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What have gaming companies come to nowadays? Bioware has practically whore’d itself out to EA with open arms, and so has every other partner that EA has been getting. With all these new Online Passes and day one DLC, I don’t know what company isn’t trying to fuck me over.
So I just finished it, and the ending is as bad as everyone has been saying. It is, however, indescribably bad, so if you really want to know, you’ll have to play it yourself.
The game leading up to it was alright though.
Also, Vanguard is OP as all get out.
Just finished it and I have to agree. While I won’t say it was COMPLETELY HORRIBLE like everyone says, after [COLOR=‘Black’]Mordine and Thane’s well done death scenes I’m having trouble figuring out how they could possible screw it up so badly. Also, no closure. I’d have have found the ending to be “meh” but acceptable if there had at least been closure.
It also doesn’t help that you can see exactly which games they ripped different parts of the ending from. I’m pretty sure that one part was a direct copy/paste of the ending from Mass Effect 1.
Serisouly I find ME2 better than the 3rd, thats so sad 
i’m about 27 hours in. just had my mate tell me what happens at the end even with 100% readiness and maximum support then end doesn’t change. i’m at 27 hours taking my time /spoiler [COLOR=‘Black’]and only just finished saving the quairian homeworld now im still going to do the game 100% but i feel its completely in vein now after reading and hearing what happens at end game.
I still haven’t gotten my game back, but I’ve come to terms with ME3’s ending. As everyone says the game leading up to it is mostly good, I feel I’ll still get my money’s worth out of it. Plus, who knows, maybe that petition for a better ending will pull through.
Just out of curiosity, did anyone not see the illusive man/ indoctrination thing coming?
I haven’t gotten that far yet, but I’m in this thread so I guess I was asking for it.
But yeah, I’ve been thinking that would happen since I read that comic about the illusive man in the First Contact War. I mean there’s really no other way to explain why he’s so intent on stopping Shepard. If he had any shred of human sense left in him, it would tell him not to waste any resources in a fight with Shepard and help him instead.
Ugh, man, I really don’t have much incentive left to play this game anymore. But I guess I’ll still try.
Honestly all the highlights happened long before the end. It had the components of a great game, but they were all just spread too thin.
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Apparently, there are some things that were left out (not big surprise)
obviously, ending spoilers
For Femshep
For Maleshep
edit: all of my mantears
i dunno, i didnt find the endings themselves to be quite as bad as what everyone has been saying, i do thing bioware completely failed at explaining the repercussions of said “choose your ending button” and i really think they failed at handling how all the allies and such coming to earth to help. the game itself i enjoyed, i just think bioware failed to follow through with incorporating the decisions you made into the ending. also i’m kinda disappointed (as i called as soon as the announcement trailer came up in 2010) that so much of the story was focused on how to save earth when there is an entire galaxy having reaper issues.
I don’t get why so many people hate the ending… Here’s my thought’s
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[COLOR=‘Black’]A lot of people complain that your decisions are meaningless in the end… Apply this to real life. If everyone is going to die at some point, what’s the point of doing anything with your life, are your real life decisions meaningless because in the end you’re going to die anyways? In this trilogy you write the legend of Commander Shep.
Also a lot of people complain about needing to play MP to get the “best” SP ending. You technically don’t NEED to but it is a lot easier if you do. Personally I wouldn’t want to live in the end anyway unless I was with my crew. I chose to destroy the reapers in the end, which also destroyed all the mass relays. Joker, Liara(my love interest) and Javik are the only people of my crew that survived (as far as I know). I died. And it made sense to me. I felt good knowing that I sacrificed myself to save some of my crew, just like Mordin and Thane did for me. After seeing that it was possible to live, but you’d wake up alone and in no way would you ever get back with you’re crew, I would never want that. Again I applied it to life. I would rather die than be alone and not be able to be with my loved one.
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There’s my opinion.
Overall I’d rate the game 9.5/10
Also I don’t know about you guys but manly tears were shed when [COLOR=‘Black’]Mordin was singing his song before he died and Thane prayed for me as he was dieing and the conversation with Anderson before he died.
