Like a little cutscene showing a final battle? That sounds nice. But the outcome should still be the same.
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Like a little cutscene showing a final battle? That sounds nice. But the outcome should still be the same.
What happened to Garrus? He was still my bro like always.
Karak
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For me I was still hoping for the continuing arc that a Shepard choice would come through in the end as that is one of the major plot underpinnings. That's just me.
Give me a few choices about how I lead all the armies I created and gathered in the entire series of games, let me renegade and paragon during a massive space battle and let it play out.
Instead I was left with Destroy having some hodgepodge brief breath interlude and Refusal ending in...well no closure at all really.
But hey it is what it is.
Banana Kid
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The idea behind what fans wanted was to refuse the choices given and defeat the Reapers with EMS. The fact that there's absolutely no way to win in that ending feels like Bioware's going out of their way to shoot it down and try to convince people their endings are better.
A lot of people hate the starchild so much they're willing to kill the galaxy in order to say fuck you, but I highly doubt that's Bioware's reasoning. Why even bother putting it in the game if there's no way to succeed, if it's so transparently the wrong choice?
bigdaddygamebot
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The original ending was the cheapest, laziest shit they could muster. Quite literally the same cut scene with a different colour thrown in.
This...although still lazy; it certainly isn't as lazy as their original effort.
This was as close as you're going to see to an "apology" from Bioware. I'm not saying we should all be grateful because...well...fuck them.
They have squandered all of my good will towards them but this was at least more of an honest attempt than what they had originally.
The Super Bob
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I've transcribed all of the new dialogue that has been expanded or changed. I was going to post it here but it's over 2000 words and obviously not best suited for a forum post so I've added it to my site. Everything can be viewed from here.
bigdaddygamebot
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Your choices in the game now matter as much as they did pre-patch.
My Garrus would have never left. :*(
bros to the end.
Yeah ironically though it's currently my favorite ending.
You can tell the author wanted synthesis wanted to push for peace or something retarded.
I wanted to know ABOUT the reapers, the history, to say fuck you and win. That's my GOOD ending. They didn't even bother and the refuse ending is such a downer because that's what everyone was looking for.
I'd totally pay for an expansion that explored ME after each ending.
Yeah. The way it is now, the rejection ending just feels like a non-standard "Game Over" screen. It doesn't address the game's real issue: collecting assets and allies that don't actually matter in the final scenario.
Yeah. The way it is now, the rejection ending just feels like a non-standard "Game Over" screen. It doesn't address the game's real issue: collecting assets and allies that don't actually matter in the final scenario.
CharmingCharlie
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In Origin right click on your mass effect game and select "show game details" then on the new page click on "shop for addons" the DLC will appear there when it is ready which will be about 1 - 2 hrs from this post.
As for the endings, MY GOD they were bloody awful. There has been about a 5% improvement over the previous ending (bear in mind the original ending was 100% crap). I wouldn't even know where to start to explain just how shitty these "enhanced" endings actually are.
The fact that they had to retcon so much of the original ending shows what a complete failure that ending was. I will say this though, I now have a new favourite ending. If I ever play Mass Effect 3 again I will definitely be shooting Space Casper in the face. The failure ending is actually the best ending and makes a bit of bloody sense.
Ah well so much for the Mass Effect franchise, hope Bioware enjoyed flushing it down the crapper.
Originally this is a thread about the annoucement about the dlc. And spoilers before the content has been up for 24 hrs and not even available come on now.
Karak
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I like Destroy a bit better as it seems to indicate you won and Shepard comes out of it. Though the dude is probably going to need some stitches or something hahahahaha.
But Refusal would have been so good had it not obviously gotten such a short amount of attention. Really weird that the entire theme of the game was gathering and teamwork only to force you down a binary path.
Bioware is the Star Child. My way or the highway...or wait you want something that actually grafts into one of the main themes of Bioware, sure here you go.
Dead.
Yeah that would be nice to be there, you're right.
Lifejumper
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So not reading above posts because I want to experience the Extended cut as fresh as possible.
Will I miss any of the extended cut when I skip the cerebrus base and instead begin the London mission ?
Will I miss any of the extended cut when I skip the cerebrus base and instead begin the London mission ?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Read the OP. This entire thread is about the ending of the game. If you do not wish to know about the ending of the game, do not enter a thread about the ending of the game.
OP said:
Horse Armour
Member
How is Shepard still alive at the end of the destroy ending?
Nope.
The differences only start when you make that last sprint to the beam where the reaper is shooting everything around you
That'd be awesome. Do it Bioware! Put it after that scene where Garrus gave you that sentimental speech about being best friend and all.
True, true. But "Space Judas" has more bite to it.
a space wizard did it
bigdaddygamebot
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...and Marauder Shields has upgraded to a rocket launcher.
I don't know, anything. Something along the lines of this would have been finehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCN2eudD2E (I'm only partly kidding).
Thank you, Bioware!
Just finished my 2,5 hour playthrough of the extended cut, and I'm extremely pleased!
