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[Vilegrim]

I wanted the ability to earn a happy ending, or mess up and get a terrible one, and shades in between.

[CrasVox]

happy ending would have been nice, only if it was hard to come by. Not really possible in the way that ME3 was shipped however. There is no variable aside from the war assets. Its too easy to just say to people, get enough war assets and you get the happy ending. Sort of like how indoctrionation theory stands.

Rather, you had to make correct decisions throughout the trilogy. Had to make friends in the right places, do all the loyalty missions in ME2, did al the side stuff, and then make the right decisions in the final assult to retake Earth. But the final mission did not work that way. It was just a linear playout. Nothing like ME2s suicide mission.

But for me, it was not the depressing nature of the ending, with Shepard dead. Although the destruction of the Mass Relays did leave a feeling of "then what was the point?", because this huge universe that we have played through and loved, now is gone, it is more the merit of the ending that bothered me. The ending was just of such poor quality, with such glaring plot holes and inconsistencies, that even with Shepard being able to survive and be with his LI, it would leave a bad taste in my mouth.

[Azrael08151819]

Happy ending with LI = one of 16 possible endings should make everybody happy!

[Vhalkyrie]

That's very valid. Personally, I wanted both a happy ending AND a Shepard martyr. That's supposed to be choice, right?

Don't apologize for wanting a good ending. I'm tired of people trying to make others feel guilty about it. If you liked Star Wars and LOTR, you liked good endings, and it's a completely valid position. Dark endings doesn't automatically mean it is more deep or philosophical. That is the tragic mistake with the current ending.

Edit: Just to be clear, I did not want Shepard to die like this.  That complete end sequence has got to go.  It is in no way a noble sacrifice.  It's a nihilistic ending, not a martyr ending.

Modifié par Vhalkyrie, 23 mars 2012 - 10:07 .

[cchudoba002]

Yeah it would have been nice.

[Evanz]

totally.

Good story should end happily.

a lot of little blue children anyone?

[devSin]

Of all the possible ways to end the trilogy, happy is much higher up on the list than bad, I agree.

[Greed1914]

It would have been nice to have the option. ME2 gave us the option to come out of the Suicide Mission unscathed, so it's not like the series is a stranger to letting players earn a happy ending. I know that they wanted a "bittersweet" ending, which basically says that they thought Shepard needed to die, but I find the idea that the hero has to do anything rather absurd. Everybody and their dog figured Shepard was going to die, so it's not like they were coming up with some sort of edgy new idea. Heroic sacrifice is as cliche as a happy ending.

[sprintst]

I don't mind the idea of sacrifice, I just wish they had gone about it a different way. Like "OK, we've set the Crucible to do the DOOMSDAY THINGIE, but you have to guard the console from waves of Reaperspawn until KABLOWIE"

That's epic and amazing and touching. "Pick which suicide booth to step into cuz Blue Baby Space Hitler says so" is not.

[Haiyato]

I just wanted/hoped to earn an optional happy ending.

[corkey sweet]

for a game based primarily on choice, one of the "choices". should have had a happy ending. i mean, nothing we did through out all 3 games mattered at all. in the end, it was pick your favorite color. red,blue, or the unsatisfying green

[Stygian1]

Evanz wrote...

totally.

Good story should end happily.

a lot of little blue children anyone?

Or a house for a certain Miss Normandy? I think both things are in due order. 

Modifié par Stygian1, 23 mars 2012 - 10:09 .

[LTKerr]

I wanted an optional happy ending, the hard one to get but still there. Instead I got plotholes, space magic, RGB and lots of speculation

Modifié par LTKerr, 23 mars 2012 - 10:09 .

[Alamar2078]

I would be fine with [somewhat] happy endings as one of many possible, wildly divergent endings. Well as happy as you can get with friends dieing, trillions of people dieing, planets devistated, etc.

[DBHolm]

 There's nothing wrong with not having a happy ending to a story, but in a game based primarily on the players' choices, I cannot understand excluding it. Make it extremely difficult to get if that's what it takes...
...but dammit, I want little blue children for my Shepard! 

[bloodshed17]

At least an option for a happy ending would have been nice. Even it was disney like it still would have been a nice option.

[Coralie]

I was expecting a range of outcomes, so I have a Reapers-win-everyone-dies Shepard, a Reapers-lose-but-basically-everyone-dies-anyway Shepard, and a rainbows-and-picket-fence-with-the-LI Shepard.

Yeah that didn't go as planned.

[afomnibrain]

For at least one of my Shepards I wanted a happy Ending.

[MisterP146]

A happy ending should have absolutely been an option. Especially since we were told about wildly different conclusions.

[Tank207]

I wanted an ending akin the the first two games, which could also go horribly bad if you didn't make the right choices. What I got was BioWare ripping my heart out of my chest, crushing it before my eyes and laughing over my broken body as I slowly bled out--my world completely shattered.

I don't mind having a sad ending... but I'd like something more than what we got. Hell, once you get to Earth it doesn't even feel like Mass Effect anymore.

Modifié par Tank207, 23 mars 2012 - 10:19 .

[Khallos]

Of all the things, I think that this disappointed me the most. Now that I'm further away from it, I guess I can do without one, but the little idealist in me is still sad. =/

Which surprised me, as (up until now) I didn't really realize just how much of a sucker I was for a happy ending...

[Iwillbeback]

I want diverse endings that reflect choices made

[Blind2Society]

Mdoggy1214 wrote...

You know, I REALLY did want a happy ending

Me too.

[Kaidan Fan]

I admit freely that I wanted a happy ending for my Shepard with Kaidan.  But I also believe there should be choice in the ending.  That like DAO where you could have the heroic sacrifice if you so choose, or sacrifice someone else or have the "happyish" ending with the dark ritual.  

But in addition I would like for the ending to fit with the rest of the game and not contradict everything we've learned about the reapers in the last two games in the final minutes of ME3.

Give me happy Shepard, BioWare!!  <3

[Jackal7713]

I wanted a happy ending with my LI.Through three games we have saved the universe. Having a happy ending after all that, really doesn't seem out of the question.