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

[zxvcasdfqwerzxcv]

Ok hands up who's played the game here and seen the endings? .... No one? Good! So no one knows how the endings are actually delivered and presented outside of text - there's a whole plethora of visual, emotional and musical cues that could make these 'awful' endings very poignant and excellent.

Also who's to say that these leaks show all the endings possible. How reliable is the source? How in depth is the source. Really we cannot know anything. This is not coming as a Bioware fan (I think being a fan of a developer is a bit foolish; I like games, not companies!) but out of pure common sense. Anyone (a lot of people in this thread and apparently all the Bioware forums) are imo complete idiots. ANYONE who is pissed because there is no happy 'lol, we all live happily ever after ending' and calls THAT bad storywriting clearly has no taste in storywriting.

I haven't spoiled the endings for myself (nor do I desire to), but I was not expecting a happy ending, nor should anyone have. It's unrealistic, it's cliche and its BORING! Real life disasters (as real life as an earth invasion by ancient sentient machines from space gets) don't have happy endings.

 

[Aisaku]

"BAAAWWWWW! I can't ride off into the sunset with my space waifu!"

THIS... My Shepard deserves her lots of little blue children! D:

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I can draw only one conclusion;

Mass Effect, the first one, they got lucky with it. They dropped a four leaf clover out of a window and it landed on a horseshoe. That's all there is to it.

they have consistently faltered with the franchise since then. If you look back at everything related to it, its not hard to see just how lucky they were with the first one.

 

[William Ossiss]

This is exactly why I refuse to watch any kind of trailers or look at any kind of info for this game. Looks like my plan worked!

 

[SajuukKhar]

I can draw only one conclusion;

Mass Effect, the first one, they got lucky with it. They dropped a four leaf clover out of a window and it landed on a horseshoe. That's all there is to it.

they have consistently faltered with the franchise since then. If you look back at everything related to it, its not hard to see just how lucky they were with the first one.

Funny because ME2 was a vast improvement in gameplay from the first in almost every single way.

After playing ME1 on the PC, and Xbox, I can easily both both version's gameplay mechanics were broken or useless.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Funny because ME2 was a vast improvement in gameplay from the first in almost every single way.

After playing ME1 on the PC, and Xbox, I can easily both both version's gameplay mechanics were broken or useless.

Ah yes. I forgot how ME2 ripped out the majority of skill customizations, added global cooldowns, retconned thermal clips, killed Shepard in a way that defies physics, brought him back in a way that defies biology (brain death after 6 minutes, irreversible damage, no possibility of recovery), railroaded in to working for the villains, took out the exploration of planets, the mining mini-game, and essentially made the struggle and indeed the crux of ME1 obsolete by having the Reapers show up anyway therefore making all the suffering and loss endured count for absolutely nothing.

Apart from that, it was a good game.

 

[Don Savik]

Well obviously they set it up for the SEQUALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS........AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!

*flies backwards into the sky*






We didn't see this coming from EA/Bioware?

 

[Liberaliter]

This merely cements the Bioware forums as the internet's most vile bastion of shrieking fanboys. You know everyone was calling that female Bioware writer the 'cancer that is killing Bioware'? It looks more like the Bioware fanboys are the ones doing that all on their own.

 

[Dandark]

Meh.
I liked the first game a lot and thought the second one was okay but a bit of a dissapointment(In that it could have been better). Now I am glad I decided not to buy the third.

The endings sound kinda bad, yeah it's depressing, that does not equal good writing like people seem to think. I can't say im too dissapointed since I partly expected this from the start but it's still a letdown.

On the bright side for me at least, I now know that I have some extra money to buy riot points with. Veigar White mage skin, you are mine now!

 

[MiloP]

So, the Reapers, who have systematically wiped out all civilization every 50,000 years since, presumably, the beginning of time, DIDN'T succeed in doing so? That sounds like a happy ending to me.

Seriously, why is everyone so mad? Even dismissing the fact that a group of people who supposedly enjoyed the story for its story went out of their way to find and read spoilers, since when do every member of the community get a say in what BioWare's overarching story must be? If they want it to be a downer ending, then they make it a downer ending, they have the artistic rights to write whatever fucking ending they want, and given what we have heard about the Reapers and the fact that Earth gets fucked literally FIVE MINUTES into the game, did we really expect anything else?

