So how do you like the Mass Effect 3 endings now?

This is what I thought:

  • Blue Choice: Improved.

    Votes: 5 55.6%
  • Red Choice: Worse.

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Green Choice: Meh!

    Votes: 3 33.3%

  • Total voters
    9
That's probably why the ME3's ending never coincided with Indoc theory.
 
Your "I know you are but what am I?" stuff might serve you pretty well in the third grade, but here it just makes you look like an ass.
 
Your "I know you are but what am I?" stuff might serve you pretty well in the third grade, but here it just makes you look like an ass.
Man, did you even read your previous post ? :rolleyes:
You aren't really the one to talk about middle-school retorts.
 
Alright so I finally finished this. I never saw the ending pre-Extended Cut. I didn't think the ending was THAT bad... My main gripe is that it's an ending fit for a movie. A 100 minutes movie. Not a game I've spent 100 HOURS with (3 games). When you've invested so much time, I think you do expect a little more aftermath detail. More than a 10 minutes slide show. You want to see more in-game cutscenes and discussions between characters, I don't know.

When you play this game as full paragon good guy as I did, when you come to the ending, no choice seems like a paragon choice. Maybe except synthesis. Control seems like a doomed plan, and Shepard was convinced of it just minutes before when discussing with Illusive Man. I don't know. I was full paragon, but in the end I decided to just keep going with the plan I had since the beginning of this damn series; win the war against the reapers and trying to give the current cycle a chance to be different. I guess my character just refused the fatality and the "war between organics and synthetics is going to happen again and there's nothing you can do about it" crap that the crucible is convinced about. The only horrible part is that you destroy AI life, geth and EDI. It is pretty crap since the geth (and Legion) are one of the coolest part of that universe. But yeah, I chose Destroy (I still tried the other ones). But the fact that this was the "red" choice felt wrong because as a paragon I kept clicking on anything blue when it showed up. I have to admit I also kind of chose that because of higher chances of survival of Shepard, because there was already too much that had been sacrificed by the character, and also that last scene with Tali was really intense (I had her as romance and she was in my squad and survived when running for the Conduit). Also, gotta love grinding War Readiness so that you can see a 1,3 second clip of Shepard still breathing. Thanks guys for the effort. So yeah, Destroy felt wrong, but it had a few things going for it for my character; survival and respecting his promise to his romance to "come back", standing by the current cycle and accomlishing the goal we had from the beginning, and doing what everybody was hoping for (win the war and give ourselves a chance to not get into a synth-organic war)

I'm actually a little annoyed at the synthesis ending. It comes out of nowhere, and seems to be the "right" choice, but it's just... I mean the transhumanism aspect is interesting, but killing Shepard for it seems to be just so it has SOME negative side. I don't think this ending should exist, it seems shoved in awkwardly.
 
I only bought the game after the endings were fixed, but I was still left disappointed. The whole part from Earth onwards was just rushed and filled with deus ex machinae. Plus I must have missed something, as I basically got no choice after talking with that child abomination and got the synthesis ending kinda 'automatically'. But when I read up on the other endings, it's not like they're any better (I wanted Shepard to live, but I ain't killing EDI for it if that's the only way). But showing the aftermath of all your choices as a bloody slideshow with largely non-specific commentary? Such a letdown, after 2.95 excellent games.

That was my full paragon, male Shepard game. I then started to play with my 'paragade' female Shepard (basically full renegade and almost full paragon scores at the end of ME2, badass and prone to violence but not evil/cruel), but it seems to me so far that the difference between the paths is minimal (unless one's hell-bent on taking the renegade route in situations where it's obviously wrong and detrimental and even outright ********), which I find somewhat disappointing.
 
Plus I must have missed something, as I basically got no choice after talking with that child abomination and got the synthesis ending kinda 'automatically'.

No. I made the same mistake the first time. If you walk into the beam, you choose synthesis. I thought that walking in the beam was gonna give me the choice, but no. I was distracted and didn't realize that the game shows you a platform on the left side and a platform on the right side that you can go to, to activate the other 2 endings (a 4th ending is also, trying to shoot the kid).

I was going to complain about how clearer the choice-making system could have been, but I thought I was alone in my retardation again. But I see I'm not the only one. Like I said I got distracted, didn't see the platforms, and was forced to sit through Synthesis even though that wasn't my choice.

The absolute worst part of this is that YOU CAN'T SAVE DURING LIKE... THE LAST HALF HOUR OF GAMEPLAY. The game saves by itself at various points... THEN AT THE VERY END, THE GAME SENDS YOU BACK ON NORMANDY AND AUTOSAVES ON TOP OF YOUR LAST HOPE TO GO BACK TO THE END CHOICE. I was exceedingly mad at this. Because I then had to reload from all the way to running up to the conduit and sitting all the unskippable stuff (walking in the piles of bodies, unskippaple Illusive Man section,etc.) just so I could make my actual choice which was destroy. Furious. That takes like half an hour. Screw this really.
 
The absolute worst part of this is that YOU CAN'T SAVE DURING LIKE... THE LAST HALF HOUR OF GAMEPLAY. The game saves by itself at various points... THEN AT THE VERY END, THE GAME SENDS YOU BACK ON NORMANDY AND AUTOSAVES ON TOP OF YOUR LAST HOPE TO GO BACK TO THE END CHOICE. I was exceedingly mad at this. Because I then had to reload from all the way to running up to the conduit and sitting all the unskippable stuff (walking in the piles of bodies, unskippaple Illusive Man section,etc.) just so I could make my actual choice which was destroy. Furious. That takes like half an hour. Screw this really.

Yeah, this was also annoying, I was like 'just don't crash now' all that time :lol:

BTW, two weeks after I bought the game, it goes on a 50% off sale. It just has to continue to piss me off. :lol:
 
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