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I'm another saying that the vast majority of the game was fantastic. Despite its weaknesses (smaller roster, poor side-quests etc) it wasn't just set to be the best in the trilogy it was eyeing a spot in my personal top 10. Then I got "green" and sat through the credits thinking... huh? I'll talk about some moments that I feel have been overlooked amongst all the excellence. *Spoilers include the fate of Tali, Kai Leng, the Illusive Man, and Miranda.* I'd been romancing Tali since ME2, but when Legion's mission was nearlycomplete after I defeated the Reaper, I lacked the paragon points to talk to the Migrant Fleet directly and consequently the Quarians refused to back down from their assault on the Geth. By my own morale reasoning I favoured the Geth. They'd been betrayed and unfairly hunted by their creators and I had to make the right choice despite the consequences. Tali's suicide as the Quarians reaped what they had sown will go down as a powerful moment in my decades of gaming. But it was marred somewhat by Shepard not really showing that he cared too much. All I really needed was a moment in his room and him looking sad before he reluctantly moved on. I really loved the final fight versus Kai Leng. Originally pegged for a slot as one of the most frustrating moments in gaming, the bugginess of the AI actually compensated for the insta-kill cheapness and created a bizarre contradiction and a fight that was genuinely very intense. Taking place in a very special, almost unreal place, we fought a dragon archetype who's more interesting than he's given credit for. Outside his orders to kill the commander he has his own reasons. Besides failing twice, he's subtly jealous of Shepard for being the former favourite pet of the illusive man and wants his rival destroyed. I'm sure I've seen the space-age samurai before but it's still a beautiful aesthetic as well as threatening: the ancient brutality of an infamous and elite discipline combined with futuristic tech is formidable. Also, the music during this fight was fantastic. That bit just before the elevator of rubbish beams you up was great. You're dazed and exhausted and the Illusive Man seems totally unfazed despite his mutation. You finally meet him face-to-face in a slow and grinding cut-scene. It was ugly and uncomfortable; a great, almost surreal, moment. And then before the elevator of rubbish; "You did good son. I'm proud of you." Magnificent! Miranda was my favourite reprisal. The others, although good, felt like cameos but Miranda had this secret mission and kept checking in from time to time. Her payoff was the best and I'm glad I saw her through. | |
I can't decide if the scene if you DON'T tell Mordin about the sabotage is just manipulative, or the most heartbreaking thing ever. A couple of the overheard conversations on the Citadel (PTSD Asari, sold my car) were really great. The fake-out with Grunt. Jack doing something positive. | |
I loved so many things about the game SO many moments I could not recount them. Every single one of my team members past and present - even the meat-headed new guy, sure. Every goodbye - so moving, so appropriate. Thane saying a prayer for me before he died. Kaiden kissing my wrist at dinner. Tali panic about the fleet and Shep stepping up to support a ceasefire with Keelah se'lai. A thousand more moments. I'd be playing it RIGHT NOW - it's my Spring Break, this is what I wanted to devote it to - but... I'm still getting over that last 10 minutes and that's going to take me awhile before I can go back and live through all that emotional rollercoaster again knowing now that it comes to a grinding halt at a drop off in the finale. | |
I loved that the squad members were much more alive this game, they moved about the ship and interacted with people instead of the prison ship i was apparently running in ME2. Other than it was a little light on combat, it really was one of the best games I've played in a long time. The moment bioware pulls out the trollface.jpg and says they are already working on ME4 and Shepard's story continues and the ending from ME3 has a major role (aside from making your Shepard super awesome looking if you picked green) and each of the endings from 3 splits 4 into a completely different game, each with 50 hours of unique story or something, not only will people swarm ME3, but people should beg bioware's forgiveness. I loved ME3, even if I didn't like how it ended. | |
Whoa, whoa, whoa. When the hell did that happen? ... Also, did it turn out to be Matriarch Aitheta? (Or however you spell it.) | |
