Brad Thinks He Knows the Ending to Mass Effect 3

I didn't play Mass Effect 3, but I did play 2, as someone who had a PS3 that got broken late last year.

...Why is the ending bad? All the story stuff I've looked up on it seems totally reasonable. I could go into it, but I don't know how to spoiler on Giant Bomb.

Agreed with others on them aiming a camera at Brad as he goes through the original ending choices of ME3.

@2HeadedNinja said:

@mrfluke said:

@TheHT said:

@DjCmeP said:

@kishinfoulux said:

@Kohlstream said:

They should livestream Brad experiencing the ending just to have his reaction on film.

PLEASE DO THIS @Brad !!!!

@bloodsoul5 said:

PLEASE RECORD BRAD WATCHING THE ENDING TO MASS EFFECT 3!

@GValo said:

screw recording something after he watches the ending LIVE STREAM THAT THING!

YES. Do this @Brad

DO EET.

@patrickklepek@Vinny@Brad@drewbert

the good side of the community speaks

Yes, this please.

This times a thousand

This should be a new segment. Halfway through a game the guys write down how they think it will end! Also, I totally would love to see Brad do a live stream of him doing the ending to see his reaction.

If he wrote

Mass Effect 3 will totally have been worth it.

@Bakumatsu: really? they must have changed it because i remember when it came out that i did every mission (atleast i think i did) and i didn't have enough points to get it because i went to here and saw the requirements http://www.ign.com/wikis/mass-effect-3/Endings

I have a feeling Brad is aspiring too high with that letter. He sees the ending as being aggressively bad when in fact it's just more of a non-event.

Interested to see what's in that envelope. Considering the kind of eleventh hour nonsense stuff that ending hinges on, I doubt Brad's got the right answer, and whatever he's written is probably far more logical than what actually happens.

@Pixeldemon said:

@Tennmuerti said:

No single sentence could sum up the paragraphs of different reasons why so many people hated the ending.

Well, it could be one hell of a run-on sentence.

I'm pretty sure it only takes 2 words: BAD WRITTING

Livestream Brad playing the ending please.

@MrBubbles: You don't have to play the multiplayer to get that ending. I didn't play any and still got it. What you have to do is

Also:

@Terramagi: So was suddenly introducing the Star Child, lol.

I CAN'T WAIT

@MrMazz said:

I still think the original ending to ME3 is just fine ha

I much prefer the original ending to the neutered horseshit that is the extended cut. Say what you will about the original ending, that shit was bold. The Extended Cut doesn't even have that going for it.

Regardless of what you think of ME3's ending, this action of Brads has made it worthwhile. Definitely suspect on what he wrote down.

I hope hes so wrong. That smug face is very anoying.

besides that little writing doesent seem to cover much of anything, if it says

or similar, i'd say thats too generic and expected to count as a succesfull guess.

@Kohlstream said:

They should livestream Brad experiencing the ending just to have his reaction on film.

This would be the best!

Great, now there is TWO letters that we need to know the contents of.

@Kohlstream said:

They should livestream Brad experiencing the ending just to have his reaction on film.

this!

"Shepard goes back in time and becomes actual shepherd."

The ending itself is not Mass Effect 3's problem, the problem is they had to make an ending to a story they didn't tell, while the ones they did tell saw resolution. Meanwhile, those resolutions, apart from galactic readiness, are completely disconnected from the main arc. ME3 ending, which actually is the end of the reaper story, is unfixable, unless you remove the end and release a fourth game where you actually have to fight the reapers which would leave time and space for prior resolutions to unfold.

Rippy glue envelopes? What the... I'm feeling like John Spartan here.

I'm soooo looking forward to seeing what Brad wrote in that letter, partly because I'm curious and partly because I know that Brad will be so off it ain't even funny.

I couldn't stop staring at the Mexican Coke. Mmm... Mexican Coke.

@Encephalon said:

This is a great idea.

I agree that Brad will probably be like "Meh, the ending wasn't that bad, it's just not all that I hoped it would be." This will be almost as disappointing as the ending itself and will re-ignite the immense nerd rage I experience whenever someone tries to defend it as being good.

But no, I should give Brad more credit. Most people who genuinely like the ME series and have critical thinking skills understand that the ending to ME3 is awful. It's just not easy to sum up why, because there are so many things that go horribly wrong in the final moments of the game. There are some good videos on youtube that attempt to address this mess, however.

I bet he wrote "Brad dies" because that happens in every game.

@Kevin_Cogneto said:

@MrMazz said:

I still think the original ending to ME3 is just fine ha

I much prefer the original ending to the neutered horseshit that is the extended cut. Say what you will about the original ending, that shit was bold. The Extended Cut doesn't even have that going for it.

Oh yeah, reskinning the same cutscene 3 times sure was bold.

@Tennmuerti said:

No single sentence could sum up the paragraphs of different reasons why so many people hated the ending.

Well, it could be one hell of a run-on sentence.

This is a great idea.

