I think the ending has a lot of problems, like, I don't think that there is an element of it that isn't somehow problematic. But I think you hit on what the main problem is.
also, i didn't get any of those options, just the red one.
i went in with Poor galactic readiness, because i'd done most of the things and didn't have a good enough connection for multiplayer.
they really should include a menu of flags set for all the games on new game plus, just so i don't have to sacrifice three months to properly reading mass effect the trilogy. heavy rain was bad enough, shit
Okay that's the one part of that whole write up I still can't fathom
Who the fuck buys Mass Effect 3 and it's the first Mass Effect game they've played
Who is that person
Because as much as BioWare was trying to accommodate that person, I don't think they actually exist
I especially don't think that if they do exist, they are the "average" player of Mass Effect 3
also, i didn't get any of those options, just the red one.
i went in with Poor galactic readiness, because i'd done most of the things and didn't have a good enough connection for multiplayer.
they really should include a menu of flags set for all the games on new game plus, just so i don't have to sacrifice three months to properly reading mass effect the trilogy. heavy rain was bad enough, shit
Okay that's the one part of that whole write up I still can't fathom
Who the fuck buys Mass Effect 3 and it's the first Mass Effect game they've played
Who is that person
Because as much as BioWare was trying to accommodate that person, I don't think they actually exist
I especially don't think that if they do exist, they are the "average" player of Mass Effect 3
well, i've played it all a shitload, just on different platforms
probably aren't that many 'new players' but there are probably a lot whose 'xboxes exploded' or 'torrential rain flooded their house and lightning set fire to their game shelf, necessitating a replacement and somewhere in there they lost the save file from ten years ago'
I have to fight two banshees while a reaper targets an instant kill laser at me?
fuck this
i honestly don't know how i could get through that part with a class that wasn't vanguard
Yeah that was a tough fight, I ended up just charging around until the game took pity on me and let me trigger the next part
I stayed in the empty shop on the left side of the area
Sure, the Banshees got in
But there's a hydra hidden behind the counter
I made the mistake of using that on the Harvester
then it wasn't the last enemy like I thought it was
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Tali/Rannoch missions spoilers:
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
Legion asks how many suitless quarians you've seen
Shepard says "Well... one."
And Legion says that that's not sufficient enough data for Shepard to have a mental concept of a suitless quarians or something
I posted it in G+T, but my thoughts on the ending are:
[...] Control the Reapers! You can sacrifice just one person and solve the entire issue, no downsides! The option is even in blue, so you know it's the awesome option. You get to do your Space Jesus thing for the greater good and everyone lives happily ever after. You just have to ignore that you've spend literally the entire game telling someone working for the Reapers it was a fool's errand and is in no way an option. Just forget that you did that. [...]
Yeah this is why I went with the red ending, even though it was nearly physically painful to do that to the geth and EDI. I just couldn't bring myself to do something as stupid as the Illusive Man. I then went back and did the blue ending after that because it seems like the "right" one (blue paragon etc) but seriously, the Illusive Man has nothing but bad ideas.
I guess I was okay with my ending (synthesis) for a couple of reasons. The first being that I expected Shepard to die. I expected that is what it would take. The second is that by merging synthetic and organic life I believe that the galaxy has the best chance for survival. I think that even with the relays destroyed, this new form of life will be able to discover new ways of travel and communication. It's just a shame that you're left to assume that. As for the fact that your choices up to that point "don't matter" I disagree with that. Regardless of what came after, you got closure to everyone's story. Those things still affected me on a personal level. You can say "yeah but everyone's dead or stranded etc" and it doesn't make thane's death any less heartbreaking, or the krogans' freedom from the genophage any less triumphant. Those stories still matter to me, and they were fully told. And so I'm okay with something a little abrupt at the end. And more importantly, I want to see what they do with it. If every Mass Effect game after this takes place in the "Before Times" then it will have been a waste. But if they can turn this into something more, it may have been worth the awkwardness of this ending.
Ending post-credits
I would be more optimistic about the ending if there hadn't been that bit after the credits; it takes place long enough after the games for Shepard to have passed into legend, and space travel is still considered a far-off dream for the future at that time.
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
shepard asks why the quarians are wearing suits
legion asks how many quarians shepard has seen unmasked
shepard says "well, one"
legion says "well then obviously their impression is drowned out by that of the rest of their species"
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
Legion asks how many suitless quarians you've seen
Shepard says "Well... one."
