Like others have said, I'm also not going to ruin my expectations and assume 40 wholly different endings. What I'm curious about is why they even bothered to state a specific number... I mean, really, that's just tempting scrutiny and debate. Bold Bioware.
I don't care how many endings there are, as long as there's at least one that I'd find satisfactory.
Multiple satisfactory endings would, of course be better.
40 endings.....4 races.........2 genders per race
so lets see here, 10 endings per race, divided by gender and we get 5 endings per character!!!
my math skills cant really be called skills but if this is correct then i can live with it.
If this turns into a "complain about ME3" thread, it will be shut down. Duly warned.
Insofar as DAI goes, at this point you're unlikely to get any of us to comment on anything which would be taken as a promise or be open to interpretation. So take the information for what it is, until we decide whether we wish to talk about it further.
I doubt you'll be able to give an exact answer, but I would presume by 40 endings, you're counting variables? Such as a character surviving in one playthrough, as opposed to them not in another?
As long as the '40 different' endings are handled more akin to DA:O than ME....
I will play the game ever which way until the 4th DA game releases just to get every possible ending.
Buuuut.....
If choices and outcomes are dependant on race...and to some manner, class.....
there are 4 races we can play.....means......10 endings with 4 possible 'flavors'?
here is my probem... when some telling me something has 2-5-10 ending, i expect different endings as in thematicly different endings. Like with Vampire the mascerade. There where 5 endings but 4 major ones, expect the one minor difference of either your with the anarchs or your solo.
It was some photoshopped getty image pic.
Nah, still nice looking pic.
While it may not have had "big logic problems" it was a poorly written story, with some very poorly written characters and while the end was not as bad as ME3s, it was still silly and didn't really fit. tbf the vast majority of ME3 was ok, but the vast majority of DA2 was rubbish.
I'm surprised they would promise THAT many endings, regardless of how "different" each is from the others. It seems like overkill to me.
Personally I have the feeling 40 endings is based upon combining different world state variables in all their possible combinations, likely there is only a few core endings to the main conflict.
If this turns into a "complain about ME3" thread, it will be shut down. Duly warned.
Insofar as DAI goes, at this point you're unlikely to get any of us to comment on anything which would be taken as a promise or be open to interpretation. So take the information for what it is, until we decide whether we wish to talk about it further.
Fair enough but I have to at least mention that a similar claim was made for another Bioware game that failed to meet even the bare minimum expectations from a lot of people. It's nice to see that you guys are working hard to bring us lots of variation so the ending is unique for each of us, just beg pardon if I keep my hype and expectations very low on this matter.
Egads, if we get a cookie cutter ending complete with cozy epilogue slides (a la DA:O) I'll be disappointed. Probably won't start a dozen threads about how much I hate the ending though. I'm just silly like that.
I doubt that I'll agree with Bioware's criteria for what constitutes a "different ending".
But I wouldn't care if there was only one ending.
I bet they'll narrow it down by release.
I wouldn't put much credit into "40 different endings" but I wouldn't be dissapointed if they were talking mostly about epilogue slides either. I thought the epilogue slides were a great way of showing the outcome of minor events without having to put in much devlopment time, plus the 4 diffent outcomes to the arch demon battle.
So, out of the blue, here comes Batman with an amazing speech. Although the anecdote at the beginning made me quite sad.
I wouldn't put much credit into "40 different endings" but I wouldn't be dissapointed if they were talking mostly about epilogue slides either. I thought the epilogue slides were a great way of showing the outcome of minor events without having to put in much devlopment time, plus the 4 diffent outcomes to the arch demon battle.
It will probably be something like Origins, I think: DAO had 4 main endings, but many different choices along the way that changed the ending / epilogue.
It will probably be something like Origins, I think: DAO had 4 main endings, but many different choices along the way that changed the ending / epilogue.
pretty much.
Still 40 endings, I call BS on that, because I can't see it happening and BW also promised 16 endings for ME3 and we all know what we got there.
Well said thebatmanreborn. Mirrors my own thoughts on the matter.
I just hope that Bioware has learned it's lesson and that they will do just fine 
I'd like to reiterate for what feels like the hundredth time that Mass Effect and Dragon Age are made by two separate teams. It's unfair to hold Mass Effect 3 against the DA team.
I'm all for holding out for clarifications instead of making dire proclamations and doom and gloom posts. I'm excited. I'm really excited. I just want the game to be good. As long as the ending is good, I don't care. I loved DA2, but I was unhappy that we fought both Meredith and Orsino no matter what we did. Avoid that? I'm thrilled. I do think that the ending wouldn't have been as...the way it was if they had more time and knew the extension wasn't going to happen ahead of time.
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