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[Rusted Cage]

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And here I am now typing and awake at 3:30am still trying to get over it, I feel even worse than finishing the game the first time. If this sounds really silly or dumb then I have no shame, this game really touched me. Even if I entered a third play through with all three games tomorrow then I'm just going to repeat myself again.

Anyway, if you got this far then thanks for reading.

I'd like to hear from you guys and to know what you guys felt at the end of the game.

In response to Lordus' OP, I can completely relate. A lot of us who have been on this journey since day one couldn't deal with the ending to ME3, I know I went through all the stages of grief until the Extended Cut came out.

I think you'll also find many people have done what you have in terms of character creation and those Shepards end up being their "canon" Shepards. For what it's worth and if nobody has suggested it already, introducing roleplay into your next character might make you pick different courses of action. Try picking a different background and psych profile than last time and imagine a backstory for that Shepard. For instance, my "canon" femshep is different to my broshep and is actually a lot more realistic than that guy, making much more practical decisions.

[Jaron Oberyn]

My ending involved destroying the reapers, but all of my squad and a lot of people dying including my sheps LI who was blasted by Harby right before he in turn died. So a bit sad yes, but a fitting end no less. Stopped the reapers, but at a very high price. Given the threat of the reapers, I feel like a happier ending than that would be cheap. But this is just my opinion on it.

[Lordus]

In response to Lordus' OP, I can completely relate. A lot of us who have been on this journey since day one couldn't deal with the ending to ME3, I know I went through all the stages of grief until the Extended Cut came out.

I think you'll also find many people have done what you have in terms of character creation and those Shepards end up being their "canon" Shepards. For what it's worth and if nobody has suggested it already, introducing roleplay into your next character might make you pick different courses of action. Try picking a different background and psych profile than last time and imagine a backstory for that Shepard. For instance, my "canon" femshep is different to my broshep and is actually a lot more realistic than that guy, making much more practical decisions.

 

 

My ending involved destroying the reapers, but all of my squad and a lot of people dying including my sheps LI who was blasted by Harby right before he in turn died. So a bit sad yes, but a fitting end no less. Stopped the reapers, but at a very high price. Given the threat of the reapers, I feel like a happier ending than that would be cheap. But this is just my opinion on it.

I'm glad I'm not alone then, brilliant game. And that's a good idea by making a FemShep with a different background. My BroShep had the Earth raised one where he was in a gang then joined Alliance military; I kind of regret that now. I'd rather the one where his parents are alive and you can speak to them I think. To late to turn back now.

 

I always made sure everyone lived, couldn't bare them dying. Even in ME2 in the suicide mission I saw a video how everyone in your squad dies even Shepard. I was shocked that that was a possibility.

[Alamar2078]

It's never too late

[crimzontearz]

Oh, also, obligatory something something write your own ending into the back of the book in crayon with the MEHEM mod blah blah blah.

Or, recognize that the feeling you're experiencing is what people call "bittersweet", a sign that you enjoyed the story/playing the game and it affected you. Enjoy it for what it is... then go play the game again.

.....what???

If I LIKED the game as you said I would be playing ot still....and I am not

Instead I am playing DAI and Halo tmcc( wich has a bittersweet ending btw)


No I think I will not let you tell me what I am feeling and just follow my own analysis of my own emotions TYVM.

[Autoola]

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In the end; being indoctrinated in game or not I felt depressed the following week walking around the house doing what I had to do. I didn't know this game could have such an effect on me.

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[ehem... look at my avatar...]

Same way here. Played even pretty much the same way like you did (just a few month ago for the first time) and I´m still stuck in the MEU. But fortunately the sadness is gone (well, it takes time) and there remains just pleasure.

And as a paragon player I have to say that there are really some good renegade moments (Thanes loyalty mission: Kelhams interrogation, Padok Wiks). I don´t like killing people just for fun and so most of the renegade playthrough was really hard. And playing FemShep with LI Thane - very sad moments ahead (Citadel DLC).

 

Something is pushing me just to do yet a third play through all over again ME 1 to 3.

Do it. The best way to get over it imo. I´m doing a slow withdrawal.

[YouKnowMyName]

I felt a bit apathetic throughout most of ME3 for some reason. I didn't hate the game, but it definitely wasn't my favourite of the three games either.

[Nathander Von Eric]

I got what is considered the "perfect" destroy ending and was pissed when I saw Edi's name on the wall of honor. I didn't even think about her being a synthetic until afterwards and she was one of my favorite characters in ME3.

