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Mass Effect 3

Developer: BioWare Publisher: Electronic Arts
06 March 2012
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Dissapointing game that destroyed the amazing build up and the best things from the previous games
i play the remaster but apart from the graphics and some bug fixes i dont think there is anything new that is too important,i play in nightmare difficulty (i choose the nightmare difficulty and not the normal like in the other games since the bonus that they give me from the previous game made this game a joke on that difficulty and to have a tougher time in combat since its one of the few things this game has going for)and i play sentinel class,a lot of the things i say aren't for every playthrough i since i play with a certain playstyle and story decisions that may be different from your playstyle and story decisions,for reference i gave the first game a 3,5(a strong 7/10) and the second one a 4,5 (a decent to strong 9),im taking into account dlc since is one of the few good things this game has and also spoilers.this is the second time i write this,i was about to end it and fucking windows update comes in out of nowhere and restart my computer and i losed i the 4 hours of work that i have put to this review,all for an update that wont change anything and now i dont remember anything that i've put so i have to put another 4 fucking hours,thanks microsoft super useful feature.

THE POSITIVE:Even though i really dislike this game it still has some positives like:

THE GAMEPLAY:This is by far the best thing this game has going for:

The Gunplay:Its a massive step up from the second one.,it feels really good to shoot enemies and in this game since you have way better and mobile movement you can have a lot more fun and diverse with your gameplay,you can also makes so pretty fun combos with the guns and the biotics.

The Biotics:Is more refined that in the previous game,so pretty good,you have way more choice in how you wanna develp the skill and you companion have more diverse skills that in the previous game.

The Movement:The best aspect from the game,the difference between the previous game and this one in movement is gigantic.They give you a roll that even though is simple it let's you be a lot more versatile and mobile it let you do things like go between cover,dodge biotics and physical attacks,it lets you run quicker from grenades,and many more.every single aspect of the movement is improved it feels really smooth to play.

The Rpg Mechanics:Better than the first since you get 3 choices of path to go with instead of just 1.the biggest problem with the rpg mechanics in my playtrough is that the bonus form importing a character from the previous mass effects its so big that i haved to play the game in nightmare for it to be fair,the weight mechanic is decent at balance the hybrid class and make biotics only to be more viable.

THE DLC:With the gameplay by far the best aspect of this game,i shouldn't count the dlc in this review as i did with the previous games but the dlc's on this one are really good.

THE ENDING:I actually liked the ending to comparions with everything else in the game (the ending is like a 6/10 but in this game that is a bleesing).is decent since it feels fairly epic and it opens up posibilites for a completly different story while also being in the mass effect universe,it's not at all perfect but for this game is really good.

SIDE CONTENT:Its not as good as mass effect 2 but it still pretty decent and quite a bit things to do,there is no a whole lot of variety in the mission but it will give you a decent amount of hours of gameplay.



THE NEGATIVE:This game has some of the worst writing,character conclutions,new characters,villains,dialogue and decision making i have ever seen in a videogame

STORY AND WRITING:The story is a mess,is full of plot holes,full of generic tropes,and the writing is just as bad the dialogue is some of the most unnatural and basic i have ever seen it really appears that a monkey writing it (once in a blue moon there are some decent written moments but they are really few and far between),

CHARACTERS:With the writing and the story this is one of the worst aspects of the game.and literally instead of giving every character they own ending at the end of the game the ones in you party will die and they do not get mention it or get a conclution to their story,great gob bioware,character in this game do not have loyalty missions so they have less depht,

New Characters:Except from javik they all suck,they really few though only 3

Edi:she is a glorified legion,she has slightly more screentime but in that time we
dont learn a lot of things about her since she doesn't have a personality.

James:He is just another soldier boring ass character,nothing else to say

Javik:by far the best new character,he is legion but done right since he still represents their race but this time he has a personality,of a soldier.the biggest problem of legion is that he doesn't have a personality and the biggest problem with soldier characters is that they doesn't have nothing interesting to add to the story,javik resolves both problems by unite them into one character since you get the view of a prothean and some personality to go with it.

Old Characters:Their conclutions are extremely unsatisfying.for the most part.i didn't find a lot of the previous game squadmates so i will be only talking about the ones i find.

