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@MrMuscle: A bit late answer but you can also add them to your Real ID and chat through that, which is same as just sending whispers (PM) to their char, don't know which it is though. Just BattleTag or char name but anyways.

@scarace360: Yes, everything you have carries over to new difficulties. Gold, gear, lvl, inventory, everything.

@scarace360: It's the diablo thing, you complete normal and then unlock nightmare. Nightmare monsters will be higher level (health and damage) like others said already, they will probably also gain new skills / affixes (elemental damage etc), they'll be more aggressive and there will be more of them, so in short, everything will be harder. Champions/elites/uniques gain more affixes/attributes, on normal you are lucky if you find those with more than 1 "skill". So in short everything gets harder.

With increased difficulty there will be new items and stats/affixes in the items, resistances and such probably. You will most likely be around 30 when you complete normal, 45-50ish when you complete nightmare I guess and probably will reach 60 (cap) when you complete hell and unlock the new inferno difficulty which will kick our asses like a boss.

You will continue to unlock runes up to level 60, you'll "run out" of new skills at 30 when you'll probably hit nightmare.

Hardcore is unlocked at lvl 10 like already said, it's just like "softcore" with 1 difference. Death is permanent and you can die only once. Regardless of the reason, once you die it's over.

Also there is no RMAH (real money auction house) for hardcore characters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8-3eYVRmw&feature=fvsr

A short bit about ai scaling/difficulty change.

- edit - Normal is supposed to teach how the game works for you and real challenge starts in nightmare when you have gotten familiar with the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Zd7YD3uuM

The Blizzcon panel about difficulty levels in general.

@Brendan: While there might be some review scores that are actually bought, I was pointing out the "funny" fact that while ME3 is a good and even a great game, 75+ "perfect" scores just seems fishy IMO.

I find the"over 75 perfect scores" funnier than the actual quote. How much those cost to EA? Just wondering...

I'd like to see those perfect scores, but then again anything can be perfect if you encourage reviewers with enough *cough* money *cough*.

@onan: That video reflects my feelings/opinion pretty closely.

Fans : Hey what is this crap, color swap ending and nothing makes sense? Please explain.

BW : ...

Fans : Hello? Anybody home? This doesn't cut it as the ending, you hear? Explain.

BW : ....

Fans : Seriously what is this shit, answers, n-o-w!

BW : ...We listened to your feedback and decided to give you more of what you didn't like. No, we won't answer questions about it. No, we won't explain it further, don't try to ask us. Remember to buy DLC! [Insert crash clip here]

Fans : Ummm, seriously? This is it?

Good job guys, you couldn't have done it much worse than that. I hope you will enjoy the CoD / BF fanbases (no offense to ppl who play them, stereotype was intended) since you decided to abandon/anger the fanbase that enjoyed your games that had something else than just shooting dudes and multiplayer.

Don't come crying back your to old fans when your next literal Gears of Effect (stereotype again, haven't actually played any GoW games so I can't actually say anything about those but term is too good not to use) bombs hard and you think about returning to games with more content than multiplayer.

And this DLC is supposed to come out during summer? Good luck finding people still intrested in your crappy extended ending when Diablo 3 hits us in May.

Honest and plentiful "fuck you" to the people who are "responsible" (EA, BW, C.Hudson or whoever) for killing a good series and sci-fi universe in less than 10 minutes.

You can take a crap on a canvas and call it art but a lot of people will probably still call it what it is, shit.

And angry venting over.

TL:DR

Plinkett-like video pretty much says it all. This is stupid, just plain stupid...fuck the ending and anything related to it, my game ends when Harbringer drops in and says "Hi".

- edit - Yeah there is still slim hope that this thing actually makes sense/fixes something but I'm that much of a pessimist/realist that I'm not holding my breath.

@pyromagnestir: He either did what I did and forgot / ignored the rescue mission on Rannoch or didn't have enough blue/red souls to cheat his way out of the situation with both sides as best friends forever.

My reaction was similiar, "This isn't looking good....oh no...nonononononononononnonono....oh crap".

And I lived with the fact that I just killed the quarians and one of the best characters in the series :(

Something better indeed...

@Lord_Punch: But then again, they have established certain degree of quality with their previous products so wanting/waiting for similiar quality from the ending isn't IMO unfair. But yeah, there is always a risk that you won't like something you buy, it is just sad/annoying that you have to gamble with games that cost 50-80 euros/dollars when books and movie tickets are much smaller "investment" in money.

Personally I got mostly over the ending and finished my re-run of ME2 with renegade fem shep on insanity and started 3 with her also, I still hate the ending but atleast I can enjoy everything before it now, I'll just stop playing after missile tank gauntlet.

I agree with your points though but it doesn't mean that I and probably others too feel betrayed by Bioware.

@Lord_Punch: Nice btw how gameinformer just plain lies about the dlc, it won't offer new endings. It will just try to clarify the pile of crap that we were given, meaning that they didn't even have time to put their complete shit ending in the game.

"So yeah, we will give you more of same shit instead of something that makes sense or gives closure, enjoy!"

- edit - So long Bioware, we had fun but you are dead to me now, thanks a lot EA.