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[Karrie788]

I had a sour taste in my mouth during the entire game but I enjoyed it enough that I could make it to the ending. Which hurt just as much as the first time.

[Navasha]

Well, the endings have impacted my following playthroughs, but not negatively. I am always looking for foreshadowing and context that relates to the ending.

Its like when you watched "Usual Suspects" for the first time. After the ending, you immediately had to go back and watch the whole movie again to see if you could spot the clues.

[Ytook]

Yeah, when I look back at that horrible car crash I was in, I always think about how great the journey was.

[Wolven_Soul]

I have not done another play through since finishing, and I do not see myself every doing another one.  I don't even play multiplayer anymore, and have not downloaded the new free stuff.  I would trade all three games in, but my friend won't let me. 

I am starting to think that console games are ruined for me for a while.  I have been just kind of listlessly going through my game collection and nothing can keep my attention anymore.  I have been thinking about going back to WoW for a while.

[Drumsmasher]

I stop playing after illusive man

In other words, it was a great game, but they took too many shortcuts. The one that comes to my mind first was pretty much reviving legion, geth vi my ass. 

Modifié par Drumsmasher, 15 avril 2012 - 01:50 .

[Auztin]

I've played over 6 times & still doesn't make sense.I don't know how these guys understand it.I want my Extended Cut but I holding off till it comes out.

[nhcre8tv1]

The Marauder Shields ending is the best ending.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

It put a different perspective on things.

Started from ME1 -- needed clean play
* purged Feros killed Shalia
* killed pretty much everyone on Noveria that could be killed
* killed Wrex killed Rana left Kaiden to die
* killed the council
* put Udina in charge
* let Balak live -- hey, he and Shepard have stuff in common at this point & needed a few paragon points.
* made Jack kill the guy in Pragia
* killed the heretics
* presented the info from the Alarei at Tali's trial
* encouraged Quarians to go to war
* got half my squad killed in ME2
* killed Mordin the second time.
* let Legion upload the code.
* killed the rachni queen again.
* let Samara kill herself then shot her daughter
* shot Ashley then shot Udina
* told Joker his attraction to EDI was unhealthy
* told EDI it was to function as designed
* on and on minimized resource gathering
* chose Red to kill the Geth -- Earth was burned clean.
* no one got off the Normandy

Looked at these as mercy killings. Now that that is out of my system. I'm trying a serious playthrough where I'll leave off at the Cerberus base for the EC.

ME4: Shepard Goes To Hell where she becomes and Arch Devil

Modifié par sH0tgUn jUliA, 15 avril 2012 - 02:00 .

[crimzontearz]

the enjoyment was just not there hence why I am playing something else

[Apocaleepse360]

arial wrote...

i enjoyed it, to me its about the journey, not the destination

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[DocJill]

pjotroos wrote...

I replayed it, start to finish. Partially because I was curious how my choices pay off, partially because I wanted to see if the ending feels any less disconnected if you know what to expect.

The game feels a little bumpy at the very start, but then it always did. Starting from Mars, it's great fun. Getting to see the same scenes get a different flavour with another squadmate, seeing just how different Tuchanka and Rannoch can be. Up until Cerberus HQ I was really enjoying myself. Sure you have that lingering feeling that you know where it goes, but they actually wrote those earlier acts well enough to defend themselves.

Things start going downhill with the Cerberus HQ. It's nothing obvious yet, but the mood starts to shift. The last conversation there, when you learn about Citadel moving to Earth, is the first noticable "uh-oh" moment. Even after things really stop making sense, and both sides start making rookie mistakes - like Reapers not disabling the silly backdoor, or our Alliance folks talking about having to do things quick instead of actually doing them before Harbringer gets there - you can still enjoy the few quiet moments. The mood, however, is completely wrong. Each title in trilogy had a really desperate feel to it at times, but London is different. London feels hopeless.

Everything from the Harbringer beam onwards is rage inducing. I tried to see their point. I tried to approach it with low expectations. I tried to make it fit. It's just not doable. From the encounter with TIM, to Hackett contacting you after presuming you died, to Shepard limping around is just no fun to watch. The less said about the StarChild, the better. Ending with him in will be horrid, no matter the amount of clarification, closure and personalisation.

In short - yet again I felt that I was beaten, stomped on and mutilated, accepted my defeat, and then for a bizarre reason my enemy decided to let my people live because he got bored with his old solution. Telling that Crucible changed his thinking is bull, he still defends his old ways and says he simply won't make reapers go away without a catch. Whatever you do, you feel like you accomplished nothing in the end.

But yeah, I enjoyed the prologue, the first act, the second and a lot of the third. Any following playthrough I make will probably end at Kai Leng. And I'm obviously still wary of Bioware. The ending couldn't be an accident. Whatever their reason was, it's bad on purpose, it's too deliberately broken.

*Hugs*

[DocJill]

sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

It put a different perspective on things.

Started from ME1 -- needed clean play
* purged Feros killed Shalia
* killed pretty much everyone on Noveria that could be killed
* killed Wrex killed Rana left Kaiden to die
* killed the council
* put Udina in charge
* let Balak live -- hey, he and Shepard have stuff in common at this point & needed a few paragon points.
* made Jack kill the guy in Pragia
* killed the heretics
* presented the info from the Alarei at Tali's trial
* encouraged Quarians to go to war
* got half my squad killed in ME2
* killed Mordin the second time.
* let Legion upload the code.
* killed the rachni queen again.
* let Samara kill herself then shot her daughter
* shot Ashley then shot Udina
* told Joker his attraction to EDI was unhealthy
* told EDI it was to function as designed
* on and on minimized resource gathering
* chose Red to kill the Geth -- Earth was burned clean.
* no one got off the Normandy

Looked at these as mercy killings.

