Shack PSA: Mass Effect 3 'Extended Cut' available now

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• You also get the "Reject" ending automatically if you shoot the star child. : MH Knights
• Here's a better video for "Refuse" option, with a changed Stargazer sequence: http://www.youtube.com/wat... : Kub666
• Synthesis Extended: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewK7UwDTyI : wickoattack
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  Just saw the refusal ending and destroy ending. It's certainly an improvement. I would have liked to ... : snubble100
  • I love the attitude presented in it. Don't like my, CASEY HUDSON, astonishing endings? ROCKS FALL EVER... : LoioshDwaggie
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  Looking forward to playing ME3 sometime, so easy on the spoilers you monkeys : rasputinreborn
  • you probably shouldn't be reading this article then : wickoattack
  • Shepard is eaten by a leopard at the end. : snot3353
• not available yet on origin, in italy : Dagger Man
• It's certainly better. Though I did have other issues, like all the cop-outs of your decisions in the ... : JeanLucAwesome
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  Gotta love the maturity Bioware's showing after all the mistakes they've made. "YOU DON'T RESPECT OUR ... : IliyaMoroumetz
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    ..Well the refusal ending was actually something a lot of people were clambering for. It doesn't have to... : JeanLucAwesome
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      What people were clamoring for was a real ending, not this Deus Ex Machina BS. You like sad endings. ... : IliyaMoroumetz
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        I hadn't met someone yet who disliked the endings mostly because they were 'sad'. As someone else who dis... : drhazard
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          Where did I say that 'sad endings' were bad? I've said that this ending was just Bad! As in, poorly thou... : IliyaMoroumetz
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            You said gaming is supposed to be escapism and that reality has more than enough sad endings for you to s... : drhazard
            • Going back to your earlier point, I think it's fair that the Refusal ending ultimately ends in semi-failu : drhazard
            • Because maybe sad endings aren't always satisfying and happy endings can be. With the endings as they ar... : IliyaMoroumetz
      • I said it was one of the things people were clambering for, sheesh. Chill out buddy. : JeanLucAwesome
  • Huh? I...don't agree with this at all. I just watched the new synthesis ending, and it's pretty good. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  So despite what I said I played the DLC and while it gives me an idea of what BioWares vision actually wa... : InfernoAblaze
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    Did you play from the beginning of the Citadel portion or from before the Cerberus base? Your squadmates : drhazard
    • Ah ok, thanks for the info. : InfernoAblaze
• That's interesting...an ending about refusing to make a choice. Maybe this ending was designed for those... : Wise Men
• I loved Virtual Shackles take on it http://www.virtualshackles.com/324 : holinka
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  So the mass relays no longer explode? That's a pretty huge / significant change. Not just an "extended" l... : pyide
  • I like it. I think that's definitely an improvement : judge
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    The Citadel is also largely in tact and they rebuild it in the Destroy ending. Although they still kind o : Crimsonbeak
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      In the Destroyed ending the Citadel is a ruin, then shown fully repaired, and the Mass Relays blow up, bu : node
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        The things are pretty much destroyed (relays blown up the same as before EC, Normandy damaged) if you hav : Kub666
        • Oh right, that's kinda cool. I don't know why anyone would half-arse their EMS by rushing through though. : node
• Interesting overall. I have to say, if the game had shipped with these endings, I definitely would have b... : MOOMANiBE
• Maybe they changed this but didn't The Illusive Man say that the Reapers recalled all of their forces to ... : Crimsonbeak
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  Didn't care... watched em on Youtube and found them all lacking. I am annoyed that they left the potenti... : Q-ball
  • What'd you expect, though? It's a valuable IP. Of course they're going to want to make more games in the ... : Rice-Rocketeer
• Refusal was kind of what I expecting the first time around. I thought all that was foreshadowed by a cuts : K1Bond007
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  Hold on. My Galactic Readiness, after grinding the fuck outta multiplayer, the iPad game and even the poi : node
  • If you stop playing Multiplayer it goes down over time. : MacemanInTW
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    3100 EMS is all you need now, but for it to count you probably need to start before the Cerberus base (th... : Kub666
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      Does that include the shepard breath with the destroy ending that you needed 5k for before? : Crimsonbeak
      • I just did it with 3200 and got the best Destroyed ending with Shepard "living" : node
      • Yep. You needed 4k though, you get 1k bonus if you "save" Anderson. : Kub666
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  man everythign about those were a million times better. those are the endings that the game should have ... : R@zzle
  • They added just enough, I'm satisfied. Makes me want to try a Paragon synthetic-sympathiser playthrough t : node
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    I agree. I was a big hater of the original endings, but the new ones are good enough to give closure. Sti... : Psigun
    • Yeah, I agree. I mean...it's definitely enough, and while not perfect, it's satisfying. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • theyre better but still not what the game should have shipped with : bolneze
• Looks like I'll finally pick it up now. I was on the fence due to all the rage until they announced that... : melkore
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  By: JulianP x Show Full Post

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  Mass Effect 3's Extended Cut DLC fixes series consistency (faux choice):
  - The whole series has been all about: make a choice (paragon/renegade) and watch it (maybe not exactly how you wanted it to) unfold and that is where this ending succeeds. The paragon ending may not be what you wanted but it least there's a 'unique' consequence.
  
  If Bioware had released Mass Effect 3 like this there would in fact have been no controversy. Simply people that were slightly...mindf*cked at the endings.
  
  Here's where it fails:
  With all the entitlement of fans demanding a new ending:
  - (immersion) You got to look behind the curtains thus ruining it.
  - (execution) You have to replay a large section of the game.
  - (emotional investment) You were already not invested anymore since it months later.
  and most importantly:
  - You may finally realize that the Mass Effect experience isn't about getting: "your customized completely personal story" (aka; branching paths) but it's about: "nudging the story slightly" (aka; a focused experience, faux choice).
  
  In hindsight, the ending(s) was always good enough, just badly elaborated and thus too much of a mind*ck.

  Jun 27, 2012 9:20am PDT
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  Mass Effect 3's Extended Cut DLC fixes series consistency (faux choice): - The whole series has been all... : JulianP
  • Good points. I'm actually happier that they did SOMETHING rather than placate to critics like Andrea and ... : dadeisvenm