GamingSins: Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 (REDUX)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I've done it.
8 Months
Over 450+ hours of replaying the entire trilogy
917 total minutes of audio recording
618,584 total frames in the video
A video nearly 2 and a half hours long
And it is complete.
It is the game that started it all. The game that led me on this path to nitpick the flaws in video games. The game that is the reason for me being the cynical gamer I am today. And now, the definitive GamingSins video is here. I was originally gonna release this video back in August of 2018 to celebrate this channel's 5 year anniversary. But boy, am I sure glad I waited to get it done right. It's been quite a road. But hopefully, I can finally put this game behind me and move on to better things in life.
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Marauder Shields the true hero of Mass Effect 3. He died trying to protect us from the ending.
That's a good one. 😂😂😂
Lol thats such a gay ass joke. Only idiots dont get the ending. U cant control reapers. U cant join with them or u become a husk. The destroy option is the best. It is the only way 2 win
@HERETIC GAMER447 naw that's pussy fan service. If that was the real endings it would have been in right away. They only put that in cuz so many people are so retarded they couldent figure out what was really going on. Control and synthesis is a lie. They already made that VARY clear in the games. They tossed the lore out for the crybabys. Trust me the reapers are liers killers and ego maniacs. Even the star child is just another vision of indoctrination.
RIP Marauder Shields
Wait what
Marauder Shields: Turn back... Before it's... Too late...
Shepard: Still trying to keep us from the ending?
Marauder Shields: No... Trying to protect *you*... From *it*....augh....
@Taramafor Haikido and yet I'm not wrong.
O7
Not the hero we deserved, the hero we needed.
Such nostalgia...
One of the best quotes of WC3. Another game that was screwed over later on by inconsistent writing
"You are offering a solution to a problem that you yourself created" ahhh now I think we really found the REAL message from EA here
So sadly I only got the LE, but here goes through the game's logic:
Reapers are AI and they reasoned themselves into their solution based in their own algorithms. Most AI in fiction are always in a place where their thought processes doesn't allow alternatives. And like every single use of this trope, they turned on their creators because "they too were a problem".
They "want" a solution they couldn't possibly do by themselves because of AI trope, so currently they're being petty. I guess.
"EA"
+ 1000 sins
never change, GCN. never change, please.
honestly this was back when ea actually gave 2 fucks
@Capslock Gaming XD
I agree 100%
*Meanwhile, in ME2:*
Shepard: *Probes Uranus*
GCN: *Adds 1 million sins*
@@sharktenko267 so I guess we can reduce that to 100 sins.
Everyone - did you die?
GCN - sadly, yes
GCN - but I lived!
I feel like no one will get this reference but sir i appreciate this so much
@@alexcabral1463 i understood that reference
He did die he just underwent project Lazarus.
@@duyang5357 I see you are a man of culture as well.
I understood that reference.
Not going to lie. I legit tossed my mouse in rage when the star brat tried to use the 'when fire burns' excuse.
What?
I feel that way every time an assassin claims to be a tool rather than a being with free choice.
@@ridesq so you don't like thane?
It wasn’t until he said “I’m not splitting this into multiple videos” that I noticed the time...
Also, the fact that it took A WHOLE HALF HOUR of this video ON JUST THE ENDING shows how trash it is. A WHOLE QUARTER OF THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT HOW FUCKY THE ENDING IS!
RIP Marauder Shields, we will never forget your sacrifice.
He lived as Marauder Shields
He died as Marauder Health
He tried to save you from the ending
And you shot him down in cold blood
Starting to think that the only other people who watched this video are people who hate this game.
@@clouteddickhead1730 ^_^ not nececerly even if you love the fanchise when its ruined by the end it simply leaves a sour taste in your mouth after finishing it ME had great lore and universe but o well much like GOT s7 onward much like SW the Disney's filler trilogy after the first film that was a good set up but it went to hell quickly it is sad
@@Tigrion I personally didn't mind the ending, so I don't understand the hate.
@@clouteddickhead1730 yup i get what you mean ^_^ i don't hate the game im just disappointment and sad it ended so unsatisfyingly just because the ending of something is crap doesn't make me hate all of it the game was enjoyable to play its just the story disappoints so much especially after hours of investment in the characters and story to that leads to nothing basically
Final segment begins:
*There's still like an hour left*
Big facts
Yeah, that just shows you how disjointed the final act was. No wonder the Destroy Ending was the one deemed canon by BioWare itself since that was the only ending that actually made any sense.
It took the end of the world, but he's finally back.
He had go out swingin
He underwent project Lazarus...
hes finally back, performing for you, hes the first member, of the N7 crew, huh!
@@dadeleemurphy85 From EWW Until Dawn ;)
When is the resident evil 3 remake sin vid.
“With only makos”
You’re right! Those odds are a lil unfair for harbinger.
Right!? Good luck getting a target lock on one Mako, let alone an entire squad of them.
@@headbangerdnb "i mean, how are you supposed to hit a mako when even the driver doesn't know where it's going"- some salty reaper player, probably
The one moment in this game i like is when Shepard says to TIM: I think you've been getting too close to the enemy.
You can literally hear the moment where he actually hesitates and seems to wonder if she's right.
Sadly this is a copy/paste from ME1 of the confrontation between Shepard and Saren on Virmire. Shepard states that Soverign is in control, Saren doubts himself, says "Nah, it'll be fine" and then boss encounter.
@@EndellionQT it’s an indoctrinated asshole who you’re at a disadvantage fighting, that’s the point lol
Here's a fun fact. In the codex entry for reaper weaknesses, it mentions that 4 dreadnoughts worth of firepower is enough to weaken a capital reaper's shields. Now, on Rannoch, Shepard uses the targeting laser to focus fire, and I quote, "the whole damn fleet" on the reaper. On top of the Heavy Fleet's firepower and actually having dreadnoughts, plus the Patrol Fleet, Admiral Raan will tell Shepard that the Civilian Fleet has actually been outfitted with cannons of equal strength to dreadnoughts. And yet, despite all of them being focused on that on reaper, it still requires the firing chamber be hit to actually do damage.
Not to be nitpicky, but the fact that the ships were in orbit and were firing into atmosphere probably significantly weakened the stopping power of the fleet. Air resistance is a thing.
@@freakyphil93 Good, you remembered the "Starships: Dreadnought" entry from the ME Codex.
Poppadop1 nah, just basic aerodynamics
@@freakyphil93 And that's one thing that was so impressive about ME1: The world building made moves to harden or ground the science fiction where it could. ME2 and ME3 just got more and more inexplicably magical.
Then why the hell they didn't mass produce Thanix Cannons and Cains, before the Reapers invade the galaxy in the first place?
"Do not create new antagonists at the end of your trilogy" was missed by JJ...
the thing with J.J is, he made an Emperor Palpatine figure, which he probably intended to have as the main villain, then Rian Johnson decided to kill him off, so once J.J got the terrible trilogy back he just went F this, I will fill this movie with retcons, fan service, and worst of all, he didn't even try and make an original sith lord, or even an obscure one from the eu, no he had to erase the hard work of George Lucas and say Palpatine survived somehow, so at least Bioware didn't just say, eff this we're bringing in Sovereign as the surprise main antagonist.
everyone wants to be a senator armstrong.
Cerberus and Reapers had been antagonists since the first game, and the former were only allied for fighting the Collectors.
@@timothymanuel9197 they brought back that one red face guy of the prequels in the midquel series, but didn't use him. I know he is dead in the EU, but not everyone in the movies knows that, so they could get away with it.
If you have a box, you can convince the audience that there is something inside the box. In reality, there is nothing inside the box, but I'll have made a lot of money before they find out.
-JJ Abrams on storytelling.
