Mass Effect 3 Discussion Thread

[Grimmeth]

I'm guessing that either that level of the Normandy is just a little too big for a location that you frequently visit, or else there's an issue with having to move new NPCs in and out of that section all the time (since the conference room and the war room are both on the "far" side of the scanner, and you'll sometimes have visitors in those locations). Either way, the scanner seems to pretty clearly be a way to stall you while the game accesses the hard drive.

Except that it's *not* what Mass Effect has always been. If it's what Mass Effect has always been, then the first game would have ended with you taking the "Saren Option", i.e. an attempt at some form of peaceful co-existance as slaves of the Reapers. The second game would have ended with you joining Cerberus permanently. Both the first and second Mass Effect games end with you basically telling the mis-guided zealots (i.e. Saren and The Illusive Man) to go take a long walk off a short pier. The third game introduces its own mis-guided zealot at the last moment - i.e. Ghost Boy - and then forces you to either play along or lose the war.

The War Room Delay is to hide the game contacted the servers and checking your EMS score.

Otherwise, isn't that the point of the ending, after all the fighting, all of the options and choices you had both Saren and the Illusive man were actually correct? Perhaps not strong enough to fight it but they had the right idea - there simply is no conventional way to fight The Reapers.
After all the choices, the kicker is that, in the end, there isn't really all that much choice.

[stormblade]

Otherwise, isn't that the point of the ending, after all the fighting, all of the options and choices you had both Saren and the Illusive man were actually correct? Perhaps not strong enough to fight it but they had the right idea - there simply is no conventional way to fight The Reapers.
After all the choices, the kicker is that, in the end, there isn't really all that much choice.

Good thing they made (and marketed) the series as being all about chocies.

Personally I don't think that mass effect was all that people make it out to be, in the end (actually somewhere around the middle) it felt more like a movie than a game and the chocies were more superfical and aesthetic than 'real'.