Mass Effect 3: YOUR Extended cut.

[SpectacularWebHead]

With the dlc for closure coming up soon, I'm sure some of us are glad for a little more closure. But lets not look at the end, the definitive end that we are getting. If you could have any end for your personal Shepard, Your character, what would you want to see in a "Ten years later" type thing?

Personally, I romanced Liara in every game and played paragon, then got the best ending. I want to see a retired Shepard, living on a remote-ish garden world, occasionaly seeing his old crew to talk about the old days, living off of "The money from the action vids" with little blue babies. That would be... So great, and regardless of what the ending really is, that's how I choose to see my Shepard, with the happy ending that he deserved.

(He did punch that reporter, but he was usually nice enough to balance out his Karma)

So what's yours?

 

[BaronIveagh]

Pretty much the same, minus the reporter punching, since I didn't do that + mine was a her rather then him.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

im going to be honest here i cant see any other ending than the one bioware already gave us, because i loved it! i mean i know the starchild thing was really random and there wasnt much closure for your companions but mass effect 3 was the ending of SHEPARDS story, not everyone elses, thats why i think they did that, there are going to be more games to show off the mass effect universe and the effects your descisions had but no more about shepard. And throughout the entire third game i couldnt just shake the feeling that, shepard needs to die..after all the sacrifice hes madethroughout the trilogy, the only way it can really end, is if shepard makes the final ultimate sacrafice by killing himself.

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

Now that the Illusive Man's indoctrination is fully complete, he infiltrates the Normandy and attempts to seduce Agent Lawson.


Unfortunately, Garrus was killed by a falling Reaper corpse. Jacob manages to recover Garrus' armor and dons it, but the tight constriction of the armor causes Jacob's voice to turn high-pitched and cause facial distortions.


Feron and Liara finally reunite over some drinks.


And lastly, Shepard's corpse is recovered after her fall from the Crucible, but heavily damaged. Alliance scientists are forced to transplant Shepard's brain into a Yahg's body.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Shepard and Garrus are relaxing on a beach somewhere, having a drink, while his kids run about playing happily. The screen goes black, and you see a single faint red light begin to glow. You then hear the Reaper horn noise.

 

[Eddie the head]

Umm get rid of the kid go straight to destroy. Or just get rid of the kid. Yeah just get rid of the kid.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Shep headshots the Star Child to unlock the True Ending and goes on a Gurren Lagann type badass speech and mecha rampage. The funny thing is that that is more in line with the theme of the whole game than the actual ending.

Then Shep and Tali go and do all the house on the homeworld stuff. Garrus can come too. To be honest I was never that into the "my Shepard" business since Shep is too much of a "blank slate, player character" for me to care.

Funny how that's exactly why other people get attached to their Shepards. I was too busy looking at all the interesting characters and dialogue and lore and shit to go crazy over this one military guy I designed on a bad character creation screen.

I'll always be more into my various Fallout: NV characters than any Sheps i'll ever create.

 

[LetalisK]

Shepard dies to save the galaxy. Period. No super expensive technological resurrection, no drawing of breath cliff hanger, no additional tales of The Shepard for some snot nosed brat. Fucking dead. Going out in a blaze of glory, and not by picking a color, is the only way it'll end in a satisfactory manner.

 

[Wyes]

The Crucible launches Shepard into space, whereupon he procees to Shepard Punch all the Reapers.

 

[Zhukov]

While I can't deny the appeal of a 'little blue children' scenario, I'm actually fine with Shepard dying.

Before the release and ensuing shitstorm my ideal speculative ending involved Shepard being on the receiving end of rapid indoctrination and, once victory had been achieved, having to be put down by Garrus or Liara.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[AD-Stu]

I'm not ashamed to admit I wanted the standard triumphant Hollywood ending - Shepard crushes the Reapers then rides off into the sunset.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

This comic has become my personal canon for the ending of Mass Effect 3:
http://koobismo.deviantart.com/gallery/

 

[LetalisK]

While I can't deny the appeal of a 'little blue children' scenario, I'm actually fine with Shepard dying.

