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theonewhoknows I really enjoy this so far it tingles my nerd genes

I've played wow for god knows how many years gw/aion/rift and swtor(which is complete shit) I plan on hitting up gw2

Marauder Shields the one true hero

ntr dont know when I started liking it but it has been added to my list of fetishes

at one point my shop was full of the mess

the following argument was laid out by a user known as Unigolyn while responding to Ben Kuchera's article rebuffing the fan base on penny arcade Unigolyn sums it up almost perfectly. DEUS EX MACHINA: You're getting your literary devices mixed up. The Crucible is not deus ex machina, it is a MacGuffin. It's largely irrelevant except as a plot device. It is the exhaust port on the Death Star. The narrative of ME3 is not about finding the Crucible, it is about building the greatest alliance ever seen in the galaxy (which the Crucible, as a plot device, allows to happen). Why the Catalyst AI and his Monty Hall spiel of the Adjust Hue/Saturation is a deus ex machina is that it is the resolution to the narrative. The fact that he is also literally a "god from the machine" is irrelevant, albeit ironic. He is a deus ex machina in the literary sense, i.e. a handwaved contrivance that shows up out of the blue to quickly whisk away all the dangling story threads, and to abruptly end the story. This is abysmal writing. This is abysmal game design; a Pick Your Own Adventure book where all choices take you to the same final chapter. It is counter to everything this game is. And what is this game? In a recent Extra Credits, Portnow discussed core elements of a game. The Mass Effect series is really not a third person shooter. It is also really not a roll-the-dice-and-level-up CRPG. Mass Effect is, at its core, interactive fiction. All the memorable moments in these games take place in cutscenes that play out in myriad ways based on prior choices. You are role-playing in the most literal sense of crafting a character's personality based on your choices. The climax of Mass Effect 2 was not shooting the Human Reaper in the eye, the climax of Mass Effect 2 were the cutscenes that played and showed the results of your actions. Did you defy TIM? Did your crewmates survive? If your choices were poor enough, you could defeat the final boss, only to make a desperate leap towards the Normandy with no one to catch you. The desperate leap in Mass Effect 3 is your dash towards the Beam. The only input that matters at all past this point is the encounter with TIM. That encounter is true to Mass Effect, and honors your previous choices, and provides closure for the secondary antagonist. But for the main antagonist (Reapers), nothing you did matters. You are given three arbitrary choices to solve a problem that, depending on your actions, may be proven to be a false dilemma in the first place. If you saved both the Quarians and the Geth, witnessed Legion's messianic sacrifice, and humanized EDI - the Catalyst's claim of organic/synthetic conflict being unavoidable is patently false. The Catalyst AI is completely incongruous with the narrative and the themes of the game. It shows up, provides a complete strawman of a conflict, and then offers three vapid, plot-hole ridden resolutions to this conflict, which abruptly end the narrative in a blinding flash of Space Magic (pick your color!). CHOICES DON'T MATTER Again, you're missing the point. No one is complaining about the preceding 30 hours of gameplay. Choices did seem to matter. Your treatment of the Rachni queen from two games ago ended up gaining you a seemingly valuable ally. Saving Wrex can gain a hopeful future for the Krogan. Your choices regarding Legion and the Migrant Fleet in ME2 have incredibly strong consequences in the seeming conclusion of the Geth/Quarian storyline. This is why we loved the game up to the ending. And the ending completely demolished all of it, and made it completely illusory. Who gives a **** if you saved the Rachni? They just end up giving you Space Points and don't affect your ending at all. Who gives a **** if the Quarians or Geth or both survived? They're all dead anyway. Who cares if you cured the genophage and saved the one leader who could lead the Krogan into a less brutish, more hopeful future? He's either trapped on earth or dead, and the radioactive husk that is Tuchanka cannot sustain their race without supplies anyway. And even more egregiously, the choices you made in the development of YOUR Shepard don't matter. She acts EXACTLY the same when facing the ultimate antagonist regardless of whether she's a Space Racist Renegade or Never Surrender Paragon or whatever your Shepard actually is, and what (insert pronoun) stands for. You accept Space Hitler's premise without argument, and dejectedly pick one of the three Slightly Less Turning Everyone Into Paste final solutions he has to offer. How does it matter in the slightest that I've done the frickin' impossible and united the Geth and the Quarians into a hopeful future, shown that we need not fear synthetic life, seen a nascent artificial sentience freely decide to set "Love and compassion" as their main motivation, and fought for the reactionary, bleak idea of "AI will always rebel" to be proven wrong? Space Hitler shows up, says "AI will always rebel, here are drastic fixes to this undeniable problem". And I go "yessuh"? WHY IS EVERYTHING SO SAD It's not sad. You are being incredibly myopic and dismissive of our experiences by reducing it to "y every1 has 2 diezorz?". The ending of the story is not actually sad, it's just anticlimactic, contrived, incongruous, and ridden with plot holes. The part that's sad and what's tearing me apart is that this is not a case of people writing themselves into a corner. This is not a case of glorified hacks like Ronald D. Moore or Cuse/Lindelof making **** up as they go along, to find themselves at the end with no way to tie all the crap together in a cathartic way. This is a beautifully written game, for the majority of the experience. Bioware has bona fide talent within their ranks. And the story, up to the very end, is redeemable in dozens of ways. Even the contrived, out-of-the-blue Star Child could be made into an interesting character by presenting it as a shackled AI who was given a specific, limited goal born of fear (stop AI from wiping out organic life forever), and it arrived at the grotesque solution of Reapers not because AI is evil, but the constraints never allow it to look past the false dilemma it's attempting to solve. Most importantly, this is not a TV show or a movie. This narrative is, by design, told in a unique medium which is NOT doomed to give us a singular ending. Our Shepards can be varied, yes, but there is a finite amount of paradigms that lead you to the end, and they could all have a cathartic, poignant, and persistent ending. Let the Renegades ascend to rule the galaxy. Let the Paragons defeat primitive fear and xenophobia. I do not care if the Relays have to go down, but don't do it in such a thoughtless way as to destroy everything meaningful I accomplished. I do not care if my Shepard dies. In fact, I expected her to go down in a blaze of glory, in the greatest battle that shall ever be fought, for the most meaningful (to her) victory a soldier could ever earn. She did not get this. I did not get this. TENS OF THOUSANDS of people didn't get this. We are not asking for a Disney ending. We are not asking for a dance party with Ewoks. We are just asking for our Big Damn Heroes to go out on their own terms, win or lose.

