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[Joshua N7]

wilhelm Screamer wrote...

EVERYONE DIES

Shepard gets a nice statue on the citadel (holding LI of choice in one hand, hand cannon in the other. Your two most used squadmates stand behind him with guns at the ready).

Wait what do you mean by LI?

[breakdown71289]

Joshua N7 wrote...

wilhelm Screamer wrote...

EVERYONE DIES

Shepard gets a nice statue on the citadel (holding LI of choice in one hand, hand cannon in the other. Your two most used squadmates stand behind him with guns at the ready).

Wait what do you mean by LI?

LI = Love Interest

[LuckIs0nMySide]

LI stands for Love Interest i.e. the person (or persons ) you romanced over the course of the game.

Edit: Aahh, damn Ninjas! 

Modifié par LuckIs0nMySide, 02 juin 2011 - 10:01 .

[Joshua N7]

Oh yeah. I didn't think of that. Thanks,and thats not a bad idea. =D

[Jzadek72]

Joshua N7 wrote...

Mass Effect 3 is coming out and I cannot wait! I've been thinking lately on the possible endings we could get. Whats your idea on the most satisfying ending Commander Shepard and the Mass Effect series could get? Please be more specific than "I hope the Reapers die.", cause we all want that.  :happy:

I hope the Reapers LIVE!

Seriously, though, I want victory, but with great cost. Like, say, the collapse of galactic civilisation due to the destruction of the relays. Or simply Earth/the Citadel. And I want to finish on a choice that will affect the lives of billions.

[breakdown71289]

Jzadek72 wrote...

Joshua N7 wrote...

Mass Effect 3 is coming out and I cannot wait! I've been thinking lately on the possible endings we could get. Whats your idea on the most satisfying ending Commander Shepard and the Mass Effect series could get? Please be more specific than "I hope the Reapers die.", cause we all want that.  :happy:

I hope the Reapers LIVE!

Seriously, though, I want victory, but with great cost. Like, say, the collapse of galactic civilisation due to the destruction of the relays. Or simply Earth/the Citadel. And I want to finish on a choice that will affect the lives of billions.

I don't know, i mean on one hand i took the whole "sacrificing over 300,000 batarians to destroy a mass relay" thing pretty hard on my conscience, so i don't know how i would do if a sacrifice even GREATER than that would occur in ME3 

[Joshua N7]

Either way...the Reapers can suck it

[Jzadek72]

breakdown71289 wrote...

Jzadek72 wrote...

Joshua N7 wrote...

Mass Effect 3 is coming out and I cannot wait! I've been thinking lately on the possible endings we could get. Whats your idea on the most satisfying ending Commander Shepard and the Mass Effect series could get? Please be more specific than "I hope the Reapers die.", cause we all want that.  :happy:

I hope the Reapers LIVE!

Seriously, though, I want victory, but with great cost. Like, say, the collapse of galactic civilisation due to the destruction of the relays. Or simply Earth/the Citadel. And I want to finish on a choice that will affect the lives of billions.

I don't know, i mean on one hand i took the whole "sacrificing over 300,000 batarians to destroy a mass relay" thing pretty hard on my conscience, so i don't know how i would do if a sacrifice even GREATER than that would occur in ME3 

Well, you should have some choice in it, each with reaper-cussions (hee hee puns) unlike the crappy arrival.

[Joshua N7]

Reaper-cussions eh? Never thought of that. I want to hear that dialog made by Joker in ME3!

[omgodzilla]

The Normandy is floating through space after the war against the Reapers is lost. Everyone on board looks super depressed. We see Shepard in his quarters. He takes out a gun and points it at his head. The screen goes black and we hear a gunshot.

[Joshua N7]

Ouch...just...ouch

[Aurora313]

I have several theories:

The first being a given - Shepard manages to unite the galaxy against the reaper threat, through paragon or renagade means. Splinter endings start here:

- The first is the ultimate best ending. The reapers are defeated, at least for another 50k years and all the races are united under one banner. Shepard and all the crew survive. He gets his LI and sets off eagerly on his next adventure/disappears from the scene like so many other Bioware protagonists with/without crew. Shepard reforms Cereberus into his own splinter faction/peace keeping force in league with council+spectres.

