Mass Effect 3 ::sniffles::

[trinityvixen]

Between trips to the bathroom, I managed to complete Mass Effect 3 this weekend. (I typed "4" there by accident at first. Alas, never to be.)

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[xannoside]

Haven't finished it yet (and since I'm the road, I won't be finishing it for a while, likely), but from what I've read the tie-in stuff isn't necessary to getting better endings, they just help a lot when the other option is grinding single-player to absolute completion (which, knowing you, you might have done depending how much time you've had over the last few weeks).

I guess we'll see what happens when I finish, but if they provided a similar level of choice as they did in the first Dragon Age game, I will be more than satisfied with the endings they have.

On that note, there have been VERY strong hints from BioWare about making sure you keep your ME3 complete save. Take that as you will. ;P

[trinityvixen]

So, I played the whole thing thoroughly, as you correctly surmised, and yet my "Galactic Readiness" percentages never went up. That is what changes--and the out-of-thousands score for your war assets as a result--if you do the extra stuff. And apparently that does change the ending you get. moonlightalice looked it up for me and found my ending to be, like, the third best, despite my near perfect game. (I wasn't a perfectest perfect Paragon by, like, two decisions, and I wasn't bulked up enough to get some final dialogue options, so watch out for that.)

BioWare is such a tease. I don't want them to come back to this universe almost because I doubt it would ever be as good, or be what I really want. What fans really want is for the fun to never end, but in order for it to stay fun, it has to. Of course, I'll still come back. I'll always come back for more of this game. Because knowing how things work doesn't magically make me not want the things that will only hurt me.

[cubby_t_bear]

A lot of the War Assets playing into endings depend on how your previous savegames went. I think there's a save games site somewhere where you can download ridiculously completionist saves other people have played through, to get those benefits.

[trinityvixen]

But I HAVE ridiculously completionist saves! I'm a ridiculous completionist! I wonder if I had to do more of the ME and ME 2 DLC to get better at it. Argh, I can't look this up because I don't want to be spoiled...