I actually said this on a different thread (one about the whole ending being a hallucination), but I wanted to bring it up here, as well. Sorry for the wall of text:
First of all I just want to say I enjoyed every minute of Mass Effect 3--every minute...until the end. I need to write this down to express my...frustrations.
Most
of you seem to have gotten "lost" by the game around the time Shepard
was hit by the Reaper's beam. For me, I hadn't gotten "lost" yet. No,
that didn't happen until the moment I met the Star-Child (as everyone
seems to be referrring to him). From there, I had to backtrack in my
mind to a point that still made sense. So, for me, the hallucination
almost begins at the moment Shepard begins to pass out from the blood
loss. I was sitting there beside Anderson, who I had "saved" from TIM,
and who slowly and quietly died after expressing his pride in Shepard.
After he died, Shepard also begins to pass out, and then Hackett comes
on the line. For me, that was just my Shepard's mind needing to continue the fight, disbelieving it could really be over. So something had to go wrong (because it always does), she had to do something. But it was just a dream.
I think
my main problems with the choices at the end is twofold. First off,
I don't actually feel like there needed to be another choice. I had
already made my choices. The end of the game--in my mind--should have
been based upon the forces I had gathered. Whether or not I had gathered
enough forces to hold out until the Crucible could be used. If I hadn't
gathered enough forces the endings could have been something like:
Even
though the Reapers are destroyed, Earth was inadequately defended until
then. As a result it is completely destroyed. The forces of the Galaxy
are also incredibly crippled. War breaks out between them over scarce
resources. Though the Reapers are defeated it is an imperfect future
(Shepard may or may not die)
Depending
on what species' Shepard recruited (or the numbers of those they
recruited) there is a new dominate species. Earth may or may not have
been destroyed (Shepard may or may not have died).
Having
an extraordinairy fighting force, they manage to adequately defend
Earth. It remains standing. The different species of the Galaxy are left
intact, and there is peace (again, Shepard may or may not have to die
to get these endings).
[/list]I'm not saying these are exactly
what should have happened. But it makes more sense because it's based
on all the choices I made throughout the game. In Mass Effect 1, if
I had killed Wrex, perhaps it would turn out that the Krogan were not as
effective in Mass Effect 3, and it somehow led to them being
decimated...or something. And
that in turn lowered Earth's chances, which would have ended up
affecting the entire Galaxy. The ending should have been based on my
accumulated choices, not one choice that came out of nowhere. The ending rendered every choice in every game completely moot. The choice at the end HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY CHOICES I HAD MADE THE ENTIRE GAME SERIES
(I used caps, bold, and italics to express how frustrated I am by this
one fact). There didn't need to be another choice. It was pointless.
My other frustration only comes about if I accept that the endings really happened. So, for the moment, I will accept that.
How
does galactic life continue if the Mass Relays are destroyed, after it
has already been established that the blast from a destroyed relay
would obliterate a system? If the game had offered further explanation
for how these systems survive the blast (considering the relays blow up
in all three endings...don't they?), I would have accepted it, but they
don't. So I don't accept it.
Also,
the epilogue further frustrates me. How far into the "future" is that
supposed to be? Because when the relays are blown up, it strands
hundreds (if not, thousands) of Turians, Asari, Krogan, Quarians, and
Salarians (and the bodys of the Geth, if you destroy the Reapers) on
Earth. They are there now, forever. For the Asari, this is no problems.
They could breed and thrive on Earth, considering they only need another
being to reproduce. It may be problematic for the others, though I
assume there would be some female Turians around, since they are in the
army too. So you have all these "minds" on Earth. The ancient wisdom of
the Asari (who live for thousands of years), and the intelligence of the
Salarians. Wouldn't they begin work on Relays right away? The Protheans
managed to make a small one. I can't believe all these species'
combined couldn't make another one like the Protheans, and begin to
reconnect the Galaxy. And just because the relays are destroyed doesn't
mean there is no more FTL travel, or suddenly lose the ability to travel
around the system. Yet the epilogue makes it seem like these people
have forgotten what exists out in the Galaxy and are back in a time that
doesn't have space travel. Even we (as we exist today, in this time period) can travel in space. It's inefficient, and not nearly advanced enough, but we can.
I...don't understand.
Oh,
before I forget (and excuse the swearing), but...how the **** did
Kaidan get back on the Normandy? I took both him and Garrus with me all
the way to the beam. So the game expects me to believe that after
Shepard goes down Garrus and Kaidan just give up and retreat?......What? Nothing
in the personalities of either Garrus or Kaidan (especially since I
romanced Kaidan) makes it even remotely plausible that they would give
up the fight. Even if Shepard had died getting hit by that Reaper beam
it would have meant that there was nowhere to run to anyway. It would
mean failure, and the destruction of the Galaxy. Neither Garrus or
Kaidan would have run. They would have stood there and fought until they
died.
And that's not even asking how they got back to the Normandy (out of their armor, because Kaidan wasn't wearing it in the scene) and
out of the system before the Relays exploded. They couldn't have known
that would happen. They would have been waiting, above Earth (or on it,
in the case of the squad) for whatever would happen. If anything, the
Normandy should be stranded on a planet in the system. Which means they
could be rescued. Maybe not at first. But somebody could come for them.
Supposedly
there is a "secret" ending if you beat Mass Effect 3 twice. I defintely
want to see what that is. I loved the game and the series, up until the
end. I just refuse to acknowledge it all happened until I get further
explanations for how it all came to pass.
Sorry for the possible
wall of text, but before I end this I just want to say: I blew up the
Reapers (also did the synthesis ending, but that didn't sit right with
me). I felt bad about the Geth, and EDI, but saving the Galaxy was
bigger than them, and it's what the entire series had been moving
toward. Choosing to blow up the Reapers was the only way I felt like I
was staying true to the old version of Mass Effect, before they decided to throw a wrench in everything and go all Matrix-y.
I may come back, if I think of something else, but for now I think I've expressed everything I wanted to say.
EDIT: Someone told me the "secret" ending is actually the epilogue (the Stargazer epilogue thing).
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