[Turambar]

Yeowch, Bioware's going to need skin grafts after that burn.

[mxlm]

I don't think this has been mentioned here, so. Rememer that PTSD Asari commando?

Posted this on a forum yesterday, but hadn't seen anyone bring it up here, and I thought it was a really...I don't want to call it "nice," but it was a definitely... a touch.

You know how Joker talks about his family that lives on a farm way out on the outskirts of civilized space?
You know that PTSD Asari at the Citadel Hospital that talks about how she was stranded on a farm way out on the edges of civilized space?

The girl she rescued, accompanied, ended up killing the indoctrinated family of, and eventually murdered to keep her crying from alerting nearby enemies was named Hillary.

Joker's sister is named Hillary.

That Asari Commando with PTSD in the Citadel Hospital killed Joker's entire family, and none of the characters even know its happened. But the really terrifying part was when I realized what this meant for the implications of the "Allow the patient to have a gun" option that comes up at the Spectre Terminal.

She probably knows.

She spent several days with Hillary. They probably had a bit of a rapport going. Hillary would would be worried sick about the family that she knows is on the farm and the brother who's personal pilot to the famous Commander Shepard and doing who knows what. I wouldn't be surprised if the Asari get to know Hillary pretty well, and lots of trivia about her family members.

And how could you not mention you brother is best friends with Commander Shepard? And I bet he's famous enough at this point that the Asari knows who he is. So she stages this rescue mission, and it goes bad, and she kills the family. And then, to save herself, probably thinking it won't even buy her that much more time anyway, she kills Hillary.

By some miracle, she's rescued, and she ends up back on the Citadel. But, she knows who she's killed. And she can't take it. She wants out. She knows. And every time Shepard walks through the lobby she knows. And every time we pause over her or her doctor's shoulder, listening to this story we think is totally unrelated to us, she's panicking inside. "Does Shepard know? Does Shepard know I know he knows!?" And she keeps pleading for the gun nobody will let her have.

And then, one day, an orderly gives her a package.
"Special Spectre Authorization"
A gun. Straight from Commander Shepard.

To most of us, hitting X on that report was just "paperwork."
But to her, especially if you played a Renegade Shep, we might've basically been saying "Yeah, get it over with."

http://i.imgur.com/xjXdX.png

If Bioware really pulls this off, they will go down as the biggest trolls in history

The only way a DLC ending works is if it's free (yes, he did say it would be). Well, I'm projecting, but as it stands I'm disappointed with the ending. If it turns out they half-assed the ending to extract more money from me at a later date that disappointment will transform into incandescent rage. I'm not sure if that would take me into "Not another penny to you mother****ers for anything ever" territory, but it'd be close.

[Fury]

I had totally missed that bit about the PTSD Asari commando, I had even forgotten Joker had mentioned his sister. But damn, I have no words.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I've been ranting about how cool that connection is. It makes me angry because it's awesome and then the ending ruins it. ****

[TrashMan]

quoting it in case it goes away ever

* SNIP*
I dunno if it's legit, but it's better than what we got.

e: Honestly, the 'I know a review guy' thing smacks of fabrication.

A tad better..maybe. But not much different. The only big differnce in the end is that all the realys aren't destroyed in all endings, and that's hardly "better". Or it might be for the crowd that thinks only happy endings are valid.

[General Battuta]

By comparison to the above brilliance this guy is just a dick, but still

[Spoon]

An other buuuurn 

[Ravenholme]

That guy is a douché, but I can't disagree with his burn

[The E]

That guy is a douche, and ...


that's it, really. Why would I agree with him?

[General Battuta]

Given that we had the game's lead designer flat out lying to us after the game had gone gold I don't feel the need to be particularly nice to BioWare about this debacle.

[The E]

If he had been more creative in "burning" Bioware (and really, what a childish notion is that?), I'd have laughed and moved on. But this just lacks effort.

[General Battuta]

much like this game's ending

[The E]

See, now that was good. That I can agree with.

[achtung]

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9999272/1

Gahaha. Damn BioWare, you really thought you were being dark and edgy. The Mass Effect series is not Inception.

Sort of puts a nail in the coffin of indoctrination theory.

[General Battuta]

Threads on fire off the shoulder of Walters. Talimancer tears glittering in the dark near the Chris Priestly posts

[General Battuta]

entire ME3 story forum locked down, this is awesome

[NGTM-1R]

Hey guys, I hear locking down discussion on the Internet is effective.

[MP-Ryan]

Wow, BioWare... just wow.

This is why I don't buy hyped games on release day.  I'm sure I will eventually buy ME3, but it sure as hell isn't going to be for full price; not after reading how BioWare has basically (and knowingly) screwed the pooch.

Just once I'd like to play a BioWare game that was consistently well-written throughout (and internally consistent, I might add).  DA:UE was pretty close, but the ME series has been a bit of a letdown throughout... and it sounds like ME3's ending just made it worse.

Such a shame.

[Valathil]

I actually find this incredibly funny now. It's like BioWare goes to someones house and starts a fire. And all the people go ape**** "FIRE FIRE AAAAH" but then some people recognize that the fire is in a part of the house where it wont spread and people calm down. Then in comes this guy with a big can of gas and starts dowsing the rest of the house.

[Spoon]

much like this game's ending

Ziiiing