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Mass Effect 3 "Extended Cut" gets dated
Posted: 23.06.2012 01:50 by JonahFalcon Comments: 21
Bioware has announced that the Extended Cut for Mass Effect 3 will be landing on the 26th June for the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game, and the 4th July for the PlayStation 3 version. The Extended Cut is free DLC, and will expand on the ending of the game's epilogue.

The developer also released a video diary discussing the Extended Cut. Check it out in the video below.

Source: Eurogamer

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By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
Chosen_One
Useless.

!!!MAYBE SPOILER FOR SOME!!!
That finale still present..with RGB color.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
JonahFalcon
Press the Red button, the Green Button or the Blue Button?
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
Chosen_One
Exactly...
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Jun 23, 2012
unsilviu
Some guy tweeted to BW about a colorblind mode. When they said they'd look into it, he replied "Thanks, I was only getting one ending!"
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
nocutius
Haha, nice one :)

It must suck for people that have been working for Bioware for years right now, the studio that got famous for their quality is getting wrecked at no fault of their own.
First they're rushed into oblivion with DA2 and then even after seeing the feedback they get rushed yet again with ME3.

Damn EA :(.

About the news, it will take a lot more than this to make me excited about another ME game ever again. I know the studio is more than capable but when your bosses are total morons there's not really much you can do.
By HenoKutus (SI Core) on Jun 23, 2012
HenoKutus
i will save it for my evil character on Insanity mode
Excellent!
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
Chosen_One
Heno, U violate the rating of this game. U should not played it at all. And, at last I know the answer why U so love this game...
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jun 23, 2012
herodotus
C'mon guys, you have to laugh. This is so ridiculous it must raise a smile of incredulity, at least if, like me you haven't bought "ME3". I simply don't trust BioWare for quality anymore, less so than EA which is saying a lot.
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
Chosen_One
@ hero

I truly am. :)
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
nocutius
It's not nice to laugh at people in misfortune :)
But better that than crying while EA is ruining yet another studio.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jun 23, 2012
herodotus
I tend to believe it's more BioWare than EA, and I am no EA fanbot believe me.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
nocutius
What do you mean by that? I thought that they were rushed into things with DA2 and ME3. It's kinda difficult to believe that they themselves would not want to deliver quality anymore, of course it's possible but just a bit less likely than the alternative.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jun 23, 2012
herodotus
BioWare wrote the ending for "ME3", not EA. "Crysis 2" - EA's fault, or Crytek getting sloppy?
I just don't think EA is the 'big baddie' here, and is almost lazily given that label these days.
By unsilviu (SI Core) on Jun 23, 2012
unsilviu
Actually, in ME3's case, I think it was all but confirmed that the ending was a rush job by Casey Hudson, who didn't even check with the rest of the writing team, due to EA cracking down on production time(it had already been delayed once).
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jun 23, 2012
herodotus
"It’s unclear what happened — time constraints or pressure from EA could have forced the team to rush an ending that should have had more time to develop. The need to make the game as friendly to new players as it was to returning players could have played a factor. The impossible challenge of writing the infinte permutations of player choices into meaningful endings may have been too much. It’s also possible that the writers wanted this moment for themselves."
- David Thier, FORBES

Intelligent article with I think a clear and objective opinion. The comments following it are interesting too.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/14/why-fans-are-so-angry-about-the-mass-effect-3-ending/
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jun 23, 2012
JonahFalcon
From the same article:

Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett puts it well: It feels like walking 100 miles to get lemonade only to get there and be told you can choose between a pair of shoes, some brass knuckles or a cheeseburger.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jun 23, 2012
herodotus
Hehe, yes I did read that. Well put.
By Chosen_One (SI Elite) on Jun 24, 2012
Chosen_One
lol, exactly :)
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jun 25, 2012
SirRoderick
The reason I believe they went over the writers heads is that literally every other minute of the story is actually very well written. Every goddamn minute of it except for the awful, generic, deus ex machina ending.
By Xyfer117 (SI Core) on Jun 25, 2012
Xyfer117
I'm looking forward to see what this adds to the ending... I know the ending won't change but it couldn't possibly make it any worse... could it?
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Jun 26, 2012
FoolWolf
mmm, can't wait to play the game - so I can finish and finally uninstall origin...
Need more time...