Posted on: Friday, April 6th, 2012
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Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC Discussion
Bioware has announced an Extended Cut to the Ending for Mass Effect 3 in direct response to the overwhelming amount of fan disappointment. I hate to be the one to say it, buy why do an Extended Cut if you are just going to expand on the ending we didnt like? I guess I should be grateful for it being free and providing more closure and explanation.I’m happy we pushed for it and ultimately won.
BioWare co-founder Ray Muyzka said the following regarding the Extended Cut:
Kotaku was able to clarify what is being offered even further. The Extended Cut will NOT introduce a different ending or add more endings instead it will provide more clarity and context for what the original ending offered:
“Much of the focus of the Extended Cut is to expand on the variety of consequences of player choices and degrees of success,” the spokesperson said, “so, with the new content, the player’s choices should result in a much more varied experience.”” -Bioware
Finally, Bioware confirmed that work on this DLC will delay other DLC content for ME3 that was already being made:
What do you think of the Extended Cut DLC? The content will be offered for Free until April 2014 and through Origin for PC Gamers.
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554 thoughts on “Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC Discussion”
These endings had no VARIETY AT ALL. We were PROMISED VARIETY, and we received this shitty ending to such an amazing trilogy. This ending just fucking gets me going, like, why they hell does it make no fucking sense? Shepard is supposed to be this bad-ass ultima mega-hot beacon of epic, and he is forced into these three ultra-shitty endings? This is a betrayal. I will never buy another Bioware or EA game ever again.
Played through ME3 again to see how the EC factors in. It makes my preferred ending *Destroy* a bit better, other than that it’s pretty meh.
It is now June 26, 2012 and Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC is out. I have seen all four, I repeat FOUR “Possible” endings and this is my conclusion.
Bioware destroy the Mass Effect Series with this Vanilla favored dialogue end THAT STILL TASTE LIKE SHIT!! NO INDOCTRINATION THEORY, NO EPIC BOSS AND NO MUPTILE ENDS!!!
I only thing I say to your all: Do not get this DLC, Do not buy any Bioware Games agian and my last and most importuned advice: do not buy any Games with EA Logo on it.
Here is also like to The Indoctrination Theory – A Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAqFFhBn2U&feature=related
the exteded cut DLC is out coude you make video on it.please
P.s. Sorry for my english and spelling it is becouse I am not english
Long live, The Indoctrination Theory.
-Jin
I have this feeling that Bioware planned this out way beforehand and planned on releasing the different ending months after the game came out. Maybe as a way to bring people back to the game or in order to make a much bigger, perhaps even different ending. The press release could easily be a lie and they could completely change every aspect of the ending.
I’m replaying ME3 again to prepare for the extended cut DLC. Then again I heard a rumor that it isn’t DLC, but a patch update. So I’ll be playing the game to see if it is true or not.
The extended cut may bring closure to some of the characters but not closure for Shepard. As he laying on top a pile of rubble taking a gasp of air. There is no closure for Shepard and he hasn’t saved the galaxy by ending the Reaper threat. Unless the indoctrination theory is proved incorrect with the extended cut.
I’ll review ME3 when the extended cut is release if it hasn’t been released already. I’m anxious to see if my fears of disappointment with the ending has come to life or I have been worried for nothing. I’m ready to determine if Bioware’s credibility is to be laid to rest or not.
If they go with the Indoctrinated Theory with the Extension, and announce Mass Effect 4, I don’t know whether to slap them for milking the series or hug them for more Mass Effect…
EA is just trying to squeeze a little more cash out of our wallets! The extension is a bunch of BULLCRAP!
Bioware: they seem pretty mad, we should give them the ending they deserve-
EA: NO!! WE’RE GONNA GIVE THEM THE SAME SHIT WE GAVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!! only this time, its gonna seem like our shit made sense… when it doesn’t… MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“so, with the new content, the player’s choices should result in a much more varied experience?” WTF?? Boy, I really hate corporate-speak.
If the ending is staying the same how do they justify saying this? And, also this: “so, with the new content, the player’s choices should result in a much more varied experience .” What?, the blue will be bluer, the red, redder and the green greener??
Your review was right on, Joe. This is all a bunch of shit. I’m glad EA and Bioware are feeling the heat from fans – maybe they’ll finally get their shit together.
Angry Joe, if the Indoctrination Theory is not proved in the magical extended cut DLC, well then Bioware and their evil master EA can suck my dick for all I care, but what troubles me the most is, why the fuck is the Extended Cut DLC that Bioware will introduce in this years summer going to stay free untill April/14/2014 ? Why, can some one tell me why, do they want to fuck us more and more with their bullshit statements and caring for the fans, or are they hiding some thing from us, that’s what’s really bothering me from the beginning, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU UP TO YOU EVIL BASTARDS :@ I want my game to matter to me, I want to look back to it as the greats game in the world damn it, not as a let down, and thank you Angry Joe.
They just want their dam money from us. That’s all EA cares about, as if they don’t make enough already from the idiots who buy a new Madden game or NCAA or whatever every year. Sorry if anybody likes those games but they’re making EA so lazy. In ME3 they couldn’t even extend the common F**KING COURTESY of having a FINAL F**KING BOSS BATTLE!!! NO THEY JUST WANTED TO BE DONE WITH IT THAT LAST TEN MINUTES OF THE GAME, AND THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT WE THINK, GOD BIOWARE WHY DID YOU HAVE TO WORK WITH THESE PEOPLE!!
guys lear to read more cinematics for a fordced ending and this is all
i think they’re doing this on purpose to keep our hope down so the ending can seem great
Yeah, the only real problem with this(aside form no new endings, making what sucks, longer) is that no one knows how to build a god damn relay, no one even really studied them, they know what they do, they know how powerful they are, but they have no idea about the inner workings of them.
Only chance of them making a new relay is in the control ending, in which the citadel and conduit survive, both being mass relays,
I just want my choices from the past games to matter is that so wrong? I’m hoping the EC will do this, but even so since *spoiler* shows up regardless of what you did in the past it seems like this won’t happen..
Another idea: It turns out, TIM is actually corporate commander himself, his goal is to sell his games with crap endings to every cycle before wiping it out-making it into a reaper and using it for more advertisment. The only way to stop hims is not to buy any DLC for Mass Effect 3, making his corporation crash.
The Best Case: -Indoctrination theory before this all happens- Shepard wakes up, instantly sprinting to the beam, as Harbinger takes his one last chance but is interupted (if you have enough manpower) by fire of several tanks, forcing him to shut his laser pods.