@MrMazz said:

I still think the original ending to ME3 is just fine ha

I much prefer the original ending to the neutered horseshit that is the extended cut. Say what you will about the original ending, that shit was bold. The Extended Cut doesn't even have that going for it.

@BaconGames said:

Man I gotta say this past year has made me love Brad even more. He has always played the vital "straight man"/audience member to Jeff and Ryan's antics but now that he's bringing more of himself into the site's content, I can't say I'm any less than thrilled.

I'm calling it right now, 2012's Brad Of The Year is Shoemaker (last year's winner being Muir).

I'm OG Brad, all you kids and your rap music and your Brad 2012 malarky... I tell ya.

Man I gotta say this past year has made me love Brad even more. He has always played the vital "straight man"/audience member to Jeff and Ryan's antics but now that he's bringing more of himself into the site's content, I can't say I'm any less than thrilled.

I'm calling it right now, 2012's Brad Of The Year is Shoemaker (last year's winner being Muir).

@Kohlstream: This has to happen!!!!!!!

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@Graham_Nix said:

@kerse said:

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@smcn said:

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@Mystyr_E said:

QUESTION! Is he playing with the horrible POS abomination that is the original endings or the band-aid on a cut-off finger that is the Extended cut?

Original cuz he wants to know what the fuss is all about and experience it like how everyone else did when it came out.

He explicitly stated on the Bombcast that he is playing with EC.

Where'd he say that cuz he was talking about going vanilla shortly before starting the game?

In a more recent bombcast he said he was just gonna go with it instead, the bombcasts before that he was saying he wanted to see the original ending. But from what I know the ending is still the same, it just tries to explain it better. Haven't done the EC one myself yet.

Also I'm super curious to see how close/far he was lol.

Damn, I really wanted Brad to be hit with the full force of the original ending :<

Lame, yeah same here but at the same time it would be interesting to have another perspective from someone who experienced the EC completely fresh. I don't care about having Brad be more favorable towards the game because of it but just that it will be a different point of view.

Oh and if anyone is thinking that the only issue with that game is the ending then they are crazy. Mass Effect 2 was a better game in almost every way. (ME 3 only plays better than 2)

agree here, from sidequests to the weird cameos (Chobot's flat VA, James "i'm a meathead from Jersey Shore" Vega), Tali's photoshopped face...........bah I can't think of that game and not think of all the areas where they dropped the ball

This video is great

@Pixeldemon said:

@Kohlstream said:

They should livestream Brad experiencing the ending just to have his reaction on film.

Oh god, please do this!

This is the best idea any comment has ever had.

Love the Ezio statue, by the way. I'd totally get one of those. Are they available for sale?

@Graham_Nix said:

@kerse said:

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@smcn said:

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@Mystyr_E said:

QUESTION! Is he playing with the horrible POS abomination that is the original endings or the band-aid on a cut-off finger that is the Extended cut?

Original cuz he wants to know what the fuss is all about and experience it like how everyone else did when it came out.

He explicitly stated on the Bombcast that he is playing with EC.

Where'd he say that cuz he was talking about going vanilla shortly before starting the game?

In a more recent bombcast he said he was just gonna go with it instead, the bombcasts before that he was saying he wanted to see the original ending. But from what I know the ending is still the same, it just tries to explain it better. Haven't done the EC one myself yet.

Also I'm super curious to see how close/far he was lol.

Damn, I really wanted Brad to be hit with the full force of the original ending :<

Lame, yeah same here but at the same time it would be interesting to have another perspective from someone who experienced the EC completely fresh. I don't care about having Brad be more favorable towards the game because of it but just that it will be a different point of view.

Oh and if anyone is thinking that the only issue with that game is the ending then they are crazy. Mass Effect 2 was a better game in almost every way. (ME 3 only plays better than 2)

Brad's beard is incredible.

Brad, it's not what you think it is. I don't really think anything in that game prepares you for the actual ending, because the ending kind of comes out of left field.

I don't think there is a fucking chance.

Love VInny's background comment!

"What?! A week? I don't want to wait that long *sadface*"

I still think the original ending to ME3 is just fine ha

I almost don't want Brad to finish it, so he can forever live in a world where ME3 wasn't a breathtaking disappointment.

@OneManX said:

@Rabid619 said:

I still don't think that the ending can be anywhere near as bad as Brad is expecting it to be. The way that people have treated it, you'd think that it kill everyone's puppy, took their first born, and then gave them cancer.

Is the ending good? Nope. Is it anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be? Hell no.

That said I'm curious to see what Brad thinks the ending is, should be pretty funny.

I fully expect an, "It wasn't that bad.. but it wasn't great" type reaction from Brad.

Yeah. People shit all over that ending. It was just kind of disappointing, it wasn't that bad.

Assassins Creed 3's ending is the one everyone should be attacking and shitting all over, but we hear nothing!

It's like Brad's telling Vinny that he can't open his presents until Christmas.

This site needs more sealed envelope antics.

No single sentence could sum up the paragraphs of different reasons why so many people hated the ending.

He can't know can he? The whole reason I didn't like it was because it comes out of nowhere and introduces a bunch of nonsense to force you into a stupid choice.