Mass Effect 3's ending wasn't that bad...

[cynicthnkr]

Moreover people don't seem to be in consensus

That's because the sequence seems to have been designed to allow for retconning with DLC at a later date. As if they had not decided how they wanted the series to end, and wanted to leave options.

That! my friend, is the right answer.

Some say it started after elevator.

Unfortunately, it doesn't fit in with the 100% ending. Perhaps your level of completion determines which sequence was real, because maybe TIM has more confidence in Shepard, if he gained the 100% completion... ???

They can get away with it as they didn't actually show his face in last scene of supposedly 100% completion.

 

[Lurchibald]

I 100% agree and from all the bitching I saw in this forum, I expected Shepard to wake up after being in a coma for years because he touched the beacon thingy in Mass Effect 1.

I loved the ending...there, I said it...I.fucking.loved.the.ending.

A big point of the series has been destiny and fulfilling ones destiny. All of my actions were a journey to get up to that destiny. But the point of a destiny is that no matter how you get there, the end is going to be the same.

Now granted, each "ending" may have been different. I chose the merger ending, which is exactly what I think my Shepard would have done. Maybe the other two are giant turd sandwiches but the ending I saw was great.

EDIT: I literally just finished it seconds ago. Maybe if I think about these "plot holes" that people keep rallying on about will do something but I doubt it. The "race above the reapers" has always been hinted at during the game, I didn't think it came out of nowhere at all.

The merger ending is what your Shepard would have wanted? really? Most Shepard's didn't seem too keen on it in ME1... Captcha: make a bee-line

 

[tippy2k2]

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The merger ending is what your Shepard would have wanted? really? Most Shepard's didn't seem too keen on it in ME1...

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I'm not sure why you'd pop in three days after the thread has died but whatev, I'll roll with it.
EDIT: Scratch that, I suppose I should just be happy that someone else wants to discuss my opinion : )

Yes, it is what my Shepard would have wanted. In that clip, Saren was being controlled; it was not a merger with equal footing, it was slavery (2:40 into your clip). He may have volunteered for the implant but he was ultimately the puppet. The merger ending has no puppets or puppeteers; just everyone equal (Cue MLK Dream Speech).

Along with that, most Shepard's in ME1 wouldn't have hesitated to shoot a geth. Experience changes a person (or a digital person) in ways that you can't imagine before you have that experience.

 

[Lurchibald]

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The merger ending is what your Shepard would have wanted? really? Most Shepard's didn't seem too keen on it in ME1...

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I'm not sure why you'd pop in three days after the thread has died but whatev, I'll roll with it.
EDIT: Scratch that, I suppose I should just be happy that someone else wants to discuss my opinion : )

Yes, it is what MY Shepard would have wanted. In that clip, Saren was being controlled; it was not a merger with equal footing, it was slavery (2:40 into your clip). He may have volunteered for the implant but he was ultimately the puppet. The merger ending has no puppets or puppeteers; just everyone equal (Cue MLK Dream Speech).

Along with that, most Shepard's in ME1 wouldn't have hesitated to shoot a geth. Experience changes a person (or a digital person) in ways that you can't imagine before you have that experience.

And what makes you so sure that Shepard isn't playing the part of a puppet for the Catalyst?

 

[tippy2k2]

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And what makes you so sure that Shepard isn't playing the part of a puppet for the Catalyst?

That could be the case and if that's how you interpret the ending, then who am I to tell you that it's wrong? I've interpreted the ending in this way and I am very happy with my own interpretation. Could my interpretation be wrong? OH hell yeah but until Bioware adds/changes the story/information, this is what I think. If they do change things around, I will re-evaluate and decide then.

Shepard could be a puppet of the catalyst. Hell, he could be a puppet of the reapers if the indoctrination theory turns out to be correct. This ending was so complicated and weird that there are hundreds of way that you could interpret the ending.

 

[Lurchibald]

Fair enough