Poll: ME3 ending DLC(Spoilers are likely)

[Dandark]

So many people are very unhappy with the endings availible in ME3, I count myself among those people as I didn't enjoy the endings but that is another topic.

A subject I have seen people mention is DLC to introduce a new ending to the game to satisfy those who didn't like the ones already in game.
However would this be a good idea or not? On one hand many are unhappy with the current endings but on the other hand is everyone ok with them adding in another ending?

I am pretty sure that if another ending was released then you would have to pay for it, I am pretty sure that EA would make you pay for it. This is the kind of scenario people would use as hyperbole in arguments about day 1 dlc.
"First it's day 1 dlc, next we will have to buy endings to the game" for example.

So fellow escapist users, would you be okay with EA/Bioware releasing a DLC ending that you would have to pay for? Would you be okay with that?

Personally I would not and hope that they don't since they have already introduced and sold Day 1 DLC that isn't free with new copies, I really don't want them to already move onto DLC endings.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

DLC will come. No doubt about that. But I won't be paying for it. First I'll wait to see what the community has to say about it. Then I might watch it on YouTube. Then I might find someone to gift it for me, or find another way to obtain it. But after what Bioware have done, I will never give them a cent. They owe us so much more after this disappointment.

 

[feeqmatic]

Im gonna be honest, this was the best gaming experience i had ever had in 20 years of gaming. I forced my wife to listen to me rave about it like she does for her stupid housewife shows. And then i got to the ending and all of that seemed hollow. So if it costs 10 bucks to give me the full package i thought i was getting for the first 30 hours of the game then ive got 10 bucks. Sometimes you have to grin and bear it. We are talking about EA here, and even though the ending sux you have to admit that without EA this game doesnt have the HUGE leap in production value that it got.

 

[synobal]

DLC will come. No doubt about that. But I won't be paying for it. First I'll wait to see what the community has to say about it. Then I might watch it on YouTube. Then I might find someone to gift it for me, or find another way to obtain it. But after what Bioware have done, I will never give them a cent. They owe us so much more after this disappointment.

Your tears are delicious. Seriously I can get being upset with EA with regards to origin and the DLC with a freaking prothean of all things but you act like Bioware didn't provide you with one of the best gaming experiences across three separate games in the history of gaming.

 

[Nimcha]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

 

[synobal]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

I wish bioware would sit down and talk about what they were trying to do with that ending since they apparently were too subtle for 90% of their audience. From the way are freaking out.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

The ending didn't only suck because it was tragic, but because it didn't make any logical sense. It didn't follow the established logic from previous 2 games at all. And if you actually stop and think about Reapers and everything you've done in previous games and the ending, you'll see what I mean. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

DLC will come. No doubt about that. But I won't be paying for it. First I'll wait to see what the community has to say about it. Then I might watch it on YouTube. Then I might find someone to gift it for me, or find another way to obtain it. But after what Bioware have done, I will never give them a cent. They owe us so much more after this disappointment.

Your tears are delicious. Seriously I can get being upset with EA with regards to origin and the DLC with a freaking prothean of all things but you act like Bioware didn't provide you with one of the best gaming experiences across three separate games in the history of gaming.

If it was just a linear action game with no choices I wouldn't be as upset as I am now. But it's an RPG. My choices were supposed to matter. This is worse than Human Revolutions ending. They took a giant crap on everything I've done in previous games. Not only that, but the actual ending didn't even feel like a Mass Effect game. The atmosphere was completely off. It felt like some kind of sci-fi fantasy set in another galaxy. And it just happened like that, in the final moments the game changed it's mind about itself.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Sad to admit but yeah, I want a different ending so bad that I'd be willing to pay for it.

I was absolutely gutted when I finished the game.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Are you gonna make a ME3 song? I wouldn't until they fix the ending.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

I wish bioware would sit down and talk about what they were trying to do with that ending since they apparently were too subtle for 90% of their audience. From the way are freaking out.

I've read a wee bit about Mass Effect, never played any of the games, but I know the basic story. Just out of interest what are the actual endings that you can get?
I've seen plenty of threads about how bad and similar they were, but no one has actually ever said what they were. I understand its a matter of spoilers, but I never intend to play the series, so could someone explain just how it ended so badly (in a spoilered comment obviously)

 

[psicat]

I hope they don't add any DLC endings. I like the endings as they stand, unanswered questions and all. Any new endings would just take away from their impact.

 

[The_Lost_King]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

I wish bioware would sit down and talk about what they were trying to do with that ending since they apparently were too subtle for 90% of their audience. From the way are freaking out.