Conversations were better, more lively. Same goes for the people-like automatons that one has conversations with. They were even more like people than earlier. There were singular conversational tidbits which would have driven me off my chair hysterical fits, had it not been a such a deep chair. Gameplay was better in every conceivable way. I liked the probing minigame significantly more this time around, but I may have an undue fascination with lore-tidbits. The camerawork, for lack of a better word, for Shepard's speech near the end was fantastic, and made the multiple-choice speech flow very well. I even liked that the ending shook up the universe(exploding relays). | |
Matriarch Aethyta did turn out to be Liara's father. She was working as a bartender on the Citadel in 3. I just went up to talk to her, had a conversation, she admitted it, and then I went to talk to Liara about it who apparently already knew. I think you had to see the video of her looking at a picture of Liara in ME2. Just a guess. Edit: Found a video for you if you want to see it. | |
My favourite things would have to be: Drunk Tali, shooting bottles with Garrus and missing on purpose, Legion's final question, Thane's prayer, Wrex, Grunt, Mordin.....just Mordin. Really all my favourite things about ME3 revolve around the dialogue. It seems so much more natural this time around and it really made the squad feel like your friends. I had a big grin on my face that whole time with Garrus in the Citadel. One thing that pissed me off? Kaiden. Seriously, if I'd known he was gonna be such a depressing whiny bitch I would've left him on Virmire all those years ago. You heard me folks, Kaiden is such a downer that I would've let the space racist live. CAPTCHA: "first world" | |
EVERYTHING was great except the ending. | |
The part of the game from Palaven to Tuchanka was brilliant. Story, action and characters were all perfect. | |
Honestly, the whole game was good, up until "That" point. I mean, using good is an understatement. The game was near perfect. I honestly had no complaints, until the end. And I think that's what made it all that much worse. But yeah, as for my statement of a favorite "good" part, I can't choose one. | |
Miranda is hot and I'd love to hit that.. does that count as a compliment? Cause that's all I've got. | |
the vast majority. especially the combat and class systems. engineers get actual F-ing turrets now? yes please! | |
Same here. My favorite part though? Ahh... that was nice. :] | |
Excellent characters, the Citadel felt genuinely alive, combat was fun, brilliant set-pieces (Kalros), and the writing was generally superb until you go through the Conduit. | |
Honestly, the whole game was good, up until "That" point. I mean, using good is an understatement. The game was near perfect. I honestly had no complaints, until the end. And I think that's what made it all that much worse. But yeah, as for my statement of a favorite "good" part, I can't choose one, because there are too many to choose from. I mean, losing Mordin, literally brought me to tears. Edit: Sorry, about the double post. when I last went to post, the site didn't come up, so I didn't think it had posted. | |
I'm with the 99%-ers on this one. Great until the light show. | |
Basically this. I loved everything about the game (with the exception of Udina being the councilor even though Anderson was in ME2, that just confused the hell out of me). Then the elevator and the space magic happened and I hated it forever. | |
Garrus. (Need I say more?) | |
Aright. I don't really see the point, but... Oooh, you meant...Well the only thing more fun than the game is the shitstorm that followed after it. | |
The bad part of Mass Effect 3: The ending The good part of Mass Effect 3: Literally everything else! | |
To be at Wrex's side in helping him and his people. That and every moment with Mordin. That Salarian Bastard... he will always be in my heart!! Also Garrus, one of my favourite characters. Can't get enough of that calibration (lol no-homo). Besides that i loved helping Tali, and watching Legion sacrifice for his people. Legion is another favourite character, so i was bound to love every moment with him. That bastard died in hopes of evolving his own people and suceeded. Looking up on you Legion and Mordin. Not you Ashley i frikking hated you from the start. I loved the game. And even if i look at the ending from another angle (indocrinated Sheperd version), and i kinda liked the synthetisis ending (even tough it left way too many plot holes) i loved to have every single moment, re-catching old friends and enemies, and doing the last stretch to save humanity. | |