3 was so bad they made Andromeda. "We fucked up...how do we fix it?".
'we don't, just move to a new galaxy far away and explain nothing and keep almost nothing that made us loved and original.'
Oh Jesus, don't I know it. And My fool ass bought that game the day it came out and played it to completion. Of course (even if I consider Andromeda to be nothing more than high budget fan-fiction) that the arcs launched, I believe, between the first and second games.
Just like Edge 9 years later, the GREATEST SINNER IS BACK
Capta1n Ner0 “You think you know me?”
Cue Metalingus
On this day I see clearly
@@nosleep5222 everything that's come to life
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
A bitter place~, and a broken dream~
And we’ll leave it ALL BEHIND~!
Fun fact: the dark energy storyline was originally suppose to appear in ME3 and it would revolve around dark energy emitting from the galaxy’s core due to the overuse of mass effect relays that damage it. The reapers would reveal they cleanse the inhabitants of the galaxy ever thousands year when they become smart enough to discover and use the mass effect relays and the cycles were meant to drive them back to the primitive era to save the galaxy from being destroyed. You would then have to choose whether to cleanse the galaxy yourself or fight the reapers in the hopes you will find another way to prevent the galaxy from being destroyed
And this is around 1.000.000 times better than what we finally got in ME3
More than just that, another one of the earlier ideas that were dropped was that usage of Mass Effect tech increases Entropy of the universe. As you said, the Reapers were a safeguard, designed to stop the overuse of ME tech and extend the lifespan of the universe.
For me I can easily see this storyline progressing to the final choice being something along the lines of either letting the Reapers continue the cycle to extend the lifespan of the universe or, fighting the Reapers, potentially winning and accelerating the end of the universe, OR, using the catalyst to destroy all ME tech and Eezo in the universe, essentially destroying the galactic civilisation of all forms of travel, isolating all colonies, and making FTL impossible.
Taking the dark energy storyline further was the idea that the Reapers knew that the usage of ME tech was accelerating the Big Crunch (opposite Big Bang) and that the only way to stop it was with Biotics. But the Reapers themselves cannot use Biotics so they keep resetting civilisation in a unique form of Darwinism to accelerate the evolution of a species who has the perfect Biotics, both the Asari and the Protheans were close but still fail.
Now I fully understand why the writer felt the Dark Energy plot was going to be disappointing.
The Stakes were too high. The first two games had Stakes but nothing like this.
It would have basically ended with let the universe die earlier than it should, or let everyone you've come to care for die so the cycle can continue till the universe does finally end.
The dark matter plot at had hints and some relevance to the mass effect series. Other then the Geth, this whole ”Organics vs synthetics” thing comes completely out of nowhere was without much set up to it.
@Autismo And remember, that was established by Sovereign in ME1. I've been replaying the trilogy and I 100% remember that.
After finishing the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, I now completely understand and agree with this man’s hatred towards Mass Effect 3.
GCN: "When you are concluding a trilogy with an overarching plot and character progression, you do not introduce new characters who turn out be the masterminds. You're supposed to be wrapping up loose ends, not make new ones."
Me: Kingdom Hearts in a nutshell.
chaotixninja5 which is just objectively wrong. You can criticize the execution sure, but literally that was Palpatine in Return of the Jedi.
a small series called Star wars
@@a1tpseud0nym30 Palpatine was always an overarching figure in the Original Trilogy
@@a1tpseud0nym30
No, just no. The Emperor first appeared in Empire Strikes Back, and his presence is established from the beginning of the trilogy, since an empire must have an emperor. Hologram kid by contrast doesn't appear until the 11th hour, was never foreshadowed (shoehorning it in after the fact with a post release DLC with a $10 paywall doesn't count, it's just an acknowledgement that it was never foreshadowed), and it's existence contradicts the previous games. They are not comparable.
ZShogan you know what? I think he’s right about Palpatine. He’s just wrong about the movie. The movie should be The Rise Of Skywalker
Pretty much! xDD
Using a token dead child as a plot device for the source of Shepard’s PTSD throughout the game has got to be the dumbest plot of all time. You’re telling me after sacrificing one of your squad mates in the first game, potentially losing more than half your squad in the second game, and possibly giving your Shepard the colonist/sole survivor backstory keeps your character stable? But nooooo it’s this bullshit plot device that the stupid dream sequences are built on. So dumb.
The child represents the dead characters such as the dead character on virmire and how shepard never got over that as you can even hear their voice during dream sequences but I agree with the rest of it, it was very rushed
Huh ??? My issue with that is that it’s brought on by the child dying. And if you play as a Shepard who up until that point only lost someone on Virmire, it’s even dumber. Everyone else feels like more of an afterthought in comparison.
The child should’ve been whoever you left to die on Virmire. It would’ve been a great callback to the 1st game, fit well into Shepard’s PTSD, and had some really messed up psychological horror implications.
gvirusqueen i agree. Or have it be randomized with someone who died on the suicide mission if you lost even more people. In the end instead of Star brat the catalyst randomly takes on the appearance of everyone who has died so far.
Children are symbolically a representation of our future, as they are what comes after us and who inherits the world. Here Shepard can see his future burning right in front of his eyes just before he can get to it. Stop with dumb analytical discussions when you have no clue what to do than be butthurt
Here's a paradox for you:
I absolutely love this game and at the same time I agree with literally all the points you mention in this video. Mindfuck!
Love does not mean you can not point out short comings, if anything true love is pointing out flaws and working to correct them
People also love meth
I quite enjoy the game myself but ignoring or not agreeing with the facts he points out in this video would make me a complete jackass.
More of a paradox... this is my favorite Mass Effect XD
I enjoy this series immensely, especially ME3, however I agree that the story completely went on a down turn in ME2. The story in ME1 was by far the best and it’s like the writers completely forgot everything about it except for Shepard and Reapers.
Holy crap, he's alive! I thought you left us, not gonna lie.
Destroyershy96 I thought the same
HEROES NEVER DIE!!
“You all thought you’d never see me again didn’t you, WELL TOO BAD, I’m alive”
WOOOO HELL YEAHHH I'M SO HAPPY YOUR BACK 🤘🤘🤘
E.LA.O yup
Damn it Cell!
in the wiki said Thanix Cannons was up-scaled to put on cruisers and dreadnaughts. Volus Kwunu dreadnought all main gun and broadside guns are thanix.
What a waste.
What a waste.
How’s that a waste
So to put the Starchild's plan as simply as posssible:
Skynet built Skynet in order to stop us from building Skynet.
Sigh......."Facepalms"
prevent complete extinction by doing small extinctions and preserve them in data form. there's no contradiction here.
@@coffeebreakhero3743 How is preservation in data form worth anything, especially if you’re robbing them of what makes them unique? If anything, if anyone billions of years from now came across the Reapers and what they’d done to “preserve” civilizations, they’d get hostile in a millisecond.
@@SteelSpurs you need to realize you need to try to look at it from the PoV of an AI (and the goals it was given), and not a human
@@coffeebreakhero3743 The point of an AI is to learn and adapt, not force. We’ve seen AI in ME adapt, like EDI. Their goals change. Why couldn’t they communicate their intentions to species and, if a species declined, just leave them alone? That’s their choice. AI is always adapting to make choices. They couldn’t come up with a better solution? Plus, why would I consider the AI’s perspective, especially if the AI’s intention does more harm than good?
@@SteelSpurs firstly, you can not adapt in a void. that would explain it from your PoV. secondly, comparing AI reaper to AI edi is like comparing a monkey to a bee. their axioms and algorithms are completely different. the reapers were designed by a species that was vastly superior to anything else in the universe, and essentially designed them to control the population so they don't have to.
it's not about "considering it's perspective" like you're judging it *facepalm*. it's about understanding it.