I've read a wee bit about Mass Effect, never played any of the games, but I know the basic story. Just out of interest what are the actual endings that you can get?
I've seen plenty of threads about how bad and similar they were, but no one has actually ever said what they were. I understand its a matter of spoilers, but I never intend to play the series, so could someone explain just how it ended so badly (in a spoilered comment obviously)

Spoiler: mass effect 3 endings

You come to a secret place in the citadel. Something called the catalyst tells you that synthetics will always rise up against their masters(that is the first flaw. Quarians attacked geth not the other way around.) so someone cam up with a solution, the Reapers make the races ascend to reaper state(2nd flaw, stop synthetics from rising up by having synthetics wipe out the races). Now that you are there the it is obvious the reapers won't stop the synthetics from rising up any more or something. You have 3 options, destroy all synthetic life yourself included(This is the paragon ending but seriously this is a stupid solution why destroy every synthetic?). You can controll the reapers like the Illusive man wanted to do and destroy yourself in the process(more logicall solution and you can reason that you will tell them to destroy each other but still). The last solution is merging synthetic and organic life but this will destroy the mass effect relays destroying yourself in the process(why does it destroy the relays because Bioware says so). Those are the endings which are all stupid

I would pay for new endings because this ending makes no sense what so ever. Can anyone tell me what your readiness rating does because you still get shit endings.

 

[skywolfblue]

I surely hope not. In stead, I hope EA/Bioware try to get people to warm up to the current ending, which is actually rather good in my opinion. It surely is incredibly bold to not fall into the trap of ending the series on a high note when the story doesn't call for that.

This.

I wish bioware would sit down and talk about what they were trying to do with that ending since they apparently were too subtle for 90% of their audience. From the way are freaking out.

And this.

I think a lot of people would be impressed with how profound the ending is if they put down their pitchforks for a moment. Giving people a shortcut to a happy ending goes against the whole idea of sacrifice that ME3 worked so hard to portray.

 

[KingofMadCows]

They really should have done a Fallout type ending where they have slides telling you what happened to the various factions.

 

[synobal]

Spoiler: mass effect 3 endings

You come to a secret place in the citadel. Something called the catalyst tells you that synthetics will always rise up against their masters(that is the first flaw. Quarians attacked geth not the other way around.) so someone cam up with a solution, the Reapers make the races ascend to reaper state(2nd flaw, stop synthetics from rising up by having synthetics wipe out the races). Now that you are there the it is obvious the reapers won't stop the synthetics from rising up any more or something. You have 3 options, destroy all synthetic life yourself included(This is the paragon ending but seriously this is a stupid solution why destroy every synthetic?). You can controll the reapers like the Illusive man wanted to do and destroy yourself in the process(more logicall solution and you can reason that you will tell them to destroy each other but still). The last solution is merging synthetic and organic life but this will destroy the mass effect relays destroying yourself in the process(why does it destroy the relays because Bioware says so). Those are the endings which are all stupid

I would pay for new endings because this ending makes no sense what so ever. Can anyone tell me what your readiness rating does because you still get shit endings.

It's amazing how much your bias shows in the description of the endings you put fourth.

I've read a wee bit about Mass Effect, never played any of the games, but I know the basic story. Just out of interest what are the actual endings that you can get?
I've seen plenty of threads about how bad and similar they were, but no one has actually ever said what they were. I understand its a matter of spoilers, but I never intend to play the series, so could someone explain just how it ended so badly (in a spoilered comment obviously)

I will try to explain the plot of Mass effect 3 and then the endings as if you don't pay attention to the plot the endings don't make a lot of sense, as it would for almost anything really.

Spoiler: mass effect 3 plot summary

So at the start of Mass Effect 3 the Reapers show up across the galaxy and start laying waste to the civilizations that have advanced far enough to use the mass effect of element zero. They do this ever fifty thousand years, and use the biomass to create new reapers, from what we know they consider this a form of ascension and we don't know if it isn't true. The reapers are always saying each one of them is a nation unto themselves. So perhaps you really do ascend. We just don't know.

You (Shepherd) are in a meeting with some alliance (the military/government of humans) brass, who are like 'oh noes it seems to be the reapers what do we do?' and then one of them lands and shoots a big laser beam through the room killing everyone but you and your superior and friend David Anderson. He says you must leave earth to gather allies and strike back at the reapers if you hope to defeat them.

Long story short you make your way to the Normandy (your spaceship) and get a message from Admiral Hackett who says 'before you leave to gather those allies, stop at mars and get this data that is important'

The data is the real big plot point for the game, it is plans for a device which you think was created by the Protheans approximately fifty thousand years ago when they were fighting against the reapers at the time who were busy trying to harvest them during that cycle. They don't know what the device does, or how exactly it functions but it does seem to output a lot of energy and it makes sense that it would be a weapon. It also has a part that is only refered to as the 'catalyst'.

