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BioWare Waiting on More Gamers to Finish ME3 Before Discussing Ending “Controversy”
As you may know by now, many fans have expressed unhappiness with the ending of Mass Effect 3. In fact, over two-thousand fans are willing to pay a combined total of $53,448.31 (as of this writing) to prove just how much they dislike the ending, if the “Retake Mass Effect – Child’s Play” fundraiser/petition is anything to go by.
But just so you know, BioWare is listening. I know this because they said so on their forums. The developer’s community coordinator, Chris Priestly, posted the following message to fans, asking them to avoid spoilers for those who’ve yet to finish the game, as well as to acknowledge the criticism that’s been heading their way about the story’s conclusion:
“We appreciate everyone’s feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know that we are listening. Active discussions about the ending are more than welcome here, and the team will be reviewing it for feedback and responding when we can. Please note, we want to give people time to experience the game so while we can’t get into specifics right now, we will be able to address some of your questions once more people have had time to complete the game. In the meantime, we’d like to ask that you keep the non-spoiler areas of our forums and our social media channels spoiler free.
“We understand there is a lot of debate on the Mass Effect 3 ending and we will be more than happy to engage in healthy discussions once more people get to experience the game. We are listening to all of your feedback.”
Personally, I’m still mad about Super Mario’s ending. I kept waiting to find out why all them Toads were dressing up as women, and they totally left me hanging! What the hell? Why is the Mushroom Kingdom filled with cross-dressing, fungus-headed dwarves? Talk about a plot hole. That’s why I’ve set fire to every single Mario game I’ve come across since 1985.
I’m wanted in 15 states for arson.
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I guess it’s reasonable for wanting to wait for more fans to finish the ending, but it’s been pretty unanimous so far that the ending sucks. I mean, are they expecting some kind of wave of new fans to come in who praise the ending and have no problem with it?
I remember alot of forums doing the same thing though. Making sure people didn’t post spoilers to a game that has only been out for a week. or longer.
I personally liked the ending because of the way I interpreted it but for an epic trilogy? I was disappointed. Not disappointed to go into a flying rage, but disappointed in a way
I was actually very disappointed to be honest. Consider this:
- Mass Effect is all about player choices that carry from game to game, but when it comes to the actual ending it does not matter what you did previously. Your choices have actually no impact what-so-ever on the actual ending of the game. You might as well make random choices during the series, because the outcome will be the same. Its like when you do your homework, but than realize that it did not matter, because the teacher does not check it.
-Most of the people (me including) were expecting to have sort of an epic ending with all races uniting in a giant battle with Harbinger being the final boss (somewhat like what happened in ME1 when fighting Soverign) and of course with an epic dialogue revealing the biggest mysteries of the series like: who are the keepers, where did reapers come from or how many cycles have there actually been. But instead we got a pretty unsatisfying conversation with “someone else” (dont want to spoil anything for others, but you know who).
-At the end you are presented with couple of options, but no matter what you choose the endings are 90% same and you dont know what actually happens after you get rid of the reapers. You basically get blue, red and green ending, that all look the same, but dont exactly show anything like what happened to the galactic civilizations or the exactly what happens to reapers if you choose the illusive mans solution (again, dont want to spoil anything).
-Another thing is that some of the things make no sense- for example: how did your ground crew get into Normady in matter of seconds, if you know that the small transportation shuttle has been destroyed while you were fighting on ground. And another thing is, that you see the mass relays actually explode, but at the end of the Arrival DLC for ME2 you learn that when a Mass Relay destroys it can actually destroy an entire system, so what is up with that?
Point 1: I agree, but I do appreciate it when my teacher doesn’t check my unfinished homework.
Point 2: They made such a big deal about Harbinger and yet I don’t think we ever truly know what it is.
Point 3: Only completed it once but I believe that all of the endings come out the same for Shepard.
Point 4: Especially when those that escaped were on my team when we rushed the portal! What?!
Good comment, guy!
Im relatively new to the series myself and even I was furious about the ending, throughout the whole game I kept saying to myself “oh man! I can’t wait to play/finish the other games” Then as I witnessed the ending my opinion completely changed about wanting to play the other games. (I still want to play them, just a lot less than before) This was one of the worst/ most depressing video games I have ever seen (Other than CoD 4 when griggs died) I can’t wait to see what Bioware has to say about all this.
I rather liked the ending I chose. Sure, it was sad and left a lot of things to simple interpretation of a “happily ever after” ending but I don’t understand why I’m the only one that liked the ending.
The ending is genious. The amount of hate it created just proves of the cunning and wit that Bioware writers have. They managed to trick their fan community. The ending is pure genious.
However genious it might be (which I dont think it is) it is still very annoying, that all choices result in the same ending just with a slightly different color (this is a fact- really the only difference between the 3 choices is the color of the lights on the reapers) and the fact that none of your decisions actually affect what happens at the end.
It is not “genious”, because as I have already said before there are some big plot holes:
-”how did your ground crew get into Normady in matter of minutes, if you know that the small transportation shuttle has been destroyed while you were fighting on ground. And another thing is, that you see the mass relays actually explode, but at the end of the Arrival DLC for ME2 you learn that when a Mass Relay destroys it can actually destroy an entire system, so what is up with that?”
