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[crapmonster13]

Walrusninja wrote...

Gutted, no conclusion. Found hope in the theories on here though, almost certain that the actual ending is yet to be released now.

Pretty much this.  I've taken some comfort constantly being on the forums here and reading up on some of the theories.  That said, being two full days now since, I still feel a good deal depressed over it.

[Nu-Nu]

I feel even sadder, I can't even listen to the soundtrack anymore because it just makes the pain stronger.

[CuddilyEvil93]

I haven't gotten to the ending yet. But after what I've heard, I'm just not going to finish the game and choose my own stopping point. My ending will be a cliffhanger, but it will be where I'm satisfied with the end. Most likely after the final confrontation with TIM and finishing Cerberus once and for all. I will leave it with Shepard heroically going off to end the Reaper threat, but I don't need BW's version of how that will end up. My imagination will take care of that for me.

[GoblinSapper]

Feeling like warmed over ****, sir, but I can keep fighting.

[Keldon Northwind]

Disappointed. Didn't think BioWare could drop the ball like this.

[HKR148]

Bit worried over seeing more posts that can be used by the outside gaming-journalists to further make the fans who are unsatisfied with the ending as immature audience.

The usage of 'meme' type of langauge and the borderline-petulant demand for the ending change needs to be refrained.

[Copperwings]

Feeling empty, gutted, disappointed and sometimes on the verge of tears. Can't bring myself to replay... just wish I'd stopped before the final choice and made up my own happy ending.

[RebelByDesign]

Walrusninja wrote...

Gutted, no conclusion. Found hope in the theories on here though, almost certain that the actual ending is yet to be released now.

I feel like I can't afford to get my hopes up. It'd be great if these theories were right and we all got another shot at a real ending but I can't have my hopes dashed any more. I never want to put myself in a position to feel this way again.

[Keithhy]

Not great. I'm obsessively checking BSN and the ME subreddit, hoping for some sort of comment by devs, or, at least, consolation from others.

[JawmuncherX]

I'm still a bit sad, having sacrificed my shepard to save my comrades.
But to be honest I would have loved a bleak ending.

I wouldn't have even minded, no matter what you do.
The repears end up winning in the end no matter what, while I know that would ****** off a lot of people.
personally i would have been caught off guard and amazed that they would pull that for a ending.

It's a good thing Im not making ME games, or everyone would hate me.

[Soilworker77]

I don't think BioWare has dropped the ball nor am I no longer sad about the ending. I don't know if you have thought about it, but the indoctrination thing makes a lot of sense to me and there is a lot of things that speaks for that the stuff at the Citadel never to place physically, but in Shepard's mind.
Like how Anderson beat Shepard to the beam yet he claims he followed Shepard into the beam + Anderson has barely even got a scratch on him compared to Shepard...

Then again, you choose by yourself what to believe in and I won't blame anyone for believeing in something else.

Oh by the way, do you remember what the little kid asks the old man in the end and what the old man answers? Doesn't that give you a little hint that Shepard is not done saving the galaxy yet?

[Sc2mashimaro]

I wish I could believe those who think that Bioware has something tricky up their sleeve and is running the most brilliant ARG campaign ever with some kind of indoctrination/hopelessness theme. I really wish I could believe them.

99% of the game was the greatest game I have ever played. More emotionally engaging with a deeper and more meaningful story than anything interactive story I have ever taken part in. It was a story that drew me in and made me laugh, cry, and get angry in all sorts of wonderful ways - on par with or even better than great stories in film and literature. And the last 1% left me confused, angry, and hurt in all sorts of meta ways, not good ways, not in "this is part of the story and it is confusing and makes me mad" sorts of ways but in a "I'm confused what I just played and why this is part of the story because it betrays every principle of the story mechanically, thematically, and personally." So, yeah, I loved the game, but I can't pick it up to replay it either because...how could I, with an end like that?

[Doctoglethorpe]

crapmonster13 wrote...

Walrusninja wrote...

Gutted, no conclusion. Found hope in the theories on here though, almost certain that the actual ending is yet to be released now.

Pretty much this.  I've taken some comfort constantly being on the forums here and reading up on some of the theories.  That said, being two full days now since, I still feel a good deal depressed over it.

Same.  The last two days have been... unpleasant, to say the least.  I haven't been this depressed in years.  I don't know how long its going to take to get over it, usually when I'[m down a good nights sleep is enough but so far I've been actually getting worse. 

Maybe that was Biowares goal.  But he way they did it, its just wrong.  The ending could still be tragic without being so ambiguous that we recieve no closure what so ever.  That is the real worst part of it.  That and the way none of our decisions ammounted to anything. 

[Maike91]

I was in denial until a few minutes ago...then I just started crying. So how am I feeling? Pretty bad, but I know it will get better. At least thinking about the Garrus date still makes me smile.

[GodChildInTheMachine]

My feelings summed up:

"Haven't they ever seen the Matrix? Or at least an M. Night Shyamalan film?"

[Ja5ck]

Join the club fleet

[Suraxis]

Say what you will about the end of the game, but I think the ability to elicit true emotion from players is amazing. Depression? Sadness? We're all feeling like this. But how? How does an "interactive movie" as my friend calls it, do such a thing?

[Mora1970]

Truth? I've gone through me1 and me2 many rounds and loved'em all. After me3 ending which is not bittersweet, only bitter, I don't see myself going through another round for a loooong time because my mind is full of f**k.

