I was trying mimic the tone of the ME3 ending ;)
Lo and behold - EA's whips crackling in the distance... it was all foretold and no one is surprised... Too bad they sacrificed an entire franchise for their greedy little asses.
Good riddance.
Ending sucked and that won't change if they add a DLC to revamp it. Some things just can't be amended.
Well, generalizing the gaming community will certainly cement your statement as true, right?
People tend to have higher expectations for a new product (a sequel or a follow up) especially if said product has established some high level of sophistication in terms of gameplay, story, narrative, graphics, characterization, etc. Bioware might have shot themselves in the leg expecting people will just gobble up that *SPOILERS* "choose one of three endings at your leisure"...
Go finish it. Then we can talk.
SPOILERS!
So wait, this guy thinks Shepard went to sleep once Harbinger started firing on the humans converging on the beam? Is he for real? Why go through all the trouble of making him/her (Shepard) all hurt and beaten, so the game could continue later on like nothing happened? Please.
Some people just can't face the truth (no matter how ugly it is).
I liked the Dragon Age: Origins ending which kinda resembled the one we saw in Mass Effect 3... with one difference: although my character died, there was closure. Everything didn't end with some philosophical bullshit, convergence and whatnot (which is as you know SOOOO unique). There was meaning to each end, each character and a prelude to the future... Mass Effect 3 haven't provided anything along those lines... just scraped everything up till the last 10 minutes and left the playe...
Finally some sense... they've been delaying the game since, forever.
Uh, the game is like six months old, but sincerely sorry for the, uhm, spoilers? I didn't really reveal anything...
I just finished the campaign and I have to admit I enjoyed it immensely. It was a worthy conclusion to a great series and in my own humble opinion, the best game of the three. I won't elaborate on the good things and why I think this is the best Mass Effect experience for me (since clearly this is the HATE section), so let me just state the one negative thing (if one can call it that) in terms of the story - the endings.
It pretty much resembled Deus Ex: Human Revolution ...
It would sell the console for sure.
One of the worst directions they could have possibly taken for the franchise... What is the next Assassin going to do, recruit Yosemite Sam and go haul ass on the Brits?
SO many great opportunities that haven't been touched by gaming... The French Revolution, the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire, the Emergence of the Eastern Empires... hell, the Balkans have seen more wars and conflicts in one decade than the entirety of that puny USA East vs. West war that's been...
"...hahaha, i nvr played the first one. just went str8 to the 2nd and im glad i did." /facepalm
People should REALLY play the first Mass Effect. It was a true sci-fi RPG / cover-based shooter and the story was far grander than that in Mass Effect 2.
I doubt they'll cancel it, though after the misses with Quake 4 and now Rage, ID will probably be way more careful when hyping up a new game... no matter if it is a Doom or Quakr sequel.
/facepalm
Moving on.
Aaah. Yet another developers joins the "by yearly release" practice, milking their franchise to death and adding nothing new to the table. Fly, oh fly you fools.
So, by this reviewer's standard, Nintendo should have bankrupted YEARS ago since, hey, they've been re-releasing the same old Marios', Zeldas' and Metroids' over and over and over again (graphical improvements aside).
Please...
Nostalgia can be sometimes considered a "soft spot" for developers to abuse in order to achieve better sales, but this just isn't the case. Why fix what ain't broke right? But the new Twisted Meta...
I've no doubts that this will be a great sequel.
Truth be told, the game was still great (although the controls-optimization was piss poor) on PC and having not owned a GameCube or any other console port of the game, I was stunned but just how awesome RE4 was. Then again I just plugged a PS2 controller and had a great time with it.
Well written and spot on. Also, while reading the text I came across some of the same (identical) feelings I felt personally when playing Mass Effect 3. I say to hell with all those ignorant enough to use phrases like "it's just a game, grow up." I am a gamer and I am emotionally and intellectually entangled with the gaming experience and it freaking MATTERS to me, after so many hours invested to simply acknowledge something just for the sake of it.
Again, the ...