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[chibilombax]

You're not alone. It'll be okay. Even if nothing changes. Last time I was on these forums people were fighting over Dragon Age 2. I came back recently only to find unity ( for the most part ) over just how sad this game left them. The only reason I'm trying to stay alert to this whole scenario, people are leaving depressing comments on youtube for ME3 clips. I want to stop that. There's sad endings and then there's just this. I've gotten over depression from my teens. No one should go through it.

Heck I still get weepy when I hear the ME3 romance theme or the ending music.

[ebevan91]

PurebredCorn wrote...

I'm very sad the series has ended. I will miss the characters a great deal, including Shepard. I didn't mind the ending, my sadness stems from the understanding that a great series has come to an end.

I'll probably miss the characters more than Shepard.

Of course, they could always bring the other surviving characters back and have a new protagonist.

[kewken]

No you are not alone my friend. Also feel depressed, but thats mostly the lame endings faults...No choice i made through my 2 favorite games ever made any difference in the end, the LI i romanced is off being violated by Joker and i got 1000 more questions than when i started the game.

I will miss you commander Shepard.


Also has been haunting me for a day straight now.

[eddieoctane]

KingNothing125 wrote...

It's hard to muster the desire to play it again, when I know what's waiting at the end. I already have a Shep that might never see Ashley again, I don't want to have another Shep that might not see Liara ever again. It's just too sad.

It'll be a long while before I ever touch the series again. I haven't even had the desire to pick up my controller to play any game in 3 days.

Honestly, it's a depressing set of endings. After all my efforts, the game amounts to is "knowing" a handful of my crew survived and...well...what else actually happened? Joker and the LI live, I die, and um...Yeah. There is no closure, and I think that's why we feel so depressed. It's like if they edit out everything in Old Yeller after the wolf attack. All we would know is the dog is (probably) dead, he died trying to protect his master, and that would be it. It's not an ending. If that's how it ended, no one would remember Old Yeller as a timeless classic but as a total mindscrew.

****, I'm already on something for anxiety that can cause depression. This game just made me want to crawl into bed for a few days and just sleep until I forgetwhat the hell Mass Effect even is.

[Rawgrim]

I was damn angry about the ending for 4 days, but after I understood it, I got a huge sense of relief. Now I am just waiting for more ME stuff.

[eddieoctane]

Rawgrim wrote...

I was damn angry about the ending for 4 days, but after I understood it, I got a huge sense of relief. Now I am just waiting for more ME stuff.

Care to pass on any revelations so that maybe the unwashed masses here can pull ourselves out of the funk the ending threw us all into?

[Rawgrim]

eddieoctane wrote...

Rawgrim wrote...

I was damn angry about the ending for 4 days, but after I understood it, I got a huge sense of relief. Now I am just waiting for more ME stuff.

Care to pass on any revelations so that maybe the unwashed masses here can pull ourselves out of the funk the ending threw us all into?

http://social.biowar...1728/1#9843614  I wrote down most of it here. allthough its mostly just a listing of things others have said before me in various threads in here.

As a side note, if you listen to Saren`s speech in ME1, you will find alot of similarities with what TIM is saying at the end of ME3. also a good pointer on why a certain choice might be wrong.

[Shinobu]

Vertrucio wrote...

I'm was depressed.

Now, I'm angry.

And I'm angry enough that I'm going to do something about it.

I'm a game developer that was already working on my own indie game. This ending just made switch some things around and move up a project that had just been a risky dream, dipping into savings to get it started. I had originally intended it to replace the scifi hole that the death of Star Wars universe left. Now with two dead series in my life, I'm going to make the game that I want to play, and finish.

Go you! I'll buy it!

Anyway, no -- I felt like crying for days after I finished. Teared up a few times at random intervals, and I'm not a crier by any means. I'm better now, but can't bring myself to touch the game, or the previous ones.

Bioware, kill Shepard, but at least tell me what happened to the squad!

Modifié par Shinobu, 13 mars 2012 - 02:18 .

[Ravenvolf]

I am also depressed after finishing this game.  I normally have a mild melancholy after finishing a series of books, dvds, or games but this goes far beyond that.  I can't believe that this is what my hundreds of hours of Mass Effect has ended up with.  I loved the story so much and it felt like they bullied me in the end. 

I finished it yesterday and have felt really depressed ever since.  I can't even tell people in real life about it because they would think I'm mad for taking a game so seriously.  I felt sick at work all day.  I had to write my own ending on a notepad just to feel slightly better but it didn't help much.  Everytime I start thinking about it I get down in dumps again. 

I was looking forward to doing a full run from ME1 all the way through again but just can't bring myself to do it.  Every time I think of meeting those characters for the first time and just knowing that it will go nowhere in the end just is too depressing. 

I really hope they relent and make some new ending that wrap up all the characters and give us some proper closure.  I have no problems paying for it just to make me feel better. It would allow me to enjoy the games as a whole again.
 
 

[Balmung31]

Yup. Depressed me pretty bad.

[Atarun]

Thanks everyone for the heartwarming responses. My fellow mourners even managed to drown out the mean trolls. You have to squint to notice them at all. It seems not all hope is lost.

Most of you did miss part or all of my point, though. It's one thing to be angered/disappointed by the ending and I agree with most of the negative points brought up on the subject here and everywhere else.

But what I wanted to discuss was the grief, the feeling of loss that I am enduring right now. It reassures me that it is shared by so many, but it worries me a bit also: did BioWare know what they were going to put so many people through? Did they care?

