Mas Effect 3 was an unfinished game.

[StormShaun]

At least there aren't any arrow in the knee jokes yet....
Ooop, wait:
I used to be interested in people opinions, but then I took a "mass effect 3 was unfinished" thread to the escapist. AGAIN.

Too late.

I used to be a Shepard just like you, but then I took a crappy ending to the knee. (or would it be better with EA to the knee?)

On the brighter side is that I am caring less about the ending, the bad side is I still want my DAMN happy ending!

They had three awesome games to make the conclusion out of this world...wait, dimension, but they made the conclusion sink deeper then a black hole.

I blame EA and possibly a 1% of Bioware for this ending.
I guess the only thing I can do is hope and pray for a better ending.

 

[AdamRhodes]

I guess the only thing I can do is hope and pray for a better ending.

Too late. The recent press release stated that they aren't going to add any endings or change any endings, only clarify the ending.

But it wouldn't be the first time they go against the press release.

 

[Blade_125]

I bought the game last week and I am on the final push now. I should have completed the game tonight. I know the ending is suppose to be horrible, but the rest of the game has been fantastic. There can always be little things that could improve things, but overall so far I wouldn't call the game unfinished. I think I would have prefered being able to use characters from the previous games rather than some of the new characters they introduced, but so far that is my only real complaint of the game. It sounds like the ending has really tarnished the rest of the game for a lot of people. Maybe I should stop now so I still think of it as a good game.

 

[Moth_Monk]

Really do we need this thread again?

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Yes everyday in fact.

+1

 

[370999]

I have a question, what was the leaked ending supposed to be? It would e funny if that ending was better

Basically there was a dangerous build-up of dark energy in the galaxy, that threatened to blow up all the suns, that The Reapers were trying to stop and they were harvesting organic races to add to their collective so that they could use all these various races systems of thought to come up with a solution because so far they had been unable to do so themselves.

Just to add to this, the big moral decision at the end would be either to force human beings to become reapers and thus instantly solve the problem due to humanities genetic diversity (I'm not sure I really get that but whatever) or to hope that all the races working together could solve the dark energy problem. Which was much more in keeping with the themes of the game.

I think generally very few games are very completely finished, there is always some other touches the creators want to make. However with ME 3 they very much seemed to misplaced in importance what needs to be finished, double-checked and then triple-checked and what doesn't. The ending needs, to have a lot of focus on, especially IMHO a narrative based game.

 

[Tayh]

This topic has an unfinished title.

 

[Atmos Duality]

You can believe that if you like.

Because them not adding multiplayer would have prevented a last minute breakdown of Casey Hudson's sanity causing him to re-write the ending?

Seriously, think about it for a second.

What you said, was stupid.

His argument is sound as speculation.
If it's a matter of time constraints, then with the same budget and same staff (work-hours), they would have to choose which feature to emphasize.

Since multiplayer is a new, major advertised feature, it's possible their efforts were diverted from what they had done previously, so they would have to half-ass SOMETHING to meet the deadline.

Given that the graphics and content up to the ending were basically the same quality fare as the previous two games, it's not unfair to guess that the ending was what got the shaft; regardless of what the writer originally intended.
This assumes that the original intended ending required more effort and explanation than they had time for, which is kind of what the topic is going into.
Alternatively, the ending could have just been badly written to begin with, but we don't know for sure either.

Every one of us is speculating here (unless you have some inside information you'd like to share).

 

[Mikeyfell]

It wasn't "unfinished" it just sucked.

We just have to get over Bioware, they're just part of EA now.
THEY'RE DEAD!
LET THEM REST!