You get transported onboard citadel, where without further delay you get into the control room of the Crucible. In Crucible you encounter TIM, there is a renegade option of shooting him on first sight, if you choose not to, there is a conversation where he explains how he got there and tries to convince you and himself hes not indoctrinated (note he looks normal now)
at any point of conversation, you may shoot him. The moment he dies, he is transformed into monster, a husk avatar of Harbinger. You fight him, but you cant win, after some time, Anderson runs into the room and jumps on his back, making them both fall into firing chamber of crucible. His death weakens Harbinger, who is just shown heading to crucible to stop you. Harbinges is, if you have enough manpower, then shot down. You start the crucible, if you found all the scientists its happy end, if not, EDI will somehow inform you that using crucible will eliminate EVERYTHING in distance of a light year AND all the reapers in the galaxy… I wrote this down in about ten mins, BIOWARE should learn to make a nongimicky ending, even a teenager can do it, i think a kid could too.
Worst case: ANY CASE WHEN THE F***ED UP CATALYST IS REAL. GODS IN THE MACHINE (or on the rope-depending on translation) HAVENT YOU LEARNED ANYTHING?
Ya know now that I think about it; if a game like Silent Hill can have you make 3 choices and give you like 9+ endings in one game then how can Mass Effect give you 3 games built on all sorts of choices and leave you with 3 dull and cliche endings and the choice of color of your firework show?
My heart dropped as I read the words myself. Thankfully Joe’s review helped me cope with the lose as he expressed what I felt in the words I couldn’t find at the time. I’m serious I was friggin pissed and at a lost for words of how arrogant and stupid EA was/is and I still am. Like he said though they are obviously in damage control with all this free dlc because if they really wanted to, ya know if they didn’t screw the pooch and get 90% of the people pissed off, they would have no problem charging you something for it and then leave it to the individual consumers to take the quick road and buy the packs in the game too. Best case (however unlikely) scenario: this actually makes some kinda sense and we will be satisfied. Worst case: It expands on an already difficult to conceive ending, we institute a boycott, EA stock plummets, Bioware now free of their slave collars gives us a real ending and a full refund….actually that’s kinda win win =D
I love this trilogy. This is the best Sci Fi. Bar none.
I recently came to terms with the ending after much debate and realized there is no “real” ending.
It must be interpreted by the player. Mass Effect touched so many topics that other Sci Fi genre’s were only able to scratch the surface of.
Interpret the ending yourself, do not take it literally unless it works for you. If you still have trouble meditate on the series as a whole or research some ideas.
There is closure
that is a shit is a forced ending come on a cjhild of 5 years can see that
My best case scenario: Bioware’s people are lying again, but this time about leaving in all the crap that ruined the ending in the first place, and they are really going to change it into something a lot better and more fulfilling.
My worst case scenario: They aren’t, and the best thing we can hope for is better resolution for the characters, or at least Shepard’s squadmates.
Here are some of my ideas on the subject of the ending choose in relation to the indoctrination (at least form what I understand of it, haven’t paid much attention to it) all of which include take in to account player choose though out not only ME3 but also the previous games and also result in a verity of different endings
Destruction- Shepard breaks free of reaper control and destroys the reapers in the final confrontation. Shepard’s survival and the survival of your crew depending entirely on the amount of resources and alliances you are able to attain throughout the course of the games. Too few you and the Normandy crew die, gain all of the assists and no one dies, and character loyalty form previous games determining what characters making it out ok or not.
Control- Shepard gains control of reapers and depending on paragon/renegade levels may or may not become the new illusive man (high paragon sends them off into distant space until such they are needed, high renegade keeping them as his own personal army, median levels keeping them around to help the universe develop its sciences further)
Synthesis- Shepard falls for the god child’s trick and is fully indoctrinated revealing that he is still aboard the Normandy, his now indoctrinated self fighting with the ship’s crew, ultimately being gunned down by Javik (or one of the long standing characters if the DLC hasn’t been purchased) as an act mercy.
these are just ideas, and i’d like to see some other peoples ideas to.)
@Denis: …I understand your comment was meant to be sarcastic, but in no way it was constructive or helpful. Try again.
Also, I’ve found a… mediocre explanation for the Synthesis ending, how it changes the DNA of every organic (and weirdly enough, synthetic) life: radiation, kinda like after an A-bomb, only guided. Like I said, mediocre, but still makes more sense than just declaring it as space magic.
Oh, and the real reason I wrote again:
After searching and reading and interpreting, I come to the conclusion that Bioware at no point says that the Indoctrination theory is invalid. “Extended Cut DLC”… they clearly say that there will be no new ending, just clarification for the existing ones. But “no new ending” doesn’t mean that it won’t be a different ending from what we have now. This is now merely speculation:
The “EXCUT-DLC” will finally involve our decisions throughout the game series and the War Assets we’ve gathered during ME3. Following this, the “best endings” (Control/Synthesis/Destroy with Shepard alive), basically the ones where you need more effective Military Strength, will be picked up from where they stopped, revealing that Shepard was indeed indoctrinated by the Reapers; Control/Synthesis will show us a controlled Shepard, going against his allies and turning humankind either in a new race of Collectors or a new Reaper, while the best Destroy ending will show us that Shepard broke free of their manipulation and finally beats the Reapers for good. Probably (I hope not), this end will also mean Death for Shepard… like “The Dark Knight” once stated: “You Either Die a Hero, or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself become the Villain.”
If Destroy Ending gives us a positive ending, it shows us Shepard settling down with his/her partner.
Also, new DLC could give us a “Retake Omega” Quest, as well as new enemies (the ones from Mass Effect: Invasion; they wanted to include them from the beginning, they just screwed up the physic engine of the game, but maybe they found a solution), and, concerning Control/Synthesis Ending, they could include a scene where the player actually loses control over Shepard,a plan they once scrapped because it wouldn’t work, but maybe it works now?
real ending?sure i got one
so Shepard wakes up,and he saw the signal of brainwash machine,and he is like
“shiiiiet,i have to destroy this damn….thing”
he follows the signal and….BANG..this signal comes from EA company(what a twist).So Shepard run into building,killing robo-guards and run upstairs.
And there are bunch of EA owners and they like…..”dude,we can help you and we can put you in fantasy world where is all peace and stuff…….with ultra mega new DLC MassEffect-Sims life”(if you male character)
and if your Shepard female you get special bonus content “Kitchen of fate” with extra furniture for free…..for about month or something.Then you need to pay 500$ for month.
And they all laughing,and smiling and some.
and Shepard like
“FTW” and start to kill everyone with his own hands,Then(after burning their bodies) he finds this big brainwash beacon and try to refuse it,but you have to buy 10 dlc to open the console and Shepard like “FTW” and smash the console shield and destroy it with bazooka or something.And the reapers like
“Oh sh*t,our illusion gone,now we useless peace of metal” and flying away.
