Mass Effect 3: The Process

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Yup... that was me as well.

Goddammit! I haven't cried like that since I was about 7, and I don't think anything beyond Liara becoming a real person could console me (if you'll forgive the creepyness, it's been a very traumatic time).

 

[AbstractStream]

The last panel is so accurate, it's scary...
;_____________;

 

[JaceArveduin]

Exactly how I felt. Crushed.

Never thought a damn videogame could make me feel so down in the dumps - especially my freakin favorite series of all time.

Poor Gav, you were in such high hopes when you premiered Take it Back.

I haven't played the ME series, seeing as I'm broke and have mainly been playing F2P games for the past 3 years, but if the ending is really that... bad, I feel rather bad for you guys.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

*sees final panel*

So, hands up. Who thinks Erin needs a therapist?

 

[Fappy]

*sees final panel*

So, hands up. Who thinks Erin needs a therapist?

*Raises hand*

I do too.

 

[Trishbot]

*Me before beating ME3* - "Man, what whiners! All these people are so entitled! C'mon, they wouldn't have been satisfied with any ending! Bioware fans are the worst! They exaggerate everything. No way are the endings THAT bad!"

*Me after beating ME3* - "Oh, go to hell, Bioware. You go straight to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Go directly to hell."

I'm starting to think the ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion was better... and they got death threats over that.

 

[putowtin]

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actually, I found that 90% of the people complaining about the endings haven't that having more than 5000 troop strength before doing the final mission gives you the better one depending on the choices.


Still though, after finding this out, promptly replaying the game [which importing your ME3 character is the only way to get weapons over level 5 evidently] and getting EVERY SINGLE WAR ASSET IN THE GAME, I was content with the ending.

I'm sure I had more that 5000, I had every asset, but now I'm curious....
Maybe when my heart stops feeling so heavy I'll re-play!

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Yah the ending was pretty shit. But here something that will at least make it interesting if true. http://social.bioware.com/forums/forum/1/topic/355/index/9727423/1

Basically it states that the entire part with the citadel was an indoctrination test set by the reapers in Sheppard's death coma, its an interesting read the theirs allot of evidence to support it.

Still pisses me off though cause that means it's incomplete and they will charge us for the ending. Not cool man, not cool.

Oh please be real. Dear God let at least SOME of that theory be real. I'd even be prepared to fork out extra money for the real ending if they really were this brilliant. I also wouldn't have to feel so shitty about choosing Destroy and what I was told the consequences would be.

 

[The Great JT]

...Yeah that's about right.

 

[Wolfram23]

I don't get it. Can someone explain to me, a person who has not played Mass Effect, what the big deal is? I read about the endings on some spoiler thing and I just don't understand the issue. Is it because it's hard to get the happy ending? You can't deal with a depressing ending? Other?

 

[Emiscary]

Nice to know I'm not alone feeling ripped off. 1000's of possibilities going into the game, and the best endings they could come up with were 3 different flavours of "kill self, render all previous decisions moot." And YES, I know you "maybe" survive one of them. But a twitching corpse in a flaming ruin is not what I'd call a satisfying payoff to the Sci-fi epic they've spent the better part of a decade building. Otherwise well done, but jesus guys...

 

[Doubler]

Eh, I agree with some of the criticisms and disagree with others ('it's not a happy ending!'), but ultimately what I felt was the worst thing about the ending was that while it gave closure to the story, it didn't give closure to the characters. And honestly, the characters in ME were way more important than the story ever was.

 

[sordcooper]

uh, yeah, control was the paragon option, you take control of the reapers and can therefore send them all back to dark space and stop the war outright. Besides, only merge or destroy ended up with the relays being blown up i think. Still, all awful endings

 

[Biodeamon]

Oh god, i haven't bought Mass Effect 3 yet. what is this horrible eldritch abomination of an ending we're talking about?! the suspense is killing me. DON'T SPOIL IT FOR ME!

 

[search_rip]

if Mass Effect 3 teach us something is that at the end everything you love will crush your heart :'( *grabs more icecream*

 

[Trishbot]

I don't get it. Can someone explain to me, a person who has not played Mass Effect, what the big deal is? I read about the endings on some spoiler thing and I just don't understand the issue. Is it because it's hard to get the happy ending? You can't deal with a depressing ending? Other?

http://www.play-mag.co.uk/general/why-the-mass-effect-3-ending-sucked/

There are a LOT of problems with the ending. Believe it or not, most people aren't upset that the ending isn't happy. It's the many OTHER problems. This site does a very good job of summing them all up... and there's a lot to cover about why these endings just don't work. At all.

 

[i am not god]

Exactly that, you're damn right guys.

I need a Garrus body pillow thing like that to get over it. Probably never will.

 

[Canadian Fodder]

How dare they send us through that emotional rollercoaster and then give us that damned ending. If I could just block out the last 10 min, everything would be all right.

 

[VonKlaw]

I liked the ending. What the hell makes it 'universally wrong' that I'm not seeing?!

...then again, I liked the ending of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, too. So maybe I'm just an idiot.

Atleast the ending of DE:HR was going to be relatively pointless since it was a prequel and all.

 

[feauxx]

uh, yeah, control was the paragon option, you take control of the reapers and can therefore send them all back to dark space and stop the war outright. Besides, only merge or destroy ended up with the relays being blown up i think. Still, all awful endings

that's the thing. the blue/control/paragon option was represented by the illusive man. the red/destroy/renegade option is represented by captain anderson. obviously this hints at something being very wrong and warped about the representation of these choices. captain anderson is a true paragon and the illusive man is and obvious renegade. the child seems to agree most with the control and synthesis option. he admits the illusive man was indoctrinated so it's safe to say that with the illusive man trying to convince shepard the reapers can be controlled it was actually the reapers indoctrination speaking. the synthesis option is what would happen if the reapers aren't stopped, they will process all organic life. if you choose control the same thing will happen cause just minutes earlier you told the illusive man that the reapers can't be controlled, they'll just let you think that cause you'll be indoctrinated. captain anderson tells you not to listen to the illusive man and fight to the end to stop the reapers. this ending also gives the little extra scene of shepard still being alive in the rubble of london on earth.

i personally think everything from the point that harbinger shows up and knocks you out is tainted with indoctrination. everything changes at that point. camera, gameplay, hud, ammo, your armor is gone, the blurry vision, the oily black stuff on the side of the screen when the illusive man speaks, your armor is gone and suddenly you can breathe in space as well. i could go on and on about this probably. but yeah, i think there is a lot more to it. the child haunts your dreams, going up in flames and ultimately setting you on fire too in the last dream, shepards downfall. because of this i think all endings are bad, with the destroy option being the canonically correct one. destroying the reapers has been your main goal since the very beginning. my guess is the story isn't finished.