Anyway, I don't know in which stage of grief I am now, but I am definitely mourning. Shepard was a wonderful person (mine, anyway) and I got to know her so well... I bet it would help if I could attend/organize a wake. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, a wake for a fictional character. But that might provide us with more closure than any fan-made ending/interpretation ever could.

"Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me."

[Senario]

WAAH BUT BUT...HOME BUILDING! T_T yes I am depressed about it, Maybe I should pick up ME2 again and FINALLY get to playing a Femshep play through. I dunno if I could do it though.

[pmc]

No lie. I haven't been this excited for a video game since Ocarina of Time back when I was a kid, and the ending was so poorly done I felt sad for a couple days. It has almost ruined the whole ME trilogy for me. This was the game where we were supposed to see the culmination of all our decisions over 100+ hours of gaming and 5 years play out and they delivered us three canned endings instead.

[VioletDrops]

Maybe it's not fair for me to post here, because my own anxiety problems and being very emotional might have had some influance on this but.. I just finished the game yesterday evening, and I just couldn't sleep all night. I could only cry. My anxiety got really bad to the point I can't bring myself to go outside the house today (which I should, for therapy, but I cancelled).

God I feel pathetic :c. Atleast the Garrus romance was really good, that is some consolation.. but not being able to keep my promise just kills me.

I also cannot stop thinking about it, all scenarios of the ending are playing out in my head, and they actually make me feel hopeless about my own life.

/bawwww

[Lethys1]

Is it pathetic? Yes. Are you alone? No. Is it weak to feel this badly? Yes, by definition. Do I feel this way? Very much so.

[Atarun]

VioletDrops wrote...
Maybe it's not fair for me to post here

It is ABSOLUTELY fair for you to post here. I created this topic for us, specifically.

I wanted to make sure I am not the only one so affected by ME3 that what I feel can only be appropriately described as loss, grief and mourning.

Now, I am sure. I am not alone. Neither are you.

[VioletDrops]

Atarun wrote...

VioletDrops wrote...
Maybe it's not fair for me to post here

It is ABSOLUTELY fair for you to post here. I created this topic for us, specifically.

I wanted to make sure I am not the only one so affected by ME3 that what I feel can only be appropriately described as loss, grief and mourning.

Now, I am sure. I am not alone. Neither are you.

Aw, now you brought tears to my eyes again. :c

I really am glad I'm not alone in this. My boyfriend is playing ME3, but isn't near the ending yet. He did see me heart-broken ofcourse, but he thinks I'm over-reacting. So that made me feel pretty bad about feeling this way. 

Y'know, I would have been less heart-broken with Shepard sitting next to Anderson, and the Crucible doing it's 'job'. Just the weirdness of the ending really got me even more.

I've lost friends in real life, and this feels just like that.

[gimzod76]

it left me depressed i haven't felt this bad since my grandfather died.

[10 Steps Back]

http://social.biowar...5/index/9711180

Many could use that thread.

[Zolt51]

To the OP.

What you are feeling now is entirely, completely normal. You've just been through one huge, emotional rollercoaster of a story. It's made you laugh, cry, and *think*. It's touched you in places maybe no other story had touched you before. You have made a dozen new friends.

And now regardless of whether the ending was happy or sad or bittersweet, even if your new friends lived on, you will never hear from them again.  That's it. End of the line. All stories have to end somewhere.

Sure maybe there will be extensions, second playthroughs. But that's crumbs to you now. Reminiscence. No matter what you do, how much you beg for *more* , that feeling of going through the story for the first time is something you will never experience again in your life. Other stories might come close, or surpass it, but that's still an abstract concept to you right now.

So yes, that big empty space in your chest cavity is a normal and wholesome thing.  

Modifié par Zolt51, 13 mars 2012 - 11:05 .

[Zolt51]

... crap double post....

Modifié par Zolt51, 13 mars 2012 - 11:03 .

[MrLee95]

This is the first time I have let a VIDEO GAME get to me.... A DAMN VIDEO GAME!!!

I love playing Mass Effect, and I loved the journey from the first game to the 3rd! But the last 10mins....... just killed it all!!!

........ a damn video game!!!

[zarnk567]

Was depressed at first, now I'm just angry about the ending and how it destroys the whole trilogy. Bioware manages to destroy a whole 3 game story arc in 10 minutes. gg Bioware you really are master story- tellers.

[Phydeaux314]

There is always a sadness in leaving behind a tale, with friends that we've come to know and love. There is no denying that an transformation, of a sort, is taking place: We can revisit the old memories, the old stories, but they will never feel as alive to us as they did when we first discovered them. Instead of pushing forward to a future, now the victories and triumphs of those friends and people lie in the past. We can revisit them, of course, but they will never feel as alive as when we are marching together into the future.

I was prepared for this sadness. It struck me at the end of ME1 and ME2 alike, along with a burning desire for more. With ME3, there is no more, and I do not have the eager anticipation to counteract the farewells that I need to say.

The part that hurts most, of course, is that I don't feel like I *got* an ending that could give me the kind of closure to the story and resolution to my friend's tale that she deserved. Like a saturday morning cartoon whose funding has been cut mid-season, we left the protagonist hanging from the root off the edge of the cliff... forever.

[VioletDrops]

zarnk567 wrote...

Was depressed at first, now I'm just angry about the ending and how it destroys the whole trilogy. Bioware manages to destroy a whole 3 game story arc in 10 minutes. gg Bioware you really are master story- tellers.

You're in the second phase of mourning and grief. I hope I get there soon, because this depressed feeling is the worst :c