95% true. 

The Painstakingly Accurate Summary of Mass Effect: Deception, now in handy picture form.

this is nice read about how terrible the ending is from a writer's point of view.

http://jmstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/03/2...-mass-effect-3/

Yes, rEApers... 

I stopped listening to them after the C&C Tiberian Twilight fiasco. What a disaster that was. An abomination.

Just like Mass Effect 3 too.

not necessarily - the future of gaming may be - gamer funded projects -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/postud...a-reed-thriller

what do u mean not working?
Wasteland 2 collected over 1.5M dollars in funding already backed by so many major industry icons...

in case u dunno, wasteland was the main inspiration between games like the fallout series...

the start of kickstarter basically means the end for the need of a publisher thus giving the developers full control over the game...

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Added on March 29, 2012, 1:12 am^ added source for wasteland 2 http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/24/wastelan...coming-to-os-x/

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Added on March 29, 2012, 1:25 amAsura's wrath having ending DLC lolx
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/122180..._source=twitter

These are well respected titles by established developers... If u are an old school gamer, u would identify most of them. Even Razer (Min Liang) donated to Wasteland 2's project... Publishers do get a big cut of earnings, thus removing publishers totally from whole business concept is a win-win for both the developers and gamers... as for buying the game, if u are a great fan of a series which wants a sequel or something, you will definitely get it... and prices will be lower than having publishers into the equation as well don't you think so?

Still waiting for the sequel to Planescape to be kickstarted if the guy is interested...

I dont really like the idea of kickstarter as people will have this "entitlement" mentality where they have paid for the game and the game has to be in a desirable way to them. If the game turn out to something else, like Double Fine's new game is not exactly a traditional point and click adventure game. People will be pissed at Double Fine. It's pretty much a dangerous route to take, especially you have other people's money before the project starts.

I am in the Project CARS pre-alpha, where i paid 10 Euro to be a member on the team, where i can post suggestions and such. On the massive team, people has been suggesting wildly different ideas. Some wants the game closer to GT5 or Forza 4, while some wants it to be something like rFactor. It sort of feels like crowd sourcing doesnt really work in practise as everyone has a different idea on how the game should be.

Still, i do not really have a firm idea on how kickstarter works, as does donators have any influence on the game? If they dont, it might be a lot better but the entitlement problem pops up again.

On the money they have collected, i think it might be enough for an indie game, as indie games like Bastion took 2 million plus to build, while Sins of Solar Empire took 800k. For a triple A game, i doubt thats enough, as even recycled content game like CoD needs about 40 million while games like Witcher 2 or Mass Effect 3 will require even more money. I think Double Fine did say Psychonaunts 2 needs about 10 to 14 million to develop.

Still i would want to see a kickstarter project to revive Freespace 3 or Freelancer 2. I'll pay for that, if they are doing an action based space shooting game, not something like X3 where its just too difficult to play.

Just finish replay on ME1

I concluded that Sovereign is the only one true reaper

lol...this is funny...someone in bioware forum posted this 2 years ago...



http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/970146/1

Just so you know

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/supplydepot/

Blizzard: 1, Bioware: 0

Who needs the Crucible when we can have the Supply Depot


I see they also took a jab at ME3's multiplayer and pre-order unlockables too 

Finally finished the game. The boy changed my mind about destroying Reapers. I wanted to save everyone, I didn't want to destroy the Geth, and I fully expected Shepard to die so it was an easy choice. Plus transcending into a god-like entity is not such a bad deal. And then I found out about Indoctrination Theory.

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I was kinda worried there about the ending. What with all the ruckus and all. Was not quite as bad as I expected, though I can see why it doesn't appeal to many people (see - 'it'). I'm fine with the ending plot, but I think the execution is poorly done. It just doesn't have that epic feeling of an ending worthy of such a long game. Suffice to say, mind not blown. Decent, but nowhere near the level of Red Dead, MGS4 or even KOTOR II and I expected better. If the Indoctrination Theory is true, then this is the biggest twist ever in games I've played. Bloody hell, I'd put it in the same club with the twist of film Memento, Inception, Usual Suspects, The Prestige and Fight Club.
BTW is this posted here yet? I can't find it within the last 10 pages. Worth a read if you haven't.

Mass Effect 3 writer allegedly slams controversial ending
Which explains the wacky final scene.

more off-topic - I wouldn't put too much hope for Usual Suspects to mindfucuk you. The film was damn good for its time, but the status nowadays is more like a Scream for thrillers. It's more in the level of Se7en instead of Memento or Inception. I'd watch it for the reputation alone though  . BTW are we talking about the same Memento here? I can't seem to recall any kind of master plan...

btw where's the discussion here? bored already?