Bioware: Skipping ME3 sidequests leaves you with a “minimal” ending

Side Quests in RPGs drastically alter the difficulty of the main quest by rewarding players by buffing up their stats and providing them with far more advanced weaponry, while occasionally shedding some light on the back story of some characters. But rarely do you come across a game whose sidequests have a significant impact on the ending. Inpatient gamers will be disappointed to hear that Mass Effect 3 will punish you for evading its sidequests by providing you with an unsatisfying ending.

Casey Hudson, Executive Producer at Bioware told PC Gamer revealed that players who want to experience everything that Mass Effect 3 has to offer, will be rewarded with an “amazing” conclusion.

“If you do a little side quest, or you go off and do a major plot, these things contribute to the war effort,” he explained.

“If you just rip straight down the critical path and try and finish the game as soon as you can, and do very little optional or side stuff, then you can finish the game. You can have some kind of ending and victory, but it’ll be a lot more brutal and minimal relative to if you do a lot of stuff.

“If you really build a lot of stuff and bring people to your side and rally the entire galaxy around you, and you come into the end game with that, then you’ll get an amazing, very definitive ending.”

If you’re one of those gamers who just want to get it over with the game in the fastest way possible, then it doesn’t take a 100 IQ to realize that RPGs just aren’t your type.

Mass Effect 3 arrives on Q1 2012 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360