should probably go ahead and put ****SPOILERS**** in the title now lol sorry about that

everyone would but I honestly think BW did unintentionally give us a middle finger and wont apologize/correct it another thing about the VI it was stated that in the Javik dlc many sleeper cell agents of the reapers sabotaged them before they could finish the crucible so it is safe to say the protheans didn't have a sure fire way of proving indoctrination

ok well the whole bw fanboy thing doesn't really apply here considering its basically fans of the ME franchise who where emotionally invested in the game coming to together to try and make sense of what was a very exilerating ride that crashed and burned at the end (almost everyone agrees the ending was bad) I really wish I could show you the indoctrination theory thread but I'm not having any luck in that regard but everything you said/asked was answered in that thread but I'll try my best to give you answers first the VI on the Asari HW/CB at that point Shepard wasn't fully indoctrinated but under the process of becoming so (it's not really stated how the VI can determine indoctrination) second the kid, Shepard was the only one to notice even the soldiers near the kid didn't look at or try to help him up onto the transport here is a thread (not the one I'm referring to but has valid points regardless) The "Truth" Behind the Mass Effect 3 Ending Sequence - Giant Bomb indoctrination can also happen through reaper tech which Shepard spends alot of time around there is a "secret" ending where Shepard is seen breathing after you choose the red ending with a ems score of 5000 suggesting that he wakes up which supports the whole it was a hallucination brought on from the process of the reapers trying to indoctrinate him/her its also been pointed out that original ending was leaked so bw might've did this in order to bide time for the "true ending" dlc basically yes we are grasping at straws here but hey people can hope I for one really want it to be true cause I just can't believe someone would end such a great series on such a sour note but hey bw could just be total pawns of ea who most likely made them rush the release of ME3 which forced such a crappy ending who knows I don't

ok it would seem you haven't read the indoctrination theory on the BW forums so instead of typing everything out for you I shall link you to some stuff that makes alot of sense if you just read/watch it Mass Effect 3 - Shepard's Indoctrination - YouTube Choose Language | BioWare Social Network I cant seem to find the thread about the theory which is surprising but the video is good enough for now I'll edit the post if I do find the thread music which is pretty convenient lol Wintersun - Starchild (+ Lyrics) - YouTube

