Screw the haters. I'm going to continue playing Mass Effect 3™ for my Xbox 360™ home entertainment system, living the adventures of Commander John and/or Jane Shepard™ and doing it with both my Xbox 360 Wireless Controller™ and the Xbox 360 Kinect™ motion-controlled device. The Mass Effect 3™ captivated me like no other, as I took on the Reapers™ and looked to finish the fight. Anyone who hated Mass Effect 3™ and the incredible job done by BioWare™ (a subsidiary of Electronic Arts™) probably think Deus Ex was a good game. Hilarious. I played that game for five minutes the other night. This guy shot me in the face and I died. Yeah, that's realistic. Go play your kiddie casual console games, computer gamers. I'll be playing games on my Xbox 360™ home entertainment system.

Bit of a threadjack, but since when the hell did Forbes get such a good staff of video-game journalists? I've seen some of the best writing about the whole Mass Effect 3 clusterfark on Forbes, which is not where I'd expect to see it.

I was bored with Mass Effect 1 and never finished it. But I've been thinking about getting ME2. Especially since it's so cheap used. But is there a reason for that? Are there things you can only get in the game if you buy a release copy and register it first?

This whole ME3 trainwreck has me rethinking the whole idea.

May just keep playing Skyrim. Even if it's got a really annoying texture bug.

To be fair ME3 was a really REALLY good game. Blew the other 2 MEs out of the park. It was just the very end that sucked so bad. So I give BIoware props for making such an excellent game AND releasing a future patch to address the complaints about the ending.

Yeah, but only because Aeris doesn't die at the end.

Rincewind53: Bit of a threadjack, but since when the hell did Forbes get such a good staff of video-game journalists? I've seen some of the best writing about the whole Mass Effect 3 clusterfark on Forbes, which is not where I'd expect to see it.

The quality of writing on GameSpot, IGN, Kotaku, and the other "mainstream sites" is so awful and so pathologically disingenuous (See: Any time Ashcraft writes about Japanese culture and bans those who call him out for being off-topic) that anyone who wants to get a name for themselves can step in and take it.

I've seen record sleeves and CD cases that proudly quote bad reviews. Tom Lehrer and Al Stewart come to mind.

ME3 is an amazing game.

But the ending upset me. I didn't protest or any of that crap, I just didn't enjoy it. If you want to know why, EIP, as I won't spoil anything in this thread. But it was just...I dunno, it felt like they wanted to upset people, rather than actually having an ending(s) that meant something.

MBK: ME3 is an amazing game.

But the ending upset me. I didn't protest or any of that crap, I just didn't enjoy it. If you want to know why, EIP, as I won't spoil anything in this thread. But it was just...I dunno, it felt like they wanted to upset people, rather than actually having an ending(s) that meant something.

They didn't explain anything. They went for the artsy fartsy ending that doesn't say what happens to all the people who fought and survived.

ME3 players had hundreds of hours of playing invested in this game. This wonderful game with incredible characters and amazing dialog and *poof* it just ends.

Also, Kaiden and Ashley are useless little whiny twits. Which was kind of a damper. I was anticipating being reunited with friends that I ended up hating becuase they were such emotionally fragile little cry babies.

But other than that, it was an awesome game.

Thank you Commander Sheppard but your princess ending is in another castle DLC

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Save your $60 and don't buy ME3 unless they fix it.

If they never fix it, buy it cheaply used, play up to the part where Shepard and Anderson are sitting down talking at the end, and then turn it off and imagine your own ending from there.

Don't buy it new. Bioware deserves no more money for this bullshiat.

Sorry but you sound like a farking moron.

The ending maybe bad, but the rest of the game is absolutely amazing. And the multiplayer is something fun you can do once you finish the game.

You never want to buy any game used nowadays, especially if they have an "Online pass". And yeah, whatever, people on Xbox Live can be morons, but there is a mute button for a reason. The multiplayer is enjoyable, and the game is well worth the 60 bucks. 30 hours or so of amazing gameplay and story telling.

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Also, multiplayer? Really?

What is wrong with the multiplayer? I found it fun.

I haven't played the ME series but the many links ME3 has on Fark (with 300+ comments each) do demonstrate that it is a great series that really engrossed a lot of people into its universe.

It reminds me of the Matrix, except as if all three Matrix movies were great except for the last 5 minutes of the third.

Don't worry, they'll come up with a better ending and sell it to you as DLC.

Carth: Foxxinnia: Rincewind53: Bit of a threadjack, but since when the hell did Forbes get such a good staff of video-game journalists? I've seen some of the best writing about the whole Mass Effect 3 clusterfark on Forbes, which is not where I'd expect to see it.

Because the guys at Forbes are actual journalists. Pretty much no one at a video game website is actually a journalist. They're just a PR machine for publishers.

I agree. Everything I've read about ME3's ending has been on Forbes and I can't recall seeing much video game coverage to prior to this.

That's prolly BECAUSE Forbes doesn't sell ad space to EA/Bioware and the usual gamer rags do.