ME3: How did you like the ending: ALERT SPOILER!

[Okuto]

ALERT
Before you read this I wish to inform you that other posters including myself may spill some sensitive info....I ask that before you post any spoilers...plz do so in a spoiler box...thank you

NOW then......a short story before the question

I actually lost sleep over the ending of ME3.....as I found the ending to be maddening.....sad...depressing...etc etc.....

I had expected at least the option of a "perfect" heroic ending befitting the end of the trilogy but after the ending I felt as if my girlfriend just told me she was actually a man right as I proposed....

Now before I continue.....the question

To those who have finished Mass Effect 3....what did you think of the ending


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http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/to...dex/10084349/1

[Eikki]

Firstly, the endings are a blatant copy paste from the first Deus Ex. Destroy is siding with Tong ending, Merge is merge with helios ending and control is bringing the illuminati back to power by using the technology.

Secondly, the endings itself aren't that bad...hell you can even save shepard in the destroy ending. Its just the way it was executed: Why do they force the normandy to crash on deliverance planet? Why are the reapers killing organics so they wont build synthetics to kill organics? what the hell? Its just cheap drama thrown in DA2 style for the sake of appearing dark and edgy. Some people will like them, but once again Bioware give us the illusion of choice where really nothing you do matters. Would it be that hard to have the normandy crash on earth in one of the endings? How about some closure huh.

[beckyolt]

The ending seemed really retarded. RDR was the last game with a good ending I've played lately, geez.

I had expected at least the option of a "perfect" heroic ending befitting the end of the trilogy but after the ending I felt as if my girlfriend just told me she was actually a man right as I proposed....

Lol. +Rep. Totally agree with your points.

[John I Tzimisces]

Firstly, the endings are a blatant copy paste from the first Deus Ex. Destroy is siding with Tong ending, Merge is merge with helios ending and control is bringing the illuminati back to power by using the technology.

Secondly, the endings itself aren't that bad...hell you can even save shepard in the destroy ending. Its just the way it was executed: Why do they force the normandy to crash on deliverance planet? Why are the reapers killing organics so they wont build synthetics to kill organics? what the hell? Its just cheap drama thrown in DA2 style for the sake of appearing dark and edgy. Some people will like them, but once again Bioware give us the illusion of choice where really nothing you do matters. Would it be that hard to have the normandy crash on earth in one of the endings? How about some closure huh.

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It actually kinda makes the reapers seem like the ultimate eco-terrorists. I guess they start with the idea that sufficiently advanced organic life will create synthetic life, that synthetic life will find itself obliterating all organic life, ergo the reapers destroy advanced organic life so other forms of life can at least sorta kinda have a chance until (they themselves are snuffed out.), while they "preserve" the advanced organics in the form of new reapers.

So, on one hand, it sorta kinda makes sense, but on the other hand, it's still kinda utterly horrifying, since according to the in-game lore, the reapers have "processing ships" and camps and such, where they herd sentients, liquefying them en masse out of view of other prisoners.

I was, however, a little confused what the normandy was doing travelling between two relays? I thought it was kinda right by earth?

My biggest gripe, though, as mentioned above, is the complete lack of closure. It really just is a jump to an undisclosed point in the future set in a scene from an image you can find on google.

[Gaidin]

What's the point of a huge spoiler warning if we have to go through the trouble of spoiler boxes? Screw that.

[Eikki]

What's the point of a huge spoiler warning if we have to go through the trouble of spoiler boxes? Screw that.

For once I agree with you...

[lordyu]

Just finished and it was a crappy solution all round. I went with the middle. Dam not the ending I was hoping for. it was quite hinted at though.

[Musthavename]

To the OP: You really don't need spoiler boxes when the thread title is "How did you like the ending" and has a giant spoiler warning in it.

I haven't played nor intend to buy the game (Origin has made my purchase a no), but since I had to know how the series I loved would end i've ended up watching the endings. I'd imagine some of you might instantly dismiss my opinion, but that's your choice.

Now, I don't actually have a problem with the endings (even if they are a bit cliche and half copied from Deus Ex). I actually applaud Bioware for having the balls to have endings where bad stuff happens instead of "the Reapers explode into pixie dust and everyone lived happily ever after". What I do find silly is how they're told. There's no epilogue, no nice conclusion explaining what happened to your companions or what happens to humanity (or any other race) beyond a short clip of Earth. Instead you get virtually the same movie clip with different colour lights. That's just not a conclusion, that's being lazy. Plus, it seems no matter what you do (which I might be wrong in, considering i've only got youtube to rely on) your crew get stranded on random planet and have zero dialog. Now, I don't even care that they'd get stranded every single time, but no dialog? Nothing? Do any of them even know what the heck just happened?

Let's put it this way. In Dragon Age Origins, the endings are all fairly obvious and none of them are really special. But the game concludes, because it details not only exactly how all your companions feel, but what they plan to do, and what a bunch of random npcs plan to do! It shows you exactly what consequences your actions have had. There's just nothing even coming close to this sort of closure with ME3's endings.

[Okuto]

But the game concludes, because it details not only exactly how all your companions feel, but what they plan to do, and what a bunch of random npcs plan to do! It shows you exactly what consequences your actions have had. There's just nothing even coming close to this sort of closure with ME3's endings.

