end sequences.

The concept here being that Shepard breaks the indoctrination by taking the 'wrong' ending (red) and wakes up back in london.

This would actually be a really awesome ending if it were true, and due to internets leakage they would in theory withhold it, thus playing a massive trick on a rabid ME audience, and then getting massive kudos.



Its possible it could be true, i guess, leaving us to work ourselves into a rabid lather for a month or two before releasing the real red ending. It would be a coup, a real coup, and awesome artistic whatevers, but i don't think a company would have the stomach for it and i think that people who really believe this place too much faith in Bioware.

[Night]

Its possible it could be true

It's not true. Bioware has made repeated statements that shit all over it, essentially saying the ending we got is the ending that should be, but that we didn't ~understand~ it.

[Kevin]

As a veteran of Eve, Night, I am sad that you reply to a post about metagaming and working us up into a rabid lather you use a press releasefrom the company as proof it is not true.

You should know better than to believe what is written on the internets

[Rer]

EA's only artistic vision is money, and the minute anyone forgets this they've become indoctrinated.

[Night]

As a veteran of Eve, Night, I am sad that you reply to a post about metagaming and working us up into a rabid lather you use a press releasefrom the company as proof it is not true.

You should know better than to believe what is written on the internets

I'm actually not using press releases, people have talked to the team about this at various panels, etc. What we got was really what they wanted us to see, straight, no subtleties.

[jiri]

So Extended Cut DLC is gonna come tomorrow (for PC).
I am a little bit excited.

[Rer]

Friends (and friends of friends) who have worked for BioWare say it isn't going to blow us away, but it will at least give us a goddamn explanation of what in the flying fuck is going on.

[Iseeyouseemeseeyou]

So guys, I heard the DLC was going to cost $30 contrary to the $0 cost we were told. Also, it will feature Shephard blowing up in a spectacular rainbow with which he fertilizes the Universe to start back over. CANT WAIT!

[Don Peyote]

I think I'll just look up a plot summary for this game, I can't find a torrent and I really can't be arsed with it anyway

[Chipmunk McPaul]

oh right, that game still exists.

couldn't care less.

[Rer]

I think I'll just look up a plot summary for this game, I can't find a torrent and I really can't be arsed with it anyway

Worth playing, just stop when you think the time is right.

[Night]

Friends (and friends of friends) who have worked for BioWare say it isn't going to blow us away, but it will at least give us a goddamn explanation of what in the flying fuck is going on.

Well, it didn't, but it did give us the option to tell Catalyst to stuff his shit, and while we fail to save ourselves, we stop the cycle.

[jiri]

So guys, I heard the DLC was going to cost $30 contrary to the $0 cost we were told. Also, it will feature Shephard blowing up in a spectacular rainbow with which he fertilizes the Universe to start back over. CANT WAIT!

It's free, it's nearly 2GB.
Waiting for the first guys to upload videos on youtube about how good/bad it is.

[Fartman]

already uploaded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkhQclzHMcg

[jiri]

Green Ending: Still illogical. Most advanced species needs dumb human to develop synthesis? Reapers could have done that 50k years ago on their own.
Red/Blue: Some things are explained better but both are still shit.
Refusal end: Never liked that one anyways.
+ Lulz @ Shepards first name.

[Rer]

At least this is something I can live with. More closure, more information, and less What The Actual Fuck

[jiri]

I am a little bit disappointed by the Omega-DLC.
Coop-Multiplayer is still a lot of fun though.