I'll tell you what's not wrong with this game. The soundtrack.
Leaving Earth. Utterly spectacular.
MetalJoypad I used to not like the music in this game for some reason. Over the years I’ve come to appreciate it, I just feel like it’s implemented poorly within the game. The constant reuse of 1 and 2s soundtracks bug me a lot. Still a good soundtrack, much better than 2’s just doesn’t live up to 1’s IMO.
I thought they could've had more of the mass effect theme. Otherwise wholeheatedly agree.
Agreed, except for when it Loops over itself... or was that just my game?
It's mediocre. Not too bad but not that great, neither.
Marauder Shields is the real hero of this story. It's been over 8 years later and this is still the worst ending I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing.
For anybody wondering how you read the number of sins at the end:
one septendecillion five hundred seventy-one sexdecillion five Sins
Seems fair.
Dammit. Beat me to the punch
Geez, that's like 51 zeros
@@Spiral-Mark 54. I think. Idk.
52 digits in this number..
so the bioware narrative trainwreck has been in motion for a whole decade, and it only took a wasted andromeda and an abortion called anthem for this to come out in the open and people(like me) to piece together..???
Damn, I've never felt this dumb... Big ooof
Something to note about Thane vs Kai Leng is that Thane should've been able to kill Leng before he even knew he was there.
Go back and watch the first time we see Thane in ME2, when he assassinates Nassana. There are 3 armed and armoured guards in the room plus Nassana, but Thane manages to kill all 4 four of them within 10 seconds of dropping out of his hiding place. He kills 1 human guard by snapping his neck, another human guard by punching him in the throat then the Asari guard and Nassana by shooting them.
In ME3 Thane appears out of nowhere behind Kai Leng without anyone noticing, exactly like his entrance in ME2. So based on ME2 Thane instead of just pulling his gun on Leng and not even firing should've simply dropped down behind him (like he already presumably does) and snapped his neck; Leng does not even realise Thane is there until after his gun makes a noise as it unfolds, so there was absolutely no reason Thane couldn't have done to Leng what he did to a nameless grunt in ME2.
Anyone could have killed kai leng plot armor intensifies....... just look at this way most of the even if only via bonus powers Shep CAN USE BIOTIC ABILITIES wich was never used in cutscenes where as my Femshep can literally one shot a party of 4 to 7 Cannibals whit 1 cast of a Flare DONT MIND ME IMA JUST GONA SHOOT THE CERBERUS AGENT WHIT A PISTOL WHILE I HOLD ONTO THAT LIGHT MACHINE GUN ON MY BACK CALLED N7 THYPHOON also citadel coup on the car mind me shooting him 5 times while the basic clip for that particular gun whithout modding or upgrading holds 12 shots .....fk the writing is so bad........(i still like the game tho onec i play Andromeda if i ever will prolly gona like that too im too much of a casual to have my own opinion)
Well Thane was suffering from space tuberculosis that worsens with time, so him not being as capable as he was years before makes sense..
@@SantosAl Thane was able to sneak up on Kai Leng without him noticing, then best Leng in a hand to hand fight, until he stupidly decides to run at a guy with a sword when he has a gun.
If Thane can do all that while sick, why couldn't he just snap his neck when Leng didn't even know he was there?
@@primordialserpent1763 hmmm my memory is somewhat hazy about that scene, I haven't played the game in a couple of years, So you might be right, I'll look at the scene again.
@@primordialserpent1763 Because muh drama and forced tearjerker, that's why. Logic does not apply to Bioware.
Can we take a moment to imagine what the gaming community would look like today if ME3 had actually been a satisfying conclusion?
The same.
@@gamerkide12 nah
Probably wouldn’t have sunken into obscurity and been a pillar for “western” rpg’s validity as a part of media, that and andromeda would’ve gotten the proper attention it needed instead of…well, what we got.
Guess whos back back again the arizonian's back tell a friend
damm you lol
Cheese Bandit Enterprises will GCN do more videos in the future? Anyone knows? I love this channel.
I started laughing crying when it got to the bit about the reapers not being servants of the pattern and requiring another $10 to find it out.
In all seriousness, well done. There are so many people that are so glad you came back to do this. I'm gonna be honest, I got worried something might've happened to you because you disappeared for 8 months. I was very glad to see this video. Keep up the good stuff man.
This is the real gaming sins. He's actually funny and puts effort into his videos. Loved this guy for years.
Me: 2 and a half hours long? I wonder if it'll reach 1000 sins.
Game sins: EA. *dings 1000 sins*
Me: I...I meant individual sins, but yeah, they deserve that, even if this series never existed.
Well i mean EA doesn't really make that many games let alone anything new
@@blueripper1558 they just copy and paste. Then slap micro transactions all over it. Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2! Both crap at launch.
GCN: FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IVE REMAINED DORMANT!
GCN : WHO HAS DISTURBED MY-
EA and ME3 : Hey, best buddy !
GCN : OH ! It's you. DING !
@@MegaKira58 Thanks after helping battle the first horseman of the apocalypse all day I needed that.
You have no idea how good it feels to hear someone fully deconstruct how stupid and contradictory the mass effect 3 ending still is 8 years later. The ending still sucks and I watched your video just to hear you tear apart the ending.
People can't seem to understand that the ending was merely the "final nail in the coffin".
Just like GOT the ending completely invalidates everything that came before. If I wanna replay this series I just pretend they never made this game so I can enjoy my own ending where extremely tough choices are made that result in: only one species surviving (the Asari for the genetic ability) and sent away along with samples of the other species; OR the Rachni, Krogan, and Turians sacrifice everything but allow what little remains to maybe rebuild; OR Cerberus being taken over by Shepard who leads humanity to victory, controlling the Reapers at the cost of everyone else; OR the galaxy is consumed by rivalry because of the Reapers, and the only hope is to give the next species in the cycle some sort of context in capsules; OR the Geth are able to bargain with the Reapers, agreeing to leave and search for/integrate other synthetic life in other galaxies, believing this to be the only way to prevent cyclical organic-inorganic destruction. I think those are all great endings that make sense with variations for how each species makes specific choices. Seriously fuck Bioware.
EA: *_1,000_* Sins
Holy shit, that's a new record (not counting his E3 videos).
His gcn has infinite sins
I Think we have already reached the peak of unholiness
Finally some new gaming sins from the legend himself!
Yes, it’s nearly 2024, and although I am not Commander Shepard, this is still my favourite ME3 review in the galaxy. Had to erase all my Mass Effect games from XBox because it wouldn’t save ME1 games, so starting all over again I love ME1, get along with ME2, despite that ME1 cancelling Arrival dlc, but am unable to face playing ME3. I just keep feeling nauseous every time I start it. Thank you for this, even after all these years 🙏
I was firmly in the camp of “this game is great until the ending” especially playing the trilogy AFTER the ending controversy so I knew it was coming.... BUT YOU GOOD SIR HAVE ME THINKING! I see the flaws! I have seen the light!
Also it’s nice to see you back. ❤️
Reapers are such a huge BS.
Starbrat such an idiot.Man shooting it feels so good
The concept of Reapers is not BS. It's just misused. What makes it so bad is when a player like me could think of several better ways of continuing the story of Mass Effect 1 than the complete garbage we ended up with. That's the problem, the huge waste of potential.
@@adrianc3932 ME3 Rused By EA no wonder why it sucks Drew Karphrysyn's original ME3 story with Dark Energy plot got leaked and they had to come up with new quick thanks to Mac Walters who already mixed up things in the Story Raycevick said both Best and Worst writing come into ME3 writing.
meh, not that bad. They are problems all games have, and most movies as well. Plot convenience is the reason. Though this video does point out some of the bad writing I missed. I will agree on that. But it was still a fun game to play all the way to the end when you find out your choices don't matter that much other than seeing a different color. No ending to a game should ever be that bad.
