Ayo, How would YOU have ended mass effect 3 .. or ME in general?

[winb83]

HUGE SPOILER ALERT

If you haven't finished the game .. dont read on.

We all know ME3 ending was pure trash.

How would you have changed these events ..

For the ending they could've just found a sweet spot or something and blew it up. Maybe use the technology of a fallen reaper ship and run studies on it. They really could've did anything. That ending was unreal.

they could shut down the relays somehow, or blow them up. Didn't shepard travel outside a relay in me2 to kill a humanoid reaper? They could've fleshed that out more. Especially with whatever the illusive man was studying. He could have discovered something out there. As opposed to becoming one with the damn reapers himself or whatever bullshyt they was kicking.

I really like the idea of reverse engineering a reaper though. I mean the protheans being the collectors was pretty damn cool IMO. But they could've taken one of those reapers and did something with it. Ok i get it, reaper indoctrination. But, its technology right? It's not some magical shyt, its tech. Tech can be studied, and learned from. Its a signal. We can block signals .. refract signals ... all kinds of shyt. This whole, unbeatable godlike A.I creature shyt is ridiculous. What were the reapers doing? I gathered that they were harvesting species, and taking all natural resources .... increasing their forces .. and then going into hide mode so they didn't spend everything they gained because .... like normal things .. they had a recharge time. Or a sleep time. Or whatever. Anyway thats my opinion ..

Anybody wanna add or take away please do.

Illusive man attempts to stop the galaxy from firing the crucible but fails and is killed. Crucible is fired and the reapers deactivate or are destroyed. Shepherd and the crew surviving the war depends on galactic readiness rating. Mass relays are left intact but the galaxy is in shambles due to the war with the reapers. the rebuilding process is started and Shepherd is placed on the council if he lives. The Geth and Quarians find lasting peace. the genophage is cured.

Basically I would have played it straightforward.

 

[Easy-E]

It's funny I found this thread; I was just watching one of those "Why We Hate The ME3 Ending?"

I was one of those few who actually appreciated the original, vague ending because I think all good stories need to come to an end. I think we were asking too much for EVERYTHING to be resolved. You get to the part where people don't ever want the story to end.

That said; I probably only liked the ending because I didn't feel invested, the first time I beat it. I had ME1 & 2 on PC and had to cop ME3 on 360 and play with the default options and a diffiferent characters--so, maybe I didn't care.

But, I did get it on PC (with my OG character) and have that real feeling of completion.

All in all, the GOAT video game I've ever played (I look at Mass Effect as one big game).

@MurdaMa$$

I like your idea, but there's two problems: 1) Your idea implies that the other 98% of ME3 wasn't dope. IMO, everyone's problem begins after you see The Elusive Man for the last time

2) I think your idea would call for a Mass Effect 4. You already have to go through so much research already. My favorite thing about the games is; there's no time for that type of options and the sense of urgency is there from minute 1. These things have been destroying the galaxy for 55,000 years and they're HERE, NO MORE TIME FOR RESEARCH.

Again, good idea, but, it's too much to improve just a small part of the ending.

Me, I'd steal an idea from JeremyJahns on YT. Just make the endings actually different and varied. There's only 4 choices; shoot at the kid and the Reapers kill everything, Destroy all machines, control 'em or sync with them (the wackest option, IMO).

The DLC was enough for me. But, I understand ppl's beef.

 

[Easy-E]

After beating that, being unsure of Shepard's future, we would have a epilogue of Tali (if she survived)

Dawg, I didn't care about Aeries dying, but, I was legit hurt after Tali committed that. I seriously didn't think I made a bad decision and they could work together. I just made the other decisions, the next time around .

 

[Easy-E]

I WANNA NEG EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD!!!!!

I wanna go back and play all three, again!

 

[Easy-E]

that should show people the series not over: we never confronted harbinger and shepard was alive....also, think this explains what the main problem is with how the game did end....it's obvious the original plan was for me to end in 3 games...the leaks of the plans of original writers show evidence of this...but EA realized they were making too much money with this series and decided not to 'end' it in such a permanent way...when that decision was made was too late in the process though...bioware and the marketing machine had already started stating how this was shepard's last game and this was the final me in this arc...and even though EA had other plans they were loving all the press the game was getting, so they said fukk it and let it ride...think when me4 drops, we gonna see how the me3 ending was a 'dream' and the reapers were trying to indoctrinate shepard...

how I would've ended the game: depended on the direction I was taking the series:

if it truly was the end of shepard, would've tied me2 and the dark matter/energy into it...had shepard and harbinger met, and go at it...the state of the universe/lives of people when the battle was over would've been determined by your choices throughout the game (ex: siding with the geth; the cure of genophage, etc.)....

if the series was gonna continue, would've had the illusive man get turned by the reapers, and he would've been the main villain you had to beat at the end of 3...after you beat him, you would've found out about other spots in the universe the reapers had done this, and would've set off on the trail of harbinger....

