Comments | evildennis: My thoughts on the Mass Effect 3 ending

evildennis

My thoughts on the Mass Effect 3 ending

Mar 19, 2012 11:05

I finally finished Mass Effect 3 last night. And I kinda wish I didn’t. First off I was pissed off at the ending sequence. Not because of the content but because it said I had a choice and there I was looking for dialogue choices to make and not getting any. Looking at things online I have come to realize that you don’t have dialogue you have ( Read more... )

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richman1 March 19 2012, 17:21:06 UTC

When you mentioned the other day that you figured you'd be ok with the ending like I was, I didn't really say much because I didn't really want to influence you too much, but this is pretty much the response I expected out of you ( ... )

evildennis March 19 2012, 18:33:12 UTC

See other response to Tim's stuff about setting expectations.

And I think that's where I am...it is a video game. The story is over and sad to say I'm ready to move on. Don't know if I'll play anymore multiplier because it feels irrelevant (if I do it's only 'cause I like the Asari and Quarians and this is the only way I can play as them) and don't know if I'll even do the Renegade play through.

I think I'm of you're opinion, it's a game, it's over, move on.

tim_almasy March 19 2012, 17:40:16 UTC

All of the endings actually destroy the mass relays, and it is actually explained at some point in the game... just not precisely at the end of the game right then and there. Regardless, it's mentioned and no matter what, creating enough power to do anything to the reapers on a galactic scale causes all the energy in the relays to be expended and it kills them.

tim_almasy March 19 2012, 17:46:17 UTC

Also, the one detail that I really don't like about the ending is what happens to Joker and the others. I find it rather... uh... well... What the fuck, basically. Joker was just in orbit above earth. The members of the crew were all on earth. The survivors, in this instance, shouldn't have had time to get to the Normandy and then make a Mass Effect jump in order to crash somewhere else, unless somehow or another Shepard was unconscious for literal hours without somehow bleeding out or being eaten by husks and such in order to give them that time to escape. To me that just smacks of a giant unanswered plot hole, but otherwise it doesn't bother me too terribly much ( ... )

richman1 March 19 2012, 18:34:57 UTC

Yeah, in orbit above earth, it doesn't explain the ME jump the Normandy does at the end. As far as the all the crew being on earth, I assume once Shepard pick his/her squad for the final mission the others, as crew members of the Normandy, return to their positions on the ship via shuttle with Cortez. I'd think they'd have time to make it back to the ship while Shepard runs through the final maps. It doesn't explain the occurrence some people have reported of a member (or members) of the final mission's squad appearing in the ending with the wrecked Normandy (though I did not experience this)

evildennis March 19 2012, 18:56:13 UTC

I think the ones that appear out of the ship are the 'romance' ones. I had Joker, EDI and Tali come out of the Normandy in mine, and Tali was one of the people in the final rush to the beam.

And Cortez couldn't take them back in my game as he was dead.

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nockergeek March 19 2012, 20:02:33 UTC

Having played 2 of the 3 endings (best versions of each, since I had an extremely good Effective Military Score), and having watched all of them online, I have no major issues with the endings as presented by Bioware. That said, I think your criticisms are valid, and it's nice to see a constructive critique with "this is what I might have done differently" that keeps the three options and just suggests tweaks. I'll also agree that the fate of the Normandy is a glaring plot hole/narrative jump that could be explained better ( ... )

nockergeek March 19 2012, 20:03:25 UTC

Also, bonus points for being able to talk the Illusive Man into pulling a Saren. :) That was a fitting end to him.

evildennis March 19 2012, 20:40:59 UTC

I agree, there was so much awesome in the game ( ... )

cosmiccat March 23 2012, 05:26:30 UTC

I also finished ME3 recently and I was also incensed by the ending. Well, not the whole thing - just everything that happens after Shepard collapses at the console and gets elevated up to talk to the kid.

I felt the Green ending was the absolute worst one, simply because of its Bible-college understanding of what "organic" and "synthetic" mean. The difference between a human and an advanced machine is zero - the human is just squishy meat because a lot of its functions are water-based, it's already a highly advanced machine. The conflicts between organics and synthetics in Mass Effect are not based on DNA, or what material they are made out of - giving glowing green lines to the Geth and the Quarians wouldn't stop the Quarians from wanting Rannoch back, and that war would've gone on regardless. Hell, the Reapers were already synthetic/organic hybrids (and yes, that was also silly) and it didn't stop them from being unspeakably evil for their entire existence ( ... )