Bioware forums explode as Mass Effect 3 ending details are leaked. *MINOR SPOILERS*

[rdnanez11]

i personally like the bittersweet ending. its sets it up perfectly for another trilogy or installment in the mass effect universe. i mean yeah a perfectly happy ending wouldve been nice but this a war were talking about. with giant unstoppable god like creatures. you gotta be real about the situation. if this shit really happened we would just win a war with the reapers and then when all was said and done go to work the next day like nothing happened.

 

[Azo Galvat]

"Hey! Let's release a bunch of copies of Mass Effect 3 into orbit for people to find!"
"Yeah! That couldn't possibly have any bad sides to it at all!"

To be fair, the spoilers had been leaked for some time, so this is nothing new to me.

Captcha: secretions owdded

 

[Ecliptica Wolf]

It isn't your game so you don't get to choose the ending, it ended the way it ended so grow up and deal with it. If this is such a massive tragedy in your life then you need to go outside and look at the world.

 

[rdnanez11]

i mean look at the mass effect history. every 50,000 years life builds itself up and reapers destroy it. life still comes back. regardless of the ending. life will still find a way. people are taking it too personally. like i said before it sets it up perfectly for a new series in the mass effect universe. i mean shit this whole trilogy only takes place in the milky way. you never know about the other galaxies. theres soooo much more to do in this universe. i wont be dissapointed. i love shepard, but if the ending is bittersweet so be it. i like the mature approach they took to the endings. they didnt sugar coat shit. they said allll along the reapers were coming to do what they do best and now people *****

 

[Somepunctuation]

Oh, this whole thing's ridiculous.

Seems people won't be happy with an ending other than Shepard, smoking a cigar, atop a massive pile of naked, moaning Asari, while the last Reaper can be seen exploding to bits through the porthole of the Normandy. The camera zooms in on Shepard's face, he delivers a witty one-liner with a wink, the screen fades to black, and the credits roll.

Or, you know, a handful of substantively different endings.

Instead it seems like we're basically only getting one ending with several different coatings of paint. It feels a bit like a bait and switch to me, after all of Bioware's marketing.

I understand the need to have a common ending point for ME4 (if that indeed is the motivation behind the similarities) but I don't think it's surprising some fans are upset.

Your choices matter! Multiple endings based on thousands of variables! Endings that are really hard to get unless you buy our DLC and iOS game!

It seems like they decided to take it in a different direction for financial or sequel reasons, and fans never got the memo.

 

[The Forces of Chaos]

Oh, this whole thing's ridiculous.

Seems people won't be happy with an ending other than Shepard, smoking a cigar, atop a massive pile of naked, moaning Asari, while the last Reaper can be seen exploding to bits through the porthole of the Normandy. The camera zooms in on Shepard's face, he delivers a witty one-liner with a wink, the screen fades to black, and the credits roll.

Or, you know, a handful of substantively different endings.

Instead it seems like we're basically only getting one ending with several different coatings of paint. It feels a bit like a bait and switch to me, after all of Bioware's marketing.

I understand the need to have a common ending point for ME4 (if that indeed is the motivation behind the similarities) but I don't think it's surprising some fans are upset.

Your choices matter! Multiple endings based on thousands of variables! Endings that are really hard to get unless you buy our DLC and iOS game!

It seems like they decided to take it in a different direction for financial or sequel reasons, and fans never got the memo.

Reminds me of dragon age 2. Seriously FU bioware/EA for that. I'm just pissed as what was the point of me doing a renegade playthough ?

 

[boag]

Oh, this whole thing's ridiculous.

Seems people won't be happy with an ending other than Shepard, smoking a cigar, atop a massive pile of naked, moaning Asari, while the last Reaper can be seen exploding to bits through the porthole of the Normandy. The camera zooms in on Shepard's face, he delivers a witty one-liner with a wink, the screen fades to black, and the credits roll.

You know what Ending I want, besides being happily ever after with mai waifu?

Spoiler

being able to create the singularity that the reapers are so afraid of, just to spite them

 

[Mrsoupcup]

It's a problem because we actually invested time in this stuff. It's not like a book or a movie, we played these games and expect for our efforts not to be invalidated.

And they won't be, as it looks your commander Shepard will pretty much single handedly deliver the biggest blow the Reapers have ever gotten.

I just don't get this, how could anyone have expected a completely happy ending without some sort of contrived reason?

Exactly.

You beat the freaking Reapers, the ancient machine race that has been near-invincible for millenniums.

How in the world does this mean your choices are invalidated because Shepard and his crew loses out??

The fact that people expected to have some bright sunshine ending just because they acted nice is contrary to what the world is.

Most people seem angry because this effectively destroys the Mass Effect Universe. There will never be another game like 1 or 2, they effectively butt-fucked the cannon into an inescapable hole.

Oh and almost all your actions are invalidated, all your choices don't play out at all. Just a crappy way to send out this series.