You have no idea how happy i am for getting this video today... you are the ultimate sinner and i have been waiting for this for a very long time "welcome back" and never forget... TARGETING LASER...QUARIAN FLEET!!!!
I laughed so hard when Game of Thrones ended. Everybody and their mothers moaning and wailing about how bad the ending was. About how it was the worst ending to anything ever. In reality, I envied them. At least their ending didn't betray the themes and ideals the story established since day one. At least each character got a real ending, even if most were unsatisfying. At least it tried. As much as the Game of Thrones ending sucked, you can't say they didn't try. Mass Effect gets no such luxury. The entire ending is a spit in the face of every fan of the series. An rpg that built itself on the idea of player choice and consequences, in shaping your own story and having a real impact on how things turn out, ends with bringing every single player to the same conclusion. Absolutely nothing you do throughout all 3 games has any effect on where it takes you. No matter how hard you try, you will always arrive at the same destination. And as much as I applaud you GCN for your hard work that clearly shows in this video, going over all 1,571,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,005 things wrong with this game, none even come close to the giant middle finger that is the very most basic structure of the ending. Fuck you Mac Walters
Fuck Mac Walters!
I don’t know man, GoT’s ending was total bullshit too. But this ending made me desensitized to disappointments like GoT.
Thank you! Was it Mac who decided to can the original ending and make a subplot main plot? The idea that dark energy...the mass effect itself...was destroying the galaxy was genius. After defeating the reapers, your choices could have altered the fate of the universe in how the races managed their resources to do the least amount of damage to the galaxy as possible lest they are doomed a la global warming. The weaker the alliances Shepard made, the less likely they are to survive post reapers. Save the Krogan or the rachni? You're fucked post war when the population boom hits. Even if they don't want to fight their element zero usage goes way up. Did you not save the council? Did you support Terra Firma? Now humanity becomes a big reason why the species won't stay together post war. There were so many ways they could have made our choices count in the REAL ending and they could have tied it into Andromeda with the scourge being the result for massive element zero usage (the remnant being what the reapers tried to prevent in the milky way). The end of the Andromeda series could have ended with a return to the Milky Way to help them fight the scourge with perhaps the Kett on their heels with a new species filled galaxy to add to their perfection. I could go on and on and the more I do, the sadder I become at the lost brillance that was cast aside because LeAkS.
Ummmmm I didn't read your entire comment because ... holy book Batman! ... But I will let you know that the reason GoT fans hated the final season is because they DID betray everything they built since day one!
I agree but I think when it comes to some things in life, you just learn how to love the journey more than the destination. This was the case here.
To me, the ending takes nothing away from the trilogy... all it did, was just not add anything to it.
ME3 was actually my favourite ME (minus the ending ofcourse).
1:35:53 yeah the fact that *nobody* mentions the Conduit on Ilos aggravated me to no end.
I believe the Conduit on Ilos was briefly mentioned sometime after you speak to what's his name, the military dude, when you get back to the Citadel in ME2. He says that an expedition team was sent out to Ilos after the events of ME1. By the time the team found the VI program you found there it was permanently offline. Sooo... I have been seriously wondering why they could not just copy the VI program however they could and build a Black Ops base somewhere hidden so they could rebuild a suitable power supply for the Ilos VI program to properly run again. This way confirmation about literally everything you had done in ME1. This would of been confirmation to the Council as well. Which would force them to begin making preparations for an Extinction Level War necessary. Sure, it would suck for the trillions upon trillions of the spacefaring galactic species in the six years over the course of the trilogy, but when you are facing a galaxy wide extinction level threat money is no longer an object, the survival of your species becomes top priority for the foreseeable future.
I thought their was a codex entry in ME3 that mentioned setting about the conduit being inoperational despite attempts to activate it after the event of ME1. Maybe I imagined it, but I could swear I saw something about it in the codex.
@@KumaNoire which even if true, is completely asinine and goes against what was already established about mass relays: you can turn them on, but you cannot turn them off (unless you’re a Reaper). Hell, since the Prothean relay was built by the Protheans, it would be immune to that as well.
Like with Vigil, with which what Bioware did to it is also aggravating, them making up some BS about the Conduit being inoperable is the writers not wanting to factor it into future chapters. They want to tell _their_ story _their_ way, Mass Effect 1 story and lore be damned.
@@Ebalosus the conduit is gone, it’s mentioned multiple times since keeping it intact or on the citadel is only inviting the geth to storm the citadel again
@@DavidHosey1 is that in the game, or something a writer said on Twitter?
2.5 hours to sum up everything wrong with Mass Effect 3...
So you went easy on it.
Jonathan Ryan no he was overly biased against it which stems from his deep rooted hatred, actually
I need a good youtube name yeah mass effect is deeply flawed but the nostalgia well is a deep one
@@looinrims He is right about the ending. And he's right about the plot holes. His only flaw in his analysis is the game is still pretty fun to play. Games can be fun to play, even if the story is shit. See Fallout 4, or even Skyrim. He's right that the ending is a massive insult, and seems like the wrote themselves in a corner. They used a lot of words that seem "brainy", but in reality the words go in circles and make no sense. They underestimate the intelligence of their fans, that's why it's an insult.
Jimmy M I won’t disagree about the ending having holes but I still want this dude to tell us what BioWare should’ve done with their 18 turned 22 months of development time for the entire game? Do you notice very few of his ‘suggestions’ were feasible within that constraint? Furthermore again I still don’t understand the super controversy, like I get the joke that the gaming community explodes too fast but this was unprecedented, was the ending bad, I would say yes it’s on the lower end of the quality spectrum, did it warrant the reaction of trying to burn down BioWare? No, and I played the trilogy start to finish to 100% I didn’t skimp out on anything and still I wasn’t bothered by the ending
I’m going to stick with my original theory about why the ending sparked such hatred but regardless I still don’t see it
@@jimmym3352 Agreed.
I think the needing to play multiplayer to get the "best ending" should have been a x 10 multiplier
How
In the bloodiest
Of all hells
Do you
Still have a job
Ur conscience I got the ‘best’ ending without any multiplayer at all. It wasn’t even a thought, barely an inconvenience.
@@jaxusr235 how?
The mobile apps aren't good either if that's what u mean
@@josephg3252 I think the DLC gives you a lot of extra war assets.
@@Unsupervisedgoat ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I had best possible ending even without DLCs (except Citadel. Cause one does not simply play ME3 without Citadel) or multiplayer. So I would say they probably got rid of that.
Damn to be honest I absolutely loved the first two games and believed the third one also had some good moments in between but I agree with almost everything in this video.
Even I could come up with a better conclusion in 15 minutes then what we got.
I really hope they remaster/remake the entire trilogy and actually have all three games sync up this time. The blatant disregard for everything introduced in ME 1 was insulting.
In any case thanks for another great video and I hope we'll be seeing these more frequently.
ME2 and 3 need rebooted, not just remake I think.
The second one had its problems too, don’t be fooled. But it was fun all the same. I absolutely hated the Loyalty missions and, as it was already covered, the choices you made in ME2 had little affect on the story in ME3. Things still happen accordingly.
@@FatalFist I joined the ME fandom late, like 2 years ago and I was like, "Where's the plot?" halfway through with Mass Effect 2. I think if we ever get a game with Mass Effect 1's good main story and Mass Effect 2's good side quests, we'll have the best RPG ever made.
There's no way to have the three sync up without keeping the original dark energy ending. I really don't think they will admit just how bad their choice to switch from the main plot to a synthetic vs bio subplot was.
