Prince_Valiant wrote...
thePredator50 wrote...
But at the end of the day, what most people are REALLY upset about isn't the quality of the ending, it's the ending itself - it's ended. No more Shepard, no more Liara, no more Tali. The End folks.
Please, speak for yourself. The most of us have another opinion, and personally I think you totally wrong, but in contrary to you I respect your opinion. But your opinion is only this - an opinion, not a fact, even if you claim that.
For me and many, many others a happy ending fits perfectly to this story and you have no right to speak for us.
We want no replacement, we want an alternative. It seems really egoistic of you to deny this.
What;s egoistic is demanding the author to change their creation. None of us have put more thought into this than the developers, I am very sure that, given enough time, people's opinions will start to fluctuate. I do not speak for you, I speak against you. I do not want to see a developer cave in to demands by people who mostly aren't qualified to make a proper decision on the subject. It's happened before and it cost developers greatly.
I knew from the get-go that Shepard would end up being a martyr. The way reapers were portrayed in ME1 made me question just how it would be possible to win a war against an entire army. The "shepard lives" ending in ME3 undermines what Shepard ultimately stood for, and died for. The ending was supposed to make people feel sad, devastated, torn... Everyone loved their Shep, got invested with their LI, their crew, all their friends. It was clear that in the end, something would have to be sacrificed. There was no way people would get out of the whole war without a few bruises. Shepard died, but civilization lived in. How is that not a bitersweet ending?
But, after so many years, having the end being a 3 minute sequence IS an issue. I wanted to see what happened to Wrex... I wanted to see how the Quarians are building their homes (with or without the geth depending on which ending you choose). I wanted to see Jack teaching at the Academy.... The lack of such sequences is what upsets me, not the choices that were given in the actual ending. And yes, I do believe that objectively, this is the actual problem with the ending, it;s not what most people complain about.