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Anonymous No.725459964 [Report] >>725460547 >>725460619 >>725460901 >>725461318 >>725461405 >>725462948 >>725463143 >>725463259 >>725463991 >>725464178 >>725464218 >>725464425 >>725464431 >>725464513 >>725464704 >>725465140 >>725466162 >>725468392 >>725469383 >>725471834 >>725485886 >>725487474 >>725488319 >>725489786 >>725495183 >>725495964 >>725496831 >>725499748 >>725501253 >>725501457 >>725504216 >>725504870
The neuroplasticity of my brain has changed. In hindsight Mass effect 3 was quite good except the last 2 hours or so

https://youtu.be/KGHA9oO1Ybg
Anonymous No.725460547 [Report] >>725460643
>>725459964 (OP)
Nah, it has other problems in tone and writing.
Anonymous No.725460619 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
no
Anonymous No.725460643 [Report] >>725472463
>>725460547
I remember one of the biggest hints that the game was giving up on being a proper RPG was when they removed the "holster" button. Why wouldn't you carry your gun at all times?
Anonymous No.725460901 [Report] >>725467795 >>725467795
>>725459964 (OP)
The game was good, and the ending obliterated the good will 95% of the series run time was building toward.

BUT the multiplayer was phenomenal. Having your homie submission net a banshee while you pilot your geth prime to mag dump in her screaming face was peak
Anonymous No.725461318 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
For a second I thought that was Leon from Resident Evil.
Yea ME3 was alright. The shooting was the best of the trilogy.
Anonymous No.725461405 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
The last 2 hours is the citadel dlc ending
Anonymous No.725462948 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
It has good aspects to it but it's painfully obvious the writers had no idea how to tie together all the choices you made prior. I think how they shafted the ME2 crew and the Illusive man was worse than the ending.
Anonymous No.725463143 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
ME3 Vanguard is one of the most fun classes I've ever played.
Anonymous No.725463167 [Report] >>725485989 >>725503841
Nope, not getting out of this chair.
Anonymous No.725463259 [Report] >>725463881
>>725459964 (OP)
It's the bioshock 2 of the franchise. Best gameplay in the franchise with absolutely abysmal everything else.
Anonymous No.725463881 [Report] >>725465136
>>725463259
I played the remastered ultra faggot collection or whatever not too long ago and thought 2 actually had noticeably better gameplay.
Anonymous No.725463991 [Report] >>725466959
>>725459964 (OP)
The plot took a nosedive in mass effect 2, but not enough fans realise it because it had an a larger roster of interesting crewmates and more polished gameplay.
Mass Effect 2 at its best was a spinoff or an alternative plotline, but at its worst it undoes what Mass Effect 1 built as a plot. Understandable, iirc Drew Karpyshyn left in the middle of Mass Effect 2's production.
Mass Effect 3 was doomed to fail because it had rocky foundations thanks to its prequel.
Anonymous No.725464178 [Report] >>725465482
>>725459964 (OP)
Anonymous No.725464218 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
I think combat was improvement from ME2.
Otherwise everything else was worse and that's an achievement as ME2 was already a downgrade from ME.
Anonymous No.725464425 [Report] >>725464516 >>725464921 >>725488739 >>725493537 >>725493795 >>725503380
>>725459964 (OP)
ME3's single player sucked and I will never change my mind about that. The multiplayer however was unbelievably kino and I miss it every day (yes I know you can still play it but after around a thousand hours and 13 years it's not the same). My only hope for the series is that the next game has good multiplayer, because it 100% will not have a good single player.
Anonymous No.725464431 [Report] >>725465253 >>725468805
>>725459964 (OP)
The only parts of ME3 that the real fans liked were Rannoch and Tchuanka.
Anonymous No.725464513 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
mechanically it's the best game in the series.
Story wise, it has like 3 different suicide missions worth of follow up. People who say choice didn't matter haven't played the Tuchanka arc
Anonymous No.725464516 [Report] >>725464664 >>725464921
>>725464425
How do you sink MMO levels of playtime into a simple 4 person wave co-op?
Anonymous No.725464664 [Report] >>725464921 >>725505375
>>725464516
The same way I've sunk similar hours into Vermintide 2 and Helldivers 2. Something about co-op games that reward high skill tingles my brain (VT2 and ME3 moreso than HD2 on that front).
Anonymous No.725464704 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
Javik completely shitting on Liaras beliefs about the Protheans was the highlight for me.
>Cerberus, that black ops group most people don't even believe exists?
>Yeah they actually have the largest space fleet in the galaxy
Anonymous No.725464921 [Report]
>>725464425
>>725464516
>>725464664
Also for the record that ME3 playtime only counts time you spent in matches and doesn't count time you spend in menus and lobbies. Factoring that in I'd estimate it's probably like ~1100 hours.
Anonymous No.725465136 [Report] >>725492153
>>725463881
Better encounter design, with ME3 they designed enemy factions around multiplayer and just plopped them into single player without any further thought. The same issue has plagued every Bioware game since, too.
Anonymous No.725465140 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
ME3 had fun gameplay byl plot sucked balls.
If you removed all the plot and leave just combat then it would be good.

