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[MOELANDER]

 A few months back I was in a mental hospital curing depression. I overcame it. I had a new outlook on life. I felt healed and ready for action. This kept.

Now I played ME3 and saw, that I didn't get a satisfying ending.

All off a sudden, I feel the same as I did before I went to the clinic. I feel the same old urges to just hide under my blanket, to end everything, to keep everything away. My family is extremely alarmed. I am trying to rationalize with myself: "It's only a game! Calm down! It's not the end of the world!"
It doesn't effin work! I can't switch this huge feeling of betrayal off. BioWare promised so much and delivered not! I liked the game. I hated, absolutely hated the lacking ending (there is only ONE with small variations).

After I was released from hospital, I put a lot of work into a Savage Worlds Conversion for Mass Effect. Savage Worlds is a Pen and Paper Roleplaying system. I poured my heart into it, now it's worthless, the Galaxy I wrote it for didn't survive or will never rebuild. The Stargazer ending confirmed it.

My family doesn't understand my grief. They try to help, and I am optimistic, that this wound will heal with time, too.
But for now it's a major setback in my mental stability.

Please help me...

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

Do what I'm planning to do with the endings. Use your headcannon to blast the current endings to hell. Some of the formats of said endings are okay, but there are things that need serious retconning.

Also if you really are that depressed, do yourself a favor a take a break from BSN. Trust me on this.

[GBGriffin]

MOELANDER wrote...

 A few months back I was in a mental hospital curing depression. I overcame it. I had a new outlook on life. I felt healed and ready for action. This kept.

Now I played ME3 and saw, that I didn't get a satisfying ending.

All off a sudden, I feel the same as I did before I went to the clinic. I feel the same old urges to just hide under my blanket, to end everything, to keep everything away. My family is extremely alarmed. I am trying to rationalize with myself: "It's only a game! Calm down! It's not the end of the world!"
It doesn't effin work! I can't switch this huge feeling of betrayal off. BioWare promised so much and delivered not! I liked the game. I hated, absolutely hated the lacking ending (there is only ONE with small variations).

After I was released from hospital, I put a lot of work into a Savage Worlds Conversion for Mass Effect. Savage Worlds is a Pen and Paper Roleplaying system. I poured my heart into it, now it's worthless, the Galaxy I wrote it for didn't survive or will never rebuild. The Stargazer ending confirmed it.

My family doesn't understand my grief. They try to help, and I am optimistic, that this wound will heal with time, too.
But for now it's a major setback in my mental stability.

Please help me...

Best advice I can give is to take a break from the BSN and keep busy otherwise. Feel free to PM me and we can talk about it.

[fyresai]

I choose to ignore the provided endings, while I did like the way Shepard broke down. I pretty much just stop the game right before the Catalyst shows up and like to imagine all the different ways things could have played out. Maybe try something like that, write some fan-fiction about the post-reaper galaxy.

[MOELANDER]

Okay, I'll take that advice. I will play some Nintendo. Mario was always helpful to me in such situations...

[sgtrock]

i feel the same way you do, my mom died just last October. It's a huge burden to overcome, but now i got these horrible endings on my shoulders mocking me. uUst don't do anything stupid, we can all make it out of this together!

[Adamantium93]

I know that feel bro. Mass Effect was my secret indulgence, my escape when the world seemed too much I could fly away with Liara and Garrus and make my own story, and for a time the cares of the world meant nothing because the Mass Effect universe was mine. I made my mark in it. And now its gone. And I had no choice. I can't replay it and get the good ending. No matter what, it ends poorly.

Stay strong brother, the fight is not over. You're making a pen and paper version? Good for you. Write the story Bioware couldn't. Make the difference they thought was too normal for them. In your world, Shepard succeeds. The Reapers are gone, the galaxy is safe. Mass Effect has always been about making the universe your own. So go out there and say "no, that's not my story." and hold up your work and say "This is my story, and its just as valid, nay, more valid than anyone else's because this one is MINE"

Mass Effect doesn't have to end. For you, it can live on.

[Azreal Inc]

Good ole Mario. Always happy to see you.

[GBGriffin]

MOELANDER wrote...

Okay, I'll take that advice. I will play some Nintendo. Mario was always helpful to me in such situations...

Also, do something creative. From what it sounds like, you possess a creative mind to work with your own campaign.

Maybe write a better ending, or write a new story in general? Create something new.

[NoUserNameHere]

Watch the final battle of Gurren Lagann. Hell, put the final battle to Gurren Lagann's audio over Mass Effect 3. That'll be uplifting.

[John Locke N7]

starving african child shield ACTIVATE!

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

MOELANDER wrote...

Okay, I'll take that advice. I will play some Nintendo. Mario was always helpful to me in such situations...

Maybe off topic, but when I was depressed about something (espcially the endings), I started watching a bunch of Psych. Sometimes a bunch of humor can cure it.

[WildGunsTomcat]

MOELANDER wrote...

 A few months back I was in a mental hospital curing depression. I overcame it. I had a new outlook on life. I felt healed and ready for action. This kept.

Now I played ME3 and saw, that I didn't get a satisfying ending.

All off a sudden, I feel the same as I did before I went to the clinic. I feel the same old urges to just hide under my blanket, to end everything, to keep everything away. My family is extremely alarmed. I am trying to rationalize with myself: "It's only a game! Calm down! It's not the end of the world!"
It doesn't effin work! I can't switch this huge feeling of betrayal off. BioWare promised so much and delivered not! I liked the game. I hated, absolutely hated the lacking ending (there is only ONE with small variations).

