The thing with Mass Effect 3's ending is that it's so underwhelming. That game could've had 1 hour's worth of just cutscenes after the end, showcasing everything that happened, the consequences of my choices etc. and instead you got a slideshow.
One thing not mentioned was in every ending, Shepard dies, but in the extended edition, if you got a high enough war rating and picked the Destroy (red) ending, you'd get an extra scene they showed in this video of Shepard survivng, though not much more than that.
@@thegeneralissimo470Literally my favourite example of gamer snark was when someone (after the release of ME3) sent 333 cupcakes to Bioware's head office. There were 111 blue, 111 red, and 111 green cupcakes. They were all vanilla flavoured.
@AzureKyle No, that was in the original ending, too. I've found video footage of it from before the extra scenes were released. And I liked the ending with the extended cut. Even if they had a crapload of scenes, everyone would have complained about them and said things like, "Well, my characters wouldn't have done that!" or something. Nothing would've made the ones who tried to SUE BIOWARE happy.
I actually finished "wrong side of the tracks" on my first try so I hadn't heard the infamous line "all you had to do was follow the damn train CJ" until years later when it became a meme
I beat it on my 3rd or 4th attempt. I found it annoying, but doable. When I got to "Zero", I got so frustrated that I never bothered to finished the game. I assumed that the rest of the game was going to be equally unfair.
I wouldn’t call the Mass Effect 3 extended cut a rerelease considering it never got released as a full game. If you buy any copy of me3 you still have to download the extended cut DLC
Totally. I played it when it came out, tried my best to brain bleach the rest out and straight up uninstalled after finishing Citadel. Haven't played a minute of Mass Effect since then though : (
@@seanbroccoli2698 Welp Mass Effect 5 is happening and it continues after the ending of 3. Oh and the destroy ending was the one Bioware choose as the canon one.
Spend so much time with someone or something you despise and you eventually start loving them See the unfortunate Boyle Sister who gets kidnapped by that weirdo
Originally it was planned as a WiiU exclusive and physical copy, they release it same day on all platforms via digital distribution and original owners were given a cheaper upgrade price mostly in response to the poor reception they had from that controversy.
"Once again we have evaded Thrawn's grasp! I knew I would be able to beat that-- AAAAAAAAGH!!" And what did we learn here, kids? That's right: Never. Underestimate. Grand. Admiral. Thrawn.
Ocarina of Time for the 3DS is literally my favorite Zelda game of all time! Aside from the Water temple, which is an amazing improvement, I also loved the aiming using motion controls!
Just picked up a 3ds and OoT a few weeks ago. Absolutely loving every minute of it just like the original. The motion controls are a very welcome addition. Amazing how fast you can shoot things down now.
Ah, Deus Ex Human Revolution and his boss battles. I remeber those. The sole reason why "my" Adam had all the stealth augs - and a maximal upgraded shotgun. This layed out the path for my occasional playstyle I named "Shotgun Ninja" *Edit: Oh wow, I think I've never gotten that many like on a comment ever. Well thanks lads and lasses :)
a man of culture. that the perfect name to describe how i played far cry, with a shotgun taking all the enemies by surprise, Zabuza Momochi style if you think about it.
I mean, that is a perfect example of why publishers shouldn't push devs to release early. This is a problem that exists across the entire software industry, NMS just happened to be a very big ticket failure. I believe they had even stated the game was not ready for launch, but then they were pushed to launch anyway, and the players were stuck with what they had. It was already a pretty good game after the Next update, I'd say the devs have done as good as they could with what they were given.
@@fredhenry101 Yeah. I love No Man's Sky as a concept, but even now, it's still kind of...empty. I would love to see it grow into the huge, beautiful game it was meant to be.
CthulhuFtagn Eh, I have never excited by procedurally generated and space sim games as they feel too random and empty. But although NMS is not my cup of tea I can say that after the updates it’s now close to the game that the developers promised that got early customers hyped.