Despite not knowing what this is the alliance decides to build it and task you to get help and gather allies to eventually retake the earth with it and destroy the reapers. So you go about the galaxy going about collecting allies and such to help build this weapon.

So in the process of gathering these allies you learn that the catalyst is the citadel and that a traitor (who thinks he isn't) told the reapers of the alliances plan so they grab the citadel (which is something they made) and move it to orbit over earth to better protect it. You also learn that the catalyst was worked on by every single cycle and thus is the product of perhaps billions of years of work by an uncountable amount of species.

Then you go and attack with all your allies and make it onto the citadel like eight tenths dead, you activate the the crucible which connects to the citadel but doesn't fire. You pass out from what is likely blood loss and a platform from the floor raises you up and you wake up in a new place with a holographic child standing next to you (one you have had dreams about chasing through a forest trying to save from the reapers).

The hologram tells you he controls the reapers, and that they are his solution to the problem of synthetics vs organics. He says that organics are destined to always make synthetic life (AIs robots etc etc) and that those synthetic life forms are always doomed to come into conflict with organics and win because they are not as flawed as organics (more or less) and that in order to keep all organic life from being destroyed by synthetics and thus causing the stagnation of the galaxy the reapers show up ever fifty thousand years and harvest all the sufficiently advanced races and turn them into reapers to save them from destruction.

He says how ever that this cannot continue and that it is flawed, that you are proof of this since you are the first in all the 'cycles' of harvesting to reach the catalyst. He then says you can use the crucible to do one of three things.

Destroy all synthetic life and the reapers (thus destroy some of your allies and perhaps a friend). He says that this would end the cycle but that ultimately all organic life would be destroyed when they recreate synthetics.

Take control of the reapers and let the galaxy sort itself out. Thus effectively turning yourself into a reaper and taking the catalysts place, but there would be peace for how ever long until synthetics that currently exist go to war against organics or organics go to war with them.

Then the third option is to use the device to create a synthesis of synthetic and organic life, creating something new, a fusion of organic of synthetic life forms. Something that in the catalyst eyes might have a chance for a lasting peace.

The big catch of all these is, that they use the citadel and the Mass relays (which are the main means to getting around the galaxy fast) to propagate the energy of this device and destroy the relays by using up all their energy to do so.

In the first ending you end up dying by the destruction of the citadel and destroying all synthetic life in the universe.

The second option turns you into a reaper and thus means your flesh is destroyed.

The third option uses your body to fashion a means for creating a synthesis of organic and synthetic life.

That is more unbiased as I can really make it. The endings work, and each leave a lot of room for interpretation as to the ultimate disposition of the galaxy and your team. Yet people are upset that they don't do a slide show saying how each action you made effected the galaxy to come for ever ala Dragon Age Origins.

 

[Corax_1990]

They really should have done a Fallout type ending where they have slides telling you what happened to the various factions.

This, this right here, would have made the ending bearable, that and removing the destruction of the mass relays, which was just riduculous (even from a business persepctive, how is Bioware supposed to explain another Mass effect title ever? No more intergalactic travel means no setting for a game).

Edit: Also, just to clarify, like Fallout 3, I would pay for DLC that changes the ending of ME3. Who knows, maybe that has been Bioware's plan the entire time, screw the ending so they can 'fix' it with DLC later and reap more cash.

 

[SajuukKhar]

This, this right here, would have made the ending bearable, that and removing the destruction of the mass relays, which was just riduculous (even from a business persepctive, how is Bioware supposed to explain another Mass effect title ever? No more intergalactic travel means no setting for a game).

Edit: Also, just to clarify, like Fallout 3, I would pay for DLC that changes the ending of ME3. Who knows, maybe that has been Bioware's plan the entire time, screw the ending so they can 'fix' it with DLC later and reap more cash.

You are aware one of the biggest themes of the series was how the Mass Relays/citadel network were tools used by the reapers to control technological and societal evolution down a path they chose?

Not destroying the relays makes no sense given the themes of the game, and would mean that the current races, and any future races, would still be stuck down the reapers dead end cosen path for the galaxy.

BUT what makes it EVEN WORSE is that now the galaxy has become willing slaves to a slave master that is dead.


Also there is NOTHING that prevent the races from rebuilding and making thier own Mass relays and thus allowing for a game set like 1,000 years later.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I'll buy any inevitable ME3 DLC but it makes me feel so dirty.

I'm ashamed =(

 

[Alex Tom]

Really depends on the price...for instance 5-10 dollers i would consider but anything over that no fucking way.

The only problem with this is that it will set a precedent for selling the "alternate endings" of games as dlc rather then having all the endings in the game