Talking to someone who beat it, she says the ending is horribad.

 

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Thats the general consensus yes.

Unfortunate.

 

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lotusgirl: but that it was a terrible...horrible ending
lotusgirl: just from an etertainment point of view
lotusgirl: it is basically like
lotusgirl: imagine return of jedi, and they all fly towards death star and death star shoot 1 time and blow up cruiser and then luke kills himself and darth vader and fight is still going on then movie cuts 2 black
lotusgirl: o, right after little anakin from prequels appears as a hologram and says he created the sith 2 kill the jedi 2 prevent jedi from becomming sith

 

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Its true.

Five years of a carefully crafted storyline where your choices have real consequences winds up with one of 3 generic endings in which none of your choices didn't matter in the least.

 

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If that is true then that is f'ing hilarious, lol. You would think after all the pump they have been giving to "your choices matter" over the years they'd put some effort into the grand finale.

 

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yeah it was worse than the me 2 ending at least in that ending you did something epic and survived.

 

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I think the DLC money harvest on this release is going to be one of the most egregious in history.

Earth Epilogue: $10
Tali Epilogue: $10

Etc.

 

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It wasn't great... I beat it a few hours ago. I was thinking "wait... the game just ended?" when I saw it

Unfortunate.

Oh, come on, your choices never mattered in the first place. ME3 does utilize choices from ME2 for some things, but BioWare has never been known for giving choices any REAL weight.

 

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Here are my opinions from a different thread on the Console Board:
I JUST finished it 2 minutes ago with the "good" ending I guess, where you die and merge Synthetic and Organic Tech and everybody lives happily ever after, minus no Mass Effect relays of course as they all get blown up.

No, I don't like it. In fact, it pisses me off the more I think about it but that might wear off in a few days.

For me, Mass Effect is probably the best "story telling" series ever created for a Video Game, with a very well written, mature and respected story. ME3 is definitely one kick ass game story and gameplay wise, but I get why people are pissed over the ending.

I plan on replaying it tomorrow and destroying the Reapers even though it means killing the Geth, which I don't want to do after I saved them. I suppose Edi will die too.

Eh whatever. Its frustrating.

What did I expect? I actually think a better story ending would have been that "Shepard shows the Reapers that Organic Life is for once, capable of standing together on their own terms and free will and uniting the galaxy and that there is finally a true hope for peace. After seeing that, they decide to leave, forever."

Ok, maybe some of you would be raging if that was the ending, but it would be better I think.


Sigh.

Ok, lets talk Sequels:
You know they will do a Sequel because they have made millions on this series so the business case is there. What I am NOT sure about is, how do you do a sequel now with the Mass Effect relays all being blown to hell? Different races being intermingled, etc, etc. I guess destroying the Reapers could possibly be the "Bioware Official Canon" ending, leaving some new threat to the galaxy to come along in a new sequel..... If the Mass Effect relays are blown up, the game could take place... oh christ I don't know. argggg..


Bah I don't know.

 

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