Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Released On Xbox 360

I'm not gonna lie, I was rather content with the original endings, but I'm glad to see that the expanded endings clarify a ton of things. The refusal ending is a nice added chuckle. That said, I still absolutely love the Synthesis ending and hearing EDI narrate it made me smile.

Honestly, I'm glad they changed the message at the end from blatantly "buy our stuff" to "thanks for playing" with a hint that you can go buy DLC or they might do something else. Still a lot more effort put into these. The new fourth ending is triggered in the best way but is still kinda lackluster, yet it still kinda sets up a neat little alternative that I don't think they'll expand on. I wonder if they still have the super-secret game over not ending?

Well, it's an improvement. But why the fuck keep the colour code?

Even though this was a pretty good 'wrap up' and it made me feel glad that at least shepard MIGHT have survived with my decision, it didn't even explain the results of the other decisions I had made, as well as results of the final decision (destroying the reapers)

Another Krogan Rebellion perhaps? What happens to the billions of people who are biotics?

But anyway, after watching the extended versions, my opinion actually changed, which I didn't really expect. Even though I destroyed the reapers and I kept it that way, synthesis is probably the overall better choice.

its basically bioware doing the bare minimum in order to shut ppl up. They didnt even do a good job, i mean there are still plotholes..for example they never explained why your whole crew got back on the normandy and also did they show the fleet warp out of there without needing to go through a mass relay? (in destroy video) Overall its not well done, it even kills any hope the "indoctrination" fans were holding on to.

Basically these endings sets it up so that Bioware can make more Mass Effect games, its like a bulletin board was up and they was like.
okay reapers destroyed with harbinger...super easy and no real climax...check
Shepard lives...check (yes he lives u need enough points to see him take a lil breath at the end)
anderson dead...check
crew lives...check
fleet lives....check
mass relay....damaged (not destroyed..even though the choices were saying it gets destroyed and in the original it blows up to pieces) check
and then cut to montage of slideshows...

I mean i thought they were gonna at least add some nice cutscenes of the assets u acquired for the big fight....that was my main disappointment. i spent all this time gathering the forces for this big huge war, u know where are the rachni and all the other assets?

also that refusal option is basically a big "fuck you" to ppl complaining u had no choice to refuse any of the 3 options...basically saying god child is god, no real way to win...even tho a good number of reapers have fallen over the course of the game...u know once u get into the crucible, no fight left, no choice..we give u ohh everyone died here is a archive.

The truth is...most people can only see the artistic value of things merely skin deep. In the Mass Effect case, they needed every detail wrapped up in a bow-tie rather than left up to the imagination of the beholder.

The series wrapped up just fine originally. It left room for discussion, which is the point! It led to Indoctrination Theories, and rants, and...that'skind of brilliant. Pulp Fiction is one of new-era cinema's greatest films, yet so much is left unsaid. Those who hated Quentin's classic, needed a bow-tie finish.

As for the new ending, I was touched in the memorial sequence and noticed Liara DIDNT put Shepards name up, which is great! More discussion!

This game just isn't that good, period. Adding an "improved" ending doesn't change that one bit, especially since the game had far bigger flaws than its lazy ending.

I never realized until today that you can replay the final sequence without having to replay the whole final two missions... so yeah, I'll be downloading this and playing through it (both Destroy and Control endings, my galactic readiness wasn't high enough to garner me the Synthesis option). And then I'll watch the extended Synthesis ending.

I just wish the DLC wasn't almost 2 GB.

It didn't really help that much. Too little, too late, and too defiant. Between this, ToR and DA2, Bioware is dead to me.

Expect news of another Mass Effect sequel within 2-3 years under the ever-so-overused "200 years later" guise. The only reason they "ended" this game the way they did was to create sequel bait, they aren't done milking this franchise. They'll probably roll with the synergy or destroy endings as cannon and retcon other major events to be more in line with a new continuity.

If this were the ending on disk then there probably would not have been as big a shit storm as there was. And the ironic thing is that now the Indoctrination Theory fans will brew up another shit storm because the new endings completely glossed over most of the things they cited as evidence. Still I never really hated the old endings, and the new ones are much better in terms of closure and as actual endings, but it makes me really sad that no matter what Bioware, once one of the greatest developers in modern gaming history, does, there is always going to be a sizable group of people who want nothing to do with them. First it was the people who wanted a new ending and now it's going to be the people who wanted a "Indoctrination Theory" ending. I may not agree with every thing they do (fuck you ToR), but I honestly hope for the best for them.

Also I wonder how many people accidentally got the "Refuse" ending because they shot the star child.

After spending six hours downloading, preparing and going back through the final mission, I've come to the conclusion that BioWare is a moronic pile of kittens. All they did was address the plot holes that were the largest, and then turn a blind eye to the rest hoping their audience would do the same. This team had the chance to embrace a narrative that held a value far larger than their current one (the indoctrination theory), and just let it slip right through their fingers.

I guess, in the end, the of Commander Shepard was just as disconnected from the plot, as the developers were from their fans. What a disappointment.

Bioware had stated before had the endings would expand but not replace the original endings so my expectations were considerably low. Despite that they did what they said they would so I'm not that disappointed in the endings I just wish Bioware took a different direction where all the choices you made shaped the ending rather than "hey pick a colour."

@Moom You treat the dialogue choices like they are a very small part of the ME experience, the dialogue was one of the main attractions because honestly the TPS in ME is pretty shit, I looked forward to getting past this stupid linear cover based segment so I could get back into the story. If ME was a linear cover based shooter (like GOW) it would still probably successful because of the GOW dudebro's but for people like me who enjoy a rich universe with a complex story and interesting characters this game would be wholly ignored.

insider tip: whatch out for bioware agents

insider tip: watch out for bioware agents

Is there new cheevos?

Indoctrination theory till the end!! I am still a firm believer in the indoctrination theory. I just makes so much more sense. Still, I thought we would be getting a bit more than just a slideshow.

But thank you, BioWare, for making me cry several times. Rest in peace, Mordin.

Thing is i want another game, not with shepard, if they did that i would probably suicide bomb casey hudson, but just more from the mass effect universe, you could be a turian/asari/salarian trying to help rebuild a broken galaxy, hell bioware likes giving us unimportant choices why not have a game where you pick your species and do something along those lines. But if they are keeping with these endings i do hope shepard stays dead or at least in the control ending only comes back as a hologram

So... Did anyone else notice that, in all off the stargazer scenes at the end, the little kid want one more story about the Shepard? This may lead to one of two things:

1. An expansion pack that is not directly aimed at multiplayer (in the case of the destroy ending) or

2. A new game about Shepard in his/her past (before the Mass Effect series took place)

Just sayin'

I feel better with the EC. There are still a couple of fundamental issues I have with the endings, but this does a markedly better job of handling things. It's light years ahead of the godawful original version.

I chose Destroy and, having seen the others now, I'm bloody happy with that choice.
Although Refuse is pretty awesome (that IS the Reapers winning ending).