| yo_john117 said: So can someone explain to me why the ending is so horribly bad? It wasn't the most optimal of endings and I think they did it that way just so they could have a big twist at the end but really I thought the ending was just fine. I actually liked it. I think this mostly boils down to a few key things. 1. People's expectations were so unrealistically high that they had to nitpick everything in the game. 2. The game was made by Bioware so haters gonna hate. 3. People were so mad about the day one DLC, online pass and how the MP/SP cross over with each other in a kind of lame way that they made a way bigger deal about every little thing. 4. People in general are petrified of change and surprises and that ending was quite unexpected. Honestly this ending thing about ME3 reminds me of the Skyrim issues and how they were blown into ridiculous proportions. Even if you don't like the ending in ME3, most videogames don't even come close to having as good of an ending as this game does (videogame endings in general are mostly not all that great). |
1. I disagree. The games ending didn't measure up to what Bioware promised. Casey Hudson said the game wouldn't have an A, B, or C ending. That's exactly what it had. He also said that since this is the last game in the trilogy they had the freedom to make divergent multiple endings. His reason being that they wouldn't be limited by having to account for player decisionsin ME3. None of that came to fruition in the ME3 ending. It's essentially one ending with minor differences.
2. I disagree with this as well. Bioware's biggest fanboys are at the BSN forums. The forum topic about the ending their has a poll and 89% of the respondents were disliked the ending.
3. Again I disagree. People were so pissed off by the ending that the Day One DLC/Online pass issue has been swept by the way side. You have CNN and Fox covering the story now. Over $50,000 has been donated to charity in "Retake Mass Effect" campaign. Bioware had locked down a section of their official forum because of the outrage. Then they reopened it with an official thread asking what players didn't like about the ending.
4. People were pissed off at the plot holes. ME2's Arrival DLC established that an exploding Mass Relay has the force of Super Nova. No matter what ending you choose all the relays are destroyed. Which means nearly all life in the ME Galaxy should have been wiped out. The Normandy was with the combined Galactic Fleet above Earth and suddenly it's at FTL out running some explosion. One of, or in some cases both, squadmates you take into the final battle on Earth exit the Normandy's hatch after it crashes. That's not even possible. The Illusive Man controlling Shepard and Anderson was plot hole. Indoctrination has never worked that way throughout the entire series. The reason the Catalyst gave for creating the Reapers made no sense. To stop synthetics from wiping out organics, the Catalyst creates a fleet of synthetics that wipe out organics. The ending literally made no sense. It reminds me of the Mass Effect Deception debacle.
Not sure if we're still doing spoiler tags so I covered part of my post.
