What the hell was wrong with the ending of Mass Effect 3?
Am I the only one who saw that it made sense, that this is what the whole series was gearing toward from the outset?
Was everyone else just pissed that they couldn't get an easy, Happy Ever After finale or something?

Cue 3 month rant, full of repetitive negativity, about how negative people are being over such a reasonable ending...

If you go there, people, you'd better use ginormous spoiler warnings, cause if one of you screws that ending up for me, there'll be a reckoning...

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*puts hands over Jerome's eyes*

I'll add NASCAR THE GAME (2011) to that list.

Boy, there were some insanely* angry people on the official forums when the game came out and it wasn't the "perfect NASCAR game it should have been!"!


*Insane as some customers made physical violence threats against the developers, just like some have to Gearbox staff and families over A:CM.
It's just a fucking VIDEO GAME!
If you get more than slightly disappointed about one, seek help. Please.
Because if something a lot more important makes you angry, I dread to think what you'll do then.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

*Runs away, giggling*

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MSgt, UKCM 42nd Reg., 1st Batt. : Hadrian's Wall. UKCM

Wasteland Workshop
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Serious response:

There's never been a bigger backlash against a "failed" game in video-gaming history?
When, in video-gaming history, has the fanbase / customer-base had such an open platform to discuss games as we do today?

The internet is big. Really, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the Internet.
And gaming itself has become more popular by the day - Something that was confined to rich kids, or enthusiasts, is now in pretty much every living room and many bedrooms in the civilised world ( Let's not get into an argument about what I mean by that, you know fine well what I'm saying! :p )

Take those two facts together, and you have an ever-increasing recipe for a shitstorm if something is released that fails to live up to expectations.

If ET was released today, in as big a blaze of hype and publicity as there was the first time round - Relatively speaking - I guarantee you the fallout would be FAR worse than this!

Colonial Marines isn't shite. Far from it.
It was merely a disappointment, compared to what could ( nay, should ) have been.

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MSgt, UKCM 42nd Reg., 1st Batt. : Hadrian's Wall. UKCM

Wasteland Workshop
Props, cosplay pieces, upcycled ornamentation, and miscellanea;
For the discerning survivor of the apocalypse.
Steve Fletcher : Maker, Scavenger, and Junksmith.
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Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

+50 beer points to Hufflepuff

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A11/TQ1.0.32150E1 Murphy, J - Covert recording headcam. There is no flashing red light when you are on Kona-Cam
Weyland-Yutani: Their projects are intentionally full of bugs. Avoid!

I never said it was the worst game ever. I've played worse games. I'd give it a 5-6 at the most out of 10. However you are failing to take context into account and that is big name IP, lots of hype and promises, AAA developer, glaringly poor QC as if nobody knew what the phrase meant, atrocious story that they attempted to shoehorn into one of the best stories in cinema, etc. When you hype a game up and have it made by a well liked/noteworthy developer and it fails to deliver, it's kind of a big deal. I don't think it was as bad as some people and critics make it out to be, but given the context, it's quite the debacle and will undoubtedly result in big losses for Sega.

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GySgt Gustafson, Dru R.
Callsign: Mud Shark
A06/TQ0.0.32122E1

Please don't misconstrue what I said. Let me paste some of my quotes for you:


Note the probably in bold in the second comment. I never said with absolution that it was the worst debacle ever. If you're going to tear apart what somebody says, at least get what they said right.

And again context matters as I posted above. If the game wasn't an Aliens game and simply said Timegate on it as the developer, nobody would have cared how it turned out.

I'm just responding to people. Then people dispute what I say and I counter that. It's called a discussion. If discussing the failure of this game upsets you, I apologize. Feel free to skip my posts.

You spelt accelerate wrong.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Well, durn.

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Wasteland Workshop
Props, cosplay pieces, upcycled ornamentation, and miscellanea;
For the discerning survivor of the apocalypse.
Steve Fletcher : Maker, Scavenger, and Junksmith.
linktr.ee/wastelandworkshop

Yes, I understand that. I also know what constitutes a discussion. And no, it certainly doesn't upset me, so no apology necessary. The failures of this game just don't bother me enough to engage in discussing them here at great length is all. I don't have a problem with it though, and can always come back later when the dust has settled.

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GySgt Gustafson, Dru R.
Callsign: Mud Shark
A06/TQ0.0.32122E1

Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing a resemblance between Indy in those pics and Captain Scarlet in the show's closing titles?

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... arlet.html

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Not a surprise:

Aliens: Colonial Marines, Wii U Version Cancelled

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/04/05/a ... n-canceled

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

How come I can't pick up any ammo when I have Hudson's Pulsie, even though I have absolutely no ammo left??!!
Notification thing says I'm full of ammo, yet all counters read zero!!

Which version of the game?

Sounds like a bug, so if it's repeatable, report it?

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Or blow it to tiny bits. Oh, wait... You can't - you have no ammo...

*snrk*

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I wonder how many folk bought a Wii U specifically for Colonial Marines?

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MSgt, UKCM 42nd Reg., 1st Batt. : Hadrian's Wall. UKCM

Wasteland Workshop
Props, cosplay pieces, upcycled ornamentation, and miscellanea;
For the discerning survivor of the apocalypse.
Steve Fletcher : Maker, Scavenger, and Junksmith.
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Hudson's PR takes different ammo. You'll notice some ammo pickups have a star on them, those are for the legendary weapons.

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A11/TQ1.0.32150E1 Murphy, J - Covert recording headcam. There is no flashing red light when you are on Kona-Cam
Weyland-Yutani: Their projects are intentionally full of bugs. Avoid!

Speaking of Hudson's pulse rifle is there any way to switch back to the regular one once you get it? I can't seem to and I'd like to try using different sights.

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Capt. Beale, Gwenydd M., U.S.C.M.
A01/TQ1.0.02128E1
Cmdr. U.S.S. Nemesis

Yes Gwen just go to your loadout and change it

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SSgt Kris "Bloodsucker" Kobus, VAS.
A09/TQ2.0.12136E1

On consoles, during the game I think you hold down the left analog stick and it shows a circular menu. It took me a good while to discover that...