And Shepard takes a flying cow…beaver,,,,ship(oh yea,thats it)and chasing them,and…
….Reapers like Pew pew
and Shepard like CABOOM!
And now all Reapers dead.
He came back to Earth and Garrus hug him after some calibrations(ohhh,so cute)
Garrus:”Shepard,you just save the world”
World:”woohoo”
THE END
-EPIC MUSIC-
P.S.Sry about my language(the third one)
The best case scenario for the upcoming extended cut
the moment you enter Sol, it gives a long line of war assets, consequences and all that neat stuff..just really flesh out what you worked for in game.
Then, the second you get teleported up to the beam…either leave it completely alone, or maybe add a bit more stuff to point more in the indoctrination concept..make it less of a ??? and more of a pretty sure bet (maybe have flashes of oily shadow people here and there moreso than just the odd black wisp here and there..
Worst case scenario: anything after the teleportation that tries to make sense of it all to lead away from indoc.
I am soo on the fence about this..I feel there is a battle going on inside bioware headquarters now between the devs whom want a epic story, and corporate interests that just want enough for people to stop bitching too much and buy their DLC.
I really don’t understand the thinking though. ME franchise is stupidly awesome..the fan desires (indoc) not only gives them a epic way out of the stupid ending, but also arguably continues the franchise for a billion more ME titles (but they need to quit with the plot hook/massive choice differences thing..it hurts the potential for more).
Its fine..give a little bit..in ME1, we had about 3 major plot hooks…kaiden v ash, council v fleet, and wrex v wreve…frankly, they should have given only 1…the kaiden v ash thing..and simply forced a result for the rest.. maybe build up a overall reputation base also so people will, by rep status, either look distastefully at you, or think your a hero and want to suck your..finger at a given request..but that doesn’t require a massive amount of programming from game to game.
They can’t do a ME4 tailed onto the ending (if it is the real ending of ME3). Its too complex now..they would need to program in like 10 different games based on all the scenarios…like ever..maybe if shep is TPed into harbinger and flown away to deep space for 1k years, they can start to bring all decisions into a single narration unless they put out a official “this is the story so far…doesn’t matter what you chose, this is what we choose to tag onto at this point…geth and quarians are in love, krogan are breeding like bunnies under the command of wrex, and etc etc etc..now, about Andromeda and its taking notice of us…
Otherwise, just from complexity alone, the franchise is dead.
Best case scenario…someone with a tiny bit of foresight is hired by Bioware before they do a new title.
Found this article today on Forbes even though it’s from March 12th. Says the Javik DLC was already on discs when shipped:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/03/12/how-bioware-could-find-redemption-using-mass-effect-3/
You know, I actually owe Bioware one for making this shitty ending
Because what happened was I was watching Zero Punctuation (Yahtzee) talk about it and I felt he skipped over a few nagging details, so I searched the web for more video reviews on the matter and accidentally pressed a link to Angry Joe’s you tube review of it, and I immediately agreed with his points, and I’ve been using the Angry Joe Show ever since.
So while everything else sucks about the ending (and Bioware’s PR reaction to it), their is a slight positive it brought about.
Best Case Scenario: Shepard wakes up, that all WAS just what the Indoctrination Theory says it was. There is no nonsensical Godchild: that was just Shep’s manifestation of what the indoctrination was doing to him. Then we actually, REALLY get to go to the Citadel. They said taht they were transporting people, alive and dead, up there, and Shep postulated that it was because they were making another Reaper. And they are; it’s almost complete. Shep, SOMEHOW (via a fight or a conversation or whatever) makes it go and kill Harbinger. Then we get the huge fucking fleet fight we all wanted, Suicide Mission Style, the end, we win.
Worst Case Scenario: They try to explain how Joker because a huge asshole and took all my allies away right when I needed them, and THEN became a huge pussy and ran away right when we needed him. Then they explain HOW a ship in Mass-Relay transit would be stopped mid-transit, since it has ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED that the Mass Relay doesn’t maintain the ship in transit: one speeds the ship up, the other catches it and slows it back down. Then we find out how the fuck a civilization can spawn from half-man half-machines, descended from the three men on the ship (besides Cortez, who’s gay) and two human females of breeding age without being completely retard-inbred. THEN we find out why a Catalyst (something small that starts a chain reaction) would actually be activated by a Crucible (a container INSIDE WHICH you create an object) rather than the other way around. THEN they tell us why the Godchild sounds like the dead kid and combo-shep. AFTER THAT (!!!) we find out why Shepard doesn’t just let his fleet fight the good fight, because he knows; he KNOWS that they’d rather stand and fight like free men than 1) give up thier humanity (or Asarianity, or Turianity, etc,) than become half-synthetic. And he KNOWS that they’d rather stand and fight than follow the empty promises of the Illusive Man who only thought he could control the reapers because he was indoctrinatied. And he ALSO KNOWS that they’d rather win by their own strength than betray the Geth who have now laid down their lives to save the Organics who did nothing but murder and persecute them. The ending explains why everything that the game has given us, from the very begining, is stripped away, and then we’re left with the same nausea we felt the first time we say the ending; because Mass Effect is no longer about taking a stand for what you believe, in your own way, and pulling it off against the odds. Just like Shep’s 3 choices, now Mass Effect is about taking the easy way out, and FUCKING EVERYONE WHO MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE.
Wow, that’s it. That’s what the ending means. The Ending is Mass Effect doing to Shepard what EA has forced BioWare to do to us. Poetic. And I still don’t give a goddamn, I want my FUCKING HAPPY ENDING, I GODDAMN EARNED IT, I RECRUITED EVERYONE BESIDES THE FUCKING DEVIL, YOU CUNTBAGS.
Without changing the actual “endings” pretty much the only things they could expand on that I would care about would be, what happens after, and what happened to start it all. Pretty obvious there was some sort of giant synthetic/organic war in the very first cycle that ended in the creation of the reapers. Even if anyone who has ever seen a scifi movie could probably tell you exactly how that scene would go, it would still be nice to see it or hear about it. As is the reason for the reapers being around is just so pathetic, I mean the reapers spend 3 games trolling you about how ‘stupid mortals could never understand our mighty logic’ and then it’s logic that a !@#$ing 2 year old could have come up with. The other thing, what happened after? For the longest time (longest time being relative as most things happened within a week of the game coming out) I was the only person asking “wtf happens to the soldiers from every single race around the galaxy, that are stranded on earth/sol now?” I’m glad other people are asking that too and hope it gets addressed.
