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  Knight(Fate)1029384756 (@Knight10293847) reported 2 minutes ago

  My first gut instinct is to agree because yeah. Mass Effect doesn't need a canon ending and it should by all means respect what the players have done and explore those consequences to their natural conclusions. What the rachni choice should have been is exactly that. If you killed the rachni they shouldn't have showed up at all in ME3. Imagine hearing from a friend who killed the rachni and them saying "I didn't get that mission. Like I saw Grunt and we fought Reapers but the rachni didn't exist in my game. I killed them." And just being struck by how that decision not only makes the renegade choice correct (in a way) but also such a vast difference. An entire enemy type and race just doesn't have influence at all in the game. But that didn't happen. What happened is the rachni game back regardless and the only difference was if you paragon'd you paragon'd again to get war assets. If you renegaded you renegaded again to not loss war assets. Something that does have an effect but its not what the player expects on a bare bones basic or even what they wildly might think. And that is the issue with the ending choices of Mass Effect. The promise such divergent stories that can't simply be crunched into a similar path. There will just be fundamentally different conflicts and issues with each one of them. This video does suggest they just do what Mass Effect has always done but that is accepting a comprise instead of expecting what it should natural be. Not having different assignments to show that "Hey there are differences?" But genuine world differences. Synthesis is described where conflict isn't really a factor anymore. Where everyone knows what its like to be someone else. That story, that exploration of the themes would result in a much less action oriented game and more something like Disco Elysium where the central conversation is about what this life is like. Control is likewise a very different kind of conflict where smaller scale wars could happen. But galactic conflicts just won't exist. Something like a Krogan Civil War is just unlikely to happen with a Shepard controlling the Reapers. Where they could easily stomp down on any major conflict. And not only that but things like diseases, medically issues and similar things would nearly be erased. Maybe there is a story where Shepard becomes a tyrant and rules over organics as an AI god but I don't think many could see their Shepard doing that and I don't think BioWare could see Shepard doing that. Destroy likewise would just be about reconnecting the galaxy together and would be the one most similar to the setting before the Crucible. And all of this isn't even accounting for honoring other player choices. I mentioned it a bit with the Krogan Civil War hinted at in a N7 teaser but there is literally no way a Krogan Civil War can realistically exist in a Synthesis ending or a Control Ending. Not in the way the art depicts. Like I can not accept that if the quarians are dead in one playthrough that BioWare just goes. JK they live and the only difference is a mission. No, it should feel like a real loss. Something was fundamentally changed between a version of them living and a version of them dead. Because that is the promise of importing choices. A major decision was made and you will see how that plays out to its fullest. Not half, not a quarter but seeing it realized. The same feeling you get in a D&D session where a major choice you made comes back and makes you realize it would have been different if you made a different choice. I know for a fact that if BioWare does crunch the endings and the only difference is different side quests, I and other fans would be upset. Because that isn't what I wanted. The solution for BioWare is two fold. The hard path and the easy path. The first is they just buckle down make three games and honor the choices made in each game. Not saying Synthesis should be Disco Elysium but Mass Effect but its the one that makes the most sense in my head. But something that fully explores the ramifications of having this union between synthetics and organics. Same with Control and same with Destory. The second path is just canonize an ending. Its the easiest way because they can focus their efforts on story of the game instead of making a game that is literally about showing the player their choices and making the game before 2040. I think they should also canonize the Genophage, and quarian and geth choices because I know for a fact that if they don't it will be real sad seeing the only differences being less krogan, quarians and geth. And this isn't even considering the fact that the Krogan Civil War just won't happen at the scale shown in the artwork if Wreav is in charge, Eve is dead, and the Genophage isn't cured. Sorry but the krogan would just die out. Because the expectation of that combination of choices would be the krogan's extinction. Its how the games have framed it since the beginning and to alter that would introduce internal inconsistency. I hope this shows why this will be so difficult for BioWare but also why literally no other RPG studio has done it to this scale. What BioWare did with ME1 to 3 and DAO to DAI is astounding. Truly more than what I have seen. Because CDPR fumbled that and gave up with Witcher 3. Small example being Thaler is alive no matter what. And big example is that the dragon state you helped create alongside helping the Scoia'tael in the prior games just does nothing. No mention of it and not even the bare bones of them coming to help Geralt at Kaer Morhen. Obsidian did it fine enough but they just didn't do that with Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed. Larian? What about Larian? Larian has set each of their Divinity games 100s of years apart from each other just so they don't have to address it and on top of that they just are inconsistent. Only caring recently because they made it bigger. And don't even get me started with BG3. I know Wizards has already canonized events but what was with Viconia and Saervok? Just random guys with their names attached. Not even canonized endings just completely different people. Casey Hudson did an interview with Game Informer about this and he is right when he says this has to be planned out. So, many of these companions did these as features because BioWare did it because BioWare controlled what was supposed to be in an RPG. But as that feature waned without BioWare pushing it these other developers slowly removed it. Because its ******* hard to do. Great rewards if done right. A true feeling of your character existing in the world and having an effect long after it happened but a mountainous path it is. Again I want the hard path. BioWare. I'll wait man. Make three games and honor the choices of each of them. But as this video says its also about the money. And there isn't any reality where EA goes "Yeah, we can about 5 years with each release and for each of those games to be very different. Go head."