The main issue with the Water Temple was the constant inventory use. The reason it's confusing for most, however, is that they are just trying to beat it. If you 100% the temple, it's not difficult, just annoying (due to the boots). Simply do everything you can (and visit every room) before changing the water level, then repeat.
@Greed1914 the over head camera didn't suit the new engine that was built for a jungle terrain with trees and uneven terrain but I like the re release that gave you both options because its useful in some areas.
Couldn't agree with this more, remember playing Snake Eater on release and while I enjoyed the game the overhead camera was far too frustrating, but when it came to Subsistence and the HD Collection the more traditional third person camera felt much more fluid and helped make the game my favourite MGS.
Thank you for acknowledging MGS3. I bought it day one and beat it but the entire playthrough I kept thinking this camera just isn't working in this game.
Have you guys ever done a 7 weirdest / dumbest loopholes in video games. Example like in the Borderlands 2 where the respawn system called New-U brings you back when *you* die but the developers say they're not cannon so when someone dies in a cutscene the stay dead forever.
I still don't know why they didn't just say Jack locked Roland out of the Nu-U system. It makes way more sense than designing a respawn system, explaining _in game_ how it works, and giving it personality only to go "no it doesn't actually exist canonically".
Okay, one MAJOR fact to drop about Supply Lines. In the original, day one release versions of San Andreas the fuel bar doesn't decrease any quicker if you hold down the accelerate button. In other words, the "fuel gauge" is actually a timer, meaning you can use accelerate all you want without using all the "fuel". After reading about this, I tested it out on my day one PS2 copy, and it works. It makes that mission SO much easier. If only I'd known this back in 2004. I would have saved myself a controller...
Well, you know, maybe after the game, he remained a detective and thus when it came to the 1950s... hold on, someone's telling me something about storm drains.
No Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence? It changed the camera from “Literally the most outdated thing in a game set in 1964” to “The standard setter for all other action stealth games”
Abigail Archer-Addams It didn’t make the game unplayable or anything, it was still great (just like a lot of other games in this list), I’m just saying that it was very out of date and clunky for a game that was otherwise so innovate, and that the camera in Subsistence was a noticeable improvement.
Mass effect 3's ending pissed me off so much, I haven't touched a Bioware game since. And given what little I've seen of their games since then, I have no regrets.
@@mindstouchworlds808 You'd best not watch "Luigi Finally Snaps" by Collegehumor, especially 0:30 - 0:45. You'll be so angry at CH daring to make a joke about a Nintendo game system you won't be able to see straight.
@@ChristophBrinkmann ooh I'll check it out I don't think I've seen it before. The Wii U wasn't a successful console compared to the other systems, but to say no one owned it, is a ridiculous statement. But my console collected dust after I finished playing Smash4 and Bayonetta 2 xD
My first playthrough of ME3: the holochild laid out the deal and I said "I reject these choices." and he said "Then the cycle will continue." and instead of Buzz Aldrin telling another story about the Shepard after a wash of Cornetto-flavoured-light I got a video of a garden world, untouched terrain spreading to the horizon except for one of the Glyph beacons Liara talks about. Would have been a bitter sweet ending if the game didn't then immediately Quick Load to the beginning of the holochild conversation.
It makes no sense, however. WHY would Shepard spend so much time building the Crucible (that's what war assets, alliances, and the majority of the game are for), and suddenly refuse to use it because of a crappy pop-up?! (Mass Effect's term for annoying holograms). Whole story of the game is about building a weapon to stop the Reapers. Why not use it?! Control is something Illusive man tried to do. Game is clear between picking his or Anderson's side. Then synthesis is Saren's way. Sure, everything was poorly-explained but each of these options makes more sense than literally refusing to use the weapon for no reason after it took so much to get there!..
@@KasumiRINA Quite frankly, I was just pressing the bottom option in the conversation hoping for more options. Refusing the choices was an accident but it led to a cutscene few people ever saw. So calm down, no need to leave a 500 word essay on the merits of Mass Effect.