- Second - The second ultimate ending. The reapers are defeated but at great cost to the galaxy. Parts of Earth are decimated almost to the point on inhabitality, but the Galaxy is united none the less, if a little rough around the edges. Shepard and his crew survive, he may still get the LI but is subject to the massive amounts of guilt that comes with all the sacrifices he had been forced to make which taints his personality in the epilogue and strains his relationship a little. Shepard hesitantly remains with Spectres.

- Third - Earth is Sacrificed, Reapers are defeated. Galaxy is united, Humanity is homeworld-less. Shepard and most if not all his crew (inc. LI) remain alive, but are guilt-stricken. Dialogue makes/breaks off love interest. Shepard becomes a "rogue" spectre (Not evil or anything, just CBF dealing with the council's rubbish anymore).

Fourth - Earth and several other homeworlds are attacked, some destroyed. Reapers barely repelled. Galaxy is in state of truce, but on verge of total chaos. Shepard and some Crew survive, barely. LI lives or dies based on player choice (figure a decision like Virmire). The relationship is broken off, unless correct dialogue is taken. Shepard does not rejoin the Spectres and leaves. The crew await loyally for him to find himself again and return. Whether he does or not is left to the player, but epilogue reveals glimmer of hope that he will.

Fifth - Galaxy barely makes it through reaper attack. Most of the united fleet and planets are destoryed, decimated, or pretty screwed over. Shepard and a handful of his crew survive... just. LI is more than likely dead. Galactic instablity causes open war. Shepard leaves, depending on choice, his crew follow suit.

Sixth - Reapers half-win. They use indoctrination to control half the races and fight the other half. Shepard becomes somewhat indoctrinated through his cyborg implants but manages to fight it off through willpower just long enough to destroy Harbinger - possibly through ramming the Normandy through it's ME core. Shepard+Joker are guarenteed death. (Think Battlestar Pegasus' destruction in the remastered Battlestar series.)

Seven - Reaper's win. Galaxy is culled and the cycle repeats. Shepard is completely indoctrinated, kills his crew then submits - I shudder when I type that - to the reapers... probably to be consumed and melted into another reaper.

What I would like to see, is an ending where some kind of self-destruct program is triggered which spread to all reapers like a virus. Shepard has to detonate an explosive charge next to a reaper core or something like that to disable some plot point that is preventing the program from working. He is injured, maybe impaled with a bit of debris and his LI, or Joker if LI is dead, is ordering him to move his ass and escape - to which he laughs bitterly and embraces then end, or he obeys and hobbles through the path he came (under PC control at this point and are running under a timer. Medi-gel may be used to extend that timeframe for a few seconds.) and either escapes or not, depending on how fast the player goes. If he escapes, he wakes up in infirmiry with crew present, relieved that he survives and asks if they'll be there when he wakes up again. Has a lingering look at LI and falls to sleep (game fades to end as he falls asleep again) or he dies metres from pickup after bleeding out (when timer expires) and is given a fitting memorial+wake.

[Joshua N7]

That was beautiful...

[Mwames]

As long as there is an ending in which Shepard survives, I'm satisfied. Like what a lot of people have said before, the main hero sacrificing himself/herself is WAY too cliche...

I feel like happy endings are slowly dying off...

[ShadowSplicer]

I think it'd be very striking if Earth needed to be sacrificed as a Paragon decision, where as a more Renegade option would be to save Earth in place of the Citadel. It'd really make them different and make you weigh the options, although, me being a alien sympathizer would definitely be willing to sacrifice for the greater good. I just hope Shepard, Garrus, and Liara can survive the ordeal...

[Raiil]

I can't even guess on the end game. I don't want to, I just want my friends to live. And Liara, even though I don't care for her, because having the Shadow Broker as a buddy is useful.

What I want, post-game, is to be able to give a vague direction of where Shepard wants to go from there. My canon Shepard just wants to make rude hand gestures at the Council and the Alliance before stealing her ship back and dropping off the grid. I'd like to say that maybe I'll go colonise some planet, maybe I'll drift, maybe I just want to take Thane and spend what little time we have left together without some hardass begging for favours (I'm looking at you, Hackett- do your own damn dirty work).

[Elite Midget]

The one where Tali and Garrus die.

