Mass Effect 3: The Process

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Mass Effect 3: The Process

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Freaking brilliant, I am still in the negotiation part, and from all the Twittering the ME PR guy is doing, a DLC is coming.

 

[Yvl9921]

Hah. This is probably the best strip you guys have done since the one of the Battlefield 3 story. Her words are so perfectly chosen in the last two panels.

 

[scorptatious]

A Garrus love pillow?

Garrus is my favorite squad member, but I don't love him that much. XD

As for the endings, yes, they could have been better. But I'm fine with them now. Mass Effect 3 is still a great game and I'm not going to let the game's endings prevent me from enjoying my second playthrough.

 

[Dice Warwick]

It felt too much like Deus Ex Machina at the end. I was expecting, with how the game was moving at that point, for me to have to fight agents Indoctrination before pressing the kill switch. After that we would have been treated to the Reapers being defeated in some awesome way, and Sheppards friends coming to save him in the Normandy. The ending would be a quick overview of the survivors returning home before the Mass relays shut down for for good, and possibly Sheppard being still alive. That would have been cool, but what we got was a Deus Ex Machina ending.

The ending sould have had a lot more involved with your actions through the passed three games, and how awesome Sheppard was.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Hahaha. I haven't played ME3, but last night my brother came out at 11pm bearing Erin's exact expression in panel 5. After he explained the options to me, all I could think was "What, isn't that just a terrible ripoff of Deus Ex's choices?"

Also Grey and Cory, I liked your subtle nod to The Doors and Apocalypse Now.

 

[Erttheking]

Odd that this comic is the first thing on the Escapist to bring it up.

 

[VanTesla]

*sees final panel*

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

*Raises hand*

I do too.

I think we all need one after the atrocity we have witness in Mass Effect 3 ending...

 

[Smiley Face]

[Illusive Man]
*smokes cigarette and breaths out slowly*
"Shepard. By now you should be reading this in my voice, which may speed up the process.

Goddamnit, now I have Martin Sheen in my head! (

I believe what you meant to say is "Hell yeah, now I have Martin Sheen in my head!"

Also the fact that

Spoiler

destroying the relays is shown in the Arrival DLC in Mass Effect 2 to sterilize the system the destruction occurs within. In every conclusion to ME3, every single mass relay everywhere is destroyed. So every single system in which a relay exists (almost every home system of major spacefaring species, for instance) has just been utterly destroyed. You cause more damage in the conclusion than the reapers ever could.

Spoiler

No, my guess is that all the energy of the mass relay is put into the 'crazy wave', so when it properly explodes, there's not enough pent up energy left to destroy everything. In Arrival, you just broke the damn thing, and all the energy was released in the most convenient way possible - a system-engulfing fireball.

That said, endings still stupid.

EDIT: My bad about the accidental over-quote.

 

[Aisaku]

*sees final panel*

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

*Raises hand*

I do too.

I think Erin's therapist will need a therapist...

 

[karaku32]

Well i was severely disappointed in the ME3 ending, i would have been fine without a happy ending,but with the amount of time i put into my relationships with these characters, the amount of detail and background i painstakingly worked for (including my first play through of mass effect 2 was with 3 broken fingers >.<) The most i see is them getting out of a destroyed normandy out in the middle of fucking nowhere? and i only get too see Joker + 2 others that change depending on my relationships? WTF? even though i did the "destroy" option and saw the scene where shepard breathed again i have to face facts, She is severly wounded, losing alot of blood and lying in the middle of a war zone, so even though she took that breath, she is prbably still gonna die anyway, also even if she does survive, all the time and effort i put into my relationship with garrus, he's in the middle of no-where with a broken down ship and no plausible way short of shepard spending decades looking for him to find him and thats only if she survives on earth.....Well done bioware.....Well done....

Edit: Not to mention the massive plot hole of all the Turians/Salarians/Asari/Quarians being abonded around earth with no mass effect relays, wtf are they gonna do now? It would take a very long time for them to get back to their respective homeworlds...

