Definitely in the same camp as you OP.
I've been a hardcore fan of the ME series since the first game. I've spent countless hours perfecting my characters in ME1 and ME2 so that I could have the best possible outcome for ME3. I played ME2 for the last time last year in March and stopped playing xbox after that. As soon as I got wind of the ME3 Pre-orders, I immediately found a Collectors edition to pre-order. Wasn't until the day before the game released that I brushed off the ol xbox just to make sure that it was still working. I played the game as soon as it came out. From the first moment I started playing I was in love with what Bioware has done. I played a good amount and it was just this night that I finished the campaign. Before I go on to the ending, I just want to say that I thoroughly loved ME3 and everything about it was great in my opinion. Except for the few plot holes that were never addressed, this was hands down my favorite game of all time and truly felt that Bioware did an exceeding job with it.
That is until I came upon the terrible excuse of an ending. It seemed so out of place and seemed to have no relevance to the rest of the series that it left me dumbfounded. To add insult to injury the addition with the space child just only seemed to make matters worse. What really left me feeling empty was the fact that it came down to two choices that basically screwed everyone no matter what. I felt like Bioware really cheated me, especially after the fact that it made all my efforts in the last two games seem utterly worthless and a huge waste of my time as the end result was still going to be the complete screw over to everyone. Now, I understand there are those who are just fine with what happened and actually fit how they wanted to end it, but for the majority of us I feel like we got cheated. Especially for those who played ME1 and 2 countless times trying to accomplish every little thing within the games. Heck, I would have been fine with Shepard dying in the end.
Especially if it would have just ended with him and Anderson staring down at Earth. To me, the ending just seemed completely random, cheated most of us out, and left us feeling extremely dissatisfied with our entire experience of ME3. Which is a shame since I can't believe how 10 minutes completely overshadowed my experience as a whole with a game. I've been extremely loyal to bioware and have bought every DLC the day they came out to show my support for the series. Mass Effect is the greatest video game series that I have ever played, but now knowing that no matter what I did in the last two games will result in the same ending where everyone is sent back to the Stone Age has really upset me.
I know I've had my petty complaints about some stuff in all the ME games, but as a whole I really feel like this was a great series and one I think would have been close to perfect if it wasn't for the ending. I'll probably replay ME3 again, but playing it till the end is a completely different matter altogether.
Excuse any grammatical or spelling mistakes I've made, I've been up for 20+ hours and just wanted to leave my two cents worth.
Modifié par Sovereign z, 10 mars 2012 - 08:40 .
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