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[BattleMageMarian]

I rarely post on any board, I've come here in the past primarily to look for help or see what others thought. However, I've now posted several messages as this seems to be the only way to vent some of my frustration and depression. As others have mentioned I have several saves I carefully created and was going to run through but what's the point?

[sasasasue]

I'm joining this emotional state. For months I've been counting down with everyone else, jokely shaking my fist that America got it 3 days earlier than England and ALL THE WAIIITTTINNNGG but still more than ready to fight.

Crying through Mordins' moment, muttering to myself "*sob* This is such a good game... just take my heart bioware... please manipulate my emotions futher...", shouting when Legion "dies", thinking "THIS ENDING IS GOING TO BE AWESOME". Heart racing as you're in London and the hoard of enemies WILL NOT END, thinking "Awgosh, this is the end.... the end of it all". Then, the end.

It was an awesome game. I have to keep telling myself that, because it was. However, I don't feel like I can fangirl about it. People asking "So, how was Mass Effect? Good?" and all I can say is "Yes." No crazy screams, no waving my arms around saying "OHHHMMYYYLLLIIIIFEEEE", just "Yes. Yes it was good."

I'm firmly believing the indoctrination theory. I don't want to insult the people who made it either, because they worked blooming hard, and made a nontheless brilliant game, and I can't imagine how heartbroken they must feel with the amount of stick around (because let's face it, working on, and CREATING the characters, they must love Shep and the crew as much as we do.) just, the end. There has got to be more to this.

[sasasasue]

BattleMageMarian wrote...
I have several saves I carefully created and was going to run through but what's the point?

Yes. All the agonising about every little blasted detail that might come and kick me in the face, what is the point? Quite want to see what will happen with a shep who only had 2 ME2 survivors though.

[VenomB11]

Back in 2007 I saw mass effect for xbox sitting there and thought "why the hell not".  not knowing if it was a rpg turn based or first person shooter.  When I started playing I couldnt stop.  The game was the best thing Ive ever played.  I love great storys and I am a huge gamer.  I play just about everything.

So, when I told my friends about this unreal fantastic game.  They felt the same way.  Shocked and awed of how original this game is.  But i couldnt have enough of mass effect, so I bought and read the book.  I NEVER read books.  I just prefer movies and games over books.  Always have.  But when I bought the book I stoped and said "why am I doing this?"  I love Mass Effect.  Thats why.

Then Mass Effect 2 came out I was like a kid again excited to see if they would deliver thier promise to make your choices count and have a factor.  And of coarse I played Mass Effect 2 and was awed on how the game made me care about my team members soo much.  exceeded Mass Effect 1 in every way.  Couldnt Be happier.  And over the coarse of the last 2 years I bought and Read every comic and book.  Couldnt get enough.  I love Mass Effect.

Mass Effect 3 was comming and I was more than excited.  To finaly finish the story of shepard and save the galaxy.  Me and all my friends bought the game but it felt essential that I finished the game first.  Dont know why but in 2 days I did everything.  Every mission, Every dialog that I could find.  Requested off work for it also.  Then the final mission, the saving grace to the trilogy.  I confronted the illusive man, saved anderson, and waited for the crucible to fire.  Destroying only the reapers and the galaxy celebrates with fireworks, partys, perades all over the galaxy.  The greatest threat to ever show its self is no more.  Shepard lives happily ever after....

Then the lift...  I was confused but eager to see what was going on.  Then the boy.  Some Entity, kinda strange.  Then lays the s*** on you.  Youll finally destroy the reapers..... but (always the but) the relays will be destroyed....  Then the decission came.  I sat there trying to comply with what the thing just said.  "no... he didnt say the relays would be destroyed..... did he?  naaaa.  Im hearing things."  So I went to the right and shot the cannister.  And watched what I loved soooo much, die.  I sat there as blood rushed to my head trying to make sense to what I saw.  Then the credits.  I imediatly dashboarded the xbox and sat there.  contemplating. "What.... no.... I must have got the bad ending... but how.  I did everything right... how?"  Im a optimistic guy so I open the collecters edition strategy guide I usually save but I was desperate to figure out what was going on.  Flopped the hard cover right to the back and turned it upside down to read all 16 endings.  "No..... noo cant be.  They wouldnt kill mass effect.  not at its prime.  no way."  So I loaded the final mission again and played through the other endings knowing there was no hope.

I sat there as Ending 2 happened.  Same as destroying them, except green glow and the reapers just leave???  Then ending 3 same as the other 2 but Blue glow....  WHAT!  I sat there hopeless, beaten, sadened, depressed.  Every bad feeling under the sun.  "what... was.... the point...."  I thought.  "Reapers might as well have won.."  Knowing I was the bearer of depression to every sorry soul Ive endorse mass effect to... depressed...out of my mind.