 

Other than that I liked the ending. The Reapers are defeated, Shepard is alive ( and in my imagintion finds a way to contact the Normady and is reunited with the crew) and the galaxy's races can rebuild and learn from the expeirence.

 

Still sucks about Edi though. I killed her right along with the Reapers and I feel bad about it.

[prosthetic soul]

I think the better question is....did anyone NOT feel sad or depressed after beating ME 3? 

 

Other than that, refer to my sig if you want MY answer. 

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I gained the ME3 5 lbs. It was the ice cream.

 

@Lordus - Enjoy the one true ending -

 

[Lordus]

I gained the ME3 5 lbs. It was the ice cream.

 

@Lordus - Enjoy the one true ending -

 

Haha! Now that was awesome! Thanks for sharing that.

[SilJeff]

I'm not over dramatic, so after feeling disappointed [I have repressed my pre-Extended Cut feelings. I try not to even think about the game pre-Extended Cut since it fixed the ending for me {alongside Leviathan}. Well, I guess I have some drama in me after all] for a few minutes, I just wanted to play the trilogy over again because I loved the pre-ending too much to let a disappointing 10 minutes change that. I don't get depressed over the way a show, movie, or game ends, it just isn't who I am [otherwise I would have to hate my second favorite anime of all time, the 2004 Fullmetal Alchemist anime]. I personally think selling your game, deleting your digital copy of a game, shunning the developer forever, etc like some people on BSN have done to be outright ridiculous and over dramatic, even if the Ending of 3 wasn't good.

 

Now-a-days, once I reach the end, I simply don't care about it. When I am at the beam run, I've already had almost 100 hours of the most fun I've ever had, and all my mind is thinking about is what I want to do for my next playthrough and I'm already planning it out. I do phase back in and pay attention to the slideshow because I enjoy finding out how my decisions affected the outcome of the galaxy post-reaper war. My favorite is the paragon version of Control in high EMS. But I am still trying to figure out how to get some of the low-EMS endings such as the one where the Rachni have taken over Tuchanka and it will be one plot point of a future playthrough.

[dorktainian]

This line from DAI sums it up for me.  

 

 

"what harm could there be in powering up something we barely understand?"

 

 

As long as you remember that after each ending you return to the normandy you'll be fine. 

You didn't use the crucible.  It's a trap.  Remember this and the depression will lift.

 

All you saw was what might be.

 

As for the extended cut?  I preferred the original ending.  Extended cut provided more questions than it answered.

[Lordus]

This line from DAI sums it up for me.  

 

 

"what harm could there be in powering up something we barely understand?"

 

 

As long as you remember that after each ending you return to the normandy you'll be fine. 

You didn't use the crucible.  It's a trap.  Remember this and the depression will lift.

 

All you saw was what might be.

 

As for the extended cut?  I preferred the original ending.  Extended cut provided more questions than it answered.

 

I'm not over dramatic, so after feeling disappointed [I have repressed my pre-Extended Cut feelings. I try not to even think about the game pre-Extended Cut since it fixed the ending for me {alongside Leviathan}. Well, I guess I have some drama in me after all] for a few minutes, I just wanted to play the trilogy over again because I loved the pre-ending too much to let a disappointing 10 minutes change that. I don't get depressed over the way a show, movie, or game ends, it just isn't who I am [otherwise I would have to hate my second favorite anime of all time, the 2004 Fullmetal Alchemist anime]. I personally think selling your game, deleting your digital copy of a game, shunning the developer forever, etc like some people on BSN have done to be outright ridiculous and over dramatic, even if the Ending of 3 wasn't good.

 

Now-a-days, once I reach the end, I simply don't care about it. When I am at the beam run, I've already had almost 100 hours of the most fun I've ever had, and all my mind is thinking about is what I want to do for my next playthrough and I'm already planning it out. I do phase back in and pay attention to the slideshow because I enjoy finding out how my decisions affected the outcome of the galaxy post-reaper war. My favorite is the paragon version of Control in high EMS. But I am still trying to figure out how to get some of the low-EMS endings such as the one where the Rachni have taken over Tuchanka and it will be one plot point of a future playthrough.

They're all great points that I'll defiantly think about.

I think what made the ending very sad for me was pretty much saying good bye to everyone of my crew, my friends. When I spoke to Garrus saying farewell to him and he replied about watching over each other if one of them died meeting them at the bar in heaven. I then thought to myself...  Well...This is going to hurt like hell.

