Apocalyptic Soapbox: Analyzing Fan Reaction To The Ending Of Mass Effect 3

From Pixel Apocalypse...

"In my many years as a gamer, and now as someone who writes about games; I’ve never seen a point in time where a fairly significant portion of a games audience was so unhappy with the way a game ended. So much so that it drove them to organize. Not only have Mass Effect 3 fans demanded a new DLC based ending for Mass Effect 3, but now a 20,000 strong petition is circulating around the net as well. It’s crazy to think that we live in a period of time where the way a developer wants to end his story can be completely invalidated. Not only that, but with enough pressure from the audience, that ending can be changed with nothing more than a little DLC..."

[joab777]

I agree. I thought of a particular idea after mass effect 2. I thought, if bioware didn't do it, which i would have been money they wouldnt, i would have created an ending that had many, many, choices, but all roads led to the same ultimate choice. It is brilliant. It allows freedom to experience the long journey however u want, but in the end u realize that it was just that, different paths to the same destination. I liked infamous and the choice, but how do u grasp one ending allowing u to live and the other allowing u to die? I hated it.

Cmon, it's all about the joirney anyway, right? They either had to have all choices leave him alive or dead...not both..Now, i don't actually know all the possible endings, im trying to avoid that, i guess, but i actually like it.

On a side note, i lso like how they were able to skirt the actual fact of impending doom while taking ur time doing quests, though a timed hardcore would have been awesome. As powerful as the reapers are i don't think they swept throigh any cycle in less than a year, unless i am wrong. It takes a while to eradicate trillions of people.

All in all, i think they did a fantastic job. EA may push for a n optional doctor ending, but i hope bioware holds to their guns. If they want to add doctor that fleahes out the characters we love, or what happens post ending, that would be great. I hate doctor that is irrelevant, and doctor that is important after i am done. These could be good possibilities.

[Xof]

Yet another asshole attacking consumers who DARE to criticize a product they paid for.

THIS is why gamers are treated with disdain by the wider world, people. This right ****ing here.

[sllshrm]

You paying them 60$ doesn't give you the right to order them to change stuff which they've decided from the beginning...

What? You thought they decided about the ending 2 months before release? They must've decided it even before ME1 went into production

The ending was good...everything cannot be delivered to you on a silver platter

They went with what they felt right...and did a fucking good job with it.

I understand some criticizing, but asking them to change the whole thing is probably an outright slap on the face to the writers who came up with the whole franchise to begin with..

Personally i'm worried about the whole "hallucination ending" part..

[urwifeminder]

Eat it whingers ha ha dont change a thing bioware when i buy it i want to play it the way it was concieved not with added fanny padding.

[ritsuka666]

This pic is perfect example of critics of ending ME3: 40 years old fat nerds still live in their Mom's basement... -.-

[00]

Yo dog I heard you don't like being killed by synthetics so I created some synthetics to kill you every 50K years so you don't get killed by synthetics.

yes HOW DARE PEOPLE CRITICIZE SOMETHING THEY BOUGHT

people have legitimate problems with the games ending and all these "professional" site go back on STOP NOT LIKING WHAT I LIKE.

[sllshrm]

They did say reapers leave the smaller and weaker species alive

Rogue geth/synthetics wouldn't do that :P

[Noticeably_FAT]

Its Biowares game, they can end it how they wish. I'm not going to complain as I've played games with much worse endings than that one.

They make it out like everyone hated the ending and that just isn't true. Didn't the game sell over 3 million copies? Yet less than 20k were angry enough to petition or something.

Its a game, we've mostly gotten 100's of hours from them and I'm fine with that.

Not sure why so many people are such crybabies about every little thing. I think this current console generation is just spoiled so much.

Back in the day when I was a kid with my original NES, there was no internet and no way to know which games were good, I'd waste two weeks allowance to rent a game like Ghostbusters for my NES and you wanna know what the ending to that was?

"Conglaturation !!!

You have completed a great game.

And Prooved the justice of our culture.

Now go and rest our heroes!"

Now that was a bad ending. I actually applaud Bioware for now making a Hollywood, happily ever after ending.