I actually haven't played the series, though I will be soon :P

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Fantastic series! Absolutely without a doubt one of the best game series ever created. Would recommend it to anyone.

What makes the games for me is the soundtrack. Love it :)

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It's not ego, It's fact

"Alpha, you ginger Adonis" - TheBlade

Love to have Aloha backing me up. I've barely touched the game since I finished it.

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"Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at. But... at least I always fought for what I believed in."- Grey Fox

*Spoilers*


Ok played the extended cut. Noticed they rewrote some ending set pieces. Most noticeably the evac scene, the normandy and fleet leaving and of course the relays not blowing up annihilating everything.
If this doesn't show how much Bioware got the ending wrong to begin with, I don't know what will.

Cudoes for trying to explain the Catalyst and its fucked up logic, but for me it just made it feel even more out of place. It screamed, 'heres a plot device, this is why Im here, Please believe me! I promise i was meant to be here from the start '
Riddle me this catalyst, why in the name of Fuck did you not just open the citadel in Mass Effect 1 and usher in the next cycle if you were already there?

Good effort Bioware. But you should have stopped believing your own infallibility and just retconned the Catalyst completely.

Final opinion. Worth a play as it explains how badly Bioware messed up quite well. Play it for a giggle, but if you are like me and abhorred the original endings, it won't change how you feel.

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It's not ego, It's fact

"Alpha, you ginger Adonis" - TheBlade

I dont think Bioware is to blame though. Pushy punk EA is probably pulling the strings here. Look at deadspace 3...WTF is happening there??? They made a totally original "scary as hell" franchise into a generic shooter! There is even talk of going FPS with DS3!

EA is an abomination, the bane and ultimately the downfall of the game industry. They will not get a penny more from me.

"I don't care what they say, I love their games"

Think about it though...You actively supporting the destruction of dedicated server support, SDK editors for modding etc etc. If you give them your money, you support their system...their way of hosting...their way of releasing unfinished/unpolished crap into the world etc. We will loose all freedom we had before and this generation will be the beginning of the end.

Unless we stick to our guns...and I hate to say it, but platforms like Steam are our only salvation. Supporting indiegames, cloud computing etc etc. Crossplatform play with the PS3. Actual REAL innovation, and not just releasing the same game every year with minimal changes.

Just something to think about..

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I partially blame EA as well. Forcing Bioware to a schedule clearly didn't help ME3 and neither did the leaked ending. However the only ones we can blame are the lead producer, Casey Hudson and the lead writer of the Mass Effect team. They said this is what they always intended and if they admit that then they can be the only ones to blame :)

The extended cut is free. And Bioware will be getting no further money from me. I did cancel my swtor subscription based on this. I still play it though only because i have spent the money on it.

EA are ruining the best gaming has had to offer in the past decade. That alone is an abomination

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It's not ego, It's fact

"Alpha, you ginger Adonis" - TheBlade

You should try this DayZ mod alpha. You might find it refreshing I know I did.

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I may have to mate. Though my gaming calendar is quite full for the next month. Raids in swtor and Dawnguard to play when Bethesda get the finger out for ps3 ^^

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It's not ego, It's fact

"Alpha, you ginger Adonis" - TheBlade

Haha! How funny Alpha! Dawnguard for ps3!?

and to answer your earlier question mate no I won't be buying leviathan as I made the decision to trade both ME2 and ME3 in for the shit that was served even in the extended cut.

At the minute Bioware can go fuck themselves :)

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"Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at. But... at least I always fought for what I believed in."- Grey Fox

I actually got leviathan. Its basically the extended cut before you meet the star kid. And surprise surprise it makes way for more conflicting dialogue and lore.

And they just did a massive server merge on swtor and we lost our guild name apparently. Thank fuck i stopped playing. Biowares customer support is top notch in my eyes. But their developers are just so full of themselves.

I don't know who is pulling the strings but EA and Bioware are sinking fast in the AAA gaming department. But as long as they have the sheep paying for every sporting game each year, EA are staying.

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It's not ego, It's fact

"Alpha, you ginger Adonis" - TheBlade