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[Ellychid32]

It should've been like the ending of Lord of the Rings.

Frodo/Shepard destroys the ring/reapers. From the battle below, his companions watch as Mount Doom erupts/the Citadel fires off its charge. A moment later their rejoicing turns to dread as they realise Frodo/Shepard is most likely dead. Just as we think it's all over, Gandalf flies over with the eagles/Joker flies in with the Normandy and rescues Frodo/Shepard. Frodo/Shepard awake in a safe place. Their remaining companions/ LI come to visit and congratulate them on their recovery bed.

[Avissel]

I would have preferred that a happy ending have been one of the options.

I put in effort over the course of three games to rally the galaxy and fight off the Reapers.

But in the end you learn they were right all along.

[whiteraider]

Dont need a happy ending (mostly because this would require the whole game being rewritten), I just want:
P: a Paragon ending that makes sense :innocent:
N: a neutral ending that makes sense
R: A Pet Reaper fleet, that I can use as I want

Or just 3 flavours of "well I can live with that"B)

[Srefanius]

Ellychid32 wrote...

It should've been like the ending of Lord of the Rings.

Frodo/Shepard destroys the ring/reapers. From the battle below, his companions watch as Mount Doom erupts/the Citadel fires off its charge. A moment later their rejoicing turns to dread as they realise Frodo/Shepard is most likely dead. Just as we think it's all over, Gandalf flies over with the eagles/Joker flies in with the Normandy and rescues Frodo/Shepard. Frodo/Shepard awake in a safe place. Their remaining companions/ LI come to visit and congratulate them on their recovery bed.

this

Edit: At least as one possible ending, sure there should be more, but a saga like this needs at least one true and full happy end.

Modifié par Srefanius, 16 mars 2012 - 02:58 .

[Robhuzz]

Yes, I'd like for there to be an option to have a happy ending. I don't need every single person to survive, casualties are to be expected against the reapers - even in a best case scenario. But an ending where the Reapers are beaten without sacrificing the entire galactic community (destroying relays) and having Shepard and LI survive and be together is one I'd look forward to.

It should've been like the ending of Lord of the Rings.

Frodo/Shepard destroys the ring/reapers. From the battle below, his companions watch as Mount Doom erupts/the Citadel fires off its charge. A moment later their rejoicing turns to dread as they realise Frodo/Shepard is most likely dead. Just as we think it's all over, Gandalf flies over with the eagles/Joker flies in with the Normandy and rescues Frodo/Shepard. Frodo/Shepard awake in a safe place. Their remaining companions/ LI come to visit and congratulate them on their recovery bed. 

I'm glad you brought up this example. To me Lotr is still one of the greatest movie trilogies I've ever watched and it was never a happy story. It was always a desperate fight against Sauron and his forces that outnumbered the 'good guys' at all times. Yet in the end we got a happy ending that did not in any way diminish the rest of the story. I don't see why this shouldn't be an option for Mass Effect.

Modifié par Robhuzz, 16 mars 2012 - 03:01 .

[The Big Palooka]

Yes. I want a happy ending.

That doesn't mean the universe has to be bent and twisted out of shape. A happy ending doesn't even mean everything has to be 'okay', like nothing ever went wrong. If the heroes succeed in what they set out to do, even at a high cost, and, hey, maybe even a lot of our personal squad lives, and maybe the half dozen or so relationships out of the entire universe that we actually care about are allowed to continue, that's a happy ending.

Really isn't that unreasonable, particularly in a series that's already made use of 'Character couldn't possibly have survived that - oh wait, look, they did and they're fine' sort of tropes MULTIPLE TIMES.

[Taleroth]

For the first week, I did not want a happy ending. I just wanted an ending that makes sense.

Thinking on it for a while longer, only being allowed a happy ending could make sense.

[D1ck1e]

Happy or sad, if it is to be Shep's last campaign, at least let it end.

[HetmanNG]

I want

Bad ending - middle ending (bad&happy 50%/50%) - happy ending that is all

[Ellychid32]

The Big Palooka wrote...

Really isn't that unreasonable, particularly in a series that's already made use of 'Character couldn't possibly have survived that - oh wait, look, they did and they're fine' sort of tropes MULTIPLE TIMES.