 

[Xpheyel]

i mean look at the mass effect history. every 50,000 years life builds itself up and reapers destroy it. life still comes back. regardless of the ending. life will still find a way. people are taking it too personally. like i said before it sets it up perfectly for a new series in the mass effect universe. i mean shit this whole trilogy only takes place in the milky way. you never know about the other galaxies. theres soooo much more to do in this universe. i wont be dissapointed. i love shepard, but if the ending is bittersweet so be it. i like the mature approach they took to the endings. they didnt sugar coat shit. they said allll along the reapers were coming to do what they do best and now people *****

I don't buy that. One of the endings is fundamentally different from the straight paragon/renegade endings. If they just try to gloss over that in subsequent game it'd be lauhable.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

It's a problem because we actually invested time in this stuff. It's not like a book or a movie, we played these games and expect for our efforts not to be invalidated.

And they won't be, as it looks your commander Shepard will pretty much single handedly deliver the biggest blow the Reapers have ever gotten.

I just don't get this, how could anyone have expected a completely happy ending without some sort of contrived reason?

Exactly.

You beat the freaking Reapers, the ancient machine race that has been near-invincible for millenniums.

How in the world does this mean your choices are invalidated because Shepard and his crew loses out??

The fact that people expected to have some bright sunshine ending just because they acted nice is contrary to what the world is.

Most people seem angry because this effectively destroys the mass Effect Universe. There will never be another game like 1 or 2, they effectively butt-fucked the cannon into an inescapable hole.

Oh and almost all your actions are invalidated, all your choices don't play out at all. Just a crappy way to send out this series.

Cause they couldn't make a game set before Shepard's adventure!

Nope.

They could, but would you really enjoy it? Knowing the grim fate looming overhead?

Exactly why so many couldn't get into Halo Reach.

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

The point is that the player doesn't invest time on perfect playthoughs to see good narrative, but to get a good ending. And in part, he's right; in that sense, it isn't the same as a book, there's a reason for a good and a bad ending; which is to let the story rest on the player's hands.

Heh, I still remember Bioware saying it would be a great wrap up for the series, and that everything in the previous games would matter.

Still, I'd rent the game for a while.

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

It's a problem because we actually invested time in this stuff. It's not like a book or a movie, we played these games and expect for our efforts not to be invalidated.

And they won't be, as it looks your commander Shepard will pretty much single handedly deliver the biggest blow the Reapers have ever gotten.

I just don't get this, how could anyone have expected a completely happy ending without some sort of contrived reason?

Exactly.

You beat the freaking Reapers, the ancient machine race that has been near-invincible for millenniums.

How in the world does this mean your choices are invalidated because Shepard and his crew loses out??

The fact that people expected to have some bright sunshine ending just because they acted nice is contrary to what the world is.

Most people seem angry because this effectively destroys the mass Effect Universe. There will never be another game like 1 or 2, they effectively butt-fucked the cannon into an inescapable hole.

Oh and almost all your actions are invalidated, all your choices don't play out at all. Just a crappy way to send out this series.

Cause they couldn't make a game set before Shepard's adventure!

Nope.

They could, but would you really enjoy it? Knowing the grim fate looming overhead?

Exactly why so many couldn't get into Halo Reach.

This; and also that as a Halo fan, I couldn't give a damn about the squad. In fact, they were quite annoying at times

 

[Frostbite3789]

EA Executive: "I'm thinking that if we make all the endings bad and unsatisfying, the players will be forced to buy more DLC and sequels to find out what really happened. We'll just say they have clones, or time travelers, or whatever. They'll buy it."

Or you know...the bad guys that they've been building up for two games can be suitably powerful. For two games it's pretty much been, "This doesn't end happily ever after" and yet people have the gall to be shocked?

I'm even more excited knowing everything can't be sunshine and happiness.

 

[Steampunk Viking]

For those who are fine with very vague spoilers, but don't want to know the actual details:

Spoiler: Unspecific spoiler about endings

All of the possible endings are incredibly depressing and the sense of purpose from the two previous games are destroyed.

Whilst not everyone is outraged at this, this could be enough to really hurt Bioware and force them into some strange DLC fix situation. From the looks of things, people aren't going to live this down.

For discussion:

What are your thoughts on Bioware? Why have they had their foot stuck in knee deep controversy for the last few years? Do you think the reaction to the endings will do serious damage?

I don't want to read the specifics so I've skipped all the other posts and am likely not reading this thread again. But I expected this kind of thing anyways.

If Mass Effect is going out, it's going to be dramatic and I fully expect people to die, for civilisations to be in ruins etc. It happens in real wars, so I'd be a bit disappointed if the series ended in all smiles and rainbows. War tears people apart, it makes people forget about the past and focus on survival.

I don't want this totally ruined I want to experience this next week, but I wanted to just give my two cents on the subject.

 

[Frostbite3789]

It's a problem because we actually invested time in this stuff. It's not like a book or a movie, we played these games and expect for our efforts not to be invalidated.

This validates them if nothing else. It means all this buildup was actually for something. Two games worth of "These dudes are going to stomp your face" would be really awful if it was like "lol everyone safe u save entire galaxy they no problem!"

It has nothing to do with right and wrong choices, it has to do with the series heading to the conclusion it's been telling you about for two whole games.

It isn't a question of if the Reapers will mess shit up. It's a question of how much.