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[Madcat 124]

 Okay, I want to say I've loved Mass Effect since it's release. I played the hell out of 1 and 2. 3 took the best from both and I was excited to play it more than a few times again... But then, the killing point happened.

When was the killing point you might ask? In my opinion it was when Shepard got hit by Harbinger's laser. After that point the game plummeted. But I was determined to continue. I mean, I think the last part of the Skyrim main quest was absolutly horrible, but everything else was good. Anywho, you get back up with only some melted armor and intensive bleeding, while the laser wrecked everything else.

You get on the Citadel and find Anderson and the illusive man. The game started to get intense again with that cutscene. You open the arms of the Citadel and anticipate the the catalyst to do it's thing. Shepard and Anderson sit back and watch earth. That was pretty Cool, two tired and worn down military men looking down at their home that they had just saved. But alas, somethings amiss.

Anderson dies and Shepard heres Hackett over the Comm as he is begining to bleed out. Here I was thinking he had to just use the panel to activate the crucible, and Shepard would Die, saving all organics. That would have been a good ending, in my opinion anyway, with an epilogue cutsceen showing how people will rebuild. But nope, there's more.

This is now the part where I had to check that I wasn't using drugs. The little kid, the fact Shepard wasn't bleeding to death anymore, and the ridiculousness of the choices you were given contributed to me being absolutely  dumbfounded, but I went for what I percieved as the "Good" ending, and destroyed Synthetic Life. I thought this would mean that only the Geth and the Reapers would die. But no, apparently it wiped out all technology, screwing all organic life anyway, or at least most organic life. 

I see my crew stranded on a lush jungle planet, and the credits roll. With that, the entire series is ruined and I feel all joy of the franchise has been drained from my memory. Does anyone else feel the same way?

TL;DR

The ending managed to suck all joy of the franchise out of my memory. Does anyone feel like they can't even think of ME 1 or 2 without cringing and realizing that they were jsut all leading up to... the ending of ME 3? 

I would have rathered the Reapers just win rather than this.

[John Locke N7]

yes, we all feel this way......

[Bekkael]

Lots of people dislike the ending. You are not alone, OP.

[10 Steps Back]

You're not alone just see the threads already on here. How 5 years of perfection was ruined in 5 minutes, or the last ten minutes ruined it, or the ending was disappointing.

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

Bekkael wrote...

Lots of people dislike the ending. You are not alone, OP.

[GBGriffin]

With the exceptions of the people who get off on schadenfreude or the people who can't empathize with having a passion ruined, I'd say the vast majority of people can relate.

I just wish that even the people who enjoyed the endings and don't match the description I presented above can understand why people are upset. Hell, even my friends and family who know nothing about the series can relate to having a passion killed.

[Madcat 124]

I want to make clear that I have no problem with Shepard dying to save life, butthe way everything else went down, and in such a non-dramatic fashion just blew.

[Ultra Prism]

Yes I feel quite the same

[eldiabs]

Yup, never been affected by a game before. I'd probably be playing ME3 2nd time through right now, looking forward to future DLC.

I tried playing ME2 a bit earlier...just couldn't do it, knowing the finish line involves what it does in this final installment.

Passion killed is right.

[Cosmar]

I feel the same OP.

It's weird because I almost wish the rest of the game had been awful. But it wasn't. The preceding 99% of the game was pure win, totally awesome storytelling. The end...I hate it. And it colors my view of the preceding events. I want to love ME3, but it's hard knowing how it all ends...not sure if I can bring myself to do another play through.

[Madcat 124]

Cosmar wrote...

I feel the same OP.

It's weird because I almost wish the rest of the game had been awful. But it wasn't. The preceding 99% of the game was pure win, totally awesome storytelling. The end...I hate it. And it colors my view of the preceding events. I want to love ME3, but it's hard knowing how it all ends...not sure if I can bring myself to do another play through.

I feel you. I actually lent out all my Mass Effect Games to a friend just so he can play them all. I feel really bad about it though.

[Wattoes]

I was so pumped to do more playthrough's and revist the old games again.

After seeing the endings I honestly dont know if I can play them ever again. They took one of the greatest franchises in history and destroyed it in 10 minutes.

[Spectre_Shepard]

Im with you, man. your pain is my pain.

5 years... for what. this? unreal.

[marshalleck]

What I'm feeling right now is very similar to how I felt at the conclusion of KOTOR 2:

"Wait, what?"

[Biotic Sage]

John Locke N7 wrote...

yes, we all feel this way......

"We all" I guess doesn't include me...since I have never been more satisfied with a video game experience in my life.

