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MoonEcho β A Revised Ending for ME3 - ANIMATED, with SPOILERS
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I made this near-immediately after finishing ME3 the first time, back before Extended Cut existed. It helped a little.Related content
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I would definitely take this ending over what we got, though at the same time I'm okay with what I got. I don't know. It's like I'm agreeing to disagree over the ending half the time. Anyway....^_^'
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Yes. This is awesome. 100% behind you!!
Although I never got that third choice...I only had the two, and the ghost boy was piiiiiised that I was there...hmm.
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This. Garrus at the end there cracked me up
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You know, and please hear me out to to the end, I could live with the choice thing. After all, the game centered around three different viewpoints: Renegade, Paragon, and sometimes a mixture of the two. Hence the development of three choice. And, like the rest of the game, none of the choices were good or bad. Just different path. All three choices do lead to the end of the Repears. And indeed, all three ending were the end to the Reaper. Different paths, same goal.
I could also live with the fact that Shepard probably died. I figured right from the start there was a fifty-percent change that it might happen at the end of the series. After all, Shepard is a Commander in a military. It's the risk. And the ultimate sacrifice of the character, it's part of what makes Shepard...Shepard. And while it might seem odd that only in the destroyer ending Shepard could live, wouldn't it be possible that in the control and synthesis ending Shepard themselves could have become a different type of life form and be able to appear in such a way as an AI or as a Repear is? In the destroyer ending, we can't have that option, so it shows Shepard twitch if you do everything to unite everyone. Just because the Commander's body is destroyed, doesn't mean they were. Energy is never gone, just changed.
I can also accept the armies of the races stuck around earth. Just because synthetic life could be destroyed or the mass relays are gone, doesn't' mean this is the end. FLT technology still exist. Tons of technology is around. Perhaps now begins a new start where the races forgo off of the Repear's technology and start their own path. There might be a lot of struggle. Also, even if you did not save the Quarians, there is probably still supplies for any dextros to survive off of, where on ship or on earth until they can get supplies. And their planets still exist somewhat, and they might be better stock to make deliveries. And the Geth survive, they might be willing to help out as well and could probably travel longer and fast then an organic life form. And true, there might be some deaths in the difficulty, but life always fines a way.
And it's okay if Shepard does not see this. Shepard has past, so we, the player, can't see this as well. Shepard story is over, so we can't experience their point of view no longer. Just hope, probably like Shepard, that the universe can take care of itself.
All of this above is bitter sweet, and perhaps we did not get a nice, happy ending where we see our Shepard rise up gloriously and get cheers from the survivors and wrap their arms around their love interest and put up their mantel as hero. It not happy, but in it's own way, appropriate.
It would have been the icing on the cake to have Shepard live, but we don't need the icing. It makes the cake prettier and taste better, but too much sweetness and something over the top looking messes can just be as unappealing. The cake is the center and no amount of icing-goodness can make it better if it's awful.
I think you can see where I'm going with the cake theme. And the mentioning of awful. Which is why I said keep listening until I get to the end of this.
We didn't get a good cake. We got a god-damn paper-toilet cake with the damn card-bard tube shove right in the in center.
Why was Joker flying the ship into a Mass Relay, and apparently the only ship doing so? Why did your crew, who should be fighting the ground troops in London, on the ship? They explained it and couldn't even give us some dialogue to explain it. Was this an order of some sort? Or did Jeff's mine finally snap before his bones did?
And, which you brought up, with if this planet they get standard on is only levo? So some of our crew mates will die, possibly ones that we have romance, are just going to die? And what if the opposite way? What if the planet is dextro amino and now Joker and everybody body else is going to starve?! True, they can shoot up an emergency beacon to be sent out, but without the Mass Relays to speed it along, it could take a couple months, possible years, for it to get to someone who could help. They probably don't have food supplies to last that long. The universe is going to be in a bit of chaos. They might not have time to find out where one single ship is. This type of chaos takes years to stabilize. And they are on a planet where who knows where they could be.
As I said, even though technology can and will be reinvented, it takes time. Instead of either leaving the Normandy to the fans to speculate or, heaven forbid, just show the Normandy crash on earth and have the crew look up at the retreating or destroying Repears which would be a logical thing and fit with everything else above, they threw...this into it. This giant, gaping, sore plot hole with no purpose.
And they just don't just stop with the confusion that is this scene. They continue off of it. Instead of seeing possible how the universe looks in the next hundreds of years, with maybe a bunch of children of difference races existing and learning about Shepard, they show us a still shot of some grandpa in the middle of some damn field telling the story to his grandchild. And, oh yah, to just rub it in, it's the damn plot-hole planet Joker landed on for some reason we can't figure out. AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THESE CHARACTERS LOOK LIKE. Who are these people? Are there more of them? Are these survivors from the Normandy? Their decedents?
And this is the same no matter what you choose. And unlike with above, with my part about same goals/different path, we did not choose this. This does not show anything concerning our choice, especially it is clearly suppose to be the future. For all this could be is a grandfather who told his story to his grand kid and it could be fiction. Is that what we are suppose to take from it? Not tie in to another.
