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The Mass Effect 3 endings still suck (hexbear.net)

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Damn, I need to rant about this with company, so thanks in advance for reading. Spoilers ahead.

I have a (bad) habit of replaying these games on a yearly basis. There's mutiple reasons, the most prominent perhaps is the fact that up until the end of the third game, they are so engaging and fun, the stakes are always incredibly high and ultimately, your decisions really shape the world around you. Curing the genophage, saving the geth, destroying the collectors, defeating Sovereign - it's slop, but it's fun slop.

Then you get to Earth by the end of the games and everything starts falling apart. The "beam" between Citadel and Earth is suddenly called "the conduit" by everyone and there is no explanation for it, and it's not like there wasn't the conduit in the first game. At the very end, once the crucible is activated, nobody apart from Shepard knows what the thing does. Still, the fleets are all fleeing, including the Normandy, but nobody knows what's going on. That probably includes the players by that point.

There is so much more in between these examples, but I don't have the beans to go over all of it. It's just a fucking mess.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

A good friend of mine who finally talked me into playing the trilogy tried to justify the ending. He said they actually do tell you which path leads where. I remember them talking about the options at length, but when you control the character it's just like "okay now pick a path." I had it in mind which one I wanted, but there was no indication which path led where. It really was a bad ending, and I thought they were going to make it better at some point.

Fortunately most of the rest of the trilogy is outstanding. I did love the apartment/imposter DLC for ME3, but it felt dumb to go on a little staycation while Earth is burning. That made no sense and they never tried to justify it. They just kept pushing me to go check out this apartment. And I was like, "no I have this whole galaxy to save." Then I did it just to shut it up and I got roped into this awesome quest, but it really made no sense for it to be there.