838 thoughts on “Top 10 Reasons We Hate Mass Effect 3′s Ending”

• Mashmont
  September 25, 2013 at 12:59 pm

  The simple fact is, the game was unjustly rushed. The first Mass Effect was in development for what seemed like forever. Years of planning, conceptualization, design and programming. The result was a well balanced, slower paced sci-fi adventure (which sci-fi fans enjoy). Mass Effect 2 was finished in 2+ years. By this time, Bioware had a larger staff and a higher budget, so the shorter development time could be offset by higher productivity. Mass Effect 3… 1 YEAR! (Actually the development team had to beg EA to postpone the release date until March to give them time to finish the game.) While Bioware was blessed with an ample staff and a generous budget for the 3rd Mass Effect, 1 year+ of development on a game with such elevated expectations is insane.

  I understand that it can be difficult to write a conclusion that wraps-up a great trilogy in a way that is both interesting and logical; not to mention programing several different (and unique) outcomes that take into account all of the player’s the choices (even if is just that major ones). It is possible to do this, but for God sakes, you need longer that 1 year of development to pull it off. If the game developers had as much time on Mass Effect 3 as they did on Mass Effect 2, we wouldn’t be having these conversations.

  Final note, in the “extended ending” DLC, a narrator does recap the conclusion super-imposed over still images of your squad and other relations. But as Mark Twain put it, “Don’t say it, show it.” I can only hope the the franchise can bounce back after this blunder.

  P.S. I still loved Mass Effect 3.

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• Rimmer
  July 31, 2013 at 8:39 pm

  Ye joe i agree with the wrongness of the ending when i recentley played trough the whole game serie! I was told by a friend to get 100% readiness and full strength. When i did that, i fcking sat there wat hing these 3 a b c endings finish…… I sat there with open mouth and tought: i just wasted all of my time on getting all of these fleets and supplies and help to see an ending where nothing of that was shown… Well the story was very strong and i loved, realy loved the game!!!!! But then this ending….. Well i hope they make it good with the special mass effect (4)

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• Levente
  July 2, 2013 at 4:20 am

  The game got even more plot holes then before with the DLCs and stuff. You download the shitty DLCs for MONEY (I say MONEY) and it ffreaking doesn’t change anything. Your Shepard breaths 1 last time, but how the fuck? da@

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• Elizabeth 0 Fans
  June 22, 2013 at 3:19 pm

  im hopeing for a mass effect 4!

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• pmgg
  June 19, 2013 at 2:01 pm

  i dont know what type of game your me is but in my things are very difrent joker pics up my tem mates on hearth becouse one of them gets hurt and it is the one crue that forces joker to run awy and yes i have 3 chises control the repers destroy the repers or shoot the boy and then he says:
  the cycle will continue and in the end shows other race talking about sheperd instead of the old guy and the ends are very difrent in 2 of them the normandy crashes but in difrent ways and in the 3rd choise de normandy is destoride “the cycle will continue”

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• Mass Effect as Great Science Fiction | ideonexus.com
  May 27, 2013 at 4:56 pm

  [...] otherwise, STOP. Although the endings of ME garnered much outrage online (see also here, here, here, and here), to the point that fans actually argued that the whole thing was an hallucination. [...]

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• Elizabeth 0 Fans
  May 25, 2013 at 11:04 pm

  i think im gonna completely re-do the game in my head starting……… NOW

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• David
  May 25, 2013 at 1:25 pm

  Share my reasons? OOOOOH BOY! Where do I start. – A *godchild* concept is already something that doesnt belong in ME serie and more in one of those cheezy Final Fantasy game. – The complete game got TONES over TONES of contrevarsy and shitty out of nowhere bullshit spamming all over the game. – Cerberus, (wich was supposed to be dealth with in ME1 but had come back simply saying *hi, we’re not dead* as a reason to give people their shitty puppeteer scenario EA ALWAYS use in their games with the illusive man crap) they themselfs stoof against the idea of modifying someone and alter their brains with cybernetics, next thing, illusive man’s virtualy an organic computer with his implants. -Shepard, master strategist and dude who always find a way to do the impossible… charge like cannon fodder on a reaper beam for a target that aint moving anywhere, right after he got 1 reaper, and another spawned litteraly at the same spot, and left that spot like he was just troling shepard. -Those reaper beams pass right trough capital ships like the ascension in ME1, you see it still hapenning over your head, you get hit on foot you should be ATOMIZED. but no, cheezy EA scenario happen. and I could go on and on for hours if we go on the shit they fed us since EA signed in. One last thing, ME1, sovereing says himself : I AM NOT A GODDAMN FUCKING AI! I am the sum of a whole civilisation in 1 beeing. Wich clearly explain why they need organic to build machine to begin with instead of just metal like any other machine that have ever existed. He also call the reapers: Independant individuals with 1 goal. ME3 : We’re dumbfuck AI who were created and controled by a cyber kid. Woopy-do-yeay. And am not even going over the disapointment of the ending yet, just stuff that aint making sens, if you want ALL the reasons including mid-game that makes me shun and boycot EA/bioware for it, I dont thing a comment page wil be enough so it’d have to be an e-mail. Say if you want it. (btw I know those company never cared about what people think so I’m holding my breath for no reason expecting it to change. I dont even wanna see ME4 I heard may be coming, I’ve been insulted enough with the last ones. First one was the best one, second was ok storywise, even good disrigarding it became cheezy, third one is a parody)

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• Tristan X Melody
  April 29, 2013 at 3:52 am

  no boss battle I wanted to fight a harbinger possed illusive man or something like saren or the protoreaper not take 5 Fu@$$ng hours to limp down a hallway to talk to a stupid child not to mention all this harbinger talk the ultimate god machine but he only shows up with a mass effect 2 save game to replace the sovren class reaper that sooots you and what the hell the epic end war takes a WEEK the prothans fought for centurays a year would have been plasable at least

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  • David
    May 25, 2013 at 1:27 pm

    I agree, its like spending a god-knows how long time making different games for diversity and then on all of em end up with a lethal *I.W.I.N.* button that actualy fuck evereything up.

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