I just finished my first playthrough last night and I must say I am disappointed at the endings. It is rare for me to say such things, hell I have seen that I like a lot of things that most others don't, because I usually don't take works of fiction so seriously and watch, read, and play them just for the fun of it. But to have everything I did for the past three games to amount to nothing at the very end was just so unsatisfying, expressly when I enjoyed every minute of the game before the end.
Right of the bat with the fall of earth I felt like I failed to prepare for them, everything from the 1 and 2 just delayed the reapers and hardly anyone listened to my warnings until it was too late. At mars almost losing Ash (My love interest for the playthrough) so soon made me add personal reason to take out the TIM. All the effort I put into building alliances and doing all of the side quest made me think it was all going to be worth it. I laughed at all the funny puns made to the last games, from Garrus' calibrations to Tali talking to Jafik drunk off her ass and him saying "this conversation it over.". The dreams were making me think that shep was slowly losing it, the last one making me think the child was representing the future (laying with LI may of contributed to that.) At TIM's base I, a mostly paragon who only uses renegade interrupts if I feel think they are necessary to the situation, didn't even think about it until after a few seconds after I hit the bottom to stick to Kai, the hate I had for him since he showed up in the books clouded my judgment that I felt satisfied in killing him. Then came the final confrontation with TIM, every moment felt like deja vu to Sarean. Then the endings where coming. When the Citadel opened up like a flower I began to expect that Earth might have to be sacrificed in order to defeat the reapers and save the galaxy. Picking between that or controlling the reapers. Or shepard having to sacrifice him/herself for everyone else. Would I have been some what disiponted by those choses. Yes. Would I have excepted those endings. Yes.
But in the endings we were given made me I feel like everything I did was for nothing. Every decision I made big and small. The people I let live and those that I killed. All the friends I made. The alliances I made to unite the galaxy. The care into the romantic element of the story.
ALL of it was for nothing.
Would I buy (let’s not kid ourselves into believing to would be free, they do take time and money to make) a dlc that would give us a somewhat happy ending. Yes I would but I would do so reluctantly.
Modifié par Lord Jaric, 12 mars 2012 - 12:28 .