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Post by Vortex13 on Oct 19, 2017 22:50:43 GMT
I would have preferred to see the Reapers' motivations changed, and their numbers scaled back, though not to the point of removing their threat to the galaxy at large. Personally, I found the ideas and concepts behind the Suul'ka of the Sword of the Stars universe to be much more in line with how the Reapers were originally portrayed in ME 1 & 2. Soverign's general disdain of organic life and Harbinger's unmitigated sadism with captives doesn't really jive well when meeting the Catalyst and it's mandate to preserve life; especially when considering that it's just supposed to be a cold, logical machine. Okay, melting organics down into slurpees to preserve them might be something a machine intelligence would decide to do, but taunting those same organics, causing them as much pain and suffering as possible in pursuit of that goal seems wildly inefficient, and totally contrary to the whole "When fire burns, is it at war?" defense. If the Reapers turned out to be more akin to the Suul'ka then it would have been far more narratively consistent with their pervious actions. I always felt it would've made more sense if Harbinger, a being created by the egotistical, arrogant and god-like Leviathans, had overthrown its "creator" the Catalyst and had perverted its original goal. Which would explain the other Reapers made in his image, the horrific method of war and conquest, and their use of indoctrination. I could have gone with that as well. As it is now though the Reapers, and their master control unit, seem very schizophrenic with their previous depictions being wholly at odds with what the ultimate reveal tells us. |
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Post by chronoid on Oct 20, 2017 2:31:15 GMT
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Post by dmc1001 on Oct 31, 2017 7:46:29 GMT
I wish I could have gotten a happy ending. What were you looking for? An ending where every race survives and thrives, including Shepard? You can have one or the other and either seems decent. Though I don't choose it, Synthesis is a pretty happy ending. Also, a high EMS Destroy ending gets you most happy things (though not the geth). I think the theme of the entire series was sacrifice and that's what happens in the end, like it or not. |
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Post by sil on Oct 31, 2017 8:06:28 GMT
I think the theme of the entire series was sacrifice and that's what happens in the end, like it or not. I can't really remember any other time than the ending where sacrifice happened, except perhaps the suicide mission. If anything, I'd say the theme of the series was that any obstacle can be overcome as long as you surround yourself with the right people, that you're stronger unified than you are apart. But we all see different things, I guess. I expect the person wanted a sort of Star Wars ending, which I'd say is valid, not everyone wants something deep or wants a dark ending. Some people would be happy with some fireworks, some dancing and reuniting with your LI for a final smooch. Personally, I felt Destroy was enough for me except I felt the EDI/Geth deaths were thrown in purely to give a negative rather than it making thematic sense. |
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Post by dmc1001 on Oct 31, 2017 15:13:01 GMT
I think the theme of the entire series was sacrifice and that's what happens in the end, like it or not. I can't really remember any other time than the ending where sacrifice happened, except perhaps the suicide mission. If anything, I'd say the theme of the series was that any obstacle can be overcome as long as you surround yourself with the right people, that you're stronger unified than you are apart. But we all see different things, I guess. I expect the person wanted a sort of Star Wars ending, which I'd say is valid, not everyone wants something deep or wants a dark ending. Some people would be happy with some fireworks, some dancing and reuniting with your LI for a final smooch. Personally, I felt Destroy was enough for me except I felt the EDI/Geth deaths were thrown in purely to give a negative rather than it making thematic sense. Well, it was late when I wrote that, but I was actually thinking the theme of ME3 was sacrifice. The dreams and even the whole Citadel dlc seemed to be leading the player in the direction that there was going to be a final assault that would ultimately lead to Shepard's death. Mordin, too, is willing to die for the cause. As is Eve/Bakara. And Legion. I see it all over the place in ME3. Now, I like the happy endings. That's why I have a happy ending mod installed. I want Shepard and EDI to both survive (and EDI is another who had at least two instances in ME3 that suggested she was willing to sacrifice herself). I don't want to survive at the cost of annihilating an entire race, synthetic or not. |
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Post by Zemgus on Nov 2, 2017 5:05:53 GMT
I wish that Kai Leng had been a companion in ME2. It would've made things feel more personal in ME3.