They already killed Shepard off once, too (I felt jilted with that at the time, never supported bringing a character back to life), so nothing was gained doing it a second time. Although I did appreciate what they were going through. A happy ending after all they'd been through would have just made things better (for one possible ending).

Modifié par Ellychid32, 16 mars 2012 - 03:16 .

[Goroxx]

 Keep this thread alive...
Lets say we get what we want...Shepard lives and rides off into the sunset, love interest by his/her side.  How is this still "rainbows and unicorns" or the "Ice Cream" ending that Penny Arcade snidely mocks us with today?
Discounting the Magic Expository Starchild ending and working backward through the series, just from what I can quickly remember, we've got:

• Anderson dying
• Two companions dying on the way to the beam
• Hammer landing fleet dying
• Lots o' ships in orbit dying as you invade
• Citadel taken over by reapers; millions of Citadel civillians turned into Reaper chow.
• Asari homeworld invaded; billions dead.
• Tali possible suicide.
• Either the Quarians or the Geth as an entire race dying if you don't make peace between them.  
• Other minor race's homeworlds invaded: Elcor, Volus, etc. Billions dead.
• Samara's daughter dead, possibly Samara herself from suicide.
• Rachni race possibly dead (again).
• Mordin dead.
• Krogan homeworld invaded.  Can't say billions dead because there might not be that many, but yeah, they're dying too.
• Grissom Academy kids possibly dead.
• Krogan race going extinct if you don't cure the genophage.
• Thane dead.
• Hundreds if not thousands of Citadel citizens dead in Udina's coup attempt.
• Turian homeworld invaded.  Billions dead.
• Earth invaded.  Billions dead.
• Entire Batarian Hegemony eaten by Reapers.
• Collector base possibly in the hands of Cerberus
• Zero, a few, or all of your companions dead during the suicide run on the Collector base.
• Normandy crewmembers, liquified and turned into a protein shake for a baby Reaper.
• Human colony of Horizon, taken by Collectors.
• Whole bunch of human colonies throughout the Attican Traverse and Terminus Systems, taken by Collectors.
• The entire Council, possibly dead.
• Whole Human and Turian fleets dead in Sovereign's attack on the Citadel.
• Citadel citizens dead in Saren's attack.
• Eden Prime, victims of Sovereign's first attack.

Help me out, I'm sure I missed more than a few.  How is having trillions and trillions of sentient beings dead and the entireity of galactic civilization almost destroyed a freakin' HAPPY ENDING?  Did they have to murder Shepard too, just to prove how emo, artsy and angsty they can be?  

Yeah, we should have a choice for a "brighter" ending, because the ride up to this point has been pretty damn grim.

[Ellychid32]

Few you missed: Cortez dying, possible Miranda dying, possible Kelly dying, possible fish dying. It was always gritty and dark, but was it meant to be a tragedy which feels more existential than anything?

[SetUpUsTheBomb]

I absolutely do think that we are entitled to a 'Fairy Tale' ending.  Not necessarily "They Lived Happily Ever After" but at the very least Shepard Won, gets to live out his life without destroying civilization/succumbing to The Reaper's terms (which ultimately is what he does, regardless of the decision you make).  It's a Video game, not real life.  If I want to be depressed I'll watch the news.  If I want to escape into a world where the good guy can actually beat the Reapers and walk away from it, until a couple days ago I thought I'd do that by playing Mass Effect.  Even in the Trailer it says "Take Back Earth", not "Destroy all known civilization".  Dang I mean the endings for ME 1 and 2 were so compelling, how hard really would it have been to add a similar ending to ME 3 instead of the trash we received.  I seriously have decided not to buy any more Bioware games and am even thinking about cancelling my SWTOR account.  Mass Effect was my favorite (modern) video game series and Bioware turned out an ending that literally retroactively ruined the entire series for me.  It would have been far more fulfilling to me if they had ended it with Shepard's approach to the Citadel beam and said "To Be Continued..."

[celsius009]

I agree with just about everything written here. It's a video game, science-FICTION, I don't care if it's "realistic," Shepard's been shot about 600 times in this game alone, is that realistic? I don't want the endings we have replaced with a happy ending, I just want an OPTION to get a happy ending. Because, y'know, I freaking did everything RIGHT. Not that this should just be for people who enjoy challenges but I didn't do Insanity the first run through to get that piece of crap ending. The least I could have gotten was Shepard building that house on Rannoch.

