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Post by
Thror
ermmm bro', you CAN already do that in the game.
If you miss any weapon-mod, weapon, armor, or plot-item on a mission you can buy them on the stores. Given how easy it is to rack up a large sum of money, its not really hard to get anything you may miss out. If getting money is hard, there's always "trainers" that allow you to have infinite money. (I don't really consider this "cheating" since I still have to rely on my skill to gun down the enemies, and stay alive as a vanguard on the higher difficulties which is easier said than done)
Oooh, really? That's awesome! I did notice that sometimes the Spectre shop sells those quest thingies, but never thought it sells the ones I missed. And now you made me wonder if the Incisor sniper rifle is shop exclusive or if I always miss it in some early mission, because I only saw it in the shop on both of my playthroughs lol. Anyway, that's awesome dude. Is gonna make my game much more enjoyable. As far as Credits go, I tend to be swimming in them. I do not buy any of the fancy Spectreshop weapons, and I only upgrade my favorite weapons/upgrades, so there is really nothing to spend the money on.
Btw, is it just me, or are the upgrades that are researched in Liara's office extremely clunky? Why do they have to have the same interface as shops, when you always get like... a thing, and it branches into two other things and you can pick one. Couldn't they make a specialised interface for upgrades? I also find it weird how the upgrades are like the most insignificant thing in the whole game. You get like 5 of them total.
Post by
Rankkor
As far as Credits go, I tend to be swimming in them. I do not buy any of the fancy Spectreshop weapons
most of the spectre-shop weapons are a waste of time. They are absurdly overpriced and are generally not worth the credits one spends in them. Take the shotgun for example, there's at least 3 shotguns you get for free that are better than the Wraith shotgun (Spike Thrower, Disciple, Eviscerator)
The only weapon that's worth it is the sniper, since you only get a better sniper WAY LATER in the game. (Hint hint: Javelin on the dreadnought mission, Widow on Thessia)
Oooh, really? That's awesome! I did notice that sometimes the Spectre shop sells those quest thingies, but never thought it sells the ones I missed.
yep I learned that the hard way. I had to do this side-quest for this guy on the citadel (Get the dog-tags of his MIA son) and I checked online, you get those in a side-quest where you gotta dispatch some cerberus troops. Well, I did that sidequest, scoured the entire zone, never found the dogtags, returned to the normandy, and when I checked the spectre shop, there they were, the dogtags.
Plot items aren't even expensive or anything, they cost 1k credits.
same goes for armor. Remember how I was complaining that the Serrice Armor isn't fully obtained till way later? well the legs are on the second-to-last mission, and again, I missed them, I just could not find them, but after that mission was done, I check the shops, and VOILA there they are for sale.
Post by
xlanadenx
Today was the first time I attempted Gold. And also the first time I beat it! :D Woooo!
Post by
Rankkor
Today was the first time I attempted Gold. And also the first time I beat it! :D Woooo!
how I envy you.
During the demo, I only tried Silver once, got my ass handed back to me in neatly cut cubes. Barely survived up to wave 4.
Post by
xlanadenx
how I envy you.
During the demo, I only tried Silver once, got my ass handed back to me in neatly cut cubes. Barely survived up to wave 4.
It gets easier when you upgrade your weapons and such. Though as a result, I have 0 medigel.
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588688
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Post by
OverZealous
Bioware on the complaints about the Mass Effect 3 ending:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/120318.jpg
Was it really that bad?
I haven't played it because I'm afraid it might be that bad, but I find it hard to imagine how it could be.
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588688
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Post by
buzz3070
So apparently everybody complaining actually forced bioware to create a dlc to change the ending,
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116661-BioWare-Announces-Post-Ending-DLC-for-Mass-Effect-3-Updated
I would like to point out the more important piece of this, ITS FREE.
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588688
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Post by
OverZealous
Bioware on the complaints about the Mass Effect 3 ending:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/120318.jpg
Was it really that bad?
I haven't played it because I'm afraid it might be that bad, but I find it hard to imagine how it could be.
All I've heard is that there are 3 endings, all of which is literally exactly the same, except for the difference in the color of the smoke of the explosions of something. Seriously. Bioware are successful trolls.