Best ME is still ME2, only because you get to kill 300 000 batarians, it's best moment in the series.
Anonymous No.725465253 [Report] >>725492326
>>725464431
I don't like how the Rannoch part handled the Geth either, though
Anonymous No.725465340 [Report] >>725465952 >>725492472
Take ME3's core gameplay and give it ME1's level of RPG shenanigans and a story + characters that don't suck. It's a very simple formula, but it's not one that Bioware is capable of following through with.
Anonymous No.725465482 [Report] >>725465515
>>725464178
why is it always batarians
Anonymous No.725465515 [Report] >>725467556 >>725477759
>>725465482
they're the blacks of the Mass Effect universe
Anonymous No.725465952 [Report] >>725466391
>>725465340
Andromeda's gunplay was such a step back it was crazy. I did like the jump packs though
Anonymous No.725466162 [Report] >>725502324 >>725506608
>>725459964 (OP)
The fact that the ending generated the huge controversy and not this fag tells me all I need to know about the fanbase.
Anonymous No.725466221 [Report] >>725466565 >>725494246 >>725494930 >>725495476
Post class
Anonymous No.725466391 [Report] >>725466565
>>725465952
Gunplay was never the series' strongpoint. Power combos are the only fun to be had and those are pretty satisfying in Andromeda too.
Anonymous No.725466470 [Report]
people thinking the ending is le bad is a surefire way to identify that they are low IQ
Anonymous No.725466565 [Report]
>>725466221
nothing compares to the Volus VanGOD
>>725466391
nta, and I agree, but ME3's core movement and shooting was still better than Andromeda's
Anonymous No.725466959 [Report] >>725486357 >>725493209 >>725501772
>>725463991
>ME2 ruined the story!
No, ME1 ruined the story. I get it, they didn't know they would get funded for a whole trilogy so I understand why they blew their load in the first game but Virgil exposition-dumps every intriguing detail about the Reapers on Ilos. Literally all that's left after that is anticipating the invasion which is why the following two games are mostly padding and making up shit.
Anonymous No.725467237 [Report]
Playing a Vanguard with no guns was fun. Just constant slamming into people and doing the nova jump thing followed by slamming into them again and then nova again and so on.
Anonymous No.725467556 [Report] >>725467625 >>725467750 >>725467838 >>725467939 >>725489968
>>725465515
so what does that make jacob
Anonymous No.725467625 [Report]
>>725467556
Honorary human.
Anonymous No.725467750 [Report] >>725492638
>>725467556
a NI-
Anonymous No.725467795 [Report]
>>725460901
>The game was good, and the ending obliterated the good will 95% of the series run time was building toward.
Yeah.
>>725460901
>BUT the multiplayer was phenomenal. Having your homie submission net a banshee while you pilot your geth prime to mag dump in her screaming face was peak
You don't need anyone's help with the Geth Juggernaut unless you're against the Praetorian.
Anonymous No.725467838 [Report]
>>725467556
A batarian.
Anonymous No.725467939 [Report] >>725494341
>>725467556
Anonymous No.725468048 [Report] >>725476351
>Muh artistic integrity.
The last good BioWare game was ME2 and it's a streamlined(read castrated) RPG. BioWare went into a long death spiral with ME3.
Anonymous No.725468392 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
The gameplay was always good, it's just that me and everybody else fooled ourselves into thinking the game would have an insane scope due to the way it was advertised, even though there was no way they could or would have logically delivered something where you go to each race's planet or w/e
Anonymous No.725468805 [Report]
>>725464431
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cMXNJ3zkSiE
Anonymous No.725469383 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
no, it was melodramatic slop targeting cod audience
i hate geth-quarian resolution with passion
Anonymous No.725471834 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
Why is Leon Kennedy in Mass Effect?
Anonymous No.725472109 [Report] >>725472296 >>725500117
>Reapers are finally at our doorstep but we gotta fight a terrorist faction for 2/3 of the game and go on dumb little space misadventures while our companions make endless jokes
>DLC companion and Marcus Fenix
>Rachni plotline completely fucked
>that fucking ending and star child
I know redditors ate that shit up but I thought /v/ was better.
Anonymous No.725472296 [Report] >>725475235 >>725492705
>>725472109
2 is clearly the best one.
>ignores the reapers
>Liara is barely in it
>sex with Tali
>ripped out a lot of the RPG bullshit that nobody likes
>improved the cover shooting mechanics that everybody likes
>Mattock
I mean, what more could you ask for?
Anonymous No.725472463 [Report]
>>725460643
Someone literally just added holstering back into the game with a new mod on this N7 day. I just tried it and it works completely smooth like it's still ME1 or ME2. https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/2991
Anonymous No.725475235 [Report] >>725476196
>>725472296
>ripped out a lot of the RPG bullshit that nobody likes
God you are such a faggot.
Anonymous No.725475474 [Report] >>725476154 >>725477780 >>725492824 >>725501691 >>725502108
How would you guys rewrite me 3?

For starters i would make reapers stronger. Their minions were too weak
Anonymous No.725475992 [Report] >>725492940
It was kino, fighting the cerberus troops is as good as the combat in these games ever got and the multiplayer was fun. I just don't like how melancholic the game is as a whole, ME1/2 are endlessly replayable because they feel like you're having a blast with your homies, in ME3 everyone is always crying and being sentimental with the gay piano music playing in the background.
Anonymous No.725476154 [Report] >>725476351
>>725475474
remove the child
Anonymous No.725476196 [Report] >>725479598
>>725475235
Nobody likes RPGs except homos.
Anonymous No.725476273 [Report]
Hackett: "Why did Cerberus attack Sur'Kesh?"
Shepard: "I don't know, but I'm going to find out." No, you won't.

