OK, so with all the huff and puff over the game's ending, I wanted to keep an open mind. I avoided all forum discussions and it was a total surprise when I finished it this afternoon. I'm not sure what possibilities existed, but here are the choices I made, and what happened:

Super high war assets and readiness
Did ALL side quests and missions
Shot the tank on the right: Killed the fuckers dead

So after the relays were destroyed, the Citadel and it's millions of inhabitants blowed up, and the probable billions and billions and billions of deaths... rationally, the ending was probably the best case scenario. Sure widespread travel is now impossible, but most civilizations are at least partially intact with the survivors. They survived. I think most of us are conditioned to expect some happy flowery ending filled with bunny rabbits and cartoon birds. I liked it. It tugged at my heartstrings and was upsetting. It was realistic in the sense that after the Reapers were destroyed, the galaxy was fucked up. I think it created a more emotional response to the game's ending. Just my thoughts.

The face they showed as tali's was very pathetic i think the hands are not right at all and it doesn't help that they used a freebie stock picture they found on the net and Photo shopped it for like 5 minutes. I also hated the epilogue it made no sense.

The "Cosmo's" reference at the end where humanitys savior is referred to as "The Shepard".

There's actually a part in the game where they talk about using capital ships as kamikazes. I think it was in the codex... Basically it wasn't pinpoint accurate, and it would take more ships than they had.

Tail's face? When? Where?



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Finished ME3 today, and I am very disappointed with the last five minutes of the game. The first red flag that something stupid was about to transpire was when Shepard began to have those inexplicable dreams about a small boy on fire. If a game ever starts to use metaphors, as is the case with the boy on fire, prepare your anus, because you are about to be rectally screwed over by some pseudo intellectual bullshit!

That said, the blue star child is beyond ridiculous, and his reasoning behind the reaper invasion is illogical. Case in point, the Geth and the Quarian fighting together against a common enemy. EDI and Joker. Both prove that synthetics and organics can co-exist. What pains me the most though, is no matter what path you take, the end result renders the entire story a moot point. Every choice you made was all for not, as it has no effect on the ending what so ever. Also, a BIG WTF on the Normandy bugging out with my squad members on board. I guess they didn't get cut down in the final push and Joker swung down and picked them up while leaving my dead corpse on the ground

necrophiliac

it was really funny. i was like why are you in my cabin you are dead tali and she was like Shepard i need you now.

but it still made more sense then the ending.

I destroyed the reapers and my shepard lived.

The ending sucks in so many ways that it's hard to decide where to start, but the biggest suck is that it completely negates any choices that you made during the ENTIRE SERIES. Played as Paragon Shepard, Renegade Shepard, killed the Geth, killed the Krogan, saved everybody: doesn't matter, here's three different flavors of shit sandwich. I suspect the game plays out a little different depending on what you do with the reaper at the end of ME2, but ultimately you still end up with three ending choices that are essentially the same.

On top of that, the whole sequence leading up to the end where you lose all your stuff and are forced to limp excruciatingly slowly armed with only a shitty pistol is balls; Webster's entry for "anti-climatic" can now simply read: the ending to Mass Effect 3.

Also, if you chose to destroy all non-organic life, why the fuck is EDI still alive?

We have a gaming forum on here? Sweet!

I posted this over on the GD thread, guess I'll repost it here to.


I first thought it was awesome. Anderson and Shepard are collapsed on the floor exhausted after going through hell together. Anderson says something like "It's quit a view isn't it." Shepard replies back "Best seats in the house" as they stare over the curvature of the Earth. Anderson is bleeding out and loses consciousness, Shepard checks his wound and isn't far behind. I"m thinking "Wow, what a journey. It took 5 years, 150+ hours of game play, and the course of 3 games to get here, but you guys pulled it off Bioware! Just roll credits and at the end maybe a quick epilogue to see how the galaxy is doing and you'll have the best game series I've ever played."

