affecting mass, 3

[chaosblade]

so, i've been playing mass effect 3 during my bouts of 'i've been studying too much, time to be lazy.' i finished it a few days ago, and gave myself some time to try and accumulate my thoughts on it a bit

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[atrocity]

I AGREE WITH BASICALLY ALL OF THIS

[chaosblade]

fucking javik was the best

I'd also use Liara sometimes just because the dialogue between those two is priceless in the way some sadistic yuppie ruining a naive farmgirl's fantasies is priceless

him going through and debunking the asari's religion one artifact at a time was sort of hilarious to me. i also love that if you don't let him touch his memory shard his plan is to go to the hanar homeworld and live there as a god

But yeah, I really wish you could have had Grunt or Wrex come back. or at least use mordin a bit before the universe decides it's tired of his rendition of model of a modern major general

and i guess the reapers could count as a boss if you squint a bit

and suffer some blunt force trauma

i'll love them if this all turns out to be some huge troll, but it all hinges on how they do the next dlc, i think. trolling is fine, shameless corporate money milking less so

[chaosblade]

uhhh i'll diss what i wanna diss

[unclejam]

I have not gotten through 2 so I have not played 3, but boy have I heard people talk about it. Boy

[chaosblade]

The ending is just... weird, which gives a lot of credence to the theory that's been running around about it. There's no real anti-technology message behind the ending, even, because if you take it at face value it demonstrably proves that the mass relays are a Good Thing (with the mass relays destroyed there's literally like, millions of aliens stranded on Earth, with at least like 2/5s of them unable to live in Earth's environment). there's a really vague, ill-conceived, and brief message that 'TECHNOLOGY WILL EVENTUALLY REVOLT IF YOU GIVE IT THINKY BRAINS BECAUSE YOU ARE PUNY FLESH CREATURES'

the argument falls apart pretty quickly based on what, exactly, is delivering it

i dunno, the vibe of the ending is ultimately less any specific message and more 'what the fucking fuck, guy'

[theantitexan]

I never really played the other ME's; some people I know love 'em to bits but I am not an FPS man in the first place, and it apparently has some elements??

The removal of choice sounds dumb. I've heard efforts at justifying it, but it seems like a let down from what they'd done thus far!

[chaosblade]

Yeah, I guess the first game was more legitimately an RPG than the others, but I have actually... never played it, ha ha ha. ME2 and ME3 are a lot more like a third person shooter/action game that is in love with the cover system I know better of thanks to TOR. I'm actually not much of a shooter guy either, but the characters and story made it pretty worth it. and in me3 you can sort of eschew all of it to run around punching shit dependent on your class

but yeah, i've heard a lot of justification for the ending -- even from the creators, something about 'artistic integrity'

i laughed, then cried

[chaosblade]

i have heard there is a lot of ranting and some of it is pretty amazingly irrational. i can understand being over saturated with it, at the very least, even if i am not particularly happy with the ending myself

that is good to know, however. i don't really keep up with peripheral materials or 'making of' stuff, so all i really knew was that javik was pretty involved in the me3 story (especially as you said in comparison to like, kasumi or zaeed) and that, combined with the fact that his dlc was released right off the bat, made it feel like he was intended to be in the game from the beginning

end result is it felt like i was paying $70 for a game instead of $60 for someone who, no matter how involved he is, amounts to a single character. now that i know he was initially cut due to time constraints more than anything else, i still don't know how to feel about being charged for the dlc. but it's good to know that it at least wasn't intended to be this way from the beginning