The Indoctrination Theory has pretty much been proven fan-fiction and nothing more.

Illusive man attempts to stop the galaxy from firing the crucible but fails and is killed. Crucible is fired and the reapers deactivate or are destroyed. Shepherd and the crew surviving the war depends on galactic readiness rating. Mass relays are left intact but the galaxy is in shambles due to the war with the reapers. the rebuilding process is started and Shepherd is placed on the council if he lives. The Geth and Quarians find lasting peace. the genophage is cured.

Basically I would have played it straightforward.

I still don't like the idea of a Mass Effect 4 where Shepard doesn't exist at all--unless it's a rack of years (thousands) in the future. Maybe make him/her a NPC and council member unfit to ever battle, again.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

I would have tried to catch some of the choices made and spread the consequences out over 4 "final" missions. Kinda hard to explain without drawing a diagram but imaging a tournament tree with 16 branches (representing a combination of the major choices you made throughout 3 games) and those 16 branches converge into 4 final possibilities for an ending depending on whether your passed or failed the previous 4 missions. Kind of like how Wing Commander 3 did it (that game could have ended either on the Kilrathi homeworld or on Earth).

 

[lutha]

The Indoctrination Theory has pretty much been proven fan-fiction and nothing more.

who proved it fiction? it wasn't ea nor bioware...they actually never commented on it......anyway, i'm just saying, don't be surprised if/when we see shepard in me4, and he's still fighting harbinger....

 

[Easy-E]

who proved it fiction? it wasn't ea nor bioware...they actually never commented on it......anyway, i'm just saying, don't be surprised if/when we see shepard in me4, and he's still fighting harbinger....

Well, for one; they wouldn't because it's great promo'.

I believe someone did spill the beans.

But, if it was the "real" ending, there's no point in building on a vague O.G. ending, with a ending that actually explains everythiing.

 

[lutha]

Well, for one; they wouldn't because it's great promo'.

I believe someone did spill the beans.

But, if it was the "real" ending, there's no point in building on a vague O.G. ending, with a ending that actually explains everythiing.

that's the thing: I think bioware planned on ending the series with a actual ending that explained everything...the original writing of the ending showed this; and playing through the game, you can tell it was gonna end, cause there was a hell of a switch of how the game was going...but I think that's when EA stepped in and said fukk that, you not killing this cash cow just cause.....but at that point, the promo train about this being the last me with shepard had left the station ...so they just rolled with it...

I could see them building on the vague ending as a continuation....me3 ended, but it wasnt the 'end'...it was just a stopping point...the next game will pick up from the scene with shepard breathing...

 

[Easy-E]

that's the thing: I think bioware planned on ending the series with a actual ending that explained everything...the original writing of the ending showed this; and playing through the game, you can tell it was gonna end, cause there was a hell of a switch of how the game was going...but I think that's when EA stepped in and said fukk that, you not killing this cash cow just cause.....but at that point, the promo train about this being the last me with shepard had left the station ...so they just rolled with it...

I could see them building on the vague ending as a continuation....me3 ended, but it wasnt the 'end'...it was just a stopping point...the next game will pick up from the scene with shepard breathing...

No, for some reason (check @hexagram23 post above) they decided to do the ending with the input of only two people, as opposed to a team of people, like they did all the games.

The lead writer is a smarty-arty and his ideas usually go through a bunch of others guys to make it make sense, but, not this time.

 

[Tryna Makit]

ima write my full response when i get home but free daps and pos rep to those of us who got both Saren and T.I.M to body themselves lol.

 

[lutha]

No, for some reason (check @hexagram23 post above) they decided to do the ending with the input of only two people, as opposed to a team of people, like they did all the games.