Hackett: "Why did Cerberus attack the Citadel?"
Shepard: "I don't know, but I'm going to find out." No, you won't.

Hackett: "Why did Cerberus attack Benning? That's not their MO."
Shepard: "I don't know, but I'm going to find out." No, you won't.
Anonymous No.725476351 [Report]
>>725468048
>>725476154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO20rePNlN8&t=298s
Anonymous No.725477759 [Report] >>725492557
>>725465515
thats the krogan
Anonymous No.725477780 [Report] >>725481336
>>725475474
>remove the kids
>have Saren as inner monologue
>less cerberus
>you know what, why can't we ally with cerberus in first place?
>unfuck renegade choices
>kill some batarians to make game better
>introduce reaper total war later and not in prologue
Anonymous No.725479598 [Report] >>725479815
>>725476196
so you're saying you're a homo?
Anonymous No.725479815 [Report] >>725480721
>>725479598
I like cover shooters like a dudebro manly man.
Anonymous No.725480721 [Report] >>725480873 >>725481890
>>725479815
>cover shooters
can't think of a more homo genre
unless you're talking about Rainbow Six Vegas, but you're not
Anonymous No.725480873 [Report] >>725484256
>>725480721
>turning Rainbow Six into a tard fps
Anonymous No.725481336 [Report]
>>725477780
I agree with all of this
Anonymous No.725481890 [Report]
>>725480721
vegas was kino tho, idgaf
Anonymous No.725482203 [Report]
STEVE!!!


u sure?
Anonymous No.725484256 [Report]
>>725480873
thats what they did with siege onward
Anonymous No.725485886 [Report] >>725486174 >>725486256 >>725489980
>>725459964 (OP)
Windows11bros, help me out here. I cannot get this game to work for the life of me. I want to revisit the multi.

I have deleted the licenses folder, tried all compatibility modes, used EA App in offline mode, verified integrity, tried alternate launchers, etc. but the game will open in a tiny window for a brief second, then crash and EA App will say "A problem at our end caused the game to fail to start", what the fuck do I do? I even did the refresh app option in EA App hoping it would refresh things to no avail.

