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Thoughts, questions, and ideas on the ending and how to tweak it slightly


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wolfsbane12

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I just finished my first playthrough, i savored every moment, agonized over some decisions, shed a tear over mordin, thane, legion, and even over the poetic krogan Char ("my blue rose of illium" friggin nearly killed me it caught me so offguard).  When i got to the ending i generally didnt have any problems with my choice (destroy the reapers, aint no way i'm becoming one of them or going all synthetic) but had some questions, thoughts, and ideas on certain aspects.
1.(thought)  With the mass relays gone system to system travel is still viable because of FTL (faster then light) drives on all ships, instead of a few hours to go from the citadel to thessia it'll take a few months, but communications, etc arent really effected by the loss of the relays.  The relays are gone because they go all the way to darkspace (where the reapers are from).  Think about it, after ARRIVAL the reapers tore through the batarians like a pissed off krogan on its third heart but it took them six months to get to earth (explaining among other things how jack has hair since ME2 ended etc).  That tells me Bioware is committed to Hard Sci-Fi like in Aliens (early scene where ripley laments her daughter's death when she was gonna make it back in time for her 12th birthday but the capsule isnt found for 80 earth years) or the anime OVA Gunbuster (where a few minutes in a hyperspace-esque setting encompases three and a half earth months).  So yea that six hour frighter trip from Pragia to Illium is gonna get a bit longer but is still completely possible.
2.  (question)  How exactly is joker heading for a mass relay when the Sol relay is outpast pluto yet he radios that he's heading back to the battle above earth after you guys land?  His actions just dont make sense, never pictured joker as a coward.
3.  (question)  You're squad was all in London, how do they get back on the ship (those you dont take with you on the final push) when shuttle travel doesnt seem like the most sane option?  Plus why would they ditch shepherd on earth?
4.  (question)  Bioware stated that this was Shepherd's end (not as in death per se but really what is there after saving the whole friggin milky way?) so why the cliffhanger "shepherd lives" moment at the end instead of seeing shepherd get a good long, partially interactive ending cinematic where we see him/her live out the remainder of their days with the LI of their choice? 
5.   (thought)  Why not devote a good 45 minutes to ending cinematics for Shepherd and LI, a reunion of all surviving crew from the SR-1 and SR-2 normandies to give a toast to the dead and to catch up, say 5 years later so we can see if Tali and Garrus stay together (made me crack up when i walked in on them in the main battery), etc.  Not to mention to see how the galaxy rebuilds after the reaper war (with say a Drell speaking for the Hanar and themselves on the council, a krogan on the council, preferably the female shaman, a new human councilmember, a quarian councilmember like say Admiral Raan).  Just ye know, really give the fans a full ending for the universe and the characters we've grown to love over the course of this trilogy.  I really wanna see my femshep and liara with all their little blue children.

Thats pretty much it, hope anyone from Bioware who reads this passes it along to casey and walters (or waters, can never remember the head writer's name, sorry dude).  I loved ME3, i've never cried over a video game character before and you guys got me misty-eyed over a hub mission character with three lines so you're doin something right up there in edmonton. 

And uh....(beware of shameless self-promotion to follow) i'd love to help write this elongated ending cinematic and maybe add a couple new DLC squadmates to the normandy Image IPB

That is all, thank you Bioware for an amazing game.