Not even ashamed.
NerdRage, you’ve gotten what I think is wrong with the ending completely wrong.
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I understand the idea of a futility ending, but the game doesn’t end on that kind of note. By giving 3 distinct choices at the end based on on the spot decision making instead of decisions made earlier in the game, the developers seem to be implying that decisions matter and what you do there will effect the entire galaxy for centures if not millenia. However, it ends up the endings are all exactly the same with only explosion color being different, defeating the point of even having a decision while still implying that there should have been purpose.
Second, a complete lack of closure. I have no problem with Shepard dying, it made sense and had impact, but what happened to everyone else in the galaxy and all my squad mates? I only get to see at best 2 squad mates during that weak crash-landing scene, I have no idea how curing the Genophage effects the Krogan, the future of Rannoch with allied Geth is a total mystery, and the game never tells me what happens to Tali now that Shepard had to die. They made a huge deal with Tali about Shepard dying in combat, and then when he does nothing comes of it.
Finally, the ending was FULL of plot holes. If the catalyst is willing to change the plan, why must Shepard kill himself to do it? Can’t Shepard just tell the Catalyst to pull the Reapers out or destroy them? If the point of the reaper genocide is to prevent the creation of synthetics that will overpower organics, why are the reapers almost entirely synthetic? Why does the catalyst leave crazy advanced technology around that accelerates the creation of synthetic life? What is Joker doing in a relay jump, shouldn’t he be helping the Alliance fight? Why is the catalyst that stupid kid again?
Other irks include that montage including Kaiden and Liara for no reason, but not Garrus or Tali who I actually had a connection to, the fact that war assets affect parts of the ending that war assets logically wouldn’t affect, and that after credits scene that seems to say “LOL the whole thing was just a story, here’s a cliffhanger so we can milk the series for more games”. It doesn’t help that [COLOR=‘Red’][COLOR=‘black’]Mordon and Thane’s deaths[COLOR=‘red’] were some of the most emotional moments I’ve ever witnessed in a video game, and then the ending feels weak and lacking in plot.
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Also, if you haven’t yet seen [COLOR=‘red’][COLOR=‘Black’]the Renegade option for Mordin’s death[COLOR=‘red’] I suggest looking it up. It’s probably one of the most difficult things I’ve ever watched and I don’t think I could have brought myself to do it.
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I asked myself a lot of the same questions, I will definitely agree that there are a lot of holes. I think I have answers to the last 2 though.
Why is joker doing a relay jump? I have a feeling that when shep was hit with the laser, he was knocked out for a good while. So while he was knocked out a lot of people fell back. That is pure speculation though.
Why do we see that stupid kid again lol? Because it is a familiar image. It’s seen a lot in sci-fi films, dreams, etc. When someone encounters someone/thing that is unfamiliar, it is replaced with an image that is familiar.
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My problem with the kid, however, is that while he worked as in that opening scene to set the stakes and mood, so [COLOR=‘Red’][COLOR=‘Black’]Mordin and Thane’s deaths[COLOR=‘red’] were both way more significant to me, and I’m guessing to most people, than that kid’s death.
Also, I didn’t feel that the scene called for the kid. The kid was used to represent Shepard’s feelings of inability to save everyone. The catalyst scene didn’t have that atmosphere or in any way draw on those feelings, so using the kid as the representation for the catalyst was a misplaced use of symbolism that I felt could have been handled better. I’m not sure what figure should have been used to represent the catalyst, or if the catalyst should have been an orb of light similar to a VI or something, but I definitely feel the kid was the wrong choice.
you seriously think the ending[COLOR=‘Black’]s is good
what the fuck man.
[COLOR=‘black’]don’t you dare biodrone on me
SOMEONE HAS THEIR OWN OPINION?!! OH THE HORROR
Damn The endings were crap, that would have been the only good part and they cut it off wth…
Fun side note, how did the entire crew get on the Normandy?
EDIT: (Spoilers) Ya know, it occurs to me that it Shepard was probably indoctrinated during the ending, considering he had just shot Anderson. If they handle it right that could redeem the ending.
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