Your reaction to me3's ending?

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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?


 
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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?
They could have showed some cutscenes on what is happening around the galaxy instead of reading it in an email.


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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?
They could have showed some cutscenes on what is happening around the galaxy instead of reading it in an email.

And when exactly would it have done that in the plot.

"Okay important shit goin' but let's just randomly cut to a scene of some quarian you barely knew dying"


 
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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?

No one is saying you have to show everything that happens, but if you're going to kill prominent characters off you should be doing it on screen.

You mean the thing that happens regardless of what you do in ME1 thus making that entire decision worthless? If you saved the queen in ME1 all you get are some bonus points and a text blurb by freeing her. If you killed her you have to kill the new queen too. Your decision litterally didn't matter beyond making you "feel good" as it plays almost no bearing on the war. Your decision in ME1 was pretty much meaningless.

If you didn't start the series from the beginning you don't really have a valid opinion on the whole debacle since you weren't along for a ride where 5 year old promises that had been talked about and hyped up by Boware were all broken and everything you did across all three games was ultimately meaningless via a shoehorned in deus ex machina.
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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?

No one is saying you have to show everything that happens, but if you're going to kill prominent characters off you should be doing it on screen.

You mean the thing that happens regardless of what you do in ME1 thus making that entire decision worthless? If you saved the queen in ME1 all you get are some bonus points and a text blurb by freeing her. If you killed her you have to kill the new queen too. Your decision litterally didn't matter beyond making you "feel good" as it plays almost no bearing on the war. Your decision in ME1 was pretty much meaningless.

If you didn't start the series from the beginning you don't really have a valid opinion on the whole debacle since you weren't along for a ride where 8 year old promises that had been talked about and hyped up by Boware were all broken and everything you did across all three games was ultimately meaningless via a shoehorned in deus ex machina.

Kal and kelly weren't all that prominent though.

And it kind of does. You kill the queen in Me1 the new queen betrays you in Me3 and you lose war assets. You save the queen and you have to decide in me3 if the krogan team or rachni would be better assets. A decision based on whether you trust the queen and morality and shit.

and i mean really. did you really think the galaxy had any chance against the reapers. of course it's going to come down to some sort of ultimate plot device to save the day


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I played it about a year after it came out, with extended cut installed. Consequently, I just thought everyone ha overhyped it.


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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.


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I played it about a year after it came out, with extended cut installed. Consequently, I just thought everyone ha overhyped it.

I kinda wish I'd installed the EC first, but I wanted to see what the shitstorm was all about. Without the EC the ending is poorly explained, shallow, vague, and not pleasing at all.


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My favorite part was when the Rachni (a major plot point and decision of ME1) were relegated to bonus points and a short text blurb in ME3.

Oh, and how Kal Reegar  and Kelly were killed in an email.

What would you have wanted to happen? Show every single battle and death in the war?

And what about the whole rachni mission with Grunt?

No one is saying you have to show everything that happens, but if you're going to kill prominent characters off you should be doing it on screen.

You mean the thing that happens regardless of what you do in ME1 thus making that entire decision worthless? If you saved the queen in ME1 all you get are some bonus points and a text blurb by freeing her. If you killed her you have to kill the new queen too. Your decision litterally didn't matter beyond making you "feel good" as it plays almost no bearing on the war. Your decision in ME1 was pretty much meaningless.

If you didn't start the series from the beginning you don't really have a valid opinion on the whole debacle since you weren't along for a ride where 8 year old promises that had been talked about and hyped up by Boware were all broken and everything you did across all three games was ultimately meaningless via a shoehorned in deus ex machina.

Kal and kelly weren't all that prominent though.

And it kind of does. You kill the queen in Me1 the new queen betrays you in Me3 and you lose war assets. You save the queen and you have to decide in me3 if the krogan team or rachni would be better assets. A decision based on whether you trust the queen and morality and shit.

and i mean really. did you really think the galaxy had any chance against the reapers. of course it's going to come down to some sort of ultimate plot device to save the day

Kelly was a LI in ME2 and one of your main crew on the Normandy and Kal Reagar played a big role in the Quarian plot thread of ME2 and was a fan favorite. So yeah, they were kind of prominent.

The Rachni are nothing more than easily replaceable bonus points in a side mission that doesn't really impact ME3 at all.

And yeah, people did kind of expect there to be some sort of conventional victory considering that's what we spent the entire series preparing for. Not an all out win kind where everyone makes it out all hunky dory, but the kind where the amount of damage mitigated depended on your actions throughout the game. The crucible could have been fine too if it didn't rely on deus ex machina magic that upsets all of the themes and established conventions of the series and the game's universe. As it stands ME3's ending is basically nothing more than pick your favorite color since it's all the same and nothing you did throughout the series really matters in the end.


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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.


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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.
SO BE IT.


 
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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.

And that was basically Bioware giving it's fanbase the middle finger for not liking the ending.


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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.

And that was basically Bioware giving it's fanbase the middle finger for not liking the ending.

Can't blame 'em, especially with EA breathing down their necks. They put in the work they can and then there's a huge uproar on something they've devoted so much time and effort towards? No doubt I'd probably do the same lol


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I had a hard-on for the Indoctrination Theory, even though it didn't really fix many of the criticisms of ME's conclusion (lack of meaning in your decisions, etc.), it made the ending a lot more believable and therefor emotional to me. Then they really threw the wrench at Indoc with the extended cut so I basically lost all interest all together.


 
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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.

And that was basically Bioware giving it's fanbase the middle finger for not liking the ending.

Can't blame 'em, especially with EA breathing down their necks. They put in the work they can and then there's a huge uproar on something they've devoted so much time and effort towards? No doubt I'd probably do the same lol

If they honestly believed that an ending that broke just about every promise they made over the last 5 years and completely negated 3 games worth of decisions was going to go over well they deserved every ounce of shit they got for it.


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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.

And that was basically Bioware giving it's fanbase the middle finger for not liking the ending.

Can't blame 'em, especially with EA breathing down their necks. They put in the work they can and then there's a huge uproar on something they've devoted so much time and effort towards? No doubt I'd probably do the same lol

If they honestly believed that an ending that broke just about every promise they made over the last 5 years and completely negated 3 games worth of decisions was going to go over well they deserved every ounce of shit they got for it.

I see that as more of EA's fault and some poor decision making behind doors, and not completely the fault of Bioware themselves.


 
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Honestly the ending isn't really bad at all with the Extended Cut. It really makes it a good ending and it doesn't deserve so much blind, ignorant hate. It could have been better, sure, but you can thank EA for rushing them and shoving the game out the door before it was totally complete.
It's just a different colour for each ending. Your choices don't matter in the slightest.
The only ending that isn't a copy of the others is the Deny option.

And that was basically Bioware giving it's fanbase the middle finger for not liking the ending.

Can't blame 'em, especially with EA breathing down their necks. They put in the work they can and then there's a huge uproar on something they've devoted so much time and effort towards? No doubt I'd probably do the same lol

If they honestly believed that an ending that broke just about every promise they made over the last 5 years and completely negated 3 games worth of decisions was going to go over well they deserved every ounce of shit they got for it.

I see that as more of EA's fault and some poor decision making behind doors, and not completely the fault of Bioware themselves.

Well, it was Casey Hudson and some other dude who basically locked themselves in a room and wrote the ending without really giving anything else to the team. I mean yeah, fuck EA too since they rush things too much. But like it or no a studio still carries the weight of what they make because they're the ones who made it in the end.

EA just cracks the whip basically.


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