The lead writer is a smarty-arty and his ideas usually go through a bunch of others guys to make it make sense, but, not this time.

no, they got the ending they got because they got rid of the person writing the original ending...you're right about the new ending not going through others, but he wasn't the person writing the original ending...that's why I think EA came in and made changes...they changed writers like halfway through the game...I was on those boards heavy when me3 dropped, I know what i'm talking about...

 

[hex]

no, they got the ending they got because they got rid of the person writing the original ending...you're right about the new ending not going through others, but he wasn't the person writing the original ending...that's why I think EA came in and made changes...they changed writers like halfway through the game...I was on those boards heavy when me3 dropped, I know what i'm talking about...

Nah....the game was fine even without that writer. The problems arose toward the end of the game, when Casey Hudson basically took over writing duties with no input.

Fred.

 

[lutha]

Nah....the game was fine even without that writer. The problems arose toward the end of the game, when Casey Hudson basically took over writing duties with no input.

Fred.

I wasn't talking about the quality of the game, I liked the game, spent a good amount of money on and played that damn mp a year straight after it was released...I was talking about the ending, just like you and the other cat...I think we (the gamers) got the ending we got because of ea stepping in....cause yea, casey Hudson took over the writing/ending, but they never said why...just like they never said why they took the person writing the original ending off the game...here's what i think:

think shepard's story was gonna end...everything was gonna be explained and tied up with a nice bow, and bioware was happy with that...but then I think during development of the game, EA stepped in and said yall cant end shepard's story; he will be in the series going forward; he makes too much money....which from a business point, I understand...gamers get attached to the lead in a series and when you mess with that, you fukk up money..need an example: halo...they killed master chief, just for ms to turn around less than a year later and announce he was gonna be in the next 3 games cause they know where the bread is buttered....I think that's what happened with me...but ea didn't let bioware go the route they were going with the story before they made that call...and I don't think the person writing the story was willing to make changes to his story...that's why they just removed him from it and let the other cat do what he wanted....you can tell this even while playing the game cause there is a switch in the game that takes it from you doing shyt for a purpose, to you just doing shyt to be doing it....the way the game ends, all the shyt we did didn't matter...the galaxy readiness level, the choices we made, etc., none of that shyt mattered...in the original ending (as shown by the leaks), it was going to matter....the ending of the game as it is seems tacked on, and we know why....ah, wait a min: let me change that, readiness level did matter....reason it mattered is cause it gave the biggest hint of all that shepard's story wasn't gonna end and he will be in me4: the breathing scene...

...anyway, nothing was officially said, and i'm not stating facts about why things went down the way it did, just stating my thoughts/opinions on it after reading a lot on it while on the me boards....

 

[hex]

I wasn't talking about the quality of the game, I liked the game, spent a good amount of money on and played that damn mp a year straight after it was released...I was talking about the ending, just like you and the other cat...I think we (the gamers) got the ending we got because of ea stepping in....cause yea, casey Hudson took over the writing/ending, but they never said why...just like they never said why they took the person writing the original ending off the game...here's what i think:

think shepard's story was gonna end...everything was gonna be explained and tied up with a nice bow, and bioware was happy with that...but then I think during development of the game, EA stepped in and said yall cant end shepard's story; he will be in the series going forward; he makes too much money....which from a business point, I understand...gamers get attached to the lead in a series and when you mess with that, you fukk up money..need an example: halo...they killed master chief, just for ms to turn around less than a year later and announce he was gonna be in the next 3 games cause they know where the bread is buttered....I think that's what happened with me...but ea didn't let bioware go the route they were going with the story before they made that call...and I don't think the person writing the story was willing to make changes to his story...that's why they just removed him from it and let the other cat do what he wanted....you can tell this even while playing the game cause there is a switch in the game that takes it from you doing shyt for a purpose, to you just doing shyt to be doing it....the way the game ends, all the shyt we did didn't matter...the galaxy readiness level, the choices we made, etc., none of that shyt mattered...in the original ending (as shown by the leaks), it was going to matter....the ending of the game as it is seems tacked on, and we know why....ah, wait a min: let me change that, readiness level did matter....reason it mattered is cause it gave the biggest hint of all that shepard's story wasn't gonna end and he will be in me4: the breathing scene...

...anyway, nothing was officially said, and i'm not stating facts about why things went down the way it did, just stating my thoughts/opinions on it after reading a lot on it while on the me boards....

Shepard's story is over though, so I'm kinda confused what you mean. Bioware has said several times "ME4" won't have anything to do with Shepard or the OG trilogy. Unless they're lying.

Fred.