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    Mass Effect 3

    Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Mar 06, 2012

    When Earth begins to fall in an ancient cycle of destruction, Commander Shepard must unite the forces of the galaxy to stop the Reapers in the final chapter of the original Mass Effect trilogy.

    I finally beat the game, and I liked the ending. (Spoilers)

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    Rohok

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    #1  Edited By Rohok

    There could be a spoiler to BSG and possibly LOST at the bottom, though I won't talk about the details on what happened at the end I will discuss the manner in which they both ended. Read at your own risk I guess.

    I'm not sure if I'm the type to go against the grain just to be different, but I know for a fact that my opinions and feelings change on a daily basis, especially when I'm presented with new information. I loved Mass Effect 1. It's one of my favorite RPGs of all time, and the only Bioware RPG I would call a masterpiece. With all shortcomings aside (inventory system) I loved everything the game was advertised to be. I don't care about shooting or any of that, although I'm an avid ArmA 2 player and I love simulation and games revolving around gameplay, rather than cinematic flair. But Mass Effect 1 was truly something I put a lot of heart into and for a game, that's saying a lot.

    Mass Effect 2 to me downright sucked. I loved the characters, as usual, and loved the cinema, but everything else just didn't feel good to me. The dialogue and choice was lacking and although it still felt space opera, it just wasn't the same as ME1. And I don't mean that in a good way. I won't go into why I didn't like it as much as ME1, because it's just a feeling I have and I have zero desire to try and sway you to my opinion and get you to hate it too.

    But Mass Effect 3 was the worst one of all. Terribly cheesy and corny cinematics, with terribly convenient character encounters, clunky combat on the harder difficulties, barely any emotion impact save for a few instances, and cyborg fucking ninjas. I could've swore I was playing Ninja Raiden Solid or some Japanese shit, and I was the most negative of all my friends about the entirety of the game. My favorite parts were the dream sequences and the characters. Characters being something so very consistence and incredible in nearly every Bioware entry and I can always count on that when buying a Bioware game. But seriously this game was just awful for the most part, and I was expecting the worst for an ending. I've had the game since launch and have taken my time since, going slowly, wanting to savor what fun I could extract from this terrible entry into the trilogy. There were some laughs (some not intended), some tears (again, some not intended), and some great shooting fun to be had (maybe a little not intended here...), and when I finally got to the big choice at the end I was in awe. Most of the battle cinematics so far were just so underwhelming but that final citadel battle- Oh man... And the final Earth battle- Oh man... And the choice? Well, I'm not sure what I think about that. I chose the middle one if that helps understand my point of view some more.

    Now ignore what happened after the credits, please. That was pointless and was purely something to justify the ability to continue to play after it ended. I understand that since everyone shit their pants when Fallout 3 ended and they couldn't play anymore. But the actual ending...? It was great. They didn't give us shitty epilogues where all the characters had a big reunion and told their story and hugged and kissed. They didn't show life after everything ended. They didn't give us 100% closure, which is what you're supposed to do at the ending of anything. You can't just go and give someone a play by play on everything that happened. I just don't know what else people would've wanted from this ending. I just don't. Shepard died, the mass relays were destroyed to prevent races from traveling the stars before they were ready, and all major life ended up on a planet where they could begin anew, and forge a race combined from synthetics, humans, Asari, and whatever.

    I took from it closure. My story was that of Shepard's, not anything else. This isn't Dragon Age in that it's about the world or universe, it's about you, the character. While most of ME2 and ME3 took that away with rushed dialogue, and in most cases, severely limited and autopiloted dialogue, ME3 gave back in an ending to your own story, and gave you a taste of what would happen to the world around you after you'd gone. That's more than you'll ever know when you die, depending on your spiritual beliefs of course.

    So I'm a very negative, cynical person. I hate a lot of games and I'm never satisfied. ME3 gets a 6/10 in my book, where ME2 got a 7, and ME1 got a fat 10. But was this ending worth getting up in arms about? No. BSG and LOST had far worse endings, and there is such thing as too much closure and too many answers. In life, we never get all the answers or all the closure we need. When we die, loose ends are left behind, questions go unanswered, and our purposes are rarely, if ever, revealed. This ending was very telling of that reality, and I, personally, enjoyed it.

    This post isn't here to convince you that you're wrong, because everything is personal taste. Was just hoping some people might consider it some more. Also, I've never read any theories or anything. I just played the game and muted my headset anytime someone on TS was fixing to spoil some shit for me.

    Thanks for reading my wall of text, hope it wasn't a chore.

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    #2  Edited By Dany

    The dream seqeunces were hokey. Starchild was poor, I did not care for him, his inclusion to create emotional resonance was executed poorly. The red/blue/green endings are just lazy, doesn't account for past decisions, question left in the air. There is closure on the reaper threat but they leave so many other things open. Epilogue with stargeezer was dumb.

    People didn't want a happy ending, the wanted a good one and ME3's ending was not good in most peoples books.

    Also, my shepard is alive because I chose destroy because I am Commander GodDamn Shepard and my goal since day 1 was to destroy and I did not let that little annoying brat deter me from destroying the reapers.

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    #3  Edited By matthias2437

    Technically based on the definition of a good ending Mass Effect 3s was HORRIBLE and didn't hit any of the criteria for what is a good ending. But honestly it all really falls on opinion, the movie Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus technically is a piece of shit but I still enjoy it. So at least someone enjoyed the end of ME3.

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    #4  Edited By WobibrosfordApe

    People don't (shouldn't) care that the ending was bleak.

    People don't (shouldn't) care that the ending was ambiguous and didn't offer 100% closure.

    The ending was poorly written and made no fucking sense.

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    #5  Edited By senorfuzzeh

    @WobibrosfordApe: And so bioware is putting out a FREE epilogue and extra cutscenes too explain the ending. (Yet people are STILL bitching)

    Also this guy is allowed to like the ending.

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    #6  Edited By JasonR86

    Another ending thread? Fuck yeah!

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    #7  Edited By TheHumanDove

    Liking the ending means you don't care about consistency, quality, or sense.

    Congrats.

    /thread

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    #8  Edited By Sooty

    Stopped reading at saying ME2 sucked.

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    #9  Edited By Rohok

    God the community at Giant Bomb sure is mature. Jesus Christ.

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    #10  Edited By FluxWaveZ

    @Rohok: Is there a reason you couldn't post your opinion in one of the other various threads relating to the Mass Effect 3 ending?

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    #11  Edited By novadth

    @Rohok said:

    God the community at Giant Bomb sure is mature. Jesus Christ.

    Says the guy who thinks his opinion on the ME3 ending is so revolutionary that it needs it's own thread and couldn't possibly go in any of the millions that already exist.

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    #12  Edited By joshthebear

    Did we really need another fucking ME3 ending thread?

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    #13  Edited By Yummylee

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    #14  Edited By mike

    We don't really need another ME3 ending thread. You can copy and paste your take on it into one of the many, many existing topics on the subject if you wish.

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