I think it would have made far more sense if Miranda didn't turn on Cerberus but stayed loyal through out game 3. Actually the whole time I was just expecting her to betray me any minute now and was kinda disappointment when she didn't... though her story line in ME3 is actually pretty good what with her sister and father and all that.
I would have liked to be able to choose my allegiances in ME3. Instead Shepard just automatically returns to being the Alliances lapdog. That's one thing that I really don't like about ME3. It feels like they're really trying to push this one narrative when in other games I always felt like I had more freedom to choose my own story. I would've liked to be able to choose between the Alliance, Cerberus and maybe a 'go rogue' route...
ME3's over excessive use of character defining autodialogue is just dreadful. That's definitely one thing I wish wasn't in the game.
Being able to romance Kaidan as M!Shep in ME1... or at least flirt with him since the three game wait actually makes for a pretty good story if you headcanon it at least. But yeah I was initially very disappointed that there were no gay romances in the first two games.
(tbc)
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Post by bladefist on Nov 3, 2017 0:20:00 GMT
I wish I could pick 4 ME2 Squadmates to come with me for ME3 replacing Garrus, Tali, James or VS. I know it will take more work but sheesh Garrus gets a pass, I don't know who James is ahd Tali and VS get a late game pass.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 8, 2017 1:35:47 GMT
The radio selection sucked @ the captain's cabin. They should've put APM Music to do the DJ of the radio.
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Post by XJlock on Nov 8, 2017 2:31:37 GMT
I would have liked if Harbinger had a bigger role in the third installment.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 13:16:32 GMT
I would have liked if Harbinger had a bigger role in the third installment. Definitely. It was disappointing for him to not be a big baddie until the last minutes of the game. Even then he came by just to say hello and flew away. |
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Post by themikefest on Nov 9, 2017 14:42:03 GMT
After Sovereign destroys some of the Alliance ships, I would have had Hackett order the rest of the fleet to fire at the Citadel tower.
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Post by Phantom on Nov 9, 2017 21:52:25 GMT
I would have replaced either Edibot or Liara with a Gorgeous assertive Blonde Cerberus Science Officer that looks similar to Tricia Helfer that is 6'0'' tall and with long to extremely long hair while on board the Normandy and when in Combat in an attractive bun. also During the conversation with her, she was the voice in-universe for Edi. She and Edi have a conversation as well. Also there is a funny conversation with Samantha Traynor and she is not offend that she is flirting with her and tells her that she is bi-sexual herself. Romance option, she will be option for both shepards.
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Post by themikefest on Nov 10, 2017 15:16:39 GMT
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Nov 13, 2017 5:33:24 GMT
"The Death of The Universe" seems quite more depressing than ME3's plotline, and that was already a punch in the gut from the get-go. Apparently, I do like some pain. Yeah, I would have liked to see that.
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Post by Phantom on Nov 13, 2017 23:14:31 GMT
more overt racism from aliens species against humans and some of them are actively trying to get the Humans off the Council and have Shepard removed as a Spectre.
more spectres both good and evil.
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Post by chronoid on Nov 14, 2017 3:07:29 GMT
I wish I could have gotten a happy ending. What were you looking for? An ending where every race survives and thrives, including Shepard? You can have one or the other and either seems decent. Though I don't choose it, Synthesis is a pretty happy ending. Also, a high EMS Destroy ending gets you most happy things (though not the geth). I think the theme of the entire series was sacrifice and that's what happens in the end, like it or not. Let me stop you right here. I agree that we do get an ending where every race survives and thrives. But an ending in which Shepard survives and thrives? I beg to differ. We get an ending only alluding to a possibility that Shepard survives. What we get is fuel for headcanon, nothing more, nothing less. As far as I'm concerned, my Shepard is still stuck underneath a pile of rubble. That's the legacy of Shepard because that's how Bioware decided to end it. We get three different choices all amounting to Shepard basically committing suicide with one ending having a small ember of hope buried beneath it. And whew boy, saying Synthesis is a happy ending? I vehemently deny that. Synthesis is creating a genetic singularity for an entire galaxy through the choice of a single individual without any say from anyone else. It's cosmic fascism. It's basically what Saren was striving for in Mass Effect 1. It's quite possibly the worst ending anyone could ever choose in Mass Effect 3. |
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Post by stephenw32768 on Nov 14, 2017 7:26:38 GMT
Javik threatens Legion with the airlock once too often. Legion and EDI double-team Trollvik and throw him out the airlock.
