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Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut is a free DLC pack coming from BioWare in summer 2012 that will bring additional detail to the game's controversial ending, a morning press release confirms. The announcement notes that the Extended Cut pack will deliver "additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes" aimed at giving fans "deeper insight into how their personal journey concludes."
The download will of course be available for all platforms -- those being PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC -- and they won't cost a cent. Casey Hudson, the game's director, added: "We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player.”
A cynical person might look at that quote and realize it means that actual play-oriented DLC will be coming later as a result. None of you readers are cynics though, right?
For those who need a spoiler-free recap, the March 6 release of Mass Effect 3 was greeted with a considerable amount of criticism by fans who felt dissatisfied with the way the game ended. The overriding complaint for most is that, for all the choices players have made over the course of three 40-plus hour games, the end didn't deliver enough in the way of answers and closure. Various fan-led protests spawned online as a result, and BioWare has patiently addressed those concerns every step of the way.
Your best bet for catching up on all that's transpired is probably the latest episode of Feedback, in which Blair Herter, Nikole Zivalich, Stephen Johnson, and Donell Tucker discuss the situation at length.
Also, just to be clear about this new content: don't expect a changed ending. This is a clarification, an expansion. One that will hopefully offer more context to those who feel that what's on the disc is lacking. Also, the press release notes that the Extended Cut DLC content will only be free until April 12, 2014. So... uhhhh... yeah. Be sure you get on that right away and stuff.
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richardddragon
see, it's not BioWare's fault that EA told them to push out an unfinished game, and at least BioWare basically said "we're going to fix this with Free DLC that actually finishes what we wanted out actually put out." I think the moral of the story is that BioWare should seperate from EA and be it's own company, and other developer's should start following suite
kyledhansen
The one comment that doesn't seem to really make sense to me is in regards to all the species stuck on earth. Not eveyone in every species was on a ship in the final battle. There could easily have been survivors for every single race on their homeworlds. If earth was one of the earlier planets attacked then it is feasable that other races survived and are just cut off from the abilty to travel. The only hole is that everyone should have died when all the mass relays blew up, but clearly there were earth survivors (final cut scene) so that hole will just remain there. The mass effect world still exists, just in a primitive form.
sunrisepromo
I was perfectly fine with the ending. I think if you use some imagination, you can figure out the rest. I sort of like that the rest played out in my mind. Think for yourselves!
Yes, you're angry because you don't feel the choices you made throughout the three games impacted the end, but those three choices are based on opinions formed in the first three games (the main question being if synthetics possess a soul and are worthy of life). If you'd been paying attention, you put more thought into the choice of the three you made it the end. I took a good 10 minutes trying to decide with path best worked for my version of Shepard. But that's the beauty of an RPG, you literally put yourself in the shoes of the character.
And if that still bugs you, look at this. In real life, sometimes every choice you've made up to a certain point STILL doesn't change certain aspects of your life. If you expect it to, you're deluded. Why should a RPG video game be any different?
Roggie2499
I personally loved the ending to the game. All it takes is some time thinking about the ending, and you realize how fantastic it is.
Why are all the endings similar? Because they're going to Make a ME4 with a different main (no Shepard) and the only way to make that game is to have the endings all be similar.
My thoughts on the ending were pretty much summed up and expanded on in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ythY_GkEBck
All that video does is explain exactly how I felt about the ending and how a few other people I know felt. Everyone who hated the ending were the ones who didn't put any thought into the ending (at least out of those I know) and wanted everything explained and handed to them on a silver platter. They wanted the perfect ending with everybody surviving, and they didn't get it.
Do I understand why some don't like the ending? Yes, it is vague, similar, and short. Do I think they need to change it? No, it's their game and they can end it how they want.
TheMightyRoosh
Honestly, anyone saying the fans are whiny and entitled don't know anything about the movement/haven't played the games. BioWare promised a product, and they failed to deliver what they promised. People have a right to fight for that. A lot of people didn't want totally rewritten endings either. Just some logical clarification as to what was going on.
That being said, if this "clarification" is sub-par, the nerd-rage that will ensue will be one for the ages.
