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Pretty much anything you do in the first two games has a payoff of some sort in the third. Great game overall but I wish they did some things differently.

Should I keep playing after reading about the ending? I'm at the part where you locate the bomb on Tuchanka and cure the Genophage.

CastletonSnob1 posted...

Should I keep playing after reading about the ending?

It is still a great game underneath it all

fan357 posted...

Pretty much anything you do in the first two games has a payoff of some sort in the third.

Disagree.

90% of the "payoff" was just a number.

And 8% was just an email.

Only a handful of choices have a payoff in 3. Garrus/Tali/Wrex being alive. Tali/Leigon's loyalty missions etc.

It is a great game for the most part but the opening 2 hours and ending 2 hours are awful.

They also just plum forgot the plot of the previous 2 games.

ROBBAN posted...

It is still a great game underneath it all

This. One of those it's the journey and not the destination typa games.

The journey in ME3 also has severe issues that often get ignored for the the logic that the ending ruined everything.

Murphiroth posted...

Reminiscing on the multiplayer, they really should have brought it back.

RIP Batarian Hatesurfing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZdriHbzCk

Man, I fucking loved the Batarian. Also the Paladin was badass too, smacking people around with the shield.

Is there a bigger example of "WTF, why are you adding multiplayer to thi.... OH." than Mass Effect? lol

wackyteen posted...

The size of the balls to do a color pallette swap at the very end of "Your Choices Matter: The Trilogy" is still mind boggling.

Especially considering they explicitly came out and said it wasn't going to be a generic a, b, or c ending and then it was.... red, blue, or green instead! lol

Honestly, as a huge Mass Effect fan who lived through it all, I found the whole ending controversy very overblown.

However, I was at the time (and kinda still am) a firm believer in the Indoctrination Theory, which definitely played a part in that (The 3 hour-long IT videos analyzing the trilogy were incredible tbh. Respect to the guy who made them).

ME3 multiplayer is still popping, btw. A friend and I were getting full lobbies like two weeks ago.

DoesntMatter posted...

Marauder Shields

by god, how did i forget about marauder shields?

Unknown5uspect posted...

ME3 multiplayer is still popping, btw. A friend and I were getting full lobbies like two weeks ago.

It really is baffling that EA wouldn't revive it for the remaster... especially given the potential for monetization.

This reminds me. What was with Nintendo only releasing the third game at the time? The Mass Effect trilogy is meant to be played as a whole.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

This reminds me. What was with Nintendo only releasing the third game at the time? The Mass Effect trilogy is meant to be played as a whole.

Why are you blaming Nintendo? Blame EA.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Why are you blaming Nintendo? Blame EA.

Didn't EA throw a tantrum after Nintendo refused to allow Origin on the Wii U?

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Why are you blaming Nintendo? Blame EA.

So why would EA only release the third game there?

Mechu posted...

It really is baffling that EA wouldn't revive it for the remaster... especially given the potential for monetization.

I think the issue was that they couldn't.
Like they lost the source code or something

ROBBAN posted...

I think the issue was that they couldn't.
Like they lost the source code or something

The only thing they lost was the arena DLC from ME1, which was trash.

Murphiroth posted...

The only thing they lost was the arena DLC from ME1, which was trash.

Perhaps, but it was the only way to get that cool black armor.

Murphiroth posted...

The only thing they lost was the arena DLC from ME1, which was trash.

Oh right, i must have gotten those two confused
Then i don't know why there's no multiplayer in Legendary

Huh, so guess ME3 is backward compatible on Xbox One and multiplayer is still kicking... may go pick up a copy for $3 at Gamestop after work today! lol

ROBBAN posted...

Then i don't know why there's no multiplayer in Legendary

Their reasoning was to focus on single player. That it was hard to get it working properly and whether to spend time getting crossplay working between Playstations or just segment the community, etc... If you believe that reasoning or not though is a different question.

Heineken14 posted...

Their reasoning was to focus on single player. That it was hard to get it working properly and whether to spend time getting crossplay working between Playstations or just segment the community, etc... If you believe that reasoning or not though is a different question.

by focusing on singleplayer they meant spruce me1 up a bit to look desirable in trailers, do nothing with the other two and leave bugs that have been well known for over a decade in all three games

Heineken14 posted...

Huh, so guess ME3 is backward compatible on Xbox One and multiplayer is still kicking... may go pick up a copy for $3 at Gamestop after work today! lol

Oh really. I might have to fish my copy out of the closet.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Oh really. I might have to fish my copy out of the closet.

Yeah, was reading a reddit thread from this year since I looked it up. Would be very fitting to jump back in since it's N7 day today! lol

nocturnal_traveler posted...

This reminds me. What was with Nintendo only releasing the third game at the time? The Mass Effect trilogy is meant to be played as a whole.

