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[George-Kinsill]

victoriakm wrote...

DaringMoosejaw wrote...


And just like that, it was over. Everything you did was ultimately pointless, and it didn't even have the balls to tell you what happened to everything and everyone you gathered up. The only way it could've been worse was if they just rolled the credits once that laser hit. I still don't know quite what to think about it.

How about roll the credits after some weird ending with your ship running away from the fight, then show some bizarre "Stargazer" conversation with the child begging for another story of "The Shepard"???

Ugh... kick a girl while she is down, will ya?

Yeah, the stargazer part rubbed slat in my fresh wounds. It was Bioware yelling, "HA HA! Not only are you most likely dead (unless you spent hours on mp, for 2 extra seconds of stupidity), chose to take away free will or a few races (Geth, quarians, EDI), never se your crew and LI again, but we're expecting you to buy DLC of some type in a setting right before the ending, as the ME universe is so destroyed, that there is no way to continue it." 

[Silvren555]

I knew the ending was going to be painful after the final dream sequence where Shep and the boy burn, but I never, never imagined I would feel so frustrated, angry, saddened and empty over a game.
I fully expected Shepard to die, was even looking forward to watching his / her epic final battle and sacrifice to save the galaxy, but what we got was... numbing.

I consider myself a fairly hardened individual and have been playing games and reading books for a long time, I still remember when "arcade" games were first introduced, and I can honestly say I have never been so let down by anything (except my ex-wife maybe... ) as I was by the ending to what was almost the greatest series of games ever, but if BW dont do anything about it, it will be remembered not for the 100+ hours (from all 3 games) of amzing storytelling, interactive characters and fun gameplay, it will be remembered for having the most depressing and self destructive ending, that last 5 minutes simply destroys the franchise.

I even rebuilt my pc over the last few months to play it in 3d, which I did and it was awesome, but until BW do something about that ending, I will not be playing it again, and according to Steam, I have almost 1000 hrs invested in ME1 and 2...

[UniqueName001]

You are (obviously, at this point) not alone.

I got myself way too emotionally involved in these games.  I feel silly saying it - "emotionally involved" and "game" don't sound like they should go together.

But the writing, music, and voice acting throughout the series, and especially in 3, were really, really, damn good.  Decisions had consequences.  Small decisions - like failing to warn Kelly to change her name - and big ones, like failing to peacefully solve the conflict between the Geth and Quarians.  I lost track of the number of times I sat staring at my screen, thinking, "holy #$%^, I can't believe that just happened. this is the most epic story I have ever seen, read, or played".

And then, ruined in 10 minutes.  With an bizarre ending that created more questions than it answered.  Where was the Normandy going?  How would the crew possibly survive on mysterious planet X?  How in the hell does anyone re-create interstellar travel when no civilization understood it outside of the Reapers?  What does it matter if Shepard is alive on a derilct space station that no one will be visiting anytime soon?  Oh, and a nonsense explanation of the reasons for the Reaper cycle.

They said this would be the end of Shepard's story.  Without mass relays, it's actually the end of any story in this universe.  And that makes me sad.  After everything she went through, sacrificing herself, it didn't matter.  The Reapers essentially succeeded at wiping out advanced civilization anyway.

The emotional build-up was executed so perfectly.  It is madness how well the story was told right up to the end.  I am really screwed up over this.  From sad to pissed off.  People who didn't play this series will never understand.  But I know exactly what you are talking about.  I played this game to feel like a big damn hero.  I wish the game would have allowed me to finish that way.

You are not alone.

Oh, also I cried too.  Don't tell anyone

[Veryth]

My headcanon ending is sitting there with Anderson, looking out over Earth, while the device destroyed the reapers ... Then, fade to black.

I honestly cannot ever see myself playing ME3 again; It's just too painful. I played ME2 around five times, the most recent was last week. I was so excited to get to see how all those different character's stories played out in ME3, but I could never do that now. Not with those endings that make everything ultimately pointless.

I'll definitely *not* be buying any future DLC unless it magically fixes the ending. There would be no point in playing any pre-ending DLC when you know what's waiting for you at the end.

[Legendaryred]

I was sad at first, now I'm kinda pissed that Bioware let us down.

[MzAdventure]

UniqueName001 wrote...

You are (obviously, at this point) not alone.

