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[J. Kyle Pittman]

FFFFUCUUUUCK MY FUCKIGN LIFE


ME# can't import my femshep face! Fuck this shit.

Holy shit I am angry at that. I wont bother to start a fucking new game until they fix that.

This might be a dealbreaker for me. Apparently this affects anyone who imported their ME1 character into ME2 and didn't alter their appearance (or maybe anyone who imported their ME1 character into ME2 at all? Not sure...)

Though it's not like I have time to play an umpteen-hour RPG right now anyway, so I guess I'll just wait and keep my fingers crossed that there'll be a patch by the time I get around to it...

...what.

I haven't played it yet, but now I'm thinking maybe I ought not to.

Currently 2.4/10 on Metacritic.

Ugh. The Metacritic user reviews hate hivemind is one of the least appealing aspects of the -- and I use the term loosely -- "community."

[D-TurboKiller]

...what.

I haven't played it yet, but now I'm thinking maybe I ought not to.

Currently 2.4/10 on Metacritic.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people are boycotting the game.

explains a lot, and you can see the series' fans rage in the comments. Super-important content not available to all purchasers, and instead released as DLC? What. And apparently I've heard all our decisions since ME1 make no impact whatsoever... oh well, not that I kept my saved games, but it was supposed to be a pretty rewarding thing to remind us of all the good/bad things we did in the past.

But yeah, goddamn it EA. Way to ruin a fantastic series with all your money-making exploits. I can't believe Bioware agreed to all of this, definitely a high probability of having been forced.

[deathtotheweird]

Currently 2.4/10 on Metacritic.

how sure are you that most of the votes aren't fake? 2.4 seems unlikely unless 4chan or reddit or somethingawful or some other shit-stain of a community on the internet got together and rated it a 1.

it's a pretty solid game so far, I don't have many complaints yet. there are a couple of annoying bugs, but nothing majorly game-breaking. if you liked the first two I see no reason why you wouldn't like the third. unless you really don't want more of the same, which me3 basically is more of the same.

I'm a series fan and I don't understand the complaints, at all. The DLC thing was annoying, but then again I'm not 12 years old so I'm not going to spend an inordinate amount of time bitching about that. I certainly am not going to let it hamper my enjoyment of the game.

[J-Snake]

how sure are you that most of the votes aren't fake?

Tell me a reason why one would want to do that other than just sheer hate for an incompetent game.

If a game is hyped up but obviously bad people will hate on it.

[Tanner]

/v/ currently has several posts urging people to 0 it. So, yeah.

[AshfordPride]

I actually do enjoy the ritual of making a mockery out of Metacritic every time a major release comes out.  It's a pretty fantastic outpouring of bile from a frustrated community.  I'm not too keen on disingenuously attacking a game with an flat zero because of that, but it is funny to watch.  Who gives a shit about the user score on Metacritic, let alone the actual score.  At least we get some funny comments out of it and some upset babies.  Let the community blow off some harmless steam.  It's not like anyone cares about the anger from a very vocal minority that will either never ever play the game to see if their rage amounted to anything or will just end up caving and buying it anyway.

The DLC thing was annoying, but then again I'm not 12 years old so I'm not going to spend an inordinate amount of time bitching about that.

I shit you not.  I was eating Chinese food when I was reading this line.  I crack open my fortune cookie, my fortune is 'Be indifferent to snide remarks'.  Cosmic.

But, damn, why is this game such a hotbed for controversy?

It seems like there's a lot of ire flying around concerning the game.  We haven't even talked about all the Slab Bulkhead and Buff McLargehuge romance options that are lighting a fire under community.  Gosh, that's a mess, let me tell you.  As if people weren't mad at Hepler enough, once these scenes leaked the shit really hit the fan.

The problem I got with having gay romance options in this game is that it makes me not want to talk to my squadmates because I don't want to have to spurn a gay relationship.  I think that's kind of awkward.  And I''m not being homophobic here.  I kind of ended up accidentally walking into a romance with Miranda in the second game that I didn't even want, then I just had to sort of shut her down.  It makes me kind of depressed to think that Splint Chesthair and Thick McRunfast have these feelings for me, one of them for three games and several years, that my character has no interest in reciprocating.   The poor guy has to watch as I deflower female alien virgin after female alien virgin wondering...  Why not me?  The way casual conversation evolves into flirty after your third conversation with someone is always a little too sloppy for my taste anyway.  Except for Tali, who always seemed like she had the equivalent of four beers in her and you told her you were Mister Cool Spaceman.

