Mass Effect 3

[Sketcz-1000]

I would have thought Monsanto would have been the number 1 voted company. Every single year. Surely?

[Deleted]

Apr 9, 2012 3:59:03 GMT -5 Sketcz-1000 said:

I would have thought Monsanto would have been the number 1 voted company. Every single year. Surely?

What they do to farmers is nothing short of pure evil.

[Sketcz-1000]

Not just farmers, the general public as well. I don't trust genetically modified foods, especially when there's no legitimate need for it (apart from increasing profit). Plus beef hormones, saccharin, add so on, are all poisoning consumers. The list of damaging things they are involved in is long.

[Warchief Onyx]

I don't even know if Monsanto made the brackets. Truth be told I never even heard of them until now.

Though looking them up, holy shit. They sound like something out of a James Bond movie.

[Sketcz-1000]

Scary stuff, isn't it? Freaks me out just thinking about it.

[TheGunheart]

EA published the Dead Space series, so that already keeps them off of my "most evil" list.

Joking aside, that whole poll is pretty damn terrible. Did Foxconn even get nominated?

EDIT: And I just realized that the poll was for American companies. Never mind.

[Deleted]

I think it's kind of a non-issue, really. It's not as if this one poll somehow means anything, or that it will have a financial impact on EA as a company. It was just an "un" popularity contest.

Think of it this way: Even if Bank of America had won, it would have changed nothing about the way they operate.

[susanismyalias]

Apr 9, 2012 10:55:43 GMT -5 Warchief Onyx said:

I don't even know if Monsanto made the brackets. Truth be told I never even heard of them until now.

Though looking them up, holy shit. They sound like something out of a James Bond movie.

naturalsociety.com/setting-the-record-straight-did-monsanto-really-buy-blackwater-xe/

[Digitalnametag]

www.gamespot.com/news/mass-effect-3-falsely-advertised-says-bbb-6371157

Okay this is getting ridiculous. Yes the ending kinda sucks, but I don't feel the need to sue Bioware or demand a refund! I enjoyed most of the game. News sites and fandom have taken these complaints too far.

[Ike]

2010: Bioware is the single greatest gaming company ever created.

2012: WE WILL HAVE YOUR HEADS

edit:

Stephens made her claim by analyzing two of the game's much-distributed marketing tag-lines. The first line she examined was a promise that Mass Effect 3 players will be able to "Experience the beginning, middle, and end of an emotional story unlike any other, where the decisions you make completely shape your experience and outcome."

Of the line, Stephens says BioWare did not deliver the player the ability to fully craft their own unique experience. "There is no indecision in that statement. It is an absolute," she said.

(Emphasis in original.)

I am concerned that this sets a worrying precedent. What defines "completely" in this case? It is physically impossible for a game company to create a "completely" moldable experience in a video game. It's not just not feasible, it's ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

I'm not debating that Bioware definitely skimped on the ending (and I tend to attribute this more to EA and the other chuckleheads in charge of marketing) I think this claim is expecting a bit much, don't you?

[Deleted]

Aside from Single Player being hella short, the main game has been pretty cool as far as the permutations go from your previous choices...of course it all boils down to "If X survives, they become a war asset number". All the same, considering all the variables it's pretty impressive.

[kal]

There's a bunch of stuff that can happen to *shape* your experience

Unbelievably large amount of spoilers contained within

SPOILER: Click to show

Your old Yeoman can be met again, Dr Chakrus can come back, Moridin and Wrex have major roles if they're alive (otherwise they get dopplegangered), your original ME1 Kaiden/Ashley choice dictates a squad-mate for the WHOLE GAME, Samara comes back (I don't think Morith can?), Jack makes a couple of re-apperances, this is isn't including the other characters who have roles in ME3 but can die in ME2. Then there's again a bunch of emails from the minor players of ME2. Even the DLC segments have follow up, with Zaeed and Kasumi making minor appearances if they were alive by the end of ME2. And as Joestar has said, there's also quite a few war assets that come from previous games.

I'm just completely sick of the people complaining about ME3 at this point.

[X-pert74]

The main game does get shaped a lot by your decisions from the previous two games, but I'm still disappointed that the actual end is the same, regardless of what you do.

[Warchief Onyx]

Gamespot embellished the significance of this. It's a blog entry by a higher up at the BBB, not the ruling or an action of the BBB as a whole.

People should just give it a rest until the ending DLC comes out. It could be good. It could suck. But there's really no need to get so worked up about the ending right now until after the DLC comes out and judge it on its own merits.

Though as far as overhyping about things that were greatly exaggerated if not outright untrue, yeah they are guilty of it. But I don't see how EA/Bioware is any more guilty of it than say Peter Molyneux.

[Deleted]

I'd like to file a BBB complaint against Peter weirdname for making my Fable characters get hideous.