I'll have to watch the whole thing later, but yeah there is definitely some interesting stuff in there. Just seems to be missing a good part of what Mass Effect has been up until now, and is instead focusing on the hidden meaning, signs of a twist etc. That's cool, but I think even if the indoctrination is the main deal they were going for - at least at one stage - then I still think there are more interesting things going on underneath that. Particularly around the synthetic/human stuff, burying costly feuds between different life-forms and being able to trust each other.ÂGonzo wrote:I saw that vid, and it's very strong. This point was a rare weak moment. Pointless to focus on that. Personally, I chose destroy, because FUCK YOU that's why. If I had to choose, I'd choose organics over even Edi and the Geth. SORRY. BUT WE CAN MAKE YOU AGAIN.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.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.
The details with the Rachni Queen were particularly interesting from what I watched. I killed the Queen first time, so I didn't get to see any of that, and I had totally forgotten a lot of the Reaper stuff from the first game. There is definitely quite a bit of reading into things in an unhelpful way, and as monkey mentioned earlier, an expectation for an insane level of consistency, and connecting parts. It's a hell of a lot of fun to talk about it though. There were some insanely detailed posts on Reddit on The Matrix, I read a while ago where folks were going completely nuts but the quality of their going nuts was very compelling.What about the other points?
I didn't exaclty miss it, just thought it was explained a bit too quickly considering the size of the decision and couldn't remember the finer details. I was leaning towards the synthesis thing anyway, but it would have been good to maybe have it repeated and made more clear which path led to which decision.Gonzo wrote:Shame you missed the convo with the Godchild. It's kind of the payoff for the game. There you were, minutes earlier, convincing TIM to off himself, and here you are listening about control again. I tried to shoot the child, shot a few times in the air like an arab celebrating, well, anything, and raced towards the red destroy door to shoot it down, as a final act of rebellion.
Not at the moment. It'll be a while before I want to play 3 again, and I've already done 2 twice. One of the problems with them is it's a bit of a slog to replay all that dialogue and galaxy scanning when you've only recently done it. Maybe in a couple of years...RasDam wrote:@JonB are you tempted to pick up Mass Effect and work your way through the trilogy again?
Little Franklin wrote:The galaxy map bit in 2 and 3 really bugged me actually. If I remember correctly, in 1 you just plotted a course and it took you there, in 2 and 3 you moved a little toy spaceship around the map like some lame space Mariokart, you can apparently even fly your ship through stars. Kind of kills the sense of awe of the vastness of space.
My game auto-saved just before or after Harbinger appeared. Did yours not?Raiziel wrote:Not sure I'm ready to tackle London again just yet to find out what happens in my game.
Son of a bitch! Well I'm can't be bothered to do all that again. Youtube it is then.To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.
Little Franklin wrote:Son of a bitch! Well I'm can't be bothered to do all that again. Youtube it is then.To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.
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