First I got the pleasure to fight through bringin my me1 choices to me3 (imported character to me2 and made no tweaks --> my character doesn't even show on the import list in me3, yeeeeaaahhh). Then time to tweak my femsheps fugly face to some condition. Mmmmkay, let's play. Whatever I did in me2, almost everybody dies (not that everything should be "sunshine and rainbows" but wtf.

I play anyways and then I get to the gran finale and ???????????????????????? OMFGROFLMAOWTMFBS is this? You die, you loose everybody or reapers win. AND after this we get the Star Trek Enterprise's finale's Riker Moment; "Tell me more grandpa!?"

I feel that I should have known something like this will happen but still it was a bit too much to take. Whatever you do, kill council/save them, kill rachni queen/save her, kill wrex/save krogans, any of these choices don't have any significance to the end, shepard's world blows to hell anyway.

Please BW&EA, next time you're gonna a**r*pe me or someone else, please use lubricant. Now it hurts too much.

And yes, I'm older than twelwe, birthyear is in my nick. But still I feel like cheated, big time.

[N7 Banshee Bait]

How do I feel? I've been thinking about all the things I used to love that they've completely destroyed in the past few years.

Star Wars
Battlestar Galactica
GI Joe
Thundercats
Transformers
Mass Effect

All that stuff has been completely ruined for me. Every time I get into something, I can count on them totally screwing it up. All those things listed above ended up in a big WTF? So This isn't the first time. I'm starting to get used to it, starting to expect it. I'm starting to learn that it's stupid for me to expect anything else. After Mass Effect I'm probably not gong to "get into" anything else. Not going to be a "fan" of anything anymore. I'm going to start ignoring all this pop culture BS. Go outside, ride a bike like I did when I was little & just try to concentrate on the good memories. There are enough things in this world that I hate, I don't need the things that I love pissing on me also.

And people wonder why I'm depressed. It's pretty damn clear to me.

[Conquerthecity]

 Between my dissatisfaction with school and the ME3 ending, I'm pretty depressed. But if there's any silver lining, it's that the terrible endings have inspired  my own writing. Of course novels and video games are two entirely different mediums, but I can do better than the three button-press options we were given. 

[Mora1970]

ed87 wrote...

I havent touched multiplayer and probably wont

This! I neither am interested to go to some server to play wih some ADHD pyjaks who shoot to back of everybody in sight everytime possible!

For me Mass Effect was and will be single player only.

I also understand now better what did marketing monkeys mean with "this is good game for new fans to get in". This is even better game for old fans to step out, turn their back and walk away.

[JMA22TB]

I feel completely betrayed at this point. They could have ended that story so much better. SO much better.

We'll never see Tali's house.
Legion's sacrifice meant nothing. His entire people are gone in an instant.
Every civilization is cut off from each other.
The Illusive Man was a coward the whole time.
Any love interest you have is doomed to never know what having a family is like.
Wrex will never see the Krogan return to what they could. Bakara too.
Mordin's sacrifice was for nothing.
All those people fought for nothing.
Shepard lived and died for nothing.

Even if the ending was a dream sequence, why did they have to end the entire game there? If they really wanted to give the story some sense of closure why would they pour salt on the wound of that ending with a "crash landing" with your squadmates that were JUST WITH YOU somewhere.

Your LI would never do that. Garrus would never do that. They didn't run from Harbinger and the beam there's no way. They wouldn't call Joker and get out of Earth. They would have fought tooth and nail to get where Shepard was. Liara was my Shepard's LI. She was right there with him at the end and now she's on the Normandy which was up in orbit fighting? What?!

Why would they lie to us like that? Why would they heap piles and piles of hype about a game and a story that has been this long in the making that ends like

THAT

I'm done with Bioware at this point.

I smell a rat with what's going on there and it smells like corporate greed.

That has brought the world to its knees, squeezed our gas prices through the roof, flooded our TVs with bull**** saying everything's fine, and now they go after the stories and art that helps people feel good about something.

I played Mass Effect because it was a beautiful story of struggle and triumph against cataclysmic odds. Everything built up so beautifully, so intricately, up until that beam from Harbinger hits Shepard and utterly destroys everything in one fell swoop.

"You did good son." 

That might as well be EA and Bioware telling you that because you paid their shareholders their giant dividends.

You became a legend! Great job! Now buy the DLC we plan on giving out to tell you what REALLY happened!

Or worse! Yeah Shepard does have no choice and has to utterly screw everyone over with no closure let's tell you what all his friends were doing when it happened! Show Grunt kicking some ass and charge 25 bucks for it.

Money.

That's what this ending was about.

Leave the suckers begging for some more and charge them when it hits.

I have no hope for this company or EA at this point. I'm sick of beautiful stories being eviscerated because it's more profitable to break them into smaller pieces for some extra cash.

Take away the money and how great is this story?

You tell this story by its own and leave it for judgment and all those 1 star ratings on your vendor sites start making a whole lot of sense.

You don't do that to your audience.

That ending can't be how this ends. It's just wrong.

Nothing's safe from greed at this point. You like a game company, some corporate giant will corrupt them.

You want to know what the real Reapers are?

Anything ending with ,Inc.

I'm taking this series metaphorically as you (Shepard) having a job, working hard, doing what you've gotta do to live, and while you do everything you possibly can, something completely ruthless will come in and destroy it.

Be a hero. Great. Do the right thing. Great.

You're still screwed.

I loved this game this story and the chance that you could overcome all that adversity, whatever the odds. Three full games of experiences to close it out with.

What a waste.

It's heartbreaking.

[The RPGenius]

What JMA22TB said, basically.