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[Tamcia]

New day - still sucks. I know it should pass next week, but dam you BW for making me feel like this. Couldn't you give a single option that was good? Was it REALLY so hard and against the whole - player chooses the outcome thing? I loved ME series, but the end... you destroyed it and with that you destroyed the positive emotions I had with, the fun I had with the games - its ALL GONE.

ME - saved the citadel, Shep crawls from rubble like a boss.
ME2 - Suicide mission, everyone lives! (You could have chosen a bad ending)
ME3 - everything is ****ed. No good ending, all are bad.... Choices? Don't matter, choices leading to the end don't matter... Nothing matters, all is lost. LOST,,,,

[Nyaore]

The irrational anger has tempered down into something manageable at this point. I'm still mad and disappointed with a company that I expected better from, I doubt that will ever change, but I no longer want to strangle something. So, I guess that's a start.
I still can't believe that they dropped the ball so hard in the final stretch though. It wouldn't have even been a problem if they back wrote the Guardian and it's implications sufficently into the story - and made our choices matter more. I always expected downer endings, and I made my peace with them years ago. However as an avid reader, the ******-poor quality of the writing in those last ten minutes killed it for me.

Modifié par Nyaore, 11 mars 2012 - 07:51 .

[retailavenger85]

I'm so happy that the BSN is (mostly) full of people who feel the same as I do. I finished the game at 3am Thursday morning, and cried for an hour, waking up my very confused fiancee in the process. He's currently playing through it, and I can't wait for him to get to the end so we can commiserate.

As I stated in another thread, I have struggled with chronic depression and anxiety issues since I was 8. I'm 26 now. My anxiety mostly stems from a deep rooted fear of inevitability, and such.

Mass Effect was my escape from my day to day life. It was a place where I wasn't a retail clerk in a stupid job, who drinks too much and tends to be afraid of everything. I could be Commander Shepard, Paragon Hero, Savior of the Galaxy. For 5 years I did every side quest, tracked down everyone who needed help, in the hopes that all my hard work would pay off. I would defeat the Reapers, and earn my just reward of settling down with Kaidan.

Then the end happened.
The inevitability that everything I did was for nothing.

I have slept maybe 5 hours of restless sleep a night since then, barely eaten, cried, and just stared at the wall. The endings touched off a panic attack of such epic proportions, that I might have to go back to therapy early.

Oh. Its just a game, you say. Yes. I get that. But it hit my most sensitive nerve.

I took the "destroy" option because that's the only way my girl survives, barely. I am holding out hope Bioware gives me back the glimmer of hope I saw through the entire series.

TL;DR, I'm not okay. I will be soon, but not for a while.

[JamesYHT]

Ultra Prism wrote...

I was so looking forward to play Mass Effect 3 during my spring break which ends this sunday, I got the game on tuesday, finished on Thursday night and now realized I got a ton of work due after break which I cannot focus because stupid ME3 ending .... twisted the hell out of my life ... never again I will be playing RPGs and spend so long with beloved characters seriously

u are not alone, me too....

[toots1221]

No I'm not any better. Still horribly depressed, I just feel all hollow inside.

[Balmung31]

retailavenger85 wrote...

I'm so happy that the BSN is (mostly) full of people who feel the same as I do. I finished the game at 3am Thursday morning, and cried for an hour, waking up my very confused fiancee in the process. He's currently playing through it, and I can't wait for him to get to the end so we can commiserate.

As I stated in another thread, I have struggled with chronic depression and anxiety issues since I was 8. I'm 26 now. My anxiety mostly stems from a deep rooted fear of inevitability, and such.

Mass Effect was my escape from my day to day life. It was a place where I wasn't a retail clerk in a stupid job, who drinks too much and tends to be afraid of everything. I could be Commander Shepard, Paragon Hero, Savior of the Galaxy. For 5 years I did every side quest, tracked down everyone who needed help, in the hopes that all my hard work would pay off. I would defeat the Reapers, and earn my just reward of settling down with Kaidan.

Then the end happened.
The inevitability that everything I did was for nothing.

I have slept maybe 5 hours of restless sleep a night since then, barely eaten, cried, and just stared at the wall. The endings touched off a panic attack of such epic proportions, that I might have to go back to therapy early.

Oh. Its just a game, you say. Yes. I get that. But it hit my most sensitive nerve.

I took the "destroy" option because that's the only way my girl survives, barely. I am holding out hope Bioware gives me back the glimmer of hope I saw through the entire series.

TL;DR, I'm not okay. I will be soon, but not for a while.

Trust me, you're not the only one who's invested so much into these games.  I do pretty much the same thing you do, thinking I'm Shepard and try to help as many people as I can, because I wish I could in real life. 

[NeoGuardian86]

Mass Effect is the one Sci-Fi universe i absolutely loved.

and they blew it up, quite literally.

it wasn't just the end of Shepherd's story, it was the end of Mass Effect as we know it.

I'd be lying if i still wasn't feeling a little down whenever i think about it. I mean i think of the moments with Tali and then i think of that ending and how it just abruptly changes after your done sitting with Anderson and then the game decides to take a dump all over everything.

Sounds quite pathetic really, but i keep myself busy not thinking about the series.

I easily could excuse the Battlestar Galactica ending because they constantly have the theme of God's will and are the people who aren't there hallucinations or really angels?

but Mass Effect 3's ending is just...ugh.


i got college to deal with so i keep my mind busy with that, but whenever i think of Mass Effect i just now see the futile endings offered. the journey was amazing, but all possible destinations are just garbage and more or less the same.


in my mind i imagine. kill reapers+ save relays + take Tali back to Ronnach, = the end. hooray. At least that would be my Disney-ending. at the very least not royally screw all the galaxy.