I have a theory about how the game itself could be soooooo good, and the ending soooooo bad. I came up with this theory in about 8 seconds, which is probably about how long it took them to come up with the ending so…I’m not as hardcore as some people so I don’t know the names, but the original creator/writer of Mass Effect left bioware before 3 or during 3? Anyone else feel like this ending was an angry former co-worker/friend at bioware trolling the guy who left? Like “we’re gonna make the best fucking game EVER to show that dick for leaving! Then just for fun we are going to end his trilogy in the stupidest fucking way possible! That will teach him to leave, and that motherfucker still owes me 5$!”
If they weren’t trolling then I guess they just really wanted to get to the bar? Or does bioware not realize how much of a fucking punch-out ending that was?
I just finished the game yesterday (yes I played the trilogy every sunday as a blockbuster) but now I feel so … empty/paralysed like some said.Its just so … man why.Even “when the dlc is coming and tell an epic conclusion” I will never forget what ive seen before…. I hope it will come such an ending like AngryBritishAce version its exactly what I was hoping.
Sorry for my bad english but I have to say something otherwise I would go crazy on this!
You know, I’ve been looking at all the endings here (http://www.rarityguide.com/articles/articles/1739/1/Mass-Effect-3-Endings-Guide—HEAVY-SPOILERS/Page1.html) and I’ve had an epiphany. I think that people don’t give bioware enough credit because if you think about all of the work that has to go into tailoring cinematics to fit all of these endings, bioware had there work cut out for them. Also, I feel that people are so upset because bioware underestimated how hard fans would work to get those high EMS scores to make their stand against the reapers as epic as possible. In doing so they put too much of their time into all of the crappier endings that has everybody dying and not enough into making the endings that people work the hardest to get as amazing as possible. Actually if you look at all of the really crappy endings, they make more sense because simply everything gets blown the hell up. So, basically what I’m saying is, don’t say bioware didnt put in the time or that they didn’t make an ending that made any sense, they simply underestimated gamers devotion to the game.
Well said Rickross.
Also just finished playing through me2 again with the arrival dlc, and it got me thinkin’. People say there are just plot holes galore in the me3 ending, and granted, there are, but I don’t think there are as many as people think. Namely, the mass relays exploding and not blowing up solar systems and the red and blue emissions from the relays and citadel. People claim that the arrival dlc showed that whenever a mass effect relay explodes, it explodes with the force of a supernova. However, it could be possible that the one in arrival only wiped out its host system because it was an UNCONTROLLED release of the mass relay’s energy. When the crucible is fired via the citadel, it could be concentrating the mass relays’ energy into one part of the electromagnetic spectrum, releasing some of that energy into the blue, red, and green ‘waves’ (the light radiating away from the relays as they fall apart [because that's what i think they're doing, not exploding]), and the rest of the energy is channeled into the beam that perpetuates the process to the rest of the relays. This beam carries the majority of the mass relays energy which would explain why the solar system is not annihilated. As for the Red and Blue pulses, the Red is most likely an ElectroMagnetic Pulse which would explain why organics are not effected, but all synthetics are toast, and the blue could possibly be a powerful override signal broadcasted throughout the galaxy, calling off the reapers. The green pulse however, is undeniably complete bs.
I re play through Mass Effect 2 have notice alot of hidden updates to the dialogue in ME2 to almost support what Bioware is saying about the rebuilding of the mass relays. 1. Liara father opening states the she told the asia to build mass relays before the reaper invasion. Wtf 2. This was not there when i first play though back from the games release. Now this opening suggest that she knows about the Protheans beacon or beacons on Thessia. I would suggest to all mass effect player to re play ME1 and ME2 to see these changes and take not. Still my beef is if you still pick the red ending ALL TECH IS COMPLETE DESTROYED. So how can the relay be re built if you bomb everyone back to the stone age? Please comment people on what I just said. Or correct me if Im wrong.
Typo line 3 asia = Asari. Sorry gang about that.
P.S. Joe if you have time play them both yourself and make a video if my suspicions are correct calling out EA on forcing Bioware to write there pervious games to if their ending on the down low. Thinking that true hardcore fans would notice the little shit. When is completely obvious that we are going over this game with a magnified glass.
Also I remember what Liara father said back when the game first released without any updates is she tells Shepard that “I told the Asari Matriarchs to work on rebuild themselves as a specie and to open new relays for discovery for the other species. In our Xbox live updated game which I played yesterday she’s says what i state earlier. So how Bioware is tell us now the Asari can build relays even tho Javaks states that even their own tech was build on the Inussonce or whatever their called. So how in the hell can the Asari build mass relay tech from Reaper tech. Come on!!!
Typo line 4 how = now. You can see that this topic really upsets me and that I am a true gamer and Mass Effect Fanatic. Nice try Bioware but you can’t fool me and the fans!!!
I hope that the “no gameplay just cutscenes” announcement is clever marketing and not true. I mean, Bioware had plans for a final battle, they said so in the artbook: they wanted to turn TIM into a reaper creature and make him fight Shepard, but they eventually scrapped that because “TIM’s strength is information, not physical”. Still there would be something missing without a real tough last battle, like Saren-Sovereign or Human Reaper.
It’s just unfitting.
Anyways, best case scenario is that they really wrap up all the loose ends, explain why the Normandy just ran off in the midst of the most important battle in history, reveal it’s all an hallucination caused by Indoctrination, include your decisions in the ending and let Tali and Shepard settle on Rannoch after defeating the reapers.
Worst case scenario: All the additional cutscenes and cinematics show God Child and Shepard argue and blame it all on space magic, ending it all with another open ending just to advertise a new game in the series, coming out May 2015.
I actually have no optismistic anticipation of the EC, after what was announced and the news that TH was called in to voice more lines for EDI. What I visualised is just more cutscenes with VO by EDI, explaining blah lah blah what had happened and afterwards. Seeing as EDI will outlive (barring Liara if nothing happened to her) everyone on board the Normandy.
As it is, I have no enthusiasm for the EC. And even least for Bioware and future products from them. At the most, I’ll just read player reviews about the EC. If it’s good, I’ll get it. If not, then I don’t see the point of wasting my time.
Best Case Scenario: Indoc theory or something like it is true. I don’t even have to see a final epic battle after Shepard wakes up. Even a little nod in that direction would satisfy me.
