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Why I'm glad I didn't get mass effect 3

Posted by STEPHEN4705 - March 22nd, 2012


Some fairly significant spoilers below, scroll off now if you don't want to ruin the game.

So I looked up all the endings to this game because I decided I wasn't gonna get it after they released day one dlc with a significant character included within it. I don't want to pay full price from a game with cut content, so I looked up the endings online, and I was extremely disappointed with the utter lazyness, the sheer bullshit that EA and/or Bioware have decided to go for.

Now heres some spoilers from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, before I spoil 3. At the end of 1, you could decide a paragon or renegade ending deciding the life of the council and 10,000 people and whether they should live or die, and this had (from what I can tell) a pretty huge effect on the second game, and the way that certain characters view you.
I don't know the relevence of Mass Effect 2s ending in terms of how it interacts with three, but choosing to destroy a high-tech alien spaceship or hand it over to an evil corporation seems like the ending you choose makes an impact on the in-game universe.
What does Mass Effect 3 do? It gives you the same, shitty ending three different times. Basic spoilers; you sacrifice yourself, the reapers go bye bye and you almost kill the normandy crew (I don't know if you can kill them, I assume you probably can), but regardless all the endings are exactly the same, and I'll reveal them in the following paragraph:

Ending 1; Synthesis. You throw yourself into a big-ass beam, and your essence is sent into the reapers, forcing them away. You kill yourself in the process, and all the mass relays are destroyed.
Ending 2; Control. You tell the reapers to sod off, they do, you kill yourself in the process and the mass relays are destroyed. Starting to see a pattern?
Ending 3; You destroy the reapers, in the process sacrificing yourself in the subsequent explosion, and destroy the mass relays at the same time.

Bioware can piss off for that, no choice nor difference is made in the endings, so it may as well have just been one to be honest, would've certainly saved us a lot of time.

That cheap ending alone is enough to turn me off the game. What a load of shit.

There is a secret ending too, but it just feels like its there to be bullshitty and somewhat annoying to be frank. Its just some guy speaking to a kid about space travel... hardly an ending, in my opinion, it feels like its just filler, there to please some crowd of arseholes that I neither know of nor wish to associate myself with.

So the games incomplete as a result of EA bieng money hungry whores, and the endings are exactly the same because EA couldn't find the time to think of something better.

Well done, arsewipes.

Ah well, shame its shit to me now, time to go back to Gotham City Imposters, because that game is like TF2, but with Batman. Seems decent to me.
Way to ruin a good series EA/Bioware.


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I've still not had a chance to play ME3 yet and it will probably be some time before I do. I didn't read all of this post to avoid spoilers, but I've been told it has a pretty disappointing ending by a few people.

How come you don't post in the VG forums?

But you didn't play it. The ending of the game is just a part of the experience. If I skip to the end of every book, and refuse to read the rest of the book because "the ending sucked," then I'm missing out. The game itself is great. The release day DLC was BS but its stil a solid game.

I played the single player demo and multiplayer. Whilst the gameplay was solid, some absoultey awful plot points and every character looking like they overdosed on botox kinda pissed me off. It seemed to me like a lot of the things you say and do have no real consequence, whereas in the other two games you have to pick paragon or renegade to be able to get the best results from certain cutscenes. Me3 kinda abolishes that from what gameplay I've seen (about 5 hours so far), and that kinda sucks to me.