Mass Effect 3 $$(ENDINGS SPOILERS)$$

[Hartzilla2007]

And I think your looking for any nitpicking reason to hate on Joker for some reason, has Seth Green wronged you in real life

No. I just don't like the character. He's selfish, arrogant and doesn't quite get the big picture.

Joker: Hell yeah, I joined Cerberus.

You mean the same organization that lured alliance soldiers into a trap which left no survivors (unless you were a sole survivor), and murdered a high ranking alliance officer when he discovered their vile experiments? I'm surprised he didn't make a joke about missing them in ME3.

I'm not surprised he joined Cerberus, considering that he stated that the Alliance grounded him, depriving him of his livelihood, while Cerberus gave him an opportunity to fly and help stop the Collectors.

Plus
- showed him the same sypathetic faces they used to keep Shepard around.

- Resurrected Shepard

and

- Rebuilt the Normandy

 

[Jeyl]

Well, I guess if he had this scene in the end of ME3, I would have liked him a whole lot more.

 

[Skywalker]

I just realized I haven't even turned my Xbox on at all in, like, a month. I think ME3 broke me.

 

[Darth_Daver]

I just realized I haven't even turned my Xbox on at all in, like, a month. I think ME3 broke me.

Same here

 

[Mr Light]

I haven't played a game since I finished ME3, either. I still have tons of side missions I could do in Skyrim but that just sounds totally uninteresting now

 

[PsychoPere]

My Xbox sees regular use for Netflix, HBO Go, and Hulu Plus, but it often forgets what a game is. I finally decided to give the multiplayer a try last week and have been enjoying it pretty regularly since then. As soon as this semester has ended, I'll be spending quite a bit of my gaming time on The Witcher 2.

 

[LeadHead]

My Xbox has been getting regular use. I created a new character in ME1 and have been playing through 1 & 2, almost ready to import to Mass Effect 3. But Star Trek Online has at times reduced my xbox to Netflix and Hulu use.

 

[TheGodBen]

I just completed Saints Row The Third for the first time, and even though that game was just GTA on cocaine, it still managed to have divergent endings based on player choice. Also, it has hover-bikes, so that's two strikes against ME3.

 

[-Brett-]

I know I'm a bit late to that party, but I only recently picked up Skyrim. It's been doing a pretty good job of chasing away ME3's bitter aftertaste.

 

[Thestral]

I've been finding the ME3 multiplayer surprisingly fun. I'm pretty terrible at it, but am having a lot of fun with it.

 

[PsychoPere]

I'm not very good either, but I do have a human male Soldier that is one level away from being able to be promoted to a War Asset. I think I'm enjoying my Geth Engineer more than the Soldier - Hunter Mode is pretty cool, the Geth Turret is damn useful, and Overload is nice to have.

 

[Camren]

I've been finding the ME3 multiplayer surprisingly fun. I'm pretty terrible at it, but am having a lot of fun with it.

Me too. I'm rubbish as well but having a lot of fun with a Salarian Engineer character. So much so that it's putting me off my second single-player play through...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I do have a human male Soldier that is one level away from being able to be promoted to a War Asset.

Wait, you can do that

 

[PsychoPere]

Yep.

After obtaining level 20 with a class in multiplayer, you can promote them to the single player galaxy at war. Doing this will reset the promoted class characters to level 1. It will however increase war assets in single player by 75 and add 10 levels to your N7 ranking for multiplayer. Used character slots for that class will be reset to default and have to be remade, but any unlocked characters and any additional appearance customization options for the characters are kept.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Multiplayer#Promote

 

[Jeyl]

Too bad we can't see our multiplayer characters in-game.

 

[Thestral]

So far I've promoted a Human Male Infiltrator, a Drell Vanguard, a Krogan Soldier, and a Salarian Infiltrator. Started an Asari Justicar then unlocked the Batarian Solider so I've been working on him instead. I might have been playing a lot of multiplayer in the last couple weeks.

 

[LeadHead]

Too bad we can't see our multiplayer characters in-game.

Agreed, wish there was some staging area on the citadel or an alliance space station where you could see them walking around.

 

[Skywalker]

 

[LeadHead]

^ Soooooo True. It still boggles the mind as to why they came up with those awful endings and why they're so defensive about them.

 

[Sheep]

I had religiously stayed away from spoilers, but couldn't help be aware of the massive outcry among the fanboys, the complaints to the FCC, the threats of lawsuits, etc. Given that I was expecting something really, really bad.

And frankly I thought the ending was fine. Probably not how I would have ended it if I was the developer, but hey, I'm not the developer - they're the ones who are telling the story and they have a right to end it how they want.

You and I are in a rare minority, friend. I finished the game last week and had no problems at all with the ending Bioware gave us. Hell, I was more pissed that Mordin inexplicably died in my ME2 playthrough leading up to my run through ME3. I have no problems calling ME3 the best SP experience I've played this generation even with the ending as it is.

Yeah, Star Child came out of left field but I went in expecting the absolute worst given the ridiculous internet backlash. EA voted worst company in America over ME3's ending? Really!?! It's no fucking wonder I think the internet consists of a bunch of whiny, self-entitled bitches. With all the hyperbole about the ending, I was expecting Bioware to whip out the "it was all a dream" trope or have the game end part-way into the final battle and go into a voiceover with Joker's descendant (or some other future figure) describing how events unfolded. The actual ending was nowhere near that bad, thankfully. First world problems, indeed.

As a sci-fi movie/TV fan, I'm used to poor endings. Most movie/TV writers can create awesome concepts and scenarios but they very rarely create good endings--Bioware's included in this group. If you've seen any amount of sci-fi movies or TV, you should also be completely desensitized to bad endings. Comparing ME3 to other recent SFF efforts, ME3's ending doesn't even approach the horrifically bad endings of shows like Buffy, Lost or BSG. I realize that is damning with faint praise but the internet's "worst ending ever" hyperbole machine made me expect a lot worse than what we actually got.