If making one of the absolute best games of all time makes a company a successful troll, then yes - Bioware is the impersonation of a troll company. If not, then no - Bioware (I assume) messed up with the endings, but the rest of the game is nothing short of fantastic. I wouldn't take that away from them.
Post by
Rankkor
Bioware on the complaints about the Mass Effect 3 ending:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/120318.jpg
Was it really that bad?
lets put it this way.
Have u seen the movie "2001 space odyssey"? IT has a better ending than ME3.
Bioware on the complaints about the Mass Effect 3 ending:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/120318.jpg
Was it really that bad?
I haven't played it because I'm afraid it might be that bad, but I find it hard to imagine how it could be.
All I've heard is that there are 3 endings, all of which is literally exactly the same, except for the difference in the color of the smoke of the explosions of something. Seriously. Bioware are successful trolls.
that's only ONE of the reasons the endings suck. Curiously, the least harmful reason.
its one thing that the cutscenes are the same save for the color tint (which to a blind-color person it would mean all 3 cutscenes are identical) but another when the ending.........
A: doesn't provide any closure whatsoever on anything, from your crew, the other races, the fleet, or even earth at all. We don't get to see the consequences of our actions.
B: ignore every desicion we've made from ME1 to ME3, if you played the game as 100% paragon, or 100% renegade, or a mix in between, it doesn't matter, the 3 endings are static regardless of your actions. Now, this was already a standard fare on other bioware games (On KOTOR you could play light-side all the way up to the rakata temple, and the suddenly decide to go for the evil ending. On Jade Empire you could play close fist all the way and then suddenly be good when you reach the water dragon, ect ect) but for ME3 they specifically said that all our choices from all 3 games would matter in the ending.
They didnt.
C: put significant plot holes on the established canon, and completely invalidate the plot of ME1, adding more questions than answers, the explanation of why the reapers do their cycles of exintion relies on circular logic, and is plain simple bonkers.
D: and this is the worst offender, the ending feels more like a defeat than a victory.
Now, its one thing that a game has a sad ending. I can take sad endings. Mafia 1 and 2 had sad endings and yet they were brilliant. But the problem with ME3 isn't that the endings are sad and hollow, but that they make the victory meaningless.
mass relays are destroyed, that means the entire victory fleet you spent the entire game assembling, stays stuck on earth, were they'll likely die due to lack of food and water, specially so for quarians and turians, ohh we busted our asses to defeat the reapers on the quarian homeworld, and FINNALY gave them their planet back, and even managed to secure an alliance between the geth and the quarians? its pointless because now all the quarians are stuck on earth with no way to get back. Nice job bioware.
We cured the genophage, forever saving the krogan from their endless cycle of violence, and gave them a future with hope under the wise leadership of a krogan who actually thinks with his head instead of his balls? its pointless because Wrex is stuck on earth which means another prickhead is gonna take over, and undo everything I worked so hard to make. Nice job bioware.
I spent 3 games cultivating a relationship with Liara, and hoping to have some blue children? pointless, as she along with the rest of the crew get stranded on an unknown world, so I'll never see her again, nor will she ever see me again. GG.
I could go on all day ,but the bottom line is: We've been fighting for 3 games, and in the end, the victory didn't felt like a victory at all. Mafia had a really sad ending, but at least its protagonist managed to acomplish something with his life, he put the 2 leading mafia families in jail, managed to live happy with his family for 20 years before the mafia found him and gunned him down in the ending, and most importantly, managed to prove to those degenerated scum that his morality would not be compromised no matter the situation.
Can we say the same for shepard? nope, earth was saved yes, and its in ruins, without the finantial, or economical support of the other races its not gonna make it, further more, with billions of aliens now stranded on our solar system, what the reapers would not finish, in-fighting between the armada will.
so yes, the ending didn't felt any satisfactory at all, it left more questions than answers, it invalidated the plot of other works, its static regardless of choise, the cutscenes are identical save for the color tint, and so on and so forth.
Bioware on the complaints about the Mass Effect 3 ending:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/120318.jpg
Was it really that bad?