I would like to start by saying you can like whatever game you want for whatever reason. I just would like to know how you (and a ton of other people because ME3 sold millions and I see N7 shirts everywhere) made it out of ME2 without feeling completely betrayed?
The game is called "Mass Effect" not only because of a piece of shoe horned dialog but the concept that drives the series is that your decisions have a Mass Effect on the galaxy (hence the recap radio station!). Yet, about 3 hours into ME2, they throw up the middle finger and say "the hell with your previous choices, we are doing this now!" GCN pointed it out in the sin video for ME2; your 2nd in command from the first game just hates you in the second for no real reason! Hell I romanced that person and to have them tell me off for helping a group that brought me back to life was the exact point I stopped playing this series! Since then, I went back and completed everything just to find out that none of it matter! Nothing! 200 hours of my life meant nothing!
1. Good to have you back, KidAtari
2. Funny I just re-finished ME1 2 days before this
3. What? No "Shepard Is A Dick" Bonus Round??!
I know the writing suffered in the last game, and the ending sounds like it was made up in an afternoon by a freshman philosophy major, but I still love this game for its character moments. Mordin’s sacrifice, Tali seeing her home, Liara bonding with Shepard with the time capsule, the between mission banter that regularly offered new tidbits from the people you’ve become so invested in., etc. It’s a mess of a game, but it isn’t without merit and to be honest the first two games have their narrative flaws, as well.
Do you wanna compare the 2 games to this one?
I guess I found the one of the Delusional people GCN was talking about lol
@@RustyTheFoxxo no need to be shitty. I fully admit to all of the third game’s flaws. I probably wouldn’t replay it past Tuchanka if I picked it back up. But there are a host of problems that existed before 3 even came along. Like Shepard’s resurrection at the start of 2 is kinda dumb if you think about it for five seconds. The main quest in 2 in general was pretty contrived but it doesn’t get as much hate as 3 because it nails the ending and also because we were mostly there for the side stuff, anyway. First game has a few cliches scattered around, but because it introduces a new universe it doesn’t need to be airtight. There are holes in the tapestry throughout the trilogy because that’s what happens when mere mortals try to create art; everything is flawed. But if you didn’t get glossy-eyed when Mordin starts singing his final song you are lying or cold blooded.
@@RustyTheFoxxo the first game was ass compared to the third game. The third game had easily the best individual missions in the whole series. Priority tuchanka and priority rannoch are the reason I love me 3 . Also stop being a dick to someone else's opinion.
That's because it was. People from Bioware have come out and said the ending was made in about a month before launch and even scrapped original ending plans.
Took me a couple of days to recover from that ending.
With the director's cut
Daanish Shk fuck the green ending and the blue ending.
Destroy ending with max ECS, and the extended cut is the best one.
@@admiralwalrus3963 I still cant wrap my head around the blatant lie that is "red" cant pinpont only reapers where is the other 2 ending can pinpoint its target( blue affects only reapers/green effects everyone else than reapers.........)RED AFFECTS ONLY REAPERS DUH fucking lying pice of starsmuck.
Also Geth whit reaper code remember "no matter how you watch it thats a living being".
Directors cut still sucks, as does Leviathan. Hell, the previous Mass Effect game before 3 sucked too.
@@Ebalosus yeah man, directors cut sucks balls. The slideshow at the end felt like a big insult and what 'closure' it provides was absolutely abysmal. The leviathan dlc was just biowares easy way out to sort of provide context to the reapers and they still didn't do that well. ME2 was my first game that introduced me to the series so I have a soft spot for it but I totally agree that it doesn't hold up considering their overall objective, it should have been a spin off instead. Bioware seems to have gone to shit.
@@admiralwalrus3963 Red ending was definitely the best but saying that it left a lot to be desired would be an understatement.
Looking at this huge-ass video, helps me realize why I do like this channel a bit over Dartigan; it's the details. The time taken to actually pull details from within the same game or within games earlier in a series just to point things out.
I enjoy both channels, and hope to see more gamingsins videos, whenever and whatever they may be.
To quote the man himself "details, man. They are important."
I mean there’s also the fact that dartigan might not even play the games he sins if you don’t believe me watch his horizon zero dawn video and then play the game half the sins involving the story could be removed as the story explains them all at a later point that could be sinnable if he also sinned the fact that the game did that but he didn’t which makes me and lots of others question if he actually plays half the games he sins
This game is GCN's Spec Ops the Line.
@BrokeHomieQuan Cinemasins is the best, even though they don't sin games.
Like MK11 and Aftermath maybe?
GCN ruined this game for me and I will never enjoy playing it now... and I've never been more grateful for it.
Can you do both the original resident evil 3 nemesis and it’s remake just like you did for resident evil 2 and it’s remake
Oof, the REmake 3 would be destroyed.
That's a great idea! I'd watch that asap!
acheron16 Although it’s a lot of fun, it has some huge sins.
@@acheron16 a few years later you are correct on this he destroys that game and sins it very correctly
AZ from Pokemon X & Y: "It's been 3000 years🙏"
God I love Keith David's voice.
Al Simmons Spawn, Julius Little excetra.
Goliath too ✌️
Sgt Foley from MW2 campaign
Vice President of the US in Saints Row 4
Fucking arbiter (Thel Vadam? I think)
It's how he survived the last run to the Citadel, he channeled his inner Spawn.
Shepard: “This isn’t about strategy and tactics.. it’s about survival.
Me and GCN: .......
Survival is about feelings and friendship!!!!!!!!!
We don't need brains to win. We just need street smarts!!!
I’ve played enough fire emblem to know that strategy and tactics are essential to survival
They go hand in hand..... the fuck were the developers smoking?!
The whole quote is taken out of content every time by various people. Shep goes on to say that they have to be willing to fight, die, and give their all to stop them, emphasizing that to people who are seeming like they won’t at that moment
A real English woman would've said "The taps in the women's bathroom are crap"
We hardly use the word faucet over here
@Zack Smith I could smell the tea through the screen.
Ahem! "Blimey, the taps in the lady's lavatory are bollocks!"
A real English woman would’ve said “Oi bruv those taps in the loo are clapped”
So real British people talk in an uninspired way
I've seen this video so many times and it still keeps me entertained
I watch it pretty much every 2 weeks.
Since you’ve done the Mass Effect games, would you consider doing the Dragon Age games
Not done yet, still waiting for Andromeda sins part 3
Dragon age 2 especially.
Yes!!!!
Wait...I know you
Sandichi, Father of Tards ???
The Mass Effect trilogy is my absolute favorite game trilogy of all time, and yet I loved every nanosecond of this video because of how true it is.
I hate that EA indoctrinated Bioware into becoming such a shitstorm. I can hope and pray every waking moment that they'll turn around and produce a new fantastic ME game/trilogy, but I haven't found a shred of evidence that either studio gives a flying hoot about this fandom.
This is like a premonition!
Clearly the signs of how bioware was going to unravel were coded into ME:3 and this deep-dive shows us how it will happen!
Indesisive management, story arcs that just don't make sense, a need to make it accessible to new players!
And then? Andromeda followed by Anthem!
We needed this video 8 years ago!!! Ha!