I got myself way too emotionally involved in these games.  I feel silly saying it - "emotionally involved" and "game" don't sound like they should go together.

But the writing, music, and voice acting throughout the series, and especially in 3, were really, really, damn good.  Decisions had consequences.  Small decisions - like failing to warn Kelly to change her name - and big ones, like failing to peacefully solve the conflict between the Geth and Quarians.  I lost track of the number of times I sat staring at my screen, thinking, "holy #$%^, I can't believe that just happened. this is the most epic story I have ever seen, read, or played".

And then, ruined in 10 minutes.  With an bizarre ending that created more questions than it answered.  Where was the Normandy going?  How would the crew possibly survive on mysterious planet X?  How in the hell does anyone re-create interstellar travel when no civilization understood it outside of the Reapers?  What does it matter if Shepard is alive on a derilct space station that no one will be visiting anytime soon?  Oh, and a nonsense explanation of the reasons for the Reaper cycle.

They said this would be the end of Shepard's story.  Without mass relays, it's actually the end of any story in this universe.  And that makes me sad.  After everything she went through, sacrificing herself, it didn't matter.  The Reapers essentially succeeded at wiping out advanced civilization anyway.

The emotional build-up was executed so perfectly.  It is madness how well the story was told right up to the end.  I am really screwed up over this.  From sad to pissed off.  People who didn't play this series will never understand.  But I know exactly what you are talking about.  I played this game to feel like a big damn hero.  I wish the game would have allowed me to finish that way.

You are not alone.

Oh, also I cried too.  Don't tell anyone

Loved your post.  Felt exactly as you did.

You know, I have this theory:  Be careful what you mock because inevitably you will become it in a few years.

When news stories would post about the "Avatar"-related depression folks were experiening, I openly mocked, largely because I truly did not enjoy the movie.

Yet here I am... PTSD and all, ready for my straightjacket.

Darn cycles.

[MzAdventure]

Veryth wrote...

My headcanon ending is sitting there with Anderson, looking out over Earth, while the device destroyed the reapers ... Then, fade to black.

I honestly cannot ever see myself playing ME3 again; It's just too painful. I played ME2 around five times, the most recent was last week. I was so excited to get to see how all those different character's stories played out in ME3, but I could never do that now. Not with those endings that make everything ultimately pointless.

I'll definitely *not* be buying any future DLC unless it magically fixes the ending. There would be no point in playing any pre-ending DLC when you know what's waiting for you at the end.

I need a better imagination than I possess to get my headcannon past what I just went through.  You are right, I could've enjoyed the game just fine with your fade at that point with a little "this is the galaxy you created" summary at the end.

Do you think copius amounts of alcohol might help the retcon process??

[Militarized]

For those saying it's silly to get so emotional... I don't think it is. Stories are an integral part of human culture/nature. It's as if someone mistranslated The Iliads ending or something... maybe that's an exageration, I don't know... but it's the only analogy I can come up with.

Modifié par Militarized, 11 mars 2012 - 05:37 .

[Hizuka]

victoriakm, in a nutshell, you're dealing with grief. A lot of players are. It'll pass, eventually.

Me, I'm still pissed.

[kevchy]

I'm disappointed with the endings. I will get over it once I'm done with my current playthrough. After that, I won't be bothered by the endings as I would be done with Mass Effect.

[goose2989]

Hey guys, help us all out by voting in polls and posting in more forum topics like this one. Just make our voices heard! I've got a few links in my signature box to some of them; please go and support them!

[Scalett Dragonavicious]

Gosh I felt like such a weirdo crying over a video game but I totally did too. It wasn't just that Shepard was dead that upset me (I had already prepared myself for this possibility although I knew it would make me sob).... what made me so upset was that everyone else was completely doomed. It didn't matter what Shepard did everyone else was totally screwed as well. It was just so tragic.

Glad to know someone else felt the same way.

[UniqueName001]

victoriakm wrote...

Loved your post.  Felt exactly as you did.

You know, I have this theory:  Be careful what you mock because inevitably you will become it in a few years.

When news stories would post about the "Avatar"-related depression folks were experiening, I openly mocked, largely because I truly did not enjoy the movie.

Yet here I am... PTSD and all, ready for my straightjacket.

Darn cycles.

Thank you, and thank you for your OP. 

