I played ME3 just like ME2. Carefully making sure everything was done so when I started final mission I would have the best chance at success. So I finished (green) and thought "Well I screwed something up, better have another go". I saw there was 16 endings, so clearly I got the bad one. Beat a second time (red), and... no words for it.
Who here thought the endings couldn't be that bad before you beat the game?
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#77
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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Me. I thought they didn't have a high EMS and they got a bad ending and I would get a good ending.
Nope!
Nope!
#78
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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I didn't. The game was pretty awesome until Cerberus Base, then I thought there were a few missteps in the final battles in London. Then I took the elevator and holy hell, what happened?
#79
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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I originally thought it was just a case of there not being enough variances to account for all fans wants. Little did I know that there were no varied endings to begin with. Just three incredibly similar endings, if not three versions of the same ending. I quite literally stared at my screen, dumbfounded, when I found out that there is nothing you can do to avoid Harbinger's beam, and all three endings are the same. To have such a great game brought down by such a horrible ending is just plain tragic.
#80
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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Yeah. I came to the forums and was immediately assaulted by the bad ending tirade. So I kept playing with lower expectations. And you know what . . . it was still horrible and suddenly I became one of those people complaining about the ending. Yes, it was that bad.
#81
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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I"m definitely one that was playing the game from day 1 and didn't believe those folks talking about the game pre-launch. After all the first 95% of the game bordered on a masterpiece. If some sloppy things + glitches were fixed the game could have been an all time great ....
I was honestly getting ready to come back to the boards as BW's #1 product champion and then "it hit the fan". Yes the ending is basically "it".
I was honestly getting ready to come back to the boards as BW's #1 product champion and then "it hit the fan". Yes the ending is basically "it".
#82
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:22
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Up until now, I purposely avoid reading anything about games I intend to play. So I walked right into it. Cried like fool when those credits rolled. And I loved these games so much....
#83
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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I accidentally spoiled myself on Tv Tropes. Tough they were overly simplified versions.
Hoo boy was I disappointed when I found out they were accurate....
Hoo boy was I disappointed when I found out they were accurate....
#84
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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2484Stryker wrote...
^This. You have no idea how many anti-ending-hater threads I've seen that begin with the line "I haven't finished the game yet, but..."
I mean, even basic stuff! Hold The Line is a quote FROM ME3 and I am seeing a surprising number of posters who don't get this. It's the same kind of thing. Just weird ... Are they in it for the lulz, being asked to come in, or ... Indoctrination?!?!?
#85
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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Lawliet89 wrote...
I thought everyone was overreacting. Like DA2. How wrong I was.
This...
I thought that people complaining about the endings were just noobs that didnt know how to make the right choices in the game... Was I ever as wrong as then...?
#86
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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I was more then ready for the worst... but then Bioware proved me wrong.
#87
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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Same. I felt like BioWare was yelling "Never saw me coming!"...
#88
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:23
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Same here. I thought to myself. well its prolly like that time some people thought ME2's ending was bad. Bioware couldnt have done that bad....but then I was shocked. what sucks is i told myself it would suck this way I could make it easier to bare. and it did not only suck. but the ending had plot holes wider than Jena Jamesons ..... lol Bioware fcuked up. I was hopeful for DA3 and the future ME games set in the universe. but until they fix that ending and give closure. they are getting nothing from me.
#89
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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I just didn't believe that Bioware could drop the ball so hard when the rest of the game was so great. I played through and was expecting the endings to at least be somewhat good, but I was just so wrong.
#90
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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I went into the game thinking that the ending would be mediocre, I thought surely they're overreacting, the ending doesn't have to be all that great if rest of the game was good enough.
Well then I figured they weren't overreacting at all, quite the opposite actually.
Well then I figured they weren't overreacting at all, quite the opposite actually.
#91
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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Lol, reading the replies here, I feel the same, Bioware did one thing right with the ending though. They made me enter the bioware forums after they pull the artsy ending on me. I never entered the forums during DA2 and ME2 days.
#92
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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I heard a lot of complaints, but I trusted Bioware, which trust was validated, until they decided to kick me in the groin at the end.
Fun times.
Fun times.
#93
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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Leafs43 wrote...
I certainly did.