I'll be going this route if its not free unless it has substantial content

so it will seem bioware are huge trolls and going to release a dlc called the truth which basically shows how Shepard was becoming indoctrinated which makes sense if you read all theory's about it on the forums lol whatever idk I'll believe it when I see it

ugh sorry that I keep double posting but just found this video and no truer words have been spoken

same thing with swtor they rushed it since it was Christmas and released a game missing tons of features and bugged all to hell pretty sure EA is leaning on them to do this and make as much money as possible I mean just look at the dlc for the first day of mass effect 3 release who does that?

Its very different serawi's route was pretty freaking good imo be careful if you do emlitta's route make sure you see all of her events in town cause if not can mess your end game for ng+ up

I think there are more people upset about the ending then fanboys to defend Bioware even game sites are starting to agree with what I think is the vast majority and not the vocal minority Copy pasted from Goatman42 on Biowares forums WTF IF THIS IS TRUE WHY WOULD THEY CHANGE IT??????????????? and mass effect 2 has nothing on mass effect 3 if you exclude the ending imo HTB (lots of it)****spoilers**** Some guy on gamefaq claims to know the original way Mass Effect 3 was suppose to play out. No idea if its true but I can tell you its way better then what we got. After checking these boards, bioware forums, the twitters of various people involved with the game, audio file rips as well as some information I've gathered from other sources, I decided to talk with someone who used to run their own review website who still has ties to some people in the video game industry. That includes Bioware (they had sent him early review copies of the first ME). Anyway that's not what's important. The point is what I'm about to say you can take with a grain of salt if you want. I'm not here for attention or because I'm a fanboy of bioware. I'm simply here to help you all make sense of this situation. It will make a lot of sense and put the little things you've all found together. The reasoning for the ending change was they needed more time to implement it (this was supposed to be the reason for the delay) but Kinect implementation and the desire by some people (perhaps EA) to have an ending where things are left to interpretation messed with this. The ending was quickly altered which is why things don't "fit" and there are plot holes. Anyway, below is how things were supposed to happen. The original ending was SUPPOSED to be extremely varied. Everything remained the same up until the part when Harbinger shoots at you and your team. This is when information that has appeared here already comes into play. There were going to be various outcomes determining how you reached the citadel and it was HOW you got there that determined what endings would be available to you. The following were the different scenarios from worst to best (based on EMS and war assets) A: Your whole squad gets wiped out (the two crew members you took with you, Anderson). You struggle to make it to the citadel. Right as you're about to make it to the beam, Harbinger talks to you, saying you've been defeated and he kills you. Joker tries to swoop down to save you, but he also gets shot down. B: Most of your squad gets wiped out. Still only you are able to make it to the citadel. Once up there, you must confront the illusive man alone. Because of this, unless you have high reputation and either talk him down or renegade interrupt and shoot him, he kills you and tries to control the reapers, but fails as he discovers he was indoctrinated. C: You and Anderson make it up to the citadel together and make your way to the control panel where you confront TIM. The same thing plays out where you can talk him down. With high enough reputation, you can "save" Anderson but its not necessary for you to make it to the next part. Anderson dies after TIM is shot or kills himself like in the ending we got. D: You and Anderson make it up to the citadel together while you're two squad maters, who clearly survive, are holding off the reapers from following you to the citadel. Everything continues the same here as "C" until after TIM is shot and killed and the final conversation that Anderson and Shepard have (which is much longer than what we got). You get the shorter convo in C. [The following you only see with outcome "C' and "D"] Shepard looks out at the war going on and activates the crucible. Hacketts says its not working. This is when Harbinger talks to Shepard through TIM as he lies on the ground. Harbinger tries to convince you that you've fail but you can argue with him. Harbinger says that he has your crew in his cross hairs. We see the Normandy arrive (the joker dialogue that was cut) and the rest of your friends help the two squad members you brought with you face off against Harbinger and his reaper minions. You basically have a choice. You can submit to him and he claims he will spare your squad and earth until the next cycle because he is impressed that you were able to make it this far. This is when the motive of the reapers is more clearly established. Harbinger reveals that in the previous cycle, the prothean empire became too vast and they began to control all the other races, which would have prevented all of our races from developing. However, through more discussion, Shepard can uncover their true motives. They fear that they will be rivaled by something more powerful than they are (that this cycle will create AI that can topple the reapers). This implies they are merely fearful for their own survival and that is why they purge all life but they convince themselves they are protecting us. Either way, you can submit to him and save your people or take your chances. Having 4000 EMS, not submitting to him you would lose everyone, but still eventually get to the three choices we actually got (more on this in a second). Having 5000+ and depending on how you resolved conflicts between characters and races, certain people will live or die. After rejecting him (whether you lose everyone or not), you end up in the area where vent boy was but hes not there. It's just you and "Harbinger". He explains that a new solution is needed. The solution he tries to convince you to take is merge (to perseve his kind). But if you have high enough reputation once again, you can open the control and destroy option. Harbinger tries to talk you out of it by discussing how your races are divided and mentioning the geth incident. You convince him otherwise, and it is at this point, the control option opens next where he admits that shepard may have a perspective he never considered. Harbinger tells Shepard that if he destroys them, the relays will be destroyed as will the geth (which is true. This is the only ending where the relays are destroyed). Now for the four endings. If you submit to him before the three main choices, the reapers leave earth but end up wiping out every other race who haven't proved themselves worthy. Shepard dies. If you merge, the reapers leave and like the ending we got, we see all the characters we know with green eyes as a green light brightens the sky. Shepard dies for the same reasons in the ending we got. The control option, the reapers leave. Everyone cautiously celebrates while joker and your LI look up to the sky and wonder what exactly happened. Life goes on but its hinted that the reaper threat may return. This ending ends on a cliffhanger. The destroy ending does destroy the relays, but its implied that with all the races on earth, they, together, will restore what they lost and will attempt to work together. if shepard lives, your LI leading your squad, will be looking for you. You are beamed back down to earth (its assumed shepard was somehow blasted into the beam? this is the only questionable part). It ends with shepard's hand coming out of the rubble and breathing. Still a cliffhanger of sorts, but you can assume they will find him/her obviously. Not sure if this is true but **** that would have been way better! Also, if this is true, then Bioware must have the unfinished assets and they should go finish the ****ing thing!!

