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[Fair34]

Still seething.

I feel like Bioware baked us this wonderful three-tiered cake with all the yummy ingredients we we put into it and then they top it off with our choice of 3 different kinds of sh!t and then they expect us to eat it.

Modifié par Fair34, 11 mars 2012 - 05:51 .

[Doc089]

DrekorSilverfang wrote...

Would have liked to found out about catalyst origins and what other solutions he had tried but then again I'm as bad as Liara when it comes to wanting to find out about things.

That is my biggest problem, too many unknowns and loose ends for me to get closure from the endings.

Even though I don't like the ending, I might be more forgiving if more answers were available instead of what we are left with.

[sgtrock]

If they wanna come back from this horrible ending, they better right the best story ever for the next game. Otherwise, they just ruined mass effect.

[rvgifford]

Balmung31 wrote...

Honestly? Not much better.

It REALLY depressed the heck outta me. Any time I think of playing ANY of the games, I get a sick feeling in my stomach.

I don't think I can play these games ever again...

And yes, I'm being serious. Mock me all you want, but it's how I feel.

Close to how I feel. I'm already over it . . . a bit, not enough to not come here and crai, but still . . .

And yeah, I don't see the point in playing ANY of the ME games again, now. Or buying DLC, or memorabilia, or seeing the movie or . . . living. Just kidding on that last part but seriously Bioware? Sure, the ending could have been rough and dark, but to ruin everything the three games built up to with this crap of an ending? Bah! Bah, I say!

[Spatchmo]

I was angry and sad for a day, but that has since changed to me just thinking the whole situation is hilarious. At this point, I am pretty sure Bioware will do something to give us a better ending just because there are so many of us (97%) that hated the ending.

The situation became hilarious to me when I started trying to figure out what people were thinking when they were going over the endings. I mean, how did that conversation even go?

"Hey guys, I have a great idea! Let's rip off the ending choices for Deus Ex and make no other choice in the game matter! It will be deep and magical!"
"Ooo, Deus Ex! I like that game! For good measure, let's add a deus ex machina."
"Oh and as an extra special gift for our fans who played Mass Effect 2, we can add an amazing cliched poorly voice acted cutscene between an alien father and child about how the whole thing was just a story! The fans will LOVE it!"

Seriously, I want to understand that thought process. I really want to know if they thought players would enjoy the endings. Did the entire staff think the current endings were a good idea?

[carine]

I'm still hoping for an alternate ending -- DLC or patch, whatever.

And I'm still sad about the ending. But it took me about a day to cool off and now I can play the game again with my other Shepards. It's still enjoyable, even though in the back of my mind I know rallying all the races will prove pointless in the end.

I still hate the endings, but I still love the rest of the game too.

[Esker02]

Sindrop wrote...

It's been two days, and everything I've done since ending the game is sitting on this forums... DAMN

That's about where I am, too. Somewhere between moping and seething, I guess, depending on what aspect of the ending I'm remembering at the moment (relays exploding, isolated galaxy, and Normandy crashing? Seething. Tali and Shepard not living happily ever after? Moping. And the like).

It is what it is, I guess. I'm just hoping that what we think it is, it... err, isn't.

[Dinah]

I feel better in the sense that I'm not constantly moping and the feeling that I got stabbed in the back, but it doesn't change the fact that the ending was poorly conceived and poorly executed and I'm angry about it. I feel calmer now and trying to participate in making some change as best I can by voting in polls and throwing my voice in. Whether or not I'm pacified or further enraged depends on how Bioware handles this mess.

[a9fc]

Just had an epiphany.

Have a look: http://social.biowar...82347/1#9782347

Actually, not too bad

Modifié par a9fc, 11 mars 2012 - 07:33 .

[Cody211282]

Still pissed about it, as I said before, I have a deep seeded hatred for the endings that is reserved for very personal betrayals.

[gubaru]

I dislike the ending more now than when I finished the game.

I went in expecting to enjoy the interpersonal relationships and some of the conversations I'd overhear and I did enjoy those parts of the game a lot. But I didn't expect much from the rest of the game. I think that going back to at least DAO, Bioware has had a problem of building a world and a history that promises more than the game actually delivers. For example, human racism against elves and the anti-mage animus in Kirkwall laid out in the back-story had no effect on the game itself if you played an elf in Origins or a mage in Kirkwall. Once I saw Anderson on Earth and heard his whole rally the galaxy speech with no mention that he was humanity's first councilor and then saw that that worm Udina had taken over for him, I knew the ending was just going to ignore choices to make the game easier to make. 

The lowered expectations kept me from being really upset when I saw the ending but the longer it's sat the dumber the whole thing feels. Even if you accept the word of the small blue god that organic and synthetic life cannot coexist, it still doesn't make much sense. The 50,000-year pruning cycle is just some arbitrary number. If the Geth had been aggressive, they had 300 years to eliminate organic life; so, the Reapers could have arrived to find all organic life gone already. And synthesis doesn't break the cycle. Organic/synthetic hybrid life is still capable of creating purely synthetic life that would view the organic component of the creators as a weakness to be eliminated. Nevermind that Shepard can spend three games arguing and showing that the Geth and EDI can live and work with organics and then there's the whole laziness of the ending (resurrected squad members from the Earth mission stepping off the Normandy, etc.).