Also bunnyglomp, now that you point that out, it is pretty funny.
pizzaboy213
The ending of mass effect was total bs. lets face it no one enjoyed the ending and "closure" doesnt give crap. Now people say they will feel better with it but its no different. the only "closure" is telling that your dead, your whole crew is stuck on some planet, the rest of the galaxy is fine but all seporated. Theres the new ending. They even say in the statement above that they arnt changing a thing hint hint YOUR DEATH in the game. hell it wasnt even a good death. You end up with 2 or 3 choices and no one is with you at the time of your death or knows what you did for them. the romance you had was meaningless because half of your romances you never see again and the other half you die in the end and they blankly get off as if nothing happened. Now if it were a glorious death i think people would have been more ok with it. kind of like how people thought master chief died in halo 3 for awhile until they got the hidden ending. That was a great ending. but this and what they are going to come out with a DLC is just a waste of time to get the same ending and everyone and their grandmother will be disapproving yet again.
macross2012
Why am I guessing this will still not fly with people
McSwankenstein
I have chosen to receive this statement from Bioware with more apprehension then appreciation.
We always knew there was going to be DLC after the game, it was advertised in the game!
That the "fix" to the game's terrible ending has been announced as a free download only makes me wonder how much Bioware/EA would have charged for it if less people had been so vocal.
The statement that, "We have re prioritized our post-launch development efforts" is also unsurprising considering the hit to sales any other DLC will take until the issue with the ending is resolved. Though the line from Mr. Hudson's finely crafted press release that stands out the most is, "... in a way that will feel more personalized for each player." An obvious attempt at appeasement for the protesters primary complaint that their decisions (in a sense THEIR Shepard) were negated by the ending they received
And on the subject of this week's Feedback, Nikole was obviously the only panel member who truly broached the complaints with the ending that have been resounding throughout the fan base and forums. So, please don't fire her for not towing the company line G4.
hellterskelter89
Here's an idea: How about instead of asking for the ending to be changed for you to "better understand" it, you come to your own conclusions? Some endings are meant to be that way you know.
bdemell
Disappointed that it came to this, both in the fans and in Bioware. I for one loved the ending. Think it played perfectly into the themes of the series and the weight that was put on Shephard the entire time. There is no possible way Bioware could have made a game that fit every decision and play style the millions of players made so I have no hate for a streamlined ending that focuses on the games ideas vice player choices.
What I'm really getting tired with is the comment "but all those species are left on Earth and the colonists will die". To quote Dr. Ian Malcolm "Life finds a way". Its the point of the entire ending. Sure you don't have galactic travel anymore, but neither do you have a strict order system where everything is already determined and every corner of the galaxy mapped out. In the end you are destroying the order based cycle of the Reapers so that the natural chaos of life and evolution can flourish. To do that you have to separate the galaxy so that those left can advance on their own and one day build their own mass relays and return to exploration as they once had but with no help.
It may not be the ending people want but it still makes sense.
Instead of this extended cut Bioware should just come out with the first playable DLC and use the beginning of it to expand the ending vice expand the ending and then give us playable DLC.
BobitoZ
Good move Bioware. Now just start distancing yourself from EA.
mee12
Man, the fans are serious brats. Don't you get it why it ends when Shepard dies?
Cause Shepard's story ends and that's it. ME4 will be about a different character
I find it ridiculous that these fans are seriously going up in arms like butthurt BF3 fanboys, hell you punks even pulled off thousands of dollars from Child's Play. It's sick and ridiculous, You can't handle a tiny death in your life? Listen Shepard dies that's it, it's not your story IT'S SHEPARD'S STORY.
I'm sure this Extended Cut just shows what happens in the Galaxy after the battle BUT I am sure as hell that Shepard is still mother flipping dead
YakShakedown
No matter what Bioware does these fans will not be satisfied so I dont even see why they are doing this in the first place.
Heartland
Originally, they were going to make people pay for cut scene endings? So they had the content all along and were waiting to release it. Doesn't exactly help their argument.
Just goes to show you what happens when you don't raise your voice, protest, sue (one fan at least), and boycott.
THIS COULD ONLY HAPPEN TO VIDEO GAMES.
digitaljack30
I can't believe they caved into the masses of whiny children. I've just lost a bit of respect from Bioware.
zeinternetz
This is probably the best way to resolve the situation. I don't think it will fix all the damage done, I know I lost any interest in playing any of the ME games ever again (I usually play RPGs at least twice). Not out of spite, the ending simply made me lose emotional interest. Future ME games I will probably rent.
Bioware's writers set themselves up to fail with the truely incredible build up until the citadel. You really are on an emotional rollercoaster. If Shepard died while he and Anderson were left bleeding on the Citadel and we'd have 'the end' on the screen there, I think a lot fewer people would be angry because that scene still worked within the final act's emotional build up.
