So is Mass Effect 3's ending the worst ending in any form of media ever?

[Regular_P]

Most overblown moment in gaming. It wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be. You would think people had their families murdered in front of them the way people freaked out.

 

[Easy-E]

I ventured in an internet search of sorts and I learned two things (very cursiry search BTW):

People wanted like a 15 year post Reaper War timeline to figure out the consequence of their choices

The game fell apart simply because they focus more on the lore of Mass Effect rather than the characters themselves--which was the real hook of the series. Over expanding the Leviathans, Reapers, Catalyst, etc., mess the game up because it really didn't make too much sense anyway.

Like I said, the game is at it's best with; mysterious space ships are coming to destroy the galaxy and you need to stop 'em, unify everyone and get it done.

Spoiler: Links I read after this thread

http://www.gamefront.com/interpreting-the-catalyst-a-mass-effect-analysis-part-1/

Leviathan of Dis

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Awayorafk/Believe._The_Indoctrination_Theory.



http://www.gamefront.com/even-with-all-its-content-mass-effect-is-an-incomplete-work/

Mass Effect 3: BioWare Hesitant To Reveal Quarian Faces

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Ending was absolute shyt
One of the two had to be destroyed
The reapers or biological beings

 

[hex]

@winb83

But, as a Mass Effect stan/fan (I just finished ME2 two days ago for about the 7th time) I do feel the reaction to the ending is overblown. Maybe because I didn't experience it with the rest of the internet;

ME3 was the first time I remember even hearing of a Mass Effect. I rented it for a day, Amazon had a ME1 + ME2 bundle for $11---the rest is history.

I remember finishing 3 (without the Extended Cut) for the first time. I didn't have a anger towards to abrupt ending. Granted I didn't carry over my character from the first two--had 1 + 2 for PC and 3 for 360. I still felt I finished what I set out to do since Game 1.

It even took me a while to see why everyone else was mad.

In the end, the question remains; what would you have it end like?

Spoiler

In the end I'd take Starchild completely out of the series and just dramatize destroying the Reapers...maybe one last epic convo with Harbinger (or whatever the alpha Reaper would be)

The last mission was ill!

I understand the Casey Hudson took it upon himself to finish the story without any input (if that online post by one of the writers [taken down] was true] and that's always a bad look.

But, I felt the story of that universe was; we have an unstoppable force than will require unity to face, let's address our galactic differences and come together to stop it.

Ya'll wanted a ME4 and having to wait another game to finish the Reapers?

If anything; I can see ppl complaining about how ME3 streamlined every RPG aspect of the first two games. Even giving the option to play a straight up action game. Or the DLC .

All due respect breh but if you got into it late it's kinda hard to "get" why people were upset.

First off, if only the ending sucked that in and of itself wouldn't be enough to sink the game. But this is a series that I followed years before the first game dropped. And it was sold as, your choices would matter. There would be concrete, direct consequences for things you do.

Mind you, this wasn't in a throwaway promo or commercial. Bioware was dropping whole long ass videos outlining exactly how your choices would affect game play. Several, long ass videos.

Before the first game even came out. So they set themselves up for failure right out the gate, because they made promises they had no intention of keeping.

So it wasn't just a wack ass ending....it was the fact that, in the last few minutes of 3 it became obvious they'd been lying to fans for years. You might say "well, it wasn't obvious prior to that?"....no, because Bioware at the time was one of the best, most trusted devs on the planet. Their track record was pretty fukking good. So people were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, literally until the very end.

Fred.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

I didn't think the ending was that terrible a bit where the fukk did that come from with the annoying kid... but there was definitely a lot of overreaction from fans

I wish I got a better ending but I didn't do enough sidequests

 

[Mowgli]

I thought they patched a new ending in.

It sucks that your choices don't mean shyt

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

No, you're going way too hard.

Matrix 3rd movie was just the worst of anything ever.

But the ending in ME3 was really bad, but not that bad

 

[Will McLean]

Ending aside I gotta admit gameplay wise Mass Effect 3 is my favorite out of the bunch.. Playing as a vanguard or biotic in that game was the closest I've ever felt to being a Jedi

Why couldn't Bioware make a new Star Wars game instead of Dice

 

[Kaydigi]

 

[Just like bruddas]

Halo 2
ME3
Halo 5

 

[winb83]

I still can't get over how Mass Effect 3 ended. I remember the feelings I had when I beat 2 and Suicide Mission started playing. The sky was the limit at that point and Mass Effect was an amazing game that crashed and burned in the final few minutes.

To this day I've never replayed it and I'll probably never replay any of the original trilogy again. I'm kinda glad Bioware just abandoned all that trilogy. It was far the best. My confidence in Andromeda is shaky but I'll be there day one.

 

[Doomsday]

You have to play the first two to understand how bad 3 is. Rarely do RPG's have perfect logical narratives (99% JRPGs for example don't). Mass Effect 1 and 2 were great RPG's with perfect narratives, albeit 2 started to teeter off a bit because of EA's inclusion in the series development half-way through. They both made sense and they both fed off of each other. The cliff hanger in 2 was the beginning of the end. The choices not mattering as you played through it killed the third entry over and over again until the ending where you are ultimately left like, "what the hell?".

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Don't really give a shyt the gameplay was fun and online was fun. one persons single choices really shouldn't mean shyt when galaxy destroying entities exist anyway

 

[Cladyclad]

Rise of Tomb Raider was pretty bad too

 

[Archangel]

Despite the ending, I still enjoyed ME3. People really exaggerate the ending. It was baffling, but definitely not the WOAT like you all make it out to be.