What games are you currently playing?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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ME2 and ME3 spoilers inbound

Bioware's Casey dodging questions like a political pro

Extended Mass Effect 3 Interview with Casey Hudson - Up At Noon - YouTube!

Dodges the question of Arrival being just really important to ME3. ME3 starts with Shepard striped of command after almost being court marshalled by the Alliance for a certain incident and working for Cerberus. ME3 touches on it, but doesn't go deep with it.

Laira just happens to become the Shadow Broker, ME3 acts like it happened and its not a big deal.

Project Overlord is referenced three times in ME3.

Oh, and "From Ashes" takes you back to where the ME story began - Eden Prime - and gives you a Prothean squad members.

"Sugar on top" my ass.

[Raydeus]

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I r reading spoilarz without playing both games. 'Cause I'm a rebel like that.

Also don't plan on playing them either. Fortunately I got ME2 pretty cheap on Steam, but I wish they would be willing to trade it in for a few indie titles instead.

[cidbahamut]

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I r reading spoilarz without playing both games. 'Cause I'm a rebel like that.

Also don't plan on playing them either. Fortunately I got ME2 pretty cheap on Steam, but I wish they would be willing to trade it in for a few indie titles instead.

*highfives*

Fuck EA and fuck Bioware for partnering with them.

[Jarre]

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As it was free decided to have a little dabble in Star Trek online, not bad, bit fiddly but just going to customise my first ship.

[Raydeus]

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I tried to play but got kicked out every 2-5 mins. So my journey to explore strange new worlds was pretty much limited to the log-in screen. <_<;

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PS > Saddest part is I love ST Armada, so the space combat was pretty good to me.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Yeah, I think I'm done with Bioware as of ME3. I just don't have a good feeling about thier future.

They're too interested with mass appeal and even though ME2 took it further, they keep pulling away the little things that make RPGs what the are. And really, why deal with them selling you most of a game when Bethesda gives you ten times more of a game or Atlus layers on the incentives at no extra cost? I complain about what Bioware does because I'm used to being treated better.

When I started up Devil Survivor 2 this week, it was like getting to know an old friend again, but the feeling about something like Dragon Age 3 is more like "What will they fuck up this time?"

Other ME3 spoilage

There's a theory going around regarding the endings and it makes a good bit of sense.

It goes like this - From the very beginning Shepard and everyone else was already undergoing indoctrination. I mean, that's what Reapers do. The first game states that ideally, indoctrination take several weeks or months to be successful and the game seems to imply a few months pass from the beginning to the end of Shepard's mission and the construction of the mystical McGuffin known as "The Crucible."

Indoctrination has always come with hearing voices and seeing people that aren't there. At the start of the game, Shepard sees a child that no one else does and sees this child "die" on an escape transport lazered by a Reaper as the Normandy sets out on its mission. Visions of this child haunt Shepard's dreams during the game.

Fast forward to the endgame. Here we have Anderson, Shepard and the Illusive Man. Illusive man has gone the way of Saren. He's indoctrinated but still believes he's in control. As with Saren you can gun him down (non-boss fight) or talk him to sense where he just shoots himself), but he does have some grasp of power on indoctrination, making Shep shoot Anderson just to show off before you confuse him.

Anderson and Shepard are experiencing the final stages of indoctrination, just as every race before them did. The catch being unlike previous cycles. They got the Crucible built and Shepard gains access to speak with the Reaper that controls the Citadel.

Yep, the Citadel is technically a Reaper, just one that doesn't directly indoctrinate. The Reaper takes the ghostly form of the boy and says the 50.000 year cleansings are no longer working and gives Shep three "choices."

Control the Reapers
Synthesis - Organic and Synthetic life become one
Destroy synthetic life.

Under this theory, two of these choices are a con.

Control the Reapers = Shepard becomes a Reaper, indoctrination and cleansing continue and Shep just thinks he saved everyone.
Synthesis = What the reapers were doing anyway, everyone just becomes a happy husk and thinks they have freedom
Destroy = Really destroys the reapers, EDI and the Geth are sadly collateral damageas they're synthetic and have reaper tech in them.

Shepard dies in the first two choices.

The Destroy ending in particular has an extra scene - one where Shepard is alive in the rubble of London. This ending seems to suggest Shepard never made it to the the Citadel and never spoke to the Catalyst to actually make these choices, implying these were all a dream Shepard had after nearly getting lazered by Harbinger.

There are still problems with the endings, but if this proves to be the case with the ending, its pretty clever. Shepard and even other members of the crew do demonstrate signs of indoctrination

[Taskmage]

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Late to the party to comment on the ME3 protest, but as I said to my friend, I like the precedent. Maybe next time there's a big sports upset, people will angrily wash all the cars on the street, flood into local businesses and make purchases, and organize a big flashmob for a showtune routine.

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Have not played ME3 yet btw (no money for it this month), but I haven't restrained myself from reading some spoilers and, yeah, the situation with the ending is pretty disappointing, but the amount of rage on the subject is still incomprehensible to me. I'm beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with me as a gamer that I don't fly into rages at issues like this or passionately hate certain industry executives like they murdered my family or something.

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Well, now that I think about it, I was pretty butthurt and petulant about FFXIV not turning out like I wanted. Yay for me?

[Kailea]

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[/COLOR]Well, now that I think about it, I was pretty butthurt and petulant about FFXIV not turning out like I wanted. Yay for me?

its coming in 2.0 ......................

[Taskmage]

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Wouldn't matter if they got it perfect at this point. What's left of my shell would never make the jump and I think I'm done with MMOs anyway.

[Raydeus]

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Come on Tasky, do it for Yggy. He is dying to play with you!

[Taskmage]

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If he were, he'd have taken the 7-day free trial for TOR that I was trying to give him.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Task, Casey Hudson is the director of the Mass Effect series, he decides what gets in the games, where the writer's story goes and so every criticism is on his head.

The endings were somewhat clever but...

Spoilerish Rumors

There's already a leaked memo suggesting that the "true" ending is coming by way of DLC. While this DLC is said to be free, along with more multiplayer content, but the idea that the true ending of a series finale is not on disc is beyond crass, regardless of motive. Its nice they finally do free DLC, but given what it is they'd catch nothing but pure hell if they didn't and they know it.

Still, not everyone that buys these games has an online connection, after all, and may not be in gaming for the multiplayer so they're SOL on a "true" ending.

And naturally, the defenders of Bioware are already rationalizing this possibility in "But the script was leaked! They had to do this to preserve the true ending!"

...see how its all still problematic?

Anyway, rushed through the first game again, chose all the opposite things except I chose to keep Wrex. They don't let you rebuild face or class in the first game, so I didn't get to make my New Game Shep look different, but now that I'm back in ME2, I decided to make her a tad more sinister this time.

[cidbahamut]

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Late to the party to comment on the ME3 protest, but as I said to my friend, I like the precedent. Maybe next time there's a big sports upset, people will angrily wash all the cars on the street, flood into local businesses and make purchases, and organize a big flashmob for a showtune routine.

I like the idea of spontaneous line dancing as a form of outrage. It amuses me.

[Raydeus]

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You would've loved the Jita Riots last year when CCP decided to self destruct then. XD

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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