Worst Case Scenario: No explanation on why the Normandy leaves, or some half assed stupid explanation as to why it leaves, or any kind of extended explanation of space magic. Frankly, even seeing my war assets wont matter to me if they don’t tell me why the fuck the Normandy leaves the sol system and why shooting a tube or disintegrating or jumping into a beam activates this stupid weapon we’ve been building. I can tell it’s a symbol for something and ‘crucible’ means test or trial but…I just…I dunno I’m having a hard time believing that Bioware wasn’t just making everything up as they went along.
Went to art school for five years, some of my favorite films are open for interpretation and I’m a huge fan of literature with symbolism and philosophical ideas. The difference between artistic vision and bullshit is that when you have an artistic vision YOU at least need to know what the hell you’re talking about.
Ok Bioware Mass Effect 3 Best case ending.
For the retake of Earth all of your war assets will be show in CGI chip. In space you when the Victory fleet appears from Sol really we would see a special scene showing Cortez rogue squadron of fighters and the Cerberus fighters you get would lead the first wave in a fighter to fighter and fighter to ship battles. One of those fighters being followed by the camera making an attack run on a Reaper ship and survives a bogy on it’s six (if you will) by one of those Asari Cruiser you find as a war asset. So if you have a high enough readiness the Asari Cruiser Cybaen will come in a support that fighters bombing run or attack run whatever if not both the fighter and cruiser go down in flame and glory taking down a reaper ship or two by a huge explosion from the Cybaen over size element eezo core.
Also I would have at least have the Destiny Ascension firing its main cannon taking out a Reaper (I mean we did sacrifice all the humans ship in ME1 saving the council.) Basically total war in space. Now for the Geth and Quarians I would have Geth in the front of the fleet. Since they’re non organics and if you gave them the True AI upgrade. They would fly fasters and smarter they would attack in like wolf packs using hit and run tactics on the Reaper. Something we know should work since all other forms of engagements against the Reaper are pointless and would work. This would throw the Reapers of balance since now they have to fight organics and non-organics.
The Quarians on the other hand can do what they did in Rannoch and do orbital strikes on Reaper forces on the ground also have them coordinate attacks with the Volus Bombing fleet lead by their flagship the Volus Dreadnought Kwunu. This would an epic space battle good enough to even challenge some of the space battle from Star Wars Esp. 3 and 6. This would show to viewers that if you had a low readiness more of your asset would be lost in this scene. Bear in mind Shepard is still on the Normandy leading the Victory fleet. I haven’t even covered the ground battle. But for readers expenses I will move on.
Ok on the ground. You would have you see a mix force of all your assets and what I mean by that is. Having your N7 Special Ops team, team up with the Alliance Spec Ops Team Delta and Spectre Unit lead by Jondum Bau. I would have these guys running around blowing up everything or anything Reaper. From blowing up Strongholds and processing plants to heavy entrench reaper forces positions. With that being said the Major Kirrahe show being blow something up… one word Virmie. Ok let’s get to meat and potatoes of the scene here.
This scene would cover all of the rest of those assets that weren’t shown to this point. The Cut secne were Shepard is landing on Earth. I would Cortez do a fly over the battlefield showing Krogan charging Reapers forces on Kakliosaurs with the Elcor charging next to them in with those VI Tank cannons on their back. I would a Krogan like Grunt or someone grab up a Vorcha and use it as a human shield while reapers blow apart this poor little Vorcha a Salarian or Turian comes and saves that Krogan. You know have that hard-ass badass stare and nod as in thanks. While the Krogan throws what’s left of the Vorcha remains to the ground and says “Hell what you punks so long to show up? Are you all that’s coming I would hate to have to win this war on my own?) I’m sure this would get some laughs from the fans. Then either the Turian or Salarian says, “I think we got company!” (Pointing up at the sky showing some Geth troopers hell dropping in like Halo ODST from one of their ships.) When a Geth trooper or have a Geth Prime has landed should walk up to the Krogan, Salarian and or Turian and say’s. “Your reinforcements have arrived. Hell at least this is something says the Krogan. We are not alone! Said the Geth trooper or Prime point back up to the sky. Showing the skies filled incoming Geth forces to the battle for Earth.
Sorry Joe I still need more time for that bad ending for you. I hope this Good ending I have so far is more to your liking. I still have to write up the god kids scene as in rewrite the whole thing. Please give me more time Joe I want people; fans and Bioware story writes see how you do an ending. (I still have plenty off ideas for this ending I’ve already done.)
Please All comments from fans and yourself would be greatly helpful in finish this for you. Also Shep Lives in my ending.
Also there are a few typos in rush to post this comment.
Joe your soo right bro. EA is completely fucking this great game. WHY!!!! The indoc theory was amazing. I think we all know that the ending bioware wanted. We better get a DAMN GOOD MASS EFFECT 4 then. I sent you a facebook message about some other game issue. Plus dose that now mean our CDR Shepard can’t a Reaper blast? (So why on Rannoch it took me 10-15 mins to kill the reaper with a orbital strike? BULLSHIT!!!) Now we to update the top 10 reason why this game ending stucks. Thank you Joe and all of us Mass Effect fans trying to support the makers of this game.
I just thought of something…if the indoctrination theory is correct doesn’t that only leave room for two maybe three possible endings? Scenario 1- Shepard survives, goes up to the Crucible and most likely kills the Reaper threat Scenario 2- Shepard is Indoctrinated and goes after his/her friends, ending all hope for the cycle. Scenario 3- Shepard is indoctrinated and is killed by her/his team then the team fire or dont fire the crucible. So much for all those endings we were promised.
So if you choose the wrong ending dose that mean if Shep is indoc and at the last mins of game get his indoc eyes when i betrays everyone in the DLC? Or is EA making bioware act like those stupid choices never happen in the next game or DLC. But good point DarkLight very good point. Please look at my ending and tell me what you think. I think i can write something that bioware may give it a 2nd look at. That is if EA let them…
Actually
If sheppy is Indoc’ed. it could mean he is rescued, and due to them not knowing what to do with a half husk (see ME2 noticing a slight turn) pop him in the prothean stasis pod (where javik was found) until the tech is there to alter him back to human..may take a few (hundred or even thousand) years to do so.
The catalist was shep touching the beam to begin with..after that, all a dream..but him touching the beam in the first place set off whatever it was…the make the reapers go away beam.
Or..Shep could be aboard harbinger itself, again, touch the beam, TP up, but not to the citadel (harbinger flew off when he realized shep was getting up…but whatever..realized there was no stopping it now, so decided to scoop shep up from the beam. similar outtake, but sheps implants made him resist full indoc..stasis..crack assault team reaches and rescues him (many years/decades later) in either dark space or in harbinger himself (dead floating around in dark space…killed…from the monsters of the andromeda galaxy of course
)
Anyhow, there are a ton of different ways they can go with a indoc ending.