[Zulakkar]

Aye, Shepard could , notice I say COULD not have to for some weird reason that makes no sense what so ever.
Just like you could "Die" in ME2 to Morynth or the Collector base, however the ending in ME3 is just so MEH, they are not epic , they are not emotional , they are not satisfying they are just bad. It makes no sense that after I whent Paragon style, got the All species, including Geth build the "Bomb" and then some stupid little ghost gets to tell me that nop you are doomed so we kill you now since it is easier. WTF why oh god why would you do this ?!
What is the point of telling in this case Liara that Shepard will not abandon her, then go and just kill oneself for no other reason than to F the universe anyways.
Looking back I wish I had just killed my Shep in the arms of Morynth much easier and much satisfying than giving the choices of what kind of apocalypse to bring upon the world.

[marshalleck]

Biotic Sage wrote...

John Locke N7 wrote...

yes, we all feel this way......

"We all" I guess doesn't include me...since I have never been more satisfied with a video game experience in my life.

All of ME3 up until the very last few minutes is pretty stellar

The ending is just...incomplete

[Lyrandori]

I feel this way.

I actually cried for a moment after the credits out of shock, incomprehension. I understood then that whatever I built up in my mind and from the previous two games from the ME universe was basically for nothing, because apparently I had to accept that very depressing ending as canon material. I am still depressed about it really, in fact most of ME3 is a very dark game anyway, when you think about it, lots of tension (negative one), people dying by the millions as you gather war assets, seeing Palaven perish from its moon, going on Thessia with Liara (my LI) was deeply depressing... meh. I liked the game as a whole though, fantastic game, just dark, depressing and the ending(s) is the final nail in the coffin.

I'm desperately trying to conceive my own off-game-canon ending right now in my mind, and it's not even close to a "happily ever after" type of ending, there's lots of casualties, many worlds permanently made hazardous to all organic life. Many species having to relocate to a new home-world, I was thinking that even humans had to find a new Earth and try to repopulate since (in my mind) we'd have lost something like half of humanity on Earth. I mean there's death, even some party members, I was thinking that my Shepard being born on Mindoir (colonist profile) would eventually go there only to realize that even her own home world was reduced to ruins, only to bring back the memories from the Batarian raid that killed her parents, all her friends and loved ones years before.

But Jesus Christ... NOTHING like what I am supposed to suck up that BioWare came up with, NOTHING from that extreme. The complete collapse of galactic civilization, and the isolation of them all once more, back to the dark ages, whichever way you go, whatever you do or decide, it's the ultimate conclusion, so basically in a sense Reapers win anyway even if you control them not to return, the damage is done, they won big time.

[Biotic Sage]

marshalleck wrote...

Biotic Sage wrote...

John Locke N7 wrote...

yes, we all feel this way......

"We all" I guess doesn't include me...since I have never been more satisfied with a video game experience in my life.

All of ME3 up until the very last few minutes is pretty stellar

The ending is just...incomplete

I meant I loved the ending too.  I like a bit of open-endedness, but with all the major points wrapped up.  Shepard had already said his goodbyes to his squad, the Reapers were explained, and the Reapers/Cycle was stopped with Shepard becoming a legend.  That completes Shepard and the Reapers' story arc for me.  The open-ended stuff with the Normandy and where society goes from here I like open-ended, especially considering the franchise is continuing.

[Vasparian]

You can't really use logic with fanboys.

[marshalleck]

 I don't see how the franchise can continue without a Citadel or relay network

It could go back in time, sure. Or be set concurrently with the Shepard trilogy. But it can't continue. 

[Madcat 124]

marshalleck wrote...

 I don't see how the franchise can continue without a Citadel or relay network

It could go back in time, sure. Or be set concurrently with the Shepard trilogy. But it can't continue. 

But that would be so boring or just upsetting. You know the galaxy is screwed.

[Biotic Sage]

marshalleck wrote...

 I don't see how the franchise can continue without a Citadel or relay network

It could go back in time, sure. Or be set concurrently with the Shepard trilogy. But it can't continue. 

How about thousands of years in the future when a new galactic society not based on the relays is in its infancy?  You mean it can't continue with the status quo.  No, it can't.  And I like that.

[SinZinDetta]

The ending managed to suck all joy of the franchise out of my memory. Does anyone feel like they can't even think of ME 1 or 2 without cringing and realizing that they were jsut all leading up to... the ending of ME 3? 

I would have rathered the Reapers just win rather than this.

Sadly this.

[Ghozt66]

Feel the same way ...Drew Karpyshyn is like the Commander Shepard of Bioware without him as lead writer the Mass Effect universe is lost.

Honestly i rather have my sheps die in mass 2 than see those endings again

but i have not lost all hope yet if all fans stand together We can take back Mass 3

Modifié par Ghozt66, 10 mars 2012 - 07:23 .