I took out the game and sat there in my room for hours with a dim lited light.  thinking... 

The fact is that Shepard isnt some fictional charecter that we play as.  Every one that I know creates there own sheppard and never uses the default.  Bioware needs to understand that shepard isnt just some charecter.  Its "US" the players.  Killing him is bad enough.  But To destroy the citadel, the mass relays, every ounce of technoligy like the geth, vi, ai.  To isolate the entire galaxy and say "here.  heres a video of a grandpa telling some boy about you..  wasnt it worth it!!!!"  So we saved the citadel only to have it blow up.  We stop collecters only to see what we were trying to protect destroyed???  I played mass effect to save the galaxy and the way it was lived.  not to see it completely obliterated and see all my "our" hard work to be a bed time story...  The cycle Might as well have started over again. 

Bioware let us all down.  Destroyed something great and took away all our urge and efforts to play or endorse mass effect ever again.  The ending killed mass effect, killed anything great about it, killed what we loved about it, and created more questions then conclude anything.  Bioware should be ashamed of themselves for what they did to everyone, anyone who plays mass effect.  When I read this forrum, I was relieved that I was not alone.  But to see soo many people so distrought about this better make bioware believe that all hope is not lost.  and they can redeem themselves.  Because I am willing to endorse mass effect again if they (bioware) will let me.  The worst thing they did to us is take away our hope.  Our will to Love mass effect.

R.I.P. Mass Effect???

[amorto]

i used to be depressed like you, then i took a russian song for eurovision 2012 in the knee

Modifié par amorto, 12 mars 2012 - 04:00 .

[CrazyRah]

I got absolutely no interest to play anything ME related anymore. Depressed is probably a word that kind of describe how i feel. In it's current state.. ME is dead to me

[Rafe34]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but we are collecting a group of rewrites of the ending, basically hoping to have a good ending for every Shepard in the end.

Forum topic is here: http://social.biowar...5/index/9796236

It made me feel better to at least put my thoughts down and pretend like everything turned out to actually make sense.

Some of the rewrites still have Shep die, of course, but they at least make sense.

[VenomB11]

CrazyRah wrote...

I got absolutely no interest to play anything ME related anymore. Depressed is probably a word that kind of describe how i feel. In it's current state.. ME is dead to me

Great PICTURE!!!  but i feel the same way.  its a really painful process.   it felt like a death in the family type depressed.  Hopefully they fix it.

[MizzNaaa]

I feel the same way. I don't even understand why I care so much, I mean I love the game...but it is just a game, right?

RIGHT? *sigh*

[Sashimi_taco]

This is the ending I have in my head.

[LostHero2k9]

Rafe34 wrote...

I don't know if this will help anyone, but we are collecting a group of rewrites of the ending, basically hoping to have a good ending for every Shepard in the end.

Forum topic is here: http://social.biowar...5/index/9796236

It made me feel better to at least put my thoughts down and pretend like everything turned out to actually make sense.

Some of the rewrites still have Shep die, of course, but they at least make sense.

Don't know if its already on the list, if not, add these masterpiece:
arkis.deviantart.com/art/Mass-Effect-3-Alternate-Endings-SPOILERS-289902125

Modifié par LostHero2k9, 12 mars 2012 - 04:32 .

[Gryphon161]

ME1, ME2 finished and couldn't wait to get another play through going. Finished ME3 and was totally shattered (although now I'm just angry) and can't bear to think of another play through. How could such a good game end so pathetically bad, how could they get it so wrong???

On the plus side I see Witcher 2 (Enhanced version) is released (in Australia) 17/04 maybe it will help ME3 become nothing more than a vague memory (nightmare?)

WORST ENDING TO ANY GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED, HOW DID YOU GET IT SO VERY WRONG

[CriZe]

I usually don't post in forums, but I agree 100% with what's been said.

The ending was just....''not there''.... and that saddened me, I was expecting alot more from the ending of this trilogy.

However I have only praise for the game, it was one of the best games I have played but the ending snuffed out all of my will to replay it.

But I guess that saves me alot of time in the near future.

[SharlenaSharlena]

priestess of blood wrote...

SharlenaSharlena wrote...

I have spent 2 years and 10 playthroughs with 10 different characters at about 30 hrs a piece just to get my perfect FemShep only to watch her die tonight after all the hard work. I am so disappointed, that even though I was full paragon there was no happy ending for me, her or Anderson. Its just not fair.

I'm in a similar position, except I had more then just my main canon femshep, and I don't even feel like playing through my prepared other imports now.

