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[Ithurael]

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

 

For me it was the "Buy more DLC" message

 

I mean...how...how did THAT seem like a good idea?

[von uber]

For me it was the "Buy more DLC" message

 

I mean...how...how did THAT seem like a good idea?

 

Luckily I bought the trilogy too late to suffer that particular gem

[Alamar2078]

How in the world did I miss the Animal House ending???  Now if someone could just mod that into the game

[FaWa]

The EC and Leviathan fixed all of my problems (Which were mostly about the lack of content that really needed to be there in order for the ending to make sense/provide proper closure). 

 

I get having an issue with the original ending, but post-EC I don't have any big problems with it.

[dorktainian]

just watch rageaholic's mass effect 3 review.  Sums it all up for me.

[PR_]

It's okay to feel sad.

 

I'm currently on my fourth playthrough of ME3 iirc (i've played ME1 six times and ME2 five times) and i'm doing the Citadel DLC with the Epilogue MOD right now.

 

I felt very freaking sad on my two first playthroughs, the first one hit me hard in the feels tbh, i've spend one week just thinking about all the adventure and the characters and very sad with the ending and well, the end of this amazing and long story (i've cried in ME3 too).

 

These three games captured me in a way that i can't describe, i love the entire franchise but i don't close my eyes to the bad things that happened, i just try to stick with the things that make me feel happy or make me laugh and the things that i truly enjoy in the franchise.

 

 

ME3 is very depressing in my opinion, and despite the ending of Shepard's adventure and the Normandy crew being sad (for me) i still love this game (the three games actually) and i will remember forever.

 

It was one of the most amazing adventures that i had on video games and one of the best things in my life (yeah, i like games that much).

 

Sorry for any grammar error, english is not my native language.

 

[Linkenski]

At the time the game came out I was already slightly depressed about certain stuff in high-school life and I was really looking forward to just escaping into the Mass Effect universe, so yeah that ending really felt like a punch in the stomach and it did make me feel very depressed.

 

Literally the day after I beat it we had to go to spain on a student's trip for a week, and to my luck the trip was very good and helped me cope with what I had just witnessed. Me and classmates were drunk every day in a week. I rarely do that, but this time I had to.

[MegaIllusiveMan]

Well, yes. It's the same thing when you finish that very nice book or TV Series and just want to re-watch the whole thing just so your life won't feel empty...

[Undead Han]

Not after the Extended Cut. I think in the High EMS variants the endings have a somewhat hopeful/positive tone.

 

Prior to the EC, besides the general feeling of disappointment over a poorly written conclusion to the series, I suppose I was kind of bummed out. I wouldn't use the word 'depressed,' but the original endings were intended to be kind of a downer. It was not a happy ending. It was not even bittersweet. Galactic civilization had completely collapsed, the relay network was fried and unusable for centuries (implied by the Stargazer scene), and even if Shepard survives he/she was not going to see anyone who was on the Normandy ever again, which may have included the LI.

[TMA LIVE]

When I completed ME3 for the first time, I remember liking the concept the ending was attempting, but was also confused, and felt like the game ended in a cliff hanger for a sequel that would never happen. That these characters I loved would be stuck on a planet with no way off. I also felt like there was no point in replaying ME1 and ME2, because majority of my choices were palate swaps in the main game, and pretty much reset to nothing after the end credits. I felt like I build a sand castle only for it to be booted down.

 

Then EC came out, and though I wish it was better done (because from an Editor's point of view, the new scenes are not well put together with the old scenes), I at least got my choices reflected. I saw my hard work pay off with the Krogans, and keeping my other characters alive. I saw different futures depending on the choices I made. And I knew, unless I picked refuse, these characters had a future, and thus I could put my Shepard to rest. So I was happy at least for that.

[ashlover mark 2]

Yes. I started to feel depressed during the last moments of Priority Earth, just before the thanix missile defense segment. I took some solace in the notion that I would get an awesome send off for the characters and the story I was so invested in for years when I got to the end.   You can imagine my reaction when I got the complete opposite.

[wright1978]

My recollection is of anger, grief, disbelief swilling together in a really toxic mix after my first run. The sense of hundreds of hours of enjoyment being tainted by an atrocious trainwreck ending. Didn't play the game again till the EC, which did nothing but put a fancy bow on the ending and exacerbated my grief, anger and depression by creating more problems and refusing to address key issues. Thankfully as i played on PC, there was the MEHEM mod that cut out the cancerous core of the ending and cobbled together something that gave a reasonable conclusion to a series i'd loved. The anger will always be there(somewhat faded), the sadness is still there(somewhat faded).

[Eezay]

I finished the game when it first came out, original endings.
I sat there for like 10 minutes. Really just sat there, just staring at the screen, trying to process what happened. Then I said to myself the slowest "WTF" I ever experienced. I then started watching youtube videos about the endings, rants, IT videos. Strangely enough, that made me feel somehow deeply connected with the ME fanbase. Especially the IT changed my entire outlook on gaming, I never analyzed a game so deeply before. The only guy I knew personally, who also played ME was the guy who got me into it by borrowing me ME2. But he was rather rational about it, for him, it was just another game. I never realized how many people out there were like me. Also it made me realize how attached to this series I really was.
I also use MEHEM and CEM, and I also still get this terribly bittersweet feeling whenever I finish the games or think about the ME universe. It doesn't have anything to do with the ending, it just happens when you get really immersed in and attached to a fiction.

[q5tyhj]

.....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.