My only consolation is that, as far as I can tell, the condemnation of these endings is almost universal.  There are people who rationalize the endings, but I don't see very many people saying "yes, that is exactly the ending I wanted and expected".

So maybe there will be some fix for this.

Assuming
that the current endings are actually what the writers intended them to
be, I imagine they will be unhappy with the outpouring of anger from us
players.  I know I would be mad if something I had put my life into was being criticised so heavily.  I do hope, though, that they will try to see things from our point of view and perhaps create an alternate ending.

For what it's worth, I actually do feel better having posted here and seeing that there are other people feeling the same way.  Thanks.

[UniqueName001]

Veryth wrote...

My headcanon ending is sitting there with Anderson, looking out over Earth, while the device destroyed the reapers ... Then, fade to black.

I would have been much happier with that.  I also like the term headcanon.

I actually might start a pen-and-paper version of ME3 with my friends just to fix the ending.

Veryth wrote...

I'll definitely *not* be buying any future DLC unless it magically fixes the ending. There would be no point in playing any pre-ending DLC when you know what's waiting for you at the end.

QFT.

[Hizuka]

UniqueName001 wrote...

Veryth wrote...

My headcanon ending is sitting there with Anderson, looking out over Earth, while the device destroyed the reapers ... Then, fade to black.

I would have been much happier with that.  I also like the term headcanon.

I actually might start a pen-and-paper version of ME3 with my friends just to fix the ending.

Veryth wrote...

I'll definitely *not* be buying any future DLC unless it magically fixes the ending. There would be no point in playing any pre-ending DLC when you know what's waiting for you at the end.

QFT.

Try THIS on for size, then.

[drak4806.2]

I will never be able to play mass effect ever again. After I suffered through that terrible ending I took a deep breath and started to play ME1 again but stoped after I landed on Eden Prime thinking to myself what's the point. The entire trilogy is ruined for me. Hundreds of hours wasted and for what? Nothing! I hate you bioware and especially you EA because I know this is your fault somehow.

Modifié par drak4806.2, 11 mars 2012 - 06:11 .

[ScooterPie88]

victoriakm wrote...

Ugh... what's more embarassing?  That I spent hundreds of hours playing a series that was utlimately rendered pointless by the endgame destroying everything I was trying to save, OR that I'm crying like I lost my best friend over a freaking video game?

Finished my game 12 hours ago, was suprised at the odd, off-putting, confusing ending as I had played slowly and carefully to try and obtain an optimal ending.  But then, I got half my squad killed my first ME2 playthrough, so through my tears of frustration and disappointment, I tried again picking door #2 - ack, even worse!, then with increasing despair tried the door #3 after which I just sat there stunned. 

Took about an hour to do all the endgames, or one box of kleenex if you care to count that way.  But yes, that was really how it was going to end.

Just the night before I had proclaimed to my hubby that ME3 was the greatest game ever... blabbing on and on about all the little things that had been done so well, never dreaming that this god-awful end was in store for me.  AND I CAN"T FIX IT!  Can't unring that bell.  My whole ME universe, GONE.  Why did I even play.

So I came to the forum, and can at least take solace in not being alone.  Thanks to all the gamers here who help me think I might not be completely freakin' insane.  I've read no few than 50 alternate endings, all of which were better than what were got.

Heck, I would've been more satisfied if Shep had unleased her space hamster on the Catalyst at the end, all the while shouting "Go for the eyes, Boo!  Go for the eyes!"

Maybe tomorrow I can contemplate ever playing any game again (I know I can't go back to ME 1, 2 or 3)... but right now anything with a plot deeper than Angry Birds leaves me wary and suspicious.

Those that finished earlier... does it get better??

OP it's not a matter of it being a videogame. You are upset because of what it represents.  You invested your time, money, and emotional energy into the series and the characters.  You were rewarded with a crappy finale.  Does it get better; yes I've been down this road before with other stories in different mediums.  The best way to speed the feel better process is to leave the forums, don't listen to the music, don't read the books and do something else.  Do a puzzle, play solitaire, read a book (non ME), whatever.  Once you stop thinking about it the pain will ease considerably.

[Balmung31]

victoriakm wrote...

Ugh... what's more embarassing?  That I spent hundreds of hours playing a series that was utlimately rendered pointless by the endgame destroying everything I was trying to save, OR that I'm crying like I lost my best friend over a freaking video game?

