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

[Yopaz]

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!

There was Batman Arkham City, but I agree with what you're saying. I hate a forced happy ending. It's better to end it the way it should. Don't pull out your box of miracle and revive the guy like they did in the bible. End it.

 

[Racecarlock]

So I was listening to some riffs with this topic open and it hits me. You know what this is like?


Yep, the bioware fans have gone insane with grief. Even has a saving the galaxy thing. It's just too perfect.

 

[SajuukKhar]

The endings are just so terrabad.

They are so god awful and theres a bug in the ending also apparently.

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

You know, I just tripped over this tonight and...I'm amazingly okay with the ending(s) being at best bittersweet. You don't get a shiny happy people rose-smelling buttocks ending when the game's about an entire galactic civilization burning. The thing I could say I'm remotely pissed about is,

Spoiler

Renegade Shep = Dead Shep

But hey, on one hand them's the breaks for being a galactic-scale jackass. On the other hand, V'ger jokes.

 

[Omnific One]

I read them. Cancel your preorder if you haven't, seriously.

After 3 games, your choices mean nothing. It doesn't make any difference.

If you care about your LI, your crew, or your squad to any degree, cancel and wait for a serious price drop. It's gonna be $20 in Gamestop used within a week because there is no re-playability.

 

[lacktheknack]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

 

[Omnific One]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

Yeah, I'm gonna have them being taken out by whoever is in the first round with them. The rage is going to kill them. Now there's only one good WRPG developer left: Bethesda.

The reaction on their forum is so ridiculous that it's just plain funny. Foaming at the mouth rage is not called for at all (especially since they haven't played the game).

They've seen the streams, the images, read the accounts from people, read through the guides, watched the ending videos. Don't bury your head in the sand; they do know what's coming.

 

[lacktheknack]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

Yeah, I'm gonna have them being taken out by whoever is in the first round with them. The rage is going to kill them. Now there's only one good WRPG developer left: Bethesda.

No, I still have them in the semi-finals (again!). Because they're still going to outdo Professor Layton (too niche), Duke Nukem Forever (despised), inFamous (PS3 exclusive) and Battlefield (too much military FPS animosity around here).

 

[Omnific One]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

Yeah, I'm gonna have them being taken out by whoever is in the first round with them. The rage is going to kill them. Now there's only one good WRPG developer left: Bethesda.

No, I still have them in the semi-finals (again!). Because they're still going to outdo Professor Layton (too niche), Duke Nukem Forever (despised), inFamous (I may be wrong) and Battlefield (too much military FPS animosity around here).

I doubt it, the number of raging Bioware fans there are going to be voting against Bioware is going to be overwhelming; it is seriously gonna be like Zynga last year. The endings are that bad.

 

[lacktheknack]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

Yeah, I'm gonna have them being taken out by whoever is in the first round with them. The rage is going to kill them. Now there's only one good WRPG developer left: Bethesda.

No, I still have them in the semi-finals (again!). Because they're still going to outdo Professor Layton (too niche), Duke Nukem Forever (despised), inFamous (I may be wrong) and Battlefield (too much military FPS animosity around here).

I doubt it, the number of raging Bioware fans there are going to be voting against Bioware is going to be overwhelming; it is seriously gonna be like Zynga last year. The endings are that bad.

Oh come now. The endings aren't THAT horrible.

Then again, I haven't actually played ME2 and won't play ME3. I'm voting Bioware purely because I liked DA:O and haven't played a single game from their (predicted by me) opponents. So maybe in context, they ARE that horrible.

Also, "year before last"*

 

[Omnific One]

Welp, time to go fix my March Mayhem bracket.

Yeah, I'm gonna have them being taken out by whoever is in the first round with them. The rage is going to kill them. Now there's only one good WRPG developer left: Bethesda.

No, I still have them in the semi-finals (again!). Because they're still going to outdo Professor Layton (too niche), Duke Nukem Forever (despised), inFamous (I may be wrong) and Battlefield (too much military FPS animosity around here).

I doubt it, the number of raging Bioware fans there are going to be voting against Bioware is going to be overwhelming; it is seriously gonna be like Zynga last year. The endings are that bad.

Oh come now. The endings aren't THAT horrible.

Then again, I haven't actually played ME2 and won't play ME3. I'm voting Bioware purely because I liked DA:O and haven't played a single game from their (predicted by me) opponents. So maybe in context, they ARE that horrible.

Also, "year before last"*

And as someone who has read all the endings in depth and has played ME2, they are that horrible.