sorry for the double post but instead focusing on the (shit ending) what was your favorite part of a otherwise 10/10 game imo HTB First for me has to be the Thresher Maw Vs a Reaper Second is when the Qaurians and Geth start to live in peace and I almost cried on my paragon play through when Thane died and his son told Shepard the prayer was meant for him I could go on and on but before I list them all I'm curious as to what others liked aswell

Spoilers maybe highlight text below Ok so I did another play through this time as a renegade shep and the ending was A LOT easier to swallow even with all the plot holes. the whole bittersweet ending wasn't a bad idea but they definitively dropped the ball on this one overall, basically making your choices mean nothing. so for now I approve of a ending where Shepard dies just not the poorly put together "star child" who controls all the reapers when the reapers are suppose to be their own entity and how Shepard basically becomes and total pussy for some reason and takes like a bitch WHY THE FUCK WAS JOKER RUNNING FROM THE FIGHT WTF!!1111!!!??? lol still want my white picket fence with blue children

its 2 bags worth 30k each

First name 秋本 Akimoto (true autumn) 晴男 Haruo (cleared-up man) Full name 秋本 Akimoto (true autumn) 大輝 Taiki (large radiance) guess it makes sense I think I'm generally a nice person even though I have very evil thoughts (guess that depends on how you perceive the whole difference between good and evil)

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no clue maybe try one of the 90+ areas if not grind those kankuris Hannah is worth it!!

I would play the hell out of some OP/Bleach/Naruto vn's

Lady Rosanna j/k Zel lamia - Rosean Mountains Vali Elf - Amurent Forest Land Neryil Soldier - NG+ stuff there might be more but thats what I could find for now