Finished my game 12 hours ago, was suprised at the odd, off-putting, confusing ending as I had played slowly and carefully to try and obtain an optimal ending.  But then, I got half my squad killed my first ME2 playthrough, so through my tears of frustration and disappointment, I tried again picking door #2 - ack, even worse!, then with increasing despair tried the door #3 after which I just sat there stunned. 

Took about an hour to do all the endgames, or one box of kleenex if you care to count that way.  But yes, that was really how it was going to end.

Just the night before I had proclaimed to my hubby that ME3 was the greatest game ever... blabbing on and on about all the little things that had been done so well, never dreaming that this god-awful end was in store for me.  AND I CAN"T FIX IT!  Can't unring that bell.  My whole ME universe, GONE.  Why did I even play.

I'm with ya, girl.  28 year old male here, and I shed quite a few tears myself over the empty, depressing ending to it all. 

[UniqueName001]

Hizuka wrote...

Try THIS on for size, then.

Not bad at all.  I didn't quite understand why the Geth/Quarian fight was in there, but yes, that also would have been a better ending.

(Speaking of that fight - holy @#$%, was that hard to watch)

I think part of my problem with the official ending is not only did it not bring any sense of closure as to what happened to the survivors, but it just added more unexplained stuff to wonder WTF happened..

Anyway, thanks for the link.  Too bad it wasn't Femshep, though

[rpgchick90]

I agree with so much, I mean we have been with our sheps since the first beacon on eden prime, and all of her/his companions, you grow attached like woven into there stories and to see it all just end, in that way left me raw feeling. Like it has severely effect my life, in a sad way. I don't want to play anything right now. I am just praying for those endings dlcs.

[MoarToast4U]

The endings left me torn and hollow on the inside as my hopes for a satisfying conclusion to a game I spent so many hours of my life on lie twitching and dying on the side of the road.

I beat the game last night. I didn't want to be spoiled; I wanted the full experience as I allowed my natural emotions to run their course. What I received last night was confusing, frustrating, hurtful, and I would be lying if I said I didn't feel a bit insulted by it. The best way to describe it is that for the past year and a half (5 years for some), Bioware gifted me with an amazing universe of engaging characters, fascinating plot elements, meaningful choices and relationships, and for the past 9 months, built up my hopes that this final chapter was going to deliver everything leading up to it promised only to violently snatch all of that away in the span of a final 5 minutes and abruptly spit in my face. Needless to say, I spent all night in my "angry dome" and didn't get any sleep.

Unless Bioware remakes the ending with a future dlc, the memory of my love for this game and its lore is going to be a painful, lingering scar. I can't even bring myself to finish the 7 other ME1-ME2 Shepards I have stored away. Why would I allow myself to be hurt like that, again? From now on, the entire game is going to play out as an inevitable doom scenario. All of Shepard's hopes (and by extension, ours) in addition to the hopes of every organic being in the Mass Effect universe are rendered irrelevant and ultimately in vain as the conclusion gives way to oblivion no matter what your choices are...

In short, the ending was a kick in the quad.

[MzAdventure]

Kick in the quad, indeed.

24 hour mark since I finished...12 hours since I started this topic and still feeling lost. Time to go for another stroll with the dogs & hubby.

Perhaps this is a secret plot by my loved ones to get me to spend more time with them??

[The Angry One]

I still feel bad too. I'm okay, then my mind will wander back to the events of all 3 games and that damn ending and the tears well up.
Hell I'm supposed to raid with my guild in The Old Republic tonight, and I can't even look at THAT game despite the fact that it has nothing to do with ME because it's made by BioWare.

[Balmung31]

victoriakm wrote...


Kick in the quad, indeed.

24 hour mark since I finished...12 hours since I started this topic and still feeling lost. Time to go for another stroll with the dogs & hubby.

Perhaps this is a secret plot by my loved ones to get me to spend more time with them??

If it is, then it's quite the compliment, I'd say. 

Modifié par Balmung31, 11 mars 2012 - 03:29 .

[heretica]

It's okay. I cried yesterday too, and today I woke up with a headache, feeling sort of empty and tired.

I had emotional ties with my Shepard, to see things go downhill so fast without an explication is painful. It's like when trust is broken, things won't ever be the same. I'm a bit angry at myself, tho. Shouldn't let a videogame affect me like this but it was very sudden and unexpected.