I'm sensing a pattern here...The Gears of War and Halo novels (well, except the one by Dietz) beg to differ about those standards.
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When I was a teenager, I liked his Star Wars: Dark Forces tie-ins. Given the typical reputation of his more recent work (of which I've personally only read Halo: The Flood, and it was certainly not good), I never want to revisit those SW books out of fear that I'll learn they actually sucked and I couldn't tell the difference back then.I'm sensing a pattern here...The Gears of War and Halo novels (well, except the one by Dietz) beg to differ about those standards.
Reverend: Completely agreed on your spoiler. Let's not go there.
ATimson: Coincidentally enough, I was wondering about that "new" edition of Deception just yesterday...
It was a very fitting ending.Also: "I am the very model of a scientist Salarian..."But what an end!
Unfortunately, I shot him in the back and felt greatly unnerved for the rest of that day.
And Bioware knew well how to drive that shame and disgust home, what with the follow-up conversations with Wrex and Garrus.Ood, I presume that you chose to save the Krogan and not be a monster?
Hammers - I think I got it on my third try. After the first try I realized that there were WAY too many Brutes at once to even think about taking down, I just ran for it. The first time I got trapped in a corner but the second time I made it. Not too difficult once you abandon any pretense of trying to attack the enemies.
Genophage - Yes, I saved the Krogan and cured the genophage. I mean, once the Reapers are dealt with, I'm sure all the races will be perfect allies. Seriously though, it's pretty awful what the Salarians did so I had to correct that. What a sad but fitting end for Moridin.
Galactic Readiness - Yeah, I'd like to go for the best ending. Which I understand is 5000 effective points. I'm about halfway there now. I might check out the smartphone game.
Hmmm, if Tuchanka was only 1/3 of the way through then there is a LOT more main storyline content than ME2. That's nice. Right now I'm about to go on the Geth mission after picking up Tali.
I'd also like to say that I am totally loving Garrus in this game (well, all the games, but this one especially). His conversations in the Normandy with Joker (series of jokes) and James (series of bro-insults) were hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing. I also got a kick out of the whole "how do thermal clips work" with Conrad Verner. It seems BioWare was having a little fun at their own expense.
One other thing I'm not liking is the mission/quest log. I liked in ME2 how it would break each quest down into sub-missions. Now there's just one small blurb of text which usually doesn't help much at all. Especially for the fetch missions, it can be difficult to know where to go or what to do.
Genophage - Yes, I saved the Krogan and cured the genophage. I mean, once the Reapers are dealt with, I'm sure all the races will be perfect allies.
Seriously though, it's pretty awful what the Salarians did so I had to correct that. What a sad but fitting end for Moridin. Galactic Readiness - Yeah, I'd like to go for the best ending. Which I understand is 5000 effective points. I'm about halfway there now. I might check out the smartphone game.
Hmmm, if Tuchanka was only 1/3 of the way through then there is a LOT more main storyline content than ME2. That's nice. Right now I'm about to go on the Geth mission after picking up Tali.
I'd also like to say that I am totally loving Garrus in this game (well, all the games, but this one especially). His conversations in the Normandy with Joker (series of jokes) and James (series of bro-insults) were hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing. I also got a kick out of the whole "how do thermal clips work" with Conrad Verner. It seems BioWare was having a little fun at their own expense.
One other thing I'm not liking is the mission/quest log. I liked in ME2 how it would break each quest down into sub-missions. Now there's just one small blurb of text which usually doesn't help much at all. Especially for the fetch missions, it can be difficult to know where to go or what to do.
Yeah, for some reason in ME3 the journal is a complete mess. Very strange considering they managed it perfectly fine in the first two games. I could almost forgive just dumping everything into one tab, but would it have killed them to at least get the descriptions to update after you've started the quest. Several times I didn't even know which ones I'd already found the items for and which ones I still needed to go scanning for.
The genophage is horrific, but getting rid of it without a permanent solution to the Krogan issue in place first is very risky. I'm fully in favour of curing the genophage once the Reaper war is over and the galactic community is in a position to work things out properly, I was not comfortable with doing so while there was a gun being held to the galaxy's head. I feared that we were repeating the same mistake that the Salarians did when they uplifted the Krogans in the first place.Genophage - Yes, I saved the Krogan and cured the genophage. I mean, once the Reapers are dealt with, I'm sure all the races will be perfect allies.
The weird thing is that I knew that decision probably wouldn't matter, this game is the last in the trilogy and any future future games set in the Mass Effect universe aren't likely to keep track of your decisions due to the complexity of all those variables. But I was so invested in the universe that I made my decision based on the possible political complexities of the post-Reaper era rather than trying to win the war.
Garrus was really great in this game, even more than in the previous two. The humorous bits were great, but my favourite moment was late in the game when I confided in him what really happened on Tuchanka, because he was the one guy in the game that I felt I could trust with such a major secret.
