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[Hackulator]

...or is it just a vocal internet minority? Me and the majority of my real life friends LOVED the game. Although we all agree the ending was weak and needed a rewrite, overall we thought ME3 was amazing, possibly one of the best games we ever played. Included in this group of friends are 2 writers and designers for tabletop RPGs (myself and a friend, published), one video game designer with a Master's Degree in Entertainment Technology, a number of programmers and developers, and a fair number of people who have nothing to do with the gaming industry.

This suggests to me that perhaps this game is not nearly as hated as it seems, rather that the million people who loved the game felt no need to come on the internet and complain about it. Obviously this is a terrible place to ask this question if I hope to get a real answer, but it was still something I wanted to put out there and see what people had to say.

[jsadalia]

There's no one polity here. I thought the game was great, and though the ending was incomplete and unclear, it's also not as bad as its press.

[ref]

I think most of us enjoyed it, but there was still problems with the game that I could look past. Others aren't so picky.

[Beeker7]

I do enjoy playing the game but I don't want to get too far with the endings incomplete.

[Xellith]

I thought a lot of the game was dumb.

[Auralius Carolus]

Of course "everyone" doesn't hate the game, and many people are simply upset about the ending. However, the outcry is certainly not unpredictable. Here you have a game series which has received considerable praise for its creativity and depth, which has spanned ~100 hours over the space of five years. When people have such high expectations, (based on reasonable experience), and are so heavily immersed and invested in the "universe", the psychological shock of a Deus Ex Machina ending is understandable. In many ways, it is like a low-grade crisis of faith for the biggest of fans.

[comrade gando]

I love ME3 but I HATE IT SO MUCH!

really tho it's actually the best AND worst game I've ever played and that's really confusing even to me. there's so much controversy behind this game right now it's rediculous. if they wanted the game to end in a way everyone would remember then they were successful but for the wrong reasons. It's not remembered for being epic and satisfying it's remembered for being TERRIBLY disappointing.

[dmay7]

I loved the first 29 hours and 50 minutes of the game. I have replayed it ending and all. And if the EC is good, I look forward to replaying all 3 back to back to back, and hopefully looking forward to more ME

[Thaa_solon]

Xellith wrote...

I thought a lot of the game was dumb.

THIS is what I also thought

[Landline]

The ending was horrible, and ending aside there is no way I'd consider it one of the best games.

ME2 was way better.

[KingZayd]

I thought the game had brilliant moments and so would have been happy with a mediocre ending. The end (or at least the face value interpretation) was terrible due to lore-breaking plotholes, although I had initally suspected that the Starchild was lying to me. When I saw IT videos, I wasn't convinced, but I was hopeful. Then a few weeks later, looking at TIM's plotline through gameplay videos to see what the hell he was up to, I became convinced that Bioware meant for indoctrination to be a major plot point.

Now i exist in a superposition where I both hate the ending, and also love what I think the ending might be. With the EC's release the wavefunction will probably collapse into one of these states, unless there's a third one that I haven't yet accounted for.

So now I exist

[thefallen2far]

I don't know what you mean by "hate". I wish it didn't come out without at least another year of development to fix a lot of it. It was "eh". If they didn't haved that ending i'd be defending the "eh" with the game, but the ending just makes me think of how bad the parts I didn't like are.

It's like Godfather part 3....the worst of the trilogy of a good trilogy that defines thegenre, but you don't know if the shortcomings of the last one are inherent in it just being bad, or if you're thinking it's bad because of the quality of the other 2.

[jedsithor]

I thought ME3 was great until the ending. The problem is, the ending made me not want to play any of the Mass Effect games anymore and since the EC isn't going to solve the major logic flaw of the game, I think it's time I stopped hoping and traded in the games.

It would be so much easier to hate the game, believe me.

[Memnon]

jedsithor wrote...

I thought ME3 was great until the ending. The problem is, the ending made me not want to play any of the Mass Effect games anymore and since the EC isn't going to solve the major logic flaw of the game, I think it's time I stopped hoping and traded in the games.

It would be so much easier to hate the game, believe me.

Pretty much this ...

[AlexPorto111]

I love ME3.But the ending...

I WANT MY LITTLE BLUE CHILDREN!

[sistersafetypin]

Auralius Carolus wrote...

