Mass Effect 3 Ending, opinions and feelings?

[Wes R]

I feel bad for Buzz because that part was so badly written. If anything he should have been an important in game character.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

It's like the Prequels; anything with expectations this high going in is going to die a hard death - there will still be people defending the Prequels even in another twenty years' time, and ditto here. "I liked the ME3 ending! No really!" They'll even position themselves as the elite few, likely.

It's still self-delusion, though.

I actually liked the Prequels (and am from the OT generation), but I do see the flaws. I didn't like the ME3 ending. So what does that mean? :lol

The ending with the grandpa and grandson I did like. The line where he called his grandkid "my sweet" was just total crap dialogue. The rest wasn't too bad IMO. I agree with Jeyl about how is Shepard a legend for stranding everyone? The only way would be that the Mass Relays get rebuilt because otherwise people would be ticked.

No one else is mad about the lack of Elcor combat? No one? :lol

 

[Jeyl]

You can call me a Mass Effect fanatic, and I think ME2 was the best of the three titles.

I find ME1 to be the best out of the trilogy. It had that whole galactic feel that didn't go out of it's way to focus on humanity as either the target or the victim. In fact, the first act of Mass Effect 1 fools you into thinking that Saren's is plotting to foil humanity in some way. Turns out that there's a plot in motion to wipe out all life in the galaxy! Plus, being the first in the story you were able to fully be in Shepard's shoes as where you as a human fit in a very alien populated galaxy.

ME2? While good on the character department, the story was pretty lackluster when it went from "Galaxy's in danger!" to the "Humanity is in danger!" route. How they made humanity a more integral part just felt intrusive and illogical by saying how we're so genetically diverse (Riiiiight), and that the Reapers want to make a human termina- Reaper. Why? It doesn't make any sense. You've already got a dangerous, heavily modifiable weapon called Swarms that can take out entire colonies like nothing happened.

ME3? I'm sorry. I don't give a #*)! about Earth. At all. Period. Everytime Shepard talked about how Earth is so vital and how "The fight is here!" or whenever she has regrets over leaving Earth, I just want to slap some sense into her. Sure, there were moments where she was aware that the scale was bigger than Earth, and thank god for those. In the end, I didn't want to go back and take back Earth. I wanted to go back and retake Thessia. That's a species that not only can outlive us, but they also pride themselves on getting to know diverse cultures. That's more than you can say about Earth that has ZERO aliens on it.

 

[Wes R]

I'm annoyed you didn't see any of the aliens helping you fight. And elcor with cannons on their back would have been awesome

 

[Deelite]

I'm annoyed you didn't see any of the aliens helping you fight. And elcor with cannons on their back would have been awesome

the mission that you get from the Elcor ambassador to help his planet, I was sOOOOOO hoping that we'd be able to land and see some Elcor fighting action. And a rocket gun attached to an Elcor's back would have been lol-worthy.

Damn, it was only a scan and collect mission....boooo......


and WHY NOT A SINGLE Hanar? Did anyone notice that not a SINGLE Hanar was spotted at all????

 

[Wes R]

There is one hanar you confront on citadel mission but other than that they're hiding.

 

[Deelite]

There is one hanar you confront on citadel mission but other than that they're hiding.

I must have not gotten that mission, since I never saw one. Most of the citadel missions you have to "walk around" and stop and listen to people first.

 

[Jeyl]

No one else is mad about the lack of Elcor combat? No one? :lol

Oh, no Sluis. When that Elcor Ambassador pleaded to Shepard for assistance in helping his home world, I immediately darted back to the Normandy, saved, quit the game, went on Mass Effect Wiki and found out where the planet was since the gawddang mission log didn't tell me where to go. Once I did, boom! I was off to fight for the Elcor!.....

Only when I got there, I couldn't land. Why can I not land? There are Elcor dying by the millions and I want to save them. Land you son of a glitch! Oh, wait! Scan! I'll stan the planet!..... their moon? Ok. Probe moon, get artifact, ok. Still can't land? Oh, come on. Did I do something wrong? I can't land on either the planet or it's moon. All I got was this artifact.

Hey Elcor, what's going on?....NO. You did not just tell me that was all I had to no. NO NO NO NO. I did not just go on a planetary rescue mission only to probe your moon for an artifact. I want to fight alongside you guys! What the heck??!?!

