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[AlanC9]

shodiswe wrote...

The differences are minimal.

It shouldn't have been that hard to put in a Geth trooper or a Krogan somewhere, perhaps a Salarian Sniper.

We see a few krogan, actually.

[_aLucidMind_]

AlanC9 wrote...

shodiswe wrote...

The differences are minimal.

It shouldn't have been that hard to put in a Geth trooper or a Krogan somewhere, perhaps a Salarian Sniper.

We see a few krogan, actually.

Besides the ones getting obliterated by the Destroyer's beam at close-range, we really don't.

[KLGChaos]

Yeah, there was a lot of disappointing stuff from the ending besides the Star Child. There was so much they could have done, but unfortunately they were either rushed for time, low on resources or too concerned with forcing a certain type of ending that they dropped the ball on it.

 

Personally, I would have loved to see an option for a perfect play through, where if you make a LOT of correct decisions through all three games you can get a pretty happy ending and a more conventional victory. I know people see happy endings as "disney, rainbows and ponies" and think that only dark or bittersweet endings are artistic, but I argue that is untrue. I believe that while art can make you think, what's more important is how art makes you feel. A bittersweet or bleak ending can make you feel sad, it can urge discussion, it can do many things. A happy ending can give you the feeling of triumph and joy.

 

That's why I wish they had endings for everyone, instead of having one flavor of bittersweet. Art comes in many, many forms after all.

[AlanC9]

Besides the ones getting obliterated by the Destroyer's beam at close-range, we really don't.

Right. Like I said, we see a few. Plus the ones back at the base, of course.

[CrutchCricket]

What was missing?

ME2 squadmates.

 

Also, logic, reason, sense, a trilogy's worth of choices mattering...

[ErikModi]

In the conversation with the Catalyst, when he's going on about the inevitability of synthetic and organic life destroying each other, I wanted to be able to point out that giant window and say "See that?  That's a quarian ship.  See that?  That's a GETH ship.  The geth, in case you haven't been paying attention, are the synthetic life forms the quarians created."  "Which nearly destroyed them."  "Yes.  But now, they're both fightning and dying, side by side, to defeat YOU.  See that?  That's my ship, the Normandy.  Our pilot is an organic, we call him Joker.  He's currently romantically involved with our ship's AI, EDI, who downloaded herself into the curviest fembot I can imagine.  You want to tell me again about how synthetics and organics destroying each other is 'inevitable?'"

[AlanC9]

At which point he replies that this will only last until organics are utterly surpassed by synthetics, and the conversation continues as before. Yeah, they might as well have included this.

[Massa FX]

what's missing from the ending?

A true victory over the enemy without loosing your integrity, your humanity or your life.

But in War that's impossible some may say. In real life yes. But this is a vid game! Most everything in the game can't happen in real life!

[Massa FX]

@ErikModi Agreed.

[ErikModi]

At which point he replies that this will only last until organics are utterly surpassed by synthetics, and the conversation continues as before. Yeah, they might as well have included this.

 

True.  There are any of number of arguments why that peace MAY not last, and why a blindered AI would reject the possibility.  Still, I wanted to call him on his bull.

[AlanC9]

If I had to guess, I'd guess that they didn't want to include that argument because they didn't want Shepard's next-to-last action to be utterly futile. Not a great reason to not do it, but it's all I can come up with.

[Iakus]

what's missing from the ending?

A true victory over the enemy without loosing your integrity, your humanity or your life.

But in War that's impossible some may say. In real life yes. But this is a vid game! Most everything in the game can't happen in real life!

 

So much this.

 

I did not play through a trilogy to have my Commander Shepard turn into Walter White!

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 I used to like Priority: Earth well enough, but it's threads like these that made me hate it.

[ZeroPhoenix94]

Miranda, Jack, Jacob, Grunt, Zaeed, Kasumi, Samara.

 

They were there while not actually being there though.

[von uber]

I used to like Priority: Earth well enough, but it's threads like these that made me hate it.

Can't stand that mission. The pointless turret bit really baffles me, and the missile tank section is cack.
Also the goodbyes by vidcom are daft as well in the context (although I understand why they are in).

[AlanC9]

Cack?

[Barquiel]

I agree, it was a bit disappointing (it would have been nice to see some rachni in action)...but I guess it would have required a lot of work and disc space to create cutscenes for all the possible combinations. Remember those cutscenes with a strike team with an Asari, a Turian, and a Krogan? That's exactly the same even if you sabotaged the genophage and Wrex says that the Krogan won't be there for Earth. The space cutscenes were still nice, imo. The fleets' arrival was an epic introduction and the scene in the epilogue is (at least according to "Twitter-canon") the core of the new council/citadel fleet, so it makes sense that we only see asari, turians and alliance ships (poor salarians never got a model).

[von uber]

Cack?

Yes. Another decent English swearword that isn't blocked here (like bollocks) as it is a us site.
Cack is another way of saying ****. A bit more earthy in its expression.

[Rawgrim]

An ending that makes sense is what is missing from the ending.

[AlanC9]

Hey, I just learned something on the BSN!

[ImaginaryMatter]

Hey, I just learned something on the BSN!

 

No way!