MASS EFFECT 3: The Mass Erectest

[Nathan]

Ending was lame.

[Nathan]

You'll wish that.

Now I get it. Yup.

[Fil]

Finished this late last night. Why the hate exactly? I thought the ending was great. I suppose now I can go read the articles I skipped about the hate Mass Effect 3 was getting.

I did hate getting a corrupt save file about 35-40 hours in and having to restart the game.

[BillyG]

How the hell did you have 40 hours of play?

[Abraham Smashington]

Yeah, I dunno either man. I liked the ending. Had a few issues that I posted a few pages ago, but I didn't think it deserved the outrage it got.

[Fil]

How the hell did you have 40 hours of play?

Heh, not sure, I just know the last save I remember seeing had 30 something hours on it. I did try and do everything I could.

[Abraham Smashington]

I believe I had about the same. Somewhere in late 20's early 30's.

[gravedigger]

I had 35 or 36 hours in. Scan ALL the planets, listen to ALL the ambient conversations.

[Martin]

Well, I managed to finish it. The Deux Ex type of ending IS lame, but that's ok at some point. The storytelling for the ending fucking blew though.

Mind you, I had the red ending where i went Knowing on Earth, as I barely got 2000 EMS..., but still, lame.

[Martin]

No. I just wanted an ending that fit the character.

  Spoiler: ending stuff 

Not a fucking babby telling me the origin to a fearsome group of sentient spaceships and that I had one obvious choice (Which would have been a fine ending if it had ended with Anderson and Shep's talk on the Citadel. I think that should have been the ending. No extra explanation of nonsensical bullshit that is in direct conflict with the themes and characters of this last outing.) and two stupid fucking choices that in retrospect were unnecessary.

The whole starbabby thing was unnecessary and stupid. As was the completely illogical cut to Joker running from the battle with everyone on board the Normandy. Joker may be a lot of things, but a pussy ain't one of those things.

Completely agree. But beside that, worst: 4 minutes of cut scenes to end the trilogy? That's it? The writing sure fucking blew.

The ending is not eye SARS.

  Spoiler: ending 

Two things-

1- it's kind of shitty that after saying things like "all your decisions in the three games will factor into the ending" it really boiled down to being a contestant on Let's Make A Deal. I understand it would be nigh impossible to make a fully customized ending but it seems like they didn't try too hard.

2- It was a TERRIBLE asthetic choice to have a "Hai guise, buy the DLC that's coming soon!" placard after the coda. Just go to the title screen, man. We all know how the games industry works now. There's obviously DLC coming down the road.

That said, I chose door 2 and went with symbiosis. It was totally the Matrix ending but I liked it. Maybe because I finally got over my anger with the Matrix ending years ago?

Now to go back through the thread and read the spoiler posts.

See, I wasn't good enough to have 3 choices (though I know that they are, so...

I chose the

  Spoiler: spoileruz 

DESTROY ALL TECHNOLOGY ending. I decided that the world would be better off hunting and gathering again.

I chose that. But as I did it, I flared Earth and then NO MOAR EARTH SO FUCK YOU, FINAL GOAL WICH IS RETAKE EARTH. I RETOOK IT. AND DESTROYED IT.

IN. YO. FACE.

I might have to buy ME 1 and 2 ( I borrowed 2 from a friend) and play as an Evil Femshep and fuck all the chicks I can and be the Ultimate Renegade.

So, I cured the genophage (duh, now the krogan are stuck on their planets with them breeding like fuckers. HELLOOOOOOO CIVIL WAR!!!!) , but that by siding with the Geth I exterminated the Quarian, well that was retarded. I mean, really? I was sure willling to broker peace, but the game said NOOOOOOOOOOO.

[Martin]

In retrospect, the best ending fitting for the game is the Green one. The one I didn't get to choose. Makes the best sense and is fitting thematically. I can bitch about the fact that there's a good 5-10 minutes of storytelling (like stated above, WHERE THE FUCK WAS JOKER GOIN?), but overall, the ride was really great.

[Captain Russ]

That's pretty much the consensus nowadays: 95% good to great game with the remaining 5% being nonsense at best and a trailer for DLC at worst.

[Martin]

Replayed the ending, now extended.

Still sucked. It explained more, so there's that, but overall, there's something missing.

And here's the best piece on why that is.

[Captain Russ]

Not playing it.

[Martin]

The crux is: you get to choose between 3 choices.

All 3 choices are from the mind of a completely insane and deranged mind, and none really fits what the game. Hammering you throughout 3 episodes, I thought that the ME theme was escaping control, having free choice, and more importantly, hope. Worse, they added a 4th choice, a super uber-FUCK YOU to the fans.

No, I'll avoid any game written tby the schmucks who wrote ME3.