pixelface wrote...
Let me start by saying that I did not like the ending myself, but I however am trying to understand other point of view,
and the only explanations that i see possible are that
1. you only bought mass effect 3, and did not import your choices from the previous games.
2. you are angry at the fans for hating bioware so you sided with them.
3. you are easily satisfied with anything presented to you.
so, which one is it? or do you have a different reason?
Certainly not 1, I've played all three.
and for 2, although I can't stand the
overreaction, I didn't read what people have to say about it until after I saw the ending, so it wasn't that either.
and 3 is just trolling, seriously... :/ I really didn't like Dragon Age 2 at all and thought, although it did have its plus points (The characters and their banter, for example) overall it destroyed everything that made DA:O a good game, not to mention being a bad game in its own right. So if you
actually want to have an inteligent discussion, get over yourself.
But "why" I like the ending isn't really a valid question to begin with. I can try to answer but what you are asking is based on a false premise: That disliking the ending is default, is natural, and that liking it requires something else. On the contrary I would say the only ones that need to define why they feel the way they do are the people that dislike it (And they have been), as someone who liked it... just liked it. If someone said, "Its the best ending ever!" Then certainly they would need ot have reasons. Bu no-one (to my knowledge) is saying that.
So as to why I liked the ending- I picked destroy, btw, and got the breath as well- eveyrthing I wanted tied up was already tied up. I wanted to know what ends up happening between the geth and the quarians. I wanted to know if the genophage would get cured or not. I wanted to know if the rachni really were genocidal or not. These questions were answered for me, and I didn't need to see a checklist of my descisions in the ending to reiterate them. I was already shown. So this common complaint that "choices didn't matter" doesn't really mean anything to me, because the choices I made mattered hugely: The quarians and geth were at peice, the rachni were given
yet another chance to survive, the genophage was cured and a wiser leadership was installed for them.
As for the star child, I never saw the issue here. We talk to an ancient prothean hologram AI (twice) and its fine. We talk to an ancient holographic reaper AI and suddenly, I'm expected to think it doesn't make sense? I guess it didn't sit that way with me, he was just a reaper AI. And I understood is logic just fine- kill the advanced organics, so they won't wipe out
all organics- but disagreed with him. I didn't need a dialougue wheel to tell me I could disagree: I simply blew him and his entire race up, even though he told me it was the wrong option. I can't think of a bigger "NOPE" to send to him. As for him looking like "the kid"... well the in the geth mainframe, shepard interpreted the programs based on his own perception, rather then what they actually looked like. If the Geth can do it, or if shepard can do it when percieving the geth, I have no doubt reapers can easily have the same effect (not to mention we already know they can have direct effects on the human mind without any kind of physical conneciton, which the geth needed, so that isn't an issue either).
As for all endings being the same, just like I don't care what you thought about the ending to impact what I thought about the ending, I really don't care what ending you got to impact what ending I got. Its a non-issue. It hurts replayability, I think- but honestly after beating the game I just youtube'd the other endings anyway. And besides, the implications of "what comes next" (which to me is a good, which I'll mention in a second) is different enough for everyone, redarless of if they spell it out for you or not.
As for the future being left ambiguous, this is a
positive trait to me, and the best kinds of endings. Everything I wanted answered was answered, and everything I wanted to do I did. A monumental change takes place and the future is wide open for a whole new story(s) to take place. I love to think about what might happen to all those races- Food isn't an issue and I'm not sure where people get this idea (I mean not only could they infinitly recycle food on the citidel, but we dont know anything about the support industries in the mass efefct universe). Plus the entire "everyone is going to DIIIEEE" premise kinda relies on ignoring the fact that the most advanced team of pan-species engineers and scientists to ever be asempled is still right there with the manpower of however many fleets. The destruction of the relays reshapes the entire universe in so many different ways, but to be honest, the protheans built a relay and we have an archive full of their Deus Ex machines right there on mars so... its a temporary setback at best, which is disapointing to me. Its such a great story peice at the end there to think about it and what it means, but realistically I have a feeling the effect won't actually be that great.
So sure all the species are there together and I bet they have some bones to grind with eachother, considering it was an emergancy alliance and their common foe is gone. Will they get along, or will the galaxy just repeat itself? There will be a lot of challenges ahead of them but that's the
only kind of ending I'd be satisfied with.
Do I think it was a perfect ending? No. What was the normandy doing? But eh, I get what theyw ere going for and its not like "AUUGHH THE ENTIRE TRILOGY IS GARBAGE NOW!!!". I'm not sure where they landed or why, but again I'm failing to see how its implied they're all going to starve and die, especially considering FTL still works, as well as FTL communication (which never relied on the relays). In fact when they end by staring at the clear sky I have trouble trying to percieve it as anything but an indication of optimism. I didn't get "They crashed!" out of it, I got "They survived!". It was shoehorned in a little weird, but I get the message.
And then after it all, shepard survived somehow. I didn't see that coming, especially given the running theme of sacrifice. But to be honest, I think shepard deserves to finally "win", so I liked it.
So really, it was something of a formulaic ending, kinda "by the book", the hero blows up all the bad guys and saves the galaxy, but it did just what it needed to do, and I thought it was fine. I ended the game in a great mood and I liked what I saw.
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