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[demin8891]

[Saint Op]

Boy the link clicking failures are sooo funny here...

[jspiess]

The Reapers are turned into ice cream cones!!!

[MordicaiBlack]

The Angry One wrote...

I mean really, it has an outright victory. It has triumphant music. It has the hero rising from the ashes in a completely cliche manner.
This is not what Mass Effect is about, Mass Effect is dark and grim. Happy endings have no place in this very dark and utterly not inspiring universe.

www.youtube.com/watch

And now you can see why Mass Effect cannot have happy endings ever.

i refuse to belive that, why only give one choice? why does it have to be bitter and depressing and dark?....don't we get enough of that crap in real life?

[The Angry One]

Internet sarcasm is always hard to convey without tags but eh.

[Carmen_Willow]

I would take that "Hollywood Ending" in a heartbeat! Loved that ending, corny as it was. I don't care how "dark" the game is supposed to be. I want my Shepard's sacrifice and the sacrifice of all her friends and fellow soldiers to mean something more than "life sucks and then you die and take the entire galaxy down with you."

I'll take the cornball, happy, hollywood ending, thank you very much.

[ShepnTali]

If that was ME 3, I'd probably be on a 3rd playthrough now. World needs more bunny rabbits and rainbows. 5 star post!

[Element Zero]

Things were feeling quite "bitter sweet" enough when Anderson breathed his last at my side. Add another name to the Crew Deck memorial. I'd lost 3 close friends, on my playthrough, and I still believed Garrus and Liara had been vaporized by Harbinger, at that point. (That was never answered, by the way. They did not reappear). Add them to the billions killed or harvested.

When is dark dark enough? Just a chance at saving something would've been nice.

EDIT: Yes, I get the sarcasm, as evidenced by my own sarcastic contribution earlier in the thread.

Modifié par tallrickruush, 21 mars 2012 - 02:03 .

[Element Zero]

Wow. People really are missing the boat!

[Chrishenanigans]

I really do love Mass Effect 1's ending; it's a wonderful, early example of BioWare's masterful use of heavy, post-modern symbolism. Examples:

• The insect-like Geth ships, representing the coming organic-destroying synthetic locust and, later, the cloud of Reaper ships.
• The Serpent Nebula, enveloping the Citadel, symbolizing the lies that mask the station's true nature. Or maybe just the one lie. Not so much lies as general ignorance, really.
• The Citadel itself, with arms that open and close like a chrysanthemum, a symbol of death in many cultures. When the arms close, death is near, like a chrysanthemum that's also part Venus fly trap. And when they open, the Reaper bee pearched on the stamen explodes to spread pollen of some kind. You know, so life continues before the coming winter.
• Saren's hoverboard, so reminisicent of the Green Goblin's, representing hubris and ignorance of his own villainy.
• The debris that comes crashing through the chamber's window, reminding us in the wake of victory that big thing still threaten the heart of galactic government.
• The Destiny Ascenion, obviously a cross. You know, with the council trinity on board.

Symbols, guys! Speculation!

Modifié par Chrishenanigans, 21 mars 2012 - 02:03 .

[iheartbob]

I don't want a happy ending. I want one that makes sense.

The fact that others want the option of a happy ending isn't wrong either.

[jspiess]

tallrickruush wrote...

Wow. People really are missing the boat!

Ending rage will do that to you I guess

[Greed1914]

Ha.  Nice job, OP.

When I hear someone say that a happy ending is out of place, I think two things: 1. Why not just have it as an option? 2. Really?  It doesn't fit in a series that let us come out of  a Suicide Mission unscathed if we wanted?

[Saint Op]

I'm lucky that I keep my hamster in my pocket suring missions...wait ...oh no..

[KelaSaar]

I miss that ending. If Shep only knew what was coming, he/she would have stayed under that rubble.

[lord berwick]

Obviously very lame. I mean, where's the sense of nihilism? Shouldn't I have had the taste of bitter ash in my mouth after that ending, and the feeling that there's is no way on earth that I would want to play the game another seven times? Hell, I want the ending to be so full of angst that's there's no way on earth that I would encourage as many people as I can to play it.

/sarcasm

[CimCake]

Omg you almost had me fooled there, then I clicked the link Well played
Mass Effect is completely littered with happy conclusions to character stories aswell as sad ones, no reason the end of ME3 should only have 1 type of ending since ME1 and 2 clearly had variation.

[Shalewind]

God I forgot how much I frickin loved the end of that game... The Angry One - you rock btw.

[petipas4141]

too mainstream for me

[Strange Aeons]

The Angry One wrote...

I mean really, it has an outright victory. It has triumphant music. It has the hero rising from the ashes in a completely cliche manner.
This is not what Mass Effect is about, Mass Effect is dark and grim. Happy endings have no place in this very dark and utterly not inspiring universe.

www.youtube.com/watch

And now you can see why Mass Effect cannot have happy endings ever.

Indeed, Mass Effect is a bleak existential meditation on human insignificance and the futility of choice.  A rainbows-and-unicorns ending like the one you linked would never fit this deep and profound series.

I would write more, but I must go cut myself and write poems about autumn.

[Carmen_Willow]

jreezy wrote...

The lack of sarcasm detection here disturbs me.

Don't know about your end of the galaxy but here it's late, we're tired, and my sense of sarcasm went down in flames along with my femshep.  /sarcasm

[Ainyan42]

Reiella wrote...

Ainyan42 wrote...

Literal much? I want an ending that causes my breath to catch in my throat and my spine to shiver, and I want to feel that rush of emotion as I watch good triumph. I want the same catharsis at the end of 3 that I felt at the end of 1.

 

No, not really literally, but in terms of tone.  Given the overwhelming power defined in ME1 of a single Reaper, and then the 'army' shown to be coming in ME2.  They are left with having to maintain a balance of contrived plot device to save the day [Crucible/Catalyst] and grimdark [the ramifications of the overwhelming odds].

Honestly, I was expecting a contrived plot device - a massive superweapon that we had to build and defend. I expected EMS to actually mean something in terms of the might of our defense against this implacable, overwhelming foe. I expected to have to play a near perfect 100% game (which I pretty much did, first round out) to achieve the absolute catharsis that comes from witnessing the fight against, and defeat of, impossible odds. I expected loss and I expected a real possibility that my Shep wouldn't survive (though of course I wanted her to). The only one of my expectations that was matched was the contrived plot device - though certainly, it wasn't what I *cough* expected. EMS didn't mean squat, and what catharsis I achieved from watching Shep and Anderson's dialogue was destroyed by the plot-hole filled "ending".

[Dalako]

I know the post is a joke, and a good one of that, but on the subject of ''dark'' fiction.

I would say millions (billions?)of deceased and a galactic community that will need years to rebuild itself is dark enough.

But hell, even if the game ended with Shepard panting, losing blood and slowly choking on his own blood while the Reapers destroy the whole galaxy would be better than Space Kid shenanigans. I can live with dark. I can't live with incomprehensible, illogical and out of friggin' nowhere.

If they wanted dark, hey, why not go all the way? Show every last one of the war assets we put so much effort into getting and watch them all get destroyed by the Reapers' much mightier force. End with Shepard choking on his own blood. There, now that's dark. But it ain't outright stupid.

Modifié par Dalako, 21 mars 2012 - 02:09 .