It's a shame because I totally would be down with making my MaleShep romance a non-human male alien.  That's the only thing I don't like about this, it seems like there are no gay alien options.  I hope there are, but from what I'm seeing it looks like there are only human options.

I never got why people were so worked up about romance in this game.  The sex scenes were always awkward, and in Mass Effect 2 it resulted in my holding Tali like a body pillow, and then sitting with her with a thousand yard long stare as she just kind of yaps and yaps and yaps and yaps.  It's pretty blatant pandering, but then again I am into being pandered to...

But still, people are really angry over the option for Shepard to put his penis into someone elses penis.  It's pretty embarrassing to see people desperately try to mask their insecurities when talking about this shit.

[s0]

so why exactly is this game so hated? is it the dlc crap?

[Tanner]

Samtagonist, have you seen Space Mutiny?

[AshfordPride]

Samtagonist, have you seen Space Mutiny?

I haven't watched much MST3K.  I have seen a lot of the shorter PSAs they made fun of, but I've never actually seen a full episodes.

Me and my friends quote that Coily the Spring short all the time.

[Tanner]

Okay, your naming conventions were similar to a running joke they have in that episode.



So, back to ME 3. Jim Rossignol seemed to like it a bit. I usually agree with him on things, so I might pick it up this summer.

If there's anything that really rustles my jimmies about the game, it's that your time spent in multiplayer will affect the ending of the game. 

[AshfordPride]

If there's anything that really rustles my jimmies about the game, it's that your time spent in multiplayer will affect the ending of the game. 

Rock Paper Shotgun actually wrote a bit about this.  Let me try to find th-...



Oh dear.

[deathtotheweird]

just played the DLC, and I was kinda bummed out this is what they decided to cut out of the game. can kinda see why so many people were upset about it.

but then again it's a good incentive to buy the collector's edition, since it's actually worthwhile to own and not your typical throwaway boring dlc. still a shady thing to do, but at least it isnt shit content.

[Falsen]

I don't care about the DLC since I wouldn't bother buying it anyway but the multiplayer thing has me thinking about returning my copy to amazon.

[J-Snake]

so why exactly is this game so hated? is it the dlc crap?

I guess because it is a half-assed everything. It is not a proper shooter, not a proper rpg, sterile and boring level-design, low-tech-art for an AAA game. Stuff like that.

[Dragonmaw]

You are so full of shit it's leaking out your mouth. You might want to have it checked.

[iffi]

so why exactly is this game so hated? is it the dlc crap?

I guess because it is a half-assed everything. It is not a proper shooter, not a proper rpg, sterile and boring level-design, low-tech-art for an AAA game. Stuff like that.

Well, the Metacritic user score for Mass Effect 2 is fairly high (in the 80s), and I don't think Mass Effect 3 should be that much worse than ME2 (if it even is worse).

The low score seems to me to be much like the Modern Warfare 3 score - it's just hip and cool these days to hate on a high-profile sequel, especially if it doesn't do things significantly differently from the previous installment in the series (it's also cool to hate on a game that does do things differently from the previous). People end up blowing all the negative aspects out of proportion even if the game isn't any worse than the previous game. The DLC crap doesn't help matters either.

[J-Snake]

You are so full of shit it's leaking out your mouth. You might want to have it checked.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa, checked, everything healthy

[J-Snake]

People end up blowing all the negative aspects out of proportion even if the game isn't any worse than the previous game.

I played Mass Effect 2 on pc and it was unplayable. It was a technical disaster. The collision-system alone is as primitive as it can get, no smooth edge cutting, you can stuck everywhere. And I don't even want to go into A.I. and further concepts.

[ink.inc]

alas, not all games can be as technically advanced as trap-them (a new arcade classic)

[Alevice]

I don't care about the DLC since I wouldn't bother buying it anyway but the multiplayer thing has me thinking about returning my copy to amazon.

why is that so? you can pretty much ignore it.