Andromeda anthem and mass effect 3 were all made by separate people
Even the Edmonton team had many leave and join after mass effect 3
ME3 is fixed by updates and dlc to the point where if this guy included them he’d have a short video full of nothing but minor complaints. Inquisition followed ME3 and won goty. Andromeda was made by a B-team of about 30 people or so, and Anthem was made to be a Destiny clone and was only EA decision making, so of course they both suck
Now we’re getting Mass Effect Legendary edition where everything is fixed, upgraded, remade in the case of ME1, and cheap, DA4 probably next year, and ME4 after that. Now the BioWare has control over its own studios again, it’s objectively better again. I think this should be acknowledged more often
@@DavidHosey1 dont worry like I said on another video recently gamers are retards that turn on even the best companies after just one or two fuck ups, even if they drop good games afterwards. Has happened with Naughty Dog CD project red and now Rockstar
@@DavidHosey1 but those dlc were removed from the main game and sold later. Which means that the game would have been improved if they weren’t removed.
@@DavidHosey1 ME3 wasn't fixed by shit, he even acknowledged the leviathan and his Shepard had lines clearly indicating he played through that DLC in this very playthrough. You can't explain away a terrible ending with bullshit DLC, they could've had $400 worth of groundbreaking amazing expansion packs and it still wouldn't fix this chemical fire of an ending.
Inquisition earning goty was like a participation trophy. Being made by a B-team or being a Destiny clone doesn't justify the decision to do that in the first place. They don't have control over shit, the company is still one of the most atrociously managed studios in game development with extensive documenting on it.
ME4? Yeah that'll be great, the game that is going to have to shit on the legacy of the original trilogy even more than ME3's ending to even exist. Making any of their shitty endings canon and it most likely being the one where all the geth are destroyed, is nothing short of a middle finger from Bioware. Invalidating all the hard work we put into that beautifully written arc that was integral to the entire series and removing one of the most important races of the series. I'd rather they never made a Mass Effect game ever again than give us one without the geth in it.
You can love what Bioware has made without turning into a corporate mouthpiece. Terrible managers have been ruining Bioware for decades running the talent responsible for what we loved out the door with abuse no human should have to be put through, and it's their fault a once great and beloved studio has given us bad results. Stop doing damage control for them.
If I remember correctly there was a mission in Mass Effect 1 that ended with Shepard talking to his mother via vidcom. I've played through 1 a lot of times and only recently found it.
Relentles Reeper Yeah, there was. In fact, every background had their own quest in ME1.
What? I don't remember that at all!
TwoHeavens Yep. Each one was on the citadel. Earth born had a run in with his old gangs, Spacer with his mother’s former comrade and Colonist with another survivor from your raided colony. Even the military backgrounds had quests, but they weren’t locked behind the background like your pre-Alliance ones, and you got special dialogue if your military background dealt with that quest. For example, the pirate that tries to trap Shepard with a nuke has it out for Shepard, referencing the Skyllian Blitz IG Shepard was a War Hero
That space pirate mission, @@charlestonobryant807, is excessively easy... if you have 300 Omni-gel at that point in time.
Thanks jerks now I have to go find it myself....then I'll have to play through 2 an then 3.
Dream sin list: Mk 11
Uncharted 3 and 4
Injustice 2
Arkham knight
Jedi fallen order
And the wolf among us 4-5
Rdr2
You forgot rdr2
Resident Evil 3 Remake
Red
Devil may cry 5
Red Dead Redemption II
I realized that the motivation of the Reapers is actually pretty similar to the motivation of the Necromorphs/ brother moons from Dead Space. Both are Lovecraft-like ancient species that harvest other species and convert them into new members of their own race. The difference is that the Necromorphs don't try to pretend that they're trying to preserve life. Their motivation is presented as simply trying to keep their own species alive, while not caring about the other species. And they trick the other species into thinking that the Necromorphs are trying to preserve the lesser species. Honestly, Bioware should have taken a similar route with the Reapers. Where they pretend that they want to preserve organic life, when in reality, they're just making sure that their own race has a future.
This trilogy has a lot of plot issues... But god damn, was it a good ride... If the lore, universe, and characters weren't so good I would be a lot more critical, but my only major disappointment was the ending. These other issues pale in comparison to how enjoyable to overall game was, and how bad the ending was.
There will always be plot holes, gaming mechanic mess ups etc. in almost every game, I will always love the Mass Effect trilogies.
41:33 - These look amazing - That Drell/Hanar reaper fusion looks terrifying to imagine in game.
Yeah really. Just imagine if EA did not force Bioware to release a literally half completed ME3. That Bioware was able to finish the other half of their story and include those other horrifying Reaper monstrosities. They would *STILL* be some of the most horrifying enemies in video game history rivaling that of the Dead Space franchise enemies.
1:41:44 I lost it when you started speaking gibberish. I litteraly feel of my chair because i Couldnt stop laughing!
Yeah really. When I first played ME3 and came to that point in ME3 I was completely flabbergasted as to why those two missiles missed that huge Reaper. It was practically point blank range!
@@adamgray1753 cause they’re missiles that are only meant to be used in space conditions, not land conditions
I want the gibberish as a ringtone 😂
@@DavidHosey1, what you just said, is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent comment were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational though. Everyone who reads your comment is now dumber for having done so. I award you no points. And may God have mercy on your soul.
@@Oskanwhitchfather good job kid, you just wasted all of our time by making 0 points, giving 0 reasons of how I’m wrong, and showed nothing but how dumb the average argument against the basic facts I said are. I forgot there were people immature enough to think that their words are law, arrogant enough to never have an open mind, or simply unintelligent enough to say such braindead comments. You not only somehow managed to avoid saying anything constructive for your points, but instead managed to bolster my points through the sheer idiocy that you’ve demonstrated. For your sake I’m gonna assume that you’re ironically trolling, for a good natured laugh at something clearly untrue. It has to be that, cause otherwise you’d probably be simultaneously one of the most childish people I’ve ever had the displeasure of replying to on here as well as one of the biggest brainlets I’ve seen in a long while (and I’ve seen some pretty stinky tales recently, so that’s saying something lmao)
But you know, you’re just trolling so it’s all good bud :)
Hey Kidattari, hope everything is okay on your end during this. We’re always gonna be here you as you have been here for us. Take as long as you need. It makes everything all the better
Damn this game’s animations are hard to look at 8 years later
Not the game’s fault really it’s just ouch, especially since ME3 animations are so recycled, count how many times you see someone put their hand on their collar, or step forward on their left foot and lean into the other person.
I'll take this game's animations over Andromeda
Frost B no debate but I do respect andromeda for not recycling animations a second time however it’s still unnatural shuffling as if you’re trying to mimic walking without actually moving
They may have failed, but still
It's a hell of a lot better than Andromeda's abomination of animations and combat design.
@@GhostCell47 Andromeda's only praise is the combat system but not by a whole lot, the ai is still shit in that game
@@frostb1041 I agree. Andromeda's combat was really fun. However the rest of the game disappointed me greatly.
"EA." *Bling*
1,000 Sin.
Correct. That is correct.
ME1 "I'm going to find some way to defeat the Reapers."
ME2 "Daddy problems, dododododo, Daddy problems dododododo."
ME3 "StOp THem? WE cAn't dEFeAT ThE REapERs!"
The Mass Effect trilogy Ladies and Gentlemen.
Oh How the mighty have fallen
It’s epically disappointing how terrible the sequels turned out to be.
Imagine if EA and Mac Walters had not tainted the Mass Effect series? We would have had multiple good Mass Effect games instead of one.
Comic Sans you mean the Mac Walters who was instrumental in the first two that were critically acclaimed games, not to mention the previous series KOTOR? That Mac Walters?
@The Looinrims Please point me to Mac Walter's writing credit in KOTOR and Mass Effect 1, because I'm having a hard time seeing it. I just see one writing credit for both games, and that's Drew Karpyshyn. Mac Walters has a co-writing credit for Mass Effect 2, and I don't think it's a coincidence that Mass Effect 2's story and writing pales in comparison to Mass Effect 1's.
