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Seriously.
First off, let's let me rant:
The ending was the definition of shitty writing - pulling a Deus ex Machina out of nowhere. The God-Child and his space magic were introduced at the very last few minutes and the ending was tied up poorly and had nothing to do with the rest of the game and, in many cases, directly contradicted many themes set up for what your paths were.
For many other games, I wouldn't complain as much about a Deus ex Machina ending. For some (such as Shadow of the Colossus) it works out pretty well - but in the case of Mass Effect 3, we've basically been humored with the idea that all of our choices and the entire story mattered. The alliances we've built, the forces we've gathered, the actions we've taken, and so on would eventually build up to an ultimate ending. In the last 2 games, Bioware had no problem putting an ending out to appease the masses regarding with choices.
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Secondly:
I was waiting for the Paragon/Renegade option where I could fucking shoot the God-Child in the face.
Why can't we have the option to refuse the choices, anyways?
In every other point in the game, you can decide to directly refuse or go against something. The Shepard I was playing wouldn't have pulled that shit. He would have stood there, spat in the God-Child's face and said:
"Fuck you. I pulled together the entire galaxy - synthetics and organics alike - to come here and stand against you and the Reapers. If you want to destroy us, then we're going out our way: Fighting you."
And then watched off with the God Child as they all pulled together and held a last stand or whatnot. And left it up to all the forces and such we gathered to duke it out in one, final, epic battle of beings vs. the Reapers.
And, Finally:
Why not a happy ending?
Not all of the endings have to be happy - but why doesn't the player deserve a pleasant ending?
If there was even a chance of the player achieving an ending, it should be there in the options - why can't we have Shepard dragging through after the end and see the galaxy rebuilding?
I'm done ranting - does anyone have any thoughts?
First off, let's let me rant:
The ending was the definition of shitty writing - pulling a Deus ex Machina out of nowhere. The God-Child and his space magic were introduced at the very last few minutes and the ending was tied up poorly and had nothing to do with the rest of the game and, in many cases, directly contradicted many themes set up for what your paths were.
For many other games, I wouldn't complain as much about a Deus ex Machina ending. For some (such as Shadow of the Colossus) it works out pretty well - but in the case of Mass Effect 3, we've basically been humored with the idea that all of our choices and the entire story mattered. The alliances we've built, the forces we've gathered, the actions we've taken, and so on would eventually build up to an ultimate ending. In the last 2 games, Bioware had no problem putting an ending out to appease the masses regarding with choices.
Pic related -
Secondly:
I was waiting for the Paragon/Renegade option where I could fucking shoot the God-Child in the face.
Why can't we have the option to refuse the choices, anyways?
In every other point in the game, you can decide to directly refuse or go against something. The Shepard I was playing wouldn't have pulled that shit. He would have stood there, spat in the God-Child's face and said:
"Fuck you. I pulled together the entire galaxy - synthetics and organics alike - to come here and stand against you and the Reapers. If you want to destroy us, then we're going out our way: Fighting you."
And then watched off with the God Child as they all pulled together and held a last stand or whatnot. And left it up to all the forces and such we gathered to duke it out in one, final, epic battle of beings vs. the Reapers.
And, Finally:
Why not a happy ending?
Not all of the endings have to be happy - but why doesn't the player deserve a pleasant ending?
If there was even a chance of the player achieving an ending, it should be there in the options - why can't we have Shepard dragging through after the end and see the galaxy rebuilding?
I'm done ranting - does anyone have any thoughts?