Neo's Mass Effect 3 Comments, Almost Mostly Spoiler Free and Tinged With Hatred

this game gave me soo many heart in throat moments its brilliant ......it pisses me off xD

Even if I discard my bias against Bioware I can confidently say that the ending of ME3 is the biggest asspull ever seen in video games and Bioware have taken a huge steaming shit over the franchise with their resolutions and the justification for the reapers existence.

It's a shame that, even though I enjoyed some of the missions and seeing a lot of old characters again, the whole thing could be ruined in the space of half an hour by shitty writing.

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I've seen a lot of complaints about the ending, but that's often the case when a series ends. Everyone has their idea how it should end, and if the reality is something else it can cause people to dismiss it out of hand.

I'm keeping myself away from spoilers until i've done it myself. If it does indeed suck, then I'll be in here ranting myself.

Wow. Tuchanka.

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Gave me chills.

as it did to me amigo as it did to me as a tear ran down my face i was never big on mordin but he was still a good member of the normandy and came in quite handy in alot of my insanity run and when you talk to him enough he really does feel guilty over the genophage and trys to fix his mistake

Ok, just finished the Priority: Citadel 2 mission. Spoilers to follow.

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Anyway, while I cannot yet comment on the eventual ending, I will sayt that there have been several moments already that have been worth the price of admission alone. Oh, and I recall a few people mentioning hoe stupid it was that a Thresher Maw took down a reaper on Tuchanka. To be fair, said Thresher Maw, Kalros, is way bigger than any Maw that Shepard fought in ME1 or 2, and the Reaper in question wasn't a Sovereign type Capital ship, it was a Reaper Destroyer so only about 160 metres tall. In game, the event makes perfect sense it doesn't feel silly at all.

people are just butthurt that it didnt go the way they wanted but i thought the kalros reaper fight was fucking awesome and the spoiler you mentioned i did the exact same thing man the exact same thing oh and the last part dont worry it works itself out over time

xalas wrote:

people are just butthurt that it didnt go the way they wanted

No, people are annoyed that Bioware are disregarding their own lore.

Speaking of which...

SimianWonder wrote:

Oh, and I recall a few people mentioning hoe stupid it was that a Thresher Maw took down a reaper on Tuchanka. To be fair, said Thresher Maw, Kalros, is way bigger than any Maw that Shepard fought in ME1 or 2, and the Reaper in question wasn't a Sovereign type Capital ship, it was a Reaper Destroyer so only about 160 metres tall. In game, the event makes perfect sense it doesn't feel silly at all.

The point is that in ME1 the Reapers were made out to be nigh-indestructible Space Cthulhu cosmic horrors. ME2 really had nothing to do with them so that's irrelevant but ME3 significantly cheapens what was a really cool and, more importantly, established aspect of the story by having them die somewhat regularly.

Did you read the Codex entries for ME3? They actually list some of the Reapers discovered weaknesses (mostly to do with the way they regulate their own mass effect fields, and have moments of vulnerability while doing so), and EDI at one stage even states "the Reapers are not as infallible as they proclaim themselves to be," the irony of a Reaper, the most advanced thing in the galaxy, basically being killed by a freaking huge worm obviously not lost on Bioware either.

Yeah, ME1 made Sovereign look almost invincible and ME3 does strip away some of that mysticism to a degree - which is undeniably a little disappointing - but given that this cycle was more prepared than any before it, doesn't it stand to reason that the fight against the Reapers wouldn't be quite so one sided, especially once Shepard starts rallying them together?

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Bioware should have just gone ahead with the 'dark energy' related deus ex machina they were building up to for two whole games instead of letting Mac Walters ruin what Drew Karpyshyn had going. I think it's sad when plot devices like that would be better than what actually happened.

Garrus is such a fucking bro.

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Pure fanservice, but it made me grin like an idiot.

Heh.

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go talk to joker and garrus now they have some witty remarks about that

Okay, Cerberus were kinda the good guys in ME2, but here they back to batshit-crazy murderising of people for weird experiments. Oh, and fuck you Kai Leng. you didn't beat me, you bought a fucking gunship to the fight, that's not exactly engaging on even terms, is it?

After Sanctuary, Tali has a drunken rant about Miranda, recalling Jack's "Cerberus Cheerleasder" taunt. How amusing.

and the fucking straw i laughed my ass off xD

SimianWonder wrote:

Okay, Cerberus were kinda the good guys in ME2, but here they back to batshit-crazy murderising of people for weird experiments. Oh, and fuck you Kai Leng. you didn't beat me, you bought a fucking gunship to the fight, that's not exactly engaging on even terms, is it?

Cerberus have always been cartoonishly evil. Martin Sheen is just that charismatic that you can look past all the evil nazi-esque experimentation, mass murder and death camps.

xalas wrote:

and the fucking straw i laughed my ass off xD

emuuuuuurgency induction port.

in the end TIM actually gained a little respect from me

also yes emuuuuuuurgency induction port xD rofl

Hey look I made a thing:



credit goes to the original gentleman's guide for vanguards for inspiration.

Can you tell that I just made it as I went along and eventually got trapped in a corner? I wish I could make it as neat and simple as the original one.

That looks pretty sick, nice job.

My Human Vanguard sucks. I'm only lvl 13, but because I haven't been able to spec out my skills as I'd have liked, my charge isn't very strong and I've not yet unlocked any decent weaponry, meaning most things, even on bronze, can survive a charge/nova/shotgun trinity.

It's nice to know that it's just me sucking and not the class though. So many people seem to be rocking soldier and that's just booooring.

its easy to rock soldier when you up concussive and you get a good smg or even a stablizer and damage mod for the avenger cause you can spam concussive shot and juggle the hell out of anything and the frag gernades at max take out whole bands of things and almost kills phantoms in one shot if it hits

The key to the human soldier is Adrenaline Rush. Buff it high enough and you can just spend the entire match taking half the damage and dealing 150% more pain to everything else. It's cooldown is super quick if you play your cards right.

Just bought a Spectre level pack and unlocked Asari vanguard and the Revenant Assault rifle. Is Human Vanguard bette than Asari because of Nova, or is Asari a better bet?

Asari Vanguard is good, but it it plays differently. Charging becomes less a priority and is better used for quickly moving across the area or escaping. You could try playing it like a ME2 Vanguard - and you could still be successful - but the lack of Nova means your better off trying a defensive playstyle.

Really, I found that maxing Stasis (with the bubble upgrade) and then equipping her with a strong sniper rifle and just headshotting fools works best. Or use the Carnifex if you have that since the Carnifex is amazing. Charge when you get swarmed or need to clear some room.

Lift Grenade's alright but Charge, Stasis and the passive upgrades are more useful. By the way: spec for health rather than melee in Fitness, the Asari's melee is slow and weak and is a death sentence if you get caught on higher difficulties.