Poll of the Day > 3376 people didn't play the Mass Effect trilogy over a span of five years.

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Albus Dumbledore once said

Don't pity the dead Harry. Pity the people who had five years worth of investment scattered to the wind. Oh, and FUCK Casey Hudson and Mac Walters.
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Okay then
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I played games back when Game Over was what you got as an ending, not even any credits. Not all of us care about a poor story at the end of something.
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Mead posted...

Okay then

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DeltaBladeX posted...

I played games back when Game Over was what you got as an ending, not even any credits. Not all of us care about a poor story at the end of something.

Thank god those days are over. We're living the age of classics like Skyrim, Shadowrrun Returns, and The Witcher series,

And while we may have a lot of crap out there. It's pretty easy to find out what's really THAT BAD thanks to the internet.
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what is this topic

DeltaBladeX posted...

I played games back when Game Over was what you got as an ending, not even any credits. Not all of us care about a poor story at the end of something.

I understand what you're saying, but I think i disagree with the reasoning. The expectations of the ending are proportional to the content of the game.

It is certainly disappointing when you have an unsatisfying ending to something that had a lot of world building or play time as opposed to something with minimal exposition or less intricate story telling receiving a similarly simple ending.

For example, I'd expect a better ending out of say Planescape Torment than I would out of Adventure for the atari. I'd be disappointed if the former had an "ending" at the level of the latter.
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I'm not saying you guys can't care about it, just that not everyone will.
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I don't care what anyone says, Mass Effect 3 was a great game. Yeah, the ending sucked, the dream sequences were annoying and the beginning was kind of boring. But those were such a small part of it. It was a good game, and no one can change my mind.
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That's fair, I'm not egotistical enough to claim others can only look for the same things out of a game that I do.

I'm curious though, is it that you just don't care about bad endings since you have experience with many lackluster ones, or is it that you don't care about endings very much at all?

In other words is it low expectations or apathy?
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ME2 killed most of my enthusiasm for the series, then there was the ending hullabaloo before I got the third one and I never finished the trilogy. Now there's loldromeda and I'm done with series.
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I enjoy the good ones just fine. Played games with a great story that closed with an awesome ending. I've played games with no ending at all. Doesn't bother me.

Possibly the only type of ending I can hate is the "we aren't done milking this" cliffhanger endings from companies that went bankrupt after that game. I've seen a few of those. :P
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DeltaBladeX posted...

I played games back when Game Over was what you got as an ending, not even any credits. Not all of us care about a poor story at the end of something.

the writing was basically the main strength of the Mass Effect series. the graphics are good, and the gameplay is good, but the writing was as good as it gets. well, until the ending of the third game when it completely face-planted.
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I liked the gameplay in the first, replayed it a few times. The gameplay style of the second had me forcing myself to finish it even just once. I got an hour into the third before I quit.

The gameplay killed that game for me well before an ending I've only heard about.
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Seriously, I am so glad that I haven't given EA a single penny in a long long time.
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the ending to mass effect 3 was fine if you fully understood what was going on, which most people didn't seem to get.

you were indoctrinated.

Bear posted...

the ending to mass effect 3 was fine if you fully understood what was going on, which most people didn't seem to get.

you were indoctrinated.

that interpretation is an improvement, and even almost makes it a *good* ending, but there's no way that was the intent.

also, one reason it works is because it basically lets you write off everything that sucked about it as a lie
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

I don't care what anyone says, Mass Effect 3 was a great game.

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I actually think that all three are great games, but that together they make a terrible trilogy.

They all feel completely separate from one another as far as the story goes and have radically different gameplay elements from each other
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Sahuagin posted...

but there's no way that was the intent.

when you look at what the choices were, it does imply that it was the intent though, that's the thing.

it was the "good" choice to side with the reapers? the only way that makes any sense is if you were indoctrinated.

Bear posted...

Sahuagin posted...

but there's no way that was the intent.

when you look at what the choices were, it does imply that it was the intent though, that's the thing.

it was the "good" choice to side with the reapers? the only way that makes any sense is if you were indoctrinated.

that's what I mean though. that's how bad the ending is: the one way to make it make sense is if everything you were told in that last part is a lie. I agree it's probably the best interpretation, but it can't have been the intent of the writers.

(another reason I don't think that was the intent is that just before that, when you "fought" the illusive man, *that* scene showed indoctrination since he had learned how to use it and was mind controlling you with it. it had its own visual effect and everything.)
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it's entirely possible his version is different than the reapers.

keep in mind, that indoctrination is due to being around reapers all the time

and what are we around all the time?

reapers

I know it makes sense. It's what the writers *should* have done.
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