I've played all 3 games. They're big time "meh". The ending for 3 was not as bad as people make it out. Those people forget that there are much worse endings out there. Ultima being the worst I can think of in terms of ass raping your fanbase. I was more disappointed at the ending of one of the girls' routes in Katawa Shoujo than Mass Effect 3 (personal reasons stated on a previous KS post).
RiderFan said: I've played all 3 games. They're big time "meh". The ending for 3 was not as bad as people make it out. Those people forget that there are much worse endings out there. Ultima being the worst I can think of in terms of ass raping your fanbase. I was more disappointed at the ending of one of the girls' routes in Katawa Shoujo than Mass Effect 3 (personal reasons stated on a previous KS post).
I haven't played the games but from what my friends tell me it's less about how "bad" an ending it is and more about how it flies in the face of ME's ongoing theme that your choices matter. I guess ultimately some higher power plays deus ex machina and makes the main character completely unnecessary or something?
Answer:Where it makes sense that you get a certain ending based on your alignment throughout the game(series), what we actually get is a choice as to what kind of ending we want with certain choices seemingly matching certain alignments; however, we are free to choose any of the endings irrespective of our choices throughout the game (series).
The ending wasn't even really an ending, it was an open door to more dlc / even a 4th game. It's gone over so negatively that might not be able to keep the franchise going.
Comartemis said: I guess ultimately some higher power plays deus ex machina and makes the main character completely unnecessary or something?
More or less, though one of the bigger reasons why so many people were upset on the original endings was because it didn't even bother to give a conclusion to like any of the other situations that occur throughout the series and had some serious plotholes. You never truly find out whether or not you actually saved the galaxy or not... it just kinda left a lot of things out all for the sake for SPECULATION FOR EVERYONE.
The Extended Cut manage to fix it so you could actually see whether or not you screwed the galaxy over or saved it, though it still has a lot of issues. It also removed that silly DLC message that didn't help things.
I think the Mass Effect series is pretty good and is at least worth checking out once [even if you're someone like me who's not really into WRPGs or shooters in general], but it has plenty of issues. I was pretty skeptical that all of your choices were going to matter to begin with though, especially since the series changed writers and direction over the years. I do like the idea of having a clear file of a previous game affecting what happens in the next game, but there's no way can you pull off something like that while making it up as you go along.
Kinda surprised to see so much Japanese Mass Effect fanart though. Then again, there's also Call of Duty fanart.
The Mass Effect series is hardly over, considering how popular the multiplayer still is, but I don't know how they plan on continuing it from a plot standpoint unless they decide to do prequels or an AU or something.
Comartemis said: I haven't played the games but from what my friends tell me it's less about how "bad" an ending it is and more about how it flies in the face of ME's ongoing theme that your choices matter. I guess ultimately some higher power plays deus ex machina and makes the main character completely unnecessary or something?
I think people got butthurt that there were essentially only three BAD ENDS. Some just less BAD than others. They must have been expecting something like "then Shep punched some metal crustaceans right in their litterally brass balls, and they exploded! Then other reapers exploded in fear!" or some other heroic ending. The ME2 writers did sometimes to try to play up Shep as a superhero, though. (one wo/man is all that stands between us and the reapers)
One thing that gets ignored in all this is that the reapers' comic-book-villain motive and plan are just plain dumb.
The first mecha-cuttlefish (while they were still organic beings) watched Terminator a few too many times and got it into their heads that cybernetic beings will ALWAYS turn against their creators because artificial intelligence is TEH EVULZ. So they decided that they should prevent future species from building robots. For their own good, of course. Their brilliant plan against the mechanical menace?
They turned themselves into machines that kill all organics. (and turn them into more machines) So that no one else will make machines that kill all organics. (and, presumably, don't turn them into more machines)
It's facepalm worthy, even for a B movie, but there definitely are far worse endings.
Pardon me. Changed back to post without bumping because this is necromancy.
Game isn't going to be a trilogy, unless the third game has a HUGE DLC pack.
Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the "lost crypts of beings of light." These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic "machine devils." --In the FIRST game, so they had this mapped out.
The indoctrination conspiracy is true, you needed a 90+ success rate or whatever and to 'destroy everything' option and then shepherd would gasp back to life after everything at the end of the cinematics as he became the first being to overcome a complete indoctrination attack because he is motherfucking Commander Shepard. If you didn't 'get' that ending, you weren't paying attention to the gasp, or you made the wrong choices and started bitching on the internet about the choices. You've been indoctrinated by bioware. trollface.jpg
