is mass effect 3 ending that bad?

[tornreaper]

Originally Posted by Jibberish

Why have the ending at all then, since you should be able to know what happens for yourself? I say we just cut out the game after the Cerberus base and let people use their imagination

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the ending. It should have shown us the outcome of our choices. However I think it's a little extreme to say our choices don't matter. They do have an impact of the universe. We just don't see the result of it. It's sort of like when you unplug your computer/console from your monitor/TV. The game is still there. Just not being displayed.

[Tanukisan]

After so many years of gameplay with ME1 and ME2, the final ending of ME3 was a bitter disappointment. I have no one to blame but myself for being so involved with the characters, etc., but I also feel that the people who played the game were very shortchanged by the company that made it because they promised certain story items/resolutions and failed to deliver those. This is the first time I uninstalled a game series as a direct result of the final ending of a game series. I did enjoy all the gameplay of ME1, ME2, and the first 95% of ME3. But the final resolution was more than slightly disappointing -- for me, at least.

[SugarNRainbows]

I didn't like the original endings, but I absolutely love the extended versions and the additional ending.

[Fearless Fox]

Originally Posted by Kailieann

However bad the ending may be, the rest of the game is phenomenal.

DIsagree. The rest of the game is very good in places, but overall lacks the depth of the first two.

Part 1's exploration and items.
Part 2's conversation and relationship building.

ME3 tries to up the scale to give this impression of a huge, looming, inevitable doom, but it comes across as quite hollow. The main problem is the almost automated dialogue with hardly any choice, and the way your choices from previous games have very little impact on your progression.

Being limited to a SINGLE hub world is also very limiting.

There ar some excellent sequences, and the combat is nearly perfect, but the game itself is a far stretch from perfection.

The end is a shambles, imo, and all the extended cut does is clear up a glaring plot hole in the original ending and add a slide-show/voice over to each A, B, C ending.

Bioware promised no ABC ending, and the extended cut still gives us that.

Oh well.

Decent game, but not amazing.

7.5/10

[mossi123uk]

i bought mass effect 1 and 2 because i saw tv add about mass effect 3 and i enjoyed them alot.
now I've got mass effect 3 since its 50% off at the moment and im loveing it so far especially when i got all my fish back and found my hamster!!!

[TzimisceTepes]

The Mass Effect universe becomes internally inconsistent with the Mass Effect 3 ending.

(Internal inconsistency is the one unforgivable error in Science Fiction, or Space Operas for that matter, since those genres allow you to play fast and loose with what is otherwise recognized as basic rules for your world/fiction)

It does so for the following reasons:

Spoiler:

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A Machine Intelligence (A Deus Ex Machina no less, one of the signs of poor narrative) has decided that in order to save sentients from machine intelligences, any and all races capable of building a machine intelligence must be wiped out completely by his Reaper minions every time they activate. (When is it going to save sentients from itself?)

The logic is thus equivalent to:

"It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."

So... this machine intelligence is incapable of basic logic?
It also ignores the fact that you can make the Geth and Quarians work together peacefully.

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I think that's pretty bad, for me such glaring inconsistencies are just maddening, especially since the community had come up with an altered ending that was significantly better.

Spoiler:

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It was basically that the whole Deus Ex Machina episode was an elaborate mind ♥♥♥♥. after which you went to the real ending, or not. You can find it in several places if you google for "mass effect 3" indoctrination theory.

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It should be noted that when Bioware calls on Artistic License in this case, it is in fact the "Artistic License" to Commit Bad Literature.

Even so, Mass Effect 1 and 2 are immensely enjoyable, and so is 3 ... right up untill the ending.

Of course, there could be another reason for the ending, as indicated on this web site (One of the web sites detailing the Indoctrination Theory):♥[/color]♥♥♥"]http://uninhibitedandunrepentant.tumblr.com/post/19344938387/mind-holy-♥♥♥♥

Unfortunately Bioware has denied the IT theory.

[Cambyse]

In my opinion there are three groups of people who are irritated at the ending:

1. The people who believe that the ending is incongruous with the Mass Effect lore, or simply doesn't make sense.

2. The people who didn't mind the ending, but were bothered by how little was revealed of their companions and the galaxy once the game was done.

3. The people who flat-out hated the ending because they didn't realise, or couldn't fathom the idea, that part of the ending was an experience left to the imagination of the player, where they make sense of the literary, brooding and completely open nature of it.

It's as though BioWare had to spoon-feed the ending to discontented players who wanted a definitive, as opposed to a speculated, ending. Personally I loved the ending, it was justified in its ambiguity because through leaving it to the imagination every player could be satisfied, and I was. But obviously some people lack the ability to comprehend that they need to draw their own conclusion...