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@Rappeldrache wrote:There is "no ending" in Mass Effect 3. Till the Extendet Cut there are a few possible endings. And till they put in this "breathing chest" of Shepard at one of the endings, it could be everything. They can pick whatever ending they want: Destroying the MilkyWay, make a Human-Mechanic MilkyWay. Or:
Shepard saved the MilkyWay, was rescued, EVI was somehow redone (by a backup), the Portals are fixed. Everywhere is peace and Happiness. You see a shower, somebody is under the shower (remember Dallas 😃 ), than you see XXX [love-interest] enter the bathroom: "Sweetheart, you have an important call. It's Admiral Hackett .... the Galaxy is in trouble again. Hurry up!"
And your Shepard leaving the shower. Sighting. :-)
Whilst I do think your version is better and given a choice I would buy a game with this ending, the actual fact is that yours is one of 10 possible ending. You chose destroy. ending and probably have enough war assets so shepard survived(and hoped that there is a shower scene lol) What if another fan chose synthesis and shepard's dead and milkyway folks are now these quasi organic/synth hybrid? Or another who chose control and Shepard's now a super reaper galactic policeman?
Just saying if I am siting on the bioware seat and I am the one in charge of the next ME game, it would take a lot of guts and political will to pull off a ME4, telling all fans to ignore the previous 9 endings and focus on one that Bioware now thinks is the actual ending. They cant even do a Q&A thing at the start to find out which ending you chose so that they can customise the game accordingly, as the endings are too divergent. It's like they will have to do at least 3 totally new games rather than 1. So the easy way out was to create andromeda...
See Dragon Age: They made Dragon Age: Inqusisition with ONE possible ending. They just have choosen one ending with a little bit "cosmetic chances depeding on your decisions in the further two parts". Like: Is Alistair king or Warden. 😉
Why should they not do the same with Mass Effect?
- 9 years ago
@Rappeldrache wrote:See Dragon Age: They made Dragon Age: Inqusisition with ONE possible ending. They just have choosen one ending with a little bit "cosmetic chances depeding on your decisions in the further two parts". Like: Is Alistair king or Warden. 😉
Why should they not do the same with Mass Effect?
Well I played all 3 dragon age games, I vaguely remembered the first one was good, the second one wasnt, DAI was ok. I cant even remember the story as it didnt attract me as much as ME. I think they changed the protagonist, the 3rd one as well. I can hardly remember the characters( with the exception of morigan cause shes so hot with claudia black's voice... man... Apologies I digress...) As much as some fans loved dragon age, for me, in my personal scale of games, it's not there at the top with the ME trilogy. If you wish to create a game like Dragon age, different protagonist, a little disjointed, am sure some would like that. I wont. To me that would have devastated the ME legacy more than MEA would lol. For me when people mention gotham, I think of batman, when people mentioned ME I think of Shepard, Robin will never replace batman, even if he calls himself nightwing and gets a darker costume. Calling a show gotham and I get only robin running around saying "Holy Moly" being a nice boy just doesnt really do it for me... That's just my opinion, feel free to disagree but that's how I feel.
- Anonymous9 years ago
@Rappeldrache wrote:See Dragon Age: They made Dragon Age: Inqusisition with ONE possible ending. They just have choosen one ending with a little bit "cosmetic chances depeding on your decisions in the further two parts". Like: Is Alistair king or Warden. 😉
Why should they not do the same with Mass Effect?
Didn't Inquisition have 2 possible endings? To continue with the Inquistion, or to dosband it? I only played once and chose to disband it but I distinctly remember the choice between the two, each with its own pros and cons.
- Anonymous9 years ago
@VladVonCastein wrote:
@Rappeldrache wrote:See Dragon Age: They made Dragon Age: Inqusisition with ONE possible ending. They just have choosen one ending with a little bit "cosmetic chances depeding on your decisions in the further two parts". Like: Is Alistair king or Warden. 😉
Why should they not do the same with Mass Effect?
Well I played all 3 dragon age games, I vaguely remembered the first one was good, the second one wasnt, DAI was ok. I cant even remember the story as it didnt attract me as much as ME. I think they changed the protagonist, the 3rd one as well. I can hardly remember the characters( with the exception of morigan cause shes so hot with claudia black's voice... man... Apologies I digress...) As much as some fans loved dragon age, for me, in my personal scale of games, it's not there at the top with the ME trilogy. If you wish to create a game like Dragon age, different protagonist, a little disjointed, am sure some would like that. I wont. To me that would have devastated the ME legacy more than MEA would lol. For me when people mention gotham, I think of batman, when people mentioned ME I think of Shepard, Robin will never replace batman, even if he calls himself nightwing and gets a darker costume. Calling a show gotham and I get only robin running around saying "Holy Moly" being a nice boy just doesnt really do it for me... That's just my opinion, feel free to disagree but that's how I feel.