 

Or even to Javik. He said he'll go to his peoples graves and end his life there after the invasion

 

This is why I got Deager's CEM mod. Having the party and waking up with my LI. Then returning to the Nomandy and seeing everyone boarding it letting me know that everyone is alive and well. . 

[themikefest]

 

As for the extended cut?  I preferred the original ending.  Extended cut provided more questions than it answered.

The one thing the extended cut did fix was the flashbacks

[Ithurael]

As for the extended cut?  I preferred the original ending.  Extended cut provided more questions than it answered.

 

With respect...they DID give some definative answers...Yes, some of their answers did open more questions but they did answer some of the bigger stuff:

- Why did the Normandy leave == Definative answer

- Relays explode = killed galaxy == Only works in High EMS as the relay is damaged..in low to mid ems the galaxy is still dead so there should be no slide show

- Teleporting Squadmates == Normandy Evac (though this raises a number of issues, questions and concerns) and we now have our entire crew on the normandy for the memorial...for...reasonz

- Starjar logic == just mindless exposition

 

There were many MANY other issues with the ending and many MANY other questions & issues (war assets, starjar on the citadel & ME1, purpose of collectors, shep surviving explosion on citadel, etc) that bioware did not answer because either they didn't want to/couldn't or because it would have interfered with their artistic vision I suppose.

 

 

All you saw was what might be.

 

 

What you saw was what you saw...there is no reason to think it was not. Nor will there be. Unless the game is a giant leviathan hallucination from when you do that DLC to the ending...because...reasonz

[Rasande]

Abit sad yeah, i came pretty late to the party since i felt i had to replay the entire two games before playing the third so i was pretty prepared for a sucky ending.

Also i'm not the type of person that dosen't acually mind a sad ending, i expected Shepard to die and never really had a problem with it, and by the time i finnished it i played with Leviathan and the EC installed so that soften the blow aswell.

 

Most of all i was just dissapointed, nothing you did before acually mattered. Not even a little. The whole bit of organics will create synthetics to destroy all life so i'll create synthetics to destroy organics so that dosen't happen was hard to swallow, especially since i made peace between the Geth and Quarians acouple of hours before.

Wasn't a fan of the catalyst taking the form of the kid either, it's like that Jodie Foster movie "Contact" where you finally get to the end to see the alien and it's her ****** father haning out on a beach.

Also i think i find the "upplifting" sythesis ending is pretty depressing, the only way to make lasting peace is through some homoginization. You spend 3 games overcoming odds through diversity and make everyone work together but the only way to remove conflict is to make everyone half robot.

 

Everything up to that point though is great and a lackluster ending dosen't change that. I still love all 3 games dearly

[dorktainian]

 

 

What you saw was what you saw...there is no reason to think it was not. Nor will there be. Unless the game is a giant leviathan hallucination from when you do that DLC to the ending...because...reasonz

 

Everything will be OK.  Trust Me.  

[Ithurael]

Everything will be OK.  Trust Me.  

IT is like the word Fetch...it's just never going to happen

[Killdren88]

I'm still broken up about it. For me it is a black day in gaming history. I'm not enraged by it, but yeah. Still not happy by the end result.

[o Ventus]

I feel that the ending plays entirely to emotion and drama and is entirely nonsensical and illogical, with the Catalyst's entire motivation being nothing more than self-fulfilling circular logic, with several characters either speaking or acting out of character. It's either rushed and unrefined or it was thought out and is just a terrible idea to begin with (I prescribe to the latter idea, personally).

 

Thankfully, I play with MEHEM v.04 installed, so I don't have to torture myself with the gibberish from the Catalyst. The MEHEM ending still plays to emotion, but it is more cathartic and rewarding than being forced into "Shepard dies because reasons" or "the geth die because reasons". I won't even mention the abomination against storytelling that is Synthesis.

[CaIIisto]

High EMS destroy, and I couldn't care less about EDI buying the farm. Or the Geth for that matter.

The lack of epilogue for Shepard however went beyond sadness and ventured into blind fury. Considering that this is the end of Shepard's story, and that Shepard will absolutely NOT be in the next game then why so non-committal on Shepard's fate beyond the end of the game in high EMS destroy? There's finality in the other choices - but for that one, hey go make up your own ending.....

I applaud those that developed the MEHEM and CEM mods, but they're not for me. I'm glad that many took consolation from those mods but my trilogy ends with Shepard investigating the underside of a stack of bricks.

I'm sorry, I'm trying NOT to be bitchy about the endings these days, but there you go.....

[von uber]

The High EMS Destroy ending breath scene is what made me join BSN.