HTL Podcast Episode 4: The Ending of Mass Effect 3

HTL Podcast Episode 4 is up!

HTL Podcast Episode 4: The Ending of Mass Effect 3

Thanks to Syrin, MissFish, and cyrrant for joining me on the Mass Effect 3 Ending discussion podcast. In this weeks show we go over Mass Effect 3's controversial ending. This one went long and while I edited out more than a half hour of the discussion we still went on for more than 2 hours! I have a few minutes of outtakes that will go up later this week as well.

Once we get the podcast RSS feed available and on iTunes I'll update this thread.

Please reply with any criticism, cheers, and jeers.

UPDATE 6/8: Bloopers!

Episode 4 Outtakes, Cut Content, and Donkeys

cyrrant - Guns? Heck yes. *fistbump* Also love the "Grunt running through the wall"/"FOB" comment, great stuff.

Enjoying it so far!

Oh, talking about the missile part...

You don't have to fight anything, just run up and push the button. It makes the entire fight so trivial it's not even funny.

I tried that the other day and I couldn't get it to work!
I could just be trying at the wrong time, though...

I do think you have to kill a banshee or something, but once the little red parentheses are there, you can just run up and push it. It's not that long after the fight starts. I remember I juts kept fighting wave after wave, and then 3 deaths, 22 banshees per death later, I just said "eff it" and ran up to the button and pushed it shortly after the game re-loaded.

Huh... I tried after every wave and I couldn't get it to work.
The game must like you better XD

I couldn't get the waves to stop...

22 banshees. NO MOAR.

I thought it was timed! Like you had to survive at least 5 minutes or whatever.

Maybe that's it. But I know that I could do it pretty soon after I re-loaded the save and didn't have to fight so many banshees. XD

If your waves wouldn't stop, that means you probably hit the stopping point and the "FIRE ALL DE MISSLES" line just didn't play.... I was on Insanity and I only got about 5-6 Banshees.

Sidenote: If anyone wants to see a more indepth version of the EA/Bioware time and money section, I wrote a fancy shmancy blog post on it. It covers a little bit more then we did in the podcast.

Link is in my signature.
/selfpromotion

I'm pretty sure Mike is right with the time thing. You just said you couldn't push the button after waves, so that confused me. Lol. I fought them for a bit then I cloaked and ran up to push the button in the middle of a wave. I fought like...one banshee. It kinda ticked me off because I'd been fighting so many up til then. XD

Another note on the crash: I study aircraft crash survivability. It's what I do for a living. There is NO way they survived that crash. No way in Hades.

SPECULASHUN!!

SPECULASHUN FOAR EVRYWUN!!!

If the words "SPECULATION FOR EVERYONE!!" are embedded in ME3's code, I wouldn't be suprised.
I'd cry in a corner about it, but I wouldn't be suprised.

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGIIIIIIC! (<-- in your head, say it the same way "Pigs In Space" is introduced in The Muppet Show and it's fantastic. )

....Okay, listening now. And Syrin needs to be on EVERY podcast from now on. I'm totally girl-crushing on your voice. I.. hope that's not creepy.

Btw, StarChild was NOT in the early script leak, the Drew script leak.

is that the rumor?