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ishiki on 01 April 2012
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Darc Requiem said:
ishiki said:
Darc Requiem said:
yo_john117 said:

I addressed that up above with the lying part. There's a reason I don't pay too much attention to what devs say. 

But I guess if I would have listened and believed what they said about ME3 then I wouldn't be a very happy camper either. But I mean come on...that's like believing in fairy tales!

Bioware has an official forum and they have up, until ME3,  been pretty accurate in what they say and what occurs in their games. That's the reason the for the the reaction to the ending being as severe as it is.


I've said this before. So I won't go into too much detail agian unless you want to. (I personally thought the 3rd games story was bleh, so I didn't much care about the ending). But, from a mechanical point they didn't really lie, just underwhelmed.

there's 7 or 8 variations of endings depending on certain actions at the end (for instance if your readiness level was below 1750, earth is destroyed no matter what). And your readiness-level which is dependant upon actions in previous games (which can be completely offset by like 1 hour of mulitplayer). This was probably the laziest way to implement this.

There are "three endings" which is being generous because all the endings are essentially the same. They used the same recycled assets and they don't make sense because if the Charon Relay explodes the fate of Earth is the same no matter what your EMS is. Since the Charon and all other Relays go boom. The Sol System and just about every other system inhabited system is wiped out. Ignoring that sumo sized plot hole, you have the Alliance, Asari, Geth, Krogan, Quarian, and Salarian fleels orbiting a ruined Earth with no timely way to reach home. Turian and Quarians can't eat food from Earth. Earth is devastated and would not be able to support them if they could. That's all besides the point because you wipe out most life in Galaxy in the ending to Mass Effect no matter which color you choose. Or did Aratoht not really get wiped out in Arrival?

I'm not debating whether or not theres  plot holes because all of those are indeed issues I found as well, and are indeed numerous, there are other big ones that bothered me throughout.

I was just debating, that Bioware technically didn't lie on their forums. But, I guess I'm arguing semantics so bleh. haha.