| kain_kusanagi said: I didn't hate the ending. In fact I liked it. I didn't love it, I liked it and I'm still thinking about therepercussions it will have on the future of the series. What's wrong with an ending that throws out what you think should happen for the unexpected? Would you rather have Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith deliver a computer virus and then nuke their asses? Well I've seen that movie and 100s of others like it with the same happy ending. You know what sci-fi movie has an unforgettable ending? The 1978 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Spoiler Warning! We lose and the aliens take over all of the earth and the only human left is about to be assimilated right before the credits role. I wasn't expecting that when I first saw the movie. The 90's remake ruined it so it could have a happy ending. Almost all movies find a way to save the world and the people can go on like nothing happened. Luckily games don't have to follow that formula and I'm glad ass Effect 3 gave us something worth talking about rather than something to forget. That's why I liked the Mass Effect 3 ending. The whole game you're thinking the Crucible is some big gun you're going to point at the Reapers and BANG they'll be dead and the galaxy can go on like nothing happened. That's the kind of thing you'd expect from a typical blockbuster movie too afraid to do anything different to make any kind of real impression. I doubt I'll ever forget the Mass Effect 3 ending because I didn't see it coming. I picked option 3 and what I got was a brave new frontier. Who knows what it will all mean for the future of the galaxy and the meaning of the word "life". Who cares if there were some plot holes? I don't nitpick books, movies, TV shows, and games. Life is too short to over think everything so you can complain. The small details don't matter to me. I like the big picture and the ending of Mass Effect 3 was big. Even if you hated it you have to admit it was fearless and went where nobody expected. I can understand if you'd like to see more of what happened to your favorite characters. But that's not enough to hate the whole ending or game, for that matter. I'm going to bring up another sci-fi movie with a forgettable ending. "I Am Legend", with Will Smith. It's based on a short book that was made into two other movies previously. The original movie had a great ending because the "hero" realized that he is the real monster to those he considered monsters and killed with contempt. Will Smith's version was supposed to have the same ending, but test audiences hated it so they changed it so he just blows himself and the "monsters" up. If the Mass Effect 3 ending had been tested and audiences hated as much as the internet has been complaining we would have ended up with a big gun that shoots the Reapers in the face. Sure most people wouldn't have complained but most people wouldn't have remembered it by next year either. The ending was big and unforgettable. Stop other thinking it, don't focus on the little things, and let go of what you think should have happened so you can deal with what did happen. |
I agree that the ending being unexpected is a good thing, I was quite happy with Shepard being dead (and the ending that keeps him alive is stupid in my opinion). An 'everyone lives happily ever after' ending would have seemed pretty damned weak to me.
I don't have a problem with two of the actual endings (the destroy and merge endings), conceptually they're fine, but the actual writing of the scene was poor compared to the rest of the series and big ideas don't excuse poor writing. The ending I do have a problem with (synthesis of man and machine) just took away my suspension of disbelief. The idea that some green beam of light can turn all organics half synthetic and all synthetics half organic seems absurd to me even in a science fiction universe.
Also did anybody else kind of get the feeling they were playing Deus Ex again? The three options to destroy, control or merge...
