[General Battuta]

Looks like someone didn't get their happy ending and is now dissapoint.

I dunno, people say this a lot but I've not seen many people asking for a happy ending - just an ending that feels like it responds to the choices we made and shows us the consequences, both on the personal and the galactic level.

[Valathil]

No point?
Looks like someone didn't get their happy ending and is now dissapoint.

THIS!!

[General Battuta]

No point?
Looks like someone didn't get their happy ending and is now dissapoint.

THIS!!

uh, not this?

[achtung]

No point?
Looks like someone didn't get their happy ending and is now dissapoint.

THIS!!

Uh no. The end doesn't make any sense, and doesn't reflect my choices through the game. I'm fine with sad, just not with stupid.

[LordPomposity]

The ending would have been more in line with the rest of the series if the Catalyst's AI had looked like a terminator instead of that kid.

[General Battuta]

The ending would have been more in line with the rest of the series if the Catalyst's AI had looked like a terminator instead of that kid.

Or the person who died on Virmire or Saren or someone players actually gave a **** about.

[achtung]

The ending would have been more in line with the rest of the series if the Catalyst's AI had looked like a terminator instead of that kid.

That was the first warning sign that something was amiss. Should've expected something like 3's end when taking that into consideration.

[Liberator]

The ending would have been more in line with the rest of the series if the Catalyst's AI had looked like a terminator instead of that kid.

That was the first warning sign that something was amiss. Should've expected something like 3's end when taking that into consideration.

I was just thinking that this was quite a bit like GL and the 3 prequels.

[NGTM-1R]

Shep simply acquiesces to a choice between permutations of catastrophe.

Brought to you from an examination of a very bad book, this seems relevant to why we're reacting so badly: Bioware created exactly this situation, where the only options are what color would you like your monstrously evil act.

Such a world does not allow for heroism. When God and the Devil, good and evil, all demand exactly the same actions, then what can a hero do? Show up in the nick of time to help tie the damsel to the railroad tracks?

[TrashMan]

Looks like someone didn't get their happy ending and is now dissapoint.

I dunno, people say this a lot but I've not seen many people asking for a happy ending - just an ending that feels like it responds to the choices we made and shows us the consequences, both on the personal and the galactic level.

Except that didn't seem like what you are asking for. Or at least it didn't to me. Mayhaps you didn't word it clearly enough?

Does every choice has to have massive consequnces? Does every choice have to have a massive payoff? Does every choice have to immutable and unchangable by future choices? Does there always have to be another way? (and if so, how many)
the answer to all above is no.

Sometimes, life is a b****. Sometimes things don't work out as you planed. Sometimes there is no perfect solution. Sometimes you make a choice to bake a cake, but then a future choice to use gas results in your kitchen blowing up. And no cake.

People think if the choice didn't pan out as they think it should, it is pointless/worthless. Yeah, I'm sure the krognan think curing the genophage is pointless just because the mass relays are gone.

Trashman why do you always make ****ty posts? 

Because I have to counter-balance the non-*****y ones?
However, if the roles were revered, and I was singing praises to ME3 and you were the one ripping it apart, you'd be still complaining....

[NGTM-1R]

I'm sure the krognan think curing the genophage is pointless just because the mass relays are gone.

Consider, then, where the Krogan were before the mass relays were introduced to them.

They were dying. They had destroyed their own biosphere in nuclear war, and ME3 actually makes it clear that without Salarian assistance the very atmosphere of Tuchanka would have killed them in time.

The vast majority of their population is offworld, fighting the Reapers, when the relays go down. They will never return home; they are dead, gone, lost to the Krogan, as there are few or no females among them.

By separating them from a huge portion of their population, by sending the Krogan and their leadership to the stars and trapping them there, does curing the genophage even matter? It may well not!

Think about this **** before you sperg out a dumb post like this.

[LordPomposity]

Wow, Trashman is defending ME3's writing. We're so far down the rabbit hole that we're climbing up the rabbit's ass.

[Dark RevenantX]

ITT: Trashman does the opposite of everyone else.  What, is he a ****ing hipster now?


Anyway, the ending fails to conclude the series in a meaningful manner.  I don't care what your POV is, you can agree with me on this matter.



Personally, I was hoping for a glorious death scene involving each of the crew members and Shepard doing something heroic in their final moments.  Instead we don't even know who lived or died, and nobody besides Shepard or Anderson did anything interesting before (maybe) kicking the bucket.

[General Battuta]

However, if the roles were revered, and I was singing praises to ME3 and you were the one ripping it apart, you'd be still complaining....

right now you're the one standing up for the quality of mass effect 3 which is kind of odd

[LordPomposity]

Trashman in this thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R72CyfsUSEU

[General Battuta]

[Hades]

that looks absolutely no different from ME3's ending aside from the changing of about two words here and there

[Hades]

Trashman why do you always make ****ty posts? 

Because I have to counter-balance the non-*****y ones?

no, you're not counter-balancing them, you're just covering them up with your ****ty posts (which are fairly ****ty btw)

[Scotty]

Lol, Trash thought it said *****y.

Profanity filter, dude, you can turn it off.

[TrashMan]

I'm sure the krognan think curing the genophage is pointless just because the mass relays are gone.

Consider, then, where the Krogan were before the mass relays were introduced to them.

They were dying. They had destroyed their own biosphere in nuclear war, and ME3 actually makes it clear that without Salarian assistance the very atmosphere of Tuchanka would have killed them in time.

The vast majority of their population is offworld, fighting the Reapers, when the relays go down. They will never return home; they are dead, gone, lost to the Krogan, as there are few or no females among them.

By separating them from a huge portion of their population, by sending the Krogan and their leadership to the stars and trapping them there, does curing the genophage even matter? It may well not!

Think about this **** before you sperg out a dumb post like this.

They are not "traped". The mass relays may be gone, but you still got ships and tehy still have FTL drives. They are slow compared to mass relays and what took minutes/hours now takes months. But still not trapped.

Also, the Krogan seem to survive perfectly fine on Tuchanka. Without the genophage, they can breed rapidly, so re-populating will not be an issue.

People seem so hanged up on the "mass relays blown" bit..because they can't prevent it and they want the ME universe to remain unchanged. The Devs did say ME3 is an end but also a new begining. At least in that they didn't lie. I for one am glad they stirred the pot.
Destroying the mass relays is a small price to pay for survival.