g_bassi13 wrote...
This is my first post on BSN, but I figured I might as well say something after spending the last few days reading through most of the last 600 odd pages in this thread (I know that's sad).
I'm still reeling from the ending of the game. I finished it last week, but I haven't gotten over it in the slightest. I don't really think I need to go into why, as every point I would make has been expanded on a hundred times over already in this thread.
That Bioware felt they could end their game like this feels like a betrayal of trust, of sorts. That they lied about what we were getting with this game. It was great for the most part (The core game is a bit flawed), but the ending takes away whatever redemption was there.
And it doesn't just ruin this game, it makes the first two Mass Effects unplayable as well. My plan of immediately replaying the series afterwards was quashed by a sudden lack of motivation to do so. I mean, what's the point of pouring in another 120 Hours into these games if I know it's just going to end like this? If it remains like this, I don't think I'll ever do it.
I really hope those theories about Shepard's indoctrination are true, and a DLC with an actual ending is coming. It's a cautious hope,
I hear you, I spent maybe 200+ hours with 6 play throughs of both ME1 and 2, and ME3 had an amazing start if you can get past the whole Deus Ex Machina deal.
I loved most of ME3, I teared up for Mordin, Thane, and LEgion, and was like "**** yeah" when I saw Grunt make it out alive.
And was again like "**** yeah," when I brought peace to the quarian and geth, and again when The fleets came to earth. But after the Harbinger death beam I started to go "the hell?"
and then the ending hit, and I just went into denial and thought that didn't happen. Screw this, I'm going with my own made up ending where all my good choices mattered in the end.
NOT this stupid Space Reaper god child Wizard ghost telling me I only have three choices. No my Shepard says screw you we're finding a different way.
Overall it was a major Copout.