Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE

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elrechazao said:
I'm just indifferent to anything they do at this point, other than the assurance that I won't be buying any bioware games ever again. but I had already kind of decided that after DA2. This confirmed it.

ME1 still my favorite game of the last 10 years.
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While I'm not going overboard, I got to admit that Bioware have killed any interest I had with the franchise at this point. The multiplayer is still flavour of the month right now, so I'm quite enjoying the game as it stands.
 
I'm so curious to see the official response to this ending. Whether its DLC ending, DLC ending and an official announcement from the staff. Whatever it is, I'm so very curious.
If they are going with the indoctrination thing, they handled it pretty sloppily.
A lot of the information you would need to draw that conclusion (without seeing 1800 youtube videos) are side novels, and a DLC episode from the previous game.
I downloaded and played the Arrival, but I don't remember a thing from it besides sacrificing a colony. I really didn't expect it to have much effect on the MAJOR PLOT POINTS OF THE STORY. Why would I? It's OPTIONAL DLC.
 
Eusis said:
I think it's fair to take a "wait and see" approach however. Between this and DA2 (and Sonic Chronicles, but that IP's somewhat poisonous anyway) I don't see it being a good idea to blindly jump on Bioware games day 1 anymore.
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Absolutely. And I don't want Walters or Hudson fired either, that's going too far, but I'd sure as shit like them to admit that they've fumbled this one, but there's no way we're getting that either.
 
The official EA response about Mass Effect 3 endings:

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Dr Eggman said:
Funny how Gears had a better trilogy closure.
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lol I beat all the Gears games and loved them, but I cannot remember what happened at the end of Gears 3. I can't even remember the final boss. I can remember everything about ME1 thru 3. Bioware could have given this game a much better send off, but I'm coming around to seeing their vision for this so called vague ending. At this point I don't even care enough for them to change the ending. They have to live with this stain on an otherwise excellent series. It's unfortunate, but that is the hand that was dealt.
 
Walters ruined the franchise, I don't trust him anymore.

edit: he ruined me.


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Jake Tower said:
How does one single choice in the past three games affect the three 'choices' and outcomes offered by Space Casper?
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Oh I see, this is just a whole misunderstanding because you obviously can't read.

The final choice is just like any other choices presented before, don't see why people expected any different.

The final state of the story does change completely depending on the choices you made. It's just that it's not spoon-fed in an epilogue. Which of course would have been impossible with the number of variables going on.
 
I finished the game. I'm okay with the ending really. I don't get the massive disappointing rants.

The only thing I didn't get was why did Joker try to outrun the wave and thus having to crash land on another planet, I'll say its Earth because I don't see how they could get to another similar planet when they were near Earth in the first place.

The point at the end for me was to beat the reapers no matter what. They didn't consider any repercussions because they didn't even know what the catalyst was until the end, when it was kill or be killed.

All the races went to Earth to help Shepard after he helped them, some more than other, throughout the game.I know it suck they get stuck at the end but that does not mean their doom. Asaris could live up to 1000 years. Other species to. There will be problems but they could very well develop the technology needed to make long range space travel possible.

For me this just means that a lot of species will have to thrive or live in the Solar system and work together to advance technology faster than possible before to get back home eventually. In the mean time the Reapers are dead and they have a bitter sweet peace.

The catalyst only destroyed intelligent synthetic life I gather so that means ships and communication specially would still be open.

Shepard is dead, or not. He could reunite with the team or not. Their story is over.

There very well could be a sequel to the ME trilogy, set 1000 years in the future in the Solar System populated by all the descendants of the races that help beat the reapers. The game could, let's say begin just before or after the rediscovery of faster than light space travel. Maybe something happens. They loose communication with the other system just before or after. The possibilities are endless.

SO I'm really ok with the ending. I'll just fill in the blank left empty how I'd like. I really don;t need to be spoon fed every thing in an over explained ending and IMO it would have been handled worse.
 
Metroid-Squadron said:
Oh I see, this is just a whole misunderstanding because you obviously can't read.

The final choice is just like any other choices presented before, don't see why people expected any different.

The final state of the story does change completely depending on the choices you made. It's just that it's not spoon-fed in an epilogue. Which of course would have been impossible with the number of variables going on.
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where did you pull this one out of

your ass?
 
At this point Bioware is just going to ride out the storm. They know gaming fans get distracted easily and that as soon as a new game comes along that most of us will just give up caring.

Couple that with the fact that there are forum posts on BSN reaching nearly 2k pages without a single response from the Dev team and the comments about "oh you didnt like it? Well the Wall Street Journal did lol!" really just paints the picture.

