tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post6888359685903338498..comments2024-03-11T21:50:53.859-04:00Comments on Healed1337's Blog of Doom: Why Mass Effect 3's ending is brilliantHealed1337http://www.blogger.com/profile/09173099837487891089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-37651344871467542652023-03-10T01:06:40.735-05:002023-03-10T01:06:40.735-05:00The message telling you to play more DLC – yeah th...The message telling you to play more DLC – yeah that was a bad move.<a href="https://www.buymmog.com/diablo-4/diablo4-gold" rel="nofollow">diablo 4 Gold</a><br />BMGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07861187131410052421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-35865223187260283492014-06-14T19:40:53.988-04:002014-06-14T19:40:53.988-04:00Addendum: you also need to look around in the Cruc...Addendum: you also need to look around in the Crucible Control Room and see that there are about a dozen pathways converging on the room, and the pathway you teleport to is probably random or sequential to streamline processing. Anderson popped out in a different pathway, then jogged down up to the room in a fraction of the time it took Shepard to limp along. One last thought I had to share: my favorite thing about the ending is that the Reapers (and Bioware) delivered on their promise about their reasons: "it is not a thing [an organic] could comprehend". Given the freedom to due so, organics will eventually create a rogue AI that decides they are a threat, and it WILL destroy every microbe in the galaxy: unless another AI culls the organics before they create such an AI (not to be confused with the geth, who were a very primitive, relatively weak form of AI who just wanted to survive in a galaxy that hated them - their creation could be seen as a warning that it was time to end the current cycle and "cull the herd"). This was the role of the Catalyst: a brutal but efficient solution to an impossible problem, effectively a guardian against another version of itself who would be less. . . merciful. >:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-51843654417029551992014-06-14T19:27:21.246-04:002014-06-14T19:27:21.246-04:00FINALLY, another human being with a freaking brain...FINALLY, another human being with a freaking brain. Thank you so much for this article. Especially the part where you actually got that the Normandy flees the Crucible explosion: because THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO, BUT IT'S PROBABLY DESTRUCTIVE. I mean seriously, doesn't anyone out there understand character perspective and realism? And Anderson being ahead of Shepard inside the Crucible... gee, maybe it's because Anderson followed Shepard after he cleared the way but moved faster because he wasn't MORTALLY WOUNDED. I really cannot stress enough how much your article means to me; thank you so much for helping me to see that I am not the only person in the world who is intelligent and open-minded enough to understand the awesome ending to this awesome trilogy. BTW, I have several playthroughs of all 3 games over on my twitch account, twitch.tv /butthole_streamer, feel free to check them out if you want to revisit the story. Thanks again for this wonderful article; anyone who doesn't love the ending is either stupid, narrow-minded, or in denial about why the ending made them sad: because it's the ending of the greatest science fiction story of our time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-30272164535581839132012-03-25T01:20:05.849-04:002012-03-25T01:20:05.849-04:00I don't feel like you came off as a jerk at al...I don't feel like you came off as a jerk at all. You have a right to your opinion and if you're upset there's nothing I can do about it. I agree that the ending isn't perfect, it's just that I like the concept behind it.<br /><br />Just a few days ago Bioware announced that they are planning on changing the ending at least somewhat - based on much of the constructive criticism they've received. - http://blog.bioware.com/2012/03/21/4108/<br /><br />I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that destroying the reapers also destroyed the catalyst. Could that possibly match the "get out of our galaxy" option? Just a thought.Healed1337https://www.blogger.com/profile/09173099837487891089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-24562459173585788212012-03-22T19:19:24.772-04:002012-03-22T19:19:24.772-04:00First I want to say I'm probably going to come...First I want to say I'm probably going to come off as an ass hole, but I'm so angry over this I don't care.<br /><br />I don't care about a happy ending, in fact I would be happy if one of the endings is you fail everyone dies and the cycle continues, although having one of the endings be happy would be nice. I don't care that Shepard dies, I've expected it to end that way ever since they said 3 would be the end of Shepard's story. But I've seen what kind of writing Bioware is capable of and this ending just feels lazy. In KOTOR once you make the decision weather or not to reclaim your role as Darth Revan it's 2 entirely different games, different dialog and cutscenes from then on. Hell if you go darkside you have to kill some of your crew, while lightside it was possible to save everyone.<br /><br />The story is so good and so engaging I can even overlook the parts of 3 that were recycled from the first one. I can't over look the fact that after spending all this time playing a game that has been about choice and doing the impossible that now I'm just going to take the Catalyst's word for it that these are my only 3 options to stop the Reapers, this game is a lot like the Shadow War in Babylon 5 and I want the “we don't need you anymore get the hell out of our galaxy” option.