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[Fuzzfro]

I feel sad too

That ending was just such a mess.

[nupfi]

Yes - this game deserved so much more. Feeling really depressed and empty. Just crushed.

[Atarun]

For all it's worth, it makes me feel a lot better to read about your experiences. I hope I'm not the only one getting something out of this topic.

Also, I'm glad that not everybody thinks all of the loss comes from the ending. No ending could make up for the trilogy reaching its end. Sure, a "better" ending would have left us with more of a bittersweet taste and not such devastation, melancholy instead of grief.

I take more issue with the pacing and tone than I do with the ending itself (I rarely talk about the endings with a plural, because they all looked and felt the same to me, despite the slight color changes and glowing skin overlays)... I bet no one on this topic (except those who wasted their time telling me I'm blind or stupid or they do not share our feelings) felt adequately prepared.

From the start of ME1 up to the start of ME3's very last mission (when you get to see most of your crew one last time), the pacing was "take your sweet time" and the tone was "never give up, even against impossible odds". The last mission switched both pacing and tone to "THE WORLD IS ENDING RIGHT NOW". No progression. The game literally snaps.

I bet I would still mourn Shepard if I had been prepared for her/his death, but I still feel betrayed and struck that I was not.

Sure, it's more realistic that way, because death so seldom warns in real life... But honestly, if I cared about realism, I wouldn't play video games, especially those with humanoid aliens who all speak English (and yes, they did find a fix for that one... after ME1's launch).

Oh, great. It seems I am in the "rambling/ranting" phase of grief. Would that be bargaining?

[Pelle6666]

Please Bioware, give us a dlc with an alternative ending! Feels like I've wasted the over 100 hours I've played these games! The final cut scene is all you'd have to change to make this the best game ever!

[sorentoft]

I'm not depressed. I'm just very disappointed in Bioware.

[VioletDrops]

@Atarun

Well said, and I too get something from this topic. I felt really alone with the feeling, and its good to see I am not weird or abnormal. The ending did feel like a swift change in tone. Gathering allies and armies over the course of the games gave me a feeling of hope, of strenght. I believed I could win, in a way.

And the ending it has swept that all away. I really should have stopped playing when Shep sat down with Anderson. That would have been a better ending.

[Atarun]

@VioletDrops: the more I think about it, the more I read the responses here, the less weird it seems to me.

After all, I've spent hundreds of hours with Shepard... More than all but my closest friends and family members, in real life. And while Shepard is not real, she compensated by putting me in charge, involving me in all decisions, from mundane to Earth-shattering (literally). Plus, my friends are not galaxy-savers, which means I don't share as many heart-wrenching and blood-boiling moments with them as I did with Shepard. Put that way, doesn't it seem logical that I mourn the loss of a friend?

Not everybody can and not everybody will understand, for affection and grief are as individualistic as they come. But I take comfort in the fact that Shepard had many friends and I do not bear the burden alone.

[M12311]

I am still depressed.

[Kumekerion]

I beat it Monday and I'm still depressed now.

[ofs ovafragga]

me too. I was more than just depressed.
 After playing ME1 and ME2 hundreds of hours and lots of playthroughs i was so exited about finishing ME3. But after i got  through the game i couldn't believe thats the way all should end. I got back to the last  savepoint, and played the finish again, but it didn't get better.
Right before the ME3 release I played the other ones to make the right decisions and romance and everything else, but  after finishing ME3, it felt like all was just for nothing, so depressing and frustrating
I really don't know if i  will ever play the campaign again. 
 

[Ryan546]

me too and I beat it last thursday, it has made me rethink the entire series

[RedShft]

Atarun wrote...

Nope, I'm not going to **** about the endings. I could and I have and will again in other venues, but that's not what I want to do here.

What I want is to find out if I'm the only one getting really down as a result of finishing ME3.

I had experienced a slight depression after ME2, but it was the easy to shake off "oh, real life is so dull" depression that I get when I finish an awesome story.

This time it's different. I've spent so many hours shaping and getting to know my Shepard... I've spent so much time getting along (or not) with the other characters, exploring and trying to unite that damn universe...
I'm mourning. Literally.

I can't even get the sad music out of my head... And I truly feel like crying.

Does anyone here relate to what I'm experiencing? I'd love to know. ^^

Also, if you think I'm being a weak and pathetic whiner, fine. Your are entitled to your opinion. You can also keep your own mean opinions to yourself, I assure you. I'm looking for like-minded people (if they exist), not judgemental pricks.

No, I get this same feeling every time I finish one of the ME games.I just started replaying ME3 last night, and finishing it for the first time just makes everything more sad when I replay. lol..

[MadRabbit999]

Cried when Morinth got killed by her mother, cried when Mordin died, cried when Legion died... cried on counteless occasions while palying ME, but I would not call it depression... it's melancholy.

[Cigarette Smoking Man]

Not alone, but you know that already.

[Montana]

Welcome to the fleet.

You are most definately not alone.

[Ender99]

I think I skipped the depression stage and moved straight into anger, but no, you're not alone.

[Trisskit]

You are by far not the only one. Welcome!

[animallover11]

i've felt so empty since i beat the game. its good to know theres a bunch of other fanatical saps like me out there

[Atarun]

Internet, you're toying with me... Burying my topics when I hope for more discussion, reviving them on a dime without noticing me...
Wait, should I rant about the BioWare forums specifically?

Anyway, update: I got better... I'm not completely out of my funk yet. My sleep cycle is no longer worthy of the name and I can barely focus on anything but the forums, the MP and the ME novels... it's like ME sucked all life out of me.

But I'm no longer breaking down and crying and I can stop hearing the ending music many hours a day. Hurray! \\o/

[babelcarlota]

yes

[babelcarlota]

Atarun wrote...

Internet, you're toying with me... Burying my topics when I hope for more discussion, reviving them on a dime without noticing me...
Wait, should I rant about the BioWare forums specifically?

Anyway, update: I got better... I'm not completely out of my funk yet. My sleep cycle is no longer worthy of the name and I can barely focus on anything but the forums, the MP and the ME novels... it's like ME sucked all life out of me.

But I'm no longer breaking down and crying and I can stop hearing the ending music many hours a day. Hurray! o/

I have felt this way as well. It felt like a break up over a text. You couldn't say anything all you can do is just wonder wtf just happened. It felt wrong and strange... yet uncessary.

[AwesomeDudex64]

 I've been pretty damn sad since I finished the game.

[ElementL09]

Everytime I think of the ending I feel depressed.

[Iwillbeback]

If there is no clear conclusion to this story my life is forfeit.