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[SinZinDetta]

Just the best series and games I ever played and then you get to the very last part then crash and burn. I mean a good ending, it is easy. Kill Reapers, save galaxy and start a new life with your love interest on Earth or Pinnacle station. Something simple like that is so much better to stomach then whatever the heck that last part was. I feel like I was trolled.

If you DLC a better ending I will pay Bioware. I need to be put at ease. I know there is 100 other topics on this but I never really used this site and I need to vent to Bioware. Forgive me.

[Dreogan]

A trilogy with a terrible ending (as another poster said, not good or bad-- just wrong) is so much worse than a joke with a terrible punchline. I feel for you.

Modifié par Dreogan, 10 mars 2012 - 06:55 .

[Jaron Oberyn]

While there at it, let's get some more dialogue control in there as well.


-Polite

[Cheesy Blue]

I feel empty right now.

[Der Estr Bune]

I can relate, man. I was honestly surprised at how hard I took it, emotionally, but I did. It really is a punch in the gut.

[AdmiralCheez]

You aren't alone, SinZin.

I really don't get it. They did such a good job with everything else, even if they goofed it up and half-assed it in places. I mean, seriously, Mass Effect used to be my favorite series of all time, and I had an enormous amount of respect for the developers, but now...

... Why?

[Vajraja]

A lot of us felt the same way - I actually became depressed after I finished the game. Fortunately it's been 2 days since I've beaten it and I feel better. But now I am just sad/disappointed

[Benrosan]

Welcome to the club, dude. We have t-shirts and will soon start a support group.

[SinZinDetta]

I am seeing good replies other places.

This on youtube


Proper ending should have been simple. The Crucible is a giant laser beam that wipes out the Reapers, a big party is thrown on the Citadel, and Shepard retires happily with the love of his/her life (or alone, if you're weird). A giant statue of him is erected, and that's that. Seriously, a character driven story doesn't need a giant plot twist to be memorable, that's writing 101.
BazookaTuna

gamefaq

Stink_Nasty posted...
endings matter, after all the losses and all you achieved you can't live and keep on? Be happy? That's dumb, it's a video game ,you're the greatest soldier in the galaxy you achieved the impossible more than once, and now this stops it? I wanted a happy ending because my Shep worked for it.

It has been 30 minutes and I do not know what to do with myself. Since 2007 it has came to this moment and I feel like a troll laughing at me would of been a better ending then whatever I saw. It was so good leading up, how do you crash and burn like that. I can't sleep right now... I feel sick...

[SinZinDetta]

I actually would take Shepard and Ashley riding off in the sunset on the back of a Elcor as a ending. I would be fine and sleeping right now if they ended it that way.

But no, here I still am, trying to find closure by complaining on these forums.

[QuirkyGroundhog]

Good. Endings can hurt, and they can have ambiguity, and they can make you feel. But if it makes you feel, then it did it's job. That's what art does.

Videogames are tough. They're a new medium. On the one hand they're an artistic vision. On the other hand, due to interactivity, we pour ourselves into them. But in the end they are art. Bioware's vision was a bittersweet one, an ending that hurt and made you feel with an undercurrent of hope and salvation. Damn right it makes you feel!

And yes, because of that interactivity, because of the way we pour ourselves into games, we come to have expectations, and we feel as though the story owes us certain things. It's tough to reconciliation artistic vision and player expectation, and in a medium in its infancy, Bioware is a pioneer.

[BDP93]

You're definetely not alone. I just finished it an hour ago and I still feel sick. The worst kick to the quad after that was them taking me back to the normandy before the entire battle started. Like hell I'm playing through that again. I'm seriously considering returning my collector's edition already. As well as every other ME game I have.

[BDP93]

QuirkyGroundhog wrote...

Good. Endings can hurt, and they can have ambiguity, and they can make you feel. But if it makes you feel, then it did it's job. That's what art does.

Yeah, it'd be ok if it was a bittersweet ending, hell it'd be fine if there was no way Shepard could live in order to protect the galaxy. But this wasn't an ending. It wasn't even comprehendable. It didn't flat out suck like bad movies or whatever. It's supposed follow the measure of tension in literature that we learned about back in high school. It slowly culminates, hits a dramatic point and slowly goes back down tieing up any loose business. This ending just falls straight down.

In short, it violates the established guidelines of any successful literature. Which may seem as progression by some, but ultimately has violated the guidelines of how to tease, enthrall, and make a fan out of the human heart...... I'm starting to think Bioware writers suddenly became geth.

Modifié par BDP93, 10 mars 2012 - 08:17 .

[toots1221]

The endings really sucked, I'm still so depressed about them. They weren't bitter-sweet they were just bitter.

[Ice Cold J]

AdmiralCheez wrote...

You aren't alone, SinZin.

I really don't get it. They did such a good job with everything else, even if they goofed it up and half-assed it in places. I mean, seriously, Mass Effect used to be my favorite series of all time, and I had an enormous amount of respect for the developers, but now...

... Why?

I agree.

It's still my favorite series. The last 10 minutes cannot completely wipe away the previous 70 hours, no matter how bad it is.

Is it terrible? No. But it is so subpar compared to the rest of the trilogy that it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

[MACharlie1]

I actually don't mind the endings themselves.

The problem was that the ending was just a complete mind-****. Thinking about it makes my brain literally hurt since I don't understand the Reapers at all. From the moment on the roof on - everything that kid was saying flew over my head. I feel that the ending could have been softened if it made sense. They made it too complicated.

I still have no idea what the kid was. Yes, I know, it's just a delusional, blood-losing, slightly indoctrinated Shepard trying to make sense which is why its the kid but I really don't know WHAT it was.

[Tamcia]

BW just trolled by since ME? I'm so pissed off right now..... Ruined my mood for the whole weekend now.

[Sywen]

Bioware broke my heart. Ripped it from chest, stomped on it,ran over it a dozen times, threw it in a blender and feed it to my dog.

[Sebenon]

I am still just kinda... Empty from these damn ending choices. The endings were terrible. I am really sad to say this because I love Mass Effect and have waited forever for this game.

[bigtpsychoboy]

Ever since I played ME1 all those years ago I have been hooked on the series. The sad part is I really enjoyed the game as a whole. the first 95% of ME3 was fantastic, but the ending just sort of ruined it for me. I know that's it's hard to please everyone and that some people aren't going to like the ending regardless, but from what I have seen it seems to me that there is a universal disapproval of the ending. That's when you know there's something wrong.

[Bamboo33]

The endings all suck.
But that's not the real problem in my opinion. The real issue is that there is no epilogue of any sorts, you're left totally clueless as to what effects your choices had and that's even worse than the endings themselves.
Come on, Baldur's Gate II came out eleven years ago and had an epilogue.

[revo76]

i think giving back CEs wont matter, since they all have online system. we're logged in already, activated codes etc.

end of story

[Sywen]

I can only think Bioware hates their fans. It really is the only explanation for how horrible they made the ending.

[Luigitornado]

I liked the ending, but it does hurt. I wouldn't mind more options or an attempt to Renegade/Paragon persuade the Guardian/Catalyst.