<br /><br />And god damn it I want some kind of closure to a franchise I've spent hundred's of hours playing, none of this figure it out for yourself crap. If we're supposed to figure it out for ourselves why did we need anymore games after the first one, oh that's right because someone wanted to make more money. Mass Effect is the first story where I've actually felt emotionally invested in what happened and cared about what happened to the characters. When Eve attacked Ashley on Mars it felt like I was there watching it happen to a friend and I am grateful to the people at Bioware for creating a universe I fell in love with. There's nothing in TV or movies, and vary little in books, that compares to the writing in Bioware's games, but the only way I see this ending sounding like a good idea after all the work they had to have poured in to all 3 of these games is if they got drunk before they wrote the it.dbollendorfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12268291912692965136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-55468578452808245342012-03-18T13:31:08.887-04:002012-03-18T13:31:08.887-04:00Here is a good list of reasons why a lot of people...Here is a good list of reasons why a lot of people do not like it and why they don't think it's brilliant. <br /><br />https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT4IUepvrU1pfv_B95oQj0H84DlCTUmzQ_uQh1voTUs/preview?sle=true&pli=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-82687005542871758532012-03-15T10:52:05.010-04:002012-03-15T10:52:05.010-04:00Well I am a fan and they didn't betray my trus...Well I am a fan and they didn't betray my trust, as a good story teller they wowed me and didn't just please me!Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07229753565477106341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-36509899245893906432012-03-15T10:51:20.521-04:002012-03-15T10:51:20.521-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07229753565477106341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-48808035355488619382012-03-15T10:49:49.000-04:002012-03-15T10:49:49.000-04:00I thought the ending was brilliant. Story wise a g...I thought the ending was brilliant. Story wise a good ending isn't one that makes sense in every way and wraps up with everybody walking away happy. For me a good ending is one that makes you think and ask yourself: What did I see just now? This ending represents the essence of what the Mass Effect series is about in one last major choice. It blurs the lines of, order and chaos, black and white, to convey its message of needed balance. It makes the story a shade of grey.<br /><br />Story wise Bioware needed for it to be a bit vague after the reaper hit. By making it so that we do not know whether shepard is alive, dead or harvested by the reapers, it lets us as players accept that Shepard is no longer Shepard. By now he is the metaphor that stands for humanity making its choice regarding its own future. The illusive man is the metaphor that stand for renegade that needs order to accomplish its plans. And anderson represents paragon that needs chaos to accomplish its plans.<br /><br />There are three ways in which you can determine the fate of humanity and for all of them it is clear what they represent. One of the endings even ends with shepard not dying. Yes the mass effect universe is at an end in all three endings, but that is not the choice we were asked to make.<br />The real choice here is the way in which you as a player chooses to advance humanity, and all three options have vastly different consequences. It is as if people expect the choice to have major influence on how the end video looks but don't even think for one second what theoretically the different endings mean for us as a species. This is what makes the ending so good, this is what lets us the players think about: What will happen now? What will come of humanity this way?<br /><br />I really don't get the hatred for the ending. >_> By literary standards it is so far ahead compared to other games. It is short, powerfull, wraps up the entire ME universe in one choice. And it left stuff to the immagination, which is something a lot of writers tend to forget. Sure you had your own ending in mind, but do people really want it to end on a bland happy go lucky note? Bioware wants us to think about this ending and what it meant, they said so themselves, and they achieved it.<br /><br />I just really hope they don't change the ending, a lot of great stories have vague endings and sometimes it makes them all the better for it. To me, less explanation is also more, like with mass effect it totally works!<br />Some of the best stories in history enraged their audiences when first published. I think in retrospect the Mass Effect series will be seen as the first game that uplifted the medium to a digital work of literature.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07229753565477106341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526300599747996030.post-89458770720593108332012-03-14T13:32:49.443-04:002012-03-14T13:32:49.443-04:00Perhaps you have forgotten, but i remember Hudson ...Perhaps you have forgotten, but i remember Hudson saying that we will have to earn our happy ending, i could even find the interview if you want. The fact is that BW lied to us and betrayed the trust of the ME fans, and that is unpardonable!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com