It took me a while to figure out the goat puzzle on Broken Sword, back when we couldn't just look up the solution online. Along with Hitman, Broken Sword is my favourite game series.
I'm glad they kind of fixed that in LA Noire. I remember a lot of people blamed Aaron Staton (Cole's voice and Mocap actor) for over acting, but I always felt like that probably wasn't the problem. He's amazing in Mad Men so I knew he was a great actor.
I honestly found the water temple in Ocarina of Time to be confusing, but not impossible. It was very doable. Unlike the original Link's Awakening where if you open the wrong door, you get stuck in the dungeon because you don't have enough keys and have to start over.
Sure the water temple change was nice, but the re-release also reduced how often Navi yells at you which makes the entire game more bearable rather than just one part.
I use a looping recording of that audio as all of my alarms to wake up in the morning because no matter what volume it is it triggers an intense anger response in my brain that immediately forces me awake. It's torture, but at least some good came out of that horror.
The only fix the Water Temple needed was moving the Iron Boots to an item slot. The actual navigation was always fairly straightforward otherwise. I've always liked it for being one of the few dungeons in Ocarina to actually use verticality in its design.
To be fair to LA Noire (if I remember properly), Cole was also in the Army as well as shown in one of the flashbacks so there is also just a little bit of that PTSD to consider (Which could add more context to the simmering rage).
@13m45s Thanks to the decision to make the Iron Boots an item, the Water Temple (3DS remake) is actually one of my favorite video game dungeons, alongside the Lakebed Temple from Twilight Princess. Even without the extra markings, it is a fun and rewarding challenge; the dungeons that force you really to understand their architecture are the best ones in the series.
Disagreeing about TIE Fighter being the best StarWars game results in getting to pilot a TIE Fighter in space? Well, guess I'm obligated to disagree and challenge Jane to a duel purely for that reason.
Idk, X-wing and TIE Fighter were both brilliant games unless you don't like flight sims. In which case I vote for TFU2 as best purely because you get to punt Ewoks.
@@desmofan1864 I'd say the best over all still ultimately has to go to KotoR, in my books. Though my personal favorite Star Wars game is Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. It's one of the few games where not only do the force powers and light saber combat feel like you'd expect them to in a Star Wars game, but the actual blasters were fun to use as well. Also, abusing the fully upgraded force choke to throw enemies to their deaths is still one of my favorite things to do in a game.....
An extra one: Wind Waker The HD release cut down on sailing time with the fast sail, and make hunting the Triforce charts/shards much easier, only requiring you to decipher three with Tingle while the other five can just be found in their respective locations
I dunno.. I kinda liked the original voice.. the new one really surprised me. His original voice just sounded much creepier and unsettling and I think it fit his design with that wicked looking mask.. but I suppose a villain as powerful as he was supposed to be needed a stronger more impressive voice.. and the old one did kinda make it super obvious he was all evil and stuff so it was a bit wierd NPCs found him heroic
@@lunarlunatick I think you might have that last point backwards. Jack's old voice was nasally and less menacing, but it made his ability to manipulate the Hero of Oakvale more believable; he sounded like an arrogant twat, but that's normal for heroes. The voice he was given in the re-release sounds inhumanly deep, like he was some kind of demon from another dimension which is exactly what he is, it just screams "this guy is the villain and the protagonist is a fucking idiot for not piecing it together!"