And Legion says that that's not sufficient enough data for Shepard to have a mental concept of a suitless quarians or something
Fucking hell. I only grew more annoyed with every excuse.
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So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
shepard asks why the quarians are wearing suits
legion asks how many quarians shepard has seen unmasked
shepard says "well, one"
legion says "well then obviously their impression is drowned out by that of the rest of their species"
it makes sense
you see so many quarians in those suits you start to assume they just look like that
the only other thing to do would be to make them all look like tali
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I'm still a little disappointed quarians aren't bird people under there
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
shepard asks why the quarians are wearing suits
legion asks how many quarians shepard has seen unmasked
shepard says "well, one"
legion says "well then obviously their impression is drowned out by that of the rest of their species"
Apparently Shepard needs to sleep with more quarians.
Or at least look at a bunch more photoshopped stock photos.
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ending
man
this was hitting all the right notes
shepard's "what do you need me to do?" was perfect
and now I'm talking to the kid who is the catalyst who is...
So you know when you go into the geth consensus and see quarians, Shepard asks why s/he's seeing these ancient quarians wearing suits and Legion pulls out some bull about Shepard interpreting the memory cluster through her/his perspective, asking when Shepard has ever seen a suit less quarian, and Shepard's all like "point taken?"
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
Legion asks how many suitless quarians you've seen
Shepard says "Well... one."
And Legion says that that's not sufficient enough data for Shepard to have a mental concept of a suitless quarians or something
Fucking hell. I only grew more annoyed with every excuse.
honestly it is completely bizarre to me that they chose to not to show Tali's face at the end of Rannoch
shepard's "what do you need me to do?" was perfect
and now I'm talking to the kid who is the catalyst who is...
I'm not sure what
I didn't know why the kid was there
but I think I justified it while playing as a hallucination I guess, like some AI thing is talking to Shepard but he's wounded and losing it so sees it as the kid he couldn't save
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I think the ending has a lot of problems, like, I don't think that there is an element of it that isn't somehow problematic. But I think you hit on what the main problem is.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Okay that's the one part of that whole write up I still can't fathom
Who is that person
Because as much as BioWare was trying to accommodate that person, I don't think they actually exist
I especially don't think that if they do exist, they are the "average" player of Mass Effect 3
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Sure, the Banshees got in
But there's a hydra hidden behind the counter
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The bits talking about Deus Ex mostly, and the very first paragraph
And then the bit where you just talk about Stalin for three paragraphs, it was insightful but where did that come from
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probably aren't that many 'new players' but there are probably a lot whose 'xboxes exploded' or 'torrential rain flooded their house and lightning set fire to their game shelf, necessitating a replacement and somewhere in there they lost the save file from ten years ago'
then it wasn't the last enemy like I thought it was
What's the excuse when Shepard has romanced Tali?
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http://www.audioentropy.com/
probably that tali wasn't alive back then?
Shepard says "Well... one."
And Legion says that that's not sufficient enough data for Shepard to have a mental concept of a suitless quarians or something
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Ending post-credits
legion asks how many quarians shepard has seen unmasked
shepard says "well, one"
legion says "well then obviously their impression is drowned out by that of the rest of their species"
Fucking hell. I only grew more annoyed with every excuse.
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you see so many quarians in those suits you start to assume they just look like that
the only other thing to do would be to make them all look like tali
There's something very avian about those guys
Maybe it's the helmets and the feet
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Or at least look at a bunch more photoshopped stock photos.
this was hitting all the right notes
shepard's "what do you need me to do?" was perfect
and now I'm talking to the kid who is the catalyst who is...
I'm not sure what
You're thinking of Turians as the ones with the avian features
This is the ending
Welcome to it
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once you update them they should revert to their original functions of telegram delivery and notary publics
more ending
and my choices are kill all synthetics, control all synthetics, fuse organics and synthetics
well
hm
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Let's make this happen
that's too much text this late at night
Better find those instructions.
I am having trouble understanding that decision
it's just a head-scratcher
but I think I justified it while playing as a hallucination I guess, like some AI thing is talking to Shepard but he's wounded and losing it so sees it as the kid he couldn't save
but yeah that was a pretty disappointing thing
Maybe I'm just a mask-o-phile./spoiler]
and
chose to synthesize everything
I'm prepared for y'all to tell me why I am wrong forever
I was wondering that too