I agree. I hate the idea of Mass Effect taking the direction of a new protag each game. Each single trilogy game as a stand alone isn't nearly as good as the entire trilogy together. Developing that connection with the main char (Shepard) and crew mates only happens over several games. Have never felt the sa e connection with any of the Dragon Age chars, not even the ones who have been in more than one game - because with a new protag its a different friendship. Never enjoyed dragon age as much as mass effect. I like it well enough but theres something to be said for keeping the same protag across multiple games for forging that deeper emotional connection.
- EgoMania9 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Rappeldrache wrote:See Dragon Age: They made Dragon Age: Inqusisition with ONE possible ending. They just have choosen one ending with a little bit "cosmetic chances depeding on your decisions in the further two parts". Like: Is Alistair king or Warden. 😉
Why should they not do the same with Mass Effect?
I played through all the ME games many times.
I played through DA:O and DA2 many times.
I played through DA:I once and left it.
Forgive me that I don't feel like ME should be more like DA:I.
- Anonymous9 years ago
I feel like a symbol of respect ending stories when they ought to end, don't overextending them beyond necessity. It's like bringing back a long-lost loved one back to you without any regards what the other part wants, if one wanted to be gone of have their so earned rest.
I actually hoped otherwise, that Andromeda was ever more detached from the trilogy. The way it is right now seems yet too much intertwined, too much likely the endings or anything that will come to explain why they are not related will have a very hard time to convince part of the fan base of their authenticity; I feel it has become a time-bomb.
I would pretty much be ok if they wanted to tell another story for Mass Effect without even considering Shepard ever existed, adjusting parts of the lore accordingly.
- 9 years ago
I never wrote that ME should be like DA .... Don't know how you get this idea ... 🐶
It's just about the "ending" in ME. I wrote there are a few possible endings, not just one. AND: If they want to make "ME4 in MilkyWay" with Shepard, they could. They could just choose ONE possible ending. Like they have done in Dragon Age.
I hope they don't make Dragon Age like Mass Effect and Mass Effect like Dragon Age. And I like both games a lot. 😃
- EgoMania9 years agoSeasoned Ace
And I didn't say you did, but you did make a comparison between the two as far as the ending is concerned...DA:I in particular.
My personal feeling is that DA:I was fun to play through once but then lacked any playthrough value. There are various factors that contributed to that for me and any step in the direction of those factors would be a bad idea in my personal opinion. You idea of having a single ending like in DA:I is a step in that direction.
I was not saying that I thought you wanted both games to be the same.
- 9 years ago
☹️ I would love to talk to you about this in my language. ☹️ My english is not good enough to say everything I want to, sorry .... If a discussion goes "deeper" I'm lost.
But: *Hug* I don't share your opinion. 🐲 I try to explain a bit what I mean:
However: Mass Effect Trilogy have more than one ending. So there is NO "one canon ending", there are a few. And till the breathing chest of Shepard even a "living Shepard" could be canon. If we like the idea or not, don't matter. But it COULD be possible. It's just an objective statement.
And they have done something like that before: Decided between different endings .... at DA2 and DA:I . If it was a good idea or not, if we like it or not, don't matter. They have done it before, they could do it (if they want) again. 🙂
I would love it, you not, it's ok. 🧙
- 9 years ago
ending 4 will be canon everyone died 😉
- mcsupersport9 years agoHero+
@Rappeldrache wrote:And they have done something like that before: Decided between different endings .... at DA2 and DA:I . If it was a good idea or not, if we like it or not, don't matter. They have done it before, they could do it (if they want) again. 🙂
They didn't offer vastly different endings in DAI or DA2....thus the game played out in a specific way. In ME3 they DID offer vastly different choices and if they went back and changed it, that would invalidate some of their players game endings. If you had chosen Destroy ending, and they made Synthesis Cannon, then your choice at the end of ME3 is no longer valid for future games...this isn't what they have EVER done in ME. Mind you they did make the Counselor choice become what they wanted in ME3 by having Udina take over but at least they gave a somewhat understandable reason in game.....which I can't see any way for them to do the same with ending choices.
Only way I could see them being able to pull a Milky Way ME4, would if after all this time they say, " Yes the Indoctrination Theory was correct after all, and the ME3 endings were all a dream of Shepard's mind due to Reaper Indoctrination." Since they passed on this for the Extended Cut, and basically said NO OUR ENDINGS ARE IT, I doubt they are going to backtrack on this. Personally I think at this point and time, there would simply be way to much effort needed to backtrack than to simply continue to expand into Andromeda with an open slate to work with.