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[Icinix]

FINE HERE wrote...

I don't mind a sad 'the hero dies' ending if it's an option. I play video games to forget life sucks. I want a happy ending to at least be possible.

Indeed. I play games for an experience I can't get in real life.

I can get failure and rejection pretty easily in real life.

In all seriousness though - I just want an ending that makes sense. I don't care if my character lives, or dies, as long as it makes sense based on the character and their choices.

[Maria Caliban]

BlueMagitek wrote...

...isn't death the tightest of all closure?

ME2 would like words with you.

That said, yes, the original post is rather funny. Killing yourself tends to provide large amounts of closure.

[TsaiMeLemoni]

Yeah....OP should probably change the title to indicate that there are spoilers before other people get spoiled...

[Beerfish]

I want a dreary, you have not won, you have died, angst filled death because happy endings are so cliche....oh......wait....


Semi, sort of spoilers kinda...sorta below....

Kill yourself or send your love interest to die in a room filled with radiation.
Kill a giant space machine but know more are coming.
Kill some bad guys and a baby space machine but know others are coming.
Die in any one of three grisly ways
Run away with your tail between your legs
Have rocks fall on your head
Have an incurable disease that will off you sooner or later, may as well head to the deep roads.

Modifié par Beerfish, 04 octobre 2012 - 04:29 .

[Shadow Fox]

Direwolf0294 wrote...

marshalleck wrote...

What kind of chump would do that when you can bang a witch and kill the Archdemon and get off scot free

seriously it's win-win all around

Except you now have a highly arrogant woman who cares little for the lives of others raising an immensely powerful child who's susceptible to demonic corruption (the old god's were corrupted once, whos to say it won't happen again) who could potentially destroy the world.

Not exactly a smart move in the long run.

Yeah considering Morrigan's values I wouldn't trust her with a normal child let alone one with godlike power.

...*hates child abuse*

[Beerfish]

lol people worried about morrigans kid are probably also totally pro mage freedom.

[Shadow Fox]

Beerfish wrote...

lol people worried about morrigans kid are probably also totally pro mage freedom.

Not really I believe the current system needs an overhall but total mage freedom?That's like ignoring a bomb in a suitcase.

[MorningBird]

Um, while I don't suspect BW has any plans to force the PC's death in DA3 (right? RIGHT? *nudge nudge knock on wood*) I can kind of get behind the OP's sentiments. I too prefer happy endings, and if not that, then endings where everyone at least lives to be miserable with each other. However, I kind of think such a fear is a bit... baseless? The warden didn't HAVE to die, and Hawke survives DA2, so this isn't something I'm going to worry about personally.

Yet, anyway. ;-;

[BlueMagitek]

Maria Caliban wrote...

BlueMagitek wrote...

...isn't death the tightest of all closure?

ME2 would like words with you.

That said, yes, the original post is rather funny. Killing yourself tends to provide large amounts of closure.

Well, not really.  ME 1 didn't end with Shepard's death. 

And no, the Warden didn't have to die, he or she could have sacrificed one of his companions or made the deal with Morrigan.

[hexaligned]

ME3's ending was fine, if a little resource light. Shepard stopped being a malleable avatar long before that point. I don't see how anyone could have been surprised or shocked by it either, the entire last third of the game was just relentlessly beating you over the head with the fact it was coming.

If it fits well into the story I don't mind my characters getting killed, as long as it isn't just tacked on for tear jerking purposes.

[wright1978]

Agree with OP. Basically ME3 didn't put any effort into fleshing out the one choice where Shep lives, that's such so cheap and nasty. Protaganist death is fine as long as there are alternative equally well fleshed out options where Protaganist doesn't die.

Equally i do fear some bleak fate for Warden and Hawke. Really hope that's not the case.

[Dirgegun]

Awkward moment when people think that two completely different writing teams have anything to do with each others' games...

That said... I think the Warden and Hawke had enough closure by the end of the story, and the idea that they later disappeared adds a mystery to discover in upcoming games. If 'closure' means being shown my character when they're old and being fed apple pulp because they can't chew anymore then I don't want that closure.

Disclaimer: My opinion. My opinion. My opinion.

[AdmiralDavidAnderson]

I got zero closure on the original Mass Effect 3 ending. But I got loads on The Extended Cut one, despite Shepard's apparent death. Just goes to show you how much of a difference caring for fans makes.

[CitizenThom]

Zjarcal wrote...

ReggarBlane wrote...

If you kill yourself over a game, I don't think Bioware really has any control over that. What are they supposed to do? Sell the game with anti-depressants?

CitizenThom wrote...

A funeral service for Shepard would've been a much appreciated addition to ME3's ending.

Not needed with high EMS destroy. 

Shep is relaxing in Tuchanka and playing with Urz. 

I remember my name going on a plaque in both the synthesis and destroy endings, and the gasp for air, but I'm getting the sense there's something else I missed?

[marshalleck]

Direwolf0294 wrote...

marshalleck wrote...

What kind of chump would do that when you can bang a witch and kill the Archdemon and get off scot free

seriously it's win-win all around

Except you now have a highly arrogant woman who cares little for the lives of others raising an immensely powerful child who's susceptible to demonic corruption (the old god's were corrupted once, whos to say it won't happen again) who could potentially destroy the world.

Not exactly a smart move in the long run.

Yes, problem?

[scootermcgaffin]

davepissedatending wrote...

BlueMagitek wrote...

...isn't death the tightest of all closure?

Hawke didn't die. The Warden may or may not have died (and even if the Warden lived, even if they didn't go off with Morrigan his or her fate isn't exactly known, no closure there).

Besides, there's a difference between a series with the same protagonist and a series with a new protagonist each game. =D

yeah they wasn't the end of the trilogy. And im hoping hawk shows up in some way in da3 . The breath scene at the end of me3 pi###d me off what was the point it he dies show sum sort of funeral or something not just a last breath thats deffo no closure is it ? Was it his last breath? or is he alive ?

Dragon Age isn't a trilogy.

[Dragoonlordz]

To be honest I think thread should of been locked ages ago. It's stretching at best to relate to DA3. The OP could of simply not even mentioned ME3 and said he or she hopes the protaganist in DA3 will not be forced one way or another and that will have both good and bad outcomes.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 04 octobre 2012 - 11:28 .

[William91]

I think its important that the story they are telling us has closure, and Bioware has failed a lot in this aspect, ME had bad endings (well ME3 without Extended Cut had the worst ending i ever seen in a videogame, buy with EC things go better and you can say its just a regular ending, but not the one the trilogy deserved), DA2 had a stupid cliffhanger where you dont know anything about anyone, and what is worse, a closure was hinted and it never came. Also, if go to past titles, Neverwinter Nights OC had quite a stupid ending and KotOR ending was mediocre too. I think something like they did in DAO would be great, both an epilogue (the scene where you could talk with your companions and important NPCs for the last time) and some slides. So, to sum up, my biggest fear from DA3 is that the ending sucks...