But that didn't happen. Instead, the crucible doesn't fire and we get elevated up to meet with the Catalyst/AI/God/Star-child thing. The next 5 minutes stomp a mud hole through me. All your choices are reduced to nothing, because in the end you only have 3 choices to choose from. None of which are any good and were extremely out of character for MY Shepard. I stood there for a good 10 minutes questioning what I should do! I was so frustrated I ran a mozambique drill on star child just to see what would happen. Anyways, I did the synthesis ending. I must say it is the most kookiest bunch of space magic I've ever seen in a game, and it is more fitting of a Battlestar Galactica show than the mass effect series! To add insult to injury the SSV Normandy/crew is marooned on another planet!

I think I can break down my complaints as follows:

1. Star-child: Why is this AI taking the form of a child that Shepard has seen die on Earth? Who is this AI? The third act is not the time to introduce new people!

2. Bad logic: The point of the reapers is to harvest advanced organic life, because as star child says "Synthetic life would otherwise inevitably destroy all organic life because they seem them as a threat." Wow, so synthetic reapers harvest all advanced organic life in 50,000 year cycles to manufacture more reapers to prevent organics from developing synthetics that would destroy organics . Never mind that EDI and the Geth working with the other organic races make this argument false.

3. Squadmate glitch: While running to the beam on Earth Garrus and Ashley are in tow. Harbinger hits, everything turns to ash and they're no where to be found. I assume they died, 10 minutes later here they come filing out of a crashed Normandy.

4. Joker's joy ride: Why did Joker feel the need to take the Normandy on a cruise to another system during the final battle?

5. Crash landing: My crew is marooned on a planet with no mass relays or FTL drives! Why? I guess I can write off Garrus and Tali, considering after their food stores run out all carbon based food that can be grown is toxic to them.

6. Mass Relays destroyed: This is probably my biggest problem. Bioware effectively killed the series with 1 cutscene. I wanted to see the Quarians build a home on Rannoch, that's not happening with most of the fleet stuck in the Sol system. Oh, and Wrex sorry you can't get back to Tuchanka I know rebuilding the Krogan clans after the genophage was cured meant a lot to you.

IMO those last 5 minutes weren't real, they were just the last crazed thoughts of a dieing man who had given all he had to give. At least that is what I tell myself, anything else is just too painful to bear

Who knows, maybe we'll get a DLC like this:

Shepard: "Hackett, this is Shepard. Order all fleets to begin firing on the citadel."

Hackett: "What, Commander?"

Shepard: "Concentrate fire on the citadel! Knock this fucker out of orbit!!"

Star-child: "NO, that's not one of the choices. Wha.." - gets his virtual ass blown into actual dust

* 2 years and 7 billion credits later*

Dr. Chakwas: "You had us worried there Shepard. How are you feeling?"

Shepard: "I thought I died."

Zaeed Massani: "Rage is hell of an anesthetic."

My ending, what you would have thought was predictable:

You put a bullet in the Illusive Man. Anderson doesn't die. The whole sequence with the sentient Catalyst never happens. It doesn't exist. Before activating the Crucible to wipe out the Reapers, you have a one on one conversation with Harbinger similar to ME1 with Sovereign and ME2: The Arrival DLC and as a delaying tactic until he can get there, he explains to Shepard how the Reapers came to be, why the cycle must persist, etc (not for the bullshit reason the Catalyst gives, but maybe because of dark energy building up due to the muse of FTL drives and Element Zero tech with no way to subside and thus destroying stars/the galaxy). Suddenly Harbinger shows up and latches onto the station like Sovereign in ME1.

You manage to activate the Crucible before harbinger can kill you. Energy shockwave deactivates/fries all of the Reapers in the Sol system. Repeat the process of spreading the energy wave throughout the galaxy as in the ME3 ending, only the fucking mass relays don't explode. Any remaining Reapers are wiped out by the resultant spread.

The Citadel and Normandy aren't destroyed. The Citadel remains in orbit around Earth and Earth is now the new center of galactic politics. The Normandy lands with our hero and crew. Memorial service is held for those that were slaughtered, harvested, and/or gave their lives to fight the Reapers with all galactic leaders in attendance. Naked women throw themselves at the crew. Shepard is gifted the Normandy so as to continue being his own personal space yacht and bangs all of said naked women or bangs the crap out of his love interest until the end of his days. Epilogue explains how a new age begins with Earth and Humans leading the way with reconstruction and galactic unification with each race retaining its identity similar to how states in the United States were originally supposed to be.