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The Mass Effect 3 endings still suck (hexbear.net)
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Damn, I need to rant about this with company, so thanks in advance for reading. Spoilers ahead.

I have a (bad) habit of replaying these games on a yearly basis. There's mutiple reasons, the most prominent perhaps is the fact that up until the end of the third game, they are so engaging and fun, the stakes are always incredibly high and ultimately, your decisions really shape the world around you. Curing the genophage, saving the geth, destroying the collectors, defeating Sovereign - it's slop, but it's fun slop.

Then you get to Earth by the end of the games and everything starts falling apart. The "beam" between Citadel and Earth is suddenly called "the conduit" by everyone and there is no explanation for it, and it's not like there wasn't the conduit in the first game. At the very end, once the crucible is activated, nobody apart from Shepard knows what the thing does. Still, the fleets are all fleeing, including the Normandy, but nobody knows what's going on. That probably includes the players by that point.

There is so much more in between these examples, but I don't have the beans to go over all of it. It's just a fucking mess.

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[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I was one of the dozen(s) that disliked the ME2. screm-cool

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

I liked it less the second time, the shift from Epic Space Opera Trilogy to Space Heist Movie just killed momentum.

You learn... that the death machines want to kill humanity by melting them and pumping them into a Terminator. That's about it.

Barely even moves the needle on actually figuring out what to do about the Reapers, so of course it's a mad rush in the third.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Worst game easily. Including Andromeda

Really resented having to work for the illusive man. And honestly none of the later games managed to make me care about new crew members.

And to add insult to injury my wife Liara divorced me to become the shadow broker.

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

I don't even really remember any of the crew aside from the ones who were with us from the first game, except for Miranda who I remember for making me cringe

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let's take a cool roleplay game with a baffling morality system that's about talking and make it a coverbased shooter. Also lets lean into the baffling morality system.

I never played 3 because teenage me was so frustrated at 2.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only cool class in me2 is vanguard screw cover just charge everything.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I was going to do that anyway.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hey let's add fucking ammo powers and put all your shit on shared cooldown, and change everything that was unique about the combat.

let's get rid of the lift and throw combo like yeeting enemies into narnia isn't the coolest shit ever.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Hell let's add ammo to the game when one of the most unique things about the setting is that you have infinite ammo!

IIRC it was originally pitched as "you have a few heat sinks that you can use to quickly clear overheat when you're surrounded" but then turned into boring normal reloading.