When the reapers said organics wouldn't understand it was because the plan was so silly and stupid it would boggle the mind of anything with more than an IQ of one.
Well, you're right. Reapers are simply controlled by a mad AI created by a race of space cuttlefish. They wanted to solve the problem of other (lesser) species being destroyed by synthetics those species created. So the cuttlefish race made an AI and got destroyed by it. Bam!
It's still a mystery how they got wiped out by said AI. Why the hell did they provide it with weapons of mass destruction and with an army? I can't believe they were that stupid...
All we needed to know is that the Reapers were out to destroy all advanced organic life for reasons we couldn't comprehend. Stick with the Lovecraftian horror. We don't need to know their origins or motivations. It's what made them scary.
1:56:21 my favorite gcn moment ever, I never felt a sin so much
Whose dad is this
I'm not a dad. I'm not even a man. Star brat just sucks that bad and Kid Atari's laugh is just that great
@@ANINIMOUSE. I was referencing Kid Atari, it’s what he says before he begins that contagious laughter
Glad you’re doing alright, thought you left RUclips.
"The Citadel is a trap"
ITS A TRAP!!!!!
And the mass relays are giant coilguns who can kill the reapers from another galaxy
The design of the guns are based on the mass relays
I'll never forgive that terrible ending. Screw the apologists a thousand times over.
The endings basically encompass what was wrong with the game: being rushed and publisher meddling.
You had no payoff to _any_ of the actually pressing matters that the players that bothered to play the previous titles would have to wonder over: That being how the other characters right after, or hell, even the other races in general fared after all of this went down, because that's what the players have been getting invested in over the course of the trilogy. You sure as fuck couldn't get invested into the plot or the villains, given that the reapers themselves haven't been developed *at all* after ME1, with only the Collectors as their henchmen being the main antagonists in ME2 and all the more generic "humanoid" enemies in the reaper groundforces are your main enemies in actual combat with a secondary role for Cerberus as the side villains, given that all the actual Reaper battles either happened in gimmicky set pieces or cutscenes. Hell, that we end up defeating the reapers was obvious from the word go, it's how stories like this are supposed to end after all.
The fact that this was treated as the entry point for newcomers to the series means you had to re-establish a fuckton of lore already known to any recurring player, which severely hampers any decent storytelling in the first place. Not to mention that you not only boiled down an already boiled down RPG (from ME1 to ME2 and then from ME2 even further to ME3) to appeal to a wider market of the cover-based shooting variety, all the while forcing multiplayer to actually get anything accomplished - because lets be real, nobody 100% the game on their very first attempt given that certain side missions fall off if you progress too far into the plot.
Andromeda apologists are worse
"Never before or since have I had such anger towards a piece of media that I've consumed"... Enter Mass Effect Andromeda
The first time I played ME3 I did not know that Thessia was the final mission of the game's original storyline. Everything afterwards was just random filler to bumrush towards the last few missions before going to Earth. If it was not for the fact I had been going around fulfilling as many side missions as I could before hand I would of missed well over half of the game and never returned to ME3 because of it's godawful endings.
First comment
I know this horse has been beaten to death, but may as well get my punches in too: the kid being the source of Shepard's nightmares is the shittiest writing I've ever seen. My feeling is Bioware would've had to code in 30 different dream sequences to adequately represent the choices you made through ME1 and ME2 (Squadmate left behind on Virmire, whether Kirrahe surviving or not. Wrex surviving or not, etc... Hell, even Jenkins would've made for a better dream sequences than some random kid that may or may not exist).
I used to dislike Vega until I decided to explore his backstory some more
He's an alright character, but he suffers from a lack of creativity from the writers.
Liara: By far my most disliked character. In ME1 she at least had a consistent character arc that made it a point to let the player know she is an antisocial, naive archaeologist. ME2 had the saving grace in the form of enough time had passed for Liara to shift her views towards becoming the shadow broker. But ME3 throws all character development and history out the window in favor of creating an emotional tie to Thessia, all the while throwing an ungrateful, uncooperative Asari councilor at us and the Asari hoarding their own Prothean beacon. Liara has no grounds to stand on when she confronts Javik and is told her own species only got to the point they're at due to the Protheans deeming them as the best chance at stopping the reapers in this cycle. I wish BioWare would've left the option in to choose whether to save Liara or the Virmire survivor, at least then there would've been a realistic response to the revelation on Thessia.
Kai Leng: Another victim of Bioware's rushed development. Could've been the perfect antagonist to Shepard, but instead he comes across as an edgy teenager.
Priority Earth: The lack of a soundtrack, competent level design, contrived "last conversation" scene with zero interest... this level could have been incredible had BioWare delayed the release in order to redesign the maps to allow for a better flow (such as crawling through the streets of London in order to make it to the operational zone after your shuttle is shot down). Along the way you can disrupt Reaper activities that can either have a positive or negative impact on your final push towards the Citadel, where this could either result in Shepard dying to Harbinger or succeeding in his push and activating the device. All in all, such a missed opportunity that left a sour taste in most players' mouths.
The game was delayed
By EA, BioWare couldn’t do fucall more
Everything you said is either fixed and explained by the games themselves or it’s simply your personal preference. Don’t represent opinions as facts when they have factual reasons to be disputed in the first place
@@DavidHosey1 yeah even I as someone who regularly shits on people who call the opinion police am gonna have to call you out not everything was “opinion” there’s no “opinion” to say Priority Earth was dogshit
I absolutely despise Liara. I would’ve been perfectly fine if she hadn’t been seen outside of the rescue mission in ME1.
@@looinrims priority earth was fixed and is objectively well written now that actual plotholes and inconsistencies are tied up. It's not the perfect ending, but it never was gonna be, so at this point any hate is just an opinion
Ashley jumps WAY more than five ranks, and the fact that she was a Gunnery Sergeant at her age speaks world about the Alliance Marines.
Also I fucking hate the Alliance rank structure so much. It's such a mess.
Why were the DLCs not reviewed? Would have liked to see that as well
Would you bother watching this video were it six hours long, Jacob Castle? lol
Adam Gray I would, it’s not a movie in a theater, I can pause the video whenever I want and resume later
True, @@looinrims.
I was left wanting, the DLCs can add SO.MUCH.SALT Specially the citadel DLC
@@adamgray1753 nah if he added the dlc then the video would decrease in time drastically, since it fixes basically any actual plot holes or leaps of logic that he talks about here. I’m pretty sure he left them out just so he had a reason to make this video rather than acknowledge that the story is fixed and objectively great now lmao
Don't you worry little Kidd, you still have Mass Effect Andromeda Part 3 to end your suffering;-)
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Citadel DLC and add another million sins for it, simply because of the fact that Shepard should desperately hurry to unite forces against the reapers, but instead plays games and chills at Anderson's home with friends.
I love Citadel DLC as a cool bonus content, but what the fuck.
I mean...you're not wrong. I fucking loved it though. I guess I just always dismissed the ticking clock aspect because it seems all these characters are enjoying, at least what they think is, one last night of normalcy before they chase into certain death. Of course that feeling only really makes sense if you make Citadel the LAST thing you do before the endgame.
It adds nothing to the story... And also we don't have Thane or Mordin at that point. Which takes away the fun for me since they were my favorite characters...
well what many do not realize is that the war was not about days. It feels like, but its actually months.
i loved the shit out that DLC. lol
The Citadel DLC was an absolut highlight
It's about time you lay into this game with the extreme criticism it deserved. Made the experience as a whole trilogy unplayable after the first run.
Okay there’s a few things here.
1: communication equipment will have issues working in combat areas. This is fairly common. It’s caused by all of the dirt getting kicked up and science which I’m too lazy to learn.
