Did the Extended Cut satisfactorily address your issues?

A resounding yes. It is still no Morrowind , *but* especially with this new Dawnguard DLC it is, as a game, light years more fun than ME3 atm. (I suggest downloading a couple popular mods for it though, a couple aesthetic ones maybe.)

Obviously the characters aren't *nearly* developed as ME, *but* Elder Scrolls has always been about the adventure (You can however get married to something like 20 characters )

way off-topic! Back to EC...

As the EC downloaded slowly, I had a hard time looking forward to actually playing the ME3 ending again. I already knew the StarChild would still be there with his dumbass reasons, so the main problem with the ending was still safely intact. And after now having played it ... meh.

The good things. We at least got an epilogue this time.

The bad things. Everything else.

I can't get angry about it though. My fucks to give over this issue has long since dried up.

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One good thing in this disaster.

What concerns me is I've been seeing positive feedback from people who didn't like the original endings...

Seriously? is an extra short scene or two and a fanservice slideshow at the end enough to appease everyone? the original point of contention were the stupid nonsensical endings and the endings are still stupid. All they did was add in explanations of the awful storylines and they still don't make any sense. The ending is a hack job.

I have to applaud BW PR for riding out the storm though, we won't see anywhere near the level of outrage at release because they have played people into being indifferent.

So everyone got an extra touching moment at the end of the game, wonderful, a perfect smokescreen to a terrible ending.

Different people, different complaints on the Original Ending, different reactions to the EC. It's only normal bro.

Man, I don't know whether to be glad I didn't bring my xbox when i moved to puerto rico (specifically for the EC DLC). Or be disappointed with Bioware/EA.

It was minimal, it did expand a bit more and explain it a bit more, however ever since they reported that the Derpchild would stay, I started seeing Bioware as a sunken ship. There is no redemption for them now, and somehow, they managed to get more derp, and illogical crap into the dialogue with the godchild.

I just have no words how much I hate Bioware, and how dumb they are, or they aren't making any effort at all.

Some people really only were concerned with the Normandy crash landing, or the relays exploding, or whatever. It was predicted way back when (lol March) that whatever solution Bioware came up with would effectively mean the end of Retake because there would be people who are satisfied, and there would be people who still weren't. In the end, I think it's just important that we all learned that no game company is infallible and that we should be more careful about believing what the gaming press writes.

I, personally, don't even really care to play the EC, what I've heard about it here is enough to know that it doesn't address my concerns. I'll likely watch YouTube videos at some point, but I have big plans for my game disc on July 4th, not out of spite, mind you, just because it will be fun to see what happens and I'm really done with it. Hopefully we get some rain between now and then so I can actually launch my fireworks.

I'm not going to buy a Bioware product in the future, at least not until there is some acknowledgement that the endings were bad, which could take years! It could be the subject of a documentary down the road when I'm an adult (more of an adult) and some dude from Bioware is an old man doing an interview about how, yeah, they fucked up. And when I pump my fist in victory in my living room, my future children will think I'm very embarrassing, and all will be right with the world.

Why did they even bother. I'm so confused

They HAD to. EA wasn't happy after the cupcakes protest, because that type of action can generate A LOT of problems.

So Bioware had to come with something. Sadly that something involved keeping the trio that made this disaster in command. So.... No good thing could come from that. As soon as people start to uninstall ME3 in mass, they will "leave the team, pursuing new opportunities".

In time, one of the Forbes guys wrote about refusal ending not being a troll from Bioware. I agree. It's a trolling TO BIOWARE. I firmly believe a splinter cell at the developers slipped that extra ending in, to throw that at directors faces.

So now what is ME dead.........it feels like it.

THEN I SAY HOLD THE LINE BIG GUY!!!!!!

Well, it did address SOME issues. But of course not all of them.
Starbrat is still there (and was never gonna go, we all knew that) with its stupid 'the created will always destroy their creators' arguments and everything it entails. And we still don't get to argue against this! (But at least they tried to give some background information about its existence)
The slideshow epiloge felt really cheap and don't get me started on the refusal option...I was laughing my ass off by then.

All in all the EC makes it bearable for me, though. But that's only because I picked 'destroy' I guess.

But I've learned enough these past few months to know, who won't be getting any money from me anytime soon.
The way BW has handled things ...just no. That's NOT how you do business or treat your customers.

Anyone think it's time to send BioWare a vanilla cake with the words "SO BE IT" on the icing?

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The Catalyst an AI created by an organic race(which looked like the reapers) which assumed that the organic-synthetic conflict is inevitable. They created it to monitor relations between organics and synthetics. To establish a connection, like a diplomat which should understand both sides so that he could solve this perceived problem(inexistant problem).

The Catalyst concluded that no peace can be achieved so he forcefully turned his creators into the first reaper.
So ironically the Catalyst became the first AI that annihilated the race which created him.

They lost my respect that´s for sure.
I don´t know why ME was a trilogy if their main goal was to say: choices doesn´t matter, all is lost, reapers always wins. ME2 said: "they won´t expect you to survive" but you do. Then Me3 is full of pessimistic lines, dream sequences and starchild. Even the Ai on Thessia seems to think ithere´s no reason to fight.

Their advertisement should have warned that ME3 was dooms day+ Titanic.

Oh I totally despissed dream secuences. Why not having them in ME2 along dialog lines questioning why is he or she alived? Is just "wake up commander!".

In the end Take back Earth was worth nothing. Paragon Shepard and Renegade Shepard are totally ignored.

That said I think there´s still work to do. They should know we´re watching and Hold the Line.

I suggest everybody to voice their opinion on Mass Effect facebook page.
Keep it polite and civil but say what you think.

I did it myself already.

They are getting an undeserved shower of praises for something that makes the original terrible ending only slightly better.

Brother, sheep will accept anything....

So, your LI is the one who gets to tell Joker to take off? Wonderful. Because you know, that's really in character and all. SMH...