Darth Brass
Sr Member
Solo4114, I would argue that the entire rest of the trilogy is well worth the 'less than amazing' ending. 99.99% of the series is amazing with full, lush worldbuilding and storytelling.
Mass Effect 3 Ending, opinions and feelings?
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DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
No, ME2 is fantastic, you should totally break the plastic on that. The last mission is worth the price of admission, as are the epilogue DLCs.
ME3 is a fun game, it just takes a hard left at the end when they switch from being Empire Strikes Back to Matrix Revolutions. The last ten minutes ruin it for a lot of people, but everything preceding it is gold IMO.
Also reloaded and got an unglitched epilogue. I think this is the best we're going to get, and it's somewhat an improvement. Sure, there are new plotholes, I still disagree with Starbrat completely, and the slideshow was freaking lazy. That said, the new elements were very well inserted. I'd feared they'd be awkwardly shoehorned in and they weren't. Overall the EC was better than I expected, but it's still polishing a turd.
God, why did they have to leave StarPedoAldrin in? It's so bad.
Solo4114
Master Member
Ah, but you guys forget -- if the ending sucks, it tends to ruin my enjoyment of the whole.
I was happy with Mass Effect 1. It was a solid game, and I enjoyed playing it. I thought it was quite well done. But I don't feel like devoting the time to those games (since I tend to be a completist about them), if the end is gonna jerk me around.
I was happy with Mass Effect 1. It was a solid game, and I enjoyed playing it. I thought it was quite well done. But I don't feel like devoting the time to those games (since I tend to be a completist about them), if the end is gonna jerk me around.
Darth Brass
Sr Member
Still, I would say ME2 is worth playing. I haven't personally experienced the 'new' endings to ME3, so I can't comment specifically to that, but ME2 is great.
Everyone shoulda known ME3 woulda sucked (me included) as soon as Drew left bioware since he wrote nearly all of both games and look how bad that last book was after he stopped writing those. Sadly this is a polished turd and it won't have made nearly anyone happy. I bet the bioware forum is a giant flame war again. i'll wait til me3 is 19.99 or less to get it again. As for ME2 i encourage everyone to play it but pretend it's the last game in the series, sort of like a really good tv show that gets canceled before it ends.
DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
ME2 is great, Lair of the Shadow Broker is great (though I hate the fight with the Broker), and Arrival is pretty good too.
Sounds like Mass Effect 3 is a pass for you. Or you just let Marauder Shields kill you and turn off the game there.
Sounds like Mass Effect 3 is a pass for you. Or you just let Marauder Shields kill you and turn off the game there.
Ah Marauder Shields how he tried to warn us :lol
DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
I just did another run for testing our Refusal. Marauder Shields almost killed me. Should have let him.
And hey, on Refusal there's a new Stargazer, it's not Buzz Aldrin. Way better.
Solo4114
Master Member
Dude. I HATE that. I HATE investing my time and energy and excitement into a show only to have it canceled before it ends. If that's the case, then I'm definitely NOT playing ME2. ME1 had an ending, as I recall. If it had all ended there, it would've been fine. It wasn't like "But...so many plot threads left hanging..." ME2, sounds like it's designed more to lead into a sequel. If that's the case, I'm skipping it. I don't care how good it is. If ME3 sucks as bad as everyone says, I can live without it rather than invest my time and energy into it, only to end up yelling "ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME?!" at my Xbox after I get to the end of 3. I've had enough of those kinds of disappointments in my entertainment experiences. I don't need to walk straight into one when I know it's coming.
DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
ME2 does end with a stronger sequel hook than ME1 does though. There's less of an "everything's okay" feeling.
I would say definitely play them all. Even ME3 is a great game up until the last 5 or so minutes.