Yup, the time capsule scene is incredibly touching and sad at the same time. It's a sudden reminder that the probability of success is infinitesimally small, which is something that I had forgotten. I think many people fall into the "I'm the hero, of course we're going to win" idea in video games, and at first my time in ME3 was just like that. But once I actually got out of that mindset and started listening to the conversations people have, I realized how incredibly bleak the whole game is. Liara's time capsule captures that feeling perfectly and has a great moment of camaraderie between her and Shepard. It's definitely one of my favorite moments in gaming so far. | |
I have nothing but nice things to say about the game as a whole. It is an amazing piece of work. The final 10 minutes are just so mind-numbingly bad that the fact that the rest of the game is incredibly good actually makes it worst. It builds up our love and hopes so high that the plummet is beyond painful... | |
For fear of incurring moderator wrath for writing a short answer, I shall write it anyway. The reason being that little more needs to be said than: NOVA Vanguard was fun in ME1. Vanguard was great fun in ME2. Vanguard was bloody brilliant in ME3. Constantly moving, constantly zipping around the battlefield. Nova is a great additiion to the vanguard arsenal. In combination with all the evolutionary upgrades to increase radius/aoe, the Vanguard becomes a very capable at taking out groups as well as lone, tough targets. The combo thing is exciting but a little too powerful. Vanguard + Liara can wipe out swathes of foes. Except for the let down at the end, it was a good action game. | |
For me, the entire was probably may favorite in the series up to when the showed what happened to the normandy. That was really my only problem with the end, I really wasn't at all upset about only being able to choose three endings, probably because I didn't read any of the bioware hype saying that wasn't going to be the case. I really did love the music that played and the flashbacks in ending on the citadel, It was just learning that your entire crew was screwed was kind of... a downer. But then agains I do pretty much believe in the indoc. theory, so the entire Normandy seen might have been in shepard's head. | |
This x1000. Killing Kai Leng with a charge-nova-supermeleestrike combo was probably the most satisfying feeling ever. And now that they let me use an assault rifle on my favorite class from the start, I didn't have to go into the game's file and move things around to use one on the vanguard class in ME2. | |
Up until the Cerberus base, it was the best Mass Effect game, it just fell flat on it's face after that, so ME2 and 1 sadly trump it. The characters were very well written. Battlefields were more open than in ME2, oppurtunies for flanking. Rolling between cover was great. The different weapons and weapon modding system was great. Had some genuinely tear inducing moments. | |
Everything, bar that I'm missing quite a bit of conclusion after I escape indoctrination at the ending. The highlights The shooting match with Garrus. | |
It has one of the best story in a video I ever play best one is Geth in my opinion | |
I loved every single thing about the game except for what happens after Harbinger's death ray, but the only thing that literarily made me cry was the end of Thane's storyline:
Had to stop playing because I was crying so hard. | |
Well, apart from the last few minutes, the game was my universe I've spent 5 years to shape with my choices, populated by people I knew and forged relationships with. It is the best gaming experience I ever had. I'm glad they took a few notes from the Dragon Age team and made our crew live their own lives; their interactions on the Normandy and R&R on the Citadel was the best part for me. There are better games than the Mass Effect ones if compared individually, but nothing beats the Mass Effect franchise as a whole. Except Godchild. | |
this was funny as hell, was just going to say hi to Garrus and then i see it: "uh ohh... we were just..." | |
Fricken everything except the ending, which i won't go into. | |
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All this and more of the small little details. (Getting Liara to talk to her "father," delivering the message of the dead Krogan, Charr, to the asari on the Citadel, etc.) You managed to get all my favorite parts though :)
Legion's line has been the most haunting out of all of them. Especially hearing it in Shepard's nightmare (which were also well done. I get chills thinking of them). I'll miss you Legion, you died to give the geth sentience. I'll miss you Mordin, you sacrificed yourself to cure the genophage and went out singing. I'll miss you Thane, you helped saved the council and you went out praying to Kalahira to forgive me...
When [Fem]Shep shot Kai Leng and said "This is for Thane, you son of a bitch!" I was clapping. One of my favorite moments as well.