Not the sharpest tack in the drawer, are you? Newsflash: I replying to the OP, I wasn't talking to you. But thanks for the chuckle- not very often you see someone miss the boat this badly.

[HydroFlame20]

When I beat mass effect 3 for the first time omg I never felt so sad lol but also confused a little bit I also understood that this game series had a huge impact on me needless to say the extended cut helped allot.

[fraggle]

I just finished the game Saturday night, and I would not have expected this impact on me at all. I really liked ME1 and 2, but I never got too attached to the story or most of the characters (though I've always loved Kaidan and Garrus to death), or even my Shep. Then I started ME3, and I immediately was drawn into the story, the war, seeing the Reapers on earth, then the flight from earth. I was pumped throughout the whole game and I loved it so much, I played every night after work.

Loved to have Kaidan back and some of the other characters, and to see characters from ME2.

So, right up till the end I found this game awesome, then I started the London part and I was overwhelmed. The scenes were amazing, it was right up my alley, having to go through the enemy lines and get to your first safe haven. Talking to all my companions and saying our Goodbyes. It was quite sad!

But then when the last beam hit me and this brilliant music part started, and everything just went slow motion, I suddenly started crying. It was a perfect moment. Seeing my Shep all bruised and bleeding was tough to witness. The slide of my LI (Kaidan) at the end finished me off.

I cried and sobbed the whole last 20 minutes or so.

I really would've never thought that I cared so much in the end, but I did and I'm glad. Will definitely replay this trilogy. I loved the ending despite reading before on the Dragon Age forums that most people hated it. For me it was closure. It was done. I especially loved the fact that you didn't really know what became of everyone in that moment, it was just Shepard, I became Shepard and witnessed my end and I finished the mission I was set out to do.

 

I bought all DLCs right away, played Leviathan and finished Citadel yesterday, and then I will play through the end again because this time I also installed the EC, and I wanna see what's different. I also need more EMS since I didn't get the breathing scene

[Sylvan_Moon]

I played the trilogy fairly late since I originally avoided FPS games. I was playing Dragon Age at the time when ME 3 was released and couldn't help seeing people's reactions on the ending in BSN every time I visited the forums. So when I finally got around to playing ME, I wasn't expecting much from the ending.

 

To be completely honest, it was a fun ride for me. I didn't like the ending as well, but I didn't completely hate it, either. It was just "Ehh". I guess I already steeled myself for disappointment.

 

It was the journey that was so much more fun for me, getting to know the characters, the sweeping alien worlds, the romance, the humor. The Citadel DLC was a gem of epic proportions for me. And I hate to admit it but I cried when Mordin died. I am such a sap. I'm the only girl I know who cries over a video game. Not that I know many girls who actually play video games.

 

Still, my favorite part is the suicide mission. I loved the tension, and the music, and the way you had to handle your whole team, and the overall feeling of danger that someone close might die. I wish ME 3 went out with a bang like ME 2 did. It kinda fell flat on it's face.

 

Overall, I still love the trilogy and would consider it my favorite game with how much emotional investment I had in it. Long after finishing the games, I'm still mired deep in fanfiction and comics about ME.

 

But that's just my 2c.

[DJ-Kratz]

I'm a 35 year old guy whose been gaming all his life and I can safely say (although I won't try and reproduce why such is the long time since my last play through) that I've never been so emotionally invested in a gaming series such as ME, and never been moved so much by a game more than ME3 and for that reason I only played ME3 twice, the second time to try some of the great mods the BSN community had put together for it. It remains today my favourite trilogy.

[Abelas Forever!]

I was broken after I had finished the game. I played with EC but I didn't get the breathing scene after choosing the red ending because my EMS was too low. I wasn't prepared for that kind of ending even though I got the feeling that something bad would happen. I finished the game about 4 AM that  probably didn't help either. Of course I had to know was it possible for Shepard to survive and so I started searching information and I found out that if your EMS is high enough and you choose the red ending then you get the breathing scene which means that your Shepard did survive after all. I was relieved because even though you don't see the reunion with your comapnions it's still possible and I like endings where is hope for the better rather than happy ending where everybody are just happy like nothing bad had happened. After that playthrough the ending is still really sad and I cry but knowing that you can survive and most likely see your companions again makes it much better.

[Teddie Sage]

Yes, because the awful writing of the endings destroyed my love for the franchise.

[Abelas Forever!]

@Sylvan_Moon

I'm a woman and I also cry over a game if there is an emotional scene. I don't know other girls/women who does that but then again I don't know women/girls who like to play video games either. But I have heard rumours that they exists

[Linkenski]

For me it was the "Buy more DLC" message

 

I mean...how...how did THAT seem like a good idea?

Probably Bioware gave Mac the responsibility of writing the final "thanks for playing" message and as usual Mac is very single-minded and doesn't consider the implications of his writing.

[Maldini]

Just finished the trilogy on PS3.

next time will run the trilogy on my new PC.

[voteDC]

I had a massive feeling of 'meh!'

It wasn't even as if I found the endings bad, though I found the passive Shepard in the Catalyst conversation annoying, they just seemed so incomplete.

[Lordus]

Been awhile since I've been on this post noticing and reading everyone's thoughts and feelings.

Going to start a new play though but with the same Shepard however, wouldn't dare on making a new one.

 

Another thought popped in my mind to relate to this topic; How do you feel about your own Shepard in an emotional way?

As you can see, my Shepard is my profile picture