As someone who plays a lot of games, Mass Effect 3 was decidedly average for me, the ending just finalized its descent into mediocrity. I already gave my short version earlier; basically, good dialogue, gameplay about as good as ME1's (so a huge improvement over 2), everything else average or worse.If it weren't for the last ten minutes Mass Effect 3 would have probably been my favorite game ever, no lie. There were some hiccups along the way, but no game is perfect - the ending, however, was so monumentally bad that it basically ruined the experience for me.
Video games are a defining part of who I am; they're very important to me and I follow gaming news and happenings closely. You can bet that Bioware will become a typical EA cashcow and produce increasingly more casualized, simplistic crap in the coming years.You can tell I don't do much research outside of Nintendo, hahaha. :P
Sounds kinda like the "Rare" situation, though I doubt Bioware will ever boil down to producing nothing but shovel ware/motion sport games.
My expectations weren't high going in, seeing as how I thought ME1 was an all right game and ME2 was pretty disappointing. There were a number of things that ruined it throughout the whole game for me, it wasn't just the ending. I mentioned that nonsense with the kid; it makes no sense for Shepard to repeatedly see teammates die and not shed a tear, but then cry like a ***** when some stupid kid he talked to for 30 seconds dies. And then have repeated dreams and residual emotional trauma over it. Every time they brought it up, it was just "*groan* here we go again."I think that's a good way to look at ME3. A lot of the people complaining about the game seem to be focusing on the ending and not the entire game before it. Sure, I can understand being mad about the fact that choices didn't matter and it had a bad ending, but overall it was a pretty fun game.
Now that they're screwing with the ending, they basically have one chance to redeem themselves (and they won't). They have to release an ending that doesn't screw with the originals, elaborates on what happened, and it has to be free, a service to the fans who were disappointed with the original product. But seeing as how it's EA, it won't be. It'll be $20 for the TRUE ENDING DLC and $20 more for TRUE ENDING DLC 2: THE TRUE-EREST. And then they'll make a Mass Effect MMO and Bioware's descent into the dark side will be complete.