The longer this thread goes on the more I find myself siding with Mac.
I've tried to spread the blame for the ending evenly, especially after EC (though comparing Shepard to Walter White has made that very, very hard)
But in the end, he does deserve at least some of the blame, given he was the Lead Writer. At the very least, he abetted these endings
Play the MP, it's better than the SP and really fun. People still play this thing in the wee, wee hours of the morning on XBL. I was in full rooms at 2 in the AM.
Discouragement and utter lack of disgust with SP is totally normal if not expected. The MP is the best part of ME3, go play it.
The MP is the best part of ME3, go play it.
I completely disagree with this. So there you go.
I tried the multiplayer once on a public console that had an internet connection... and honestly, I didn't care for it at all. There was nothing about it that would have made me want to play more than that necessary one time to register the game to my BSN account, even if it had been free. I thought the singleplayer combat was much more enjoyable.
MP is the one thing I didn't want in ME3 and yet I ended up really enjoying it.
Love the MP, but it doesn't have the same draw as the SP.
Ah good, unless I'm mistaken this is the first new ME3 ending thread since the move to the new forums. I was missing the same circular debates and raging I had grown so accustomed to.
heh
but for the OP, yeah we all know what you mean. I remember my first time beating the game, half drunk on whiskey, 3am and I'm croaking to myself in a little girl's voice 'how could they just leave me to die? after all we've been through?'
*sniff*
the feels...
still hurts
Omigosh. That is EXACTLY what my experience finishing ME3 for the first time was. With only minute differences:
- issit de ending? Looks a whole lot like an ending.
- a little kid. mkay. shut up, kid, where the adults at? I need to talk to someone I can akshully take for serial
- whiskey tango foxtrot. dis brat is it
- dafuuuuuq you babblin bout, ya brat?
- issit de ending now? where is it?
- SERIOUSLY WHERE IS THE ENDING
- WHAT
... followed by me finishing the bottle, crying in the shower and waking up in the next morning with a mind-obliterating hangover and a vague sense that something had gone terribly, terribly wrong. Chalked it up to a bad dream.
It was no dream.
I played through the entire trilogy for the 6th time recently - never have seen the ME3 ending sober. Am really scared what it might do.
Who plays the end of a video game sober? Who plays a video game sober?
....I mean what.
Who plays the end of a video game sober? Who plays a video game sober?
....I mean what.
No, no one would ever do that.
Right...?
Who plays the end of a video game sober? Who plays a video game sober?
....I mean what.
No, no one would ever do that.
Right...?
Aw you guys.
Seems I have found my people 
Aw you guys.
Seems I have found my people
I could regale you with my adventures playing this game.
Unfortunately, I don't remember most of them.
I like multiplayer well enough, but I'm more of a story-focused person myself. I'm not that big on combat unless it's more relevant to the story or if I'm at least invested in the characters engaging in the fight. You escort one drone, you've escorted them all.
I will never, ever play Borderlands sober and that is my creed.
But yeah, if I'm playing games, I'm usually in relaxation mode already. Think of it like cranking up the difficulty setting without having to click any buttons.
you may find this odd, but I'm actually a better racecar or getaway driver when I've been drinking. though I think it's likely because I take more risks and my luck seems to hold out. or at least that's the best idea I have.
No, I understand what you mean. Ususally, when I play I only have an hour or so and I'm usually rushed and play more recklessly. But if I'm relaxed I take my time because I'm in nnno hurry.
I talked to a friend who just finnished the series. He seemed to think it was good. He played with the EC and all DLC's ofcourse.
I said I thought things with priority earth and the endings could have been better, but he seemed to think it was ok and that it might be unreasonable to expect too much. That it's incredible that they were able to keep track of all those choices across three games. I agree they did a fairly good job keeping track of all those things.
He picked Synthesis as his ending. I tend to prefer Control, synthesis commes second imo. It's all fine with me 
Anyway, thought I could share what I heard, he said something along the lines of Destroy seeming too American. Do you think there are cultural and social preferences that makes people choose differently based on such factors? People are after all a product of their lifeexperiences(environment) and to some degree maybe their genes.
I like multiplayer well enough, but I'm more of a story-focused person myself. I'm not that big on combat unless it's more relevant to the story or if I'm at least invested in the characters engaging in the fight. You escort one drone, you've escorted them all.
Doesn't really say much good about the narrative based role playing game when one is reduced to saying "at least the multiplayer was fun" 
Anyway, thought I could share what I heard, he said something along the lines of Destroy seeming too American. Do you think there are cultural and social preferences that makes people choose differently based on such factors?
It's possible but I'm suspicious that's going on when people choose their endings. For one it's too easy to frame anything in reference to a country. "Oh you picked Control because you're American and America is imperialist and wants to police the world!" That sort of nonsense.
I'd simply have to see polls/stats where the choice distribution was significantly different statistically based on region or country to spend the effort waxing sociological.
It's possible but I'm suspicious that's going on when people choose their endings. For one it's too easy to frame anything in reference to a country. "Oh you picked Control because you're American and America is imperialist and wants to police the world!" That sort of nonsense.
I'd simply have to see polls/stats where the choice distribution was significantly different statistically based on region or country to spend the effort waxing sociological.
Heck if that were true, Control would be way more popular
Suggest the reason the ending has such a negative impact on people is the contrast to the end of ME2 or even ME1. At the end of ME2, particularly if you had made it through with your entire team and crew still alive, that was one hell of a buzz (well it was for me). Then there is that dash for the Normandy with Harbinger's voice pursuing you, the final jump to safety and the Normandy flying out of the exploding base (a bit like Return of the Jedi) and that wonderful epic music. If you weren't on a high after that there was something seriously wrong with you. And naturally you couldn't wait to play ME3. Then you get the epic story on Tuchunka, Kalross taking down the Reaper, curing the genophage (well I did), Mordin's death, Rannoch, Thane's death (hated Kai Leng's involvement but his actual deathbed scene was touching. I was expecting Shepard to die (too many hints suggesting that) but thought it would be in a glorious final battle, involving all the troops I had amassed. Instead we got the oddity from the beam onwards that no one fully understands and leaves you thinking "that was it?" Then along comes EC and apparently Shepard not dead after all but hardly conclusive.
Suggest you do what I did. Play Citadel DLC after the ending because that is where it belongs. EDI restored (if they could bring a brain dead Shepard back, then I'm pretty sure EDI would have a back up program we could reboot with) End with party and group photo. Great feeling restored.
The possibility of Shepard's survival was always there. The EC only lowered the EMS requirement so that you could get it without multiplayer. Of course, the variable memorial scene comes with it to help drive that home.
The possibility of Shepard's survival was always there. The EC only lowered the EMS requirement so that you could get it without multiplayer. Of course, the variable memorial scene comes with it to help drive that home.
Because actually changing that scene to be clearer in something expressly made to provide clarity and closure would be wrong.
Or something. 
Hey, I would have liked for there to be a revised scene where there was an actual extraction from the Citadel too, but those are the breaks I guess.
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