 

[Nwerke]

I actually liked the Prequels (and am from the OT generation), but I do see the flaws. I didn't like the ME3 ending. So what does that mean? :lol

Uhhh...you're inconsistent? :lol I dunno. It was just a tease anyway, I don't really mean it.

The line where he called his grandkid "my sweet" was just total crap dialogue.

Oh GAG.

No one else is mad about the lack of Elcor combat? No one? :lol

No, me too. I'd heard about the Elcor-with-cannons thing and was like "cooooool". The structure of this mission really sets up a wrong set of expectations, sounds like...ain't that BW all over? :unsure

I'm also ticked there's still no space combat. If EVER there was a time for it...making the scanning stuff into more of an action minigame with Reapers dropping into the system and chasing you was a great idea, but couldn't they have come up with some kind of schematic version of space combat within that? Or at least some stealth system options, active EW countermeasures stuff maybe, something?

I must have not gotten that mission, since I never saw one. Most of the citadel missions you have to "walk around" and stop and listen to people first.

It's part of the Javik DLC; if you have Javik he is approached by a small group including a Hanar and an Asari; they recognise what he is and are all awed and stuff. Javik is insanely cool, btw. Sarcastic and funny as hell. Have been watching vids and thinking "where the hell is Mordin?". He needed to be on that team, the banter could have been great.

 

[DuneMuadDib]

Poor, poor Mordin.

 

[Deelite]

It's part of the Javik DLC; if you have Javik he is approached by a small group including a Hanar and an Asari; they recognise what he is and are all awed and stuff. Javik is insanely cool, btw. Sarcastic and funny as hell. Have been watching vids and thinking "where the hell is Mordin?". He needed to be on that team, the banter could have been great.

I have Javik (CE version ftw), but never encountered any Hanar or Asari. all I got was two humans (one male and one female) who noticed who he was.

 

[Drewid]

I must have not gotten that mission, since I never saw one. Most of the citadel missions you have to "walk around" and stop and listen to people first.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you needed to talk to a Salarian SPECTRE to open up that mission.

 

[DuneMuadDib]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you needed to talk to a Salarian SPECTRE to open up that mission.

Ah, the mission that was buggy as **** for me. Started that thing almost a dozen times and couldn't get the first terminal to cooperate.

 

[Nwerke]

Poor, poor Mordin.

It's so damned wrong. The only way you can save him is also horrible.

 

[DuneMuadDib]

It's so damned wrong. The only way you can save him is also horrible.

Yeah, there's something wrong when Mordin gets a better Paragon death than any of Shepard's deaths.

But hey, he'll survive on my Renegade play-through so there's that :unsure

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

It's part of the Javik DLC; if you have Javik he is approached by a small group including a Hanar and an Asari; they recognise what he is and are all awed and stuff. Javik is insanely cool, btw. Sarcastic and funny as hell. Have been watching vids and thinking "where the hell is Mordin?". He needed to be on that team, the banter could have been great.

Yeah that DLC was worth it. I loved at one point when he says something like "All the lesser races are flying around in ships, very dangerous..." Then Tali drunk dialing him and telling him off was great too.

 

[Wes R]

I've gone back to trying to get the last 11 achievements i need for Deus Ex: HR. Turns out there is a single DLC mission before you get on the ship that you can buy and it comes with some remote explosives and an automatic lock short out gadget. They were only part of the one overseas special edition before now.

 

[Drewid]

Yeah that DLC was worth it. I loved at one point when he says something like "All the lesser races are flying around in ships, very dangerous..." Then Tali drunk dialing him and telling him off was great too.

I missed that. I made a small mistake in choosing the order of missions at Rannoch and, well, the Quarians ceased to exist after that. It was incredibly sad to watch Tali do a back swan dive off the cliff after she listened to her people get slaughtered because of that bonehead admiral.

Equally unfortunate, I didn't have a save game that would have allowed me to roll events back a bit.

 

[Wes R]

Buzz Aldrin was just on futurama and his voice acting wasn't nearly as bad as it was in the end of ME3.

 

[Nwerke]

Wow; BW are still trying to tell people you can get the 'optimal' (ha ha) ending without doing multiplayer. It's flatly impossible according to, well, everyone else.

The muffins thing has ended; they were donated by BW to a youth shelter. There's no shortage of people pointing out the huge irony involved - i.e. that this was effectively BioWare granting themselves a fourth option. :lol