ME3 "Extended Cut"

[Graywolves]

[Nemo]

ME3, BF3, D3....most disappointing games (cash cows) in the recent history

[Vash02]

It has the same writers on it. I'm not expecting much.

[Gonefshn]

You can't just slop on some extra stuff after you already ruined everyones hopes and dreams.

[bjorntju1]

Originally Posted by Nemo

ME3, BF3, D3....most disappointing games (cash cows) in the recent history

Mass Effect 3 is a great game. The best in the series imo. The only thing that sucked was the ending. But most people don't look past the ending and think the entire game sucks.

But I am very curious what the extended cut DLC brings.

[Vash02]

Originally Posted by bjorntju1

Mass Effect 3 is a great game. The best in the series imo. The only thing that sucked was the ending. But most people don't look past the ending and think the entire game sucks.

But I am very curious what the extended cut DLC brings.

The ending is what the game leaves you with. if the ending is shit, the game left you with shit as a memory of it.

[bjorntju1]

Originally Posted by Vash02

The ending is what the game leaves you with. if the ending is shit, the game left you with shit as a memory of it.

Not me. Yes the ending sucked and I was really dissapointed by that. But the rest of the game was great and I just do as if the ending never happened. I hope the EC makes it better.

[p0intman]

the entire mass effect franchise is shit. 98 percent of bioware's writers are qualitatively shit and uninteresting in their work. their game design as one giant hallway is shit. their pandering to a fanbase who expect very specific and mostly unreasonable things is also shit. ea is literally shit, as voted by said fanbase. their use of dlc content is shit. ea's ability to ruin whatever it touches... is shit.

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by bjorntju1

Mass Effect 3 is a great game. The best in the series imo. The only thing that sucked was the ending. But most people don't look past the ending and think the entire game sucks.

But I am very curious what the extended cut DLC brings.

ME3 is BY FAR the worst of the entire series, ME1 was proper PC game with lots of content and epic story, I played it many times all the way through and as each class, ME2 was "meh", I played it only twice, second time when all the dlc (i.e. rest of the game) came out, heavily consolized and dumbed down, afaik it introduced negative mouse acceleration...lol talk about a bad console port! ME3 was total epic FAIL, the small handful of enemies (you're mostly fighting cerberus goons), the day one dlc that largely worked as an unlocker (of content already in the base game!) and serves no purpose other than artificially inflating the end price, the stupid 3 color ending, even shorter than ME2 but for the same price....naaaaaahh
Don't get me wrong I guess that ME2 and ME3 are fun and good time wasters on consoles I dunno, but on my glorious PC master machine it barely meets only the lowest of standards, ME1 was the only "good" game

Originally Posted by p0intman

the entire mass effect franchise is shit. 98 percent of bioware's writers are qualitatively shit and uninteresting in their work. their game design as one giant hallway is shit. their pandering to a fanbase who expect very specific and mostly unreasonable things is also shit. ea is literally shit, as voted by said fanbase. their use of dlc content is shit. ea's ability to ruin whatever it touches... is shit.

some true shit there

[Rbstr]

ME3 when I first played and in hindsight now had a fine ending....The whole game was the ending.
The rest of the game being pretty freaking awesome overshadows my issues with the ending.
That it ended in a manner that makes any sequel attempt have to go in a radically different direction is also nice. Real true ends are becoming so rare these days *cough*Halo*cough*.

The worst thing that can happen is that they've rewritten it to be substantially different in concept. The most important reason is that we're treading on some thin ground with artistic integrity in the day and age of DLC and F2P.
I worry that mainstream story driven games are going to feel the need to cop out on the end in order to have the money flow.

[ChipMHazard]

ME1 was hampered by a somewhat clunky combat system, the mako's physics and a bogged down inventory system. ME2 for the most part improved on the formula, except for having a tedious resource scanning system, less of an RPG as the item system was too limited. The story was more engaging, it was far more focused on character development/stories and the subsequent consequences of the choices you make. It also offered some great DLC.
ME3 offered a great mix of ME1 and ME2 gameplay mechanics and was all-round better, except for the side quest system being poorly done, boring characters and of course the ending not making sense or really offering closure. As far as I am concerned ME2 was the best in the series, but both ME1 and ME3 were great games, if you disregard the ending in ME3.

[bjorntju1]

Originally Posted by Nemo

ME3 is BY FAR the worst of the entire series, ME1 was proper PC game with lots of content and epic story, I played it many times all the way through and as each class, ME2 was "meh", I played it only twice, second time when all the dlc (i.e. rest of the game) came out, heavily consolized and dumbed down, afaik it introduced negative mouse acceleration...lol talk about a bad console port! ME3 was total epic FAIL, the small handful of enemies (you're mostly fighting cerberus goons), the day one dlc that largely worked as an unlocker (of content already in the base game!) and serves no purpose other than artificially inflating the end price, the stupid 3 color ending, even shorter than ME2 but for the same price....naaaaaahh
Don't get me wrong I guess that ME2 and ME3 are fun and good time wasters on consoles I dunno, but on my glorious PC master machine it barely meets only the lowest of standards, ME1 was the only "good" game

That is your opinion. I am mainly a PC player myself but Mass Effect in on of the few games of what I think is better played on consoles. And my first playthrough of ME3 was longer than my first playthroughs of ME1 and 2. And also don't forget the co-op mode in ME3 with is actually pretty good imo. ME1 has a great story, but it had shitty combat. ME2 had a lesser story, but way better gameplay (apart from the dumbing down of the RPG elements) And ME3 has even better gameplay , and also a better story than ME2. However I do still think the story of ME1 is the best.

[Ale]

[Jomo]

If they would've put this out sooner I might have been interested. They went and sat on it for long enough that I just uninstalled and stopped caring. Planetside and other games have my interest now.

[Zidane]

I personally liked the extended cut. It gave me enough closure to my synthesis ending I also thought it was hilarious that the extra ending they put in had everyone dying and having another cycle start lol