I just want to be Krogan.
Anonymous No.725485989 [Report]
>>725463167
>Shepard. You're in my chair.
Anonymous No.725486174 [Report] >>725486256
>>725485886
Did you install whatever VCRedist ME3 requires? I'd bet a significant amount of money that EA doesn't include it anymore in order to get people to buy the remake.
Anonymous No.725486256 [Report] >>725486398 >>725486791
>>725485886
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3
>>725486174
>remake
Why can't you people learn what words mean?
Anonymous No.725486357 [Report]
>>725466959
making the reapers the overarching villains was a mistake.
Anonymous No.725486398 [Report] >>725486805 >>725487098
>>725486256
Sorry, you double nigger. I meant
>LeGeNdArY eDiTiOn
faggot
Anonymous No.725486791 [Report] >>725493010
>>725486256
I tried the MSVC fix on there and it just says this still (but this time in fullscreen)
Anonymous No.725486805 [Report] >>725486881
>>725486398
>legendary edition
faggot
Anonymous No.725486881 [Report]
>>725486805
>nou
Fellate a shotgun
Anonymous No.725487098 [Report] >>725487275
>>725486398
It's still not a remake. Remakes, remasters, and sequels seem to confuse mouth breathers.
Anonymous No.725487275 [Report] >>725487348
>>725487098
It does. If you don't refer to something by its super special secret definition they throw a tantrum. Everyone else that's above room temp IQ will know exactly what you mean.
Anonymous No.725487348 [Report] >>725487784
>>725487275
Why not just be correct?
>everyone knows when I say "should of" that I meant to say "should have," so it's okay to be retarded
Anonymous No.725487474 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
>Mass effect 3 was quite good except the last 35 hours or so
ftfy
Anonymous No.725487784 [Report] >>725487895
>>725487348
Why be a pedantic faggot?
>if you aren't extremely specific I don't understand, which means I'm retarded
Anonymous No.725487895 [Report] >>725488053
>>725487784
Just be correct. It's not difficult, even though you definitely seem to be struggling with the concept.
Say what you mean.
Anonymous No.725488053 [Report] >>725488223
>>725487895
>Say what you mean
I did.
>(You) take cocks in ass and have a brain as smooth as a bowling ball which causes a lack of contextual reasoning.
I said it again.
Anonymous No.725488223 [Report] >>725488383
>>725488053
Why are you defending being wrong? You can't be American.
Anonymous No.725488319 [Report] >>725488568 >>725490359
>>725459964 (OP)
bullshit, ME3's writing across the board is pretty shit. I noticed straight away how little agency you actually have as shep.
>in ME1 and 2, shep typically only speaks a sentence or two after a player input, and rarely speaks without any input at all
>in ME3, shep speaks huge amounts without player input, and conversation options going off and speaking for himself without allowing the player to intervene.
Anonymous No.725488383 [Report]
>>725488223
Why are you defending being anal?
Anonymous No.725488568 [Report] >>725493229
>>725488319
actually a lot of those "choices" in ME1 and 2 are the same. They presented the illusion of choice where two of the 3 options say the same thing.
ME3 actually does have different dialogue but its locked behind your choices and morality
Anonymous No.725488739 [Report] >>725489749
>>725464425
I kneel. (on your neck)
Anonymous No.725489749 [Report]
>>725488739
why!!!
Anonymous No.725489786 [Report] >>725490084 >>725490289
>>725459964 (OP)
kek I've replayed the trilogy not too long ago and I couldn't even get past the first few missions, the game plays like absolute ass. And I even remember defending it for the gameplay back when it released.
Anonymous No.725489968 [Report]
>>725467556
A perfect candidate to enter the tube
Anonymous No.725489980 [Report] >>725490042
>>725485886
tfw nothing on pcgamingwiki worked
Anonymous No.725490042 [Report] >>725490158
>>725489980
Better grab the LE from FatTranny.
Anonymous No.725490084 [Report]
>>725489786
you weren't even alive when the first game came out
Anonymous No.725490158 [Report] >>725490293 >>725491903
>>725490042
LE doesn't have the multi /v/ro.
Anonymous No.725490289 [Report] >>725490593
>>725489786
all 3 of the games have bad action.
Anonymous No.725490293 [Report]
>>725490158
Oh, I thought you were just running through the campaign.
Anonymous No.725490359 [Report]
>>725488319
Writing is bad except Tuchanka and Rannoch and they included too much auto-dialogue.
Anonymous No.725490593 [Report]
>>725490289
1 is OK after whatever the fuck they did to the LE version, it's definitely more fun than the original release.
2 is the one that I really didn't like back then since it removed most of the RPG stuff but at least shooting is fun and it works.
3 just felt much, much more janky to me than I remembered. But maybe it was just my class. I played my original run as a soldier. This time I was a vanguard and that shit was really boring even though it looks impressive. Somewhat.
Anonymous No.725491903 [Report]
>>725490158
oh I thought you were trying to install le
You probably need to delete ME3, delete the ea app, reinstall the ea app, reinstall me3, make sure you cross reference with steam in the EA app
Anonymous No.725492153 [Report]
>>725465136
>>Better encounter design
And level design, which enhances the gameplay above the combos of ME3, making it much more fun and interesting.
No Bioware game has achieved those levels of kino gameplay since. Everything has been worse, and getting progressively worse since. Meaning that the precious ME3 combos and wave mechanics don't mean shit in the overall gameplay design. Add to that the best characters and dialogues in the franchise, and it is a no brainer that ME2 is the best in the trilogy.
Anonymous No.725492326 [Report]
>>725465253
Rannoch was shit, some of the worse level and encounter design in the trilogy, obviously rushed, even worse than Tuchanka, and Tuchanka was not the gameplay highpoint of ME3. Compounded by the fact that you have only the second Reaper fight in the trilogy, which is also the worst fight in the entire trilogy.
Anonymous No.725492472 [Report] >>725493804
>>725465340
>ME3's core gameplay
Combos, awful level and encounter design? No. ME2's encounter and level design, yes, even the chest high walls, are far superior to ME3's awful everything. The only reason why you like ME3's core gameplay was the 4player ME co-op. The campaign isn't built for that, shouldn't be build for that, and building it for that ruins the fun gameplay, making the SP unplayable.
Anonymous No.725492557 [Report]
>>725477759
Came here to post this.
Although, Krogan>Blacks, but Blacks>Batarians.
Anonymous No.725492638 [Report]
>>725467750
A Nigerian?
Anonymous No.725492705 [Report] >>725492825
>>725472296
>sex with Tali
I thought you were listing the good stuff?
Anonymous No.725492824 [Report]
>>725475474
>How would you guys rewrite me 3?
It's been 13 years, bro. It's over. I'm over it. Just move on to something that fixes the shit, rather than find an excuse to go back, to redo the shit I didn't like. I'd rather we skipped ME3 altogether.
Anonymous No.725492825 [Report] >>725493345
>>725492705
That's the best stuff with best girl.
Anonymous No.725492940 [Report]
>>725475992
>fighting the cerberus troops is as good as the combat in these games ever got
We're at the point of biodrones praising fighting Cerberus. How mind broken did you mother fuckers get?
Anonymous No.725493010 [Report]
>>725486791
>QUALITY
>BIOWARE
>PRODUCT
Anonymous No.725493209 [Report] >>725505643
>>725466959
ME1 is the story. The other two games are transsexual niggermutt spinoffs
Anonymous No.725493229 [Report]
>>725488568
>>actually a lot of those "choices" in ME1 and 2 are the same
It doesn't matter, nigger. There are always small/subtle permutations to all of those choices, and all those get answered, while relatively procuring the same outcome, though not always, and not in the same way. ME3 is "lol fuck yur choices bitch" and goes on without even asking you. Go suck an Elcor's dick.
Anonymous No.725493345 [Report] >>725493713 >>725494532
>>725492825
Do like femshep and die
Anonymous No.725493537 [Report] >>725493686
>>725464425
Have you tried Anthem? It had a ton of issues but the gameplay was great and reminded me a lot of the fun I had with the ME3 multiplayer. It's getting permanently shut down in January and while I understand why it failed it was still kinda fun
Anonymous No.725493686 [Report]
>>725493537
>most intelligent ME3 fanboy
>an Anthem fan
It's like pottery
Anonymous No.725493713 [Report] >>725493797
>>725493345
I hate femshep and her shit VA.
Anonymous No.725493795 [Report] >>725494848 >>725503380
>>725464425
ME3 multiplayer was the most fun I've had in a videogame since Wolfenstein ET.
It was legitimately great, and Andromeda murdered it, I will never stop being mad.
Anonymous No.725493797 [Report] >>725493961
>>725493713
You should have no problem understanding why you should be put down, then.
Anonymous No.725493804 [Report] >>725493915
>>725492472
>core gameplay
>level and encounter design
my man I don't think you know what "core gameplay" means
Anonymous No.725493915 [Report]
>>725493804
>>my man I don't think you know what "core gameplay" means
I don't think you understand the difference between "gameplay" and "gunplay"
Anonymous No.725493961 [Report] >>725494225
>>725493797
>You should have no problem understanding why you should be put down, then.
Jack is waiting for me.
Anonymous No.725494225 [Report] >>725494275
>>725493961
That's not what you said.
Anonymous No.725494246 [Report]
>>725466221
Turian Havoc
accept no substitute
Anonymous No.725494275 [Report] >>725494353 >>725494657
>>725494225
You are conversing with two different anons.
Anonymous No.725494341 [Report]
>>725467939
>I can't breath...
>but da prize....
Anonymous No.725494353 [Report] >>725494418
>>725494275
Then why are you interjecting, you stupid sack of shit? Do you get off getting insulted, you piece of human waste?
Anonymous No.725494418 [Report] >>725494532
>>725494353
I didn't interject, I agreed with the anon that Femshep sucks. I never replied to (You)
Anonymous No.725494532 [Report] >>725494753
>>725494418
>I never replied to (You)
You did reply to me, you fucking retard!
I'm >>725493345
Anonymous No.725494657 [Report] >>725494753 >>725494970
>>725494275
Posting the ME3 version of Jack is a sign of homosexuality.
Anonymous No.725494753 [Report] >>725494927 >>725494940
>>725494532
Wait, then why are you angry at me when you're talking about beheading femshep? We both want that!
>>725494657
but that's where she's all soft and prone to cutesy outbursts with Shepard she then acts tsundere over when her proteges are around
Anonymous No.725494848 [Report]
>>725493795
>Wolfenstein ET.
Legendary call back there. v57
Anonymous No.725494927 [Report] >>725495025
>>725494753
I want bald Jack to stomp my balls if I don't perform well.
Anonymous No.725494930 [Report] >>725495043
>>725466221
>headbutt
>headbutt
>runs and nfl tackles some puny bastard
>smashes enemy with hammer
>headbutt
Anonymous No.725494940 [Report] >>725495025
>>725494753
>>Wait, then why are you angry at me when you're talking about beheading femshep? We both want that!
Because why would you fucking reply to me, if you weren't the Quarian lover? Start your own fucking rant, mother fucker. Don't hijack mine.
Anonymous No.725494970 [Report] >>725495297 >>725495506
>>725494657
Don't even try to cope, ME3's version of Jack is just a straight up improvement over ME2's.
Anonymous No.725495025 [Report]
>>725494927
Understandable.
>>725494940
Woah, Quarian-lover? I would rather you call me Indian than that.
Anonymous No.725495043 [Report]
>>725494930
I'm still mad that he's not immune to sync kills like the juggernaut is.
Anonymous No.725495183 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
I always felt like it had good bits peppered in with shit and mediocre elements dominating it.
Anonymous No.725495297 [Report] >>725495454
>>725494970
So you're gay. Check.
Anonymous No.725495453 [Report]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peOOTd22mi0
Anonymous No.725495454 [Report]
>>725495297
you're gay
Anonymous No.725495476 [Report]
>>725466221
The Awakened Collector is the best class in any multiplayer game ever.
Anonymous No.725495506 [Report]
>>725494970
Anonymous No.725495797 [Report] >>725495924 >>725496174
is it time to let go of mass effect? nobody even talks about kcd 2 anymore like this even though it was released this year. bioware literally has less than a 100 employees working for them now, veilguard was astonishingly shit: it has never been more over
Anonymous No.725495924 [Report] >>725502169
>>725495797
so long as IP laws exist we will never get a good Mass Effect game
Anonymous No.725495964 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)

