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[Darkmere]

Isn't she referring to the machines of the people who have her in captivity on Noveria?

In 1, the queen is an egg leftover from the Rachni Wars that was revived long after the fact. You ask her if she will be a threat, should you release her. She mentions the "songs of [her] ancestors" being "drowned out by a sour, yellow note," and promises that, if released, she will not allow another incident like the previous war." Though you are right, she does talk about her children at Noveria first.

Then, in 3:

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You meet her again, chained up in a hive filled with reaper tech and husks (and rachni husks under reaper control). When the husks withdraw, the queen mentions the "sour yellow note" has ceased, and says something to the effect that she's been chained up and tortured with the droning noise, but it won't dominate her. It all but outright says she's been chained up while the reapers indoctrinate her children and try to indoctrinate her. Same terminology is used in both conversations.

Reference:
Mass Effect 1, the parts about the Rachni Wars starts at 4:10

Mass effect 3, pretty much the whole conversation. Spoilers, obviously. As if there haven't been enough in the past couple pages 

[Rakonas]

All of that is overshadowed by the fact that

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regardless of whether or not you save her the reapers have a rachni queen indoctrinated. Also they manage to reproduce so many rachni that there are rachni-reapers across the entire fucking galaxy.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Trust me, no one's disputing that particular design decision (and it's stupidity, since...)

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it makes the choice of saving the queen absolutely irrelevant. You might as well just acid-bath her each time to make Wrex lol, since it doesn't change much in ME3 and it makes you feel no guilt whatsoever about abandoning that queen, too, since her spawn would just harm the crucible anyway.

We're just talking about whether the initial war was caused by the Reapers.

[Taricus]

Yeah, Why couldn't they have reaperized Elcor in the artillery role instead?! >:I

[fenrif]

The whole Rachni thing is an example of what I mean when I say you're choices don't really carry over between games or matter in any meaningfull way.

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If you kill the Rachni queen in ME1, another one shows up in ME3. Which takes all the meaning out of your decision because the entire point of that section in 1 was "do you want to wipe out an entire species or not." Sure it's easy to explain away, but all the teeth are gone from your original decision. They couldn't just have it so if you killed the queen in 1 there wouldn't be one in 2. They had to shoehorn one in so that no matter what you chose you could do that mission. So the end result is that no matter what you choose in me1, there are Rachni husks to fight in 3, and you meet a Rachni queen in 3 again.

It's like this with most of the major choices you make. If you choose to replace the council with humans in ME1 it doesn't really impact anything. The council still acts with barely hidden comptemt for you. The human council isn't bothred about human colonies being wiped out under mysterious circumstances, etc. It's all just a superficial change of a couple of throwaway lines of dialogue and some different character models. Essentially no matter what choices you make in the games, you'll see all the same things, go to the same places, and meet extremely similar characters. (With the notable exception of the boink your crew-members portion of the game I guess?)

Even the ability for characters to die doesn't really pan out meaningfully. Let Grunt die and you get a generic Krogan on mission 12 (I dunno the name of the mission lol) instead.  Which would be cool if any of the stand-ins for dead characters were more than generic NPCs. It ends up feeling like the game is punishing you for various choices because most of them are binary, and pretty much identical, except generally one of the choices is worse from a writing and character standpoint. Obviously you shouldn't be "rewarded" for having characters die from a gameplay perspective, but narratively you definatly should, and this is where they fall completely flat.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, Why couldn't they have reaperized Elcor in the artillery role instead?! >:I

Strictly speaking, I would have loved to have that and Reaper-ized Quarians, Volus, Drell, and Hanar as well. It seems a bit of a lost opportunity that they didn't include those for more enemy types...

[Taricus]

Yeah. Would suck to be attacked by a swarm of Volus death bankers 

EDIT: I can understand there being no reaperized quarians though. Reapers didn't exactly go after them.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I know, right? A whole swarm of biotic gods that make the Banshees look like Husks. XD

[Darkmere]

You people laugh about it, but think of the poor bastards in 100,000 years that would be fighting yahg-collectors. The horror.

[Taricus]

Yahg-collectors? I don't think the reapers would stand a chance against the yahg

Of course, seeing a Yahg husk as a boss *Shudders*

[Digital Hellhound]

http://news.ea.com/portal/site/ea/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1012492&newsId=20120405005304&newsLang=en

!!!

[Roundabout Lout]

http://news.ea.com/portal/site/ea/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1012492&newsId=20120405005304&newsLang=en

!!!

The one thing that stuck out to me was that this "offer" expires April 12, 2014. Is that when the extended ending will no longer be free? Or will this extended cut just fade into non-existence?

I yearn for simpler times.

[fenrif]

"You guys just dont understand, here let me explain it again."

I think at this point it's pretty clear that the "artistic vision" for the end of the ME story is fundamentally broken and terrible. That they're trying to preserve it and add to it is kind of worrying.

The one thing that stuck out to me was that this "offer" expires April 12, 2014. Is that when the extended ending will no longer be free? Or will this extended cut just fade into non-existence?

I yearn for simpler times.

I'm honestly surprised it's free at all. That'll be the date when they start asking for money for it though, yeah.

[SeriousConcentrate]

It says the DLC will be available in summer. I'm not really sure why it says the offer expires in like seven days when it's not going to be out for another two months (most likely, anyway).

[fenrif]

It says the DLC will be available in summer. I'm not really sure why it says the offer expires in like seven days when it's not going to be out for another two months (most likely, anyway).

Read it again