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Ana_
Finland453 Posts
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
the 'after', where normandy takes off again. wtf was the whole point in crashing in the first place? trying to save bad writing with more bad writing ... | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Pucca
Taiwan1280 Posts
Will I hate BioWare for making this ending? Absolutely not. BioWare is one of the only companies that would actually go out of their way to make a extended ending. Did I mention it was FREE?! I will hope for the next non-FPS they make and play it for sure. Let's keep up the great work Bioware but I understand and the rest of the sane community was slightly disappointed in this ending but I'm sure you will not disappoint the next game coming around! | ||
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Pucca
Taiwan1280 Posts
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valium
United States251 Posts
The lead writer for the first 2 Mass Effect games was moved over to Old Republic after he finished writing Mass Effect 2. Before he moved over though, he wrote a basic outline for how he wanted the series to go. Leaked after the fiasco with the Mass Effect 3 ending shows the original idea for the ending of the trilogy was for the mass relays to be causing the dark energy (remember Tali's recruitment mission and her loyalty mission?) to be corrupted and going out of control threatening to destroy the universe. The reapers were created to find a solution to the problem. So every 50 thousand years they either destroyed the advanced civilizations using the mass relays or forced the advanced civilizations to be become reapers to help find the solution. Then the ending was supposed to be Shepard either joining the reapers to solve the problem with the reapers, or to destroy the reapers and take their chances. I dont know about you guys, but that sounds a hell of a lot better to me than Bioware stealing the Deux Ex machina and not even bothering to change it enough to fit the context of the Mass Effect universe. Last minute they choose a nonsensical circular logic garbage from the sub plot that makes even less sense with the protential choices you make in Mass Effect 2 and 3 involving the conflict between the quarians and geth. That all said, the Extended Cut did greatly improve the ending to Mass Effect 3. But it was merely Bioware painting trash gold in an attempt to create treasure. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On June 27 2012 02:01 s3rp wrote: Exactly what i've seen before , if this is everything they added i then i wonder why this took 3 damn months. Because you have no idea how 3D animation and rendering works and the time it takes to create a movie with it? | ||
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valium
United States251 Posts
On June 27 2012 10:49 Praetorial wrote: Because you have no idea how 3D animation and rendering works and the time it takes to create a movie with it? no kidding, even basic bottom level 3D animation I did in my introduction to Lightwave class took 6 weeks to make a 30 second animation that then took 2 computers 3 hours to render. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On June 27 2012 10:52 valium wrote: no kidding, even basic bottom level 3D animation I did in my introduction to Lightwave class took 6 weeks to make a 30 second animation that then took 2 computers 3 hours to render. Yes. Now take a look at those cutscenes for a moment. Even with Bioware's top of the line stuff, that stuff takes freaking WEEKS. | ||
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bLecK
Australia625 Posts
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valium
United States251 Posts
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:02 bLecK wrote: So the new ending. Is it worth checking out? Yes, yes, and yes. It's a great ending, and sorta what I wanted. | ||
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s3rp
Germany3192 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:02 bLecK wrote: So the new ending. Is it worth checking out? If you have a save close to the end yes. If not no just watch it on youtube . The stuff they changed is only in the last few minutes of the game and no real new gamplay. It made the ending acceptable for the most part but not worth replaying bigger parts of the game just for it. | ||
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TomatoShark
United States288 Posts
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s3rp
Germany3192 Posts
On June 27 2012 10:49 Praetorial wrote: Because you have no idea how 3D animation and rendering works and the time it takes to create a movie with it? I guess i overestimate the amount of peole they had working on this. I still have a few problem with the ending and i think they approached the EC a bit wrong. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:27 s3rp wrote: I guess i overestimate the amount of peole they had working on this. I still have a few problem with the ending and i think they approached the EC a bit wrong. Oh no, something like this undoubtably took at least a dozen people working on modeling alone, not to mention aftereffects, dialogue, facial animation, and animation itself. In other words, a pretty huge number of people. Ask me to do something like this-see you in a few decades. | ||
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Deleted User 135096
3624 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:02 bLecK wrote: So the new ending. Is it worth checking out? Simply, yes. It improves a lot of problems with the original both narrative-wise and execution-wise, but, it does not solve many of the inherent problems that were already present, and even introduces a few other blunders of its own. All in all it is worth your time to at least make your own decision on the ending, but it isn't exceptional like many were hoping. Did anyone else get the feeling that the changes only began + Show Spoiler + just before the restart checkpoint in London, where you are running towards the beacon (I didn't read anything about the ending other than the eta and where to start). I only got the feeling that this was the point where changes began to happen. Also, excuse me Harbinger...but I have to talk to my girlfriend for a second, so can you go play in a corner for the time being? LOOOOOOL, so caual in the delivery. Nah, we're not in any mortal danger. Not in the slightest. Also, those dialogue choices with the catalyst, could they be any less subtle? Terrible writing, and an amateurish handling of character motivations. We don't need to know everything directly guys, a little subtlety goes a long way. | ||
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s3rp
Germany3192 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:30 Praetorial wrote: Oh no, something like this undoubtably took at least a dozen people working on modeling alone, not to mention aftereffects, dialogue, facial animation, and animation itself. In other words, a pretty huge number of people. Ask me to do something like this-see you in a few decades. I still expected a bit more and different stuff though especially since i'm not huge on CGI and effects at all . I would've loved less flashy stuff and more storytelling Though if what i read is right there quite some content in it that possibly is meant for future DLC's. I mean this DLC is ~25% of the games size and all it adds is a lets say at best 3% of new content . There has to be a reason why this is almost 2gb other than not compressing the files that well. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
On June 27 2012 11:58 s3rp wrote: I still expected a bit more and different stuff though especially since i'm not huge on CGI and effects at all . I would've loved less flashy stuff and more storytelling Though if what i read is right there quite some content in it that possibly is meant for future DLC's. I mean this DLC is ~25% of the games size and all it adds is a lets say at best 3% of new content . There has to be a reason why this is almost 2gb other than not compressing the files that well. It's because the files are poorly compressed. | ||
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ampson
United States2355 Posts
I'm really overall satisfied with the extended cut. I chose the synthesis ending (watched other 3 on youtube) and it is IMO by far the best. Only real competitor is the control one but EDI narrating the synthesis end is just awesome. Also, the refusal should really be limited to the text choice. Everyone and their mother shot at the damn catalyst, now they are all going to get penalized with a shitty ending for it LOL. I shot the catalyst for like 3 minutes while I decided the ending on my first playthrough. And WTF at the download size, that's an epic compression fail, not that it matters. | ||
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