I haven't played it because I'm afraid it might be that bad, but I find it hard to imagine how it could be.
All I've heard is that there are 3 endings, all of which is literally exactly the same, except for the difference in the color of the smoke of the explosions of something. Seriously. Bioware are successful trolls.
If making one of the absolute best games of all time makes a company a successful troll, then yes - Bioware is the impersonation of a troll company. If not, then no - Bioware (I assume) messed up with the endings, but the rest of the game is nothing short of fantastic. I wouldn't take that away from them.
I agree with this. Bioware is not a company of trolls. ME3 is one of the greatest games ever done. They f*bleep*ked up with the ending BIG TIME, but at the very least they're willing to do something about it. That's more than what can be said of several other companies that have made great games with poor endings.
Half-life has had one sucky ending after another and we haven't seen valve doing anything to improve that. Same for Opposing Force, all 5 games in the Legacy of Kain series, All games in the Deus Ex series ect ect.
ME3 is still a great game, but the ending kinda diminishes the satisfaction one SHOULD feel when finishing a saga this epic.
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Post by
xlanadenx
What people are really pissed off about is that what you did in ME1 and 2 mean nil in 3. None of the choices you made really affected the ending. My choice to put Anderson on the Council? "*!@# you, Lan! Udina's on the Council now."
Also, you peeps gotta post your Origin usernames so we can all play multiplayer.
Mine is Lanaden.
Post by
Rankkor
This is your favorite latino
after this I started reading your post with an accent.
You are not cool enough to mimic my accent. Only true bonafide Venezuelans can speak with an accent this awesome.
Post by
588688
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Post by
Rankkor
@ rank, holy hell, did they ever dun goof here. It just feels trollish (wow that's an actual word? Thought it'd get a red underline....)to me because of what you described, they built the players up and promised to make all there many many decisions that they worked so hard on, so many story arcs, and just went "lol nope" and made them all pointless, and have no effect on the ending, then to top it off, they made the three different endings not have any difference between them other than color of the flashes, which if you're color blind, means the ending are completely identical.
I'm actually shocked that bioware would do this, considering all the praise I hear about them.
indeed. This is the first time they've let me down with the ending of a game, and I've played EVERY GAME THEY'VE MADE for the past 15 years.
But lets remember: they are human, and humans make mistakes. Blizzard is a great game company, and yet they've dissappointed me several times before.
First with the WOTLK ending (Which despite being so horrible, didn't ruined the rest of the expansion to me, I thoroughly enjoyed WOTLK) and then with Cataclysm, which looked so promising, yet ended up being so.......... meh.
The more................ radical players, speak of a conspiracy theory here.
That bioware actually planned on fulfilling their promise, but EA wanted to squeeze more money out of the players, and thus forced them to make a BS ending, to force players to get the non-BS ending DLC.
I'm not prone to actually give credence to rumors like those, but that's so far the only explanation floating on the internet. (The fact that the "From Ashes" DLC which gives you a PROTHEAN squadmate, was made didn't help, specially when he's already included in the default gamefiles, and the DLC just unlocks the code to make him available)
Then there's the other branch of players who hint at the famous "indoctrination Theory" but that's meta territory and I don't feel like explaining what it is about, since its kinda long. If you're curious just put "Indoctrination Theory" on google, and it should link you to the Bioware forums where its all there.
But chances are, if you are not a fan of his franchise, and haven't played all 3 games to the end, you probably won't understand jack. Its some pretty in-depth stuff regarding Mass Effect Lore.
Post by
Thror
Actually I can imagine your accent pretty well after that Vent session.
Post by
Rankkor
Actually I can imagine your accent pretty well after that Vent session.
ya, but you're cool :P I said only people who aren't cool (or aren't venezuelans) cant mimic it.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Yummy Free DLC- I is so happy.
For the record- I think the concepts for the three endings were fine, but the execution was sloppy and lazy. If the choices stay the same as they are now, but the epilogues are significantly different from each other, giving you an idea of what the differences are in how this will affect the galaxy moving forward, that's perfect for me.
Also, it might be enough for me to go do that second playthrough- after all, the rest of the game is absolutely fan-freaking-tastic.
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