Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC Coming This Summer

Turns out Shepard's heart is a dwarf planet.

Honestly my gripes will be easy to fix so here's hoping they address that whole Arrival DLC logical conundrum. But in the end, its still probably not going to be an artistically good ending, just okay at the best. But you know what, its free and I will take it.

@stoic665 said:

RIP Art

~25000 BC (early paleontholitic cave paintings) - 2012 AD (revision of ME3 ending)

But for only 800msp you can download more "art".

Cool that it's free, and cool that it explains more. The people complaining that they buckled are retarded. They aren't changing the ending, they're expanding on it because nobody understood it. If you think this is some doomsday for game companies, you are as big a part of the "internet problem" as the ones demanding entire rewrites. You have no fucking sense.

@stoic665 said:

RIP Art

~25000 BC (early paleontholitic cave paintings) - 2012 AD (revision of ME3 ending)

Get over yourself. This was planned from the beginning.

Hell, the voice actor for FemShep confirmed she's recorded no new lines, so any new content here must have.. *gasp* been created before the game was released.

The ending was obviously a set up to create mass interest before the true one was released.

I've seen and heard way too much things about this game that I can't even finish it. So sick and tired of fucking Mass Effect.

I approve.

@Applederp said:

I've seen and heard way too much things about this game that I can't even finish it. So sick and tired of fucking Mass Effect.

The entire game was fucking awesome, it's just the ending that was a turd sammich.

Play it until you get to Earth then take a break for a few months.

@WinterSnowblind said:

@stoic665 said:

RIP Art

~25000 BC (early paleontholitic cave paintings) - 2012 AD (revision of ME3 ending)

Get over yourself. This was planned from the beginning.

Hell, the voice actor for FemShep confirmed she's recorded no new lines, so any new content here must have.. *gasp* been created before the game was released.

The ending was obviously a set up to create mass interest before the true one was released. Either way, this is hardly the first time a book/movie/game has been expanded after release.

That could also mean that there is no Shepard dialogue being added to the new ending either...

This is exactly what I was hoping they would do. Good job Bioware! Acknowledging there was a problem and fixing it is excellent. Too bad people have already started complaining, hehe. Guess being a miserable sod is just more fun!

Looks like I was wrong, they are going to do it for free, but it still to be seen whether or not this fixes vent kid and all his stupid crap.

Good job Alex!

Alex, I normally am not a fan of your writing, as I feel that it is too jokey. A little bit of snark is fine, but I think you lean way too hard into it and it comes off abrasive for the reader.

This was an excellent write-up and I hope that others recognize that you are a talented writer who is capable of writing engaging material when you rein yourself in.

I hope that I didn't sound like too much of a pompous jackass writing this, because I want you to do great things for the site, and everyone else is too busy being an asshole to you to give you proper constructive criticism.

@PosableActionFigure said:

Hey remember when they released the director's cut for blade runner which made the movie way better and no-one fucking complained?

Maybe you fucks should actually give this a chance before parroting the "artistic integrity wahhh" line that you don't actually understand but you heard a bunch of games press harp on about it so you figured that you'd go along with them because you wouldn't want to be "entitled" now would you?

In summary, eat many dicks.

Was there a bunch of people demanding it be changed though? As far as I understand the changes in blade runner were to mostly undo the damage made by the focus testing of the original print.

Hell, the addition of the happy ending to original ruining any nuance and ambiguity that both the creators hated is probably the closest analogy to what may happen here. But then analogies are a rubbish crutch for any intellectual discussion.

I think if instead of the stupid kid, they had Morgan Freeman as the Catalyst I would be okay with it.

@Hailinel said:

@WinterSnowblind

@stoic665 said:

RIP Art

~25000 BC (early paleontholitic cave paintings) - 2012 AD (revision of ME3 ending)

Get over yourself. This was planned from the beginning.

Hell, the voice actor for FemShep confirmed she's recorded no new lines, so any new content here must have.. *gasp* been created before the game was released.

The ending was obviously a set up to create mass interest before the true one was released.

Unless with the revisions don't include more Shepard dialogue or the new Shepard dialogue has yet to be recorded.

Yeah... I think I'm gonna go with that, and not the crazy conspiracy theory.

I feel like Bioware are kind've tools for caving to retards on the internet.

I think if they had charged for it or changed the ending or both, this would have been Very Bad. As it stands, I'll just withhold judgement until I see it.

Calling it an extended cut leads people to believe that this piece of content existed before the game was released, which is strange, but at least its free right guys?... guys?... :(

As far as I'm concerned the damage has been done. I will need to hear it from at least 3 people that they have their writers in electric shock collars before I ever buy another game from Bioware.

They thought it was good!

That's actually a pretty nice gesture. I mean people will probably have moved on by that point and I imagine for some it'll be too little, too late, but I suppose this is probably the best possible outcome for the situation they put themselves in

EDIT: ...presuming they don't fuck up the DLC as bad as the ending, I suppose.

I find it unfortunate that *now* is the point where all the people who haven't seen the ending come out to defend it. A reasonable person could go, "Huh, there are something like 20,000 people bitching to high-heaven about this ending, and I've never seen that many people unified over something about a game before. Maybe there's something to this." Or, you know, you could come out on the internet telling all the other people on the internet that they are immature babies for wanting a better ending than the one you didn't care enough about in the first place to be bothered by. Christ almighty.

I can't believe how many people here are complaining about this.

Due to course work and other issues I have not been able to play mass effect 3 yet. I loved the first two and I must admit that even with all the talk about how bad the ending is I am still more than willing to play the game when I can. Now that this DLC is coming out and is going to be free I think that I will just wait till it comes out and play it then.

