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[shurikenmanta]

FatalX7.0 wrote...

shurikenmanta wrote...

Esoretal wrote...

Many of us are containing depression and seething anger, but mostly depression at this point.

No. You aren't.

You know the emotions and inner most feelings of people that you do not know.

I hope to one day be as amazing as you.

I'm no psychologist, but if you are clinically depressed over a game ending, I would wager that the problem is actually elsewhere and this is just a symptom of it.

[FatalX7.0]

Your post makes me want to /wrists and cry in my emo corner.

I hope you rot in a hole, meanie.

[shurikenmanta]

Now that's not very nice.

[Auralius Carolus]

It was at least a grade B+ kick in the gut when I first finished the game.

The problem is, the Mass Effect line, (and good role-playing games in general), encourage you to become immersed in the game- normally that results in a heightened good experience. But that ending was so sudden, unexpected, detached and ambiguous that that same immersion sent people psychologically off a cliff.

At least, that's my take on it. Eventually the confusion and depression subsided in people that experienced it and now they're resentful.

[Madecologist]

On my end most of the people I talked to hated the ending. For example I have a friend that doesn't mind fleeing Joker and thinks it makes sense, but hated the Starchild and the crewmates that were with him being back aboard the Normandy. Those two things he hated with a vengeance.

A girl I know doesn't mention any plotholes or inconsistencies, but she really hated the lack of closure and the starchild too. Both didn't like Synthesis and thought it was not fitting as an ending. She also says almost all her friends hate it too (however I never spoke with them in person).

Another friend just planely hates the ending so much, he has nothing to say about it just 'watch it on you tube with celophane filters over your monitor' and vehemently nods at other people's rant. Another pretty much discusses how the endings violate the themes of ME, pretty much insulting the whole series. He didn't even play the game... only watch others play it (but in its entirety). He is not even a ME fan...

As someone that works part time at a videogame store, a lot of costumers confided in me the either hated the ending, or just didn't like it. I heard many say it was rather meh or that it was average with the added bit they think game endings in general are crap (average of crap... yeah... that is a vote of confidence...).

Basically there are plenty that don't mind it but never really cared about game endings and think they tend to suck anyways. There has been a few people that did like the ending, but even there most admit they are not suprised at the hate. I have to say I haven't met anyone that beamed about the ending, even if they did like it.

Trust me, I have seen games that had beaming costumers for their ending, rare... but they exist. Even the ME3 ending lovers were not beaming.

Overall what I can say is that even those that hated it just don't get emotional about it. It's not the sh**storm we have on the internet, but I wouldn't say it was well recieved. They did like the game in general though.

Modifié par Madecologist, 21 avril 2012 - 06:18 .

[pro5]

Here is just ONE of my many reasons (it alone is enought for me to hate it).

What reasons do I, as a player, or Shepard as a character, have to believe that the options offered by the Catalyst are actually as described, and won't do something else entirely when activated?

None.

This "being" admits to controlling the Reapers, the very thing we've been fighting to the death for 3 games. I don't trust a single word it says.

For all I know, shooting the Destroy tube might cause the Crucible to malfunction and harmlessly dissipate its energy, without so much as scratching the Reapers.

For all I know, the only thing both Control and Synthesis might accomplish is simply kill me ("Now go jump in that beam of pure energy, if you please. Don't worry, it's all for good cause.").

The fact that the following cutscenes seem to confirm Catalyst's words is irrelevant. At the moment I'm making my decision, I have no way to know what the REAL consequences of it will be.

I'm casually expected to accept placing the ultimate fate of people I love, all my friends and allies, and every living being in the galaxy at the mercy of the Reaper-King.

Yeah, sure. What a great ****ing way to end the triogy.

[Blown_Apart]

and with that.... I think the troll has left the building.

[Dead_Meat357]

pro5 wrote...

Here is just ONE of my many reasons (it alone is enought for me to hate it).

What reasons do I, as a player, or Shepard as a character, have to believe that the options offered by the Catalyst are actually as described, and won't do something else entirely when activated?

None.

This "being" admits to controlling the Reapers, the very thing we've been fighting to the death for 3 games. I don't trust a single word it says.

For all I know, shooting the Destroy tube might cause the Crucible to malfunction and harmlessly dissipate its energy, without so much as scratching the Reapers.

For all I know, the only thing both Control and Synthesis might accomplish is simply kill me ("Now go jump in that beam of pure energy, if you please. Don't worry, it's all for good cause.").

The fact that the following cutscenes seem to confirm Catalyst's words is irrelevant. At the moment I'm making my decision, I have no way to know what the REAL consequences of it will be.

I'm casually expected to accept placing the ultimate fate of people I love, all my friends and allies, and every living being in the galaxy at the mercy of the Reaper-King.

Yeah, sure. What a great ****ing way to end the triogy.

This is a well articulated point. I agree completely. It just doesn't make sense for Shepard to listen to anything the Starchild says and take it at face value, yet we as the player are left with absolutely zero choice in this matter.