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[SaladinDheonqar]

For ME1 & ME2, I could start another playthrough straight away and enjoy it just as much as I did the first time. Now I can't even muster the will to double click my ME3 shortcut let alone start another playthrough.

[futeki]

I'm still incredibly depressed about the whole thing...and I'm dying to play the game again. I'd love to run through the missions and catch things I didn't on my first run. Then I think about the ending, and I just can't bring myself to pick up the controller.

[Talogrungi]

Contemplative. The original righteous fury has ebbed in favour of more .. nuanced considerations.

[KovaksCA]

Finished it yesterday and still can't focus, still feeling down and feeling stupid for being so emotional about a video game. ME was my escape, that reality (even if it was make believe) was a comfort to me in a world beset by terrible things and a draining 9-5 job. I live a normal life, volunteer, have an LI, lots of friends and start a great new job next week and yet playing ME or reading the fiction or thinking about a futuristic cityscape like Illium took me back to when I was a little girl fantasizing about exploring space. I discovered video games and ME when I was in the middle of a brutal divorce and ME and ME2 gave me the small escape I so needed. Seeing this ending was like working with one of the troubled teens I volunteer with and helping them move their life forward and help them get into post-secondary only to have them backslide in five minutes back to Heroin. Watching my little Shepard video game accomplishments demolished (not to mention the entire ME universe) by the whim of a writer hurts, even worse is that in my mind the entire universe, my sanctuary of escape has been burned to the ground....gut wrenching. I'm sure I will find something new to enjoy, a new fiction to escape to but for now I feel like I just lost my best friend.

[Simotech]

futeki wrote...

I'm still incredibly depressed about the whole thing...and I'm dying to play the game again. I'd love to run through the missions and catch things I didn't on my first run. Then I think about the ending, and I just can't bring myself to pick up the controller.

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[Thatguyky]

I pretty much feel the same, whenever I think about Mass Effect a feel like crap. I haven't touched any of the games since I beat it. Which is a shame to, I was looking forward to importing more characters, and what not. I don't really see the point in doing so now, not with the how the trilogy ended.

[Sywen]

Still depressed. Trying to work up to watching Season 1 of Game of Thrones, so I can get excited for Season 2. Still working on it

[LostHero2k9]

Still wake up during the night screaming "Nooooooooooooooooooooo". Well not really screaming, but still waking up and feeling bad....

[Baka-no-Neko]

Plotting a head canon and blasting the multiplayer....I can't even continue my 1st play-through after watching the endings on the tube.

[Sailfindragon]

Playing the game again in hopes that I actually hallucinated those endings!

[OblivionDawn]

I'd really like to quote Shepard to answer this question, but I can't be arsed to sift through my playthroughs to find a suitable quote.

Not after that ending.

[Worufu]

I feel like a complete idiot, overthinking something so trivial like a video game. But it wouldn't be so trivial if it would be a book or a film series (thank you, society). Yet here I am. I finished the game yesterday. At first I extremely, and I mean extremely happy from the ending. Okay, some of this stuff didn't make sense, but at least I kinda know what happened, right? People died, galaxy in ruins (Destruction Ending was my first choice, but I actually was thinking about this stuff for about ten minutes walking around my room, considering the consequences and what my Shepard always stood for), great. Not everything has to make sense all the time, I guess. That's why I decided to check the other endings. And ending after ending the huuuge smile on my face started to dissapear. I started to think, to question. Now there's only disbelief and actual anger. I'm angry, not 'oh FRIKKIN BUGGER killed me, idiot go and die!' kind of angry that dissapears after 10 minutes. I'm really, really angry and upset about what we've got right now. I barely could sleep. I waited two years, got really attached to the characters and story, I loved all the ME games, all of them. I can't possibly say with words how much I've loved ME3, even if a little bit suspension of disbelief was here and there, I loved it. I laughed many times (the writing is EXCELLENT), I cried at least twice (...of a scientist salarian...) and played almost non-stop since Thursday to finish what has been started a couple of years ago. And then I got this.
Don't get me wrong, I do love bad endings. They make everything so much better. People died and I expected more people would die, I thought Liara, my LI will be killed on Thessia (and make me cry again), I thought Garrus would sacrifice himself along with Tali on Earth. All the characters I actually cared and I fought for and with them would die, I would get an ending where Shepard would die, alongside with half of the galaxy. But the rest would remain to smell the ashes and rebuild.
I'm just so bloody confused! Trying to do pretty much anything is too hard, all I can think about is the ending and 'Why?'. There is only one viable option and it better be true: the Indoctrination Theory. That makes BioWare not those, who ruined great ride that ME series was with 10 minutes of an ending, but they would be evil masterminds of greatness that bring out our deepest feelings in a game. And you better show us that, BioWare, and do it quickly.