There will be no DLC of what happens outside of what they already stated though…if there is any furthering of this particular line, it will come in the form of ME4
joe on a side note whatever happened to corporate commander, seemed like he would fit perfectly in this
maybe its possible they will release an expanded ending then release indoc theory as dlc after
I after sometime finally got a copy of the game and even after your reviews Joe and all the videos I have seen, I still had to see the ending myself. I’m just hard up on playing crap games to the end. Hell I finished Golden Axe Beast Rider when my brother was trying to stop me cause it was so bad. Anyways I beat it and well… if you have only seen the end in videos be glad, this crap hunted my dreams for days. It’s so much worst to see your own Shep go though that crap.
I mean when he talks to you and the tells you what will happen, also showing you who would pick it Red Anderson, Blue Illusive man and well green no one. So why the hell would I pick blue or green I mean I’ve been talking about killing the Reapers since the first game why change now. Even if I were to die with the red ending I saved everyone, but killed EDI and the Geth too so that sucks. Blue ending he tells you that you will die, but control the reapers yet you will lose everything… it took me a bit to wrap my head around that. This is what I pulled from it, I will control the reapers tell them to leave and they will, but that will kill me and I will lose control of them so they will go back to killing everyone and everything I love meaning I lose it all. Who wrote that that and said “Yeah that looks good.” Then there’s the green were by space magic ( and I don’t care what EA or Bioware says it is.) all organics will have their DNA changed to be part synthetic… and I myself knew this was coming but still yelled at the screen “How in the hell does that work. I change everyone’s DNA by jumping in to a beam of energy, then from the scene with Joker leaving me and taking the whole team with him (have my back my ass). He’s with EDI who is glowing green too. Did I make her part organic too? It doesn’t make since!” And let’s all not forget the Mass Relay blowing up no matter what you pick. If this is canon then my Shep will just stay dead, rather than be hung in the streets by a bunch of angry aliens now stuck on a burnt out plant.
I don’t know about anyone else, but this doesn’t look like Bioware’s work or writing. These are not the same people who gave me the first two KOTORs, Dragon Age Origins, Baldur’s Gate, Jade Empire and so on. It has to be EA, and their cheap way of nickel and diming us for money. Now the new extended cut DLC… this is a sick joke for two reasons. one: They will like Joe said tell us why their shit stinks and make us all feel like we wasted money and about what 6 to 7 years on this game series that went from a great Sci fi RPG that made me feel like I’m playing a action version of Star Trek to what I like to call Gears of Effect. Where I maybe pulled the left trigger a total of 6 time compared to the second game. And yes I know this was the last game and we where going to fight more then we talked, but still that’s what made us love the game I did (and yes I love the elevator in the first game). Two: they go with the indoctrination theory give us a great ending and like Joe said again ride off into the sunset. Yet that just means that we payed full price for two thirds of a game. You don’t go to a play watch act 1 and 2 and then be told “hey you have to come back next week for act 3 and the ending.” that’s crap. Also to all who say that we are acting entitled to a ending… your right I am and all the others are too you know why, four little words. I PAYED FOR IT. Hard cash that was earned for three games and anyone who payed for the collector’s edition for all three ( i did for the first) are by far. Indoctrination maybe a cheap and easy way out of this, but to save any hope for their company they better, cause having Shep die at the end should only happen if you mess up and pick the blue or green endings and it’s your own fault like the ending of ME2. I will not get into the rest of the little things wrong with this game like Tail’s cheap photoshop picture or Jacob cheating on femShep ( As a up standing Black male I was offended by that one. Really one of the only black men in the game that matters and you make him a cheater… damn that hurt.) doesn’t matter though you just made a character I don’t like now, so I had her get him killed in ME2 as pay back (like an Etcha-Sketch never happend). Anyhow well see what they come up with this summer and it better be good.
we should send this videos to bioware and EA and record theyr reactions
i think that is a great song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=re32xnyYP3A#!
For the extended cut dlc , It would be good if they explain why Joker flew off with your squad, What happened to all the fleets.
Maybe a slide show explaining what happned to your squad members , what they are doing now etc.
Would be good if they explain the origins of god child and why he does what he does.
Along with war assests making a diffrence and something different happening based on the ending you pick ( maybe a diffrent slideshow ending or something being voiced).
If EA want more Mass Effect games set _after_ the events of ME3, the three big choices (at least) would have to lead to *similar* outcomes.
(If they only plan on prequels, they could go crazy.)
So I’m not going to wish for vastly different consequences, because I reckon it’s setting myself up for further disappointment.
The only thing I *really* need explained is the Catalyst’s argument.
That Shep *accepts* that he/she has only three options snaps the suspenders of disbelief (and seemed completely out of character, in my Shep’s case)… but given that BioWare have said no new ending, that won’t change.
Soooo:
* Why “harvest” cultures in the first place?
* How is that our “salvation”? (I doubt Harbinger is a better representation of Prothean culture than Javik.)
* How is “synthesis” better than turning us into Reapers?
* Why are you sure the Geth (specifically) will turn on us? (Both they and the Quarians have proven they can learn from their mistakes.)
* What peacekeeping methods did you try before, and why did they fail?
* Why do you need Shep to control the Reapers into leaving, why can’t you do it?
(For that matter, why must Shepherd to choose at all? _You_ told us harvesting hasn’t worked, _you’re_ the one who’s so sure there are only three ways to avoid total, immediate xenocide (each of which, on the surface, seem crappy), so why pass the buck to Shep?)
There could (and should) be answers for all of these. I can’t imagine what they are though, so I’m sceptical as to whether BioWare knows them either… yet.
This video has a very intriguing clarification of what was supposed to be and may hint as to what’s coming in future DLC. It doesn’t contradict the indoc theory but expands on why indoctrination is pursued in the first place:
http://youtu.be/MlGEPpuKVcg
Im very glad we, (ME fans), have Joe on our side. Thx Joe.
I agree – Joe has his shit together and most of the time the way he weighs his decisions and goes after companies that need to be held accountable would be the exact same way that I would do it (if I was as cool as Joe of course)……….awesome work Joe and hopefully you will continue to back the consumers for the remainder of your years (that you choose to do this type of work).
P.S. – EA should be ashamed of themselves……
What I would like to see in the Extended DLC is every dick head at EA and Bioware, lined up and shot by shepard! This would deffinately make me want to play it through again too.
[OK well I already posted this but accidently as a reply so I'm reposting it haha
Sorry everyone! Especially when I noticed how bloody long it was!]
