[Ace]

It was never said or shown that whoever you chose to go with you on the final run was going the whole distance to the conduit. It would have been nice to have a scene where shep tells his guys that he'll do this one alone, but ultimately, not necessary.

Well they could have easily fixed some weirdness by having:

Spoiler:

Joker do a bombing run with the thanix on Harbinger as a suicide run. So we see the Normandy swoop in, atillery hits Harby, the Normandy fires at Harby point blank, big explosion and that fries Shepard. Then hear scattered radio messages as cooked Shepard about Joker picking up the survivors, Hammer is a loss, and Shepard and Anderson are MIA.

Something like that would establish what happened to the other characters and why they're in the ending. Plus would have added even more awesomeness and a conclusion to Harbinger.

I also would have had Harby taunting the player on the final run too...

[Thaeris]

Dohohohoho...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj3dy9ALQ0&feature=plcp&context=C4781046VDvjVQa1PpcFNlHYdCTKIh39As0l9A3ICUMWDyPBtop28%3D

[General Battuta]

Jesus ****ing christ the quality whiplash in the last ten minutes of this game is going to snap my neck more effectively than a banshee sync kill

ending spoiler

Spoiler:

'a new dna' what the christ

[Ace]

Yeah people might have whined about

Spoiler:

the conversation with the Illusive Man, but that seemed fine. Basically the game falls apart right after Hackett messages that the crucible isn't working. Hell I'd been happier with Shep pressing a button, getting the Reapers destroyed cutscene and the Normandy flying into the sunset (or escaping through the relay and crashing on the alien planet if Earth explodes because you lack enough resources)

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[NGTM-1R]

The art and design guys got extra budget for this one and they went a little mad with it.

The Alliance ripped out all the interior lighting on the Normandy. Must not have been up to code.

Dammit Marine I did not drag you off Virmire to let you die here, do you hear me!?

My Prothean is...actually presented well. I have to give them credit here, they could have really, really ****ed this up, but they made it work even on a tiny budget of time.

The level designers too got extra budget and went mad with it. Jesus did they go mad.

Everything anyone has ever said that was bad about the Omniblade they should take back; it works and they explained it well. It's always been in that omnitools could manufacture simple stuff, like a blade that's freshly cast and still hot. Did I mention I took down an Atlas with one? I was trying to hijack it but I couldn't figure out how and hit him with the blade instead.

[General Battuta]

Everything you said is correct. I am a huge fan of the game's level design and (most) of its art - the creepy fanservice EDI aside. I also love, love, love vast swathes of its writing. It's nearly a perfect conclusion (so very, very nearly).

The From Ashes DLC is also shamefully well done - so well done and so important to the story as a whole that it should've been free. NGTM1R, be sure to bring Javik to Thessia; it adds a lot to the plot.

[TrashMan]

My Prothean is...actually presented well. I have to give them credit here, they could have really, really ****ed this up, but they made it work even on a tiny budget of time.

Thought about it's philosophy?

Everything anyone has ever said that was bad about the Omniblade they should take back; it works and they explained it well. It's always been in that omnitools could manufacture simple stuff, like a blade that's freshly cast and still hot. Did I mention I took down an Atlas with one? I was trying to hijack it but I couldn't figure out how and hit him with the blade instead.

Omni-blades are garbage and what they did with omni-tools is garbage (forging an entire blade in a nano-second? ST replicators got nothing on this!).
They don't explain it well. It doens't work well. It's a stupid gimmick, and it should die in a fire along with te cretin who thougt it was a good idea.

[Ransom]

admiral hackett is such a dreamboat

[General Battuta]

Thought about it's philosophy?

the idea that the protheans were totalitarian darwinists is one of the best things they could've done

woo-woo wise mystical elder races are a dime a dozen

[MatthTheGeek]

Omni-blades are garbage and what they did with omni-tools is garbage (forging an entire blade in a nano-second? ST replicators got nothing on this!).
They don't explain it well. It doens't work well. It's a stupid gimmick, and it should die in a fire along with te cretin who thougt it was a good idea.

You see me bladin', you hatin'

[General Battuta]

admiral hackett is such a dreamboat

exhausted by responsibility shep tosses and turns in sleep

shepard, we've got a situation developing here, in my pants. we need a speedy resolution

i'm counting on you to get the job done

[NGTM-1R]

Thought about it's philosophy?

What's there to think about? The Protheans were apparently aware of the Reapers long before they were actually coming. In light of that, all their actions make a great deal of sense. Their solution was wrong, but they had know way of knowing that prior to actually trying.

Omni-blades are garbage and what they did with omni-tools is garbage (forging an entire blade in a nano-second? ST replicators got nothing on this!).

Omnitools were always meant to be able to create simple parts for weapons and equipment on demand (it's why your **** never breaks down). You can reprocess entire mods into their component materials in seconds as of ME1. Casting a single, short blade, no complexity, and as far as we know not even mixing materials, and it's still hot from the process in (counting 'em) two or three seconds is well within the realm of possibility from the ME lore.

Besides, it's not like we can't magically generate flamethrowers with an omnitool that will burn better than white phosphor or napalm and burn through steel and ceramic composites even in a ****ing vacuum, or freeze people with cryo bullets, or a half dozen other things that are actually a ****ing whole lot more impossible than the omniblade.

[MP-Ryan]

Reading this thread, spoilers included, has inspired me to create a new FemShep (I played as a male through ME and ME2 originally) and play through ME1 and 2 again in anticipation of a price drop in the eventual future, as I adamantly refuse to pay $60 for a game and then more for Day 1 DLC, especially since it is not [yet?  please be it a yet] on Steam.

[Dragon]

It'd better be on Steam sooner or later. There's no way I'm paying a full price for this, not to mention I don't want to install Origin.
If it won't be on Steam, I'm pirating it. I don't think EA deserves being paid at all.

[General Battuta]

let's stick to *****ing about the game

[NGTM-1R]

Turians reenacting Starship Troopers on the moons of Palaven. Except they're Turians and they know how to do **** correctly unlike anyone from the movie.

[General Battuta]

Turians reenacting Starship Troopers on the moons of Palaven. Except they're Turians and they know how to do **** correctly unlike anyone from the movie.

i think you will agree that reaper tactics are really ****ing inexplicable

[The E]

So Wrex told me to "Avoid the giant beam".

Me love you long time.

It'd better be on Steam sooner or later. There's no way I'm paying a full price for this, not to mention I don't want to install Origin.
If it won't be on Steam, I'm pirating it. I don't think EA deserves being paid at all.

The "I don't want Origin"-whine thread is elsewhere. And by elsewhere I mean not on HLP. Go to the Bull**** network (Or Bioware Network, as they call it), and whine there. Also, Dragon, get your ****ing entitlement issues out of here. If you want to play ME3, just buy the damn thing. Do NOT pirate it and then complain when EA tightens the DRM rules. It's ****ers like you who are the problem, not the actual game studios and distributors.

Ransom: ME3 will not be on Steam for the foreseeable future. Better get used to it.

[SpardaSon21]

Spoiler:

Tuchanka was awesome.  Reaper, Kalros summoned, Kalros crushes Reaper.  And then Mordin Solus dies.

[LordPomposity]

i think you will agree that reaper tactics are really ****ing inexplicable

will agree that reaper tactics are really

reaper tactics

Is this the oxymoron thread?