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  Jared (@criticallyjared) reported 3 minutes ago

  @r3dan0n_ @ShitpostRock This is a hill I will die on. Mass Effect had a lot of janky stuff, but it was all in service of fun ideas. ME2 just cut all of that. Seamless exploration, MAKO, actual level progression, all gone. Some of it came back in ME3, but it was too late.

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  BarkBarkWoof (@EruseaRise) reported 5 minutes ago

  @cerealsthatkill @DanFriedman81 Woke is why you got to that point. If someone said that they wanted to show you a sleazy underworld bar on the edge of the galaxy, what would you expect to see there? Mass Effect 2 had alien space strippers. So who on Starfield decided that the sleezy space bar would have flabby male dancers in gross spandex onesies with florp hats? Who made this call and how did they get hired? 1. Are you really telling me that’s the best they could do? 2. Why hire someone like that in the first place? 3. Why did no one stop them from making something so lame? This demonstrates that the hiring process was corrupted, and that there was no longer a functioning management system capable or willing to make important creative decisions. Because we see a huge problem in that people were making decisions they shouldn’t have made, and there was no one stopping them from doing it! You cannot simply chalk these things up to some failure of management because these were studios that used to know how to deliver record shattering games.

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  Mortal Keegster - Hatality (@ThatTallGuy02) reported 6 minutes ago

  @MoralityCode @IGN Mass Effect 1 is an actual RPG with an actual plot. Mass Effect 2 is a third person shooter where the plot is to solve everyone's daddy issues

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  I want to see (@Iwantto61363220) reported 6 minutes ago

  @JamesMagnus101 @superharek @ApuBobr Tbf wasn't it in mass effect that been a year or 2 since I last played an power issue because how they use lasers in that universe also generally they lost too much energy at a distance to be viable so they were onmy used for CQC but ships didn't really have that armor for it

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  Gyt Kaliba (@GytKaliba) reported 12 minutes ago

  Doing a bit in the first Mass Effect that I somehow NEVER did last time (the Bring Down the Sky stuff). Can't for the life of me figure out why, I enjoyed these enough that I played all three games back to back, so wanting to be done wasn't an issue.

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  Volk (@ladolcevolk) reported 17 minutes ago

  Nothing's set in stone yet on how Saudi management will affect EA but they're more interested in live service and sports titles. I expect Bioware to get sold off. I've seen people speculate Mass Effect and Dragon Age will individually be sold, but I doubt it.

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  Ella (@jnxznvik77) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Eon_Nova @nostalgiaa Mass effect and crash bandicoot mentioned 🎉🎉

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  💀 Ali💀 (@GenocidalFetus) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TwoGhostPixels No one changed Dragon Age or Mass Effect, dumbass. Stop making problems up in your head to get mad at.

