Mass Effect 3 fan files complaint over the game's ending

[rmoxon]

So if who lives and who dies is completely different for everybody, then how can Bioware tell us what the ending means and what it means for the ME universe???

Becuase who lives and who dies actually has no effect on the whole reavers storyline. The ending means the same thing for everyone (even if they don't get it).

Im finding it hard to believe that people aren't understanding how it's two separate things. This has always been the same in the mass effect games, your actions only really contributed to who was alive at the end of the story, the actual outcome of the story has always been the same for everyone. For instance Shepard could die at the end of ME2 but the outcome of the story was still the same. He still defeated the collectors

At the end of the day, if you remove the deaths of characters from these games all you have left is a story where Shepard runs around kicking bad guys asses and saving planets, that's it. It's the characters and their deaths that contribute to each players own personal story.

[MartyG]

But that is the very thing that is at odds with what BioWare have been promising - and as suggested the reason people are unhappy.

[rmoxon]

But that is the very thing that is at odds with what BioWare have been promising - and as suggested the reason people are unhappy.

No it's not at odds with what they promised, all they said is that your decsisions would effect the way the world is at the end of the game, and they do.

Anyone who has played a Mass Effect game before should have expected what they got from ME3, it works just like the other two games. Your decisions only effect your personal story and the characters you interact with, never the ultimate outcome of the plot (ie if Shepard kills the bad guys or not).

[MisterBubbles]

I agree with MartyG, Bioware where touting that there would be multiple endings and your actions affected everything, if not then everything you've done and saved has been for nout, as indicated by the Angry Joe video, bloody cope out if you ask me, dont promise stuff, Bioware must be taking over peter molyneux's smoke and mirrors gig at M$ and everywhere else.

[rmoxon]

Well all I can say is that I got exactly what I thought they had promised.

I was satisfied with the ending, it was perfectly in tune with the series. As a fan I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. The ending that it seems some people wanted would not have felt like Mass Effect to me.

[Uli]

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damned, i am really tempted to buy and play the game just to have word with all of you about the ending

[Neon Ignition]

To get the true ending in ME3 you have to take the disc out after the credits and put the disc for FFXIII-2 in

[Uli]

it's ridiculous and just another proof of how desperate and clueless developers or publishers can get in respect to understanding gamer needs....

[Daragon]

"And it was all a dream....."

That's what they should change the ending to!

Followed quickly by the Bioware offices being marched on and burnt to the ground by a lynch mob

[MisterBubbles]

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[MisterBubbles]

"And it was all a dream....."

That's what they should change the ending to!

Followed quickly by the Bioware offices being marched on and burnt to the ground by a lynch mob

Yes that sounds cool, all we need is for Shepard to take a shower, if Bobby can do it , then so can Shepard.

[rmoxon]

Wether it is a film, tv show, book or video game, no matter the ending, there is always someone who will post a theory on the internet saying how the ending proves it was all a dream.

Its funny that Final Fantasy XIII-2 was mentioned here, i remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out and all the speculation about the ending, there are actualy people who to this day still belive that Squall was dead the whole time. Its a case of thinking about things too hard really.

[Charlie]

Wether it is a film, tv show, book or video game, no matter the ending, there is always someone who will post a theory on the internet saying how the ending proves it was all a dream.

It ain't just books, films and games either, there's a branch of Hindu philosophy that claims life is but a dream and death is the great awakening. An interesting idea... but anyway, I find it queer so many people care so deeply about ME3's ending. I understand they invested considerable time and maybe ?120 (if they played all 3 games) into the series, but really, if you enjoyed playing the games then why care what happens at the end when you lay the controller down? Yet it seems a lot of people do care. And care quite a bit. I don't get it.

[MartyG]

It's because the story isn't canon; it's one of the few games where you really feel like you have ownership of the lead character in the narrative, like you are driving the story.

[rmoxon]

It's because the story isn't canon; it's one of the few games where you really feel like you have ownership of the lead character in the narrative, like you are driving the story.

But its not though. Ultimatley your choices in Mass Effect games boil down to wether you kill someone or not. Shepard really has no control over the story other than whos face hes going to shoot off next. He/she is not god, they are just in the middle of it all and good at killing things (and chatting up the opposite/same sex).