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[Sero303]

A "totally predictable, undaring, unartistic, paint by the numbers" happy ending, would have been leagues better to what we got and I am not just talking about hindsight either. Whether you liked the ending or not, or thought it was "original" and artistic, doesn't matter, everyone can agree that everything that took place after Shepard meet the 'godchild' felt "rushed" uninspired and almost lazy...
and yes I do want a closure, clarity and happy ending!
People say oh but real life doesn't have happy endings, guess what genius, its NOT real life, its a video game! we buy them and play them to escape the cruelty of real life! So give us our real ending already!

[MRadway]

It would have been as if my wife had told me that: "I'm going to make you a super dinner tonight, it will be awesome" and then have her do something tasty that I've had before but enjoy. Ok, I would have been a little disappointed but I would still have enjoyed the meal and thought that, "Ok it was good but nothing really super, well, maybe next time, but until then I'm fine with having this meal again.".

Instead what we got was as if my wife had given me a stew that didn't taste very well and when I asked her what it was she had replied "you know our two cats that you love, there really is a lot of meat on them".

Then I would have raged and never trusted her again.

Modifié par MRadway, 19 avril 2012 - 12:11 .

[Huyna]

I would love "predictable happy end" especially with propper epilogue.
After all, Shep and his crew deserved it.

[Sidney]

Sadly the rainbows and unicorns ending would have been just peachy with most folks -- and once you boil past most of the hotair of the retakers that is what they want: reapers down, relays intact, LI and you on a beach somewhere.

I don't think the current ending is good at all but replacing it with a pain-free ending would have lifted a hind leg on the series just as much as the current scenario did.

[Huyna]

Sidney wrote...

 but replacing it with a pain-free ending .

Pain-free ending would include time machine, that will prevent Reapers to do, what they did to Earth, Palaven, Thessia and e.t.c.
There is plenty of pain during ME3.

[78stonewobble]

Stygian1 wrote...

I would have been happy?

*lol* yeah ... pretty much this...

You can argue all about the "artsyness" of eg. a happy pop tune ... or a happy pop me3 ending. But if it leaves you sitting with a smile (even if it's out of sillyness) can you really complain that much about it?

[RVallant]

78stonewobble wrote...

Stygian1 wrote...

I would have been happy?

*lol* yeah ... pretty much this...

You can argue all about the "artsyness" of eg. a happy pop tune ... or a happy pop me3 ending. But if it leaves you sitting with a smile (even if it's out of sillyness) can you really complain that much about it?

Meh?

I would have felt it'd been a sham to be honest. Go through three games of an epic story and suffer nigh on zero consequences? Boring.

[Orumon]

Jassu1979 wrote...

Your title seems to imply that the ending we got is daring and artistic, when in fact it is neither. It's just bad writing, that's all.

THIS!!!

[dsl08002]

I would be happy with that, and beside this current ending has only one effect and that is making someone feel terrible

[78stonewobble]

RVallant wrote...

Meh?

I would have felt it'd been a sham to be honest. Go through three games of an epic story and suffer nigh on zero consequences? Boring.

Well if I wanted "realism" there's only the loose ending ("Game lost" screen) left...


Personally I think my mind migrated to something like this when I heard about the relays blowing up in addition to all the other galactic misery: 

www.youtube.com/watch

Replace persons with shep and li, buildings with relays. Not exactly a happy ending but not completely bleak either.

Modifié par 78stonewobble, 19 avril 2012 - 12:55 .

[win746]

Dragon Age: Origins pulled a happy ending off, Awakening pulled it off too, Dragon Age 2 kinda pulled it off....... so why not ME3?

*shrug*

[BDelacroix]

Does this not constitute an attempt a forming a strawman argument?

[GreenDragon37]

 I would have been fine with that. At least it would have been better than the **** we had now. Plus, no StarChild. 

[Nassegris]

While I would ‘like’ a happy ending, it is not my main concern with the current one.