I think we need to accept that this upcoming DLC is the best solution and call the rest a loss. ME3 had a bad ending and there is no way to turn back the clock. Time to move on our emotional investments to better future games.
TheBRADLeyB
::Spoiler::
I don't want 'clarity' on the ending or to know what happens to Garrus.
I mean as far as I can tell, all endings are the same with only slight variation. All of which however result in the destruction of the Mass Relays (something that the civilizations of the council have never been able to reproduce)
So no matter what your decisions are, prior to the three at the end, you still throw the galaxy into the 'stone age' of galaxy travel. There will no longer be across the universe travel. You can only travel within your solar system and maybe to others that are real close to you (ie. the ones you pilot the Normandy to that use up your fuel)
That means all the human colonists (the ones you fought to save and protect in ME2) are all left on their own planets which if you recall, the colonies depend on other planets/systems for their supplies Colonies are typically not self sufficient and some of them may be on a waste land with no water or food because they are mining out a planet. You've basically left them to starve.
The Asari and Krogan or other species you have on Earth at the final battle will stay there since Mars in not a habitable planet and those individuals can't fly back to their home planets where the rest of their species is.
I would like to know though where the heck Joker was flying the Normandy. I mean since Normandy is taken down by the blast off of the Mass Relay I assume every ship in the galaxy went down?
The ending of ME3 just made me feel as if every single decision I made didn't really matter because the universe suffers the same fate no matter what you do prior to the Ending Decision. It really brought about a new view on BioWare for me. Mainly that BioWare lied to everyone about this being a game of decisions. Whether you kill the Rachni Queen or not in ME1 there still is magical Rachni (reconstructed by reaper tech) that show up in ME3. Whether you destroy the Collector Base or not Cerberus still gets the exact same amount of Reaper Tech AND the Human Reaper (which should have been destroyed in the blast).
It's so ironic to me that I didn't like ME2 all that much because of the game play and feeling like I was being forced to do things and the lack of RPG. (It was too much of a change of the game from what I expected so i think Psychologically I doomed the game in my own head when I started playing it) but I think ME3 is almost a perfect game until I get the ending.
The ending just makes me say, "Why bother playing again? I have all the achievements except the insanity achievements and I already know no matter what I have the same two-three choices."
Also hey. Why can BioWare develop and get certified the DLC they 'created' between ME3 going Gold and Launch Day but they have to wait until Summer to get this DLC out? It doesn't sound like there's any gameplay in this new DLC so could it be that they just are using this to make people hold on to the game (not trade it in or sell it) and lessen the volume of used games people can buy?...
I'm sure that's not actually the reason at all. I'm sure they are just wanting to make sure they avoid the backlash they've received thus far from the community and figure they might as well try to cover all angles and do it right.
It's a great game to play. I still play Multiplayer, the story line has been a let down at the very end but all in all BioWare has given me the opportunity to entertain myself with a good 200+ hours of entertainment whether it be from the Games, Books, learning more about the Galaxy, Posting on Forums, Standing outside GameStop. And in today's world of garbage video games that's very impressive.
VeritasRex
Ok, Bioware, get it out. Let's wrap this up. Then I can go back to companies that won't do this to me in the first place. Go Go Bethesda Purchase!
7xsPD
Oh, so our choices still don't matter. It'll expand on the ending(if you can even call that thing an ending to a trilogy) they put in the game and just be, basically, a short movie explaining why the morons over at Bioware thought this was a good ending and want other people to think the same, right?
The ending doesn't need to be clarified, because it's as clear as day, it needs changed completely, not "clarified". It's obvious they didn't care about the ending or the players, all they care about is the cash(yes, I know the DLC is free, but that's only to make people think that they aren't all that bad). When Bioware made ME1, I could feel all the love and passion they put into the story and the game in general. When they made ME2, I could still feel love an passion put into the game, but not nearly as much as ME1. With ME3, it felt like they didn't even care anymore, it felt like greed had overtaken them and just purged all the good out of them, and I blame EA for the greed overtaking them.
They whored out on advertising ME3 because they wanted those god awful "gamers"(I feel wrong even calling them that) from CoD to play ME and all their future games. They tried to make the ending "Deep and emotional", but if they wanted to make the end emotional and deep, all they had to do was have Shepard and the love interest you chose in ME3, or chose the most amount of times, on Earth with children playing outside, after the Reapers were destroyed of course. That is the perfect amount of emotion the ME series should have, If you want any. The BS with the kid in ME3 just made me pissed off, even more so when (MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD) I beat the game.
Panda-chan
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/mas s-effect-3/1222317p1.html
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