spoilers *Spoilers* How you wanted the game to end. - Page 4

quote Tiger go Meow

Someone call Aulis, his co-mod just died of laughter.

I need a medic in here!

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By now I know that there's way more wrong with Mass Effect 3 than just the ending. It was a hastily made game and definitely the DA2 of the Mass Effect series. A decent ending begins with the a decent game.

I already explained before how I expected the game to go. That remains the same, and it would require a serious overhaul of how the war assets system works.

quote Kushluk Shimazu

quote Aulis Vaara

By now I know that there's way more wrong with Mass Effect 3 than just the ending. It was a hastily made game and definitely the DA2 of the Mass Effect series. A decent ending begins with the a decent game.

You said it best comrade, Mass Effect 3 is Dragon Age 2.

I'll have to come back here later and write my ending. I still haven't finished the game as I was caught up in school work, and then I saw the ending through youtube (I know I'm horribly). But when I saw the BS of an ending there was (between the three colors) I decided I would make my own ending. Like I'll write it out.

In my mind it seems that Mass Effect 3 has sadly fallen into line with Dragon Age, great first game, Mass Effect 2 was awesome .... but then just like DA2 ME3 fell face first into the sewage at the finish line.

As I said I'll come back here in a month or so and write an extensive summary of my ending. It's just good to see that alot of others feel the same about being given a crap ending.

Out of interest, how far into the game are you? I think saying ME3 is the equivalent of DA2 is seriously underrating the game. A lot more went into ME3 than DA2.

quote Kushluk Shimazu

Good questions, let me clarify it for ya:

A) I made it to the planet of the Asari, Thessia when the Cereberus assassin showed up. So I did go through the Genophage incident and the Geth crisis. I think I will eventually beat the game so I feel in no rush, and honestly the ending for me was poiled (by my fault).

Hm. I'd do the next mission and then wait until the DLC before going forward. That way, you'd be at the start of Act 3. I'm not sure how far back the DLC will effect, but that should provide enough breathing room.

quote Kushluk Shimazu

B) Alright I'll agree with you there, Mass Effect 3 did have alot more going for it than Dragon Age 2. But still I think we can agree that ME3 slipped and fell face first into some sewage at the finish line.

I like the ending, but even I'll agree that the execution could have been a lot better. Still, it's almost my favourite Mass Effect game. Provided its DLC is on-par with ME2's, it will be.

quote Kushluk Shimazu

I mean no disrespect to the writers of ME3 as I'm sure they have alot going on ... but dude I could have written a better ending, for multiple paragon and renegade endings. Trust me on that as I have over 5 years of writing *through the RP thread here on Neo mostly* But due ... it's not that hard to at least ended it properly.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but there have been hints that they were nearing the end of their budget with the ending. If that is true, I'm happy to wait for the Extended Cut.

quote Kushluk Shimazu

Sorry Im ranting now >_< Anyways did that answer yer question comrade Spectre?

It did, thanks.

Supporting Aulis Vaara here on my end I remember that the lead ircetor person called Casey said something along the lines of "You will not have an A, B, or C ending"

Well I'm sad to report that as of ten minutes ago I finished the game. And it was exactly an A, B, and C ending I was given.

So, now I prepare to write my own ending. Ready comrade Aulis?

I really loved ME3 until the ending. They were definitely rushed by EA. The game already got delayed once, and some soundfiles have proven that parts of the game got cut out.

But to say ME3 is like DA2...that's just not being fair.

quote batsman

there are only 2 people that i know of that liked the ending, me and one of my friends

i dont understand why the whole world is bitching about the ending

People are "bitching" because Bioware has too much artistic integrity and our feeble minds cannot comprehend what was obviously an extremely artistic ending.

I acknowledge that I'm not artistic enough to understand the ending, but you clearly are! Yay for artists!

If you can stand to read, here is a document that explains why the ending is just poor writing filled with gaping plotholes big enough for the normandy to park in.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT4IUepvrU1pfv_B95oQj0H84DlCTUmzQ_uQh1voTUs/preview?pli=1&sle=true

Here is the video form if you wanna watch: http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/03/top-10-reasons-we-hate-mass-effect-3s-ending/

I personally don't like the ending but I don't hate it either and I have read plenty of fanfic like indoc theory and so on and I am inclined to agree with some points they make. From the very start of the game it seemed odd some other forces were at work. People supporting the indoc mention this child Shepard encounters at the beginning of the game in the air vent why does no-one else not notice him. When they are boarding the shuttle after Shepard gets on the Normandy indoc supporters will claim no one pays any heed to the child trying to help him on board. What I found more odd was when the reaper does show up and shoots down the shuttle it looks straight at the Normandy why not just blow it away there and then.

Now you could say the Normandy has stealth systems but don't forget the Reapers are sentient beings so they can see they are not run by organics like a conventional ships so they have no need to rely on radar or sonar or whatever. There are a few what the he'll moments in the game like on Rannoch, Shep takes down a reaper single handed with a target laser for an orbital bombardment yeah right! That reaper could have wiped him out but instead it gets "killed" of its own desire I feel, then hands down a you will not win message to Shep.

There are too many unusual moments in the game that I believe can't be bad writing this indoc could all be bull but I feel there is something more I felt that way from the first time I played. One more point Harbinger hitting Shep with his reaper ray, as bad asses as Shep is he WOULD not be alive after those rays can obliterate dreadnoughts tiny little Shep was dead there and anything that took place after that was cod shit excuse my French.

I personally didn't want the Reapers destroyed / defeated. It would (does) seem as an unrealistic expectation on the side of organics to accomplish such a feat as throughout the whole game Reapers' supremacy and dominance is clearly established. Futility of such an effort can best be seen during the Sovereign's attack when the whole of Alliance flotilla was needed just to scramble home. Moreover, there are multiple references saying Reapers cannot be beaten via conventional way.
Here comes the Crucible. From the start I did not believe it would be some kind of weapon. Just didn't seem it would be enough. Well I got that part right, sure wasn't expecting what it turned out to be (do) instead, though.

So here's what I think should have been done with the Crucible theme. Say many, many cycles ago there was a civilization which figured out how to master the mass relay technology. They built some and sent them to neighbouring galaxies. They also constructed the Crucible as a mean of altering Citadel's mass relay / linking it with these galaxy exploring mass relays they launched. Then the Reapers came to harvest their cycle's civilization and that was the end of that. However, their scientists realized that if altered, the Crucible can be used by the next cycles' civilizations for sending Reapers' troops through Citadel's mass relay into the deep dark space (or wherever the mass relays they launched would be at the time). So they made sure their legacy, blueprints of modified Crucible which would only allow for one-way trip would be recovered.

That way, there would be no explanation needed on Reapers' origin and/or motives. There would be no need to introduce Starchild and to diminish Reapers' significance by turning them into Starchild's solution when at the same time Sovereign/Harbinger appeared to me to be vastly more intelligent anyway. Reapers would remain the ultimate villains and a threat to be reckoned with millenia (perhaps million years) later. Hopefully that'd be enough time for organics to develop in a way that would allow them to challenge Reapers once they return.

Just my idea though