Might have been a rights thing. IIRC, playstation only got 2 and 3 on release. First time ME1 was on the ps3 was the release of the trilogy collection.

I still have my Mass Effect trilogy and PS3. I should head on over to the multiplayer someday, if I ever have nothing else I'm doing.

That was a lot of fun. I probably still have my level 6 or 7 Cerebus Harrier on a save file. That gun kicked ass, once you got it and it's upgrades.

ShaneMcComez posted...

That was a lot of fun. I probably still have my level 6 or 7 Cerebus Harrier on a save file. That gun kicked ass, once you got it and it's upgrades.

Until then you're camped out at the ammo boxes because its low level variants run out of ammo after killing 10 enemies.

The Hurricane was a similar weapon among SMGs that wrecked enemies up close, IF you could control the recoil of the thing.

You gotta also remember that the lead writer left and Casey Hudson became the lead writer for mass effect 3 and did things his own way

and for some reason BioWare kept promoting him even though fans hate him

loafy013 posted...

Might have been a rights thing. IIRC, playstation only got 2 and 3 on release. First time ME1 was on the ps3 was the release of the trilogy collection.

PS3 had a release before the Legendary version, though it was years after the other consoles.

ShaneMcComez posted...

I still have my Mass Effect trilogy and PS3. I should head on over to the multiplayer someday, if I ever have nothing else I'm doing.

That was a lot of fun. I probably still have my level 6 or 7 Cerebus Harrier on a save file. That gun kicked ass, once you got it and it's upgrades.

I remember grinding the hell out of ME MP and sadly the Harrier was like...my last or second to last unlock :( Hitting those boxes were addicting lol

Touch posted...

I remember grinding the hell out of ME MP and sadly the Harrier was like...my last or second to last unlock :( Hitting those boxes were addicting lol

I think that it would have taken ~1,000 hours to max out your manifest if you were playing with randoms.

Andromeda then tried to have 10x to 100x that amount of grind and people quickly dumped it.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Oh really. I might have to fish my copy out of the closet.

Heineken14 posted...

Yeah, was reading a reddit thread from this year since I looked it up. Would be very fitting to jump back in since it's N7 day today! lol

Ay yo!? We playing ME3 multiplayer? My Xbox handle is Forever2KoB

ShaneMcComez posted...

I still have my Mass Effect trilogy and PS3. I should head on over to the multiplayer someday, if I ever have nothing else I'm doing.

Not sure if you'd have any luck. Haven't played on PS3 since the legendary edition came out, but when i did, I had to take my PS3 offline, otherwise ME3 was perpetually trying to connect to the EA servers and I could never make it to the menu screen.

Great games that I replayed and love but at launch when I completed the game and assumed the other endings would be dramatically different only for the only difference was in the color of the explosion and who survives on the Normandy I remember almost throwing the game out.

If not for the phenomenal multiplayer I would of tossed it. Playing through the legendary edition I actually ended up really enjoying the trilogy again even ME3, the patched ending and added dlc does improve it somewhat.

I'm nearing the end of two which I never beat before. I played 3 on the Wii u but excited to get back to it on the legendary edition

Heineken14 posted...

Man, I fucking loved the Batarian. Also the Paladin was badass too, smacking people around with the shield.

Is there a bigger example of "WTF, why are you adding multiplayer to thi.... OH." than Mass Effect? lol

Paladin was probably my most played class. The shield, Snap Freeze which went through walls, just nonsense. Also enjoyed the N7 Fury Adept, Annihilation Field was super cool and the teleport dodge could also go through walls.

I tried so hard to main one of the Volus classes because what's more badass than a Volus carrying a lobby of randoms? Lol

I also liked the Collector with the spirit bomb

Speaking of ME3 on Wii U, that was my first Mass Effect game. Didn't have a console that could play the games until the Wii U, so I got ME3 with it. In hindsight, having played the whole trilogy, it was quite an amusing experience with all the standard stand-ins instead of carry over characters. The salarian who takes over Mordin's role Joker keeps referring to as Not-Mordin. When you do the mission to cure the genophage and he dies during it Joker, going full Seth Green, goes "I'm sorry about Not-Mordin." and Shepard, very sternly, goes "His name was Paddoks Wiks." as if this npc was somehow significant.

I didn't know who the fuck Wrex was so when that comic comes up saying "this fucking guy was upset and rebelling against your plan what do you do?" I just go "fuck that guy, I have a galaxy to save"

oh fuck, i just remembered it's N7 day right now

Too_Many_Limes posted...

I remember the old Bioware forums absolutely melting down when word got out that ME3 would have multiplayer, and then it ended up being arguably the best part of the game.

While I never complained about it publicly, I can relate.