Like I said I'm not going to play it again any time soon, but a couple of major points for me were the Normandy leaving and addressing the Relays being destroyed. I like that it sounds like they fixed those points, but you still have the circular logic of an entity that wants to destroy synthetic life by employing synthetic life to do so. That was just too stupid. I would have rather had them just destroy the Reapers or have the Crucible actually destroy them rather than the whole choice thing.
Well back to Battlefield 3.
Update: Gamespot has the ending videos up if you want to watch them. I only watched the destroy version because that's what I did. I think that now the ending is palatable. It's not perfect, but much better. The only thing I don't like now is that I had to kill the Geth and EDI. They made so much out of making you think about the Geth's and EDI's existence between ME2 and ME3 that it was stupid that you had to destroy them also. I also liked that they showed the Citadel being repaired because it would be a shame if they made future games taking place post ME3 where you couldn't go to the Citadel.
Like I said I'm not going to play it again any time soon, but a couple of major points for me were the Normandy leaving and addressing the Relays being destroyed. I like that it sounds like they fixed those points, but you still have the circular logic of an entity that wants to destroy synthetic life by employing synthetic life to do so. That was just too stupid. I would have rather had them just destroy the Reapers or have the Crucible actually destroy them rather than the whole choice thing.
Well back to Battlefield 3.
Update: Gamespot has the ending videos up if you want to watch them. I only watched the destroy version because that's what I did. I think that now the ending is palatable. It's not perfect, but much better. The only thing I don't like now is that I had to kill the Geth and EDI. They made so much out of making you think about the Geth's and EDI's existence between ME2 and ME3 that it was stupid that you had to destroy them also. I also liked that they showed the Citadel being repaired because it would be a shame if they made future games taking place post ME3 where you couldn't go to the Citadel.
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MasterDurangus
Well-Known Member
I was actually somewhat happy with the new DLC to a degree. It showed a future, which provided closure. The previous ending left all of us wondering how the entire galaxy was going to survive. The DLC provided an answer to that and showed the future of the races - something I personally liked.
The memorial wall with Anderson & Shepard's names provided closure on their deaths, also a nice touch. We also got reasons for why the Normandy was in the Mass Effect relay to begin with.
I applaud BW for doing this and think they provided us with a decent ending with good closure. It's not perfect, but neither is life.
The memorial wall with Anderson & Shepard's names provided closure on their deaths, also a nice touch. We also got reasons for why the Normandy was in the Mass Effect relay to begin with.
I applaud BW for doing this and think they provided us with a decent ending with good closure. It's not perfect, but neither is life.
DuneMuadDib
Sr Member
Sadly the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. This content should have been in the game 3 months ago, so we were sold an incomplete game. People are falling over themselves thanking BioWare and saying their faith is restored when they should be saying "about time."
Sadly gamers these days digest any crap that is put on their plate and beg for more. It's why every game has to have MP online now instead of strictly single player.
I'm bothered by the fact that the Citadel now resides over Earth. I loved how it used to be located in a part of space that wasn't owned by a single race. But at Earth? I don't think so. If this is going to be the home to the leaders of all the advanced races of the galaxy, it shouldn't belong to one of them.
But really, I'm not surprised. As I've said many times before, I loved how the original Mass Effect and it's sequel (to an extent) didn't paint humanity as the center of the universe where everything depends on us. Shepard wasn't a hero because she was human, she was a human who happened to be the hero. I still remember watching the Teaser for ME3 with that soldier saying "If Shepard doesn't bring help soon, there won't be an Earth left to save." WHO GIVES A #!($ about a planet that was a no show in the previous two games?? I've already got dozens of "Save Earth from alien invaders" stacked up in my game library, Mass Effect shouldn't resort to that trope.
AggieChick42
Active Member
Jumping in randomly but saw the "new" ending for ME3 and WTH! I feel cheated.
What really annoyed me the most on top of that was how amazing the battles were in the trailers with the fleet of ground vehicles and shep finding that girl's toy only for none of it to even happen in the game. Bioware should be ashamed of themselves. This EC could very well be a nail in their coffin.
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