I think Bioware is at a point where some decisions about the company's focus need to be made. They can make smaller games with fewer choices that focus on what they do well (character development, relationships, emotional attachment) or they can continue to promise huge games with so many choices that it's impossible to deliver them profitably because each game would need to play as two or three different games.

Modifié par gubaru, 11 mars 2012 - 10:31 .

[Aiden_Cora]

Off to sleep now. I hope everyone wakes up in the morning with a lighter heart. Take care and sleep well.

[vrumpt]

Still feeling awful and depressed. I had so much emotion and passion put into this series. It was the best video game series of all time. Then those 5 minutes took away 5 years of love and passion I had for the series. I can't say its the best video game series every anymore, not with a straight face. I can't really do anything, all my thoughts keep going back to that ending.

Even if it were to be fixed, the damage is done. I still had to see the best video game series ever get destroyed by 5 minutes of a horrible conclusion. Its emotionally heart wrenching for me. I've gone through the denial stage, but as time goes on it logic and reason start to sink in as I realize that the hallucination theory is nothing more than an elaborate act of denial by the fans that have been betrayed. Its nothing more than a logical emotional response trying to cover up the pain.

So a couple days later, its bad. Its still really really bad.

[Dusky Syren]

I hate to come off as overly dramatic, but I slammed through the game until it was fully completed. I stayed up late because I kept thinking the end was in 5 minutes after I finished up the Illusive Man's base. I got to the final choice, alt tabbed thinking I did something wrong to not get the "good ending" and googled it. Realized all the potential endings sucked. walked to the nearest portal because I didn't see how it mattered which I picked. Went to sleep.... tossed and turned all night while my subconscious reeled... woke up tired... and mad.

Feel a little better in realizing that 95% of players are right with me in hating the ending, so I've got hope they'll patch it up, but still not very willing or interested in picking up ANY of the installments in the forseeable future... not even to see some of that incredible dialog or epic battles again... or to try playing through with all the different classes like I did in 1 and 2.

I just don't feel like anything I did mattered. I could have lied to the Krogans about the genophage... I could have have people murdered... going the fast, easy and dirty route would have had the same end result.

[MelancholyV]

Depressed. A little angry, but mostly sad.

My brain is trying to convince itself the game ended with Anderson dying by Shep while they look out on the battle for Earth.

[Aeyl]

I tried out the Synthesis ending first. Was upset and confused (How did Garrus and Liara get back to the Normandy when they were my teammates during the whole London mission?

Because I have a visceral hatred for "...And that's the story of [insert name here] that happened long, long ago." types of things, I became pissed. "My Shepard's story is over, and I don't even get to see what happened to the galaxy (other than a few leaves.)" I thought.

So I decided I needed a different ending. I did the Destroy ending, with enough resources to survive, and was pleased. Now, when I see the after-credits scene with the old man, I think that because my Shepard lived, I still have more to do. My story continues.

After thinking about it for a while, it feels like they might be setting us up for some sort of DLC or expansion pack to continue the story.

So now I'm content.

[Legbiter]

Dead inside.

[SSVDisappoint]

does anyone know if there has been any form of official response?

[CasbynessPC]

I'm afraid if I sleep I will dream about chasing FemShep through a forest, only for her to turn around and burst into flames, her face looking all semi-Husk-like, as it did in the final moments of the Control ending T.T

I played and completed SIlent Hill 1 because I refused to allow the protagonist to be left in that damn terrifying school. I want to get FemShep OUT of those endings, re-writing the game and finding a fourth option.

Has anyone considered that the ending is supposed to be a bit "meta"? As in:

1) The ending lives up to the franchise name - it's created a "mass effect"
2) The ending was written by depressed Bioware writers, who after the DA2 fiasco have decided that no matter what they write, it will be futile and reviled, so they put Shepard into the same situation.

Just fun thoughts. Te real problem is a lot of longtime fans played Shepard as THEM. They didn't say "Shepard did this, Shepard chose that", they were feeling "I did this, I chose that", so when Shepard gives up right at the end, it's blown some people's minds O.O

[a9fc]

Something else to take the edge off:

[zerebul]

I am still in shock that Bioware could **** up a series so horribly in the last 5 minutes of its conclusion.

[goose2989]

 I've been watching a lot of Archer and Parks and Recreation to make myself feel better. I still have trouble when I play the game at all. Even being hours ahead of the ending, and I still have Tali and Garrus with me on the Normandy

[tersidre]

silent hill down pour comes out tmrw... i KNOW that game is going to end depressingly so maybe ille njoying playing it... but yea i wanted to start on another me3 playthrough but i just cant bring myself to do it...

[SaladinDheonqar]

Just finished the game and.... I'm officially in mourning. I'm usually pretty good at emotionally distancing myself from things I don't like, but with this series and this ending, it's going to be tough. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow morning and find out it was all a bad dream. Hey, that would actually be a better ending to the series than what I got!

[GOODKyle]

lol I'm with you guys if this truly is the ending.

But I'm hoping I'm right about the endings not being real