Primal on the PS2 has several of these: 1. Get Jen's human form reduced to 0 HP: In this case Arella is opening a Rift Gate that Scree must reach (usually the nearest by) to pull Jen's spirit back to Oblivion. Although there is no explicit timer, this sequence can still time out (the less time that is remaining, the more agitated Arella is becoming). 2. Queen Aino to be sacrificed (taking place in Aquis): Here Jen has to submerge the platform on which the queen is lying to save her. Again, there's no indication of a timer, but it can time out as well. However, you have more than enough time left when you manage to do so so losing this one needs a lot of tarrying. 3. Reducing Jen's Undine form to 0 hp without any Spirit Crystals and while submerged: Since Jen cannot swim, she is going to drown. 4. Scree taking too many hits: Although Scree cannot fight and has no visible health bar, he still can be attacked. If you want to prevent that, you can either make him freeze manually (can be reverted at any time), or Scree is going to do so on his own whenever he possesses certain statues or Jen is initiating a fight or gets attacked with him nearby. In both cases, if the fight ends with victory (or Jen's human form gets reduced to 0 HP), he is going to snap out of it instantaneously. However, once Scree starts taking too many hits, he is going to freeze solid, with no means of getting him out of this state (you know what is about to happen once you start getting those ominous intermittent freezes after Scree begins to take more hits than he can handle). At any rate, the camera switches back to the hospital room in which Jen is taken care of, with the camera zooming out and the image fading which is replaced by "Game Over."
Wait, so all we have to do to get a personal PvP match in TIE fighters with Jane is to call another Star Wars game better? Man, I sure do love Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi!
...You know the bit in an early Simpsons episode where Bart presents Homer with a report card with all the Ds switched to As, and Homer replies "You don't think much of me, do you, boy? You know, a 'D' turns into a 'B' so easily. You just got greedy."? There were so many believable options. Republic Commando. X-Wing versus TIE Fighter. One of those early wireframe games. But you just HAD to go for "the one where you can be a Gammorean called Hoar". (...That said, I am 100% sure at least a few dozen people have Teras Kasi as their probably nostalgia-based favourite.)
Isn't that more of a short sequel than a rerelease though? It didn't help much though, considering that instead of just having all guns have lights on them by some means like they should have, it just made it so you had to swap to the pistol constantly instead of the flashlight.
I almost feel like the Twilight Princess water temple was worse. I hated having to find and direct the water back to the main room because I was constantly either stuck or had no idea where to go, as some doors were locked and I had already run through all the unlocked doors 10 times
Its a shame they never fixed the ending of Deus Ex Human Revolution though... push one of 4 buttons for a video presentation about moral choices (that has no effect cause it gets retconned in the sequel cause Mankind must be Divided)
To be fair, Human Revolution was originally made as a prequel to the first Deus Ex, all while Mankind Divided, as much I like the gameplay, can be skippable without affecting Deus Ex 1 that much.
A great rerelease for fixing problems (except that it should've just been a patch & DLC) is Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. The original Dragon's Dogma was incredibly tedious because you had to set waypoints to fast travel by physically putting certain items in certain places, those items were extremely limited, & you needed additional items to activate the fast travel feature anyway, which were also very limited. Dark Arisen added both items to various locations so your fast travel options gradually get more diverse as you progress & the items are often found in locations that you're likely to wanna fast travel back to later. It also added the option to buy the items from a certain merchant in case you ran low or wanted to add waypoints faster. Another common complaint is that the menus for using items can be tedious. The PC version helped with this by letting you hotkey items so you don't have to open the menu as often.
I like how in Gears of War Ultimate Edition they replaced the ending scene to show the queen on her beatle instead of the shot of what was probably supposed to be Skorge long before they decided what he should look like. If they ever remaster Gears 2, they'll probably have the queen looking less purple. I get that there's no sun in the hollows...but purple?
What about Fallout 3? In the original version of the ending, you were forced to choose to either send a human brotherhood of steel soldier or yourself into a super radioactive room. If you had any of the three radiation immune companions on your side, they would refuse to enter the room because you dying painfully and pointlessly in the chamber of radiation poisoning was your "destiny." If you send the Brotherhood of steel soldier into the chamber instead, you get to here Ron Pearlman calling you a coward. In the DLC "Broken Steel," you can instead send one of your radiation immune companions into the room so no one has to die. Regardless of your choice, you are knocked into a coma for two weeks, then allowed to play the DLC's extended storyline. Weirdly, if you didn't go into the Chamber yourself, you still have to suffer Ron Pearlman calling you a coward.
