wizardryforever wrote...
iggy4566 wrote...
shurikenmanta wrote...
Because the ending is just a part of a whole to me.
I'm not the kind to stick up my nose at additional adventure just because I don't get an 'I win everything' ending.
Its the fact that the endings don't fit into the lore of Mass effect.
And who is it that decides what the lore of Mass Effect is? Bioware. Anything else is just your own personal headcanon.
That's the thing. They have disregarded the lore THEY ESTABLISHED in the previous games.
If a mass relay explodes the destruction of the star system it's in ensues. So in the original ending means everyone dies. But we are the ones who "don't get it". The EC just means everyone is isolated for the foreseable future. As in, no crew reunion for destroy Shepard. There isn't even a reason for the relays being damaged in any way whatsoever. The endings are broken and demonstrate that the writers didn't even bother to check their own cliff notes. It's funny that we are supposed to headcanon how it all turns out, but they have provided just enough to leave no room for anything but bleakness.
And lets not get into the fact that the options are all presented in a pre-packaged symmetrical forcked walkway. Odd that this stuff would on on the citadel at that place of all places considering the Catalyst never expected us. And then he has the power to turn the damn Crucible off (refusal) after not being able to just turn it off when you first arrive. It's just a mess. Anderson followed shepard into the conduit, but is ahead of him... ugh. No ability to challenge the Catalyst warped logic. It's simply not mass effect. There is no reason to even believe any of the new choices offered are anything but attempts to get Shepard to suicide himself. It's poorly written and clearly rushed. How did the Normandy get to some jungle world? They didn't even make it to the mass relay as the rainbow wave was faster than FTL. Does Sol have another garden world? The sol relay only goes to Arcturus which is a dying red giant. No garden worlds there. And for ships suddenly knocked out of FTL "the effects are catastrophic. The ship is snapped back to sublight velocity, the enormous excess energy shed in the form of lethal Cherenkov radiation."
And you think the ending makes sense given the lore BIOWARE THEMSELVES have established?
There is a valid reason for people to HOPE it was all a hallucination.