Well I just don’t think the Indoc theory will be true anymore, but that doesn’t mean that this will be terrible. In order to really help out the original ending without actually changing it, this is a list of what BioWare need to do in order to reduce the amount of shittyness the original endings brought to us.
1- EXPLANATION OF PLOTHOLES
Explanation of ALL the plot holes. I know it seems hard with what we got, but think of it like this. Yes, there is Space Magic. Yes there is an illogical god child that has no good/ logical reason to what he’s doing (well, as far as genocide CAN be logical XD ). BUT, BioWare have explained Space Magic before.
Look at Element Zero. It’s a material that changes the mass of items, making them lighter or heavier in mass. It stimulates artifical gravity, allows faster than light travel, AND it can be used in Biotics. THIS. IS. MAGIC. Look at it people, this WAS space magic right from the start. But do you know what they did to make it logical? They made up some techno sci-fi bable to make it seem logical. And you know what? It DOES seem believable!
If they’ve done it before, they can do it again. Explain WHY the god child does this more in depth, explain WHY shooting a pipe/ grabbing onto handels/ jumping into light destroys or controls the reapers. Explain WHY the Mass Relays explode and explain ALL of the space magic plot holes.
Same goes for Joker running away with all of your squad mates, at least have a scene where Joker picks up your friends and says something like “We need to get Shepard!” but then sees the explosion and starts running. That’s better than what we got.
2- MAKE OUR CHOICES MATTER (in the short run)
There needs to be 3 things that allows us to feel that our choices matter. Firstly, show us how and why choosing Red/ Green/ Blue will alter what we know about the Mass Effect universe. If we pick red, show us all of the Geth going offline, having their lights go out one by one, show EDI dying in Joker’s arms, but then, to lighten the mood, show us all of the reapers across the Galaxy toppling over. Show us Harbinger ungulfed by the red flames, showing him stagger left and right before his four “eyes” flicker and crack, before a triumphant explosion, causing pieces of him to rain down from the sky.
If we picked blue, show us the reapers leaving and some of the victory fleet chasing after them and trying to get a few shots in. Show us the Citadel closing up and having some small teams go inside looking for survivors in the cities and finding Anderson’s body. Have them on the god-child’s platform inspecting all of the Reaper tech and looking for Shepard, and show the Mass Relays being damaged, but not being destroyed.
If we picked Green, show us all life everywhere being merged with machines, turning everyone into part organic part synthetic beings like shepard, show us the actual transformation of this, and the reaction of it between all the races of the Galaxy.
Secondly, show some scenes of what happens after the Citadel gets fired, show us how the races and fleets come together on earth to “clean up,” looking for survivors, gathering (if any) reaper tech. Have them go out and inspect the Mass Relays and see if they are repairable, and then show scenes of them gathering materials to go and repair them. Like before, show how our choices helped. If you destroyed the reapers, have them gathering data and parts from dead reapers and bringing them over to the mass relay wreckage, if you control them have them on the catalyst platform gathering data from there on the god child, if synthesised, have them super intelligent (because of the merge with synthetic life) and have them repair them without reaper tech at all.
Do they send out a rescue party for the Normandy? If so, how many days, months even years is it until they get to them? Does some of your squad die? Tali and Garrus possibly (can’t eat human food).
Lastly what happens to Shepard if he survives? Does he regain health and set out to find he squad in the rescue party? Does he help rebuild the relays? Does he die a few days later from his injuries. Let this be experienced by the players, BioWare.
Lastly, and this is probably the biggest point to be made, have your War Assets do something in the final battle? Have the Krogan going in taking on brutes and banshees unarmed with Wrex and Grunt, have the Turians destroy the enemy with overwhelming force, have The geth and quarians side by side using tech drones on the ground forces and helping repair vehicles, while their orbital fleets rain down superior fire power on the Soverign class reapers. Have the Mercs with Zaeed using dirty tactics on the reaper troops, with Vorcha jumping onto canibals and clawing at their eyes. Have Jack and her students helping by either being in the front line or helping the troops at the back with shields. Samara, taking on whole gangs banshees with just her biotics and nothing else. Miranda and Jacob with the ex-cerberus guys using a mix of tech and fire power on them. Kirahe holding the line with his Salarian STG. Kasumi, sticking to the Shadows and stealthally taking out ground troops who stray too far. This is one of the things that was needed the most, BioWare. If this isn’t in the EC in SOME form, you will lose a lot of points.
3- A SATISFYING CONCLUSION (Explanation in the long run)
This can be the easiest, but at the same time, the most important of everything needed. It can be done with slide shows if you really want. As long as what happens in the short term is explained with fully voiced cutscenes, this can be a picture then some text on the screen. Basically, it needs to highlight what was in point 2, but in more depth and what happens over the next few decades (or even centuries).
Firstly, the final choices. If you picked destroy red, then there should be a scene that explains that the reapers never returned and that all were dead. They should say how the Quarians actually morned the loss of the Geth (if you had peace with them), and that they had an entire memorial dedicated to them. How Joker had a proper funeral for EDI on earth, and how technology was forever altered by Shepards choices. If he survives, tell the player about his full recovery, and what happens to his Synthetic parts (are they broken, do they get rebuilt by the ex-cerberus). If he survives, does he reunite with his crew after sending out a search party.
If you chose control blue, do they study the Godchild and learn of it’s true intent? Do they come to actually control the God child? IS THE GODCHILD NOW SHEPARD? Do they see Shepard as a hologram on the Catalyst platform, giving orders to reapers? Does Shepard spend eternity using the reapers to help the galaxy, or does it corrupt him, causing the cycle to continue after a few hundred years?
If you chose Synthesis Green, does the galaxy become the model of peace? With everyone escentially “the same” as eachother, do people live in bliss? Does everyone become super intelligent, and create an era of prosperity… or do they become like what the Geth were before they were independant, only living to obey orders, living as a hive mind. An advanced explanation of the following years after the events of the ending relating directly to the final choice.
Secondly, what happens to all the other races. Depending on our choices, give us either bad news about each race or good news. Tell us about how the Krogan rebuilt Tutchunka with the help of Eve (sorry can’t actually remember her “krogan” name XD), and have Wrex tell stories to his children about the hero shepard. Or does Wreav take control, and lead the Krogan into a new rebellion which destroys entire parts of the Galaxy. Do they even get cured at all? Does the genephage end up whiping the krogans out completely?
Tell us how the Geths and Quarians lived together and began living outside their suits, or if you chose one side, how the Quarians had to adapt over many many years or how the Geth live on Rannoch in peace and as individuals. Maybe if you do not help bring peace and side with Quarians, have a negative reaction to it and say maybe Tali dies because she tried to live outside her suit too hastely, while if they both live, she gets help from the Geth and recovers very quickly.
