Mass Effect 3 'Extended Cut' coming Tuesday
Mass Effect 3's "Extended Cut" DLC will hit next Tuesday, June 26, for North America.
Mass Effect 3 is finally ready to assuage fan complaints about its ending. BioWare announced today that the "Extended Cut" downloadable content, which gives more clarity to the ending, will hit next Tuesday, June 26 in North America.
If you were worried that it's just a few lines of throwaway text, it seems a bit more ambitious than that. An official FAQ reveals that it takes a whopping 1.9 GB of storage. As previously reported, it will be available to download for free. BioWare is careful to call it an expansion of the endings, and says that "it does not fundamentally change the endings." This is similar to early comments that promised clarity, not outright changes.
"The Extended Cut expands on the original endings of Mass Effect 3 through additional scenes and epilogue sequences," the FAQ reads. "It provides more of the answers and closure that players have been asking for. It gives a sense of what the future holds as a result of the decisions made throughout the series. And it shows greater detail in the successes or failures based on how players achieved their endings."
The FAQ also notes what save game you should load for the Extended Cut, but we'll hold our tongues here since it involves spoilers for the ending. Check out an interview with game producer Casey Hudson, lead writer Mac Walters, and community manager Jessica Merizan for some thoughts from the team.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Mass Effect 3 'Extended Ending' coming Tuesday.
Mass Effect 3's "Extended Cut" DLC will hit next Tuesday, June 26, for North America.-
I really like the original Mass Effect 3 ending. I never understood the fanboy need for total clarity and simplicity. Its the kind of attitude that really limits games as an art form.
But -- damnit --- more Mass Effect 3? Yeah, I'll play it.-
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Indeed.
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Posts like this make me think that people don't really understand that "games as an art form" shouldn't be negotiated in the same way that music, film, or books where authorial intent is held to be sacrosanct.
Hell, even in the aforementioned forms of media, there is still interpretation. I mean, one could argue that there can be interpretation in ME3, but the ending also ended up being severely limiting to player agency, which, I think is one of the core strengths to games as art. -
They broke their promise with the end they said it wouldn't be an A, B, or C ending but it was. They said we would have completely different endings but no, 3 endings that everyone got and there is barely any difference between the 3 endings. No I'm not raging I'm just saying why people are pissed and that is only two reasons.
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I can understand how you might like the ending...if you only played it one time. Once you see "another" ending and find out that no matter which choice you make, the end is the same (leaving the question of why they even made us choose a color!", it's hard not to be disappointed.
Also, the bullshit Normandy scene.
I could care less about getting "total clarity" for all my little shipmates. I just want some of the plot holes and stupid internal logic fixed.-
I don't think I could understand why anyone would like that ending even having only played it once. It's not that it was just full of plot holes and didn't represent your character's actions.. it was plain old dumb. Very clearly rushed in my opinion.
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I still love how Casey "3 lights" Hudson is claiming the fans just want "clarity" and not a different ending.
There is no way you can clarify an ending that was completely disassociated with the preceding 3 games worth of story. Oh I actually made peace between a synthetic and organic race? BRRRRP NO. Oh I made a shitload of choices and expect something other than the same ending with a different colour filter? BRRRRP NO.
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I'll watch it on youtube. I ended up not buying any ME3 DLC because of the ending, hope other people did the same.
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I'm sure more paid for DLC will come.
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To be fair, I think the complainers don't know what they really want but I think there were quite a few questions about "what happened to other characters" or "what happens after X"
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have an ihpone you can get generic ME3 app and build up readiness that way until its released
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Bring it in
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There's a couple of tweets saying they've changed the requirements so you can get all of the ending options with a lower Effective Strength. https://twitter.com/#!/TullyAckland No numbers though.
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hope it doesnt break saves hahahahahaha :)
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Ugh...and I JUST started a Deus Ex HR playthrough, just killed Barrett. :( Man, I aint got time for Deusy, Crusader Kings 2 (which I'm addicted to) and a fresh ME2>ME3 playthrough.
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Where Bioware suggests you should begin re-playing your endgame is interesting: To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.
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Once you beat the game, it resets to directly before the assault on the last Cerberus base that locks you into the endgame. Probably to allow you to access the planned, other than the Extended Cut, DLC once it comes out.
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Not only apropos, but done by an awesome artist.
Thank you. :)
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Looking forward to seeing it on Youtube.
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I kind of agree. I don't want to play through the least-fun part of the game again.
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I'm completely mystified by these posts.
Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose? The new ending is tailored to YOUR own choices made across all 3 games. Why would you want to watch someone else's ending?
The fact all endings were too similar was one of the main knocks against the original ending! And now that they've rectified the problem at our request, you're still choosing to watch some generic ending.
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So the 40 or so hours before the last 5 minutes was no good? Get a grip, ffs.
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Haha, you Sir, are certainly a foolish man to say the least. ME3 was probably one of the best games I've played. Filled with epic moments and emotional resonance, despite a sour ending.
What you do mindlessly do instead of eat up shit and call it gold is jump on the bandwagon with all the rest of the "sense of overwhelming entitlement" whiners and act like the ME3 ending is worse than the fucking Holocaust.
I do believe it's you who need to "get a fucking grip".
Fucking clownshoes.-
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Love it when I put someone down and they can't come back with anything. Vindication is a wonderful thing.
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Ahh yes, the standard "I can't think of anything else to say" response. Can you possibly fill any more cliches?
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this is a super convincing post
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Just watched the video.
Once again the shitty, outdated tech of the CrapBOX360 limits us. You best believe this would be more significant without that "2gb download limit on the 360".
Fucking console kiddies man, God, GO BUY A PC FFS!!!-
Hah, "a lot of fans wanted us to start from scratch but...well...we can't do that, we wouldn't know how to write that".
Read :- "we couldnt do that because the 360 sucks and won't let us as it would take more gigabytage than that thing could handle, sorry" -
Its not exactly a expansion pack that needed tons of new content. Most of the content barring the new dialogue and cutscenes will already be installed. I really don't see how the limit of 2GB is worth getting angry about when you consider most games are between 4GB-8GB average. Mass Effect 3 on PC is 10GB so exactly how much bigger do you need a patch to be.
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You mad bro?
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Wow, an original comeback.
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"clownshoes" is a lot better
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Apologies for the canned retort. I was blown away by your amazingly original "CrabBOX360" and "console kiddies".
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I disagree with Casey Hudson on his statement. I would have liked to have had REAL separate endings that had a good/bad survival/non-survival options available. I really don't like the way the whole cut-out ending was done. I wanted more variation than "pick 1 of 3 and the color changes" with a simple 2 minute ending sequence. It really didn't feel like from the telling, that I had any choice in the way that it ended. It was a poorly thought and felt like a very ham-fisted way to end the series.
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Not really, in my opinion being able to choose your ending kind of nullifies the point of the game for me. You should make the choices but it should be done at various stages or plot branches. In Deus Ex case they at least made the endings distinct and differed based on philosophies.
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