I understand how you feel!
Its like why waste your other Shep's you worked so hard on, so you can watch them die to and waste all your time all over again? I won't be using any other playthroughs with my other Sheps. I am going to restart the game with my current Fem and see if I can at least make it out alive this next playthrough, but it doesn't alter the fact that I shouldn't have to do this over again, with everything I accomplished this is just a kick in the ovaries..

Modifié par SharlenaSharlena, 12 mars 2012 - 05:38 .

[Huckington]

 I'm gonna quote this from a friend on another forum which pretty much nailed how I feel

It's like you've had this long, emotional friendship, and this guy/girl is your best friend. You've been through thick and thin, and you feel you had a hand in shaping their personality. They've got their bad parts, but through the long haul it's been good and you think you've got it made and have everything figured out.

Then they die...or move somewhere that you'll probably never be able to contact and meet them again...and this all happens so suddenly that you have no chance to say goodbye. A part of you is ripped out. You've not just lost a friend, you've lost part of yourself.

That is the feeling I got as the end credits rolled. I mean, I'm still pissed as $#@! about it. Worried about it all day at work, and it's a goddamn video game. I'll never get to spend the rest of my (Shepard) life with Liara. Never gonna know how the Krogans react to being free of the genophage. Never going to see how Garrus and Tali make it work. Never going to give the eulogy at Anderson's funeral. None of that. I've lost a friend. That friend being the world of Mass Effect. Suddenly, emotionally, and violently.

On the one hand, Bioware has transcended the normal experience. They've made us care about the world. We've not just gone with it, we've shaped it along the way. We've made tough decisions that we figured would have a lasting and massive effect (yuk yuk yuk). They've made us care about the characters we've helped shape and taken along with us for the ride. They've made us care about the character we control, even though he/she has little to no history and lore outside of what we pick in the first game. Taking that away so suddenly has shown us just how deep our feelings for it go, and left an emotional void that no game I have ever played has left. Not a single one. That is a great achievement, and though there will undoubtedly be more trilogies and games like Mass Effect, I don't think any of them will ever touch people (me)so deeply.

On the other hand, they royally...royally $#@!ed up the experience with the ending. I would pay for an actual ending. I would pay above and beyond the game's price for an actual ending. I'll freely and willingly give Bioware $20 for a real ending. I don't care if it was spoiled and ruined by a leak. Give me that $#@!ing ending. Let me choose a Paragon, Neutral, and/or Renegade path that follows my character after he lives. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a scenario where Shepard dies. I just don't believe there should have been a "no chance of survival", Deus Ex: HR style ending.

Let me marry Liara. Let me have kids. Let me visit Wrex after he's united the Krogan. Or let me blow the $#@! out of everything and not give a damn. Give me something. Give me something personal, like you've done at every point up until this. Not this $#@!.

[Skaan]

or just let me know wath happened to the ohter. the biggest fleet of the history blocked on Solar System if not destroyed like normandy

[Volion]

Huckington wrote...

 I'm gonna quote this from a friend on another forum which pretty much nailed how I feel

It's like you've had this long, emotional friendship, and this guy/girl is your best friend. You've been through thick and thin, and you feel you had a hand in shaping their personality. They've got their bad parts, but through the long haul it's been good and you think you've got it made and have everything figured out.

Then they die...or move somewhere that you'll probably never be able to contact and meet them again...and this all happens so suddenly that you have no chance to say goodbye. A part of you is ripped out. You've not just lost a friend, you've lost part of yourself.

That is the feeling I got as the end credits rolled. I mean, I'm still pissed as $#@! about it. Worried about it all day at work, and it's a goddamn video game. I'll never get to spend the rest of my (Shepard) life with Liara. Never gonna know how the Krogans react to being free of the genophage. Never going to see how Garrus and Tali make it work. Never going to give the eulogy at Anderson's funeral. None of that. I've lost a friend. That friend being the world of Mass Effect. Suddenly, emotionally, and violently.

On the one hand, Bioware has transcended the normal experience. They've made us care about the world. We've not just gone with it, we've shaped it along the way. We've made tough decisions that we figured would have a lasting and massive effect (yuk yuk yuk). They've made us care about the characters we've helped shape and taken along with us for the ride. They've made us care about the character we control, even though he/she has little to no history and lore outside of what we pick in the first game. Taking that away so suddenly has shown us just how deep our feelings for it go, and left an emotional void that no game I have ever played has left. Not a single one. That is a great achievement, and though there will undoubtedly be more trilogies and games like Mass Effect, I don't think any of them will ever touch people (me)so deeply.