I wandered into these forums for the first time during the multiplayer demo... and thought wow, these people are pretty out there. Then they got upset about the ending, and I just wrote it off.
Then I finished the game.
#94
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:24
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I deliberately did not look at the BSN the whole time I played just so that I would get to see the ending without spoilers.
Even if people told me the ending was terrible I wouldn't have believed them. That's how much I trusted them to make it a great story and an ending befitting it.
They betrayed that trust.
Even if people told me the ending was terrible I wouldn't have believed them. That's how much I trusted them to make it a great story and an ending befitting it.
They betrayed that trust.
#95
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:25
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Ya, I'll admit, I thought it was all over Shep dying. I didn't realize it was because of what it introduced. It is so far removed from what I expected, when ran against the rest of the series and ME3, that it really took me by surprise.
Even more so because, I think they wre actually trying to be deep with these questions. Only to figure out it was either a singularity controlling a singularity to prevent a singularity or the reapers just wanted to not die... Either way they ENDED the game on that note and tried to call it philosophical and "get people talking".
This is a good way for movie and tv critiques to keep telling this industry to stay at the kiddy pool.
Even more so because, I think they wre actually trying to be deep with these questions. Only to figure out it was either a singularity controlling a singularity to prevent a singularity or the reapers just wanted to not die... Either way they ENDED the game on that note and tried to call it philosophical and "get people talking".
This is a good way for movie and tv critiques to keep telling this industry to stay at the kiddy pool.
#96
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:25
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I only heard tiny mutterings about it, as I'm in the UK so had to wait for release and thus hid away from the internet to avoid spoilers.
I thought these were people who were pissed about something like Shepard dying, or maybe the whole Normandy crew is killed or you end up with something like your EMS determines how many billions of humans die. These would all have been sad endings, but good endings.
I sincerely wish that I had simply turned the game off after launching those Thanix missiles into the Reaper in London, then gone online and read some of the much better endings that people came up with (in 2 days) and just used my imagination.
I thought these were people who were pissed about something like Shepard dying, or maybe the whole Normandy crew is killed or you end up with something like your EMS determines how many billions of humans die. These would all have been sad endings, but good endings.
I sincerely wish that I had simply turned the game off after launching those Thanix missiles into the Reaper in London, then gone online and read some of the much better endings that people came up with (in 2 days) and just used my imagination.
#97
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:25
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I had this really foolish belief that it would end like ME1 and 2 and we'd all be here talking about how things went off for us and why we did it that way.
Cripes, I never imagined it'd be THIS bad.
Cripes, I never imagined it'd be THIS bad.
#98
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:25
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I was very good about avoiding spoilers. I had heard that people were upset about the endings that were on a supposed leaked script. Of course when bioware shrugged the script leak off like it was not the endings that were in the final product I believed them. Like I said though I avoided any real details. So when I got to the end I was shocked. Maybe if I had spoiled myself the ending wouldn't have affected me so badly.
#99
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:26
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I staunchly believed it was not possible to mess it up that badly. Avoided all spoilers. All they had to do was tie the ends together in a way that gave closure and made sense. They spent 3 games setting it up....
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#100
Posté 17 mars 2012 - 09:26
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I assumed it couldn't be that bad. I assumed at least one ending had to be decent. I was wrong.
In all endings, the entire galactic civilization was destroyed, Shepard was either killed or stranded far away from the rest of his team and love interest with no hope of finding them, A good portion of your team is doomed to death (quarians and turians require different food to lvie off of than humans, crash landing and lack of mass relays kinda screws that up). Bear in mind, these are some of the best possible outcomes. I'm supposed to be happy all my work allowed the earth to be only mildly destroyed and rubblized? Hell, I'd almost consider the reapers winning and continuing the cycle a better ending than any of those given.
In all endings, the entire galactic civilization was destroyed, Shepard was either killed or stranded far away from the rest of his team and love interest with no hope of finding them, A good portion of your team is doomed to death (quarians and turians require different food to lvie off of than humans, crash landing and lack of mass relays kinda screws that up). Bear in mind, these are some of the best possible outcomes. I'm supposed to be happy all my work allowed the earth to be only mildly destroyed and rubblized? Hell, I'd almost consider the reapers winning and continuing the cycle a better ending than any of those given.
