Mass Effect 3

[sj33]

Just completed the game. Going spoiler some things I have to say.

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Namely, so many plotholes! For example, in Mass Effect 2 (or more specifically, the 'Arrival' DLC), it was stated that if the mass relays were destroyed, the explosion would be huge, wiping out the entire galaxy. Yet, the mass relays were destroyed here without this happening? Also, how the hell are Tali, EDI etc. back on the Normandy when it crashes - they come with you down onto Earth! And where the hell does the Illusive Man appear from? If the mass relays are destroyed, what happens to the entirely of the galaxy's fleet who came to earth - are they stuck there forever now?

[Uli]

Angry Review is up, no spoilers...

http://youtu.be/TFq531vkNOY

but, oh my, is the ending really this bad? please no spoilers!

[Golgo]

^ Great review that. Never seen Angry Reviews before, gonna keep an eye out.

[Uli]

^ Great review that. Never seen Angry Reviews before, gonna keep an eye out.

yep, it's strange that Angry Joe isn't more popular though, since it's simply the most competent games review site i know of -- and i know them pretty much all no full review before he hasn't played the game until the end credits roll. most of all you get the feeling he is a real gamer, and not yet spoiled by industry money.

http://angryjoeshow.com

[Cornflakes]

Arr..., game seems to have a couple of bugs. I cannot finish one of the side missions, that one with the hanar diplomats. Other than that frame rate on the 360 isn't that great when running around the citadel, and the disc swapping are annoying. Kind of regret getting the 360 version over the PC one now. If it wasn't for the lack of control pad support I would have bought the PC version...

[Kaosu]

Insanity finished. That ending wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, patient play and keeping under control when close to death helps a lot. Don't use medigels if you can revive your team by hand.

Much easier than ME2, as enemies do not change their health between difficulties.

[Cornflakes]

Just finished it, was alright, but nothing special. Don't think I will touch it again, even if it will have more dlcs coming, unless of course you play as someone else, like in bioshock2's dlc.

[JU!]

yep, it's strange that Angry Joe isn't more popular though, since it's simply the most competent games review site i know of -- and i know them pretty much all no full review before he hasn't played the game until the end credits roll. most of all you get the feeling he is a real gamer, and not yet spoiled by industry money.

http://angryjoeshow.com

Cheers for postin. Seen him before quite amusing especially his TekkenX DLC rant.

[SUMIRE]

I think I basically agree with everything angry joe said, he pretty much nailed it (but in a slightly annoying way)

It was a good game, but for big fans of the series, a bit of a disappointment. The stakes were high, and I don't think it could have ever of lived up to what I personally wanted it to be. Hopefully they might think of some miracle way of pulling it back with the downloadable content. I think one of their biggest letdowns was it could have been a damn sight more emotional. The characters near the end just seemed to get lost.

[rmoxon]

I think I basically agree with everything angry joe said, he pretty much nailed it (but in a slightly annoying way)

It was a good game, but for big fans of the series, a bit of a disappointment. The stakes were high, and I don't think it could have ever of lived up to what I personally wanted it to be. Hopefully they might think of some miracle way of pulling it back with the downloadable content. I think one of their biggest letdowns was it could have been a damn sight more emotional. The characters near the end just seemed to get lost.

When you make somthing so dark I think its impossible for it to be emotional without being melodramatic.

In my game a couple of characters died and i could have saved them had I done somthing Differently. I did feel like Shepard should have been greaving more but at the same time this isnt Eastenders, its a 30 hour Video game where Im primarily kicking bad guy ass. If the main character stoped to grieve for an hour everytime someone died then it would go on forever.

[Neon Ignition]

Received a surprise when my War Readiness dropped to 0% all of a sudden. Apparently if you don't go online at all during your playthrough the readiness won't drop below 50% but for having the sheer audacity for wanting to just see what it's like I've been penalised and dropped to 0% because I don't feel like carrying on with the mp. That means without putting in god knows how many hours in the multiplayer I'm locked into having a poorer ending, the best ones impossible to get. Words cannot describe how monumentally moronic Bioware has been with that design choice.

[Sketcz]

More goodness from Angry Joe. Excellent top 10 reasons why the ending sucks:

http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/03/top-10-reasons-we-hate-mass-effect-3s-ending/

[sj33]

^Angry Joe is spot-on.

I posted this in another thread here, but...

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one key bit that irks me is when the god child says the reapers were created because the "creator is always destroyed by the created" - in this case, organics were destined to be destroyed by the synthetics. So they created the reapers (who are synthetic) to destroy all organics, this preventing them from being destroyed by the synthetics (except the reapers, apparently!). And yet...just a single mission before, Shepard proves this wrong by suceeding in uniting the Quarians and the Geth (the synthetics created by the Quarians who then rebelled against them). This proves that organics are not necessarily destined to be destroyed by synthetics, that was pretty much the entire point of that chapter of the story. Shepard's own experience disproves the little god child's theory... and yet Shepard just passively accepts this rather than contradicting him by citing his own experience mere hours before?! The game contradicts itself, and the writers seem to have forgotten their own plot

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Also, how exactly do you increase your readiness rating from 50%? Does it involve multiplayer shenanigans? If so, I fear my readiness rating will forever be at 50%.

[rmoxon]

I dont know if you can increase the readiness raiting through single player, probably not becuase if you load up the game while not online it says you cant even view the readiness stats.

Having said that I still think you can see the best ending with readniness at 50%. But to do this you have to complete most of the side missions and do a crap load of scanning.

[PeteJ]

I'm having real trouble with the scanning at the moment, I have around 20 active quests which I'm trying to tidy up but I can't for the life of me find the items required. Every system on the map is at 100% or no %age at all, yet I still appear to be missing loads. Some quests actually tell you the system to check, but these are at 100% and I still can't hand the quest in.

Bah.