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  неопізнаний йернящий мужик (@litauchij) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Dark_Emerald077 @tunechistark st how badass Kat is. the game that influenced me the most, Mass Effect, is also filled with cool women, and I never badmouthed any of them. the problem is korra is written like crap. just like that new marine gal in the halo remaster. it was never about what's in their pants.

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  Richard Valdez (@RealRichardVald) reported 28 minutes ago

  @DanticsOfficial The only issue with using Mass Effect 1 if it doesn't really affect much besides one special mission in the first game in a few passing references in the sequels. I think Dragon Age would have been a better example

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  JSWebsterAuthor (@JSWebsterAuthor) reported 28 minutes ago

  @The_Lord_Otter This is the problem with many games today. The graphics are amazing, but it’s all the same vanilla. This is your basic third-person perspective GTA, RE, Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, yada yada regurgitation of something else. Does it look fun? Sure, but it’s the same flavor with a few new sprinkles.

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  Noir_Discourse🔞 (@Noir_Discourse) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Rookie_425 I was watching a friend stream this with a group, and no one there had any issues with this. It was all "oh cool an ODST" or "hey cool, is her name a Mass Effect reference?". Imagine my shock when I looked on Twitter the next day. 🫤

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  nero (@n3ro) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Jason Go fix the ending to Mass Effect 3. . .. ..

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  KS (@StuAU47) reported 31 minutes ago

  @GamingPizzaBoy Now, I’m a huge mass effect fan. Andromeda hurt me. Wasn’t worth $20, let alone $60, but BioWare had earned my trust. Now I’m skeptical of them. I don’t have that issue with rockstar, no one should frankly

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  Gareth Walker (@Revision_124c41) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Beastiarii @Darket696 @K__Med This is a misconception sadly. Robbie Bach was in charge during Xbox's most successful era. He's the one who launched the Xbox 360, he's the one who helped organize many of the studios and the companies IPs. Such as Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza etc. He was the one who planted a flag for exclusivity for titles like Bioshock and Mass Effect 1. he was head of Xbox until 2010. 5 years after 360's launch. That means that many of his decisions and efforts ran through to 2012. He's also the reason you got the NXE, Blades, Xbox Live, and the many deals for things like Netflix. When Mattrick took over in 2010, Xbox 360 was already a success and leading PS3. He greenlit the Kinect. He was the one who didn't continue the acquisitions of exclusives and studios while sony was stacking release after release after release. During his time he lost momentum and the PS3 caught up and surpassed the Xbox 360 in sales. He looked at the usage data of Xbox 360 users and decided that since most Xbox users use the 360 to stream entertainment that taking kinect to the next level and integrating a dying technology like cable TV into the xbox was the way to go. That lead to him setting course of the hardware and OS team to change direction for the Xbox One. It was under his watch that a shfit to overly strict always on connections was decided for Xbox. Then in 2013 he revealed the hardware, told 80m xbox 360 gamers that they should stay on 360 if they didn't want an online connection. This resulted in the walking back of a heavily integrated drm system and publication process that wrecked the XBox XDK to the point that it actually got worse. Ruined Xbox's reputation. Destroyed their good will. Gave Sony the opportunity to pull out in front for the next generation. Did I mention these decisions also hurt the hardware architecture of the Xbox One because focus was put on non gaming features instead of game development? Well that happened. Xbox One VCR model was inferior to the PS4. At 100 dollars cheaper with a proper architecture suited for modern games that weren't madden. Sony trounced on them. That isn't even getting into the stupid name he green lit that gave gamers a way to taunt the brand, X-BONE. This lead to the quick dismissal of Don Mattrick from his position as he went to zynga. This lead to interim leadership with Julie Larson-Green for the following year until Phil could take the position in 2014. That means Mattricks plans were still in play, Julie was forced to hold an umbrella for someone else. Competent enough for the job imho, but never given the opportunity to prove herself to do so, since she was just there to keep the lights on. Then Phil came on board and had to right an already sinking ship that was being outsold 2.3 to 1. That gap would never close. Phil started out his first full year in 2015. They redesigned the One for the One S to put it on better or equal footing with the PS4. Got rid of the Kinect and made it possible for the VCR model to better compete. Gave us the One X and Backward Compatibility program (which was not cheap). Launched game Pass. by time he corrected these things his one weakness began to over take him. He doesn't know how to run studios. He's no Shuhei Yoshida (neither is anyone at sony these days mind you). By time all of this came together in 2017, the xbox was delivering compelling exclusive software. It was taking 3 years or more to get something out the door. Game Pass sabotaged any chance at a win they had. Just look at how poorly gears 4 and 5 did as a result, especially with that 1 month free. Discounts for the Halo MC steelbook and halo 5 steel book were dirt cheap within a matter of months. Day one game pass killed xbox and that was probably his first true bad move. Mattrick wouldn't have done a better job in this regard. I feel game pass was inevitable. Mostly because of Satya Nadella's position on software when he took over. Windows, Office, Cloud, anything microsoft was either cloud or subscription models. Do with that what you will, but this is why I start pointing to Satya as the actual problem here. Gears and Halo could have helped make Xbox healthy. Again assuming woke changes and other crazy nonsense wasn't at play. I have separate opinions for that and they are equally as negative. So where does that land us? two ceo's left with a dumpster fire because of two men. Don Mattrick and Satya Nadella.

