Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut

So the extended cut DLC has been announced for the 4th of July. Is anyone here gonna play it? I think I might have to get one more play through done before it comes out.

EA and Bioware are dead to me. Fortunately, my spouse still has faith in them, and I'm sure I can watch over her shoulder.

I understand the hate, as for EA I can't stand there corporate practices as of late but given I already have the game I might as well finish. I still have a hard time to believe that the writers at Bioware are incompatant and would not finish the game well. Because if they were none of us would have been so invested in the game, and no one would have cared as much how it ended.

It's 1.9 gigabyte download O_o, it should be neat

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It's 1.9 gigabyte download O_o, it should be neat

It's worth every GB. May I suggest the synthesis ending. I was impressed and now we all have closer.

So say we all

I cheated and saw all three endings, control seemed to turn Shepard into an angry guardian being. What she says and the way she says things, it's puts me off as being, not power hungry, but something close to arrogant, or maybe it's just assuredness in her power to dominate if needed.

The new fourth ending seems the most in league with the game, but I rather go with destruction ending since that was the objective of the whole series and it's the only one where Shepard is actually shown to be alive.

The weird part is that Mass Effect was this huge important series of games for me, I detested the stupid crap they tried to pull with the ME3 ending, and yet I haven't bothered to play this or even look up the spoilers. When I heard it was out, my reaction was total apathy. I realized that I've mentally shelved Mass Effect next to the Matrix and Star Wars in the "creators with egos way out of proportion to their talent" section. This seems really unfair, since we're talking literally 10 minutes of crap at the end of an otherwise amazing series, but this defense mechanism of total divestment when the writing nosedives has been so honed by formative fanboy disappointment that at this point I can't help it. I can't MAKE myself give a damn.

@ DoctorDisaster "There there it's ok" =P

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The weird part is that Mass Effect was this huge important series of games for me, I detested the stupid crap they tried to pull with the ME3 ending, and yet I haven't bothered to play this or even look up the spoilers. When I heard it was out, my reaction was total apathy. I realized that I've mentally shelved Mass Effect next to the Matrix and Star Wars in the "creators with egos way out of proportion to their talent" section. This seems really unfair, since we're talking literally 10 minutes of crap at the end of an otherwise amazing series, but this defense mechanism of total divestment when the writing nosedives has been so honed by formative fanboy disappointment that at this point I can't help it. I can't MAKE myself give a damn.

I'm with you. From the way that the devs of ME3 treated the fans from before release, through the ending debacle, and now this, I'm done with Bioware. They've crawled up their own asses and think that their shit doesn't stink.


Edit: Also, EA and Origin. Man, screw that shit.

Come to think of it, Origin is part of why I didn't give a damn. If they had let me buy the game on Steam like I wanted to, there would have been a little popup and the DLC would have downloaded automatically and ta-daaaaa. I have not opened Origin ONCE since ghostbaby threw his RGB-themed plot hole party. It isn't quite the level of table-flippery I reached trying to install Assassin's Creed 2 -- after which I swore off Ubisoft games forever -- but there are a lot of stupid barriers between me and this DLC that only exist for branding purposes.

Story issues I totally put up to the release of Drew Karpyshyn the writer for the first 3 Mass Effect books and the lead writer for the series prior to the completion of Mass Effect 3. EA does not get off so easy, taking a game series that was originally a single player game and forcing an online component that requires you to play or you can not get the ending you deserve, force of Origin on PC, on disc DLC, the original lack of completion of the game to add DLC I lay all at EA's feet, guess that's what happens when Bioware gets bought out.

I started "Mass Effect" in December and really came to like the game. But I somehow lost interest in it when I heard that I wouldn't be able to buy part III on Steam.

From what I heard, I also agree with Doctor's assessment. "Mass Effect" seems to be one of those stories, that start out amazingly good but in the end get lost in delusions of grandeur. "Matrix" or the nu-"Battlestar Galactica" also come to mind.