Ashley:she is the same shitty character as always,BUT,this time you can kill her and i didn't doubt it even a second (in the first game i accidently was in a relationship with her,and now in the third not only i didn't go to visit her to the hospital but i kill her too).

Garrus:Like in the second game he is barely explored,but this time he doesn't even have that loyalty mission,the only thing to kinda replace that is the dynamic of his planet dying but for me it just doesn't feel that personal or that i learn anything new about him and that is pretty sad since i think he is one of the characters that has more potential in the whole franchise.

Jack:i saw her for 40 seconds and he appear as a NORMAL ENEMY AND THE DIALOGUE LASTED LIKE 10 SECONDS,i didn't like her at all,in fact i think she is the worst squadmate in the whole franchise but that is basically an insult to any character on any franchise.

Miranda:He doesn't have much screentime,and i really have nothing really positive to say about her appereance in the game,she gets killed by a terrible written villain and she kills her father,everything happens so fast that it feels really forced,you could say this about everything in the game really.

Thane:my favorite character from the franchise,even though i like his relationship with his son in this game even if it is flawed and thane is kinda a bad father i still like it because they care about eachother and it feels realistic,the problem is that his resolution is tied to one of the worst villains i ever seen,kai leng,it feels unsatysfing,i really like that you can make a funeral and that kinda brings a closure to thane and his son,it still doesn't make up for his death.

Wrex:He brings a good appearnce much like on the other 2 games,but in this one he plays a vital factor as the leader and representitive of the krogan,he is as charismatic and funny as always.

Mordin:my second favorite character in the franchise,I actually like his resoluton even though he dies as nearly every other character,he actually has a good ending since he sacrifices himself from a struggle he had since the second game and it feels natural,i loved that he singed the song when it was his final moments it was a really good callback to the previous game.

Legion:He becomes better than in the last,though is still mediocre,it's purpose on the story is to represent legion interests and to make them free and eventually destroying a lot of quarians ships,his resolution is that he saves his race and 'exctint' the quarians and then dies,it doesn't make sense to me that they go exctint since there are a lot of quarians that weren't in the ships did i miss something because when i choose geth over quarians i dindn't know they were going exctint since it doesn't make sense

Tali:She doesn't have an important appereance until rannoch,were after a fight with the reapers legion says that he will end the war by improving the geth,and if the quarians dont retreat they will kill them,tali for some reason doesn't kill legion even if he saying that millions of quarians will die,and after seeing lot of her people dying she kills herself that's her resolution,yeah and i was her boyfriend,so i dont only let legion kills millions of them (because i didn't know that they will go exctint) for my fault she kills herself,thats kinda fucked up,and after this trilogy i still think she is the best female character even though she is just good.

Character Resolutions:This is one of the worst parts of the game,the only conclution they know to do is kill the character and it doesn't work a single time (with mordin death is argueable)the character conclutions are so unsatisfying that to be honest i prefer that they wouldn't come back from the last game,JACK IN MY PLAYTROUGH LITERALLY DIED IN 5 SECONDS SHE WAS A NORMAL ENEMY (i never liked jack,but still you should never kill a character that you put so much time in the previous game in 5 seconds).

VIllains:They are so bad because they barely have any charm or we know anything about them take for example kai leng,he barely has presence,we know nothing about them,he kills characters in an unsatisfying way and when he died i care so little about him that i literally feel nothing and since this game has so little nuance the chances that i will have to empatize with a villain like the illusive man it's dead on arrival since the game screams me in the face a thousands time that he is the bad guy and that goes to nearly all the villains in the game.

DIALOGUE SYSTEM:The dialogue system is incredibly dumb down from the previous game since instead of getting 3 nuance options of dialogue and nearly always more than one information option,now you get two options that are paragon and renegade and have absolutly no nuance and now you rarely get information options.except from the decisions that change the story in a big way there is barely decision making in the dialogue or anywhere on this game to be honest

MISSIONS:They are way to repetitive and if not for the combat it will be insufferable,you get some decent variety on side missions but on priority missions all the battles feel the same.

PACING:This is some of the worst pacing i have ever seen,Everything just goes way to fast and feels forced,they wanted to end every lose end of the previous games on this one and it just make it as it everything feels rushed.

