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[Sgt Stryker]

Oh yeah, and my Shepard wouldn't "live happily ever after." He'd either be busy down on Earth helping with reconstruction efforts, or fighting off raiders, pirates, scavengers, and other kinds of opportunist scum that crop up after a war that leaves entire worlds in flames.

[pjotroos]

If it was the only ending I'd feel a little disappointed with the lack of variety. However, as it also wouldn't introduce any ridiculous plot twists, wouldn't ruin the universe I'm so fond of and wouldn't invalidate our previous progress I'd just accept it as is - a weaker part of an otherwise awesome game.

[Yahmosa007]

Right

So we can either have ponys and rainbows

or plot holes and confusion (this is what we got)

or rocks fall, everyone dies

That doesn't seem very fair to me, as a matter of fact it's insulting

[M Hedonist]

Would have been completely fine with me. I don't understand how anything that happens after the dialogue with Anderson adds any depth or meaning to the game. There seem to be loose ideas, but nothing makes sense or follows any common sense or logic, plus lots of contradictions. The game should've just ended right there after your talk with Anderson, directly going to the epilogue, showing you how your decisisions and actions have changed the world of ME. Having a big, forcedly 'meaningful' decision at the end makes the rest of the trilogy seem completely pointless.

[ZombieChad]

Provided there weren't gaps in the ending I would probably have been let down that the ending wasn't harsher and more inline with previous games but I think I'd most likely have most likely have simply ignored the weak ending and sang praises of the game and simply put a caveat that the ending was a bit weak. As at the moment it feels a Paragon playthrough isn't really worthwhile as the options at the end came down to two types of surrender and genocide. (I'll be fine with the ending for my Renegade when/if they just explain some of the "wtf" moments, as essentially in my playthrough I saw the Starchild as a Reaper trying psychobabble. I ignored it and headed straight for the kill switch, its what I was there for after all)

[razor150]

Jealous Beauty wrote...

Let's say the crucible let loose a kill signal that powered off the reapers.  The galaxy is saved and Shepard gets to live happily ever after with his or her LI (until ME3: Awakening DLC is released).

Would you have raged?

I want Bioware to see your replies.

It depends, is the starbrat still there speaking his nonsense? Shepard doesn't have to live to make the ending good, the end just has to make sense in the context of the game.

[Karrie788]

Jealous Beauty wrote...

Would you have told them to shut up and take your money when DLC was released?

Nope, but I haven't gotten any of the DLC from the previous games either.

[kaztas]

Jealous Beauty wrote...

Would you have told them to shut up and take your money when DLC was released?

IF the ending was palatable and not neccessarily happy? Yes I would totally

[Ziggeh]

Personally I would have seen into the alternate reality in which the ending really sucked and taken the boring ending as a blessing and been entirely satisfied.

Suprised to see I'm not the only one with that particular super power.

[2papercuts]

If it at least was written in a way that somewhat made sense(EC looking at you, you better fix the plot holes not add more), the uproar would not nearly have been as loud. Also Bioware would actually have a reasonable defense with "artistic integrity"

[The Angry One]

Jealous Beauty wrote...

Would you have told them to shut up and take your money when DLC was released?

Sure why not. Cliche or not, ending the series on a high note would at least make it all feel worth it and have a pont.

And I don't care what all the emo goths who draw black tears beneath their eyes with permanent marker say about happy endings. They are perfectly legitimate... we had enough grimdark sacrifice throughout the entire game.

[lordofdogtown19]

Considering the galaxy is in ashes and a lot of my close friends died along the way, I think we deserve that kind of ending dammit

[kaztas]

as of now

[Four WBR]

Shep defeating the reapers and making it out alive would not have been "a happy cookie cutter ending." The loss and emotional build up to the ending would just make that scenario gratifying. I would have been thrilled personally. This series was about choices and to take them away in the final 5 minutes was horrid. As others have mentioned there should have been a fail, win and die, and win and live ending. However, if there was only one ending and it was this so called "happy" ending. I still would have preferred it over what we got.

[Chronor]

To me, it would have been more daring to go with the so-called happy ending. In my one and only playthrough, I went into the magic beam thinking that my Shep will die... like a boss (pun intended)... dying for what he believed in, i.e., there is still hope amongst impossible odds & that's bolstered by the strength in diversity. In other words, he would hold the line and give his life so that the galaxy can live on.