@sixpin said:

Yes! Someone else gets it. I've seen other creative types on here talking about how this is horrible and a violation of artistic rights - PUH-lease. I've been a graphic designer for over ten years and the idea that customers have no say in something creative that you are SELLING them is baffling. Art for the sake of art is fine and good for being considered untouchable, but be it a videogame, movie, TV show, or music album - the artist has a certain level of obligation to the audience if they wish to continue a long term relationship with their customers. The idea that commercial art is somehow untouchable is romantic nonsense.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm just happy that something is being done to clarify things a bit. This isn't exactly what everybody wants, but it's good to see they took their customers opinions. And IT'S FREE!!

I'm glad "The Indocrination Theory" has been disproved by this... I was getting sick of all the speculations and how people were getting so hung up on all the little details. There were some convincing points some had, But I never thought Shepard was ever Indoctrinated.

wow. yeah let's complain from now on and change endings base on Internet bitching.ugh

The journey was great, let down ending or not (the ending was fine) I am mature enough to not let something as trivial as the ending ruin my entire 200 hour mass effect experience.

I think the real news here is that Alex wrote a straightforward, humorless headline.

If there just elaborating on the ending and not changing it I don't have problem with it especially since it's free. I look forward to some more clarification on the ending.

Fans: What the hell was that?! We want a better more fleshed out ending!

Bioware: ok we are looking into it

Fans: oh yeah? Well it better be fuckin free!

Bioware: we've decided to release this ending DLC for free

Fans: oh yeah!!? Well… uh… hmm… FUCK you Bioware you still suck!

People are dumbasses. This is what you wanted and you still find reason to complain. Oh well the Internet is the Internet. I for one think this news is perfect and shows Bioware wasn't planning on scraping money from us by extending the ending. I will eagerly anticipate this

@SonicBoyster: Generalise much?

I have completed the game and don't like that they had yielded. I don't like that if you shout loud enough you get your way. I worry that additional clarification will kill the nuance to what was at least an interesting ending that has generated some good discussion amongst those who took the time to think about it rather than just run onto the internet to complain.

Sorry, but I don't see how making a pile of shit bigger improves it.

@rebgav said:

Okay. I'll be watching the dlc on youtube though, having beaten the game twice and uninstalled it.

Having considered how broken the fundamental narrative of the ending is, even beyond it's poor execution, I don't know that this will help in any real way. The ending just needs a full rewrite, and the entire endgame needs an expanded design to put it on par with ME2's.

But I'll still download it and see for myself. And really, bless those poor bastards for trying. It's not their fault Mac Walters shit the bed! Now they have to clean it up as best they can and tip the maid real nice for her trouble.

Not exactly what I was hoping for per se. I definitely wanted the ending explained a little better, and it seems they got that part; however, it seems a little janky if you ask me just to put in extra cutscenes and dialogue. I would have liked the gameplay to have been extended a little further to be honest, but I'm grateful that BioWare has responded.

Kudos for being free.

@Alraiis said:

I think the real news here is that Alex wrote a straightforward, humorless headline.

@Alex This guy is on to something.

WTF is that!? I request a new ending to that headline.

Great, free DLC for a game EA won't let me play to begin with.

@Barrock said:

People won't be satisfied. I can already tell.

Well, they aren't changing the ending so you're right. At least we'll (hopefully) be able to understand the "ending" with the extended cut.

Good. Now let's all shut up....until it comes out and everyone has something new to hate.

This is good news, though I don't know how they'll find the time to cover every available scenario and permutation. We'll find out in summer, I guess.

as long as it's free.

I don't care, really.

The ending of ME3 could've been a 1080p video of a fat guy jerking off, and I would still feel like I got my money's worth. I laughed more at the snippets of dialog in that game than I have at some pretty good stand-up comedy routines. I'm just really thankful I get to play games, and wasn't born in Somalia or something.

But that's just me.

Alright, cool.  It's unfortunate it wasn't up to the expected standard in the first place, but it's good that they're freely supporting their product like CD Projekt have done quite extensively with both Witchers.  If there's a glaring problem then fix it - that's how it should be.
 
I think the ending is just inherently shitty and they can't do a whole lot about that (changing it entirely would be farcical), but they can at least make it shitty in a way that makes a bit of sense.  The only route that possibly turns it around and results in something good is a proper 'reveal' of the Indoc Theory (making it canon) and then returning to the fighting on Earth and cliffhangering into ME4.

@MichaelEM3: Not really. Bet it went like this:

EA: Hey! we have some free content that the playstation users will be getting making that version of the game the best version. Do you also want it?

MS: Yes

END.

Nice timing. I hope this goes some way to resolving the issues people had with it, though I don't know to what extent the thing they had is salvageable.

@boylie said:

That's actually a pretty nice gesture. I mean people will probably have moved on by that point and I imagine for some it'll be too little, too late, but I suppose this is probably the best possible outcome for the situation they put themselves in

EDIT: ...presuming they don't fuck up the DLC as bad as the ending, I suppose.

Pretty much how I feel. Free extended cut DLC is a fine gesture and probably the best option they could take but I've already finished Mass Effect 3, and a few other games since then. Already seen the ending and not really interested in revisiting it anytime soon when there's so much else out there.

Anyone who still claims that Bioware doesn't care about their fans after this is either a massive troll or an idiot.

Thank God it's free. That way I don't have to listen to as much bitching.

"Even more context and clarity" as if there was any to begin with.