@monkey How much do you want to be shown? I want to know what happens to the Reapers, but beyond that I'm happy for them to leave things open ended.

Not bothered with the multiplayer. For me Mass Effect has always been about the story, the combat gameplay isn't enough fun for me to want to play it over a game built specifically for multiplayer.

It's good fun. A little limited though. After Uncharted and to an extent Red Dead Redemption, I kind of need my multiplayer to have a bit of a story to it. I know it ties into the Single Player assets and that, but a little form would have been appreciated.

Tempy wrote:

I still don't think they should change it though and I think it works ok at a casual glance. I was left unsatisfied, but not to the point where i'd plage even a dollar to get it changed. They did so much write that I can ignore the cock up at the end, it does ruin the game for me.

What about people who haven't played it yet? Won't it be good to give them a better ending? It's not like we have to pay for it.

The ending is neither short, nor sharp, that scene goes on for at least 15 minutes. It is simply not the ending the fans wanted/expected.

I believe that the clips of the galaxy in it's various forms after you make the choice are still just visions in Shepherd's mind. When he breathes again after the credits at the end, he's lying on the pile of concrete by the beam, not up in the crucible. To me this implies he hasn't even set foot on the crucible, he simply comes round back on earth having survived the indoctrination attempt. 

Maybe it was Bioware's intention that this is somehow symbolic to the player that having survived the Reaper's final attempt to stop him, Shepherd goes on to use the crucible and save the galaxy - a.k.a the bit everyone expected to see. 

Maybe that will be what the DLC shows. Maybe that bit will be paid for DLC later, who knows.

I'm saying the game ends when you get hit by the reaper beam.

There's no more fighting, no more playing, just you and a fuckton of dialogue to get through before you get a cutscene about space magic.

EDIT: Damn you page turn!

He can see remodelling the inside.

Skipped to some bit in the middle of the video and the guy was saying synthesis was the wrong choice because Legion doesn't have a soul . . . kind of put me off watching the rest of it.

Little Franklin wrote:

Skipped to some bit in the middle of the video and the guy was saying synthesis was the wrong choice because Legion doesn't have a soul . . . kind of put me off watching the rest of it.

This. Some of this stuff really misses a whole lot of the point of the What Is Life question and who is qualified to make the decision on who lives and dies work that so much of Mass Effect has been about.

I ended up choosing the Reaper's destruction come endgame. It made it a fairly painful thing to do knowing that i'd be wiping out the Geth. Who I became quite fond of. More so than the Quarians.

Little Franklin wrote:

It's interesting but I'm not completely convinced by the eye thing. Saren's eyes didn't look the same as TIM's and looking at some ME2 screen shots TIM had the synthetic eyes in that, and he didn't do anything to indicate he was indoctrinated then, quite the opposite.

I just thought the glowing blue eyes that all three have was the indicator rather than the specific pattern. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty in that video and others of its ilk that is tosh. Just people picking up bugs, or asset re-use or lazy coding or coincidence,  that would otherwise go unnoticed, and proclaiming it as circumstantial evidence of some grand plan. 

And the 'Geth have no souls' thing, the guy is just wrong about. He ignores a lot of the game's plot in order to make that arbitrary point. It's a shame (but probably inevitable) that most of the stuff has been compiled by idiots who have over thought the whole thing. There's a handful of very compelling ideas, a lot of circumstantial evidence and a load of bullshit, generally all mixed together in the same articles and videos.

(And he probably saved the Galaxy indirectly by rebuilding Shepherd.)

Oh, I think I was just talking bollocks. I'm checking the prequel graphic novel and the Illusive Man's eyes randomly change from brown to blue after sitting in a temple containing a Reaper artefact for a few days. This is way pre-ME1.

Talking balls again, did another check - the Illusive Man gets zapped by a Reaper artefact wayyy before ME1, later in the story he's kept in a temple with the artefact and his eyes are permanently blue after that.

There's a pretty good one that shows how Aria was driven off Omega. None of them are that well written though.

Bollockoff wrote:

I ended up choosing the Reaper's destruction come endgame. It made it a fairly painful thing to do knowing that i'd be wiping out the Geth. Who I became quite fond of. More so than the Quarians.

Yeah me too. Bit weird considering I spent the whole first game killing them. I guess they've got a kind of dumb innocence to them, and the historical clips show them as faithful, mistreated pets to the Quarians.
But y'know, my Shep was a bitch so she was like "Fuck all them robots, I only care about my hot lesbian GF."