I actually managed to get both the "no alarms" and "no kills" Chievos in a single run back on 360. _Damn_ that a pain. But worth it for the bragging rights.
I'm sure this isn't necessarily a thing he wants to hear, but Andy when he's furious and flummoxed is absolutely adorable. So much carefully-contained rage beneath that beard!
David Cross is pretty funny dude. He was the fish in Megamind and many other roles. His standup is always hilarious and very different from other comedians.
I remember using the hookshot a lot, in the water temple. One of the quickest way to get around. Then again, it's been 10-15 years from the last time I played it.
Holy crap they simplified the water temple. Trying to run run througb it as an 9 year old took me ages to figure out. I was a child yes, console mass produced games were also relatively new and even I recognized the controls as crappy.. ..as AOL was the primary/almost only email system at the time. Absolute nightmare sometimes. Sadly the Shadow Temple was sooooo much easier and ACTUALLY made sense, even to a child. Glad to hear the original creator of the water temple apologized. I think his definition of a water temple caused more issues with any water related level for decades. Water levels essentially became hell becaise of this man for hundreds od games.
Modern warfare remastered? It added the time paradox achievement allowing you to not only kill inram zahkov but also kill Makorov...makorov was shown to be present in MW3 burning the mission to shoot zahkov but he wasent programmed into the original mission in CoD4....adding him to the mission let us throw the CoD timeline into wack and save Soap
I love detective Phelps remarks. I would usually hate a game like this, because it's not my style playing an entire game based on dialogue alone, but detective Phelps is so amusing that I am actually playing the game right now and it's very fun. But I have to agree that "Truth", "Doubt" and "Lie" doesn't convey what we want to say and it took me quite a while to grasp. In my opinion it should be "Accept", "Reject" and "Evidence", because in my mind that's how it works.
The ending of Mass Effect 3 will always be controversial. Not necessarily for its content, or lack of it; but for the eye-opening way gaming journalists reacted to the rightful indignation of gamers, who felt they had been short-changed.
The extended cut for mass effect 3 wasnt an entire re release of the game it was a free dlc that just expanded on the epilogue cutscenes of the game. It literally changes nothing else in the game. You can’t justify mass effects inclusion in this list.
I have completed my mission of beating Ocarina of Time on every release it has. Also the N64 version has red Ganon blood. I just wish the switch release looked like the 3DS version.
The best speech options were in Fallout 3. Your choices were word for word your response. None of the confusion or uncertainty of 3 identical options for every conversation. That's why I never understood why for New Vegas and 4 they followed the lead of all the other "roughly defined" options
You mean, refusing to use the Crucible for what it was intended and not stopping the Reapers is "good"?.. After you spend whole game building that giant weapon, simply giving up?!
@@KasumiRINA It's not giving up, but it is an ultimate sacrifice. The other three endings all require some sort of major permanent compromise, as the reapers unflinchingly state they intended. The 4th ending dooms the species in the galaxy as it is, but as the post-game shows, it allows the next cycle to beat the reapers outright. It doesn't make the endeavor any less heroic, everything you do you did under the reasonable belief that it was for the greater good. It was a deception, however, and if Shepard can't realize they were wrong, that they were following the reapers plan all along, the reapers ultimately win.
Ahhh the goat... I remember game mags write-in sections filled with a list of people who'd asked for that solution, aswell as those books with gaming tips you used to buy...
GTA:SA - Supply Lines: I played the game on PC for the original release. The way I beat that mission was this - Fly ahead of van, land, shoot van as it approaches, destroy van, fly to next location. I managed to beat it in 3 attempts. This was a method I had used in Dynamix Red Baron to take out some problematic enemies.
That's my favorite Temple out of all the Zelda games and I love how on the original version if you use the keys in the wrong order you would get stuck and have to start over from the begining
You left out the worst part about the water temple. There was one big stone, that if you pulled it instead of pushing it, it would drop down a small ledge and be locked in place. Preventing you moving it again into the right position, causing you to have to restart the whole temple.