[nomoredruggs]

The Big Palooka wrote...

Yes. I want a happy ending.

That doesn't mean the universe has to be bent and twisted out of shape. A happy ending doesn't even mean everything has to be 'okay', like nothing ever went wrong. If the heroes succeed in what they set out to do, even at a high cost, and, hey, maybe even a lot of our personal squad lives, and maybe the half dozen or so relationships out of the entire universe that we actually care about are allowed to continue, that's a happy ending.

Really isn't that unreasonable, particularly in a series that's already made use of 'Character couldn't possibly have survived that - oh wait, look, they did and they're fine' sort of tropes MULTIPLE TIMES.

QFT

and also

“Because a lot of these plot threads are concluding and because it's being
brought to a finale, since you were a part of architecting how they
got to how they were, you will definitely sense how they close was
because of the decisions you made and because of the decisions you
didn't make”

[Kloreep]

zerobounds wrote...

I don't want a happy ending.

I don't either. I thought the game was about to end before the Starkid came into the picture, and I would have been reasonably happy with that, if disappointed to never learn the Reaper's purpose. (Would have been better than what we got, though...)

My complaint about the ending isn't how tragic it is, but rather how senseless + out-of-nowhere it is.

I wouldn't have had anything against some option for a happier ending, but that's not why I disliked the ending.

Modifié par Kloreep, 16 mars 2012 - 05:04 .

[Kilshrek]

Have I posted here yet? No matter, I'll post again. I like/want an OPTIONAL happy ending for Shepard. For all the reasons Deventh has mentioned.

Fight for the happy ending!

Erm.

*optional, as in, don't pick it if you don't like it, you gloomy raincloud people.

Goroxx wrote...
big list o things
[*]

You forgot all the Cerberus activities? Citadel attack yes, Eden Prime, Jacob's colony thing, Sanctuary (that was a goddamn mess).. the list of crimes against intelligent species is rather long, and one death isn't enough.

Modifié par Kilshrek, 16 mars 2012 - 05:13 .

[Zaki1991]

Baldurs Gate Fanboy wrote...

Killer3000ad wrote...

KOTOR, Jade Empire, BG2: Throne of Bhaal, ME1 and ME2 all hate evil or good endings. ME3 breaks the mold entirely but having no good/evil endings and simply three bad ones.

 
100% This , if you work hard across all 3 games to save everyone you can and do all the good choices why you cant have a Happy Ending , its stupid , Choices , they promise us Choices , they promise us 16 endings , one of this endings can be a Happy ending.

But no its more deep and artistic have 3 color choices to kill everyone.

Totally agree

[celsius009]

Forgot to add to the list of tragedies, This one actually made me a bit sad. Unlike a bunch of other events like Eden Prime (not to sound insensitive or anything lol) this one you had a bit of a connection with. Poor couple...

Lucky him. He didn't have to live through the horrible slow extinction the rest of the galaxy did with these endings.

[Deventh]

Wrong thread. Whoops.

Modifié par Deventh, 16 mars 2012 - 05:54 .

[NoirLegend]

I want my happy ending: I want to meet Ashley's family

[LTKerr]

A want a happy ending as an OPTION, a difficult one to get but still an option.

[SetUpUsTheBomb]

Plot hole so big you could fly the Citadel through it:

http://memegenerator...stance/16420899

[Subject M]

Srefanius wrote...

Ellychid32 wrote...

It should've been like the ending of Lord of the Rings.

Frodo/Shepard destroys the ring/reapers. From the battle below, his companions watch as Mount Doom erupts/the Citadel fires off its charge. A moment later their rejoicing turns to dread as they realise Frodo/Shepard is most likely dead. Just as we think it's all over, Gandalf flies over with the eagles/Joker flies in with the Normandy and rescues Frodo/Shepard. Frodo/Shepard awake in a safe place. Their remaining companions/ LI come to visit and congratulate them on their recovery bed.

this

Edit: At least as one possible ending, sure there should be more, but a saga like this needs at least one true and full happy end.

Another "happy ending" if they add new endings is possibility of the reapers not having to be destroyed at all, it would seem they are not the ones calling the shots after all. They might just be the one doing the dirty work.
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/10050251/11#10079055

[Deventh]

Got this from another thread. :|

Modifié par Deventh, 16 mars 2012 - 10:48 .