Bear in mind that I've never played ME3, only watched it, but if I did have to choose, it would be Control, the reasons being:Ravenbom said:I'd actually like to know why people chose the ending that they chose.
Compare it the Battle of the Citadel and to the Suicide Mission. Even the expanded ending is not finished, both from a gameplay and story perspective.Worgen said:So I didn't hate the ending of ME3, I actually thought the ending itself was pretty good, granted I did play it awhile after release when they had expanded the ending.
With the way EA finances and publishes games it was defiitely the latter.aegix drakan said:I feel like the writing team had a tremendous disparity of talent, or that they were under an insane amount of time crunch.
That was the cyborg ninja dude who felt like a fanfic insert character, wasn't he? Yeah, kind of atrocious.Meiam said:On the whole "95% of the game is great aside from the ending" did they already forget Kai Leng? That character alone is enough to destroy a game, I didn't like the ending but I couldn't muster any real anger because by that point I just didn't give a shit anymore, Kai Leng killed all the shit I had to give.
His first boss fight is textbook definition of a bad boss fight.
I'd second reading Shamus Young mass effect retrospective (can't link it cause his website is down atm) for a lengthy analysis of what went wrong. He's more negative about ME2 than I'd be (although ME2 need to be played on insanity to be appreciated), but overall I mostly agree with him and he's a far better writer than me.
Oh, that explains why the secret "is Shepard alive?" segment appears only in the Destroy ending! Jeez, these could had been so much better endings if they hadn't been delivered and executed in such clumsy way.Asita said:I can also go into the thematic resonance of each point. Synthesis represents adopting Saren's ideology during the climax of ME1, Control represents adopting TIM's ideology which you literally just rejected not five minutes prior, and Destroy is what you've been aiming for since ME1, but with all other synthetics thrown in for the simple reasons that the writer doesn't want you to choose that option because he prefers Synthesis.
Earth being so important was especially irritating when playing as a Shepard with a Colonist background.Casual Shinji said:I'd argue the Earth should never have functioned as the centre of the whole conflict to begin with. This makes it fall into the typical scenario with these space tales that humans are "the special", and it clashes tonally knowing the Reapers are vaporizing the Earth while you're off goofing around on the Citidal. But then the same could be said about the other planets getting fried, which calls into question having the backdrop of ME3 be the Reaper war.
Yeah, Kai Leng is awful but we also got to stab him in the heart so I?m cool with it. And I?ll hear nothing bad said about Zaeed Massani; Robin Sachs took a generic role and made it fun to the point where I wish he?d been a full squadmate and not DLC.Seth Carter said:That was the cyborg ninja dude who felt like a fanfic insert character, wasn't he? Yeah, kind of atrocious.Meiam said:On the whole "95% of the game is great aside from the ending" did they already forget Kai Leng? That character alone is enough to destroy a game, I didn't like the ending but I couldn't muster any real anger because by that point I just didn't give a shit anymore, Kai Leng killed all the shit I had to give.
His first boss fight is textbook definition of a bad boss fight.
I'd second reading Shamus Young mass effect retrospective (can't link it cause his website is down atm) for a lengthy analysis of what went wrong. He's more negative about ME2 than I'd be (although ME2 need to be played on insanity to be appreciated), but overall I mostly agree with him and he's a far better writer than me.
Though Bioware's always had a thing for silly fanfic type characters, which got weird when they started doing it in their own IPs somehow (The ME2 crew were all these weird abnormal concepts, with the DLC pair being the straight plays other then Generic McSoldierGuy) and not in D&D games.
Nah, he felt fairly organic. Genetically engineered perfect human, suddenly individual minded Geth-bro, Asari super-monk, another genetically engineered perfect Krogan, random biotic with unexplained superpowers, etc would be the ones I was more referencing.Gordon_4 said:Yeah, Kai Leng is awful but we also got to stab him in the heart so I?m cool with it. And I?ll hear nothing bad said about Zaeed Massani; Robin Sachs took a generic role and made it fun to the point where I wish he?d been a full squadmate and not DLC.
There's no ending they could give it that would satisfy everyone. Given that there are very few main characters left *and* we know GRRM has said the ending will be bittersweet *and* that he likes killing off his characters, the chances are that a lot of them won't be standing at the end. The thing is, at this point it's built up to a good vs evil showdown since all the political intrigue and games of thrones died (literally and symbolically) with Baelish.Samtemdo8 said:I am just extremely worried that Game of Thrones will suffer the same fate as Mass Effect 3.
Unfortunately, it was exactly like the other games. All that choices was pointless from the startmrdude2010 said:It wouldn't have been too bad completely out of context, but it ran so directly counter to the entire series, its worldbuilding, its choices, etc. that it felt terrible.
Poll with its 'unbiased answers' set the tone but honestly, people voicing their negative opinion about the ending were rather calm and collected. Does it bother you it didn't get wishy-washy but remains stark after 6 years? If yes, hold onto your bottom because once Anthem flops and Bioware goes the way of the dodo it's then, when festival of blame and shame the fans begins. Save your ammo.Wrex Brogan said:It was a bad, terribly written, hastily-slapped-together ending, but given how people are still pissed off about it 6 years down the track, I'm tempted to say it's the greatest ending of all time, just to raise some blood pressures.
I mean, holy fuck guys, it's just a shitty ending, Bioware didn't murder your parents, calm the fuck down already.