Don't forget the Legend of Zelda Windwaker HD. traversing the great sea was made much less of a chore with a new sail that meant you didn't have to pull out you wand to change the direction the wind is blowing whenever you want to turn your boat.
I never shot at the star child in Mass Effect 3 - because if I did I wouldn't have been able to hear Buzz Aldrin talk at the end. That alone is already a worthy ending.
0:09 translation from partial Japanese: Unable to access online features without a connection to Do your work as good as you can but in the end it is all in the hands of God online.
@Greig91 It's been so long I forget the reasons why Bioware lost SWs KOTOR. But yeah, I refused to play Mass Effect at the time because it was a fair forgery of KOTOR. Looking back after all these years; I still stand by that.
I never understood the criticism of Deus Ex regarding boss battles. I was a wuss player, and I finished them after a couple of tries. Barret can be beaten by lobbing one of the yellow canisters at him, and then when he's incapacitated, following up with a red barrel (and repeating a couple of times). Ms. Invisible (I forget her name) could be beaten by starting the fight with a round of bombs out of your spine and following up with a healthy course of tasers (all available ammunition required). Namir has a bug where you can take him down non-lethally as he's jumping down from a wall, ending the fight instantly (only works if you failed to upgrade your augs), and Zhao can be shot dead through the shield she has with a laser canon you find in the room before her battle arena. No battle upgrades required.
I got lucky when I did Supply Lines and nailed it the second or third go. The second to last mission where you’re defending Zero’s radio transmitters was a something of a nightmare, but I don’t think it took more than maybe ten tries? There was the mission chasing the mission with Big Smoke of course. There was at least a half a dozen other missions that were similarly nearly impossible.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Ah. I didn't remember when exactly it came out. Thought it released right after DA:O. Thanks for correcting me. (edited for spelling mistakes)
I don't remember having those issues with Supply Lines on the initial PS2 release. The first one was stupidly hard because, well PS2 graphics. And using the stick to aim instead of a mouse.
shocked the first fable wasnt on here, the lost chapters rerelease added an actual ending and a few more hours of gameplay, whereas the original version just kinda stopped after the final boss.
The supply lines fuel depleting only when accelerating is good enough of a fix and makes the mission totally possible for anyone who's gotten into that point of the game but the game never tells you that! Its normal to always accelerate so you can be faster so many people didn't probably even realise to lay off the acceleration i guess. I finished it with more than half of the fuel remaining by just gliding
I played and completed Broken Sword on the PS1 many, many moons ago and don't recall the goat puzzle being a major issue. Due to the "move your cursor until it highlights something" way of gameplay
My worst about San Andreas was 1. No climbing ladders. 2. Zero Dumb. Azz Missions 3. Maneuvering During The Riots 3. Toronto's Last Fly Mission 4. Sneaking On Area 69 Mission 5. Following The Train Mission 6. Killing Polaski Car Mission 7. Wuzi Countryside Races 8. Not Enough Safe House Buying 9. Killing Tenpennie Fire Truck Mission. 10. CJ Under Water Mission To The Boat
It's kinda weird with the LA Noire one, because having played the game there are times where the interrogation absolutely fits the Good Cop/Bad Cop/Accuse pattern, but other times where it is much more suited to the original Truth/Doubt/Lie.
I finished the Supply Lines mission after many tries using a joystick (PC version). The ending of Mass Effect 3 pissed me off like it did a lot of players but that was nothing compared to playing Andromeda. Two words: Crushing disappointment!
Man, I thought the most annoying thing about San Andreas was the glitch with dating Michelle. In some versions of the game, if she wanted to take your car for a ride, the game would play the cut scene of her getting in the driver's seat, and then would forget to put it back in a playable mode. She'd drive off in your car and you'd be stuck staring at the front of her place until the game said you "failed" the date because you got too far from her, and then you'd have to reset the game because the camera was stuck.