During my playthrough, I couldn't help but notice how much the original ending had ruined this series for me. I once loved this series to death, right until the ending of ME3. That just left me feeling empty and confused. So while playing once again the final chapter of the saga, I felt unusually distanced to the game. The fear of another great disappointment by one of my favorite series never left me.
So I was very sceptical if Bioware could pull off a good extended cut that fixes the original ending - and to my pleasant surprise, they did it!
I chose the synthesis ending this time. I felt that everything about that ending was sufficiently explained, and the impact on all the friends and species I had met as Shepard was made clear.
Bioware really pulled it off: They didn't change the original vision of the ending at all, and still managed to present it in a much more pleasing way to the player.
I couldn't be happier with the extended cut. Kudos to Bioware! They really managed to fix this mess!
Just finished my 2,5 hour playthrough of the extended cut, and I'm extremely pleased!
During my playthrough, I couldn't help but notice how much the original ending had ruined this series for me. I once loved this series to death, right until the ending of ME3. That just left me feeling empty and confused. So while playing once again the final chapter of the saga, I felt unusually distanced to the game. The fear of another great disappointment by one of my favorite series never left me.
So I was very sceptical if Bioware could pull off a good extended cut that fixes the original ending - and to my pleasant surprise, they did it!
I chose the synthesis ending this time. I felt that everything about that ending was sufficiently explained, and the impact on all the friends and species I had met as Shepard was made clear.
Bioware really pulled it off: They didn't change the original vision of the ending at all, and still managed to present it in a much more pleasing way to the player.
I couldn't be happier with the extended cut. Kudos to Bioware! They really managed to fix this mess!
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Lol, the endings are much better, but it's funny how they altered some stuff to remove the complaints.
like the relays completely exploding, now they just have their "ball" fall apart
2.5 hours?
Nice try on the self-congrats there, Bioware spy!
We need to send this to Bioware ASAP
Spanx McFranks
Banned
Same. The way I played my Shepard it was the only ending that would have worked. I didn't create peace with the Geth only to ruthlessly murder them right after.
The op says nothing about spoiler discussion. Gaf has always explicity stated if threads were spoiler threads. This morphed from announcement to spoiler free to members at least now spoiler tagging. There is already a ME3 spoiler thread as well
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ElectricBlue187
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and they very specifically say "we can rebuild everything! reapers are (maybe) helping!"
BJK
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Husks would so be the underclass of Synth ending.
Control Shep is creepy. Why doesn't he build a body to house his consciousness, similar to EDI and Legion? Why just let everyone think you're dead?
I'm still confused as to how electrocution allows one to control Reapers. Better ending would be like refusal, but with Starchild and Harbinger laughing about how easy it was to get Shep to off himself. (Works for Synth now that I think about it.)
Destroy = One True Ending.
Banana Kid
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Then again: what's the point of the option? Why have a choice that's explicitly wrong? Where, no matter what you've done up to that point, it's impossible to win with?
Because the point of the Extended Cut was to convince fans that the ending Bioware wrote is good. They seem to think everyone will suddenly understand this beautiful art they've created if they just explain it a little more. They stick in an epilogue to reassure us that no, everyone doesn't starve to death, and the mass relays didn't nuke their systems, and Joker wasn't running away from the fight, and you were just misunderstanding this whole time and that's why you don't like it.
They never acknowledge that the Starchild is fucking stupid, or that the Reapers' reasoning is fundamentally wrong, or that everything about Synthesis (the ending they're convinced is the best) is incredibly dumb. They didn't give any of your choices any actual impact. They're making a token gesture without admitting they did anything wrong.
They didn't make it better. They just made more.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Sure does. I even quoted and bolded it for you.
Well they'd have to make an entirely new ending to fix what was wrong with the original ending =\
bigdaddygamebot
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I'd be pleased too if Bioware/EA was paying me money to write bullshit posts like this.
2.5 hours?
Did you read that right off the list of bulletpoints in the email they sent you?
Horse Armour
Member
Where can I watch the reject ending?
LOL, that's because they are still the same ending with a band aid on it. Which is exactly what I was expecting to be honest and why I ain't even mad. They are only slightly better because they acknowledge people other than your random group of three guys stranded on that planet (and they also added a minimum amount of legwork to show this) but that's about it. It doesn't change a thing, other than "hey guys, this took use more than 5 minutes to voice, animate and render, we didn't phone it in." Though it is still all the same repeated assets, with a "for dummies" voice over, and no Buy DLC insulting pop up at the end. The music is still the only good part of the endings.
The endings are so fundamentally flawed that to properly change them they basically need to redo the final act, which was never going to happen. The refusal ending is pretty much the ending of my own story with Bioware now. I reject the way they make games now so I rather walk away, and they are all like "so be it, your loss" and I'm all like "I'm OK with this".
Win-win for both.
That's the same thing I thought, LOL.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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Attackthebase
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Youtube it. They already have all the endings up.
And the cut improved upon the original ending. Instead of it coming into my house and murdering my family, the conclusion is now only bad. I'm happy I decided to watch the videos on Youtube.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Bioware writing their own reviews? Unheard of!
Same, if I had redownloaded just for those i'd be pissed
It's a videogame.
Banana Kid
Member
Then this whole extended cut was a waste of everyone's time.