sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...
Let's take a look at what happens during this trilogy, shall we?
* The colony of Eden Prime is devastated by a geth attack and a strange ship.
* The colony of Feros is devastated by a geth attack and a strange ship. The colonists are infected by a strange plant life form.
* Binary Helix cloned rachni for the reapers.
* Cerberus, Exogeni, carried out various experiments on humans regarding indoctrination reaper indoctrination, and Thorian experiments.
* Geth continued their husk work and incursions into human space.
* Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams died.
* Saren and Sovereign and the Geth fleet attacked the Citadel. Many lives were lost.
* The Collectors began harvesting entire human colonies to make a human reaper -- turning them into slushies.
* 0-11 of your team could have died. Your entire crew could have died.
* 300,000 Batarians died whether or not you did Arrival.
* The reapers invaded. Everyone in that room except for you and Anderson was killed.
* Drayfish did an excellent job of listing individuals who died.
* 400,000,000 - 1,000,000,000 Asari died during the reaper invasion of Thessia. It was lucky the invasion came late.
* Earth's population was 11 billion pre-invasion. I estimate it to be around 5 billion. Its ecosystem is a mess.
* Khar'shan was 15 billion pre-invasion. It was harvested. Its population turned into monsters. Its ecosystem totally destroyed by the reapers.
* Palaven was also devastated. Do I have to look up pre-invasion numbers here as well?
* Not to mention Dekunna, Irune, Illium, and other major worlds that were hit and devastated.
I don't see how anyone can find a redeeming feature in these monsters. I don't see how anyone can call an ending where Shepard survives and gets reunited with his/her crew a "happy ending." Look at it.
Now think about the ending reducing the entire story about that to some kid gives you the choice of the color of the explosions on your screen, Shepard dies, the relays are destroyed, and the Normandy crashes. Maybe you got a breath. WTF? Five years?
We kept being told "this cycle is different". The reapers had never faced a united galaxy. They had only gone one system at a time isolating one cluster at a time and harvesting it. The never faced a united galactic fleet. So we united the galaxy. We brought enemies together. We earned a proper ending, not just picking what color was on our screen at the end.
Even if Shepard survived and reunited with his/her crew, it is not a happy ending. What do we have left after it is all over?
Then they give us the EC, but it took another 4 months before that was out. People who were not emotionally invested from the first game moved on. The EC just added, a stupid pickup scene, some pretty pictures and some additional voice work, and some soundtrack work for Sam Hulick (which are awesome), but otherwise the endings are the same. Pick the color.
MEHEM isn't really a happy ending. It's a community mod that cuts out the one of the more offensive parts of the game IMO -- starbrat. It is the High EMS Destroy ending modded so that the beam only targets the reapers, and Shepard gets rescued by the Shield Fleet before the Crucible fires. Low and Medium EMS versions are planned.
Exactly. The ending is still bittersweet, as the universe underwent great losses, including the entire Citadel. It's a difference between somewhat happy ending and totally negative ending.
The EC made it more "happy" I guess, with scenes of rebuilding and such, but that wasn't the issue.
The issue was the brevity of the ending. That is, how it just "happens" and then nothing else is made of it. The other point is also how thematically inconsistent it is with the rest of the series.
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