[Oblivious]

wilhelm Screamer wrote...

EVERYONE DIES

Shepard gets a nice statue on the citadel (holding LI of choice in one hand, hand cannon in the other. Your two most used squadmates stand behind him with guns at the ready).

I must admit, that statue sounds epic. I would enjoy a "Total Victory" ending that is significantly harder to attain than in ME2 (like maybe completing all the side missions while not messing up in any of the main missions), a "Total Defeat" ending, and various stages in-between.

Maybe Shep's LI (or more used squadmate/2nd in command) will come to him/her before the final mission and ask what Shep's gonna do after it's all over. The answer you select will show up in the epilogue. Who knows, there might even be lots of little blue babies.

[xIxDarkWolfxIx]

Aurora313 wrote...

I have several theories:

*snip*

I like this.
I want to be able to Save all the Galaxy with my Paragade, become the ultimate hero. But I also want to see the possibility and be able to, in other playthroughts, to completely mess it up. 
All that is needed to make those 7 endings better would be to add pesonal and individual differences to each character. 

Modifié par xIxDarkWolfxIx, 06 juin 2011 - 09:27 .

[xIxDarkWolfxIx]

EDIT: Double Post

Modifié par xIxDarkWolfxIx, 06 juin 2011 - 09:28 .

[KevShep]

Bioware said before Arrival was out that there are clues in the DLC that would tell how the war is going to take place. They said that you would have to make "gut wrenching" decisions like the one with the batarians. So...it looks like the way we are going to beat them is to destroy the relays when they enter them, and that means that that hole system and its worlds will be destroyed with the reapers!

[Made Nightwing]

I would definitely support an end cutscene where Tali and Kal'Reegar (One of the BEST PAIRINGS EVER!) are beginning to build a house on Rannoch.

[HeavenStar]

I highly suspect that there'll be an ultimately GOOD ending if you've played through all ME 1, 2 and 3, 'cause it's likely that Bioware will want to create an incentive for people to play all ME's.

[Aurora313]

xIxDarkWolfxIx wrote...

Aurora313 wrote...

I have several theories:

*snip*

I like this.
I want to be able to Save all the Galaxy with my Paragade, become the ultimate hero. But I also want to see the possibility and be able to, in other playthroughts, to completely mess it up. 
All that is needed to make those 7 endings better would be to add pesonal and individual differences to each character. 

As I said, they were theories, my personal favourites are the first and the last one I wrote (but didn't number, so technically I wrote eight endings.). Thus, I actually etched out 8 main theories and splintered those theories into their own little subplots. I liked the last ending because it was very firefly-like, and I have an admiration for Josh Whedon and seemed like a fitting way for it to end - considering my Carter Shepard, or how I imagine him, is a hurt man that  tries to hide his pain and his crew represent parts of himself that he's lost (Ash, his spirituality. Joker, his sarcasim. Liara, his Naive nature before the end of Mindoir. His twin, Jethrou Douglas-Shepard, has a sense of culture and impulsiveness, ect).

I was only theorizing about possible endings that seemed most logical to me in terms of two characters - Shepard and his love interest(in my playthroughs, it's Ashley. No offense to Liara, but she's very awkward and I just don't see the chemistry there. Guy get mindmelded by ME equivelant to Vulcan, ME-Vulcan developed an interest that should only be considered professional curiousity.).

Though I liked the idea of him reforming cerberus into a new organisation that acts like a PMC in service of whoever needs their help (kinda like the spectres, but Shep doesn't need to deal with politician scumbags like the council and Udina).

Unfortunately, when I wrote the theories - I was doing so far, far, faaaaaaar past my bedtime, otherwise I would have gone into further details about other characters. I also would have written about the individual decisions, but that coupled with the lore I could have expanded into, would have been ridiclous and I would have probably spent nearly a whole YEAR writing it. By then, the game would have been out and I wouldn't have needed to bother about it at that point.

But thank you for liking them.
PS: Jethrou Douglas-Shepard is my OC that I've been designing for several months now.

Modifié par Aurora313, 06 juin 2011 - 12:42 .

[Vnnk]

I think in the end result of the game it WILL be a choice between earth or something else like the citadel all the alien home worlds damn even the rest of the galaxy.