You can argue that what happens after the end is a result of Shepard being indoctorinated and that it actually is not happening, but if you choose the destroy option and you have 100% galactic readiness the exact same thing happens, but only than is there a short scene of Shepards hand making a slight movement in the ruble- that means that it is not a halucination and it actually happens.
What did it matter that you cured the genophage if you dont actually find out what happens after? Peace between Quarians and Geth? Well, the Geth probably get destroyed anyways if you want to see that slight movement of Shepards hand, because destroying Reapers means destroying the Geth and EDI as well and basically most synthetic stuff around. Also, how will the Quarians survive now with so much technology destroyed? How will they maintain their enviro suits and especially- how will Tali do it since she is stranded on some random planet? It looks like a bittersweet ending, but you have to consider, that as much as the planet at the end looks like a paradise, Joker still will hardly survive a week because of his brittle bone disease and the fact that he needs regular medications.
So yeah, at the end you dont actually know what happens, because they left too much room left for speculation, even though they have promised, that this would be a clear ending to Shepards story explaining everything throughout the series with no plot holes.
I still dont know where did reapers come from, when did they get keepers (were keepers the ones who invented reapers and were than later enslaved by their own creation?) or how many cycles have there been and weather the whole fight was actually worth the effort.
So much hate.
The ending isn’t over yet. C’mon, you got indoctrinateeeddd by bioware. You probs feel dumb, being oh so clever and all cuz your mommy said so. Yet a GAME managed to trick you? Like the rest of the fan community? BIOWARE IS SUCCESFUL LMFAO!
Troll alert.
I didnt really like the ending of mass effect 3 just because moments in the game were so moving that the ending seemed so dull in comparison but bioware should just stick to their ending and jizz on all their money while they take a crap on your petitions. In the end. you can just aswell turn mass effect 3 10 min before finishing it off, go to sleep and dream of any ending you want
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This…. This right here.
If they do something about the ending being Lazy and lacking imagination, then perhaps there is hope for Bioware in the EA/Bioware age.
If not, chaulk up another game kill, and probably another studio in a few years…… This one got one play through… I played ME1 and ME2 for years.
Keep in mind they could implement an expansion pack like Dragon Age: Awakening. Alternatively, they could try shooting a bunch of $10 DLC at fans like with ME2. Either way, I’m happy. ME1 was the beginning of this story, ME2 was the middle, and ALL of ME3 was the ending.
As for complains about the dumbed down ending… One of two things happened: They got lazy/ran out of time OR they simply needed a narrow ending to start their next ME series
I wonder which ending is more hated; this or The Sopranos?
All kidding aside, I haven’t had the opportunity to play the Mass Effect series (I know, I hate myself for it too, just never got around to it, and trying to find Mass Effect 1 now is like searching for Kony). I still want to play through it, but it sucks to know that your decisions really won’t matter, especially when they carry over from game to game.
To me, from what people are stating, it seems like a rushed ending. Time was probably a big issue and they just didn’t have it to spare to create a thousand different endings.
I’m still gonna play through it though…if I can find Mass Effect 1. Wish me luck!
It wasn’t that there wasn’t a thousand different endings, it’s that there was essentially one ending that had a slightly different coat of paint between each one. I realize that they could only do so much, but uh, just, play or watch the three endings yourself and you’ll know what people mean. They’re almost identical.
If the current ending wasn’t the only ending I’m sure we wouldn’t be mad but it is. We’ll be getting the better endings DLC rather than an update because we all know how EA work. Get ready to pay out another $15 for the endings we should have gotten.
I just beat the game last night after an all-out binge and I got to say, from what everyone makes it out to be, this was a wound that was fairly expected and didn’t hurt half as much as everyone told me it would. I mean yes it would have been nice knowing that everything you did from every Mass Effect game would contribute to the coup de grace, but if it had, how complex of an ending would we have had? I liked the
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deus ex machinima esque ending because it opened up so many possibilities for the ending and maybe a spiritual successor (synthetic ending). If Bioware had made more of a transition of Shepard’s actions making him set on only one option and you didn’t have the choice, that would have been nice.
The ending is what it is, a simple way to end the series. We all wish it ended with a more immersive ending, but hey, it had to end somehow.
Probably because you already knew what was coming and was expecting it. Already rationalizing and be forgiving about it.
The fact that I avoided all spoilers made it extremely painful. I didn’t expect any of that at all. While interesting from a philosophical standpoint, it broke the promises of the trailers, it basically pissed away all the good feelings I had just then for finally *SPOILER* and *SPOILER* and *SPOILER* because apparently in the end, everything falls apart anyway.
Add to that the completely irrelevant and belief-defying Normandy thing. And the verdict was that they rushed this then hoped they can explain it away with excuses.
I can forgive desolate endings, but I can’t forgive the fact that they led me on this journey only to be told that the journey itself was pointless.
They succeeded in one thing though. Ending the franchise. After this, no one would even want to replay any of the games at all, and they most assuredly will not buy any more DLC’s. Why would you buy more hay when the horse is dead?