BASICALLY:
The biggest strenght of the game is the gameplay that in this type of game it isn't that important and in all the others important aspects on the game they fail miserable like,the characters:oh no i am gonna die,that is the resolution to nearly all the characters in the game and that is sad since they had a lot more posibilites that were more interesting that just dying,the pace is terrible since things happen way to fast,the dialogue is really dumb down and little naunced,the missions are repetitive,the story is bad on every aspect,the writing is some of the most unnatural things i ever seen and it feels really rushed.

RESOLUTION:
This game is everything i didn't want it to be,i excepted a game that will take his time but knows when do give progress in the story,this game never takes it's time and it's just a dont stop shitshow,that i think is the fatal flaw of this game appart from bad story/writing it never takes it's time to build anything,so nothing he builds is insteresting,nuanced or fun,this game was a massive dread for me,it did basically everything wrong and was really boring that is why it deserves this score:

Strong 2 To Light 3
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ciruelaman 2022-03-31T01:04:33Z
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Here is a tier list of all the characters,wow it feels weird said that i finished the trilogy.oh never mind glitchwave doesn't let me i guess i rank them then

Terrible
19:jack:she is an insuferablle overly edgy annoying ass character that has nothing interesting
18:ashley:she is a boring soldier character but she is racist,wow what an addition

Boring/bad
17:zaeed:i forgot this character exist,he is another soldier character
16:alenko:i have nothing to say about him
15:james:he is your average soldier character,but he has a little more charisma i guess

Mediocre:
14:legion he is a robot with no personality,he has a couple of decent lines and isn't annoying
13:SID:she is legion with more screentime
12:Jacob:he is your average soldier character,but he has a really good loyalty mission
11:Kasumi:she is really forgetabble but she has an AMAZING loyalty mission
10:Samara:she has a decent potential but she doesn't get much screentime
9:Liara:she is really boring but she has a lot of presence and screentime
8:Miranda:she isn't to special or interesting but she has a sweet realtionship with her sister

Good:
7:Grunt:he is likeable and has some lines that are pretty funny,i like that he isn't a real krogan
6:Tali:the best female on the franchise,she is likeable and has a really good loyalty mission

Really good:Top 5
5:Javik:He is legion and a soldier character,but good
4:Garrus:he isn't to special but he is likeable and iconic

Godly:top 3
Wrex:he is the best bro/friend in the franchise,he is just so likeable and loveable.

Mordin:i nearly put him on number 1 but i think he is just a tiny bit slightly worst than thane,mordin is the most complex character in the franchise since he is the scientist that made the genophage and is sure that what he made is right but at the course of time his opinion changed and in mass effect 3 he regret what he have done and sacrifices himself to cure it,he is one of the characters with most dialogue and this is noticeable since he has just so many funny and iconic lines

Thane:i think he is the best companion in the game since he is a complex character like mordin thank to his relationship with his son and his disease:he left his son when he was younger and now he suffers form a disease,when he notices that his son is going to assasinate a person he stops him since he doesn't want him to be like he was,even though he isn't a good father at all he still loved his son and when he died his son that hate thane made a funeral to conmemorate him since after he meets him in the loyal mission he considers him his fathers and loves him,really beatiful stuff.


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Ah, the game that destroyed discourse in 2012. Putting the ending aside for a minute, Mass Effect 3 is an acceptable conclusion to the series with a few innocuous choices in 1 and 2 leading to grander consequences for some peripheral narrative thrusts, especially between the Quarians and the Geth, though it could never have achieved the loftiest ambitions of a true sci-fi epic with millions of possible existences. There is suitable gravity to events and some real emotional gut punches with party members, again depending on how well you play, but it just doesn't move quite fast enough, and by this point the gunplay was starting to wear thin.

