Played Mass Effect 3 demo and Arkham City this weekend

[staylor]

Mass Effect is a great game with an involved epic story line, great game play mechanics and tons of invesment carried over from the last game. Overall I really enjoyed it and highly recomend that you play it of you are a fan of sci fi, RPG's or shooter games, there is something in there for everyone.
However, I think overall Mass Effect 2 was a better game for a couple reasons.
Squad mates: ME3 only gives you 6 different characters to choose from as opposed to the 12 or so from ME2. A couple additional characters to have on your team would have been nice.
Length: Compared to the epic length of ME2, ME3 seems a bit short. I gather that some of that is due to made up with downloaded content and multiplayer but since I did not have X Box Live I can'y attest to that.
The Ending: The previose two gripes I could deal with, but the ending (the last couple minutes) did not feel right in many ways, it felt a little slapdash on Biowares part (and yes, this does extend to the multiple alternate endings). Since I don't want to give anything away and there has already been reams written about this elsewhere on the interweb (the ending sequences really are not popular) I won't go into it further.
Once again, a great game but seemed to fall just short of perfection especially in the last couple of minutes.

[Kommander]

So some people are so unhappy with the ending(s) that they have started a protest movement. They are asking people to donate to Child's Play in the name of fixing the ending. So far they have gathered over $50k.

http://retakemasseffect.chipin.com/reta ... hilds-play

[Jericho941]

So some people are so unhappy with the ending(s) that they have started a protest movement. They are asking people to donate to Child's Play in the name of fixing the ending. So far they have gathered over $50k.

http://retakemasseffect.chipin.com/reta ... hilds-play

...these people are everything that is wrong with America.

[Kommander]

Wait what? These people didn't like how a piece of fiction ended so they are trying to get attention by donating money to a charity. I suppose it's a bit silly and their chances of getting what they want is nill but I don't see how supporting a charity "is everything that is wrong with America".

[Greg]

So some people are so unhappy with the ending(s) that they have started a protest movement. They are asking people to donate to Child's Play in the name of fixing the ending. So far they have gathered over $50k.

http://retakemasseffect.chipin.com/reta ... hilds-play

...these people are everything that is wrong with America.

Oh for fuck's sake.

Not passively saying "thank you Master, may I have another?" when you're fed a shit sandwich is exactly what's RIGHT with America. And showing that you really care about something, enough to put your money where your mouth is (instead of demanding the gov't do something)? Again, exactly what's RIGHT with America. And donating the money to (oh noes!) charity? Yeah, America fucking rocks, again.

Alternately, they could put on black bandanas and go set fire to the publisher's and developer's offices. That seems to be what the cool people do.

[staylor]

The furor over the ending(s) seem to be less over the fact that they were not "happy" and more over the facts that they do not measure up to the quality of the rest of the game, were ill made, inconclusive and did not make much sense (and this applies across the 16 alternate endings availiable). Once again, I am not going to write more on this but a quick google search will deluge you with pages on the subject. As for "fixing" the ending it seems quite plausible that Bioware can and will do exactly that, there is rumors that a DLC package will be released in April/May that will do exactly that and expand the rest of the game as well.

[chem light]

I'm going to admit to being one of those nerds displeased with the ending.

It was incongruent with the in world physics, poorly explained the events of the universe with logic that made every part of my math major brain hurt, seemed to be little affected by the in game choices, and, without giving too much away, seemed to rip off Battlestar Gallactica...the new one.

In fact, by my interpretation, the ending rendered every decision made in three games irrelevant.

You can ask JAG. I stormed into the bedroom at 0100 and swore I was never playing video games again.

[Kommander]

They went Clarke instead of Heinlein didn't they.

[staylor]

In fact, by my interpretation, the ending rendered every decision made in three games irrelevant.

And I think that's the big one that has everyone displeased. Considering that it took a hundred hours of game play to get there they really should have put more work into it.

[Jericho941]

I haven't played the singleplayer campaign yet. Stuck with multiplayer while bringing my original playthroughs up to speed (switched platforms); I was strongly advised not to start a new Shepard in ME3.

Wait what? These people didn't like how a piece of fiction ended so they are trying to get attention by donating money to a charity. I suppose it's a bit silly and their chances of getting what they want is nill but I don't see how supporting a charity "is everything that is wrong with America".

They didn't like how a piece of fiction ended, and this is what motivated them to start a protest movement. They politicized a charity to do it. It's not that donating to a charity is bad, it's just... really? Really? This is what it takes to get people to do something, to protest and donate? A fumbled ending to a long, massive, otherwise exemplary trilogy of games?

I'll bet that if a Broken Steele-style end-fixing DLC is released, and isn't free, most of those people will still buy it, too. Since Bioware's publisher is EA, that's quite likely to happen, and EA will note that they can basically make money hand over fist with a crappy initial release and sell the "fix" for it. We can expect this to become a pattern, and the only real solution would be to stop buying from EA and actually vote with dollars. But that would require giving something up, rather than throwing a fit on the Internet.

Not passively saying "thank you Master, may I have another?" when you're fed a shit sandwich is exactly what's RIGHT with America.

It's a fucking game. Pop culture. Fiction. Part of the "circus" in "bread and circuses." The slavery comparison highlights the absurdity of the situation: Our freedoms continue to be eroded, the economy sucks, and the machinery that makes both of those things happen is still running at full speed. But never mind that, the ending to a video game wasn't very good.

Talk about your first world problems.