Mass Effect Legendary Edition is such an enormous missed opportunity

Directing? No. Other staff? Yes, but not for the past 9 months. Even so, I am here because this place is not densely populated, to get lost in and it is being much more easily and effectively monitored. Indirectly, we have their ears and much more efficiently than some people here might realize. I know this for a fact.


Raycevick makes a pretty good case for going with a canon ME3 ending and moving forward with it. The endings are a curse. They will always hang over the franchise. Bioware could even say that it was a unreliably story told by the Stargazer. Unreliable Narrator is always an option. Like, none of the things, as supposedly told by the Stargazer, are exactly true or false, just unreliable. So maybe the reality is much different. Maybe the Stargazer scene takes place in a remote human colony that doesn't get much traffic and no aliens, which is why grandpa Stargazer tells kid Stargazer that he might meet aliens someday. If he gets his ass off the colony. The actual ending was something else. As in the "Hackett Ending" that ...themikefest has been talking about? Did I get that right? my memory is a mess. You know, the Crucible fired, the Reapers died, nothing's broken. Perhaps even the Citadel wasn't moved. Or they put it back later, I don't know.

There are ways out of it. I don't think anyone cares a lot about the ending option, but Control and Synthesis are too complicated to move forward with. The Reapers being around is just not a viable moving forward option. Either alive and patrolling the MW or just misplaced back into Dark Space. Because then you'll have to bring them back at some point and, let's face it, ME3 ruined them forever. There's no coming back for them. And if Bioware thinks otherwise, I strongly urge them to reconsider. And while a return to the MW isn't the end all be all, a return to the old crew is. The fanbase losing its shit at the mere sight of Liara and the implication (Shepard is back etc.) of the Will Continue trailer is testament to that. A new crew, right now, is just not happening, no matter how much Bioware wishes it to. And if they still think they can, I strongly urge them to reconsider, again. A lot of people will be let down and move away, from such a reveal. And I understand the argument about "old baggage, new crowd", but isn't Bioware releasing a remaster of the MET exactly for the reason to get new people in? Only to what? Have them drop the next game? Seems counter productive to me.

Tears of pure joy.

don't worry it was apparently just a mindless bot controlled by a petulant holographic child VI

or at least that's what the 3rd game told me

Hackett's ending. After the coup, the player, Shepard, learns from Hackett  the ones building the crucible say it has enough energy to destroy the reapers. That's your ending. A few moments after Shepard passes out, the crucible fires the red wave destroying the reapers. What it does is remove everything after that. It leaves open for a sequel with Shepard returning or with all new characters. What about the intelligence Leviathan spoke of? Simple. While in the hospital, Shepard tells Hackett that she/he never encountered this intelligence that Leviathan mentioned. That will be the mission. To locate this intelligence and destroy it.

The game started ignoring physics long before that.

The whole setup to Priority Earth is absolutely ridiculous. You've got a million ships coming though the relay and firing a billion mass accelerator rounds (each with the force of a nuclear weapon) at the Reapers sitting with their back to Earth. Hope literally none of them missed!

Take back Earth? Shouldn't be anything left to take back.

But then we and our entire squad should have been vaporized earlier on Rannoch when we stood literally meters from a Reaper getting bombed by these weapons.

Lol, gamers always be like "It's a totally missed opportunity that Company X isn't spending millions of more dollars and several more years on my personal dream game".

Take a look at your green. A destroyer walking/crawling down main street while organics rebuild. Sure going to be hard to rebuild with a reaper shaking the ground. Yep. It's confirmed. Green makes machines and organics stupid. Hmmm. Much like indoctrination does.

Then of course even after Reapers are defeated, once their bodies fall to the Earth that’ll kill everyone anyway. Destroyers will leave craters around the size or bigger than Meteor Crater in Arizona, so hundreds of those. And Dreadnoughts are about a quarter the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, and while they wouldn’t fall as fast each would still hit hard enough to probably wipe out half a continent and there are dozens of them up there. Then of course all the dangerous elements like eezo irradiating everything.

Lets not forget indoctrination even a dead Reaper will screw with your mind so my question is who's doing the cleanup?

I gotta ask... why are you still trying to make "Hackett's ending" happen?

very few if any likely missed, even if they missed their target the mass of reapers was enough odds are you'd hit one behind it. Then it might fragment when hitting the atmosphere having only small particles hit the earth.