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Post by themikefest on Nov 14, 2017 12:39:25 GMT
Javik threatens Legion with the airlock once too often. Legion and EDI double-team Trollvik and throw him out the airlock. Javik realizing he's being double teamed by machines, calls my Shepard. Shepard gathers the rest of the squad and crew. They arrive in time to help Javik. The machines are thrown out the airlock. Later they have a party describing how much fun it was throwing them out the airlock. Javik will make a toast to the primitives for helping him. |
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Post by dmc1001 on Nov 15, 2017 19:42:57 GMT
What were you looking for? An ending where every race survives and thrives, including Shepard? You can have one or the other and either seems decent. Though I don't choose it, Synthesis is a pretty happy ending. Also, a high EMS Destroy ending gets you most happy things (though not the geth). I think the theme of the entire series was sacrifice and that's what happens in the end, like it or not. Let me stop you right here. I agree that we do get an ending where every race survives and thrives. But an ending in which Shepard survives and thrives? I beg to differ. We get an ending only alluding to a possibility that Shepard survives. What we get is fuel for headcanon, nothing more, nothing less. As far as I'm concerned, my Shepard is still stuck underneath a pile of rubble. That's the legacy of Shepard because that's how Bioware decided to end it. We get three different choices all amounting to Shepard basically committing suicide with one ending having a small ember of hope buried beneath it. And whew boy, saying Synthesis is a happy ending? I vehemently deny that. Synthesis is creating a genetic singularity for an entire galaxy through the choice of a single individual without any say from anyone else. It's cosmic fascism. It's basically what Saren was striving for in Mass Effect 1. It's quite possibly the worst ending anyone could ever choose in Mass Effect 3. I'm not entirely at odds with you, though I think alluding to Shepard survives frees us to make our own decisions on the subject. But "happy" and "Shepard surviving" aren't necessarily the same. However, since I do prefer my Shepard to survive, I use one of those happy ending mods (MEHEM or JAM, depending on how I feel). As for your Synthesis arguments, I've gone over and over this against another person. I don't choose it (except one time, out of curiosity) and won't choose it. |
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 16, 2017 15:40:50 GMT
It would be great if BioWare add stealth gameplay to Mass Effect something like this demo. I like having options to approach to my objectives by either stealth to bypass enemies, kill quickly and quietly, or create chaos on the battlefield.
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Post by sgtrock31 on Dec 27, 2017 21:12:13 GMT
I would've liked to see more of the things that are hinted at in the first mass effect to have been more present in later games. The volus who was trying to find proof of Reapers and an ancient civilization, Humanity was supposed to be the sleeping giant, the giant mass accelerator weapon, the many ancient tombs, all the possible planets that had some sort of anomaly hinted at in there description.
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Post by copper on Dec 28, 2017 15:27:25 GMT
I would have liked to travel to some of the alien planets like Sur'Kesh and Palaven before the reapers attack. It would have been a nice opportunity to explore more of the unique alien cultures in the game.
The lack of any m/m romance for male Shepards until ME3 was stupid. It also gave the impression that f/f romances in the series were there to please male players because lesbian action is hot, rather than to give representation to female players who want to romance female characters. Kaidan should have been bi from the beginning and there should have been a gay squadmate in ME2.
There should have been at least one character exclusive to the ME2 squad in ME3's team.
EDI should not have gotten a body or become a squad mate.