Then there is, of course, the ending. The finale itself is fine, the fight being taken to Earth itself, but the ending is full of last minute swerves, appearances, and most importantly, contradictions to established lore simply to try and make a bigger emotional point, a pet peeve of mine and a huge blight on a long-running sci-fi epic with made-up tech. Why would you contradict the effects of the destruction of the constructs your game title is based on, especially that which was the cornerstone of the final piece of DLC for 2? So bad was the ending that there was a popular fan theory that claimed much of it was a dream. If even that sounds more palatable to fans than what we got, that is profoundly sad.
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Gaming certainly has a canon, and it would be silly to claim it doesn't, but Mass Effect 3's ending poses some interesting questions about the way it works compared to other mediums. How often do you think an album, a film, or a painting only makes it into the canon after an extensive re-working, even of only one element of the whole work? How often does it even make any difference whatsoever? Sure, I can think of examples where it has made at least a slight difference - Iggy Pop's remaster of Raw Power, Apocalypse Now Redux, perhaps Blade Runner, Anton Bruckner's symphonies - but if you stack any list of examples you could conjure up against the mountains and mountains of expanded reissues and digital remasters that clutter the market every year, it will only ever be a tiny fraction of a percentage that matter at all. Yet gaming seems at odds with this idea of revisions being irrelevant - how can a canon account for DLC, for mods, and for all the various different types and scales of remakes and remasters, from hobbyist fan restorations to huge budget full-blown overhauls? And how can it account for the controversy surrounding ME3's original ending and the revised ending Bioware later released?

I first completed Mass Effect 3 on PS3 in June 2013, so I automatically got the expanded ending. In fact, I knew basically nothing about the original ending or the controversy around it; after enjoying Mass Effect 2 so much, I went out of my way to avoid spoilers. And when I eventually saw the ending I chose, about 70 hours of gameplay after first entering the series, I thought my ending was basically perfect for the series, for the journey I went on, for the characters I'd met and the relationships I'd built with them. So, as far as final impressions go, I ended up with a vastly different experience to somebody that bought this on release day. Odd one to countenance with the game's legacy, isn't it? In 2023, after so many patches and ports and reissues, you would have to assume that most people who've played this didn't even see the very thing that gave the game a negative reception in the first place, and yet that reputation has persisted anyway, with this still often singled out as the weakest of the original trilogy despite all its obvious strengths. First impressions are still king in gaming, it would seem. But is that really the best way to approach gaming, when it has individual works that evolve over time in a way completely unlike any other medium?

In any case, speaking of all those obvious strengths, I would place Mass Effect 3 as being very, very, very slightly better than its predecessor, but really, the margin is tiny enough to be insignificant. The major strength of the series is still the characters, and while ME3, by very nature of being a sequel to a game largely structured around starting and establishing personal relationships, doesn't introduce as many new people (and one of the newbies, Diana Allers, is dreadful - what a disappointment she is next to the cavalcade of strong, compelling female characters the ME universe throws at you), it does great things with the ones you already know. The newly unshackled EDI adds a lot of much-appreciated character and humour and her burgeoning relationship with Joker is very sweet, there's a real sense of tenderness in the way that either Ashley or Kaiden is reintroduced to the story, Jack's newfound sense of purpose in life is a fine development, the previously under-utilised Aria is given much more room to breathe by the Omega DLC, and some of the back-and-forth banter you can stumble upon Garrus having with the likes of James and Tali is good fun. Mass Effect 2 was huge in scale on its own and I did worry a little about a sequel's ability to fill me in on all the people I cared about without making the game some 100 hour long monstrosity, and yet, despite feeling quite concise for a space opera (it took me about 5 hours less to complete this game than its predecessor, on a harder difficulty), it addresses almost everything I could think of. My only real complaint on this front is that I'd have liked a little more of Kasumi, but that complaint is cancelled out by the way it ties up some of those these loose ends in ways that are better than I could ever have imagined. The final scenes on Rannoch in particular, with peace being brokered between the quarians and the geth and Tali briefly removing her mask to breathe in her homeword's air, are especially brilliant; that might be the most memorable thing in the entire trilogy for me.

The most significant change, and the thing that pushed ME3 above ME2 for me, is the pacing. There are parts of this game that are breathless, moving from one set-piece to another with barely a moment to take stock and keep up; it feels like there is a cleaner delineation between the action and the plot here that allows the former to shine brighter. At times my most recent playthrough reminded me of Avengers: Infinity War, a film I like so much specifically because it is completely devoted to action and instant entertainment at the expense of everything else. The increase in scope and intensity of the action sequences is apparent almost immediately with the Reaper attack on Earth that sets the game's wheels into motion, and the energy of that section appears again regularly throughout - and as much as I loved Mass Effect 2, I'm not sure anything in it could be described as exhilarating in the way this game's key action sequences are.