2: guerrilla tactics based forces are extremely effective against organized military forces. Anderson knows this and stays behind to help slow down the reapers by leading a guerrilla war.
3: plans never survive contact with the enemy. Anderson decided to stay as a last second decision because it was needed.
4: the biggest flaws of games like this is that you never actually see the “little” events that go on. Same with movies and tv shows. It’s actually why Goblin Slayer is my favorite anime, because it doesn’t focus on the Big Evil Guy
5: there is still no explanation as to why the guns use heat sink “clips”. There are guns today, that deal with that issue already (barrel shrouds, ported barrels and water cooling systems are a thing and I refuse to believe that a simple little thermal “clip” contains the heat generated when the gun is fired as the ENTIRE gun would begin to heat up).
6: this game was still fun despite its infuriating flaws. It could’ve been way better but it also could’ve been infinitely worse (see Fallout 76).
And finally, EA is worth more than 1k sins.
There is an explanation on heat clips. And it has something to do with superheated plasma generating more heat than an average bullet. I really hate when people dog on the futuristic/science fiction genre for stuff like this. Its called science FICTION for a reason. If you don’t like how laser swords work in the story, why dont you go invent one you fucking genius.
Owen Torres we can’t invent these things because the science behind them is fiction. Just a thought you half a lemon
Lucas Henry right. So why are you criticizing the game based on real life science? You fucking quarter of a lemon
The reason thermal clips are used its because they disperse heat faster than any other method. The reason guns don't fire without them is that the safety is automatically engaged to prevent the gun from being damaged by heat buildup.
Although I enjoy playing ME 3 because of some epic moments, Tutchanka, Ranoch, Citadel DLC, Garrus romance, Tali, to be able to interact so lovely with all the squad mates. The gameplay is nice, one word, black widow
For me it’s Kai Leng.
@@briangronberg6507 Yeah, he sucks, every time he appears immersion transform into hatred and you just wanna bash his face into a pulp...
Man it’s been 11 years, sooner or later you just gotta move on from it.
@@FlexedNoose It's impossible, I've tried. But Mass Effect is too close to my heart. It was the first game I played of this kind, and still one of my favorites ever. This wound will never heal.
Instead of Kai Leng, HARKEN should’ve been our nemesis though out this game, as he was in the two previous games as a minor rival.
add some Reaper cybernetics to up his capabilities.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Harkin's only involvement in the first game was as a potential connection to get into contact with Garrus. Sure, he's a dick to Shepard if you go to him, but Harkin's a dick to everyone. That doesn't make him a rival, even a minor one. Hell, you can completely skip meeting Harkin at all and just go to Barla Von, so there's the possibility that Shepard doesn't meet Harkin at all until Mass Effect 2, at which point they have to be reminded who Harkin is because he was so inconsequential. And in Mass Effect 2 itself, the only point at which he turns up is in Garrus's loyalty mission and Garrus is the one that can does or doesn't put a bullet in him (admittedly, non-fatally). Shepard's only involvement there is whether or not they tell Garrus not to bust a cap in his ass.
The title does need a partial tweak: Everything IS wrong with Mass Effect 3.
😂😂😂 great title
I love Mass Effect but 3 reeks of a game that was crunch'd to death. It was fueled by caffeine overdoses and total exhaustion.
I started playing mass effect for the first time with the legendary edition and when I finish mass effect 2 I consider them one of my favorite games, then I finished 3 and I don't want to play mass effect again
just wanted to pint out at -1:19:34 when James says Cmd Shepard has had no contact with Cerberus he's caring a katana shotgun fused with an avenger assault rifle.
Elder Moose this fucking embarrassment is the pinnacle of this whole problem: weapons either switch to default those, or merge with them, its not gamebreaking, but it’s ultimate irritant, when you carry a M-11 Wraith, and then it turns into pussy-class Avenger
Does anyone else wish the reaper’s origins were left as a mystery? I get that the dark energy plot line is better than what we got but even the dark energy plot takes the intimidation out of sovereign’s speech from ME1 imo
I would have been happy if their motivation had been simple procreation.
@@voteDC seems to be the motivation of many humans.
Given the explanation we got, I think everyone would have been happier if the Reapers' origins had remained an unknown mystery.
@@vulgaritar48 Yeah, sometimes I like it when things stay unknown.
I really don’t like the Council. If you sacrificed them in the climax of Mass Effect 1, like I did because “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” and all that. Also, we needed to ensure that we were hitting Sovereign with everything at once. I went Paragon Route throughout the story and I still accepted the 20+ Renegade points that came with letting the Council die.
I had hoped that the second Council would take the initiative after that attack on the Citadel to talk to Shepard, Anderson, literally any of the Normandy crew, especially Liara, and given the payoff of the Council taking the Reaper threat more seriously.
I can understand trying to cover it up to not cause a mass panic and I can even buy the first Council trying to apply reason and their given logic about Saren at the time before Eden Prime. Lots of unknowns, too many maybes, it makes sense. At first.
But the Council, whether you let them die or save them, turn out to be completely unreliable and a waste of time even when you have definitive proof that the threat is nowhere near dead.
1:01:15 the geth are being augmented with the reaper code so it's perfectly plausible they could have more processing power than her
EDI is stuck in a quantum blue box on the normandy and the geth are multiple programs who can inhabit servers, ships, fighters, mobile platforms etc. meaning they have more space for the hardware to improve their processing speed
Worst ending in the history of entertainment pretty much nails it. With that said, you would not have needed an extremly talented writer to write a better story than this cause if my dog shits on a piece of paper it would be a better story. Yet the man who wrote this still earned a lot of money with it and has a job while my dog didn't and doesn't which is the actual unfairness of this world this game makes you understand.
Rise of Skywalker: You're dumb. We have a much worse ending to a highly anticipated trilogy that makes a dog pooping on paper infinitely more entertaining. 😂😂 Hold our beer Mass Effect 3. 😂😂
Me after watching Episode 9: Wow...this movie is so terrible. I will now watch the Mass Effect 3 ending to feel better.
58:50 In ME2 you don’t convince the Quarians to avoid fighting the Geth. At best with legion in your squad you can present the possibility of peace talks between the Geth and Quarians.
Still patiently waiting for mk 11 sins
Ronda Rousey and Dmitri Vegas are gonna earn the game a crapload of sins.
Oh yeah. Not to mention that bullshit Sindel retcon ending.
Máster Hanzo dies: 10,000
D'vorrah keeps killing off MK kharacters: 100,000.
@@shis1988 Not to mention her being in the game instead of Takeda, Rain or Mileena would earn the game 100,000 sins lol.
@@nguyenucnhan7935 and that Shao Khan isn't as badass as he was in previous games. I know he's not the final boss, but he was still easy to beat.
15:25 I can answer that: Drew Karpyshyn left. Also, check out Logical Premise OSABC, great and improved ME storyline with soul behind it, very much worth reading if you like ME overall
Drew Karpyshyn was the key to Mass Effect being good. Once Drew was no longer the sole writer for the game, it was all down-hill.
I have watched this video so many times and I will never stop enjoying watching you roast the shit out of this game. Playing this game is like getting a big box of disappointment.
i feel different. I love this video, i almost agree with everything (beside the few things that are explainable, what he sometimes do not mention) and i still love the game.
Same, I watch this video like 2x a week and die laughing every time
"You are essentially offer a solution to a problem...that you yourself created!"
Damn, that sounds a lot like a common business practice for AAA....OH MY GOD.
8 months of waiting, I come back to see how it going and I see the live stream, glad I came back at the right time
I like how Marauder Shields starts with barely any shields, as if to symbolize how little is separating you from Mount Disappointment at that point.
That was a long two hours. Satisfying nonetheless. Welcome back, GCN.