I guess if the plotholes are gone, fine. If the starbrat is gone, fine.

Modifié par Nassegris, 19 avril 2012 - 01:05 .

[LolaLei]

If that was the only ending then it would have been a bit of a cop out. However, it was one of several endings then I'd be happy with that.

[TookYoCookies]

Better than the current ones.

[George Costanza]

I would have actually reacted better than I did to the actual ending as long as it made sense and felt like it fit with the series.

The one we got doesn't. It's from the Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes school of storytelling; give them a twist and they'll have something to talk about regardless of whether it makes any sense or not. Bioware seemed more focused on providing an ending that wasn't the norm and to give people questions, rather than on providing an ending that actually made sense or fit with the lore of the series.

Daring etc. is good. But a twist for the sake of it, or writing to generate debate while ignoring your own back story is the lowest form of shock writing. They could have ended the game with Michael Jordan slam dunking Harbinger and having cocktails with Shepard and nobody would have seen it coming. It wouldn't have made a lick of sense though, would it?

[Federally]

I dislike the title of this thread. "Bittersweet" endings are so commonplace nowadays in gaming that they are the undaring, unartistic thing to do. So a better title is "what if BW bucked the current trend, went retro and gave us a happy ending".

I would have loved a tasteful 'happy' ending, because remember Earth is demolished and trillions have died galaxy wide plus many friends of Shep so totally happy is impossible. An ending with Shep living, being reunited with surviving crew but still paying its due to those who didn't make it would have been great.

Now if they pulled a star wars and ended with a huge party even the dead were able to attend I would have puked.

[happy_diplomat]

I would be on my 8th playthrough by now

[Godwhacker]

I would be singing Bioware's praises from the highest rooftop rather than painfully having to explain to people who haven't played the games where all the angst is coming from and why it is justified.

[Sero303]

When I bought ME1 shortly after it came out, I played through it three different times. When ME2 came out ( pre-ordered that one ) I played through twice the first month, and almost five times altogether. (not counting the specific mission replays, and DLC's) Finally ME3 came out, I played it once, beat it, went back and did all three endings with the highest readiness, and that's it. In fact We almost returned it after my wife and I beat it and we have never returned a game that didn't completely ****** us off!

[The5Virtues]

Honestly, cliche as it is that totally predictable ending was exactly what I was expecting.

Let's be honest folks, the whole damn series is a paint by numbers sci-fi adventure romp. Menacing invading alien, heroic space commander who is the only man for the job, flirtatious alien girls wanting to jump his bones, and the fate of the galaxy rests on his shoulders. It's your standard sci-fi fare, the lack of a "You've saved the galaxy" ending we got is kind of like writing a long love letter to sci-fi then writing "JUST KIDDING! You stink loser!" at the end of it.

[Bebuse]

I would be happier. Not happy, but happier.

Why?

Because Mass Effect is a simple, by-the-numbers, predictable story.

Here is the important part: This is NOT a bad thing. It is not something anybody should be ashamed of. Not every story has to be Ulysses. The point of a story is not to make some superior idiots feel good about themselves, but to inspire and entertain and in this Mass Effect does (until the end...) a terrific job.

Why?

Because Bioware have taken a story as old as written script and made it live, and by setting it in a sci-fi universe it feels new without being alienating. The universe, the characters, the conflicts, the relationships, everything feels real. They have taken "baddies are coming, stop them" and made it into something marvellous, something that feels both fresh and familiar.

This is one of the many reasons the ending falls flat. They have taken a simple story and tried to impose "artistic" pretentiousness on it at the last minute and it does not work.

So, if I was forced into a happy ending, I would be happier than I am now. I would still rail against the lack of consequences the last 120 hours held, but at least the ending would fit within the style of the story.

Modifié par Bebuse, 19 avril 2012 - 02:35 .

[Sindrop]

I wouldn't rage, because up until the end I was pretty sure it will have ending like OP described...