Much of ME3 outside of all this is kept as-is; the combat and the RPG elements have been improved but ultimately not changed too much, and the storyline simply builds to the same conclusion it was always going to, with Shepherd's final showdown with the Reapers taking centre stage. The most noticeable gameplay change is actually in the planet scanning, a minor gameplay element anyway; even the loyalty missions of ME2 are replaced nearly like-for-like with missions that allow you to build up 'war assets' - taking time out to do a favour for the Krogans means that they join you in your final fight, for instance; again, the number of these you build up dictates how good your ending can be. This is all fine, though - ME2 was a fantastic game, so why fix it if it ain't broke? It's the same story, the same universe, and largely the same characters, but when you're dealing with a story, universe, and cast as great as Mass Effect, that's more than enough to make it one of the best games around.
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Killed the franchise
Utter Hollywood schlock. Last stand on Earth, of all places. Cerberus goes from an incompetent secret organization of ME2 (just think about all their side-quests where they keep messing up in various ways) to a nigh-invulnerable force. Shepard cracking under pressure regardless of her background. While all the lore gets tossed out as the aliens suddenly turn incompetent and become 100% reliant on humanity. And the whole Illusive Man thing? Couldn't have ended that in a more cliche way.

And don't get me started on Kai Leng, or the controls where you end up ducking half of the time when you try to run and vice versa, or the forced multiplayer for victory points.

The ending? What about it? It was painfully bad with logic errors that you could drive a Normandy through, but so was the entire second half of the game.

If it weren't for the returning characters from the first two games carrying many of the scenes, this would've turned out even worse.

The Citadel DLC is the only good thing about this, but since that has a separate rating... into trash this goes.
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Zaltys 2023-12-02T20:19:44Z
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There are satisfactions ( Liara's as squad mate return, the gameplay, the great dialogue as usual) and many disappointments (no Wrex, no Grunt, not even a krogan in the team???, also the absence of Jack in the Normandy team, and of course the non sensical ending(s) that make you feel you all you did during the game and galaxy was actually for nothing is particularly sour and wasted), so the only way to enjoy this game is with its Javik's DLC, because he really is the savior of this third part; without him in the game, it would feel a really weak adventure. Also the Citadel DLC is a must have, the damn funniest moments I had in gaming, along with the Broforce game.
But the strongest force of part 3 is the music, it really, really is a monument of modern / electronic but also diverse music, and I think the best of the 3 games. Clint Mansell's participation is particularly outstanding.
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Still Great, Despite Itself
Mass Effect 3. Massively controversial when it came out. People did NOT like the ending. But the more I think about it, when DO people like the ending? Every time a hugely hyped multi-entry franchise comes to an end, it’s polarizing, to say the least. Back in the day, I wasn’t nearly as betrayed as everyone else was. I thought, eh, you could stick the landing better, but it’s fine. Now, the second time through, I get ten years of hindsight on my side. So, is Mass Effect 3 the pariah people thought it was back then? Well, Andromeda has come out since then, so no, it’s not. But let’s talk about some of the peculiarities.

They finally got skill trees right, for one. You get to make ACTUAL decisions with what you do to enhance your skills. And by that I mean, pick one option or another at predetermined points. Okay, so you could still do way more with this, but it was more compressed than the mind numbing stat dumps of the first game, and far more fleshed out than the second. So we’ve gotten somewhere. That’s all a plus. Squadmate interaction though honestly seems to have taken a dip compared to the last entry. Loyalty missions aren’t a thing anymore. There’s still a teeeensy bit of recruiting, but the overall list of goons on your side seems to be massively reduced. I think I ended the game with only 5 people in my party excluding myself. Possibly because my renegade run had pissed off half the galaxy by this point, but I don’t think I missed out on more than one recruitment. So that felt a little off. However, don’t let the lack of squad missions dissuade you; ME3 has some spectacular story and side missions.

