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[ZeCollectorDestroya]

Before EC: "Worst **** I have ever encountered that is not found in my toilet."
After EC: "Worst **** I have ever encountered with glitter and sprinkles that is not found in my toilet."

The EC was a pathetic addition, even worse than the normal endings. Bioware should have gone with IT, it would have been the greatest video game twist ever that is within this generation. Does a bunch of ****ing pictures make you feel better?! DO THEY?!?!?!

[Zazzerka]

ZeCollectorDestroya wrote...
Does a bunch of ****ing pictures make you feel better?! DO THEY?!?!?!

No, it doesn't. In fact, it makes me feel about a million times worse.

I don't think I'll be able to look at a slow-motion, desaturated .gif ever again without feeling miserable.

Case in point:


You could replace Liara with a clown, and I'd still feel crappy.

[ZeCollectorDestroya]

QUICK! Add more frames to the .gif file! STAT!

[Gerbil Fetus]

WARNING!! Collosal Rant, and play by play recount of ending experience.

Before Priority Earth: I had suspicions, based on ME2 Harbinger's taunts, the creeping parralels between Shepard and Saren, along with the Nightmarish Dream's / Anderson not noticing the earthen child, that we were being set up for a Revan/ ME1 Soverign is a reaper reveal where we learn tha Shepard is, and must overcome indoctrination.
At around Thessia, a friend who was not a ME3 fan had broken my Spoiler resistant exile and informed me that: "people were raging about the end and that the internet was on fire."
(i had heard from another friend to brace for dissapointment, as they had read the leaked info months earlier)

I ignored them both and pushed forward, enjoying the game a hell of a lot.

Assault on Earth:

• Was i dissapointet there wasnt a Dragon age: Origins like montage of your ammassed forces (technically there was with the fleets bit, but it sadly didnt show everyone i was expecting.) -
  
  
• Knowing nothing about game constructiion and being super thrilled with the game so far i let it slide.the Earth space battle cutscene was killer no mistake. as a avid fan of the ME music, hearing the triumphant playout of the main Theme, really brought home the idea that this was the end.
  
  
  
• Getting to the FOB on earth and saying the "goodbyes" to the crew: very touching. and totally re-infoced me to face what was coming The End for better or worse, i was prepped and going to kick ass.
  
  
• So by  now its probably really late at night or in the very early hours of the morning. It's my last day to finish this game before a 2 hour drive to University.

The Beam Assault: 

• the Beam is in sight. ready to blitz it.
  
  
• Harbinger lands. "**** just got real. BRING IT"
  
  
• Harbinger shoots up everything in sight.
  
  
• me : holy god, imgonadieimgonnadie, ahaha im nearly there! sucker can aim for s- *harbinger shoots Shepard.* AAAAAGGHHHH!!!??!?
  
  
• THEN, Shepard gets up. that was a powerful moment.  i was on the edge of my seat the whole damn time.
  

Citadel: A wild Illusive Man appears!:

• Wooo anderson made it up here! YES. back together just like the start of the game! wait where's my ground team?
• I am concerned at where my ground team went, but as i didnt see them charge with me im assuming they either didnt follow (or they did, and they died. In which case  I will avenge them)
  
• the place is eery, its shifting and we are in an area unknown to organic civilisation. super stoked we arent heading to the same section as in ME1's ending.
  
  
• digging the suggestions that they are building a reaper here. proves the reapers are'nt really all that inconvinienced by what i did last game.
  
  
• *illusive man appears*
  
  
• me: holy **** its him .in person. and there is no doubt he is indoctrinated. But holy **** he actually can use some kind of Biotic/indoctrination ability(its Purple tinted power effect-like the Reapers purpleness)
  
  
• Loving the two polar opposites of shepard's supporters arguing and sharing screen time.
  
  
• Mega thrilled we beat him and now we get to use the crucible (a plot device that was a little heavy handed, but its introduction occured early in the story and is an acceptable parrallel to the Atom Bomb, so its acceptable IMHO)
  
  
• Andersons dies in one of the greatest moments of Mass Effect, followed by a seemingly fatally wounded shepard urgently trying to follow Hacketts comands. at this point i'm practically cheering shepard to go on. *elevator to Catalyst*
  still on the edge of my seat, i realise that this is what people must have began to get upset about.
  
  

The Confrontation with The Catalyst/Intelligence:

• At this point i am so engrossed with what is going on, so sleep deprived that i feel sort of like shepard looks (im not near death though, or horribly injured thank goodness.)
  
