It made me think, What would have made Mass Effect 3 a better game?
Characters, the game had decent development however I am used to having certain builds and team members.
What I wish was better about the Characters
Wrex/Grunt
Good: Dialog Scenes and great story with the end of it all. We do deserve to get an aftermath though. At least a text or something that tells us how the universe is after we control the reapers or destroy all life or when we combine everything -___-.
Prothean - Javik
First off: He was ready before the game was released. Given that everyone has to use origin. This should have been a patch and part of the entire game.
Secondly: This practice of DLC creation before the game is even released caused quite a bit of anger among players.
Lastly: He's got to be one of the coolest squad member around. I can't imagine the game without him. Bioware/EA said this DLC is for story fanatics. Well to Bioware/EA, Mass Effect is all about the story. Mass Effect 3 is redemption for all of our hundreds of hours spent fighting the Reapers. Justify our time investment and we'll keep biting.
Tali Zora
Harbinger
Also I really wished we got to roast his ass. Or at least let Jarvik and Harbinger talk with Harbinger teasing him. That woulda been uhhh awesome.
Either way we deserved to roast this guy.
Rachni Queen
There should have been more then just oh yay here are some crappy numbers for your chart to say that you have them.
I wanted to see Rachni fight Reaper Zombies and even Rachni fight Cerberus for the enslavement. I wish that the queen would have an Asari Rep in the War room working with Shepard Similarly to how the Krogan helped the Turians.
Illusive Man
The Multi Billionaire with freaky cybernetics get's taken down by a crappy pea shooter by a Shepard on the brink of death?
Back to the concept art, He should have been more like Saren; Turning into a freaky shit you have to fight off to get to the catalyst.
Either way it's a abrupt end to the backstabber you want to mess up.
Kai Leng/Rain
James Vega
The Catalyst
We all have ideas and guesses. BUT SHIET. I WANT the actual FINAL say. He doesn't do a good job explaining freaking anything. I still don't completely understand what the hell he is and why he took this form. It's creepy as hell and it's strange as hell. Please someone explain to me why was he a good story plot. He was the catalyst to my entire confusion at the end of the game. Also don't get me started on the Choices he presents.
More Animations depending on what you did.
At some point I really wish that the Rachni did save your ass. Or Grunts ass back there. Like if there was a good rachni versus bad rachni showdown to save your ass. That would have been cool.
The earth mission
I wish that they showed Turians, Krogans, Asari, Geth, Rachni, Drell and Everyone else you commit with War Assets to fight to the Beam. Or even I kinda wish there was more Earth battles saying that you had to start some sort of super electromagnetic pulse that would knock out some reapers for I don't know 20-30 mins to run towards the beam only to be stopped by a Reaper flitting in.
I wish there was more ship battles to show that who you did side with matters. Where's the famous Turian Fleet? or The Quarian fleet? I wanted to see rag tag mercenary bands
I wish that there was animation showing the Geth helping the Quarians rebuild and some animations that actually showed the building of the Crucible and as you more party's involved it helped.
This is where I wished EA/Bioware was more like Blizzard. At least they'll give us the redeeming feeling of completion.
Multiplayer
This is actually really fun however there are elements they need to freaking fix/add.
More Maps
Different Missions
Maybe some story based battles like EARTH and the final approach. Help Shepard get into the beam. OR Help take back the citadel.
Left for dead anyone?
Fight till you die?
Historical battles anyone?
Text Chat
Seriously? What the hell. Why isn't this in there?
Credit System
I think Kill count should effect your credits. Instead of Squad score and mission speed. The points you get? that should be the credits you get.
Powers reset
WHERE IS THIS BUTTON? DID I SCREW UP MY ENGINEER FOREVER?
Co Op
I feel like they said Co Op only because they didn't care to take the time to create this system and balance it. Who said it has to be about fighting the bad guys the entire time. What Krogan and Turians never fought? Turians and Humans never fought?
Also the multiplayer is how you get people to keep playing Mass Effect. You expand it and you get people sucked in. Micro Transactions is okay if it doesn't effect Gameplay. For example Cosmetics would be okay.
I'm out of steam for now, maybe I'll write more later. I just think that they had a star chance to make an amazing Franchise even bigger. They also have a chance to fix it as we're so invested in this game. We want to see it done right. We want to feel good about the 5 years and hundreds of hours playing the game.
The game was about changing the world and saving the galaxy. It began with the choices you make echo for an eternity. While it ends up being. You're damned anyway. If I knew it came down to those three endings and that your choices don't matter. I don't think I would have started.
March 9th 2012.
