One would think hell one even assume that with a the final chapter of a major video game trilogy and potentional multi-media sci-fi franchise that could be worth a lot of money to it's owners, that a conventional happy or at least more upbeat hopeful ending and giving all of the characters that people all over the world have come to care about a sense of closure, would make a LOT of sense commercially.
Now I'm not against a bittersweet or even a downbeat ending if they make sense. The second Shepard meets Catalyst the game stops making any sense. The Catalsyst's explaining the Reapers' reasons make no sense. It's against synthetic life so it turns all organic life into synthetic life? Also the outcomes of the "choice" that Shepard is forced to make basically are the SAME with different colors for the the destruction of the relays and who leaves the ship with Joker on the planet.
Then after the credits we get what a looks poorly animated .jif picture with the Stargazer and the Child talking about the events of the game and the Child asks for another story and the Stargazer agrees to tell it. Who the hell is the Stargazer and is it the same planet Joker and company crashed on centuries further into the future or is it a different planet?
My personal problem with the endings is that aren't set up (or if they are I missed them or didn't see them) in any of the
Mass Effect games and they feel like that they have been pulled from another game.
Now this the bittersweet ending that I would love to see would be something like this:
Shepard using her/his last bit of engery triggers the Crucible releasing a ton of dark engery on the Reapers and that destroys them but that much dark engery leaves the Earth unable to support any of the advance technology that the people of the
Mass Effect universe enjoy and this leaves a bunch of humans, krogan, turians, asari, salarians, and some other aliens stranded on Earth.
Shepard dies and is honored. The love interest that the gamer picks in
Mass Effect 3 dies of grief and they are buried or their bodies are sent into a star together.
Those trapped on Earth start to rebuild the planet and form a new civilization of hard work, peace, and understanding, and they understand that fleet gathered to fight the Reapers was forced to leave them behind.
Humans are now forced to live on planets like Eden Prime, Horizon, and Terra Nova.
The Citadel automatically returns to it's orginal place in the galaxy.
And we should
SEE the fates of the surviving squad mates.
The last shot should be of Shepard and one of the various LIs looking on as the
Normandy now under the command of Joker and EDI fly off into a sun rise over a new Earth-like planet.
Yes, there is a lot of sadness but there is hope, I think that would be a better bittersweet ending then what we currently have and would at least made more sense and set up any number of ways to do
Mass Effect 4 set after the events of
Mass Effect 3.
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