Adding MP was so bizarre. Of all of the game series out there, ME was not one that I thought needed MP. It was a SP game and was always known for that. I thought, "Man, what a useless addition".

Then, one of my friends was like "Have you tried MP? It's actually fun.", so I tried it and, like a lot of people, realized it was surprisingly great.

I think TLoU is another one of those games that surprised people with pulling a multiplayer rabbit out of hat to great success. But yeah, ME3 is why I don't jump to conclusions, or rather, try not to, about new game modes existing in games.

If there was ever an appropriate time to call someone a reverse racist, it would be the Asari. For those that don't know, they discriminate against the pure bloods of their race.

Limelol posted...

While I never complained about it publicly, I can relate.

Adding MP was so bizarre. Of all of the game series out there, ME was not one that I thought needed MP. It was a SP game and was always known for that. I thought, "Man, what a useless addition".

Then, one of my friends was like "Have you tried MP? It's actually fun.", so I tried it and, like a lot of people, realized it was surprisingly great.

I think TLoU is another one of those games that surprised people with pulling a multiplayer rabbit out of hat to great success. But yeah, ME3 is why I don't jump to conclusions, or rather, try not to, about new game modes existing in games.

Yeah TLOU is another good one. Always makes me laugh when people are like "nO gAmEpLaY" and I'm like idk I put dozens of hours into the online, so how can there be no gameplay if there's multiplayer?

I really enjoyed it and it's a shame the sequel never got one / it got cancelled

Limelol posted...

While I never complained about it publicly, I can relate.

Adding MP was so bizarre. Of all of the game series out there, ME was not one that I thought needed MP. It was a SP game and was always known for that. I thought, "Man, what a useless addition".

Then, one of my friends was like "Have you tried MP? It's actually fun.", so I tried it and, like a lot of people, realized it was surprisingly great.

I think TLoU is another one of those games that surprised people with pulling a multiplayer rabbit out of hat to great success. But yeah, ME3 is why I don't jump to conclusions, or rather, try not to, about new game modes existing in games.

I felt the same way with the first Assassin's Creed game that included MP. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

My biggest problem with Mass Effect 3 was that it felt like Bioware decided, we're telling the story we want based on the choices we feel are right, and if you made the wrong ones we'll make up some BS so it still plays out the same way anyway.

Let Mordin die in ME2? Fine, here's another Salarian who's also just as capable of making a genophage cure. Also, it's not Mordin's student from the loyalty mission in ME2, because he could be dead too.

Kill the Rachni Queen in ME1? Oh well the Reapers can just make their own synthetic Rachni so you still have to go do the Rachni mission.

Destroy the human reaper at the end of ME2 so the Elusive Man couldn't get it? Turns out there was enough left that he got it anyway.

By the time I got to the "your choice changes the colour pallet of the ending cutscene" ending, I was already completely numb to Mass Effect 3 throwing the "your choices matter" gimmick out the window.

It really helps that the multiplayer wasn't PVP, so they could go really crazy with the new classes. I recall some balance changes, like nerfing the Harrier or changing some level geometry so you couldn't do Geth/White/Gold but it wasn't a huge deal. Making all the dlc free to was a good move.

geno_16 posted...

My biggest problem with Mass Effect 3 was that it felt like Bioware decided, we're telling the story we want based on the choices we feel are right, and if you made the wrong ones we'll make up some BS so it still plays out the same way anyway.

Let Mordin die in ME2? Fine, here's another Salarian who's also just as capable of making a genophage cure. Also, it's not Mordin's student from the loyalty mission in ME2, because he could be dead too.

Kill the Rachni Queen in ME1? Oh well the Reapers can just make their own synthetic Rachni so you still have to go do the Rachni mission.

Destroy the human reaper at the end of ME2 so the Elusive Man couldn't get it? Turns out there was enough left that he got it anyway.

By the time I got to the "your choice changes the colour pallet of the ending cutscene" ending, I was already completely numb to Mass Effect 3 throwing the "your choices matter" gimmick out the window.

like I said earlier the lead writer that wrote the first 2 game left and was replaced by Casey Hudson

the whole synthetic v organics angle was added by him, the OG writer had a different idea and thats why some things like the dark energy theory from talis mission ended up being nothing in me 3

I choose to believe in the indoctrination theory, even if it is not canon. I like that ending better.

Any games with similar multiplayer to ME3?

xTreefiddy350x posted...

I choose to believe in the indoctrination theory, even if it is not canon. I like that ending better.

Same! IT Forever!

Indoctrination theory sucks.

It's basically just a modified "It was all a dream."

It's only benefit is it just sidesteps and goes "That shitty ending didn't happen so just make up your own one." which you can do just as easy without Indoctrination theory.

Note: BTW I'm not knocking the fans who came up with it. I 100% get the desire. But I just can't pretend it's good.