Tell us about how Earth, Palaven and Thessia get rebuilt (if at all) and how the 3 races managed to rebuild their civilisations.
Does the Citadel get rebuilt? Or is it just salvaged for scrap and materials?
Lastly, and this is the biggest thing that will MAKE THE EXTENDED CUT COMPLETE is what happens to the Squad mates. This is a MUST HAVE. Without this, there will be no success with this DLC. AT. ALL.
Tell us whether Kaiden/ Ashley become a spectre and become living legends like Shepard.
Tell us what happens to Liara, how she helps the Galaxy with her influence as Shadow broker and helps rebuild the shattered civilisation.
Tell us how Vega persues his military Courier, joining N7 and becoming a badass soldier, maybe even becoming a Spectre.
Tell us whether Garrus actually retires to somewhere tropical, living off the fame and fortune. If you didn’t romance him or Tali, maybe they get together and live on Rannoch with each other (back off, Garrus, I’m telling you she’s mine >:) )
Tell us whether Tali makes it back to see her Homeworld Rannoch, does he build a house there and live in peace? Does Garrus go and live with her (Garrus, I said OFF!)?
If EDI survives, does she live with Joker? Does she become an accepted AI to live amongst organics, like the Geth?
Does Javik stay with Liara and help her write a book about “The Last Prothean?”
Tell us whether Miranda goes and lives with her sister, Oriana.
Does Jacob live with Dr Cole and name their child “Shepard?”
(If he survives) Does Mordin go and study sea shells on the beach?
Tell us if Grunt continues to lead Krogan armies under Wrex/ Wreav’s rule.
Does Jack continue to teach her students?
What about Samara? Tell us what happens to her after the war, and how she goes and kicks ass as a Justicar.
What about cute little Kasumi? Does she keep taunting that Salarian Spectre, even though she fooled him into believing she’s dead?
And let’s not forget Zaeed, tell us whether he continues fighting with Mercs, or does he actually retire like he said he would in LotS.
However, despite all these great slides, the last one should be dedicated to a very, VERY special character. A character that has been with us the longest, and deserves an explanation more than any other, for he… or she… has done what nobody thought possible.
The Last slide should be dedicated to Shepard, and how he/ she is remembered by the Galaxy.
If Shepard dies in the Destroy ending, have an explanation of how they recover his body (this should be done in a cutscene, but if not put it in here), and how they have a funeral for him. Depending on his success depends on who attends, does his crew return in time for it? Or are they still stuck on that planet?
If he survives the Destroy ending, he should have an explanation of what happens now in his life. Does he get married and live with his LI? Does he retire? Or does he go and kick more ass as a Spectre?! Just outline what he does up until his death day.
If he choses Control, does it say how he is now like the new “god child?” Does he act as someone who controls the Reapers for good or for evil? Tell the player how Shepard spends the rest of eternity as the new “overlord” of the Reapers.
In Synthesis, no one probably even knows if he is dead. They label him MIA and have him in a memorial service back on earth, for all the soldiers who gave their lives protecting not just earth, but the whole galaxy.
And on this slide, there should be a explanation on how he was remembered. Was he remembered as a peace keeper who spread love and understanding everywhere he went? Was he remembered as someone who stood up against the galaxy when everything was at it’s darkest and succeed? Or was he remembered as a badass who got the job done at any cost?
This is important stuff, all of it. With everything in here in mind, this could be a good 15 to 30 minute cutscene for the ending. It won’t be perfect. But it will be damn, DAMN close. If the original ending was considered as standing outside a sewage plant with a extremely heavy stench coming from it, this extended cut (with all of my suggestions put in) would be like sitting next to a guy who farts, but you also sit next to an open window. You know that the original fart stinks, but by the time you get first wiff of it, it’s already on it’s merry way out of the window. You still remember it, but it’s at least not in the room any more.
I hope people actually took time to read that XD
I hope Bioware reads this to,but then again we don’t know what they take from it just like all the other requests till now have been ignored cuz we can have an opinion cuz it’s a free world but then again they don’t have to listen to it.i really do hope that the time they take to release this dlc is taking so long cuz they really need or think to add all above into it thou i highly doubt it.they have no excuse for ending the story of Shepard the way they did in the first place.i replayed through 1.2 and 3 again just to try to make sense and nothing.how in the hell they thought this will make any sense at all leaving us with an end like that.no one in that team saw that and had nothing to say to it,talk about it,said that that will have no explanation,will make no sense at all,that we the players will question all of that!?found a small video think most of u saw it,i did and it’s just pissing me off more,how could they do this to Shepard and all of us involved in his story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fubtnzIYmj0&feature=g-like&context=G200caccALT5SW5wABAA . i don’t want to play it again till the dlc,i cant let it go still,a lot of restless days for me still to come cuz i don’t have closure.if u love the series like me u understand me
Bioware pls give Shepard a meaning to everything he represents to us,to you,to all and i apologize for my bad words but other then anger,sadness and a “hole in my chest” is all i can feel for what the end of this amazing trilogy brought to me..
I totally agree. Mass Effect was an amazing series, it’s probably my favourite Trilogy to date. I loved Mass Effect 3, and two and one, they are all amazing in writing, gameplay and the feeling that you really are Commander Shepard. When I saw ME3′s ending, it was devistating. In ME1, I felt pride for what I’d done. I felt like I really just saved the Galaxy. In ME2 I felt like “COME AT ME BRO!” towards the reapers, it was such an epic ending but left on a really compelling cliff hanger. I expected from ME3′s ending… relief and hope for the future. Instead, I didn’t even feel anything. Not sad. Not Happy. Even anger was kept at bay for a few days. It actually sucked the life out of me. It was that bad.
No matter what BioWare has done in the past with Dragon Age 2 and their new Star Wars MMO (Which I never played but heard was shit), there was no way they could screw up the ending so badly, especially when you didn’t expect it from the rest of the game. I feel that they had a good reason, like EA cracking the whip, or time or money… EA had something to do with it I am sure.
There is now NO GOD DAMN excuse to fail at this ending. NOT. ONE.
They know what is at risk, their fanbase hangs by a thread. They screw this up, THEY LOSE EVERYBODY. Though this doesn’t make me feel better about the Extended Cut, it does make me feel like they know what is at stake, and that they will try their hardest. BioWare, this is your LAST chance… please, if not for us, do it for yourselves… you’ve had a tough time with DA2 and SWToR… you know how to make amazing games… Do it for your own honour.
That’s what Shepard would of wanted.