After I was released from hospital, I put a lot of work into a Savage Worlds Conversion for Mass Effect. Savage Worlds is a Pen and Paper Roleplaying system. I poured my heart into it, now it's worthless, the Galaxy I wrote it for didn't survive or will never rebuild. The Stargazer ending confirmed it.

My family doesn't understand my grief. They try to help, and I am optimistic, that this wound will heal with time, too.
But for now it's a major setback in my mental stability.

Please help me...

If you get depressed at a video game...you need real mental assistance that cannot be provided by anyone other than a trained professional. 

Seriously. 

[Xrissie]

Christ man, seems like you need some more therapy. Seriously, depression over a ****ing game?

I'm sorry if I sound rude, but come on.

[MOELANDER]

WildGunsTomcat wrote...
If you get depressed at a video game...you need real mental assistance that cannot be provided by anyone other than a trained professional. 

Seriously. 

One last thing before I log off for at least a week:


I got professional help. I am seeing a therapist every 2 weeks. Don't worry. I know it's silly to be this depressed about a video game. But I can't really help it.

Will be seeing you!

Thanks for the kind words. I really needed this.<3

[Sywen]

Really you can't judge someone for how they feel.

I was depressed and crying on and off for a whole day after finishing it. 2nd day wasn't crying so much. Today I'm just angry, so it will get better. Hang in there. Unlike Mass Effect there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.

[fish of doom]

at the people who feel the need to bash because of the OP: it's called immersion and emotional involvement. fiction is escapism, and some people use it precisely so that they can feel better. mass effect is the crowning jewel of this, because of the progress that it enables you to feel with regards to overcoming adversity, through the role-playing and story component (independently of the action-based gameplay). ME3 in particular is the most emotionally stimulating of the three ME games by far, and i myself relapsed into apathy simply by riding down the emotional high the games created (although i was not particularly negatively affected by the ending itself). fine for you guys if you're okay, but deriding someone for relapsing into a depressive state after a massive disappointment immediately following a massive emotional spike is simply missing the point, video game or not.

[retailavenger85]

Xrissie wrote...

Christ man, seems like you need some more therapy. Seriously, depression over a ****ing game?

I'm sorry if I sound rude, but come on.

Um. Wow. that was rude. 

I too struggle with clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders, though not to the scale of the OP. The complete feeling of hopelessness that the ending of this game showed me was enough to trigger an anxiety attack that ended with me not sleeping for 2 days. 
People can't control what triggers these kind of things. I respectfully understand what you were trying to say, that its "silly" to get this worked up over a game, but both your tone and the tone of the person above you were uncalled for. 
Anyway, just had to put my 2 cents in from the wonderful world of mental health issues. Done now. 

OP, I hope everything goes well for you. Maybe we will get the endings we need. 

[Militarized]

I'm very sorry the endings affected you like that. I'd also tell you that it's OK, people react differently to things they are emotionally attached to and we all deserved a better ending... it hurts because we know it. You should probably play something lighter for a bit though, like Mario talking to people will always help as well.

[SolidisusSnake1]

I understand how you feel, I feel the same way. Just try wishful thinking, maybe they will fix the endings and if not come up with your own ending in your head. Don't let BioWare win, don't beat yourself up.

[Sywen]

retailavenger85 wrote...

Xrissie wrote...

Christ man, seems like you need some more therapy. Seriously, depression over a ****ing game?

I'm sorry if I sound rude, but come on.

Um. Wow. that was rude. 

I too struggle with clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders, though not to the scale of the OP. The complete feeling of hopelessness that the ending of this game showed me was enough to trigger an anxiety attack that ended with me not sleeping for 2 days. 
People can't control what triggers these kind of things. I respectfully understand what you were trying to say, that its "silly" to get this worked up over a game, but both your tone and the tone of the person above you were uncalled for. 
Anyway, just had to put my 2 cents in from the wonderful world of mental health issues. Done now. 

OP, I hope everything goes well for you. Maybe we will get the endings we need. 

I don't think he understands any mental illness.  

[sorentoft]

Visiting my friends and family always cheers me up, dunno if that applies to you, but it could not hurt.

[shimoyake]

Agreed to all the positive encouragement and the OP.

I feel the same. Not being able to have the ending I was promised for all these years dashed a lot of hopes. Suddenly, life is back to the mundane and the hopelessness of never having control. Maybe it is just a game, but it's also something that I've been emotionally investing in for years.

I, too, am hurting. I was shocked to realize that I haven't been this depressed since I was 17 years old and hospitalized for feeling suicidal. I'm as wounded now as I was when I was being bullied on a daily basis. It's rather shocking, to be honest. That was nearly ten years ago! I was quite proud of the fact that I've grown up, learned to love myself for who I am, and started actually living my life.

It's okay to care. I feel exactly the same way. Those who do will always be here to support each other. And we can hope for all of this to be corrected, either in our minds or by the developers, should our voices actually be heard. 'Tis better than staying silent in our grief, I think.

[MOELANDER]

Thanks!

All of you! Even the rude ones!

I will be back and then we fight for a better ending any way possible!

But first Paper Mario calls my name. And my friends!

MOELANDER out

[fish of doom]

this thread restored my faith in humanity just a tiny little bit.