 

[RatRace123]

I doubt it, the number of raging Bioware fans there are going to be voting against Bioware is going to be overwhelming; it is seriously gonna be like Zynga last year. The endings are that bad.

Nah, since the game's released so close to MM, I think people are still gonna be in the middle of playing it by the time voting time comes around.

I had them ranking in the semifinals before losing out to Riot.

 

[Omnific One]

I doubt it, the number of raging Bioware fans there are going to be voting against Bioware is going to be overwhelming; it is seriously gonna be like Zynga last year. The endings are that bad.

Nah, since the game's released so close to MM, I think people are still gonna be in the middle of playing it by the time voting time comes around.

I had them ranking in the semifinals before losing out to Riot.

Maybe, but a few days after launch, once people have hit the end, Bioware will go down in a blaze of "glory."

 

[lacktheknack]

No, I still have them in the semi-finals (again!). Because they're still going to outdo Professor Layton (too niche), Duke Nukem Forever (despised), inFamous (PS3 exclusive) and Battlefield (too much military FPS animosity around here).

You forgot From Software. Dark Souls was very popular.

And, is the MM backlash really going to be this bad?

I figure it's too niche when going up against Battlefiled 3, which was also very popular with a broader choice of people.

And yes. Yes it will be. I may have to double my Minecraft Fury-n-Tears Meter for this.

 

[SillyBear]

So there isn't an actual leaked script?

It's not even a script leak. It's a secondhand summary written by someone who allegedly played the game.

Yeah, that sounds real trustworthy. I call foul without actual evidence.

Argh how many times does this need to be explained.

The script leak has been around since November 2011. This leak we are talking about has come from data mining the demo and looking at the actual programming and script. It has also been confirmed by people who have played it.

It's not fake.

 

[Omnific One]

They've put up videos, streams, screenshots, accounts. And it all correlates.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE ME UNIVERSE IN THE SLIGHTEST, BESIDES TPS ACTION, CANCEL YOUR PREORDERS.

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

And as someone who has read all the endings in depth and has played ME2, they are that horrible.

After reading more into it, what I'd be willing to bet cash Bioware/EA is going to release "happy ending" DLC. The scripted and datamined endings scream "this is what happens if you half-ass it and miss certain victory conditions [...which you can actually satisfy and get the happy ending for the low, low price of 1600MSP/160BWNP/$20!]".

 

[beniki]

*This thread contains minor spoilers about the end. I intended it contain none, but people have been posting minor spoilers anyway.*

The Mass Effect 3 ending details have been data mined due to leaks/early copies and the results are not good at all. The majority of the members on the bioware forums have gone up in flames and are outraged. It's not pretty.

How far can Bioware/EA go to completely alienate their fans?

The fallout from Dragon Age 2 was bad enough. Then Mass Effect 3 DLC controversy was even worse. This looks like it could be the killer.

I don't want to include spoilers in this thread, but if you really want to know, go to the Bioware forums and look at the Mass Effect 3 spoiler thread. You can't miss it.

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?

So I had a look to see what was so bad about the endings.

At first, I thought they weren't so bad. Then I read further.

Ok, odd to have the other two choices aside from the obvious one, and I hope the ride in is enough to make it make sense. Then I read further.

Oh.

Oooh.

Oh I see.

Wow, people must be pretty pissed off.

Remember when people used to like Bioware?

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

"And that's how the Imperium of Man was made!"

Honestly the ending was going to be bittersweet at best, I would be more concerned about that glitch that's affecting the end if I was getting the game. If something like that was let though...

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

The thing that amazes me is precisely at what people are hacked off about. They're hacked off about what happens to love interests, the Normandy crew, and Shepard solely, and completely ignoring the bigger (at least, in my opinion) cause to be angry:

Spoiler

All the decisions and game play of the first two installments boils down in the end to a numerical factor that doesn't change anything and is completely overruled by a handful of choices made in ME3 itself opposed to previous games in the series. Moreover, the game boils down to a true to Bioware cliche four-part Army Rallying sequence followed by a Space MacGuffin Hunt that's more important and completely overshadows everything you've done the entire trilogy up to that point.

I mean, that's just lazy storytelling. God forbid the third game in the trilogy be about the long-term consequences of actions and choices undertaken as early as the first game in the series, and the final battle won on or lost the back of Shepard's work and choices rather than through a quick visit to Deus ex Machina-R-Us for MacGuffin du jour.

God forbid something like...oh, I don't know...sparing a misunderstood ancient alien race from extinction matter more than a plus-whatever to Marginally Better Cutscene that Doesn't Matter Anyway points.