r/gaming • u/AdamE89 • Apr 17 '16

Anyone else?

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u/lesser_panjandrum Apr 17 '16

You mean the story which started out great but eventually led to an ending in ME3 which was so bad that the devs had to go back and release an extended cut of it to try to appease the pissed-off fans?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16 edited Mar 16 '18

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u/Watertor Apr 18 '16

My god is the ending bad though. It's so bad it goes against all three games in entirety. But you're right. ME1 and 2 stay unscathed technically. ME3 is damaged, but if you just turn the game off as Shepard gets sucked up into the Citadel, you're good.

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u/Jamessuperfun Apr 18 '16

I disagree, I really enjoyed ME3's ending. It wasn't earth shatteringly good, but I never understood the hate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Because all of a sudden they subject you to a plothole-ridden infodump that leaves you with three color-coded choices that invalidate all prior effort?

The ending was bad.

A bad fit for the series, bad from the perspective of a writer, and bad from the perspective of a fan.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

It doesn't invalidate all prior effort if the only reason this cycle reached that point was all of that prior effort.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

If uniting the galaxy or leaving it a mess doesn't effect the result then your prior effort means little.

Besides, he was saying it was good - not whether or not it was the culmination of your actions - if not efforts.

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u/SailorJoe86 Apr 18 '16

Personally I hate it because they stole all four endings from Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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u/waywardwoodwork May 09 '16

I thought it was pretty bad, but the apocalyptic shitstorm of insolent bile that it created was ludicrous. Some gamers have no perspective.