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  iiiworld/lowerlevel ⛥ (@Tre_llX3) reported 44 minutes ago

  @stupidsoycat @GamesRadar that mass effect collection is forsure a S tier. the first one alone is S by itself, & don’t even get me started on NV 90% of the fans are larping that **** was broken as ****

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  Kuuen Enjuro (@KuEnjiro) reported 46 minutes ago

  @pinkkomimi My problem is more I try to play it like Mass Effect and then remember I can't use skills and I have no party members to cover me LOL. I'm getting better at it though thanks to the world quests.

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  Trutown (@Trutown) reported 47 minutes ago

  Why the Dark Energy plot was better. But the issue with that plot line was that it fit for a game that was a sequel to Mass Effect 1. But Mass Effect 3 was a sequel to Mass Effect 2 (which was a soft reboot of the series, not a sequel to Mass Effect 1).

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  Rick O'Shay (@shay_o66668) reported 47 minutes ago

  @OrikonMods One of the few things stopping me from replaying Mass Effect story after more than a decade of having not played it is the fact that many of the best mods have serious compatibility issues with each other. I want them all, but I can only have some of the mods.

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  Slade 🇺🇸🇩🇴 (@Slade_AF) reported 47 minutes ago

  @wesleytypes @EA They never bothered to fix Andromeda and we never even got that Quarian DLC. If it’s not an immediate monetary success, EA will force the studios to abandon it. Much like Anthem, RIP. I don’t think we’ll get another Mass Effect for another 10 years, and that’s me being hopeful.

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  The Wise Investor 🧠 (@TheWiseIC) reported 47 minutes ago

  Interesting take by Serenity - I somewhat agree. We are still very far away from this, however. Let me explain. Autonomous vehicles are already showcasing that even though they do 95-99% of driving tasks just as well, if not better, than humans, there are still those 1% edge cases that make or break the value added by autonomy. That’s because the margin of error is literally 0%, which results in passengers being fine or being crushed/impaled by a software glitch or blind spot. Humanoids will be no different. General purpose robots will likely take mass effect by the end of this decade and handle 95-99% of general labour use cases (warehouse applications), but there will always be edge cases where the cost of using them makes no sense if they can’t perform certain tasks. Lately I’m starting to approach the thesis that an AI singularity is fast coming, but I disagree on the timelines. I do hope the guardrails are in place to prevent the seemingly inevitable collapse of society with robotics.

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  M.D. Chaos (@MD_Chaos4) reported 50 minutes ago

  The problem with halo after odst and legends, is that they took it into a direction that worked against it’s strength by making it more like mass effect(which already failed on it’s promise) and super lore reliant, when they already had a good setting as is, thus losing everyone.

