The "Take Back Mass Effect" nonsense was embarrassing and one of the first instances I realized the larger video game community were full of whiny man-children. The Witcher 3 doesn't do it, Dragon Age Inquisition doesn't do it, etc. No other choice-based game or series does this and people don't give it shit. If you want to try and make a trilogy of games that keep in mind every single choice and have 10,000 variations of the ending, please give it a shot. If they had just cut those three or four lines out of the final confrontation and made it just some "all species eventually die, we preserve them forever" shtick, the entire thing would have been FINE.Īll of the complaints people had about "all of my choices weren't represented, it's just colors" is ridiculous. The only real issue with it was the Organics vs Synthetics angle because it doesn't match up with what the rest of the trilogy was showing us. Just do the Suicide Mission from 2 on a grander scale to test all your preparations and be detail heavy on the outcome. I would genuinely have preferred if the only endings were either a bad end where you fail and Liara's message is found in the next cycle or Destroy (minus the tacked on Geth genocide to try make it out to be morally grey) with no Starkid involved and a lot more cutscenes or codex entries going over what happens to your crew and the galaxy afterwards depending on the choices you'd made. Like to me its just bad in both concept and execution. The actual payoff for most of your choices ends up being the war assets and how your readiness factors into a few things, which doesn't actually give you any info on what came next.It also tries to make the Synth vs Organic conflict take center stage again after it was resolved already like you said, which is just an uneeded retread. The actual reveal of what the Catalyst is makes very little sense and comes across as a blatant asspull to setup the Synthesis/Control options being possible the way they are.Everything about the Cerberus plotline in the game is poorly justified and written worse and the way TIM sets Priority: Earth in motion is no different.If they announced a TV show or movie I'd be all in.Ĭlick to shrink.My biggest issues with the ending, after replaying 3 for the first time with the LE this year, are still broadly the same: Just so strange to have 2 wildly different reactions, not even sure if I want to watch this video since I feel pretty good about the Mass Effect franchise at this point. I didn't mind the ending at all this time, I know it changed a bit and I never got to experience the extra DLC in ME3 before (which was AMAZING!!! The citadel stuff anyways) so maybe it all improved my experience. Even double dipped and bought on xbox so I could play a different way next year. This year I played the Legendary edition remaster from beginning to end, platinum'd all 3 games on PS5 over the span of 1-2 months, and absolutely loved it. Played a bit of Andromeda when it came to game pass but bounced right off. Finished the game over however long it took, hated the ending, and never touched the 3 games ever again. I played ME3 at release day, up at midnight and I think I played on my PC/Origin, super excited to finish the trilogy. Its been an interesting experience for me.
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