Mass Effect 3 - your story, spoiler zone Options

[Kelly-Ann-xxx]

Kelly-Ann for what it was worth i chose the sythesis ending, but lets all 3 are the same thing with different coloured explosions

I'm surprised a lot of people picked that. For me it sounded very much like what the reapers where trying to do.

I personally don't mind the ending, if the makers want that to be the ending we see then we should accept it.


I saved Ashley in ME1 so I don't have Kaiden to sex up, I'll have to make a new character and make new changes next time.
I'll settle with sexing Cortez's fine ass.

I think in a few months i'll have that same mind set but at this moment I'm still unhappy.

I dont think James is a possible love interest, not even for a female Sheperd He was the one i was after but nothing happens that allows you to go further.
In fact i remember some dialog where he tells you that he just enjoys flirting and he's not going to take things to the next level.

Question!- In ME1 did you guys kill the Rachni queen or did you let her go free?

[Konfusion88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_A7SeawU4

sums it up

[Uninvited]

Well, I guess I should start by agreeing with Kelly-Ann.

Now, my rant: What a WASTE of 150+ hours I poured into this series.

The final 3 choices were utterly stupid. If the child AI is acknowledging that its 'solution' to the problem of synthetics ultimately rising up and killing organics ISN'T going to work this time, then why was it incapable of just butting out and leaving the galaxy to live out its cycle?

Why was there not an option to say 'fuck you, I'm not letting you control me by forcing me to pick from these options', and continue the fight? Perhaps then, my galactic readiness/war assets might have had an impact on whether or not you can survive the Reapers and force them into retreat/kill them (I had most of the assets from doing the side missions, no multiplayer play until I after I had finished, and by all accounts got the best ending so that was pointless too).

For what it's worth, I chose the Synthesis ending.

DESTROY was against my character's personality - I didn't want to commit genocide against the Geth and kill off Edi, especially when I had put in SO much effort to unite the Geth and Quarians, and got Edi and Joker together (Side note, if you pick this ending, Joker doesn't seem very bothered after the crash that Edi is gone either. POINTLESS!!).

CONTROL wasn't going to work, as Saren hadn't been able to control Sovereign, The Illusive Man couldn't control Harbinger, so how was Shepard going to be able to? He can't even stop Monrith from killing him during sex!! Plus, Harbinger always used to say 'assuming control' when he took over a Collector, which just backs up that taking control over any life form was fundamentally wrong, even the Reapers.

SYNTHESIS did seem to be giving the Reapers what they wanted - Organics are 'preserved' now as they are now part of the synthetics. I didn't feel comfortable forcing the galaxy to suddenly become part machine but what else could I do? The other options were just as crap! Basically, the game was saying 'You can't win. Everything you have done over the last 40 hours was for nought. You have lost.'

I got a strong impression that the Child AI was lying - the colours when it shows the Illusive Man taking control (blue, paragon?) and when Anderson was destroying the machine (red, renegade?) plus what it said:

'The Illusive Man couldn't control us because we were controlling him. But you DEFINITELY could..

..Destroying us will only bring temporary peace. And you'll kill the Geth. And you'll die'

Turns out to be a total lie because Shep survives the destroy option! Plus, why does DESTROY kill all synthetics, as if they're all linked, yet CONTROL only controls the Reapers, not the Geth or people with cybernetic implants?

And the stargazer thing after the credits? Further confirms that all my actions were irrelevant. Life went on, regardless. Way to further trivialise everything I did, Bioware.

So to sum-up what happened for me:

ME1 (interactive comic - PS3):
Saved Wrex
Saved the Rachni
Sacrificed Ashley (on the off chance I could shag Kaiden later on)

ME2
Chose Samara over Monrith.
Everyone survived.

ME3 - cured the genophage so lost Mordin
Thane killed by Kai Leng
Ruined Kaiden
Took Kaiden and Javik with me at the end, thought they had been blown up by Harbinger, but Kaiden got out of the Normandy after Joker and Edi.

So everyone survived. Except me, apparently. But I sacrificed every organic in the universes' individuality in the process. Great.

This post has been edited by Uninvited: Mar 20 2012, 00:53

[Jonnycondom]

Did it really take you over 150 hours?!



Although I didn't do ALL side missions in the games which I'm assuming you did. I think my save times for each game were,

ME1 15 hours
ME2 20 hours
ME3 30 hours

[Uninvited]

I played through ME2 4 times alone, completing everything each time. Then there was the time I had played 20 hours worth and my save corrupted so yea.

[Astron]

Did it really take you over 150 hours?!



Although I didn't do ALL side missions in the games which I'm assuming you did. I think my save times for each game were,

ME1 15 hours
ME2 20 hours
ME3 30 hours

That is absolutely pathetic. 15 hours for an rpg?
Jonny luv, stop gaming right this instant. You just don't have what it takes.

[Jonnycondom]

Four times? FOUR TIMES?

how can you be arsed? I mean I know it's a good game, but fuck that. By the third playthrough it will just be a slog.

Astron, screw you. I do other things apart from just gaming you know, LIKE LEAVING THE HOUSE.

[Astron]

I heard about people doing that. It's weird.

[Kelly-Ann-xxx]

I would have been annoyed if i saved Morinth is ME2, seeing as this is the only role she had in this game.

[Uninvited]

The Morinth bit would have been such a surprise - I must admit, I did go looking but I've not even finished my Morinth playthrough from ME2 yet. Still, I think the impact of realising 'shit, that was Morinth!' would have rocked me a bit.

More outpourings regarding the ending and the idiocy of the writing!

Journo from The Escapist

A pretty well written fanfic ending

Writer from Bioware criticises the ending, before deleting his posts and trying to cover it up



This post has been edited by Uninvited: Mar 24 2012, 13:42

[michael-james]

I'm most annoyed that I had no idea what was going on with that war room since I got the game through lovefilm so no manual, and don't recall seeing anything to suggest I should be doing the multiplayer to give more to the single player

[Jonnycondom]

You could have just Googled it, or asked somebody in the other ME thread

[Tiuri]

I'm most annoyed that I had no idea what was going on with that war room since I got the game through lovefilm so no manual, and don't recall seeing anything to suggest I should be doing the multiplayer to give more to the single player

There is an extensive in-game manual (though the information about doing multiplayer to support single-player campaign came from many websites).

[Uninvited]

I'm most annoyed that I had no idea what was going on with that war room since I got the game through lovefilm so no manual, and don't recall seeing anything to suggest I should be doing the multiplayer to give more to the single player

There is an extensive in-game manual (though the information about doing multiplayer to support single-player campaign came from many websites).

Also, playing the multiplayer doesn't actually make a difference. You can get the best results by just doing all the side quests with no multiplayer play at all.

[Jonnycondom]

Doing the multiplayer is A LOT more fun though than scanning a random planet and then wandering around the Citadel waiting for the right person to appear.

[Uninvited]

But ultimately just as pointless

[Jonnycondom]

What on earth is taking Mikes so long to finish this?

[Uninvited]

I figure he has either spaffed himself to death because he thought it was so good, or he has gone on a rampage because he found it so terrible.

Of course, he could still be pissing about the Citadel like a fool

[Jonnycondom]

Speaking of fools, why haven't you or Astron played Journey yet?

[Tiuri]

Journey

Don't want to go too much off-topic, but is this Fable: The Journey ????