Extreme Similarities Between Ending of A Cabin in the Woods and Mass Effect 3 [Spoilers for both]

[James Joseph Emerald]

Similarities between ME3 and Cabin endings:


- Epic battle between humans and incomprehensible terrors, which the humans are losing.

- Main character (Dana/Shepard) and Heroic Sidekick (Marty/Anderson) arrive at a strange circular room.

- Main Character and Heroic Sidekick are both hurt, MC has a gun.

- A Primary Antagonist (The Director/Illusive Man/Catalyst Kid) arrives and explains their own viewpoint on the current situation.

- Midway through this conversation, Main Character points their gun at their Heroic Sidekick, but fails to kill them.

-The hitherto unseen Antagonist (The Director/Catalyst Kid) gives a bizarre explanation for what is going on, and leaves the MC with a choice that will decide the fate of the human race.

-Primary Antagonist (The Director/Illusive Man) is killed.

-Main Character and Heroic Sidekick sit down next to each other, covered in blood, and have a stoic, final exchange.

-A wave of destruction spreads over the known world, seemingly killing the Main Character and their Heroic Sidekick.

-In any case, the Main Character's choice is ultimately irrelevant in stopping the wave of destruction (ME3: Every choice leads to destruction; Cabin: Dana's power to choose is taken away before she even has time to make one).


My question is, do people hate the ending of A Cabin in the Woods as much as Mass Effect 3? And if not, why not? What's the difference? When you think about Cabin, there are just as many plot holes, if not more. But people seem to like the ending...


Anyway, I'm pretty sure this proves my theory that Dana is an unindoctrinated Commander Shepard and The Cabin in the Woods is actually what was really happening in Mass Effect.

 

[PANTSONHEADRETARD]

ah here, don't be schewpi.

All choices in ME3 don't lead to destruction, unless you mean destruction of the mass relays which doesn't really apply to Cabin in the Woods.

 

[Lugbzurg]

I guess this just really enforces my thoughts all the more.

This whole Mass Effect 3 thing has got to be the most pathetic, saddest time in videogame history. Not because of anything EA or BioWare did. But, because of these whiny, immature little snots making such a colossal deal over something so trivial, it's just... UGH!

I shouldn't even need to talk about this! It's just beyond pathetic! Even if you leave out the fact that we've been getting games doing much worse within the same month!

 

[Hectix777]

I guess this just really enforces my thoughts all the more.

This whole Mass Effect 3 thing has got to be the most pathetic, saddest time in videogame history. Not because of anything EA or BioWare did. But, because of these whiny, immature little snots making such a colossal deal over something so trivial, it's just... UGH!

I shouldn't even need to talk about this! It's just beyond pathetic! Even if you leave out the fact that we've been getting games doing much worse within the same month!

I'm going to go ahead and say that you have not played Mass Effect at all, and if you have I apologize. But here's the thing with the Mass effect 3 ending, and before you give me that,"Oh just drop it," stuff, just listen. We've been playing this series for 5 years for over 100 hours to end with a detached ending that deifies its own mythology, what we know the game is. So it's pathetic to fight back, to demand that Bioware fix its own mistakes, because we've done it before. Do me a favor and go on to Forbes and read their articles on the Mass Effect endings because you sound painfully ignorant.

The reason why no one was upset over CITW's ending is because we had no control in it. This was a movie, we were aware of the lack of interactivity between the audience and the actors. In Mass Effect 3 we had total control, from start to finish only to end it with a terribly sour note. The ending did not even connect to Mass Effect, it's like it was from a separate project.

So, why weren't fans pissed? Because it was a movie.

 

[Hazy992]

It seems the ME3 threads have begun to cannibalise the other threads in a desperate attempt to sustain themselves. Sad really.

 

[mad825]

My question is, do people hate the ending of A Cabin in the Woods as much as Mass Effect 3? And if not, why not? What's the difference? When you think about Cabin, there are just as many plot holes, if not more. But people seem to like the ending...

Why don't we just compare Highlander: The Source to ME3? Both have unbelievably lacklustre endings and have been holding us by the balls for years.

 

[Eddie the head]

Because it's not the same thing and it's not Mass Effect. Resistance fall of man ends in almost the exact same way as ME3 and when I say exact I mean the level is the same. It's a fight thorough London to try and destroy an alien control center you shot some power cables or something blows up the control center seemingly kills all the aliens somehow the hero survives but no one he knew knows that. But you know what it fits in Resistance it doesn't for Mass Effect. So yeah there not the same thing. Also for Mass Effect I amused you did the red ending.

 

[Simskiller]

Hey, hey guys.

The Original Deus Ex ends EXACTLY LIKE MASS EFFECT 3.

EXACT. SAME. CHOICES.

Reason people have got up in arms about the ending of mass effect 3, is because it throws out all your previous choices leading up to the end and gives you three arbitrary colours to choose from.