On the other hand, they royally...royally $#@!ed up the experience with the ending. I would pay for an actual ending. I would pay above and beyond the game's price for an actual ending. I'll freely and willingly give Bioware $20 for a real ending. I don't care if it was spoiled and ruined by a leak. Give me that $#@!ing ending. Let me choose a Paragon, Neutral, and/or Renegade path that follows my character after he lives. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a scenario where Shepard dies. I just don't believe there should have been a "no chance of survival", Deus Ex: HR style ending.

Let me marry Liara. Let me have kids. Let me visit Wrex after he's united the Krogan. Or let me blow the $#@! out of everything and not give a damn. Give me something. Give me something personal, like you've done at every point up until this. Not this $#@!.

Nailed it.

[Harorrd]

i am still depressed, for 3 days i must have spent more than 5 hours per day just being here at the forums, trying to presses what i saw.

[CerberusMolecularNetwork]

Probably the best trilogy in videogames left me with so much pain, sadness, hopelessness I never thought it would be possible. Three days passed away and I still couldn't find anything what could justify this emotionally brutal endings. Not to mention they promised us there will be multiple endings! Great, When they will be released?
But I don't want to be angry at Bioware, they did a such a great job with a first two games, and the third one is just beautiful! I like this game, so amazing! Filled with so much emotional moment.

And for that I am grateful to you Bioware! But I can't turn my eyes away and say nothing. These endings are not worthy for a game like MASS EFFECT 3!
These endings would be good, if this would be an option to choose. But no matter what I choose, the end will be exactly the same.
And forgive me if I am a bit too harsh about this. But tell me something: How can my Shep ever say again: "everything will be fine, we'll get through this together." We will defeat the Repears and live to tell the tale" How can I play with the first two games, if I know that there is no other option for Shep just to die in vain. The galaxy is ruined, my friends are (god knows how) crash landed on some random planet, and because every single mass relay is exploded the Sol system is gone, every system with a mass relay is gone. And it's not an option,

WHY???
You dare to call this game a ROLE PLAYING GAME. I am asking you, where is the "role playing" in the end? And please don't answer me, you can choose, you have 3 options. Really???
Hm, let's see. Blue, Green, Red. Nice what's next? Pink, yellow, and purple???

You forgot SW KOTOR. That's what I call different endings.

I am sorry if I offended you BW. You created my best videogames in the last 10 years. I spent thousands of hours by playing them. I love them, every single minute.
I never complained before about anything.
Hell, I like DA2 too. I just can't understand WHY?? I know it's probably impossible to find an ending what will be satisfying for everybody. That's true.
We don't need, sorry I don't need to much, just a happy end. Life is sucks anyway. Why should I play a game if I feel myself bad in the end for days?????

I feel myself terrible to say these things for you guys at Bioware. You are absolutly fantastic. Creating such a wonderful trilogy.
I only hope you listen. And maybe you consider it, and create something what this game, what Shep deserve!
The only thing what is left for me is HOPE. Maybe one day.... maybe...
Please forgive me again if I offended you that wasn't my intention. the game is awesome!

(if my english is weird sometimes forgive me, I am not a native speaker)

[garf]

I haven't done anything with my spare time but sleep and post to forums and news blogs. and the latter is getting old. maybe I'll just turn off my computer and finally get my laundry done.

[MzAdventure]

Can't get past it, 4 days later, spending all the free time I had planned to spend on my 2nd and 3rd run throughs here at the BSN site, taking small comfort in not being alone.

After hundreds of hours in the ME universe, I don't think I'll ever visit again.

Haven't even picked up a controller since I finished. Can't stomach it. Not sure I'll ever be able to play a game with a plot more complex than Angry Birds ever again!

[Andur4]

Depression is probably the best way to describe what I feel right now.
Normally, I'd be on my second playthrough but, no will to do so. Did manage to get myself to play the multiplayer, didn't last long, though probably because I haven't renewed my gold subscription and the code that came with the game only lasted two days.
Now I just can't bring myself to play anything else, unless friends drag me into it.

[xXIncognitoXx]

The fact that the ending was basically a galaxy reset button has me so upset! All the choices I made amount to nothing in the end. To top it all off we don't get to see what happens to our squadmates, who we have developed attachments to? I am depressed.

I can't bring myself to play through the trilogy again like i had planned to do. The franchise has been damaged in my eyes.

[sonofalich]

i want to play ME1 but then i see the ME3 icon and any want of me playing instantly evaporates

[Bebuse]

So true, and that is so sad.

I just booted it up again and had to turn it off as soon as it got to a player controlled section. Then I tried Batman: AC which has been sitting unplayed since it arrived last week and wasn't interested.

Have...have Bioware inadvertently ruined video games by making one so perfect, then destroying all our emotional investment at the last minute?