Mass Effect 3 Ending *SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY*

I'm still trying to make sense of what the fuck I just watched. For now, I'm subscribing to the indoctrination theory which makes me regret choosing synthesis.



If the theory holds true, then I've been duped by the reapers. Any other thoughts?

Same boat as you.

But, I still want a whole new 16 endings. Ones that are actually different and no plot holes.

Like this:


http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/

Which ending did you choose John?

So lemme get this straight, all the endings suck balls apart from the ones to be brought out soon in DLC?

Stay classy Bioware, stay classy.

CHAMIKA wrote:Which ending did you choose John?

The destroy "perfect" ending

Link.

What do you guys think?

Well of course. All Bioware has to do now is put out a good ending DLC, and it's a win-win for them. The fanboys are just going to eat it up. I know I would.

Also, this managed to gt on CNN.

At least Bioware recently addressed their mistake. As smug as it sounded, at least it's something. April should be an interesting month for Mass Effect.

It was all good up until the last like 5 minutes. Then the "endings" ruined almost everything.

Ok, I just beat Mass Effect 3 with over 4000 War assets and choose the synthesis ending.

I think like most games, Bioware fell short of the massive hype that was behind their game. They promised straight from the first game that all the decisions the player made would carry on, ensuring that the ultimate fate of the galaxy would be different with each different play through. In reality, all our decisions were boiled down to just a simple number in the war asset screen that can be worked around with a few hours in the multiplayer.

To chalk it up, I'm not mad, just disappointed that all my hard work went to building my own special character amounted to nothing and the three choices in the end were the only choices that mattered. I could've fucked around in all three games and those three choices would've been the same.

That being said, I really don't get all this crying, hate and rage though. The game was a solid A in my book and if bioware hadn't hyped up the entire game series as a game driven by choice or tried so hard in the first two games to create that illusion of choice, I would've probably loved the ending. While I respect the choice that Bioware made to end it the way they wanted to end it, I felt like it came at the cost of spitting in the face of the millions of fans that poured so much time crafting their own Shepard.

Which, ironically, is what Bioware promised us, a chance to determine the fate of the galaxy through our choices. I R Disappoint.

Your right, the ending was incredibly cheap and lazy in comparison to how great the rest of the game was.

While I don't normally like to tear apart video game stories (because I don't generally don't expect great stories in games), it felt like the ending was left purposely disconnected and constrained as a sort of lazy set up for a next game trilogy or spin off in the Mass Effect Universe. The fate of the fleets and Earth, the status of the galaxy, the "true" inner motives of the Reapers, destruction of the mass relays, and many other loose ends were left unanswered to allow for some extra room for the development next trilogy. Also, with the millions of sales that Mass effect drew in, you can be damn sure there will be some sort of continuation in the future.

Essentially, I see EA or Bioware pulling a Halo 4 for the Mass effect franchise.

All the components are there if we compare that to the premise that Halo 4 is based on. During the Shepard's encounter with the Prothean VI on Thessia, I noticed that the VI said "the Reapers are only servants of the pattern. They are not its master". Then in the epilogue (the one with the star gazer and the child), the child says "tell me another story about the Shepard." In a nut shell, we got:

A new, greater and more evil threat? [Check]
The fate of galactic civilizations (post-war) left unanswered to act as the setting for the next game? [Check]
Indications that the hero may be alive. [Check]
Epilogue hints on a new story [Check]

Bioware has everything it needs for a new trilogy and with the massive amount of money that mass effect brought in, they're not putting aside the cow cash anytime soon. While this move would've worked in a linear shooter like Halo, this shit doesn't fly in a games like Mass Effect where all you're choices were supposed to have an effect on ultimate fate of the galaxy. It's like someone walked in during the middle of Mass Effect 3's development and said that they wanted a new trilogy but because of all the potential different endings the game could've had, it wouldn't have fit the new story.

Of course, I might be just over thinking it and it was just really terrible writing done on purpose as an "excuse" for DLC content.

Everything I did in ME1 and ME2 made no gosh darn difference in the end. D:

But the ending was decent. I chose the blue choice.