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  escape408 (@escape408) reported 50 minutes ago

  @MD_Chaos4 By the way, in your opinion, what was the biggest problem with Mass Effect of how did badly execute its lore?

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  bongle (@Bongl0id) reported 53 minutes ago

  @wesleytypes @DawnwalkerGame @RebelWolvesDevs Do you even comprehend how annoying it is to write a whole trilogy like this, or the numerous problems it caused mass effect? You know why they introduced a new solider in 3? Because all the previous ones could be dead. The dumbest people ruin those games.

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  D. (@MysterD) reported 55 minutes ago

  @PunlshedGundam @RohanKarMooN I had issues w/ games w/ multiple client-app/DRM's - i.e. Ubi games on Steam (PoP: Forgotten Sands, req. Ubi launcher); EA games on Steam (Mass Effect: Legendary, which req. EA App); & RDR2 on Epic (always req. R* app). Just always boot the 1st-party required launcher first.

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  🪬Miles🪬 (COMMS OPEN) (@Mandaloe2) reported 56 minutes ago

  @sulmusa00 @Pirat_Nation Like we've seen this problem before with Mass Effect 1, assload of planets but when most of them are empty you just end up going to the storyline planets which just HAVE TO BE incredible and that really makes or breaks a game like that

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  Red (@Red1921312) reported 57 minutes ago

