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[Davik Kang]

Good day.

Personally I thought the ending was pretty amazing.  The whole reason I signed up here was to talk about the ending and the series as a whole some more, because I thought it was so clever and had so many talking points.

I was so excited by the ending that the ME series went from one that I really enjoyed as a really good series of games, to becoming one of my favourite video game experiences ever.  (Been playing for a long time btw).  And I was really looking forward to learning about other players' interpretations of it all.

So I was disappointed to find that lots of people, including, it would seem, most people on this forum, found the ending to be pretty unsatisfying.  And furthermore, that a very big proportion of those actually think the ending is flat out terrible.

I have been effectively banned from the "Do The Right Thing" thread, because certain members felt that the thread was only for players who didn't like the ending to make suggestions for how it could be improved.  So I made this thread so that people who did like the ending could talk about why.

By the way I am not claiming that the whole game is awesome - in fact there are a number of things that I thought were not great, or even bad - but the focus of this thread is meant to be what players liked about the ending of ME3.

I have posted loads already across the forum on all the reasons I loved it, so I won't post it all again (at least, not in the OP).  I'll check back on here tomorrow.

[MegaSovereign]

Do you honestly think people who hate the endings will let this thread go?

[dreman9999]

 I also like the endings ,too.

Also..


Take this character and level him up to get the flame Sheild power....You'll need it.

[dreamgazer]

Godspeed, good sir.

[AresKeith]

To each their own

[Dubozz]

[Village_Idiot]

Post EC, I like the fact that the ending is no longer interpretable as being the onset of a galactic dark age as in the vanilla version. The tone is far more optimistic than any speculation would have led to.

The memorial scene and the Normandy's departure from Gilligan's planet was well done, and the new music composed was outstanding.

Thematically though, I still found the ending abhorrent and disjointed. But at least I don't have to hypothesise that everyone started eating each other.

[Ticonderoga117]

When your ending puts more value in symbolism than common sense, it has failed. And ME3's ending failed horribly.

[Eterna]

Ticonderoga117 wrote...

When your ending puts more value in symbolism than common sense, it has failed. And ME3's ending failed horribly.

Yeah, except no. Gooby plz


I agree with you OP, the endings are good now. 

[LucasShark]

No, it was not: it did not function as the ending to a narrative, therefore it was not a good ending.

All the spectacle in the world, emotional emo piano music and pretenciousness can't solve that.

[MegaSovereign]

Ticonderoga117 wrote...

When your ending puts more value in symbolism than common sense, it has failed. And ME3's ending failed horribly.

Just stop. You know how it will end.

[dirty console peasant]

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

[themikefest]

I like only 25% of the endings-destroy

[Eterna]

LucasShark wrote...

No, it was not: it did not function as the ending to a narrative, therefore it was not a good ending.

All the spectacle in the world, emotional emo piano music and pretenciousness can't solve that.

"If I use words like Narrative and pretenciousness my opinion is more intelligent and valid"

[LucasShark]

Eterna5 wrote...

LucasShark wrote...

No, it was not: it did not function as the ending to a narrative, therefore it was not a good ending.

All the spectacle in the world, emotional emo piano music and pretenciousness can't solve that.

"If I use words like Narrative and pretenciousness my opinion is more intelligent and valid"

No, it means I have a vocabulary.

[Village_Idiot]

Eterna5 wrote...

"If I use words like Narrative and pretenciousness my opinion is more intelligent and valid"

lolwat

I'm no anti-ender, but kindly raise your game. Ad hominem like this is just degrading yourself.

[shepskisaac]

Shepard Cmdr wrote...

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

Except that this button was being built throughout the entire game and we actually do influence how well will it 'perform' through the aqusition of War Assets

[Eterna]

Shadrach 88 wrote...

Eterna5 wrote...

"If I use words like Narrative and pretenciousness my opinion is more intelligent and valid"

lolwat

I'm no anti-ender, but kindly raise your game. Ad hominem like this is just degrading yourself.

Meh you're probably right. I'm so very tired and kind of hanged over so my judgement and reasoning may not be great. Sorry Lucasshark, 

[Village_Idiot]

Hey, I actually resolved a conflict! Score!

[LucasShark]

IsaacShep wrote...

Shepard Cmdr wrote...

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

Except that this button was being built throughout the entire game and we actually do influence how well will it 'perform' through the aqusition of War Assets

Which is not taking choices into account: it's just a number which you will accumulate regardless.

[Ticonderoga117]

LucasShark wrote...

IsaacShep wrote...

Shepard Cmdr wrote...

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

Except that this button was being built throughout the entire game and we actually do influence how well will it 'perform' through the aqusition of War Assets

Which is not taking choices into account: it's just a number which you will accumulate regardless.

And it always is completed I'm quite sure.

[Tomeran]

I'll agree to the point that the ending went from "what is this absolute garbage?!" to "just about bareable, but still not quite as good as the series deserved" with the extended version.

[LucasShark]

Ticonderoga117 wrote...

LucasShark wrote...

IsaacShep wrote...

Shepard Cmdr wrote...

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

Except that this button was being built throughout the entire game and we actually do influence how well will it 'perform' through the aqusition of War Assets

Which is not taking choices into account: it's just a number which you will accumulate regardless.

And it always is completed I'm quite sure.

It is: there is no number you could hit where it isn't finished.

[dirty console peasant]

IsaacShep wrote...

Shepard Cmdr wrote...

We were promised "no reaper off switch", what did we get? We got a reaper off switch, which completely goes against the entire series where we kick the crap out of everything in our way, and do it without magical "I win" buttons. Anyone who does not have the slightest problem with the ending, is either delusional or lying.

Except that this button was being built throughout the entire game and we actually do influence how well will it 'perform' through the aqusition of War Assets

yah but our choices don't matter, what matters is how many fetch quests we did and how much MP we played.  When you can get the same ending whether you were a total dick, and killed everyone, or a boy scout and saved as many people as you could.  then there is a problem.  Also there is no real connection to the "reaper off switch" it is just there in the backround until the final mission, when it summons StarJar.  what we needed was something similar to the SM in ME2 where our decisions mattered (do we have this fleet or not?) instead we got the ending we got (do we have enough of an arbitrary number, for the glowboy that our magical machine summoned to give us the "best" options) the best of which requires an arbitrary blood sacrifice, and the worst of which removes all individuality. 

[Demon560]

So their s support thread for this now? Would it be childish if the anti-enders made something similar? hmm, maybe go by MegaSovereign's sig.

Good luck with this, maybe some anti-enders will avoid this topic entirely if yar lucky.