The big gimmick in how the game moves forward is the Galactic Readiness index. You need to find things and earn the trust of people around the galaxy to bolster your strength against the big bad enemies who have been looming over your head for the past three games. This was done exceedingly well; the majority of Mass Effect 3 is the most hopeless the trilogy has felt so far. You truly feel like you’re fighting a war you cannot win. But then you remember it’s a video game and you’re scripted to win, so it’s all good. Your galactic readiness moreso gauges how many of your cherished friends will die in a blaze of glory before the end. If you’re like me, and feel the need to scour the map for every tiny insignificant thing in your way, you’ll easily reach full readiness before the final mission. However, playing a renegade will pretty much by definition cut off more options for you. But not enough to make any real difference. Apparently, back in the day, multiplayer had its own component that increased readiness, but this was removed for the Legendary edition as there is no multiplayer this time around. I never played it the first time, but I heard many people lament its absence.

Gameplay wise, it feels a lot like ME2. That’s good, because that game was fun. I had played Mass Effect 3 in the past when it came out, but never did get to play the DLC, which I can safely say is absolutely essential to the experience. So this time I got to host a party on the Citadel, take back Omega with the seedy underworld on my side, partake in minigames and arena fights, track down an ancient creator race, etc. It honestly added a LOT to the experience. Great pieces of DLC, all of them, and I’m glad I replayed the game for that reason alone.

But what about this ending people keep griping about to this day? Alright, so I think the main problem here is that your choices throughout the trilogy don’t actually mean diddly squat to the bottom line. You get three endings, and you can literally just pick whichever one you want. Were you a sweet angel baby boy the entire series? Go ahead and pick the “evil” ending. (though they’re all fairly morally ambiguous). You an evil ratbag scumfuck? Choose the good ending, the game won’t stop you. The endings have been slightly spruced up since the game's original release, as well. A bit more epilogue dialogue to ease you into the end credits. But it still leaves a lot of what you did feel somewhat irrelevant. Until you remember that you experienced it all, and no ending can undo that. Every little side story was part of your bigger story. All the planets you landed on and either saved or condemned wove together to create the tapestry of your own little saga as Commander Shepard. Not everyone is on this page with me, but as far as I’m concerned, that’s all I need. The journey through the trilogy was so captivating, that I don’t feel like the ending was a slap in the face, not at all. Some will disagree with me. That’s just fine.
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4.0
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DougDufus Mass Effect 3 2024-03-08T22:25:38Z
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3.5
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  • Bender161 2023-06-30 22:08:37.331519+00
    ending would be infinitely better if the conversation was with Harbinger instead of that dumbass kid
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  • ho7mes 2023-09-03 21:54:22.547086+00
    I prefer 1 and 3 over 2 tbh
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  • Flank 2023-09-23 12:31:36.163393+00
    Sad that that the last 20 minutes of this game tainted the legacy of the whole trilogy. There is a reason people don't talk about Mass Effect as much as they did back in the late 00s and early 2010s
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  • bonadea 2023-10-04 21:05:03.834443+00
    maybe a bold statement but its not a bit worse than ME2, though i cant really say thats a huge compliment from me. some plotlines handled with unexpected care (Genophage), some are irritating as f (cerberus downgraded to a villain-of-the-week, i couldnt even say i hate Kai Leng, but they deserved much more). its a good story, there are fleshed out, great characters and plot arcs (i quite liked the ending too), but fuck EA (i'm pretty sure its their fault) for forcing Bioware to make a b-grade military shooter above everything else, this universe deserves much more. but ik at this point im just repeating myself in ME comment boxes so i shut up now
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  • MuffinGod17 2023-10-22 05:01:52.872889+00
    one of the most over hated games of all time. sure, the ending is stupid, but the gameplay and the story up until the ending are both just as good as me2
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    • NickFerrant 2023-11-09 04:41:03.61403+00
      Gameplay is even better than ME 2 tbh.
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  • Zaphyra 2023-11-21 16:03:46.160553+00
    Kai Leng is the worst thing about this game.
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    • to_noid_or_not_to_noid 2023-11-22 22:42:01.845614+00
      I dread having to deal w/ him on replays. What the fuck were they thinking...? At least it's satisfying as can be getting that Renegade QTE to merc him heading into the end game.

      (Is it a spoiler to say you get to relish in killing this annoying dork whose been antagonizing you all game?)
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  • playitfucknloud 2024-01-20 20:00:11.612923+00
    The only reason this has a lower rating than ME 2 is because of the ending. Fight me.
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  • Shepard 2024-02-25 00:18:40.030149+00
    God damn that ending sucks but this game is too good on every other front for me to give it anything lower than a 5/5
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