Mass Effect 3 (expect spoilers for the entire series)

[John]

Carnifex is fuckwin, if you haven't used it yet, you aren't playing correctly.

Sorry, no.  I have a N7 Paladin.

The Carnifex is crap compared to it.

Who cares if it only has 21 bullets?

[DPB]

I've bought plenty of spectre packs and I still haven't unlocked a decent pistol. Most of my best weapons are shotguns, which I never use since I'm bad at close combat.

[kyuusei]

I have six shotguns. Apparently ME3 has caught on that I love shotguns. (The spike thrower is fucking AWESOME.) The rest of my MP weapon inventory is kinda crap though. I did unlock the harpoon alongside the geth though, and it's great. Gotta agree though, I kinda suck at sniper rifles and it would be even better with someone who can actually use them well. Lulz.

[Agent D.]

Carnifex is fuckwin, if you haven't used it yet, you aren't playing correctly.

Sorry, no.  I have a N7 Paladin.

The Carnifex is crap compared to it.

Who cares if it only has 21 bullets?

That's not fair, paladin is super carnifex.

@people who dislike sniper rifles. This game isn't terribly sniper friendly. Most maps are too small, lots of cover, and very few enemies that stand still. It's doable, but any real sniper friendly game (halo anyone?) will tell you that mass effect is no such thing. You gotta be aggressive and abusive, otherwise you just get smacked by an asshole with an assault rifle. Btw, enemy assault rifles hurt....why do our rifles suck.

[ZeronHitaro]

Remember that complaint a fan filed to the BBB?

They took it seriously; and agree with it. (Note: But as of yet aren't really doing anything than wagging their finger. )

[Agent D.]

Remember that complaint a fan filed to the BBB?

They took it seriously; and agree with it. (Note: But as of yet aren't really doing anything than wagging their finger. )

So basically, it's okay to falsely advertise as long as other people still like it?

[Farron]

So after a few days I finally put my thoughts about the game into words on my review that happened to more just as much an opinion about the ending.

Even if something has an ending that might be somewhat disappointing I still it hardly make a really good thing into a bad one automatically. So it is clear I liked the game but of course it is never that simple.

[kyuusei]

Got a krogan battlemaster vanguard. Lessons learned: Never use actual money/XBLA points on packs. I only bought one, but man, it really wasn't worth it. Not even on a premium spectre pack. The second one I bought was with ingame credits and voila, krogan. (Same with my geth.) Which brings me to my second lesson: Never try to learn a new character on Silver. WHOOPS.

He's still badass regardless.

Say, 360 users. Noticing lag issues? I did. Also Vanguard + Firebase-whatever-the-Tuchanka-map-is-called still causes me to glitch out hardcore.

[Agent D.]

Got a krogan battlemaster vanguard. Lessons learned: Never use actual money/XBLA points on packs. I only bought one, but man, it really wasn't worth it. Not even on a premium spectre pack. The second one I bought was with ingame credits and voila, krogan. (Same with my geth.) Which brings me to my second lesson: Never try to learn a new character on Silver. WHOOPS.

He's still badass regardless.

Say, 360 users. Noticing lag issues? I did. Also Vanguard + Firebase-whatever-the-Tuchanka-map-is-called still causes me to glitch out hardcore.

If it's while playing vanguard, you probably charged while getting killed or hopiing over cover. I get it alot. Also, if you want an indestructible menace, level up your battlemaster for pure damage taking. He gets 1600 health and shields, 30% damage reduction while raged, and if you bring barrier up defensively, another 30% on top of that. Add to that full shileds from biotic charge, and you have serious difficulty dying. Just uh...don't get silly at brutes, banshees, atlases (atli?), and phantoms. They still kill you in one shot.

If any of you still haven't attempted a gold run, I can make a suggestion for a RELATIVELY easy run. Have at least one salarian engineer and preferably one quarian infiltrator. Pick firebase white and geth. The other 2 classes can be essentially anything, but don't pick something lame and new as you still need to kill stuff, plus the always infuriating objective rounds. The plan is to staybasically at the opposite end of the map from where you start at the landing pad. There are two counters you can stand behind for cover, do so, especially with the salarian engineer behind the counter closer to the landing pad side entrance. Just have your engineer keep decoy up in the small pathway between the counter and the single counter directly ahead before the stairs. The decoy will literally keep every geth minus a few strays and the occasional flank from a single unit in check. Abuse them, and if you brought a quarian infiltrator, use them to sabotage the primes and pyros. Pyros are the preffered sabotage targets as they will actually kill useful stuff, primes tend to summon a combat drone and then just kill it. Retarded mechanics, hooray. Doing this usually makes for very easy gold runs and an easy 74k credits a run, as long as you can beat the objective missions (good luck on hack uploads). Geth are very susceptible to decoy, so abuse it.

[Yoda]

I love the groovy tunes that play in the Captains Cabin.

[Agent D.]

So it seems like multiplayer has quickly begun to die down now. Shame too, I really was having fun.

I sort of hope they make a semi-spinoff of mass effect that's coop missions online, similar to what we have now, but more in depth missions, like splitting up to take down a target reaper, or finding a cerberus weapons cache and destroying it, maybe some scouting missions where we would observe a group of geth in action creating a weapon and being given an option to destroy it, steal it, or simply rig it to explode and backfire on them. I love the simple "destroy enemies" shit we have right now, but it could be so much more. I eagerly await new content for the game.

[Yoda]

D, I'd wager the next game in the MEverse will be something like that.

Though I want my futuristic galaxy-hopping detective game.

[Agent D.]

D, I'd wager the next game in the MEverse will be something like that.

Though I want my futuristic galaxy-hopping detective game.

Where in space is Carmen Sandiego?

[Draak]

I finally completed the game and saw the ending. I've played many, many games and have never witnessed something so messed up. Incoming wall of text. SPOILERS.

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I don't know what they wanted to do with the ending. Was it meant to be deep, poetical? We don't have enough context to make a sensible choice. It's like shooting in the dark. Casper explains nothing. What is he, anyway? God? Because he sure sounds like it.

About the choices, they were all crap.

Syntehsis - How can people be changed in a atomic level and in such a huge scale? Space magic much? According to the leaked script, this was probably the "Be one with the Reapers".
Control - So Shepard will control the Reapers, right? But Casper says she will die. So how does it work? She'll be stuck there and be the next Casper?
Destroy - Alright, I made the geth and quarian play nice, EDI is a example of synthetic living in harmony with organics. Why do I have to destroy them? Why couldn't Shepard argue with Casper?

I ended up going with Destroy, as much as I hate it. It's the less illogical one. At least Casper went down too.

The Normandy flying elsewhere in the middle of the fight, the jungle planet, Garrus being onboard when he was with me on Earth and the stargazer were a total WTF. "Tell me more about THE SHEPARD" Yeah, right. Tell me more about this ending because I can't make sense out of it.

To top it all, in my game Shepard did a gasp. I guess this was the "bonus" people were mentioning. Now could someone explain how Shepard could still be alive? She was hit by a laser, shot, the tube blew up on her face, the Citadel exploded and crashed on Earth. Who can take so much punishment? Not to mention that since I took Destroy, she should have dropped dead instantaneously.

The game would heavily benefit from a well done epilogue because, as it is, there is no closure. We know there is one in the works, but if it will explain things and conclude the trilogy or fuck it even more is yet to be seen.

tl;dr The Extended Cut has a lot of explaining to do. Speculations, speculations everywhere.

Now, as Shepard likes to say, "I should go".

[Agent D.]

Welcome to THE EXACT SAME THING everyone else said a month ago. Talk about being late to the party.