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

[Crazy Zaul]

Basically before DA2 bioware had a unique in the industry (Except maybe Bethesda) reputation that every game they make is brilliant then they reduced to the some of their games are good, others aren't as good status that every other devs have and it was just too much for some people to take.

 

[Substitute Troll]

I'm thrilled actually! I intend to sacrifice my Shepard anyway. A proper story ends with the main character's death.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Read the OP of the spoiler thread and it really doesn't sound that bad.

 

[Misho-]

Basically I just read 2 pages of the Bioware forums... It's basically a bunch of guys sad because they will lose control over the story and can't have a happy ending where Shep shags all the Normandy Crew and rides off to the space sunset to have more sexy adventures... I mean really?? Lol the game isn't even out

 

[Substitute Troll]

It's really not that big a deal, they obviously want to set the tone for future mass effect games.

 

[Something Amyss]

Goddamnit...I really want to look at the ending but I also don't. Oh the moral dilemmas.

Um...I'm actually psyched. Depressing? FINALLY A GAME THAT HAS THE BALLS TO NOT PULL OUT THE BULLSHIT HAPPY ENDING!

Someone didn't play Drakengard. Even the best ending was pretty much a downer. And except for the novelty ending, which was more "lol wtf" than anything else, they all got worse. Which was an interesting subversion of the usual norm, but also a giant "screw you," since the gameplay and plot were kind of tedious.

 

[Relaver]

Part of me actually saw this coming. I imagine one of the final choices will be something like; you survive but your crew dies or you die but your crew survives. If its a choice like that than looks like Sheps life is over, the needs of the many outweighing the few and all.

 

[Manji187]

Guys, guys, don't worry. You'll all get over it. There will be much better games and in 20 years time you prolly won't even remember playing the game anyway.

There....didn't that make you feel better? XD

 

[ckriley]

Well, I'll wait and see for myself when I actually play the game. But if all this is true, then good for BioWare. Truly. I get so tired of writers resorting to a deus ex machina because they have written themselves into a hole in which no possible or realistic resolution could fix the problem.

BioWare has spent the last five years or so telling us that the Reapers are unstoppable. That they have powers that no sentient or organic species could possibly comprehend. They are also completely mysterious, thought to be a myth. And this cycle has been repeating itself for millions of years.

To suddenly be able to defeat them and have everything be wine and roses at the end would absolutely be the proverbial "god out of the machine" moment. Pun intended.

 

[Aircross]

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.

So Bioware talks the talk but can't walk the walk. So much for the "hundreds and thousands of variables from the previous games."

Screw this, I'm outta here.

 

[endtherapture]

I don't know why all the ME mega fans want to find out about the spoilers for the end of the game before it drops.

Finding it out in the game itself is much better.

 

[TheRealJLars]

....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.

Stockton, California?
(Filler for small post to not get banned)

lol Surprisingly, no.

God's Waiting Room: St. Petersburg, FL.

Between our rapidly aging population, the weather, stagnating local businesses, a horrible baseball stadium (and football team), dreadful school system, and extremely high unemployment, I'm not the least bit surprised that the TB area have more people on anti-depressants and committing suicide than anywhere else.
Although I'm looking at the Men's Health survey, which is the most recent.

OT: I need to stop coming to these spoiler forums. I'm still optimistic about the final product and this is certainly coloring that. At least there's only one week to go.

 

[lacktheknack]

Remember when people used to like Bioware?

A lot of people still do, they blame EA for mucking everything up.

Also, I couldn't find exactly what made everyone so incredibly ticked. The only two things I found that ticked people off were the downer ending (which I think is GOOD) or the lack of consequences to your choices in previous games (which I totally saw coming, unless you wanted the game to be in development for another three years). None of that really ticks me off.

 

[boag]

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.

It wasnt Jenkings who got shot on Eden Prime, It was Shepard, and in the last moments, as life escaped breath by breath, a final dream came into realization. An illusion off all life in the universe being dependent on Shepard for guidance and leadership, and that of a heroic sacrifice to let it all end happily for others.

Here Lies Shepard on Eden Prime.

 

[boag]

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.

Well the whole thing gives me bad flashbacks to the Expansion of Baldurs Gate 2, the Throne of Baal

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.

If the leaks are true, and I do everything right in the game and get the TANG ending, then my crew is stuck on Gilligans Island and the Doctor and Mary Anne Die.

That is not a very satisfactory ending for me, specially if I wanted to Romance the Doctor or Mary Anne, Yes this about Space Waifus/Husbandos, Yes I understand its irrational, No I am not going to calm down.

 

[Piorn]

(I haven't read the endings.)

All I can say is that far too often, we see a shoehorned "happy ending" where there just shouldn't. I would prefer an ending where the Reapers have a motivation, a reason, and actually win, instead of "a flawless victory of humanity against a cliché threat" any day.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

This is why you dont read anything about a game or film you have interest in. MS3 could either end awesome or crap. I will find out myself when the game is out. People just want to read every bit of info on a game and then moan when its spoiled.

 

[Furioso]

And thus with a resounding crash I finally cease to give a shit about any of Biowares future projects, not that they can't bounce back, but at this moment Bioware is now EA 2 to me

 

[cdstephens]

My problem isn't with the endings themselves, but more the fact that your choices in the first two games seem to have little effect on the endings in the third game.