[JasonTan87]

ScooterPie88 wrote...

I've got a nasty feeling in my stomach. Let's pretend ME1 and 2 were a stray kitten I took in. I got kitty his shots got him snipped bought him food ect. The day after he gets snipped he gets hit by a car. All my time and effort were wasted. That's how I feel.

This is exactly how i feel.

I also feel the bitter disappointment of a wasted opportunity.  The ending had incredible potential -- enough to do for Shepard what MGS4 did for Solid Snake: a send-off befitting a legend. Pity it was ruined in the very last 5 minutes (everything starting with the Normandy getting knocked out of FTL onwards) by sloppy writing.

The thing is, I think most of us would buy in to the ending they gave us (and none of this raging fury would have happened) if it had a proper resolution with some form of closure.

Modifié par JasonTan87, 11 mars 2012 - 08:31 .

[zotanas]

I don't let much get to me.

This... is hard to even swallow. If the BW team wanted emotional investment they got it, only in the absolute worst way I could have ever imagined.

I dreamt all night of that ending, and my mind endlessly turned it over, trying to rationalize things. It was agonizing.

I have never really been truly disappointed to the point of mental turmoil by a game ever. I know it will pass, and I still LOVE every minute of ME3 until the last five minutes, but those last five are so retroactively powerful I feel like scrubbing the entire experience from my mind.

Just hope it passes soon. It's such a strange thing to be so disturbed by.

[Wattoes]

Im pretty much just pissed off because the entire series is dead for me. I can't even play the older games after this.

I went from having my eyes wide open in disbelief at the stupid stuff I was hearing, to laughing at the synthesis explanation. Still had hope for a postgame vid though.

Then I saw that and shut my console off and have spent the last couple days cursing.

[connordavisj]

Doin' horrible.  Just beat it, what, several hours ago?  It's funny really.  At the time, I didn't even think about how NONE of my choices affected the outcome.  At the time, I was mostly just bewildered by the choices I was given.  All of them sucked.  Then, after the fact (chose synthetic destruction), I realized none of it mattered and that made it worse.  I miss Tali too.  I feel like I romanced her for nothing.  No happy ending where they're together.  She's just stuck on a random planet.  Awesome. 

[TheSneric]

I'm in denial, in my mind this is what happened:
Shep and Anderson were picked up by the Normandy after persuading the catalyst to only destroy the Reapers by showing the alliances between the Geth/Quarians and EDI/Joker. There was a cut scene showing the fleets working together to bring down the Reapers. Now Shep and Liara are back on Thessia, then while the credits roll it shows what the surviving squadmates are doing and the galaxy rebuilding.

[Crypto109]

Am dead inside :*( there is no cure for this only if i saw shepard and tali happy together i havent sleept for 2 days am hurt  i was almost going to cry i know its just a game but i really loved and looked up to this game for all these years i waited for this moment and it all went bad  i dont think ill ever be the same

[Crypto109]

I LOVE U TALI!!!!! dont worry shepards alive hes coming for you!!! :*( waaaaaaaaaaa

[Rafe34]

I'm feeling far, far better now that I sat down and typed out my own end for FemShep/Garrus.

Everyone should try doing it, it just really helps.

It's rather dumb that we have to do this and that they didn't give us a satisfactory ending, but at least I'm feeling better.

Still have zero intention of buying anything else from Bioware unless they fix this, and I have no intention of playing any of the ME series again either. Why bother? None of the choices truly matter in the end.

Modifié par Rafe34, 11 mars 2012 - 10:25 .

[SSVDisappoint]

Well as the person who started this thread I got to say, I wish I could all invite you over for a nice meal and a warm drink and some board games to make you all feel better but I cant accomodate such a large number of people...aka like 13,000

[Caelistas]

I feel bad, depressed, seriously thinking about writing my own fanfic ending. Thank you Bioware.

[GarrusVFan]

I'm infuriated, enough so to keep fighting till we get the response we deserve from Bioware. After the fury though... I feel "hollow", sickened, and betrayed.

[R3MUS]

I feel like an empty shell... I dont know.... I am so depressed... I wanted to talk more with the Reapers too. So many questions.... Everything is so weird...

Modifié par R3MUS, 11 mars 2012 - 11:03 .

[Dr Doom MKII]

I am still feeling sad, but reading the forums and knowing thatI'm not alone, make me feel a bit better.

[Drayvenn]

Not much better honestly.
A fictional story/movie/game has actually never depressed me this much before in my life.
Shows how well written the characters and everything before the ending was.
I honestly didn't think a game could hurt me this badly.

[Sparbiter]

I haven't been waiting for this for 5 years like many have. In fact, I only bought the original mass effect a few months ago, then played the second, then bought the third on release day.

Even then, I'm still really bummed out

[goofyomnivore]

I've finished the game twice now. I hate the whole Citadel: The Return mission. It is probably the worst video game experience I've ever had.

Illusive Man going Saren 2.0
The Child as the Catalyst
The lack of quality in the endings and epilogue

I don't really care about happy endings. But that whole mission doesn't make a lick of goddam sense and is lacking quality from top to bottom.

[Evil_medved]

Depression grown in rage. I find myself clenching my teeth in anger.

[Evingar]

The first night was horrible. The days that followed have been eerily similar to the feeling when a family member dies. Just endless depression and denial. However, I keep coming back here to find that just about everyone is on the same page and don't feel so alone in this.