If my Shep came out of that alive... well I would have been ecstatic, and it would not have been a wholly predictable outcome.

Modifié par Chronor, 16 avril 2012 - 09:51 .

[Jealous Beauty]

Edited OP for clarity.

[kyban]

Vigil_N7 wrote...

People would've have complained about wanting a more bitter sweet ending, but I doubt it would be quite as big of a reaction.

People love to complain, no matter how ME3 ended some people would still moan.

Yep.

[An English Gamer]

 A cliche'd ending was EXACTLY what this game should of had, just like ME1 and ME2.  If someone was like me and was the ultimate paragon they would expect an epic battle where all their War Assets made a difference and were given an ending where everyone survives against the odds.
In ME1 I expected a confrontation with Sovereign and Saren. I got a confrontation with Sovereign and Saren and I wasn't dissapointed one bit.
Me2 I expected to go in and blow **** up and leave with everyone alive because of my choices. We all know what I got.
ME3 should be like ME2, "Disney" ending if you earn it. Bittersweet if you make too many mistakes, yet still awesome, or sad.
Also the number of your EMS shouldn't mean anything. It should all be based on WHAT the war asset is, not how much it's worth. That would solve making the MP vital for a full playthrough.

[HenchxNarf]

Happy Ending? No, thank you. I would have been kind of disappointed, actually. This is a galactic war. I expected to die. Why? Because this is the end of Shepard's story. And most people don't become heroes until after they die.

I don't want a predictable ending, which is why I enjoyed the endings given to us. I didn't see it coming and it made me actually have to think.

*shrugs*

[Kunari801]

Having the ending vary from "Reapers Win (everyone dies)" to "Reapers killed Shep dies" to "Win & Shep lives" would spur more replay value and possible DLC out of me. If decisions in ME1 and/or 2 really effected ME3 ending I would have replayed all three eventually.

Having one ending in three colors doesn't tempt me to replay in fact I felt sick when I finished. I missed the first few weeks of launch, for personal reasons, so I just finished last week and already knew there was anger over the ending. I assumed it was because Shepard died (I avoided spoilers) with no chance of happy ending. What we got really was worse than I ever imagined.

[Kreid]

I don't think a happy ending was ever on the taable, it would have been if there were various *really different* endings, but I expected something in the line of what ge got but without the plotholes and unexplained/incoherent/rushed final part.

[Spectre Impersonator]

Jealous Beauty wrote...

Let's say the crucible let loose a kill signal that powered off the reapers.  The galaxy is saved and Shepard gets to live happily ever after with his or her LI (until ME3: Awakening DLC is released).

That is NOT predictable. Every game these days simply tries to be edgy and throw in a **** ending because they think they're going against the grain when it's what all of them do. When's the last time you played a game that had an ending like you described?

Personally, I would have loved that, though I definitely think their should be multiple endings of differing emotional tones.

[Personuknow]

I think that in the worst case scenario, an uninspired and flat "happy ending" would've rated a "meh" with the vast majority of those who find themselves dissatisfied with what they got instead. More generally though I think that a happier outcome would've gone over better for a very large number of reasons that have nothing to do the the substance of the ending and everything to do with the mutilation of the storytelling (or rather, the lack thereof).

Frankly, though, I had a genuine expectation based on what I had read regarding the possibilities for the trilogy's end that there would be some kind of happy ending attainable by playing in a correct (most likely a completionist) manner. I had expected there to be a multitude of ways for the game to end, because that's what I was told by the dudes in charge - that there would be a multitude of ways for the game to end. What's more, there was definitely an implication that many of those endings would be meaningfully different - an implication never realized, obviously.

But yeah, on the whole I'm fairly certain that an uninspired "happy ending" would've gone over far better, largely because it most likely would not grossly mishandle the plot and the narrative in the way that what we got did.

An off-topic plug, be sure to check out ABC's comedy Happy Endings on your streaming platform of choice. It's a fun show that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

[BoricuaHLM]

I would have been WAY happier then the original endings.

[Kunari801]

HenchxNarf wrote...

Happy Ending? No, thank you. I would have been kind of disappointed, actually. This is a galactic war. I expected to die. Why? Because this is the end of Shepard's story. And most people don't become heroes until after they die.

I don't want a predictable ending, which is why I enjoyed the endings given to us. I didn't see it coming and it made me actually have to think.

*shrugs*

It wasn't a "predictable ending" becuase it's a deus ex machina ending that doesn't make any sense.