ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Trans-sane** · 16-03-2012, 14:53

Exactly. This is the company (or the staff/corporate culture at least) that gave us Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Planescape Torment, Knights of the Old Republic, some of the richest story telling of the last decade and a half (Hollywood eat your heart out). Mass Effect 1 & 2 are a tour de force. And Mass Effect 3 manages to blow them both away until you step[ into that sodding bean of light! THEN is become the sort of turgid shite the writers of Bewitched (the 60s TV series) would be embarressed about. Did they hand the final script writing to the office temp or work experience student??? Every other bit of the background story and science is well thought out and well polished (name one other SciFi that has even considered amino acid chirality, then find 5 people that know it). So why the utter failure of a decent ending???

Yours, disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

**Civi_Git** · 17-03-2012, 15:37

Originally Posted by Trans-sane

Exactly. This is the company (or the staff/corporate culture at least) that gave us Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Planescape Torment, Knights of the Old Republic, some of the richest story telling of the last decade and a half (Hollywood eat your heart out). Mass Effect 1 & 2 are a tour de force. And Mass Effect 3 manages to blow them both away until you step[ into that sodding bean of light! THEN is become the sort of turgid shite the writers of Bewitched (the 60s TV series) would be embarressed about. Did they hand the final script writing to the office temp or work experience student??? Every other bit of the background story and science is well thought out and well polished (name one other SciFi that has even considered amino acid chirality, then find 5 people that know it). So why the utter failure of a decent ending???

Yours, disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

Agreed on how excellently put together some of the sci-fi is, I think the purpose of the ending is for closures sake , and Ive a sneaking suspicion that if there ever is a follow up it'll be in the next "cycle" so there needed to be a definite full stop.

Alternately it the game was getting to close to publishing and they bodged it on to get it on the shelves. Not like bioware , but very like EA. Cynical , moi?

**Yeoman_dai** · 05-04-2012, 22:30

I've dodged to the bottom of this thread to avoid spoilers - but I need to vent about making me play the multiplayer to get my Galactic readiness up! It's a bloody outrage, I don't play RP games to have some repetitive, boring, second thought MP experience, let alone be forced to play it if you want to get a happy ending!

Now i've vented I won't be coming back until i've finished in case any of you fuckers ruins it for me!

**Dafty duck** · 05-04-2012, 22:50

Oh well, see you back here when you finish the game so you can sob about how shit the ending is.

**DPM_Sheep** · 07-04-2012, 13:52

Watching other people get closer to the end is like watching lemmings get closer to a cliff edge. :D

**4(T)** · 07-04-2012, 14:11

I just finished ME2, including most of the add-ons.

Great game. I hadn't read any reviews beforehand, so had no idea about the "romance" aspect - until I started getting rather leading replies to my nice polite officer-in-charge chats with the crew.... Mind you, you can tell that the "romance" was written by a bunch of programmer geeks; I wonder if any of them have had a girlfriend in the real world?

I liked the nightclub on Omega; the rather fit asari floor show reminds me of a place in Moscow ....

**Kingojosh93** · 07-04-2012, 14:57

Mass Effect 3 has proven itself as a true epic

**CRmeansCeilingReached** · 07-04-2012, 21:11

finshed playing it second time through on soldier. first time was great, second was too easy - starting at level 42 or something with grenade launcher makes life simple. take the big bloke and the sniper guy and nothing stands in your way.

thinking of starting over as an engineer or infiltrator...

p.s. agree with the fucking shit ending.

**Yeoman_dai** · 08-04-2012, 23:52

What the fuck, over!!!

**usmarox** · 09-04-2012, 00:05

It's a damned shame, really. 29hrs 45min of it were top notch. The last 15min? What Yeoman_Dai said.

Apparently Bioware are doing some kind of free DLC to rework the ending, although they've said they're not changing it so much as explaining it.

Ref multiplayer, apparently there are 10000+ worth of War Assets in the single player game, and the....least bad? ending only requires 5000. I must confess multiplayer is quite fun, and as it's all co-op it's a lot more laid back than CoD or similar. I see a ME-inspired multiplayer shooter in EA's future...