Even in Mass Effect II, if Shepard died, you got some interesting dialogue between TIM and Joker on Shepard. Depressing, but appropriate. It can be done and Bioware could have done something better and has done better things in other game.
Because of this giant plot hole the size of the Repear shoved in with no LOGICAL reason for it to happen in the first place with the only indications of a future some old guy and his grand kid in the middle of no ware having the same dialogue no matter what you choose...empty.
What could have been a other depressing but somewhat meaningful ending taste like a pile of shit because of just some shitting two minute cut-scene that was wrong for it to happen. It's just... baffling. It ruined it. Just...it seems so intentional, but why do it that way? I've survive through some bad ending, but I'd rather have a bad ending then a confusion ending, because I've now realize a badly written ending still could have logic to it and can be saved. This is just worst. And it's even worst because the rest of the game is solid, well written, and even if I did not like some parts in it, they were still logical.
That is probably what hurts. A great game ending with a plot hole that should not be there in the first place. That Bioware added in, intentionally added in with no way to stop it. That is the problem with the ending.
And I don't want to hear about it being a metaphor or whatever for the future opening up. It's not a metaphor. It's what happened, and it's retarded. I've above explain why the other parts of the ending can be good or at least acceptable. I defended it. No one has as of yet I've seen explained the flight. And until someone does, preferably Bioware, this is just wrong.
I don't need a happy ending. I just want a damn conclusion to my story.
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You are amazing and I love you. You spelled out everything wrong with this ending.
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Thank you for this. At this point, I'm just considering Mass Effect 3 to be an awful dream in all my headcanon. A ridiculous ending deserves a ridiculous work-around anyway. If Dallas can do it, so can I.
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This. All of this. Even up to the part about food.
Bioware made three nonsensical endings that offer no real explanation beyond some bs pseudo logic.
Thanks for making this!
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This reflects my thougths perfectly. The story is great and the gameplay too (in most cases) but after the point killing TIM all went wrong for me. I hate these ultimate sacrifice endings. Why Bioware havenΒ΄t give us the happy ending most people want. Luke Skywalker gets his happy end, Blade gets an 'happy end', even Harry Potter gets his happy end. After we went several times with he commander trough hell and back, why she/he canΒ΄t get one. I canΒ΄t understand that, it depressed me and give me sleepless nights.
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This is just... horrible... but this is so true...
SABOTAGE!
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I was talking to my husband the other night and we decided that ME3 pulled an original end of Evangelion.
But I think if the entire crew had walked into the room with Shepard and the Stupid Space Boy at the end and started clapping and yelling CONGRATULATIONS! it would still be a better ending than what we got.
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Wait the tv show ending to Evangelion or the movie one?
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The original ending of the TV show, long before Death and Rebirth came along and fixed it.
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Lol Ok then Yes totally agrea with you
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Everything would be better.
I also think it should've ended in a similar manner to the Suicide Mission.
Because that ending just made you feel awesome.
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It DID. Knowing that you did everything RIGHT to save the galaxy (at least for a time) and your crew, who let's face it are Family to Shepard.
In 3, I beat it and then just sat there, trying not to cry and thinking "What did I do wrong? What could I have done differently?" Then I look it up online and find no, I didn't do anything wrong... that's just the way the game ends. Damn right I feel betrayed and let down by Bioware.
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True, the crew is "family". I spent the whole Suicide Mission with the dreadful thought that I might lose someone at any time, even of the nameless guys.
Hell, I even felt awfully bad when I overheard that Kelly Chambers got killed in the Cereberus attack ...and she was an NPC I didn't really like much.
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Yeah I got some shards from a window picked out of my hand after punching a window because of how pissed the ending got me.
I mean, it doesn't just make your endeavours in me3, the ways you solved ancient conflicts, united races, and united a divided galaxy against the reapers, oh no, they had to go all the way, the endings even kill what makes mass effect, well, mass effect, the relays.
It was improbably stupid, and I felt the same way.
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So how about those endings? Yeah? Anyone?
...I'm really starting to lean into the camp that thinks that the ending is just Shepard having an indoctrination hallucination from getting lasered, because no waaay that stands up on its own. Maybe.... maybe it's going to be the case that we'll need extra war readiness points from the DLCs to get an ending that doesn't make me wail with agonized despair until the neighbors call the cops for noise disturbance?
Just in case we weren't ever gonna get a less bleak ending, though, I hastily decided to make my own. Take that, stupid ghost boy.
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I personally found out that I can enjoy/stomach the horrible ending if I go with the mindset that the indoctrination theory is fact. Play the entire game assuming the theory is actually true and that is how it is meant to be. Things actually fit together a lot better if you follow the belief that it's all indoctrination. Its like watching Sixth Sense for the second time, when you finally start noticing that only the kid ever actually interacts or acknowledges Bruce Willis. Though in this case, the kid in ME3 is Bruce. Lol. I know it isn't much, and it doesn't make the ending (or the lack of ending at all since it didn't really happen) any easier to deal with, but it can help ease the blow a little. I tell you though, if the indoctrination thing really is true, and they intended it all along, it could be one of the best ending ever, since a lot of players really were indoctrinated into choosing anything other than the Destroy option.
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