ME4: Shepard Goes To Hell where she becomes and Arch Devil

There are You Tube videos with similar happenings.  They are wonderfully horrible. 

Edit:  Here's one.  www.youtube.com/watch

Modifié par DocJill, 15 avril 2012 - 02:14 .

[SealKudos]

Already started a second playthrough, but I'm waiting on Extended Cut to finish. Will also re-play the ending on my main Shep.

Since we're not getting a new ending, I can only hope the consequences of our actions are demonstrated in full, and the majority of the plotholes filled. If they can do at least that, I will have some heart in finishing the game again.

[FJVP]

About to finish my second playthrough, and knowing how it will all end the whole game felt like a chore. I doubt I will start a new game anytime soon.

[Foreste]

Apocaleepse360 wrote...

arial wrote...

i enjoyed it, to me its about the journey, not the destination

Couldn't have said it better myself.

i second that

[Peranor]

Dead_Meat357 wrote...

Apathy1989 wrote...

I played it and stopped at the cerberus base.

This. I did exactly the same thing.

Same here. Haven't completed the game yet. And I don't think I ever will =)

I know it's ridiculous. I know what horrors that awaits, I've seen it on youtube.
But the act of not exposing MY Shepard to the godchild and the rest of the nonsense still makes this whole atrocity of an ending feel a little bit less depressing.



Mass Effect 3 - For when life just isn't depressing enough.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

anorling wrote...

Mass Effect 3 - For when life just isn't depressing enough.

This is signature worthy.

[20x6]

I recently re-played through ME:2 and finished tonight.

As far as I'm concerned, that's where my Shepard ended his adventure. I can't bring myself to load up the 3rd game again. ME:2 - they seemed to almost get everything right. It's too bad they didn't elaborate on that game to make 3 super.

[Lyrandori]

Honestly no.

I started a NG+ about a week ago or so (haven't finished it, pretty much stopped after Mordin's sacrifice), from my only completed game so far. The more I played, the more my eyes opened to the "lacking details" (lack of coherence, plot holes, etc) that I seemingly missed in my first play-through. I think I was somewhat blinded by the emotional roller coaster, and I was anticipating the ending (before getting to it obviously), I thought it'd be epic. Little did I know...

But, yeah, a NG+ made me realize that ME3 is some of the best example of a rushed game and a disconnection in story-telling from previous titles of a series that I can think of. It also cemented my thought of ME1 being the overall best of the series, if not the "only true one", as strange as it may sound. Now I only play the multi-player because I couldn't get a refund nor exchange the game, so I play because otherwise I would feel that I would have lost $70. At least the multi-player is decent... although I played better multi-player games before (and today, too).

Modifié par Lyrandori, 15 avril 2012 - 04:02 .

[Fl1xx]

It's hard to ignore that Journal. I spent over fifteen minutes trying to figure out where I was supposed to go to recruit the Eclipse gang before turning to the internet.

It was equally as annoying the second time around.

Modifié par Fl1xx, 15 avril 2012 - 04:23 .

[EyesOnMidnight]

I've gone through a few times for various reasons. I wanted to do a time through with Wreav as the Krogan leader to see how that went, it was a nice contrast to Wrex's turn. Got to save Mordin and all, that was fun. I wanted to see how some of the different classes played in the single player compared to the second game. I liked the Vanguard class a lot. Did my Paragon and Renegade runs. Going to do my insanity run when the DLC comes out. As for whether or not the ending affected my other times through... hmm. Not really, I guess. I think the end is pretty bad, but I didn't jump to as many conclusions as a lot of people did about it, though. I think that made it less "wasteland" like in my mind. Hasn't affected my opinion of enjoyment of the first two games at all. I still love the last section of ME1, walking into Afterlife in ME2, suicide mission. They're all still great times.

[Degs29]

I played it again for the moments and interactions between characters, not to mention to beat it on insanity with the soldier class!  Still very much enjoyable.  Unfortunately, the ending still does cast a shadow over the rest of the game, because you realize there is nothing you can do to get an effective different result....

[Sidney]

I'm enjoying the game again. I'm not thrilled with the ending but it doesn't ruin the rest of the game. The chance to ineract with Liara, Garrus and the rest of the old crew if great. The goodbyes to Thane and Mordin are also really good moments. You enjoy it for what it is don't hate it for what it isn't.

[LadyWench]

I admit, it's true (I replayed the same character to see if it had a meaningful, positive impact in any way...*sigh* it did not, of course). After the lackluster ending, I did feel far less enthralled with the rest of the game. And seriously, when I played the first time, I was gasping/tearing up/laughing, completely immersed and just generally enjoying it immensely. I haven't been able to force myself through another playthrough. I had a completely different character I had started with what I THOUGHT had been vastly different choices, but when I saw how little impact they would actually have on the ending, I gave up on it.

[Cobra's_back]

On my second playthrough I stopped after killing Kai Leng before ACT3 take back Earth. I really want to see the Closure DLC.