 

[Adultism]

Where can I buy that pillow?

 

[Darkmantle]

the basic issue is that the finale of the game is essentially "well you are fucked, but please, press buttons A B or C to choose your ending cinematic"

Did you play a model citizen? Doesn't matter same ABC

Did you play a violent Arrogant Prick? doesn't matter ABC

did you speed run the games? Doesn't matter ABC

Did you painstakingly complete EVERY sidequest? doesn't matter, ABC

Ah, I see, so not the endings, but the way in which they were implemented. That does sound pretty rage inducing. Seems like a bit of a cop out on Bioware's part, especially given that many of the game's fans are attracted to the story driven and role playing nature of the franchise.

Thanks for explaining it in layman's terms.

what makes it worse is that they bragged it up in a few interviews that EVERY choice would be represented in the endings and it was going to be "incredibly complex".

What a joke.

And no problem

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I made a point that this seemed to be happening in a lot of the "I'm fine with the ending now" threads... after they were signing petitions to get the ending changed. They were angry about it before. And bewildered before that.

You've reached acceptance. Bravo. You are now officially sad, sad people.

 

[Madara XIII]

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.

Hehe! Reminds me how I felt after Shadow of the Colossus or the end of LIMBO.

Just so broken up and left asking "WHY GOD WHY!?!"

 

[soren7550]

I'm deeeep in depression. With a touch of denial. I'm seriously considering making a Kaidan pillow to make it all hurt just a little less.

Care to make a second?

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.

Just do what I and others are doing sir; try to erase the last ten minutes of the game from memory, and focus (heavily) on the good parts that made the Mass Effect series so special to you.

In my case, Kaidan. Lots and lots of Kaidan:

*sighs* I'm going to need a lot more Kaidan to forget about this...

True story - after I beat the game, me and the boyfriend were dumbstruck for 20 minutes, just going 'huu-whaaaa?'. I even walked around in a confused daze.

 

[Comic Sans]

I ranted and raved at the nearest available target (my mother) for about 10 minutes after finishing. I believe I described it as "imagine if your first time watching The Lord of the Rings you watched the extended cuts and all back to back, and then Return ends when Gollum and Frodo fall off the ledge in Mt. Doom". Except with some more ranting and slightly more colorful language thrown in. I knew what was coming and STILL was mad. If anything, experiencing it made it worse, even knowing what the ending was. I am still firmly in the anger stage.

 

[Vrex360]

I'm right now inbetween 'acceptance' and 'bartering' when it comes to the ending. It hasn't effected me fully because I haven't actually played the whole game yet but still I'm trying my best to be emotionall prepared for what I do.
I should say outright that when I say I'm in the 'bartering' stage I mean simply that I still really want Bioware/EA to hurry up and approve of these:

A DLC remaking the endings may be hopeless but this is something that I am willing to let myself get emotionally invested in. Come on Bioware, if I really can't have a happy ending I can at least have high quality Play Arts Kai figures of my favorite characters, especially Ashley I would rather a PAK figure of her then a bishoujo statue. Surely that's no asking for the world.
Before I wouldn't even have worried about this because after all they are really well made, could sell for a huge price and given Bioware's attempts to market Mass Effect to Japan having toys made by a Japanese company would help.
But after these endings made thousands of people pissed off an depressed I now am actually worried about EA/Bioware when it comes to making good decisions.

I have decided that simply if Bioware don't license these, it will be the last straw for me.

 

[Madara XIII]

And now you finally understand the heart break of a Megaman fan.

 

[Rainforce]

I swear to god, in the end they will release a dozen "proper" endings as DLC, $10 each.
The most GLORIOUS ripoff of all times.
And abuse of the bargain stage, of course. It will be so awesome *___*

 

[karaku32]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-14-bioware-responds-to-mass-effect-3-ending-furore

Not sure if this is good news or not, they arent ruling out continuation DLC but they are saying that this is how they wanted us to react to make it "memorable"