dirtdiver32318 wrote...
okay dont hate bioware for the ending i say blame the guy who leaked the original ending!!!!
and the ending isnt that bad (:
The core problems that a lot of us have with the ending is
1: Every decision we've made in the series up to this point is rendered meaningless. All that remains is a number value assigned for war assets.
2: The existence of the Star Brat opens far more plot holes than he closes, and is just generally poor writing. Why didn't he just let the Reapers through back in ME1? Or before Shepard was on the scene? There's a term called "narrative cohesion", and the ending sorely lacks it. In exchange we get multicolored explosions.
3: We are shown in the Arrival DLC that destroying a Relay creates massive devastation. This does not, apparently, happen in the ending of ME3. We are not SHOWN that it does not happen, the ending could be interpreted as the crew of the Normandy are the last people left alive. Anywhere. Also, thumbs down on the cliche tripe of landing on a Garden of Eden stand-in.
4: Even if there isn't galactic devastation, the Relays are off. Nonfunctional. How do the forces you brought to the war get home? The quarians and the turians at the very least are doomed to starve, due to their amino acids not being compatible with food from Earth. If there's any food left on Earth, anyway. People were throwing around the theory that the Krogan were just going to eat everyone else. What happened to them? They all got home fine of course, man I feel bad for anyone not following the twitter accounts of Bioware writers or else they'd never know.
It's just terrible writing on the tail of excellent writing and it's really jarring. I like to throw around a theory about EA planning to sell a proper ending later like Capcom did with Asura's Wrath, but they've denied it. Though they denied that From Ashes was on the disc too...
Anyway, yeah. I feel like the ending just gets more and more frustrating the more you think about it. The game in general really. Shallow and flashy may work for Michael Bay, but I expect more from Bioware.