It's just that everything has gone to shit so much, it retroactively became good. Don't argue it, you know it's true.
Anonymous No.725496174 [Report] >>725496356 >>725496481
>>725495797
>is it time to let go of mass effect?
None of the people here are waiting out for the next ME, anon. It will be whatever Mike Gamble thinks it should be and it's going to be radically short of what the fanbase needs it to be, to recover. We were just profoundly moved by the games, the circumstances of our lives at the time, and the unprecedented botching of ME3, so that something inside us collectively broke, to a degree that we will never recover. We are stuck here forever. It is a first world problem kind of hell, that nobody expected. A level of trust, belief and optimism that was shot dead right before our eyes. And yes, a video game did that.
Anonymous No.725496356 [Report] >>725496596
>>725496174
>franchise has been dead since 2017
>Mike Gamble acts shocked on twitter on n7 day 2025 that we want to know more about ME5
theyre so fucking stupid
Anonymous No.725496481 [Report]
>>725496174
kek might be true. I suspect a lot of people here are millennials here who played it during their formative years like me. I still remember younger me being awe of the illusive man and how cool he was at the time. What a complete letdown
Anonymous No.725496596 [Report]
>>725496356
Dorito Pope retweeted the "Civil War" wallpaper on his game awards account, so they may be telling us to keep our eyes open for a ME appearance at the game awards. But still, what Bioware has decided to go with for the next ME, is more important than them actually showing anything.
Anonymous No.725496724 [Report] >>725496852
Are you guys ready? Superman is going to save Mass Effect.
Or even better, Shepard IS Superman.
Anonymous No.725496831 [Report] >>725497208 >>725497786
>>725459964 (OP)
The only real criticism about Mass Effect are 1) Tali's photo 2) stupid endings 3) change in tone from 1 to 2. 2 and 3 feel like the same tone, 1 is a completely different game.
Anonymous No.725496852 [Report] >>725497219 >>725497481
>>725496724
>DC
>Not Looney Tunes
>Shepard Bugs
>Duffy Garrus
Anonymous No.725497208 [Report]
>>725496831
>2 and 3 feel like the same tone
lol
lmao even
Anonymous No.725497219 [Report] >>725497384
>>725496852
>Duffy
Anonymous No.725497384 [Report] >>725497529 >>725498951
>>725497219
Is it Daffy?
Sorry, it's Daffy.
I keep spelling it Duffy, like it's Duff McKagan from Guns'n'Roses.
Anonymous No.725497481 [Report] >>725498951 >>725501286
>>725496852
How about MKxME?
Holy shit, all three of my waifus are in there.
Anonymous No.725497529 [Report] >>725497718
>>725497384
Wrong again, he is the space ranger Duck Dodgers.
Anonymous No.725497718 [Report] >>725498042
>>725497529
Duck Dodgers of the 23rd and a half century?
Anonymous No.725497786 [Report] >>725498268
>>725496831
> 2 and 3 feel like the same tone
Nah,

