The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

[sgc_meltdown]

 

[racofer]

Unrelated bonus:

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Urdnot Ratch's Complete Guide to the Human's Managing PR Through Crisis


http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9927711/1#9927711


Let's begin with last fall's script leak. Whereas any krogan businessman would just headbutt the creator of the leak and then face the consequences head on this was not possible for humans. So they used what the Krogan School of Business refers to as the 3Ds of the Salarian Strategy.


* Deny the script was current

* Deceive by saying that there were many unique endings that would be relevant to choices made by Shepard

* Decry your critics saying they needed to judge the finished product

 

[circ]

ID LIKE TO COSPLAY ALAL OVER THATT!!

 

[Kz3r0]

 

[racofer]

 

[Oriebam]

stop it people

if this keeps up I will end up fapping, that is not good

 

[Kz3r0]

 

[Menckenstein]

I would dress up as Goku and show these bitches my dragon balls.

 

[RPGMaster]

I would dress up as Goku and show these bitches my dragon balls.

They'd have to dress up as Sherlock Holmes and use their magnifying glasses.

 

[Menckenstein]

I would dress up as Goku and show these bitches my dragon balls.

They'd have to dress up as Sherlock Holmes and use their magnifying glasses.

 

[CrustyBot]

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/10458057/1

Ending DLC confirmed. Won't change the endings or address the plotholes and fix the stupidity, but will explain more. Basically, filler/exposition cinematics or ending slides DLC.



Well done, BioWare. Did not think any developer could sink so low, so quickly. But this whole ME 3 controversy, combined with all the Kickstarter stuff and AoD demo (which I'm downloading right now) has made me somewhat optimistic about the future of RPGs. Thanks for being apart of that.

 

[HanoverF]

It's almost as if the intended to make the ending as shit as possible to steal heat from them cutting the Prothean out of the game to make people pay for him.

 

[Pegultagol]

Bioware pandered to them so they basically deserve each other, its like an ecosystem of derp. I am awaiting the ending butthurt part deux, after Bioware shows any inkling of temerity to charge for this clarification DLC.

 

[Oesophagus]

Some of the pics ITT made me sad and realize humanity is doomed.

I fapped, however

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I look at this and think it's some alternate universe where Ed Gein was a biodrone. I think it's the one crazed eye that really sells the picture. Fuck.

 

[Azalin]

Urdnot Ratch's Complete Guide to the Human's Managing PR Through Crisis


http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9927711/1#9927711


Let's begin with last fall's script leak. Whereas any krogan businessman would just headbutt the creator of the leak and then face the consequences head on this was not possible for humans. So they used what the Krogan School of Business refers to as the 3Ds of the Salarian Strategy.


* Deny the script was current

* Deceive by saying that there were many unique endings that would be relevant to choices made by Shepard

* Decry your critics saying they needed to judge the finished product

Urdnot Ratch wins the internets

 

[Schleichwerbung]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1221492p1.html

IGN's second opinion on Mass Effect 3. I don't know what to say

"The Galaxy At War system feels incredibly arbitrary."

"And what was that great reward? A cutscene featuring a bunch of characters I've never seen before, and a final moment where I see some familiar faces stranded in a jungle."

"I wanted to love everything about Mass Effect 3. Actually if you take away the ending and a few buggy moments the game is still phenomenal. But instead of ending on something noteworthy, all this final moment did is make me think of how expertly crafted a similar ending was in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. "

Still, 10/10 GotY !

 

[Aeschylus]

How is it that all these people who are supposed to talk about stories for a living do not know the meaning of 'denouement'.

It's not that hard. Just throw away your thesaurus and use words you actually know.

/pedantanger

 

[circ]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1221492p1.html

IGN's second opinion on Mass Effect 3. I don't know what to say

"The Galaxy At War system feels incredibly arbitrary."

"And what was that great reward? A cutscene featuring a bunch of characters I've never seen before, and a final moment where I see some familiar faces stranded in a jungle."

"I wanted to love everything about Mass Effect 3. Actually if you take away the ending and a few buggy moments the game is still phenomenal. But instead of ending on something noteworthy, all this final moment did is make me think of how expertly crafted a similar ending was in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. "

Still, 10/10 GotY !

EDGY FOR THE SAKE OF THEM HITS AND THEM MOTHERFUCKING AD DOLLARS! GOGOGO.

 

[Aeschylus]

How is it that all these people who are supposed to talk about stories for a living do not know the meaning of 'denouement'.

It's not that hard. Just throw away your thesaurus and use words you actually know.

/pedantanger

It's not pedantry when it's a critical int failure related to someone's profession. I just can't see how people are so sloppy AT THEIR JOB, THE THING THEY DO ALL DAY LONG. They don't ever put in the effort to build a basic vocabulary?

PS what's denouement mean?

Denoument is the point in the story after the climax where plot threads are resolved, the tension winds down, character arcs are brought to a conclusion, and everything comes to a tidy end. Generally, this is the last chapter of a book or the epilogue. Mass Effect *did not have* a denoument from what I've read about the ending, so calling the entire game 'denoument' as a substitute for 'conclusion' is just moronic.

 

[sea]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1221492p1.html

IGN's second opinion on Mass Effect 3. I don't know what to say

"The Galaxy At War system feels incredibly arbitrary."

"And what was that great reward? A cutscene featuring a bunch of characters I've never seen before, and a final moment where I see some familiar faces stranded in a jungle."

"I wanted to love everything about Mass Effect 3. Actually if you take away the ending and a few buggy moments the game is still phenomenal. But instead of ending on something noteworthy, all this final moment did is make me think of how expertly crafted a similar ending was in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. "

Still, 10/10 GotY !

To give *some* credit to the mainstream critics, they are usually under very tight time pressure to review games. Often they are given a week or less to do so. I've never been on a strict deadline with reviewing stuff, but for those that are, sometimes the flaws in a game don't really manifest until repeat playthroughs, or until you start going into the optional content, or until you kind of sit down for a few days and think back on it. The scores are always going to be high (and for what it's worth Mass Effect 3 is still a good game in comparison to what's been released this year so far), but even the best critics can overlook things when they've got to play and review a 40 hour game in the span of 3 days.

I actually respect IGN a little more for putting out these occasional second opinion articles. Their reviews and articles may suck, but at least they show they do have some honest opinions underneath all the hyperbole, even if they're afraid to express them within the initial sales window. Not that I ever read them, but yeah.

 

[Menckenstein]

IGN and others second opinion pieces are basically "Ok we sucked your corporate cock, got your money, here's how we really feel."

 

[Darklife]

Okay I've been lurking a long time, but after playing through this game I just had to say how awesome the final scene with the two midgets in space was. So SHEPARD became a legendary figure, someone who guided humanity back then? Is that why he was remembered as THE SHEPARD? if that's true, then we are truly blessed to live in an age where we don't have to look back to ancient Greece for tragedy, BECAUSE NOWADAYS BIOWARE'S SCRIPTS ARE WRITTEN BY MOTHERFUCKIN' SOPHOCLES INCARNATE!!!!

 

[Xor]

I would be willing to cut IGN some slack if they didn't willingly participate in a broken system where the publishers directly control how their games are reviewed.

IGN and others second opinion pieces are basically "Ok we sucked your corporate cock, got your money, here's how we really feel."

EA probably doesn't give a shit at this point because the game's already been out for two weeks. Most of the game's lifetime sales happen in that time, so any negative press at this point isn't really going to hurt anything.