Mass Effect

[Eredin]

I read ... read ... read. The conclusion is as follows - you are hopeless.

Ending - hopeless.
FREE DLC, Biowarde is bending the pressure of a shitstorm around the ending (also visible in this topic) - hopeless.
A bunch of malcontents.

I am delighted with the game. I have no idea what you expected when finished. "Consistency!" someone will scream - in my opinion it is coherent, without an embarrassing happy ending that simply could not have happened. Personally, the last moments in the game, making a key choice, really touched me. At some point we realize that the fight is largely hopeless, that this war cannot be won and this is probably the biggest breakthrough in the game - I was hit after several hours of play, some wrong decision, after which I doubted. ME3 evokes emotions, even without end it delivers a huge load of them. Bioware made one and only mistake - he promised that any nonsense decision would have an impact on the final. In part it does, but as you can see - not to the extent that some players would expect (and some just like to repeat what the omniscient internet crowd is saying at the moment). This game is money fantastically spent, and the fact that the ending evokes so much emotions, creates a field for interpretation and disputes only shows that it is a worthy closure of the trilogy. I'm waiting for the DLC (although I would do without it - the mob has triumphed again, unpleasant) and I'm still experiencing it.

[Murin]

the fact that the ending aroused the anger and disappointment of the vast majority of players shows that this is a worthy ending to the trilogy? : shock:

I am still experiencing it, even though I finished ME3 almost a month ago - so far, when someone mentions the end, my mood is spoiling

Regarding the DLC idea, I don't know how I feel about it. On the one hand, it's a bit pathetic to tweak the finished product in such a way. On the other hand, the ending was so weak that I still somewhere need to close the story of Shepard and his universe. And it shows that the creators are able to admit their mistake - at least they do not go back and say that they are proud of the ending

[Takwir]

Almost word for word from the ME3 CD-action review. Are you an editor there?
Note that the game itself evokes positive emotions and everyone thinks that it was money well spent. Lack of a happy ending is also not a problem because after all, nobody complained about the Diablo I ending? I admit that if Bioware stayed with the original ending (fight with dark energy) I would be satisfied.

[Pensmug]

Unfortunately, I do not have this undoubted pleasure. You have really not infested this atmosphere of hopelessness and imminent defeat? How did you play?

[Brerg]

She gave it, not that it ended badly or that there is basically no such thing as a classic "happy end".
For me, that feeling of "being fucked anyway" is git.

The point is that:

1) All endings are almost identical.
2) Lack of any logic behind the escape of the Joker and the crew.
3) Inconsistent (busted gate = system destroyed).
4) In fact, I expected that the player's decisions would somehow have a greater impact on the ending.
5) And the theme that Shepard manages to survive ... a gateway to dlc with a different ending.

[Woland]

please read the interpretations from the linkor that I have tossed above - then the whole thing suddenly makes sense. Escape the Joker (if the battle was lost and the Reapers actually kept the cycle?), Shepard the survivor (and all the action on the Citadel was his hallucination?). All of the elements on which you submit comments are mentioned there.

I can possibly agree on the smaller impact of our decisions on the final, but on the stubborn one - would any decisions make any difference in the face of something like this? : P

[Gor]

Well, that's how I perceive the ending as a hallucination (because it's so surreal that it doesn't fit in a pile, let alone in your head ...)
Only I would like Shepard to wake up and finish the job "by himself" by the way, I would like some clarification

[Dangerous]

A quarter of ME2 was a fight against the Dark Energy - early death of the sun etc, the Reapers were supposed to be the combined minds of many races that were looking for a solution to the problem, but the cycle could have ended because humans were so special that they could find a solution (the diversity of people highlighted in ME2, the interest of collectors, an attempt at creatures of the human collector)

I am to believe that after the guy left the plot, a group of hardliners created a super thoughtful ending under time pressure? Hallucinations? Fight for the mind? It seems that some series ended like this and it probably did not arouse enthusiasm.
After reflection, I have to write that at least a few series ended this way - something tells me that LOST (but I do not watch the series) - it slightly weakens the possible originality of Bioware's ideas

[fabulousfreesia]

"... did not arouse enthusiasm" is a phrase a bit like "it is said that ..." etc, a typical controversial silt.

I still had a thought about the Joker and his escape - the energy released from the Crucible destroyed the mass relays, and the Normandy had one built in. It is possible that this was the cause / one of the causes.

[Ciliren]

BTW, it would be enough to lure all Reapers into one system and destroy the relay - strange that no one in the game figured it out.
Gand let's not argue. Yes, maybe the original ending was also stretched, but at least it made sense. There was no new character to appear, there was a possibility of evading (Shepard could find a way to deal with that Dark Energy), the ending depended on the choices in the rest of the parts.