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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...
@VladVonCastein wrote:
@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...
Aw C"mon Vlad! If they made a Canon ending where Shep defied Catalyst and used the Crucible like the Death Star in Return of the Jedi, and then the war rages on for years until an eventual victory I think at least 90% of ME fans would happily buy into it, as long as they got it as an option to choose in their own games. Maybe a few die hard Control or Synthesis people, but mostly those endings suck.💔
All Bioware would have to do would be to take the "lose" ending and add a bit between Catalyst getting huffy and Liara's message. Like Shep pops open a power box thing on the wall, finds the big red button, and has a dialogue choice. Paragon Shep goes with "sorry, but you brought this on yourselves" or something.😇 Renegade Shep does the ME version of the Emperor's Death Star victory monologue, "prepare to witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station, your friends will die, your fleet will be destroyed, and soon this pitiful harvest will be at its end, etc."👿😃 Hopefully we get to see Reaper ships getting blown apart, and if we have a high readiness/force total, we get to see any surviving friends just taking apart groups of Reaper ground forces.:eahigh_file: Then you can let the LIara's message bit play out, but at the end rotate the view 180 degrees and show a city and people possibly the Storyteller and child. Then Shep can narrate the ending "the war was long and brutal but after the main Reaper forces at Earth and Palaven were destroyed....". YAY! Everyone's Happy!🥳