  
• I enjoy that this controlling entity of the Reapers adopts the sympathetic look of the kid from the beginning/dreams. tieing into what i had heard about the point of that kid "symbolising all those shepard couldnt save." nice touch.
  
  
• its ambiguous because kids are creepy and this dude has to somehow knowShep knows or has some connection to the kid.
  
  
• I play through the ending, feeling unsure of how to trust this "kid" or which of the three choices to take. Thhey all have pro's and con's and Synthesis sounds like the end of Beast Machines, a show that i had mixed feelings about(mostly because i was so insane for Beast Wars)
  
  
• I Go contol. Playing with my Renegade shep, it seemed like something he would do.
  
  
  
• The Relay's spread the Crucible Effect and An End Once and For All plays, and i feel the end is a great manipulator of my emotions. I succeed in stping the Reapers, but the effects are also negative.)
  
  
• Relays destroyed/broke. (i for one think bioware inteneded these to be just broke the whole time, but made their destruction too simmilar to the Arrival Relay's complete anniahlation. fixed in the EC of course.)
  
  
• NOrmandy! and they ae OK! (not sure where they are going, or how Garrus and Liara got there though!)
  
  
• then i reload because i was curous to see how Synthesis(which i assumed to be a reward/hardest of the three to unlock)  and destroy played out.
  
  
  
• Again, sort of dissapointed at lack of DA:origins like explanations for the continuity of the universe as i has assumed would happen.
  
  
• Sort of dissapointed that the ends are so simmilar aesthetically-although people forget ME1 and ME2 were also guilty of this. But i know that the Shepard who got to this end is a part of a very different world than my other play throughs, so im not too fussed.

aftermath thoughts:

• I'm now driving in my car thinking about the endings for two hours.
  
  
• I feel a sense of hollowness and completion at the end, basically because it's over.
  
  
• I feel the ending was representitive and cumulative of Shepard's
  
  
• im thinking about things that dont match up (which then got fixed in EC)
  
  
• wondering about why harbinger didnt get a bigger role or act on the threats he made in ME2.
  
  
• wondering why the dreams were there if only to reinforce shepards character development
  
  
• realise a lot of the Citadel is simmilar to other places and events over the trilogy.
  
  
• Slowly i start coming to the "was it a dream?" conclusion that i would soon see shared in the Indoctrination Theory.
  
  
• (cursing myself for being "fooled" and picking Control)
  
  
• In that space of time, without any imput from anywhere else , i decided that Bioware's end to the ME trilogy was far greater than i could have ever thought. They mind screwed me with the mindscrew of Indoctrination, and i didnt know it.
  
  
• then i get to forums full of hate and bashing and got sad (glad to see much has mellowed out though)
  
  
• The end was epic, final, and emotionally powerful. just as i hoped it would be, even if it wasnt the ending i was expecting.

Post-EC/Leviathan:

• Post EC i see the ending as a much more literal series of events. the IT theory doesnt seem as convincing and more a result of the ommisions in clarity we were originally presented with.
  
  
• i still have a Shepard who made his choices based on the idea of IT theory.
  
  
• I'm very keen for new content, just as i was after ME2. Im thrilled at the idea that is floating around of DLC cumulatively adding to your ME3 experience somehow, because it is such a cray idea.
  
  
• Also really surprised at all the free content so far.
  
  
• excited for discussing all the reasonings that people made for selecting their endings and their choices all through the trilogy ("Blonde shepard" and "Mom Shepard" are great examples of varied Stories)

I am a pretty optimistic person when it came to the endings, and i did have my expectations lowered/spoiled by hearing they were "bad", so that may be why they werent absolutley crushing to my heart and soul.
I think the EC defineitely improved upon the end by explaining to us in some way what our  unique actions did to the face of the galaxy, and i thank bioware for doing so, and i look forward to see just how they will continue to add to the ME universe.

End of my collosal rant.
-Gerbil Fetus

Modifié par Gerbil Fetus, 02 octobre 2012 - 10:28 .

[bleachorange]

before the ending: flaws, but i'll overlook them b/c this is mass effect and it's awesome
after the ending: What the *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*!!!!
after the EC: really? this sack of *BLEEP* doesn't change a *BLEEP* thing! I'm still stuck with the primary colors, and a ghost kid. an epic story deserves an epic ending, and epic the ending was not.

Mass Effect died with Shepard, and nothing will ever change that.

Modifié par bleachorange, 05 octobre 2012 - 12:10 .