Of course "everyone" doesn't hate the game, and many people are simply upset about the ending. However, the outcry is certainly not unpredictable. Here you have a game series which has received considerable praise for its creativity and depth, which has spanned ~100 hours over the space of five years. When people have such high expectations, (based on reasonable experience), and are so heavily immersed and invested in the "universe", the psychological shock of a Deus Ex Machina ending is understandable. In many ways, it is like a low-grade crisis of faith for the biggest of fans.

I hate having to agree with this.

That said, no I don't actually "hate" ME3. I hate its ending, no doubt and with no reservations. However, I can't love the game by any stretch. There were a few really good parts of the game, but there were simply to many other issues to say it deserves anywhere near the many 10/10's it got.

Coupling the above with Bioware's handling of the situation after and you get a lot of pissed off fans as passionately angry as they once were passionately for Bioware and Mass Effect

[QLogic]

jedsithor wrote...

I thought ME3 was great until the ending. The problem is, the ending made me not want to play any of the Mass Effect games anymore and since the EC isn't going to solve the major logic flaw of the game, I think it's time I stopped hoping and traded in the games.

It would be so much easier to hate the game, believe me.

Couldn't agree more.

I don't hate ME3 - it's just that the endings were so broken that I literally couldn't bring myself to play the game again.  
And that's coming from playing ME1 and ME2 practically 10x over - each one!  

Although I could explain all the reasons why I felt let down in the ending - I think this YouTube video explains it best:     To be honest, his other videos on the Indoctrination Theory and the Extended Cut DLC are on the money too....

[Tealjaker94]

I loved most of the game. Missions like tuchanka and rannoch made up for the countless fetch quests and poorly done me2 character cameos. But the most important parts of any story are the beginning and ending. IMO those were the two weakest parts of the game. Unlike some other people I can still replay the game by ignoring the end as best I can, but there is simply no excuse for the atrocity that is Priority:Earth.

[eternalnightmare13]

It was okay, but could've been better. And I'm not just talking about the end.

[ZerebusPrime]

I like ME3. It plays out like a fine symphony for hours on end. I can even overlook small gameplay flaws because, really, every game has quirks.

I despise the ending as given. That's a very small part of the game. Unfortunately, it's the bookend and it casts a long shadow.

[G Kevin]

People "hate" ME3 in the sense of making it better.

[RonnyB]

Like many I enjoyed the game up until the ending. The biggest problem is that the ending completely ruined all re-playability for me. I have absolutely no desire to replay the game to get to an ending where I'm not satisfied with any of the choices I'm given. I replayed me1 and me2 so many times I lost count. Now this. :-/

[Eluril]

Simply put if everyone hated the game itself there would be nowhere near the level of activity on this board and it wouldn't have made front page news when fans were disappointed with the ending. I think personally it's one of the closest games to perfection yet, with a disappointing and unsatisfying ending.

[comrade gando]

the game was amazing yeah, was everything I expected from mass effect 3, epic scenes, story lines are concluded so on so forth, it had it's bumps here and there, tacky ME2 cameos, fetch quests, tali's FREA*head desk, takes a shot of scotch*...freakin' face... but it was strong. up until priority earth where things start to fall apart alarmingly fast: gameplay quality degrades, and overall the supposed final mission of the series is just a shootout with reaper troops in the streets of london, very anticlimactic considering the masterpiece that was the suicide mission in ME2.

things get exponentially worse after harbinger hits you with it's laser, small plot holes start stacking up and there's zero explanation as to how things are happening, it just happens and shepard just plays along. just wait it gets worse. then the story introduces a brand new character in the last 5 minutes of the game and offers you three insane choices with no explanation for anything. all three choices kill you, all three choices kill your friends and doom the galaxy, the only difference is what color it happens in.

but they're not done yet, after a bat**** INSANE 2 minute cutscene where a million things happen but none of it is explained, the next scene is a snowy field with an old man telling his grand son or something the story of "the shepard"... that's right the entire series was just a bed time story and none of it really happened (in the game). what did you think your choices mattered? hah! please.

then the infamous DLC prompt shows it's ugly mug and that's about the rotten the cherry on the **** sunday.

It was such an amazing experience but the only thing I can remember, the only thing that really sticks out... is the ending... and it's in a sad sad state.

[Documental]

I loved the game and the people who "hate" the game, and I mean the folk who go "OH, IT WAS THE WORSTEST GAME OF THE DECADE" are those that are just hating on it for the sake of hating on it.

I mean the folk who didn't like the ending, that's fair enough as I thought the ending was just mediocre but the people who just whine and **** that the entire game was "WORSTEST GAME OF THE DECADE" really annoy me.