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Bioware Working to Clarify Mass Effect 3 Ending |
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We’ve been covering the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle with zeal here at QJ—it’s the perfect example of a developer misunderstanding its fans, and fans expecting the impossible from their favorite franchise. Bioware’s series of responses has been interesting to watch. At first, the company claimed it wanted the ending to be controversial, then it teased that fans didn’t have all the details, and now it’s in full damage control.
In an open letter, Bioware co-founder Dr. Ray Muzka tries to walk fans through what’s been happening over at the Bioware offices. In the letter, he says, “it’s incredibly painful to receive feedback from our core fans that the game’s endings were not up to their expectations.” He also notes, “Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics – but out of respect to our fans, we need to accept the criticism and feedback with humility.”
Muzka goes on to explain that Bioware is considering how best to approach the ending controversy, noting, “The team and I have been thinking hard about how to best address the comments on ME3’s endings from players, while still maintaining the artistic integrity of the game.”
Here’s the real meat of the story though:
“Building on their research, Exec Producer Casey Hudson and the team are hard at work on a number of game content initiatives that will help answer the questions, providing more clarity for those seeking further closure to their journey. You’ll hear more on this in April.”
In short, Bioware is trying to figure out how they can fix the ending without screwing up the story they wanted to tell, and they’re going to do it with “content initiatives.” So, DLC? Let’s hope they at least cover some of the enormous plot holes opened by all of the possible endings.
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I wanted to star over from the first Mass Effect with a brand new Character and complete all games again with a clean slate.
Guess what...I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT ANYMORE
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Kind of like how in some games this happens:
NPC:
"So, hero! Will we attack the enemy together, or will you attack them by yourself?"
>>Attack with NPC
>Attack by myself
Hero:
>>Attack by myself
"I need no help, I will attack alone."
NPC:
"I cannot allow you to choose that option!! You obviously need time to reconsider. Come back and talk to me when you've changed your mind."
Hero:
*walks away*
*goes back*
>>Attack with NPC
"I need your help, attack with me."
NPC:
"I see...I guess if you insist, I will join you, though you could have handled this on your own."
"Now hurry up and let's go, there is no time to waste!"
Hero:
*facepalm*
You shouldn't do things like this in a game, especially one that is popular because of how your choice affects the story...
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and the "Hero made choice" part is pure BS, the Shepard I played as through these 3 games would never have accepted what happend, i'm starting to think that the whole "Shepard's indoctrination" theory is starting to make more and more sence although I'm not compleatly sold on it
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I took Liara and Javik with me on the final run. After everyone is slaughter, I think i'm the only one who makes it, turns out, Anderson followed.
Now Shepard dieing is ok with me, which ever way, but they need to fix many things. At the end of the game, Liara and Javik comes out of the Normandy with Joker.
So you're saying, Liara who's my lover, followed me from ME1 to the end of ME3, thought I died on the final run and said "Ok, he's dead, Joker pick us up, we're leaving." And Joker of all people would just pick them up and ditch everyone else?
"The team are hard at work on a number of game content initiatives that will help answer the questions, providing more clarity for those seeking further closure to their journey."
The breathing part of Shepard at the end was pointless as well. Considering how the ending happened, if Bioware is trying to explain other things without changing the ending but adding more details for clarification, it's not going to make sense unless they destroy the universe. The Mass relays are destroyed, that's it. The Quarians that came to fight aren't ever going to see their home planet ever again. With no Mass relay, their speed depletes and their home planet is on the other side of the galaxy. Not just that, Turians and Asaris cannot eat human food, so whatever resources they have in their ships, they won't even make it to their planets without the relays. Krogans however can maintain themselves by eating all the other species and they can probably make it back home but what are the chances of them not aging to get there.
Scratch all that, the 3 different colored lights screwed up all the electronic, so what happens to everyone in space? Joker's room showed the cockpit malfunctioning like crazy, so that means everyone else may have experienced the same. So that means their are all stuck in space unless repairs can be made. But that falls back to, when will they make it back home.
It's going to suck but they are going to need to patch up a whole complete ending in order to make it suitable, unless their intentions is to make sure the ending is not happy at all but to make the ending more understandable. All the decisions we made, all went to shit. They are just going to point it out so we can see it instead of wondering what the hell happened.
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So in the end ME3 was it's own standalone game with 3 generic endings that you could get to no matter how many changes you made. It's almost like a typical action game or FPS. I was all for Shepard dying but like Zodiac says.. the races were basically fucked, no relays, no citadel, no electronics. There'd be too many wars for earth after this reaper invasion came to an end, if the ships havent already crash landed into earth and blew up.
I guess the races could technically live on moons.. and a good majority of earth as been killed now, so they could occupy the sol system.
The people who claim to like it, and bitch about people wanting "fairy tale endings" in my opinion have never played ME3 and are trolls. But who knows, horrible and completely pathetic to the majority of people is usually beautiful for someone.
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Indeed, the problems are not so much in the 20 sec ending video (the same ending video that is suppose to bring closure to 3 games counting +30 hours each), but that's just a detail. The real problem is, they've already screwed the story during the last hours of game.
ZodiacD pointed out a series of details, for Bioware to write an ending like that could only means that the next game will have all the concil races living in the sol system wich is just the dumbest thing i ever heard.
And Aaron is so right too, how a game based on player choices can end with the same 3 final choices for everyone.
So please BioWare and EA, do not screw this franchise more, find a solution to bring a real closure the this trilogy (AND DO NOT THINK OF MAKING US PAY FOR IT)
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Shepard gets shot, he falls over, he has a DREAM. The game doesn't even END and then we get BUY OUR DLC.
That kind of destroys the game since we didn't even get a real ending.
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