Really I think most people just want a straight up answer of:

A. Yes we are going to fix it.
B. No we are not going to fix it.

Stop with the vague PR bullshit and just address everyone. If they were planning on releasing some ending DLC I would probably sit down and play through all three games again, making some different choices along the way now that I have seen what the outcomes are. If they don't then I may as well uninstall.
 
Metroid-Squadron said:
The final state of the story does change completely depending on the choices you made. It's just that it's not spoon-fed in an epilogue. Which of course would have been impossible with the number of variables going on.[/I]
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Bullshit. Keep it text only and they can do it, as they've done multiple times already. They just can't make a bunch of scenes for each of those choices.

Plus given how they handled some of the variables they can probably figure something out. See: the Rachni Queen.

EDIT: I also wouldn't expect EVERY LITTLE THING covered. Knowing the fate of Conrad Verner or Khalisah al-Jilani might be interesting, but they can go ahead and ignore all the more incidental characters like the guys I got artifacts for to boost the war effort.
 
Metroid-Squadron said:
Oh I see, this is just a whole misunderstanding because you obviously can't read.

The final choice is just like any other choices presented before, don't see why people expected any different.

The final state of the story does change completely depending on the choices you made. It's just that it's not spoon-fed in an epilogue. Which of course would have been impossible with the number of variables going on.
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But all the races are stuck hovering around earth, possibly starving due to lack of food, as the mass relay have been destroyed.

The choices you made throughout the game don't matter, you get the same ending no matter what. Everyone is stranded.

The ending was shit and provided no closure.

I'm not even going to ask how my team members managed to get back on the Normandy after DYING.
 
Maaseru said:
All the races went to Earth to help Shepard after he helped them, some more than other, throughout the game.I know it suck they get stuck at the end but that does not mean their doom. Asaris could live up to 1000 years. Other species to. There will be problems but they could very well develop the technology needed to make long range space travel possible.
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I thought they made it a point that Turian, Quarian, and Krogan can't eat Human food. I doubt they carried many food supplies to what was supposed to be a suicide mission so any survivors are as good as dead.
 
Disheveled_Zen said:
At this point Bioware is just going to ride out the storm. They know gaming fans get distracted easily and that as soon as a new game comes along that most of us will just give up caring.
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Until something Bioware related comes out again.
 
Metroid-Squadron said:
Oh I see, this is just a whole misunderstanding because you obviously can't read.

The final choice is just like any other choices presented before, don't see why people expected any different.

The final state of the story does change completely depending on the choices you made. It's just that it's not spoon-fed in an epilogue. Which of course would have been impossible with the number of variables going on.
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Explain this bit. Why the fuck would it be impossible for Bioware to make an epilogue? The number of variables isn't that much. Some effort in their 3 game, 5 year sci-fi epic would have been nice.
 
Dr Eggman said:
Walters ruined the franchise, I don't trust him anymore.

edit: he ruined me.


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I never did trust him. I've been ranting for months that he's the main reason why ME2 sucked so bad.

Though he was doing a pretty good job with 3 until the end. Then again it was probably the other writers that were doing so good, and he was probably responsible for all the scenes with that stupid kid. You know, the worst scenes in the game.
 
jackdoe said:
I thought they made it a point that Turian, Quarian, and Krogan can't eat Human food. I doubt they carried many food supplies to what was supposed to be a suicide mission so any survivors are as good as dead.
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I think Krogans can eat Human food, but I seriously wouldn't be surprised if they stated they could live off of the wreckage from the final battle. Probably could with the Synthesis ending actually.
 
Maaseru said:
I finished the game. I'm okay with the ending really. I don't get the massive disappointing rants.

The only thing I didn't get was why did Joker try to outrun the wave and thus having to crash land on another planet, I'll say its Earth because I don't see how they could get to another similar planet when they were near Earth in the first place.
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Earth has 2 moons?

You're pointing out the total stupid wtf-did-this-come-from bullshit yourself with your first line.
 
LOL, I love these guys who go around in circles and put their fingers in their ears. In a way their logic is exactly the same logic that the ending has.

It is a good ending because it happened. Just don't ask why.
 
Dr Eggman said:
Until something Bioware related comes out again.
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Exactly. Why would I ever get invested in a bioware game again knowing the payoff could be as shitty as this? Judging by the outcry period, I think plenty of fans can/will ask themselves the same question next time bioware makes a new series.
 
Zerokku said:
Exactly. Why could I ever get invested in a bioware game again knowing the payoff could be as shitty as this? Judging by the outcry period, I think plenty of fans can/will ask themselves the same question next time bioware makes a new series.
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Eh, plenty of things are awesome except for the ending. Just don't drag it out for years again, please.
 
It's also not that hard to ignore variables you don't consider significant enough. For example there's no need to address who was your vent specialist in ME2 in ME3's ending, even if a bit of dialogue can crop up at some point in the game about it.
 
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