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[JayneD]

Real ending above all, but I still would like some blue babies that grow up knowing Shepard is a God damn legend.

[gbemery]

I don't care for a happy ending I actually like the fact that the ending isn't "happy" i just hate the fact that we were promised closure to the Shepard story and yet there are more questions and hardly anything get wrapped up in the end.

[KelaSaar]

I don't necessarily need a happy ending, I just want closure and for my decisions to matter. That being said, I think a happy ending should be one of many options, and after seeing what Shep got stuck with at the end of ME3, I kind of think she deserves a happy ending now.

[Tietj]

I would like a happy ending. To be honest, nothing irritated me more than reading someone's comment (Casey maybe?) that he knew the ending would divide the fans. If this were a tv series, or a book, that would be fine. But in a video game, you literally have the power to please everyone. So why not do it? Because of some lofty artistic ideal? There is a good case for video games as an art form. Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Journey (to name a very recent one). All these had bittersweet, ambiguous endings that left a lot unanswered, and all of them worked, superbly. Mass Effect is not in the same category, and forcing players into a bittersweet scenario that you KNOW many will hate is not just bad business, but artistically bankrupt and inconsistent as well.

[Emeraldfern]

Mad-Hamlet wrote...

Quoting C.S. Lewis gives you a plus. No, not in my column, in any. Anyone says differently is mistaken.

That said.

I live real life, every day I have to deal with crap that I don't think many of you do- Oh, I'm not a cop or anything, nor do I work in medicine; I'm a teacher- in a country that is falling apart at the seams and the Government is starting to tell us what we can, or cannot teach.

And there's nothing I can do. This is 'adult'.

So excuse the hell out of me if, in my off hours, I don't care for some younger (Albeit talented) writers trying to teach me about 'Adults'. It's a well known fact that many gamers, not sure how much of a majority but a majority, are well past their twenties- I'd really like to see some storytellers acknowledge that. And acknowledge that it's okay to still want a little a light in our lives.

Note: I do not argue for only a happy ending, just the inclusion of that possibility. And Frak Penny Arcade for mocking that idea- right up the shaft, sideways.

Personally, I blame Joseph Cambell.

I agree with this.

When my Shepard found out the hard way that it won't happen to her because the one person she wanted a happy ending with died, I stopped playing and I'm not going back until I can save Thane and have rainbows and bunnies.
I did not play through a videogame series for 5 years with a character I came to care for just to have all of her hopes crushed and be reminded of just how ****ty life can be.

[Grimez7]

Bump for necessity. We need a happy ending as an option, real life is depressing enough, where do we have to run if our games are too?

[Kilshrek]

Options never hurt anyone, only a lack of them did.

[Stealthy Cake]

I would like different endings...

wait a sec, dident they promise that?, misguided advertisments are illegal ya know.

But a happy ending if you really did an outstanding job gathering was assets and stuff couldent hurt. Not hurt at all.

[billyzero]

An ending that makes sense with the potential to have the mega-unicorn happy ending. Why? My Shep deserves it.

[blmlozz]

I would bet, if they simply delivered what they advertised, they could have an ending to everyone's desire.

I'm in support of a happy one as well, simply because that would bring me the most closure.

[Dark Tlaloc]

There are plenty of people on these forums claiming they DON'T want a happy ending, and telling Bioware that that isn't one of the changes they'd want. The sad part is, though, that if Mass Effect 3 HAD ended happily, you wouldn't hear even half the outcry you do now, and most of the people claiming otherwise would've been perfectly happy with Commander Shepard riding off into the sunset. The entire game was about death and loss, and after losing Legion, Thane and Mordin (and millions of unnamed souls), that message got through.

We didn't need an ending this dark and nonsensical, because that's not what Mass Effect is about. Mass Effect is about empowering the player to be the one person in the galaxy that can make choices that will bring HOPE and sometimes even happiness to people. To throw that all away in the end is not only unfair to people who have operated under this pretense for the last 3 games, but also to the legacy that Bioware has so painstakingly created for the ME universe.

I wonder, are the writers happy with where ME3 eventually ended up? Is Drew Karpyshyn?

[bmwcrazy]

I don't mind happy endings. I tip well.

[Thatguyky]

That would be really nice, a happy ending an all. Especially seeing has how Shepard deserves one more than A LOT of fictional video games characters.

[DoctorCrowtgamer]

Yeah there is new reason ONE of the ENDINGS can't be happy.

Please check out this group and join in.

http://social.biowar.../user_group.php

Thank you for your time.

[IsleySilverlord]

I do want a happy ending

[NOD-INFORMER37]

Agreed, a happy ending should definitely be an option.

[Koolgool]

zerobounds wrote...

I don't want a happy ending.

I just want an ending.

This... kinda.

I want a happy ending, no matter what kind of ending we get. That doesn't mean Shepard has to live, but there needs to be some joy and gratification in what we accomplished. There was no victory in Mass Effect 3, there was just an option to bring the galaxy a (debatedly) slightly less devastating fate.

[VelvetStraitjacket]

I want the choice for a happy ending, even for Forever Alone Shepard. I don't want some dramatic cliche heroic sacrifice, if other people do that's fine with me but there should be an option for a happy ending with Shepard alive. Again, it is an option, we are not asking for them to make all the endings happy

[JamesMoriarty123]

There shouldn't be a "happy" ending, it should remain bittersweet...

[WhiteVV1ings]

I support a happy ending as an option.

Modifié par WhiteVV1ings, 20 mars 2012 - 07:34 .

[Genera1Nemesis]

Sure, let's guarantee that we never get another Mass Effect game ever again...

I am absolutely certain that the relays being gone is (was if they change it for this stupid reason) going to be a major plot-point in any future installments.

Blue-babies? Really?

Modifié par Genera1Nemesis, 20 mars 2012 - 07:35 .

[Asari]

I want more different endingS!

[Catroi]

I WANT my blue babies!

[Psychlonus]

We need a ghost ending like Return of the Jedi. About 30 ghosts at the ending celebration ought to do.

[Alamar2078]

@OP: Honestly I can not support "just" a happy ending.

What I would support though is:
-- At least one ending that is somewhat happy. Yes you lose people from your squad. Yes trillions die in the war. However Shep and at least a few of his squamates survive -- maybe even a LI.
-- Everyone dies and the cycle continues. The only hope for the galaxy is many civiizations begin finding "messages in the stars" and begin to prepare for the next cycle.
-- A lot of endings in between
-- A full epilogue based on your choices for both the short, medium, and long term. Fate of squadmates [maybe with a funeral for them and/or Shep, fate of galactic civilizations, 5-10 year fates of squadmates, etc.]