ME1 conveyed that sense of space task force going on a big mission.

ME2 conveyed the feels of a space officer investigating seedy parts of the galaxy and taking the time to know their new shady alliances.

ME3 felt like rushing in an apocalypse. Just couldn't shake off that sense of urgency.

I liked ME2 the most - being in terminus space, working with shady characters, without any official support from the alliance. You were on a mission but it wasn't a race against the clock, so the side missions did not feel like breaking the sequence.
Anonymous No.725498042 [Report]
>>725497718
The very same!
Anonymous No.725498268 [Report] >>725498662 >>725500009
>>725497786
>Just couldn't shake off that sense of urgency.
You know what's the stupid thing about it? You could fuck around however much you wanted. Go hub to hub, scan planets, evade Reapers on the Galaxy Map (so fucking retarded) and it didn't matter. You could waste hours doing this shit, just because you didn't feel engaging with the awful gameplay, and none of those days/weeks/months of in-game time meant anything. It's such a bad way of designing the game. Bioware were unable to keep even the illusion up for more than 4 minutes.
Anonymous No.725498497 [Report]
Anonymous No.725498662 [Report] >>725498829
>>725498268
You could, but I feel like overall tone of urgency took away from the enjoyment of those side missions.

Idk, maybe i wouldn't feel like that if I replay it now, it's been 13 years.

In any case, I fully agree with you, the overall tone of the story and the way the game worked were at odds with one another. If the theme of urgency is going to ruin my enjoyment of side missions anyway, I'd rather have it be integrated with the mechanics. They should've allowed you to do a fixed number of side missions before you are forced to do a priority mission. I'd really drive home the point about having to make sacrifices to save the galaxy.
Anonymous No.725498829 [Report] >>725499169
>>725498662
But anon, that would lead to you not engaging with all the content in one playthrough? What do you want? Ah yes, "replayability". We've dismissed those claims.
Anonymous No.725498951 [Report]
>>725497481
Fuck that, man, Reapers X Skynet, ultimate synth battle.

>>725497384
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXx9S2nDouY
Guns and Roses are now relevant in a ME thread. Colonel, what's going on?
Anonymous No.725499169 [Report] >>725499447
>>725498829
Well, data analysis performed by various studios over time has shown that the replayability aspect isn't much of a selling point. Most people aren't going to play a 50 hour game multiple times just to see the little differences.

And that's fair - to the dev teams, it might just feel like wasted effort, even if it allows different players to have different experiences.

I suppose another thing they could've done, if they didn't want to force players to skip side missions, was to design all of them very closely around the main mission so that it doesn't feel like you are fucking around while all sentient life is fighting for survival.
Anonymous No.725499447 [Report] >>725499912
>>725499169
>Most people aren't going to play a 50 hour game multiple times
Do you know how many people are playing Baldur's Gate 3 right now, on Steam alone?
https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/charts/
60k people right now. The game was released 2 years ago. Do you know what game doesn't have 60k players on steam right now? Veilguard. How do you think games like these survive, with active playerbases that talk and promote these games, long after they release? Replayability. Whoever told you otherwise doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.
Anonymous No.725499748 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
It's really a shame because I remember how cool the continued trilogy mechanics were. Literally everyone was excited for the next game and everyone was talking about it. We will never get anything like that again.
Anonymous No.725499912 [Report]
>>725499447
Well good for them, I haven't had a chance to play BG3 yet so I can't/won't comment on what it does right and different - but again, it doesn't work out for most games and the numbers don't lie.

