[URL="http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/bioware-change-mass-effect-3-ending-194431568.html"]Apparently Bioware will do something about the ME3 ending(s).[/URL]
I haven't reached the ending(s) yet, so I can't comment on what the hoopla is all about, I only heard about the uproar. I thought this was just about a game... I guess people care more about entertainment than say... more important things.
Alright, I finally got to experience one complete playthrough and one ending of ME3.
As far as I can tell you have two choices and three possibilities towards the end and people got all upset about this?
[SP]You can either support the illusive man, or you can shoot him. And then you can either control the reapers, destroy them or what I experienced, choose the synergy option, which means Shepard dies in the process but both synthetics and organics merge and live happily ever after.
I don't really see a problem with the synergy option, but what bugs me somewhat is that during the entire ME trilogy everything that you do is basically for the purpose of the destruction of the reapers and at the very end of ME3 you can still decide what you want to do and this is what the hoopla is all about, or as that writer said in the article above, all this work to pick the color of the beam that passes through the mass relays before they get destroyed. I guess that was the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back.[/SP] ;)
Anyway, as with all these sagas, it's not the destination that matters, because we all know it's going to end, it's the journey itself that matters most and we should have fun while we go on our merry ways. :D
I'll have to check out the other endings to see what I've missed though. Great story, it's what the new Star Wars trilogy should have been. I guess that would be another reason to be upset. ;)
I think what people have a problem with are a number of different things. Some don't like that there is no happy ending, some don't like that you don't have more choices and some don't think the ending fits to the over all plot.
My biggest problem with the ending is that it feels very rushed, it gives some glimpses on what happens after you make you final choice but it is not explained in any meaningful detail.
I have no problem of it being a very dark ending or that you have no big choice. But the ending felt very confusing and I didn't know exactly what I did do.
I've only played through ME3 once as I feel that how I played it is how it should end. :) (I did a very perfect playthrough of ME1 and 2 but in 3 alot of people died)
Spoiler: I beat it myself a couple weeks ago. I thought the ending was fitting enough, though I was disappointed that all my decisions didn't seem to make a difference. I was sort of expecting Shepard to die, and I had it spoiled for me that Shepard was being Indoctrinated. I've seen that video about the whole thing being in his head, and they make a lot of good points. I'm hoping that something like that it true. I mean, I don't just always want happy endings, but it would be nice for my Shepard to be able to survive and just retire with Tali.
And I absolutely agree that DLC should not be neccesary. The whole game should be on a the disk, I am just plain not a fan of DLC. If it's something they think up later and want to add, like new multiplayer maps for a game, that's fine, but it seems more to me that they intentionally just leave stuff out so that you'll have to download it later.
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I think someone is getting fired tomorrow :/
I haven't reached the ending(s) yet, so I can't comment on what the hoopla is all about, I only heard about the uproar. I thought this was just about a game... I guess people care more about entertainment than say... more important things.
As far as I can tell you have two choices and three possibilities towards the end and people got all upset about this?
[SP]You can either support the illusive man, or you can shoot him. And then you can either control the reapers, destroy them or what I experienced, choose the synergy option, which means Shepard dies in the process but both synthetics and organics merge and live happily ever after.
I don't really see a problem with the synergy option, but what bugs me somewhat is that during the entire ME trilogy everything that you do is basically for the purpose of the destruction of the reapers and at the very end of ME3 you can still decide what you want to do and this is what the hoopla is all about, or as that writer said in the article above, all this work to pick the color of the beam that passes through the mass relays before they get destroyed. I guess that was the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back.[/SP] ;)
Anyway, as with all these sagas, it's not the destination that matters, because we all know it's going to end, it's the journey itself that matters most and we should have fun while we go on our merry ways. :D
I'll have to check out the other endings to see what I've missed though. Great story, it's what the new Star Wars trilogy should have been. I guess that would be another reason to be upset. ;)
My biggest problem with the ending is that it feels very rushed, it gives some glimpses on what happens after you make you final choice but it is not explained in any meaningful detail.
I have no problem of it being a very dark ending or that you have no big choice. But the ending felt very confusing and I didn't know exactly what I did do.
I've only played through ME3 once as I feel that how I played it is how it should end. :) (I did a very perfect playthrough of ME1 and 2 but in 3 alot of people died)
And I absolutely agree that DLC should not be neccesary. The whole game should be on a the disk, I am just plain not a fan of DLC. If it's something they think up later and want to add, like new multiplayer maps for a game, that's fine, but it seems more to me that they intentionally just leave stuff out so that you'll have to download it later.