I'll also make the point that, well, the journey is more important than the destination. I had predicted an ending like this, or at least some variation on "everyone gets fucked", but that didn't put be off. Considering ME2 probably stands as one of my favourite games of all time due the CHARACTERIZATION, rather than the plot, I imagine it will still be enjoyable.

 

[MiloP]

So, the Reapers, who have systematically wiped out all civilization every 50,000 years since, presumably, the beginning of time, DIDN'T succeed in doing so? That sounds like a happy ending to me.

Seriously, why is everyone so mad? Even dismissing the fact that a group of people who supposedly enjoyed the story for its story went out of their way to find and read spoilers, since when do every member of the community get a say in what BioWare's overarching story must be? If they want it to be a downer ending, then they make it a downer ending, they have the artistic rights to write whatever fucking ending they want, and given what we have heard about the Reapers and the fact that Earth gets fucked literally FIVE MINUTES into the game, did we really expect anything else?

I'll also make the point that, well, the journey is more important than the destination. I had predicted an ending like this, or at least some variation on "everyone gets fucked", but that didn't put be off. Considering ME2 probably stands as one of my favourite games of all time due the CHARACTERIZATION, rather than the plot, I imagine it will still be enjoyable.

Biodrones parroting propaganda right from their Dear Leaders mouth thread?
Biodrones parroting propaganda right from their Dear Leaders mouth thread.

You can call me a Mass Effect fanboy, that would be perfectly fine.

Biodrone? Not really. Didn't like KOTOR, couldn't stand Dragon Age, not bothered to play Jade Empire, and probably won't be renewing my subscription to TOR.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Oh well that sucks but I mean they are only being realistic. Think about an army of giant death robots attack the world. Even if we stop them the damage, both emotionally and physically would be huge. I mean a nice ending would be nice, just make it hard to get.

Heh, imagine if it was all a dream of some present day person and the Mass Effect Universe was canonically fiction.

 

[Spitfire]

I think that giving ME3 a bittersweet ending is the smartest idea that Bioware have had in quite a while, amidst all their attempts to streamline the series.
What I want from ME3 is closure; not some convoluted happy ending just for the sake of.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Read the spoilers in the Bioware forums and I can see how it would make sense. It sucks but now that I know I guess I don't have to play the game! I loved the first, liked the second and don't care enough to want the third at this point. Wonder what the next big Bioware title will be?

 

[Dandark]

So are fans assuming the reason many people don't like the endings are because they are depressing? Also they are not that depressing.

 

[TheRealJLars]

Let's talk serious here.

Was anyone actually expecting anything different? Honestly.

Because I certainly wasn't.

When you end up in a situation like this, there's no such thing as a happy ending.
There's no such thing as a satisfying ending either.

At the end of the day, if the game as a whole (by which I mean the base game) is worth the price of admission, then I really don't care either way how it ends. If it isn't... then go outside. Play some sports with your friends. Chill with your lady/man. Support your local music scene. Laugh. Smile. Life's not so bad.

Sincerely,
A resident of the statistically least happy city in the US.

 

[Plinglebob]

So, the Reapers, who have systematically wiped out all civilization every 50,000 years since, presumably, the beginning of time, DIDN'T succeed in doing so? That sounds like a happy ending to me.

Seriously, why is everyone so mad? Even dismissing the fact that a group of people who supposedly enjoyed the story for its story went out of their way to find and read spoilers, since when do every member of the community get a say in what BioWare's overarching story must be? If they want it to be a downer ending, then they make it a downer ending, they have the artistic rights to write whatever fucking ending they want, and given what we have heard about the Reapers and the fact that Earth gets fucked literally FIVE MINUTES into the game, did we really expect anything else?

I'll also make the point that, well, the journey is more important than the destination. I had predicted an ending like this, or at least some variation on "everyone gets fucked", but that didn't put be off. Considering ME2 probably stands as one of my favourite games of all time due the CHARACTERIZATION, rather than the plot, I imagine it will still be enjoyable.

Biodrones parroting propaganda right from their Dear Leaders mouth thread?
Biodrones parroting propaganda right from their Dear Leaders mouth thread.

While I have no doubts I'll be labeled as the same, I fully agree with MiloP. I've always enjoyed the sort of stories where people fight for the greater good even if they know they are screwed and as such, after checking out the spoilers, this sounds like the sort of ending I will like.

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I also admit I do like the idea of Bioware going against the grain they helped mark out of "PC Savior of the World" by making it so you don't quite manage it.