Ahem, sorry for barging in like this, but I just have to say... the ending really sucks
tl;dr - just some random person feeling sad because there's no emotional conclusion to Mass Effect 3 (for him, anyway)

nothing you haven't seen before.
I completed the third game for the third time, mainly wanting to see how Leviathan would influence the ending (I'd heard it were only a few lines of dialogue, so I wasn't disappointed or anything), but I had no idea I'd get sad again. I guess I'd forgotten? Forgotten how brilliant so many parts of the game is. Then I complete Horizon and unknowingly start down the path that will never end well...
I blame Sylvia what's-her-name, she simply did too damn good a job! The part before Cronos Station is heart-breakingly good

and I don't mean the love scene, I personally find it silly and even skipped it this time, but the parts before and after... Especially "It would be easy for a single ship to get lost out there." I'd forgotten this. This moment that hits me so profoundly. They've both seen so much death and destruction, not least on Earth and Thessia, but for a brief moment they're alone in Shepard's cabin, sharing a quiet, but no doubt intense, wish of simply being somewhere else, somewhere peaceful. To be a single ship that gets lost among the stars. Is there any other feeling in war-time that's more natural, more human? It seems so perfect, and the music and the delivery of the lines.
Then London. Things look even worse after Cronos station and the Illusive Man's betrayal of their intentions. The mood is completely different now at the FOB, evident simply in the ambient music, and gone are the (in some ways childish?) day-dreaming aboard the Normandy. It's the real world now, not some safe Captain's quarters on a space ship. "This is it... isn't it." Liara says. I won't bother with a question mark there, 'cause it's obviously rhetorical. They both know the odds of coming out of this alive and well are pretty slim... Liara shares her gift, the last brief moment of peace in the middle of the galaxy's greatest war in this Cycle, then turns around to face the anonymous soldiers before her once more. There's nothing more to say.
Shepard gives a rallying speech, and they're off for the final stretch.
Then the rush to the beam, during which Liara and Javik are wounded, the asari most of all (or maybe Javik is better at sucking it up, being a veteran). As unlikely as the Normandy pick-up is from a credibility point-of-view, I don't care. The dialogue is too damn good to care. "Don't argue with me." and "No matter what happens, you mean the world to me, Liara. Always will." are simply great lines. I think this is the point where I realised I was in trouble, that I'd stumbled into the trap of getting emotionally involved with this game yet again
And then... nothing. I chose Destroy again, but that single-breath-amidst-rubble scene just doesn't cut it for me. I don't need to see "blue babies" or French kissing or anything, I just want them to be reunited again. Or even have Shepard lie unconscious while recovering from the bad injuries, I don't care. You could show Shepard lying there, pretty banged up but still alive, and just show Liara walking up to the bed and put on a tired, vague smile. They'd finally won... Yeah, that would be alright! I don't need a big scene with speeches and orchestral music, just... show me that. Or even Liara mourning in front of a grave. It would certainly be sad, but it would still be better and allow me to let go (I assume, anyway). Just something that resembles a conclusion! Please?
I'm aware of how silly this is. I know a lot of other fans would think me a no-life teenager in his parents' basement (hopefully not in this thread, though). But I'm 25, I live by myself, I edit and translate books, I've got great friends and great co-workers and great movies and books and CDs all around me. I've got close family living nearby, a weekly movie club night with two cousins... And yet, here I am, still clinging desperately to the hope that BioWare will release a DLC where we get to reunite with the survivors of the Reaper War. C'mon, BioWare, your game is amazing and it deserves being wrapped up properly. I'd pay for it in a heartbeat! I'm sure I'd easily give up $30 or thereabouts for such a DLC...
Sorry for throwing this out there, but I don't know anyone (in Real Life) who's played Mass Effect 3, so I don't have a lot of options if I want to share these feelings

and ... I just had to get it off my chest. I'll stop adding to this wall of text now

I apologise for this post, and please carry on.
Modifié par Ajensis, 18 septembre 2012 - 03:53 .