I didn't like the pinocchio treatment for both EDI and the geth. They should have kept their ME2 personalities.
I think the indoctrination theory was more interesting than what the writers came up with.
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Post by themikefest on Dec 28, 2017 20:44:36 GMT
Its too bad the other homeworlds couldn't be used as hubs, at least for part of the game. If Shepard sabotages the cure, the player can go to Sur'Kesh to shop. Or if the genophage is cured, go to Tuchanka to shop. Also be able to shop on Thessia until the player starts the dreadnought mission.
The hologram turned platform I wasn't a fan of. Too bad there wasn't an option to throw the thing out the airlock
It is unfortunate that an ME2 squadmate, not Garrus and Tali, couldn't be on the roster in ME3. I would replace James and the edibot with ME2 squadmates
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Dec 29, 2017 4:32:13 GMT
Let me stop you right here. I agree that we do get an ending where every race survives and thrives. But an ending in which Shepard survives and thrives? I beg to differ. We get an ending only alluding to a possibility that Shepard survives. What we get is fuel for headcanon, nothing more, nothing less. As far as I'm concerned, my Shepard is still stuck underneath a pile of rubble. That's the legacy of Shepard because that's how Bioware decided to end it. We get three different choices all amounting to Shepard basically committing suicide with one ending having a small ember of hope buried beneath it. And whew boy, saying Synthesis is a happy ending? I vehemently deny that. Synthesis is creating a genetic singularity for an entire galaxy through the choice of a single individual without any say from anyone else. It's cosmic fascism. It's basically what Saren was striving for in Mass Effect 1. It's quite possibly the worst ending anyone could ever choose in Mass Effect 3. I'm not entirely at odds with you, though I think alluding to Shepard survives frees us to make our own decisions on the subject. But "happy" and "Shepard surviving" aren't necessarily the same. However, since I do prefer my Shepard to survive, I use one of those happy ending mods (MEHEM or JAM, depending on how I feel). As for your Synthesis arguments, I've gone over and over this against another person. I don't choose it (except one time, out of curiosity) and won't choose it. Jesus, BioWare already confirmed Shepard lives in the Destroy ending so if you want that then just pick it. War is grim and shitty, at least Shepard can survive, but things aren't going to go like you want them to go. |
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Post by Phantom on Dec 31, 2017 17:47:00 GMT
Its too bad the other homeworlds couldn't be used as hubs, at least for part of the game. If Shepard sabotages the cure, the player can go to Sur'Kesh to shop. Or if the genophage is cured, go to Tuchanka to shop. Also be able to shop on Thessia until the player starts the dreadnought mission. The hologram turned platform I wasn't a fan of. Too bad there wasn't an option to throw the thing out the airlock It is unfortunate that an ME2 squadmate, not Garrus and Tali, couldn't be on the roster in ME3. I would replace James and the edibot with ME2 squadmates Personally I would replace Liara with Miranda or her equal. I don't mind sythenics on the idea of it. Having that Cerberus Sythentic(one you recover at Mars) as a squad mate and potential liasion between you and T.I.M. For humor Sake, having a playable Kelly Chambers(as functional Cerberus Phantom with a Engineer function) and having Samantha becoming good friends. As much as I am a Cerberus Fan, the sheer volume of Indoctrinated Cerberus Troops despite the Set backs with Mass Effect: Retribution(many Cerberus Cells were captured during the Firefights and having their bases damaged in those battles). I would love having more indoctrinated enemies of all stripes ranging from Turians to Alliance to Cerberus to Council Spectres, Asari Huntress/Justicars, to Salarians(think of Mordin's group), to Quarians, to Krogan and other species to have the Reapers to Indoctrinate them and use them to fight against Shepard and fight against all Factions in different ways. Like using a squad and using friendly fire incident. or having a sleeper agent frag his commander and telling the rest of the squad that the commander was indoctrinated by the Reapers. It would be interesting in having an indoctrinated N7 Commander slowly indoctrinating his squad inorder to assassinate an Alien leader that is gathering support for Shepard and others. |
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