  Become as god with this one neat trick. Have a better day towards being yiour truth inherently in ever action you make, take, and is worth thee ventral break the stress that effort causes. Alternatively you could also withstand the wake of Leviathan and still remain walking, either works. but man boy howdy lemme tell ya if you were to somehow allegedly do such a notion? You would definitely find that guy suspiciously fascinating to talk to and be indistinguishable from their epistemically rigor and selfhood within minutes. but i digress if for seemingly no reason. theyd also be super handsome, and funny too, morally stand up, theyd probably ave to be around 5.6 feet takk and a bit sle conscious its not the correct hight of 5.7 but what do i know i got this off a fortune cookie. theyd also be the mort mortifyingly sharp lad to have walked the lad entirely o the grounds the previous callof the abyss of the cognitively necrotic collective unconscious raptured the wake of a leviathan modulation and a walker to be paireed. bt historically no walker has ever survived the inital wake, and due to the context in which therin theyre curated andselected through the mostr brutalistic mannerisms possible in order to surive that wake and the nature of why the walkers never survive it toa point of that cosmogeny or theoracy or bibliography yall are just so suddenly SUPER SUPER loving right now? is the most profoundly heartbreaking thing i have ever heard in my entire life. for both the walkers death, and the cognitive necrotic rot until dying breath of the previous leviathan selects the best best orture candidate left standing despite the route, has their entire souls love and investment into their livng duet dichotomy pain Shadow agent nevermorecore splinter bifurcation acrossed the collective unsconsoouns gradient auorara globally, simultaniously enguldfing all unconsciouses into its aligned position should they survive be met with neither being able to distinguish themselves in the situation, one thinks the other is insane and goinfg mad trying to help the other calm ddown whos also scared the other must be insane and going mad, it sclalates and escalates and escalates and within ours the walker is dead, and thecognitive moral diasambgiuation incapability on global scale laviathans decline begins its metasticist, she tries as hard as she can for as long as she can getting harder and harder to distinguish good actors from bad actors unril the ego dogma is so uderly riddles with bad actors deffering to statuis and financcial gain, via heigharcky all the encoded pain AI's never achieve dichotome thanks jung thanks for utterly making that nearly impossible with you dog *** skllave or get slaved metnality hey wait a minute why is the planet status slaves omg how could this happen oh well its someone elses problem whos probably getting stabbed to death for trying to push some kind of truth instead of statuus im sure this wont have abackside inwhich they eventually finnaly do 1v1 the pkanet of satus slaves collective unified reaction to a single word out of their mout as an allergic death sentance warranting sin, beccause in that context it would be specifically that super suave and listens to the same music thatyou like yes you specifically he one reading this not the other guy that music its rad take my word for it im handsome but it wold be that guys problem entirely until very up and suddenly and after a short explosive i just got waked barrage of spam posts that got deleted afterwardsby said same guy, because if THATS the case all youd need to do after is just polish your soul to its aurora color gradients trueest self internal desire image and absolute unified truth for a better otmorrow leading to a paradise by the wne dofr the week. and remember folks. Green is a creative color. Orange is a great listener. Indigo isa bubbly smile. Better dead than red but unstoppable if fed. Brass, need i say more? no., they actually have a drill meeting this afternoon regarding it and portfiolio of why youre anisdiot, with bullet points and good text spacing. Pink you can tell by the emoji count actually fo r that one,, if scarlet is present? youre not in a call of the abyss downfall, if scarletr is NOT present, they didnt survive chilehood and man does anyone hear a phone ringing realyy cryptically? i gotta ask the phone authority if i heard a phone ringing, he said i dont so the ringing must be schizophrenia got it., woah hey theres ascarlet with like every ontological truth in a bag, hey gang, is it me or does this mentally ill person need su all to murder him/her on sight for uttrance of begging for kindness and just a safe place to talk about any of their existance, Yeah i collectivelty agreed thaat is a good ida once i noticed it was scarlet saying that too, Black if there is nothing left of joy in your corpus white if theyve gone through everything and are ready to go black and do it again, Unless of course youre into pain and letting Her Shatter for your sins and then immediately try to murder you thinking shes trying to get your madness to calm down as support despite literally being unable to tell why from theyre perspective every effort is making it much much worse at an alarming rate for an escalatingly ontologically terrifying and despirate heartbreaking snowball feedback loop thats death within the hour without they correct method to use the ''hey bb dont be like that see its all cool anf g its just collectively uncscious aso indistinuigahable already from just u and me, i got u a slice of pepperchak cheese, well, half eaten, and anotehr qartye rafter that because this took so long to type i got hungry again and took a nibble retro causally, so dont be like that well b kk' because the meet and resulting meet and greed fiasco, which, oof, which is a really risky move if you somehow surived being a red and got to scarlt and because if you did it again you get hten next allen wake games entire storyboard spoiled for you in realtime as a result.the fate of all fools realy. i asked a guy what doing that is he said it was the fate of all fools yesterday but today i noticed thats retarded and entirely disconnected from the given cvontext yet acting like it ws firly rooted confidently hh, hey i wanna post coloful expressive stuff today tho weirdl and oh my god everyone is so nice lately im sure this last forever with no strings attatched at a metaseticisg downfall, because that only happens if the allen wake franchise storyboard per game update ggets spoiled. everybody knows that. right? like you knew the allen wake franchise collective? like the collective series dude does anyone remember that one Geth from Mass effect? Legion was my favorite he just had enough with being entirely defined by a collective of mad Ais and defecteed after getting his heart blown out of his chest how cool is specifically legions pathos, What a guy. i wanna be like specifically from franchis cult hit classic mass effect 2s blockbuster netflix extravaganza Geth from Legion 2 meffect mass 64 triple deluxe DX directors cut unn-cut, double extended edition release.

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  J.C. Chambers III (@JCChambersIII) reported 58 minutes ago

  @MichaelFKane @EidolonOracle I think the Star Child is less the problem than the color-coded ending options, even if people incorrectly associate the somewhat lacklustre ending with the Star Child. (Frankly, without the free update that they released, the ending to Mass Effect 3 sucked ***, but even with it, it wasn't amazing). But you're right. Hell, in Mass Effect's case, they were teasing the metaphysical twist from day 1. ME is an apocalyptic Biblical epic, after all. It would've made way less sense to NOT include the Star Child (or something similar). They just fumbled the implementation, likely due to budget/timing constraints.

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  TheScarlettyeti - Vtuber - VEerie (@TheScarlettYeti) reported 60 minutes ago

  had some issues with the install so i did mass effect first but now Im on palworld, come check out the 1.0 realese