The Witcher 2 is like a medieval Mass Effect game. A large chunk of the playerbase never did both paths of act 2.
Anonymous No.725500009 [Report] >>725500213 >>725501743 >>725503381
>>725498268
Kingmaker enjoyer here. You ever play a rpg where you actually have to manage your time and hurry up before everything goes to shit? 90% of people go on a pissing and screeching spree the likes that you have never seen because they actually have to manager their time properly.
Anonymous No.725500117 [Report]
>>725472109
>I thought /v/ was better
You been on here recently? This is a different /v/ now than it was when ME3 released. Also, the endings at least got universal hate. They had to release an update for them, nigga. People were going full schizo with conspiracy theories like MGSV and shitposting about how the final enemy was a hero trying to protect you from the ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo
Never forget.
Anonymous No.725500213 [Report] >>725500426
>>725500009
You don't say? So you're telling me that having time management is something that nobody likes, yet Bioware wanted to make a game about time management, without the time mechanic, therefor failing at everything? Wow. I never knew that.
Anonymous No.725500426 [Report] >>725500581
>>725500213
So then what the fuck are you whining about. You got your mediocre rpg without any kind of actual important time management and choices. Go play it again piggy.
Anonymous No.725500581 [Report]
>>725500426
>>So then what the fuck are you whining about
>take game mechanic nobody wants
>implement it in an even worse way
>nobody likes your game
I wonder why would anyone complain about ME3. I can't see the issue.
Anonymous No.725501253 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
For me, it's vanguard.
>teleport tackle enemy
>blast them in the face with shotgun
>ground slam for massive damage in exchange for (by now) rest of shield
>teleport tackle next enemy to restore 100% shield
Fuck your cover shooter rules
Anonymous No.725501286 [Report]
>>725497481
I am going to Fatality so many Quarians ... it'll make the Morning War look like a slow Tuesday.
Anonymous No.725501457 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
>In hindsight Mass effect 3 was quite good except the last 2 hours or so
Completely wrong.
Anonymous No.725501691 [Report]
>>725475474
cerberus and the alliance work together for atleast half the game then spring the whole cerb's experimenting with reaper tech and have shep either fully join cerb or fully reject cerb leading to conflict and splitting of the factions
mordin remembers how shep acted towards genophage in his loyalty mission, telling him it was wrong leads to him regretting it and feeding info to wrex/wreav, agreeing that it was necessary has someone else, maelon if he's still alive, leaking the info instead, if mordin doesn't leak info he doesn't sacrifice himself, otherwise he does, need to convince reapers bigger threat than krogan to prevent mordin from sabotaging cure, wrex still finds out that genophage cure was sabotaged, wreav doesnt
remove faggot ninja
best boy legion joins the crew
peace between geth and suit rats is much harder
double, triple and quadruple down on batarian genocide, hell have them side with the reapers in a final gambit to make sure humanity doesnt ever win
crucible doesnt exist or is only found in the last quarter of the game
indoctrination is explored way more, have to be careful about who shep talks to and about what, as anyone npc including squadmates can be indoctrinated
leviathan dlc doesnt exist, power still does but get it from the torfan instead
star child doesnt exist
player controlled strategy with fighting the reapers
universally useful upgrades for engaging with crew members
do not ever explain the reapers
killing the rachni queen prevents any rachni from being husked
punch/headbutt more journalists
more and obviously time sensitive missions, you cant save everyone
reapers are inevitable and no matter what you do they always win
Anonymous No.725501743 [Report]
>>725500009
>All the bitching I read
>mfw I finish act 1 with a month to spare and only progressed the main story because I literally couldn't find anything else to do
To be fair, I do get it if you go in completely blind. It's hard to trust an RPG dev to not send you past the point of no return with no warning and people have been trained to do all the side stuff first. A little bit of handholding telling you that shit will still be there and you'll have free time after you do an urgent main quest or like your companions remarking how long it'll take to reach the Stag King's fortress in the worst case scenario so you know what your buffer is would probably do a lot to assuage people. Maybe they do that though and I don't remember.
Anonymous No.725501772 [Report] >>725504467
>>725466959
I noticed in ME1 a lot of plot threads around eezo and its effects on stellar evolution. Which then were just... dropped.
I get the impression Karpyshyn had played Starflight 1-2 a lot. These were GenXers who grew up with those two games or at least played Star Control 2 so came back to those two games on early-2000s DOSBOX.
Because I think other GenXers were starting to notice the comparison of eezo and endurium, and were posting about it.
Anonymous No.725502108 [Report] >>725503628
>>725475474
You'd have to start with ME2.
Anonymous No.725502169 [Report] >>725503106 >>725506090
>>725495924
maybe we just need to stick with Ao3 fanfics, anon
Anonymous No.725502324 [Report]
>>725466162
way to out yourself as a newfag
Anonymous No.725503106 [Report]
>>725502169
>99% of them are either femshep/Garrus or femshep/Liara
Anonymous No.725503380 [Report] >>725503470 >>725503545
>>725464425
>>725493795
BASED taste anons
The ME3 multiplayer was so fucking good, it's the best wave coop game I've played and I hate that it never got the attention it deserved and EA making it hard to get into with how unlocks work even though sidestepping that was effortless
I still think about all the time I spent playing that, it's easily better than the majority of coop wave games, especially the ones around that time period
It's a shame nobody has tried to make another coop game designed like that but just evolve it, it did so much right in the core gameplay design
>Multiple factions that have their units actually play differently from each other
>Lots of playable characters, all with their own different kinds of builds. Classes and race also play a large factor in build design
>Great weapon variety
>Difficulties are well designed and there's good player expression with being able to get out of bad situations if you're good enough (depending on class ofc) so you can have clutch moments
>Powers are useful on their own but players are encouraged to naturally use them together with the combo effects
>Objectives that encourage moving around the map but handled much better than other coop games e.g. KF2
People actually started playing this again during the covid season and it was really fun but it was a bummer that things slowed down again.
I can only hope another dev does make some kind of spiritual successor game to it, I'd play it in a heartbeat and I'm honestly starved for some good coop.
Anonymous No.725503381 [Report]
>>725500009
Kingmaker's time management is mostly an illusion. You get tricked into worrying about it for a bit at the start before you realize that all the time limits are wildly generous and you'll run out of things to do before you get anywhere near actually running out of time. The worst part of the game is the huge stretches where you're just doing the dull kingdom management shit to piss away the time between chapters.
Anonymous No.725503470 [Report]
>>725503380
AI post
Anonymous No.725503545 [Report] >>725504179
>>725503380
do people still play me3 multi-player? how many online on average
Anonymous No.725503628 [Report] >>725504716
>>725502108
me2 was perfect. Collectors being the overall side villians was kino, illusive man and the party was setup very well
Anonymous No.725503841 [Report]
>>725463167
Based Baggeposter
Anonymous No.725504179 [Report]
>>725503545
People do still play it, but only on weekends will you get people
For the times I play, I can't really get plat games anymore, but I have been able to play gold very reliably, though that could just be the times I check.
Anonymous No.725504216 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
I thought it was incredible. I was teary-eyed throughout the game, HATING the Reapers more and more.
Anonymous No.725504467 [Report] >>725504550
>>725501772
The original ending was a straight up TTGL ripoff, something about letting the reapers kill everyone to stop the growth of element zero, or killing the reapers and dealing with element zero yourself in the future.