This is exactly what I lost sleep over.....

I kept thinking what happened to my party members....
I wanted to see.....

Jacob raising his family
Miranda on the run with her sister
Garsus drinking at the bar and getting a position in the empire
Wrex and his 1000 kids
The Quarians "unpacking" alongside the geth
Aria butchering her way through omega

etc etc.....didn't get any closure....and now I suspect....

Bioware will give us the rest of the "ending" via dlc or patch?

Cause damn I'd pay for the chance at a happy ending....a great big statue of me...get to see my shep build a family...etc etc....

Another gripe was the ending battle felt a little shallow....I kinda wanted to see all the forces I gathered up...not just the krogan, turians, asari....

I wanted to see elcor with rocket launchers strapped to their backs! or the batarians give a rage fueled speech....so many messed chances......

[Gaidin]

To the OP: You really don't need spoiler boxes when the thread title is "How did you like the ending" and has a giant spoiler warning in it.

To wit: the thread is the spoiler box.

Now, I don't actually have a problem with the endings (even if they are a bit cliche and half copied from Deus Ex). I actually applaud Bioware for having the balls to have endings where bad stuff happens instead of "the Reapers explode into pixie dust and everyone lived happily ever after". What I do find silly is how they're told. There's no epilogue, no nice conclusion explaining what happened to your companions or what happens to humanity (or any other race) beyond a short clip of Earth. Instead you get virtually the same movie clip with different colour lights. That's just not a conclusion, that's being lazy. Plus, it seems no matter what you do (which I might be wrong in, considering i've only got youtube to rely on) your crew get stranded on random planet and have zero dialog. Now, I don't even care that they'd get stranded every single time, but no dialog? Nothing? Do any of them even know what the heck just happened?

That's what happened in Mass Effect 1. It was always ever only a question of who'd be standing with you.

[Okuto]

IT is.......but some like to put spoiler boxes anyways so I laid that option out....I'm certainly not doing it but others are open to it

[ML101]

Didn't like how there is no follow up with any of your companions or what happens to the galaxy

[John I Tzimisces]

Never mind that the relays appear to be destroyed no matter the choice, when I'm pretty sure the kid-god-thing says they'll only be destroyed in the kill the reapers/synthetics option.

[ML101]

And with the relays destroyed all the aliens you gathered for the battle are basically stuck on Earth. "Oh hey Quarians I helped you reclaim your homeworld but I blew up the mass relays so you can't go back home now"

[Gaidin]

And with the relays destroyed all the aliens you gathered for the battle are basically stuck on Earth. "Oh hey Quarians I helped you reclaim your homeworld but I blew up the mass relays so you can't go back home now"

Well nobody ever said it would all go right or end conveniently. Just that it would end, one way or another.

[Musthavename]

That's what happened in Mass Effect 1. It was always ever only a question of who'd be standing with you.

You're right. ME1's, and even ME2's endings are poor and brief, but those can be partly looked over since they serve partially to set up a sequel (especially in ME2, when the ending is basically "Reapers are still coming *PANS TO REAPER FLEET*"). Again, this isn't ideal, but I can overlook the "meh" ending in those games somewhat. Half of the reason to play ME3 though is to see how the trilogy you've loved ends. That's why it's a bit insulting to not give any closure at all.

[John I Tzimisces]

It boggles my mind how much effort got put into parts of this game, and how little attention other bits got. Hell, Tali's face is photoshopped stock model photo. That post-credits landscape? Google "winter space".

[Imperial]

The ending sucked because it wasn't an ending, it didn't put closure on anything. In fact, it just gave us more questions than answers. Feels like I'm watching Lost all over again.

Many people seem to think that Shepard was hallucinating for the last 15 minutes of the game after he was attacked by the Harbinger. I hope it's true, and there's a lot of evidence to support it as well.

IMO, I think this ending was a delay tactic used by Bioware because they weren't sure how to end the series when they were developing the game. So they make Shepard hallucinate for the last 15 minutes of the game so they release a (hopefully free) DLC with the true ending. The DLC will probably start with Shepard waking up after he was attacked by Harbinger.

[ML101]

You know I prefer the "original ending" they had before they changed it when it leaked on the internet: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/so...ers.250066288/

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"The Reapers' goal was to find a way to stop the spread of Dark Energy which would eventually consume everything. That's why there was so much foreshadowing about Dark Energy in ME2.

The Reapers as a whole were 'nations' of people who had fused together in the most horrific way possible to help find a way to stop the spread of the Dark Energy. The real reason for the Human Reaper was supposed to be the Reapers saving throw because they had run out of time. Humanity in Mass Effect is supposedly unique because of it's genetic diversity and represented the universe's best chance at stopping Dark Energy's spread.

The original final choice was going to be "Kill the Reapers and put your faith in the races of the galaxy in finding another way to stop the spread with what little time is left" or "Sacrifice humanity, allowing them to be horrifically processed in hopes that the end result will justify the means."

At least with this ending there is some relevance to the other games such as why Tali was on Haestrom in ME2 to study the dying star due to dark energy and not this Matrix reloaded ending..

[NaptownKnight]

Didn't read any of these posts . Just wanted to say how the **** have you beat the game already? Do some sidequests!