Bioware: EA carves another notch into their record of game studios killed.

What's the alternative? Rush off before being ready and get yourself killed? As much as it pains me to say, sometimes the few have to be sacrificed for the many. Thousands die now such that trillions can be saved later. It's not just Earth that's in jeopardy, it's the entire galaxy.

And so long as there are some humans left in the galaxy, we can rebuild. It's what we do. We face down crises and come back stronger for it.

With what airplanes? Strap a couple of pea shooters onto civilian planes? Great way to get killed while accomplishing nothing of import. They have to wait for the Crucible to be finished before they can do ANYTHING anyways. Those fetch quests you deride also can help said Crucible be finished faster and/or more thoroughly which could result in more lives being saved rather than slapping it out as fast as possible with as minimal of defenses/building.

You're also confusing a human war with a war against creatures that are old enough (presumably) to have been around with the dinosaurs. You don't just charge them like a berserker and hope for the best.

Then that's a glitch on your end. Did you play with or without the Extended Cut? There is supposed to be different endings based upon your EMS, like a low EMS wouldn't get your the ability to do the Synthesis ending. A low EMS also has the two squadmates with you dying before you reach Marauder Shields, rather than them getting picked up by the Normandy. The Destroy ending, with low EMS, also results in everyone on the Normandy dying rather than crashing on that alien planet and surviving.

Also, did you play the multiplayer? If not, then that is why you wouldn't get over 50%. You needed a very high, something like over 4-5000 to get the "best" endings. Look 'em up on Youtube because I know my Destroy ending was different than what is shown there for a low EMS. I had something like over 7000 EMS once I got my Galactic Readiness up to 98 or so percent.

Finally, there is only so much one can program for before they have to round things off. There is no conceivable way they could program for every permutation of what a person did. Maybe if I played it before the Extended Cut, I'd feel different, but I didn't.

Is the ending what I wanted? Nope, not by a long shot. I wanted the chance at an actual happy ending without having to sacrifice either myself, or EDI & the geth. THAT is the only thing that truly irks me about it.

Bioware has spent the last 10+ years blatantly catering to the neckbeardiest of neckbeards. Their motto might as well have been "You can boink more companions than any other RPG on the market!"

I doubt Ray can possibly drink enough beer to wipe the shame from his soul.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

I loved how NWN was a perfectly faithful translation of 3.5 D&D. The engine was good looking, and the 'realtime but you can pause to give orders' system fit perfectly. The module builder was very well made and easy to use, and the GM mode was an incredible idea that I'm surprised no one has copied yet.

OTOH, the single player storyline was completely generic and boring. Gee, a nebulous threat that we overcome... then we're betrayed... then a big baddie... who is serving another one, and only I can save the world. Add a dozen fetch quests and a dumb morality system, and you have a cookie-cutter RPG.

And, Aribeth. God, I wanted to kick Aribeth in the box so hard.

No, I really enjoyed DA2. Wasn't fond of emo Anders, but smart-a** Hawke-ette more than made up for it. Also, being able to make non-white characters who come from non-white families was a nice touch. Not like DA:O where you'd mysteriously be the only black person in your family of white nobility (although that was funny).

I bet Daddy Noble sure looked askance at Mama Noble in that situation.

This is the problem right here, that I have with ME3. They had to add multiplayer, that's fine, but then have it matter to what ending you get? That's not. I played through the first 2 games without it. Why do I need to do it to get to have all available endings?

It makes perfect sense...from EA's standpoint. It's the excuse, IMO, to sell Online Passes. You know, those things packed into pretty much every EA game whether it's needed or not.

From what I hear the Ultimate C&C Collection disc was released and is totally buggy. Way to go, EA

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

If you want the C&C games worth playing, there's always C&C: The First Decade. It's got the original C&C, Tiberian Sun, RA1 & 2, Renegade, Generals, plus the expansions for those games. None of that ******** RA3, C&C3 or 4.

I think this has more to do with fans being utter prats in response to ME3 and DA2 than it does with EA trying to kill the studio.

I have everything prior to RA3, C&C 3 and 4. Wanted to try them despite any weak reviews they had.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I'm a prat for thinking that ME3's ending was a complete PoS and DA2 was an empty and flat waste of money compared to DA:O?

Huh. And here I thought I was a consumer that expected better from a company I had spent years praising.

I don't know, did you use it as a reason to stalk and abuse bioware employees?

There's a line between "I don't like your product" and "therefore, I will abandon all pretense of civilization in my interactions with you."

Nah, I just wrote them off as a lost cause. No posting to their forums, no emails, no contact at all.

EA isn't TRYING to kill BioWare, it's just what they do.

True fact: humans taste terrible to Great White Sharks. They taste us and go, "Yuck!" and then stop. Problem is, the taste-test tends to kill people. EA is like that. It's just an after-effect of what they are.

Then I totally didn't mean anyone like you, Bill. I don't have any issue with people disliking stuff. It's when they twist it into abuse that I object.

No ****. I enjoyed ME3... even the original endings. They seemed appropriate--a game that's all about making choices and sacrifices ends with you choosing how you'll sacrifice yourself.

(I never played Dragon Age 2, though... somewhere in the last few years, I lost my taste for fantasy settings, and barely even started the original DA game.)

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

The only way you could be more wrong about that is if they stuck you into an electrified Wrongness Machine and turned it two clicks past "Totally Wrong."

Good to know that my individual opinion is somehow incorrect. I'll get right on fixing that.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!