Then it got leaked and they changed it to space magic.
Anonymous No.725504550 [Report] >>725504690
>>725504467
*dark matter, not element zero
Anonymous No.725504690 [Report]
>>725504550
You're both right actually. Biotic use of Eezo kept producing more and more dark matter which would eventually have caused a Big Crunch.
Anonymous No.725504716 [Report] >>725504880 >>725505034
>>725503628
>me2 was perfect.
lol
lmao even
Where do you retards even come from?
Anonymous No.725504870 [Report]
>>725459964 (OP)
>neuroplasticity
pseudoscience buzzword
Anonymous No.725504880 [Report]
>>725504716
Reality. Where do you come from?
Anonymous No.725505034 [Report]
>>725504716
Obviously not from the Biodrone forums like you.
Anonymous No.725505053 [Report] >>725505820
ME2 is tranny coded lmao
Anonymous No.725505375 [Report] >>725506172
>>725464664
Is that you Jon
Anonymous No.725505643 [Report] >>725505884
>>725493209
Bizarre take.
>me1 - the conflict
>me2 - the buildup
>me3 - the resolution
Anonymous No.725505820 [Report]
>>725505053
>game with the best squad roster + climax is trannycoded
wtf i love xer now
Anonymous No.725505884 [Report]
>>725505643
yeah, that. problem was that me3's resolution was like the jacksonville jaguars' last quarter against houston last night
Anonymous No.725506090 [Report]
>>725502169
I have read literally millions of words worth of Mass Effect fanfics (not on Ao3) and I still follow one Mass Effect fanfic author and anticipate every new chapter they release.
Anonymous No.725506172 [Report]
>>725505375
Jon who
Anonymous No.725506608 [Report] >>725506945 >>725507253
>>725466162
Kai Leng sucks in a funny memeable way.

The ending, especially pre-Extended Cut sucks in a way that makes you wanna eat a bullet.
Anonymous No.725506945 [Report] >>725507253
>>725506608
>pre-extended cut
honestly the EC didnt make it much better, i feel like people gaslight themselves over how impactful the EC update was. They added more exposition from Star Child but that's missing the point that the only reason we're seeing the Catalyst in the form of the kid that was haunting Shep's nightmares (with trees shaped like the indoctrination tendrils we see throughout the Trilogy) is if they're being deceptive, which is then confirmed by high EMS destroy where he lives despite Catalyst saying you'll die because you're part synthetic.
Anonymous No.725507253 [Report] >>725507441
>>725506945
>>725506608
>extended cut
>still decide to leave the bullshit DLC message as the last bit of text
Yeah, it really solved everything.
Anonymous No.725507441 [Report]
>>725507253
It's so funny how apparent it is they sowed the seeds for Indoctrination theory in the original releae, then they backpedalled thinking that was why the ending pissed people off, and then denied it completely with the EC hoping it would placate the mob.

They should have doubled down and said yes, IT is canon. It clearly is.