Before the release and ensuing shitstorm my ideal speculative ending involved Shepard being on the receiving end of rapid indoctrination and, once victory had been achieved, having to be put down by Garrus or Liara.

I actually don't even mind the ending to Mass Effect 3, with the exception of the exposition dump by Star Child. It just feels like they got to the end, were running short on time and money, so they made Star Child and recolored the ending cutscenes. If they had delivered the Star Child-info in a more interactive and interesting way and had made the ending cutscenes much more substantively different, I would have loved it.

Edit: Oh yeah, forgot the point of my quoting you. Shepard living just seems way too anti-climatic, especially given the scope of the story. Saving the galaxy AND living happily ever after just feels wrong to me.

 

[boag]

Shepard activates the Crucible everything blows up, the end cuts to black, no joker racing through the relays, no relays exploding, not shitarded star child.

 

[Daget Sparrow]

It seems to me that a lot of people here want a happy ending, where Shepherd destroys the Reapers and everyone lives happily ever after.

Fuck that.

Because that's predictable. Had that actually happened, I would have forgotten about Mass Effect months ago.

As you may be able to guess, I'm one of those pretentionists that liked Mass Effect 3's ending.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

It seems to me that a lot of people here want a happy ending, where Shepherd destroys the Reapers and everyone lives happily ever after.

Fuck that.

Because that's predictable. Had that actually happened, I would have forgotten about Mass Effect months ago.

As you may be able to guess, I'm one of those pretentionists that liked Mass Effect 3's ending.

that's the funny thing about mass effect, it was supposed to be YOUR story, where the outcome was YOURS to decide. not to mention they said it wasn't going to be "A,B,C", so I see no reason that running a perfect paragon run while having maxed forces couldn't give you a decently happy ending, as one of the main things for the past two games endings was you fuckin shit up and puttin reapers down, i see no reason why the 3rd ending couldn't have had that as a possibility.

then again, many of the endings I think should/could have shepard dying, giving it everything he(or she) had to destroy the reapers and save the universe.

for my personal ending, i would have loved to see having whichever companion you killed in the first game (kaiden or ashley) their body have been reaperfied with 6-7 marauder shields type characters as a final boss fight, with your former teammate constantly telling you how it is inevitable, and that you should just give in (in which case, it'd be cool to have an ending where you do give in and the galaxy is bent on destruction as shepard leading the reaper forces for it) but then you end up either destroying the forces and your former teammate, or if you have full paragon and possibly persuasion up, you could talk their human side into giving it up, and they end up suicide running into jumping into the beam and being the catalyst so the stupid starchild is fucked and doesn't have any control over you and is proven wrong essentially. (basically showing that organics can defeat synthetics and all that shnazzy stuff)


bleh, it just feels so rushed and awful that ending, not tying up shit and just so many plot holes.

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hah that is actually quite funny stuff, never seen those before, thanks for posting them.

 

[Eddie the head]

As you may be able to guess, I'm one of those pretentionists that liked Mass Effect 3's ending.

Well nobody's perfect. Kidding. Maybe, or maybe not, maybe they are all out to get you, maybe I should stop talking. You know what I am going to change that last maybe I should just stop talking.

 

[AD-Stu]

It seems to me that a lot of people here want a happy ending, where Shepherd destroys the Reapers and everyone lives happily ever after.

Fuck that.

Because that's predictable. Had that actually happened, I would have forgotten about Mass Effect months ago.

As you may be able to guess, I'm one of those pretentionists that liked Mass Effect 3's ending.

By my count of the above responses it's pretty much split down the middle on happy/Shepard lives vs downer/Shepard dies.

I should clarify that while happy/Shepard lives is my personal preference, I'm perfectly fine with a downer/Shepard dies ending and it's actually what I've been expecting all along. I just want it to be a proper Shepard dies ending that makes sense and doesn't introduce a whole bunch of made up bullshit at the last second