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[SomeBug]

 Loved Me1, Me2 and Me3. For 99% of the playtime I was having a whale of a time. But the specific way that it all ended has sapped all of my enthusiasm for a replay.

I replayed ME2 a dozen times, with every class and tried out all of the different plots and interrupts and things.

And looking at ME3, it seems there should be even MORE opportunity to see all that stuff. Whether people lived or died, who to support in these grand wars. Talking to my friends, I told them about how I had to kill the Geth because it was the only option but they said No you can save them if you do this and this in ME2 etc. I thought wow, that's incredible. The variation and the possibilities. I can't wait.

But knowing that no matter what I do, no matter what choices I make, they all wind up at the same damp squib of an ending, one that undoes all of that work and retcons almost the entire series. Urgh. I just have lost all enthusiasm. A damn shame because for 28 out of the 28.5 hours that I was playing it, I was thinking 'never before has a game claimed GOTY so easily and so readily'.

URGH.

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

Join the club.

[Fair34]

I feel the same way.

[Sywen]

 Before I played the end, I was looking forward to my next playthrough.  I can't even bring myself to play 1 and 2 again.  I really wish I never finished the game and part of me wishes I never heard of Mass Effect.

[ialsoagree]

I'm starting to come around to the idea of another play through. After beating the game last night, I didn't think I wanted to play any of them again. But having had a while to sit around and think about it, I think I would like to play again.

As much as the ending really leaves up in the air, the rest of the games (including the 3rd up until then) are awesome, and really worth playing.

[JadeEffect]

Yup, I feel the same way... I love all three games. But I don't think I"m going to play 1->2->3 again, but I'll most definetely keep them.

If I have kids some day and my xbox still works I'll let them play it.

I am going to force myself to replay ME3 with ME3 imported char to get the insanity achievement and a few others. But I don't expect me to completely finish the game.

[RethenX]

yep

[silencemayday]

pretty much.
still felt like replaying it today, just to max out the assets, but then i remembered that it won't be making much of a difference anyway and now i feel more depressed than ever. 7pm over here and i feel like going to sleep just to forget about the whole disappointment.

might find some energy for the games in a few months, but not now.. just feel too tired about it.

[cotheer]

Sywen wrote...

 Before I played the end, I was looking forward to my next playthrough.  I can't even bring myself to play 1 and 2 again.  I really wish I never finished the game and part of me wishes I never heard of Mass Effect.

Sigged 

[Xellith]

**** Bioware. Sign the poll and hope they fix this embaressment.

[Icesong]

Agreed here as well. I really need BW to rescue the franchise for me.

[Rawgrim]

The enhanced version of The Witcher 2 is coming out in april. I think I will jump on that train instead. All dlcs and stuff like that is free in that game too. That speaks volumes, really.

[Sashimi_taco]

I want to do my other playthroughs, but i played the ending last night and I've been feeling really horrible about it. I just can't get it out of my head about how I couldn't save shepard and the people she loves. The whole game is so amazing I can't believe it, but the last 3 minutes are awful.

[bpzrn]

SomeBug wrote...

 Loved Me1, Me2 and Me3. For 99% of the playtime I was having a whale of a time. But the specific way that it all ended has sapped all of my enthusiasm for a replay.

I replayed ME2 a dozen times, with every class and tried out all of the different plots and interrupts and things.

And looking at ME3, it seems there should be even MORE opportunity to see all that stuff. Whether people lived or died, who to support in these grand wars. Talking to my friends, I told them about how I had to kill the Geth because it was the only option but they said No you can save them if you do this and this in ME2 etc. I thought wow, that's incredible. The variation and the possibilities. I can't wait.

But knowing that no matter what I do, no matter what choices I make, they all wind up at the same damp squib of an ending, one that undoes all of that work and retcons almost the entire series. Urgh. I just have lost all enthusiasm. A damn shame because for 28 out of the 28.5 hours that I was playing it, I was thinking 'never before has a game claimed GOTY so easily and so readily'.

URGH.

I feel the exact same way, I can't imagine how they missed the mark on teh ending and were so far off the mark with the crew, LI  and the overall story dissconnect ? 

How do you screw this up so bad in the last 15 minutes?

[Dragoni89]

yep ending was so bad. it destroyed 3 games instead of just 1

[Ainyan42]

I had all sorts of replays planned out. I was almost done with my 100% ME1 and had planned to do another where I didn't romance anyone. I had about five or six playthroughs planned for ME2 where I would make different choices/romances/etc and build up several 100% saves to bring into ME3 so I could see how they played out.

Now I can't even stomach the thought of finishing the ME1 save I'm working on. What's the point? In the end, everything I do is for naught. The hope - the whole reason behind ME - is gone.

[SomeBug]

It's weird because after the credits it dumps you back to right before the point of no return in preparation for DLC.

But the only DLC I would even remotely consider at this point is post-game DLC to either completely redo the entire ending or have something else happen that explains it.

Except, I can't imagine what could possibly explain away all the vagaries and inconsistencies and the looping, cycling contradictions.

Could you even do that? Just have a DLC pack that cuts out the current ending and replaces it with a better one? Would their ego prevent this? Because there is nowhere to go from here that isn't dumb or annoying.

I presume the Control ending is most likely to be canon. That or destroy. Because synthesis undoes ALL the fiction entirely. Synthesis seemed to be the one the Catalyst was pushing for though, which is weird because it makes no sense and ruins not only the narrative coherency but the art style of the game also.

What a shame.

[Dragoni89]

Bioware probably needs to say they ****ed up and are rewriting the ending,

[chaosomegas]

no it time for me to play mass effect 1,2,3

[Knightsaber2010]

Think about it. Are you ready to jump to the surface of Eden Prime to find the beacon, knowing for a fact that three games and countless hours later, you get the Three Choices of Suck?

I'm not.

[Rawgrim]

Its actually pretty epic, now that I think about it. If I play through all three games, and do all the side missions etc, it would take me about 120 hours? Something like that. And it only took them 15 mins to utterly ruin that experience. Even the books, actually.

[Jjacobclark]

no desire to ever play me 1,2,or 3 ever again

[Aesieru]

Maybe not ME1 since I did that and maybe ME2 to finish up my renegade, but I'll admit there's no drive to really finish a game that took only 37 hours with a completionist attitude. ME2 took 72 with a full completionist attitude and I still don't know how.

[SomeBug]

How was it not caught in QA?

Like, I know these testers and F+F people are looking for fixable bugs. But did NO-ONE at ANY POINT say 'hey guys, this is a bad ending. Nobody, literally nobody, is going to be happy with it'.

[DraCZeQQ]

Rawgrim wrote...

The enhanced version of The Witcher 2 is coming out in april. I think I will jump on that train instead. All dlcs and stuff like that is free in that game too. That speaks volumes, really.

Mass Effect 3: Enhanced edition ... only if *sigh*