For my primary Shepard, I was thinking that way in ME2 (along with fruit from the poisoned tree) with regards the genophage cure.
When it came to ME3, conscience (and some desperation) kicked in.
Unfortunately, that means Eve died so there's one less control on the Krogan. Hopefully Wrex will keep them in check, but having Eve along would have been an extra moderating influence so my primary Shep quite possibly made things worse for the after war
Unfortunately, that means Eve died so there's one less control on the Krogan. Hopefully Wrex will keep them in check, but having Eve along would have been an extra moderating influence so my primary Shep quite possibly made things worse for the after war
Finished the Geth dreadnought mission yesterday. Going to clean up a few loose ends before starting the Rannoch missions... whenever I get a chance to play again. Definitely this weekend if not sooner.
Let's see, I think at this point I have met everyone who was ever in my party from ME1 or 2 (except Kaidan of course). So now it's just a matter of seeing who all survives...
Let's see, I think at this point I have met everyone who was ever in my party from ME1 or 2 (except Kaidan of course). So now it's just a matter of seeing who all survives...
In case you missed the news, the free Extended Cut DLC will be released on Tuesday, so if you haven't finished the game yet you have a choice between playing the original ending or waiting for this supposedly improved ending. (The story will remain the same, the new DLC just provides extra story sequences on top of what's already there.)
Which are you planning to do?
Which are you planning to do?
I'd say just get it and play through with it. Whether or not it's an improvement, I couldn't say, but I doubt it will detract from the original.
I say go for it. It'll be interesting to hear the opinion of someone who saw the Extended Cut on their first go. As others have said, you can always check out the endings in their original form after the fact on youtube if you want.
I'll do this in as non-spoilery terms as possible, but I should probably warn you that if you get to a point where you're about to launch a mission to a space station before the DLC is installed; stop. That's the game's point-of-no-return (think Ilos or the derelict reaper) and it's where we've been told to reload our saves from.
Don't worry, you'll know it when you see it and it's not the Citadel.
OK, thanks for the heads-up on the point of no return, but based on where I am and how much time I anticipate I'll have to play in the next 2 days, there's no way I'll get there before Tuesday. Heck, there's a good chance I won't even log a single minute. Still glad to know, so I can make sure to have all my side missions done before that.
I started reading the first Mass Effect book on my Kindle; about 40% through. Pretty good so far. It's nice to have some of the universe expanded upon (Anderson, Saren, etc.)
I also downloaded the Datapad app on my iPad so I managed to get my galactic readiness up to about 52% or so. It's slow going but I'm feeling like by the time I'm able to get to the point of no return I'll have increased by percentage enough to hopefully easily push me into "best ending" territory.
I started reading the first Mass Effect book on my Kindle; about 40% through. Pretty good so far. It's nice to have some of the universe expanded upon (Anderson, Saren, etc.)
I also downloaded the Datapad app on my iPad so I managed to get my galactic readiness up to about 52% or so. It's slow going but I'm feeling like by the time I'm able to get to the point of no return I'll have increased by percentage enough to hopefully easily push me into "best ending" territory.
Aren't they doing the EMS thing with this as well?
Yeah, which is why I originally said it was more satisfying. However, you can't beat lazy when you literally make it "Push Button #1 for Ending #1, Push Button #2 for Ending #2...and push the last button to blow it all to hell because killing everyone, including yourself, and leaving no trace is a cool exit". Oh, and the last choice really isn't philosophically different from just telling the truth (Ending 2, I believe), aside from sticking it to the mad man.
ME3 is slightly better than that. They go through the trouble of not making the endings actual buttons. The choices just deliberately suck so there isn't one that's fully satisfying. They sabotaged them because it's really hard to answer the questions of free will, genocide, and the definition of life while still providing an epilogue for the characters. Not sure I really blame them for it. Fortunately, it's still a video game, so if the best focus group testing idea is setting ME4 after ME3, they'll do it and make it fit. Eidos made Deus Ex 2 fit in with all of the endings of Deus Ex 1, I'm sure Bioware can cobble something together with these endings. It would certainly be more interesting than going back to the First Contact War, or the Krogan Rebellion, or some other thing that was really just a set up for how the races interacted in ME1-3.
Allegedly, an EMS of 3,100 will get you the best possible ending, down from (I believe) 5,000
The Karpyshin books are awesome.
If you have a PC, it's far less work to download the gibbed Savegame editor and set your points to 6,000 before starting the last base. Though, that may not be necessary anymore if they really did nerf the EMS needed to get the good ending.
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Finally making some progress again. Just finished the Thessia mission. Feel like I'm closing in on the end. I'm trying to download the extended cut dlc now. Having some issues getting the download to finish so I'm watching it closely. It's a huge download considering it's only cut scenes.
I'll be sure to give my thoughts one I make it to the end.
I'll be sure to give my thoughts one I make it to the end.
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