TL;DR: I'm not taking it well.

[Jago360]

Still need a hug... :-/ Why Bioware, why? What did we wrong to deserve this?

[SSVDisappoint]

Tempted to go and trade all of my Mass Effect games at EBGames.

[Kulzar8]

I'm in the denial stage right now. The last few days never happened.

[Azarni]

First, I would like to say to the OP, thank you for asking.

I finished it on Friday and sank into such an incredibly pathetic and depressing state I could hardly believe myself.

By now though... I'm numbing over. I've given myself time to recover, emotionally, and I even started a second playthrough last night. Why wouldn't I? I have no recollection of any horrific ending. What could you possibly be talking about?

... Denial? What the heck is that?

[Admiral Skeybar]

To be honest, I'm not really feeling a thing. The disappointing ending in Mass Effect 3 cured my fanboyism (fanaticism?) and I've just been looking through these forums to see if I can find some more info about where this is all going.

[Ricvenart]

Just short of the 24 hour mark...the more I think about it and read about it or view vids on "other possibilities" (loosely used) the worse it gets. Is that normal? How long before I reach the peak of my anger?
Seriously I honestly think DA2's ending was better and had more choices in it then this. Shame too because the game up to the Cerberus base is pretty god damn awesome, so many touch emotional parts, bits which are sad but you feel ok with the sadness, it feels natural (unlike the endings) and others that balance happiness and sadness to great effect (Steve finally moving on for me was really powerful and it meant something), but after the start of that mission it all begins to unravel at the seems and fixing it doesn't even compute right now, how to make it all work feels like they'd have to go back and redo the whole trilogy to change little things and fix the errors of the past, also try to change some things for 3. A DLC alt. ending may be a way to go but it'd be awfully hard to fix, time and money exspensive, more then most will be willing to pay probally, if they did a reboot they may lose some but they may get new costumers too. Maybe it's still just too close to see past all the gapeing holes...

[Dr. rotinaj]

I just finished the game. Wow.

I knew what the endings were before I played the game but it was only from text. That never prepared me for actually experiencing the POS ending. During that final 10 minutes, I was disgusted by the unbelievably stupid handling of the most important moment in the whole trilogy. I am so disappointed that I can't look at a Bioware logo without facepalming (that's not even a joke, I literally do that.)

I'm honestly considering never purchasing another Bioware game again. First DA2, then Javik the day one DLC,and now these "endings." If DA3 isn't awesome, I'm never buying another product from this company again.

[Tonymac]

I have tried to reason with the ending. I gave it a lot of thought. I suppose I can see where they thought that it was some sort of 'high minded' cool ending with us choosing the fate of the galaxy.

In reality, as far as I am concerned, it is a cheap ripoff of the Matrix series. At least in the Matrix we had Neo defy the Architect and forge a new path. In the Mass Effect universe, it just sucks. It makes no sense, it has plot holes - all in all it is uninspired, and dull of wit.

To answer the question, I moved some towards agreeing with it after having consulting some very good friends - but the more I thought about it the more angry I became. In fact, my current opinion of it is that I am even more angry. Not only did I get ripped off with a "Matrix" ending, but I got all of the heart and soul of my character and efforts pooped on by the writers.

I never needed Shepard to be a Messiah. I never needed him to be Neo the One. I do not need to escape to or from the Matrix. How about we write our own story and its a little more original and not some God Construct that is a machine-child.

[nelly21]

This thread makes me incredibly sad. Not because of the game's endings, but because my generation is apparently leading such unimportant and responsibilty free lives that 10 minutes at the end of a video game is enough to keep them depressed for days.

Seriously, get a grip guys.

[tay2208]

Bioware ripped out my heart and are now doing a happy dance on it!

[LolaLei]

Not great, I'm trying to do another ultimate run through where I destroy the Reapers just incase they do release DLC to sort the endings out I want my Shepard to survive.

I'm really surprised how bad I feel over a game, I hadn't realised just how much I had emotionally invested into it until this happened lol.

[Kitten Tactics]

futeki wrote...

I'm still incredibly depressed about the whole thing...and I'm dying to play the game again. I'd love to run through the missions and catch things I didn't on my first run. Then I think about the ending, and I just can't bring myself to pick up the controller.

Same here, I'd like to try a fresh run through ME3 as long as my dream of playing all three in one big marathon, but it seems pointless.