And if, under pressure, Kubrick would have added in more information to explain exactly what happened. I don’t know if he would, really. But I do know he pulled A Clockwork Orange to protect his family from rabid anti-intellectuals.
Humans really do suck, don’t they?
“2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of the movies I felt annoyed at for like 20 minutes after watching it because it wasted a few hours of my life I will never get back.
I heard about the hype and expected a masterpiece and got this crude, weird, drug-induced excuse for a movie. It’s one of those movies I now often reference to as an example on how not to make movies, but otherwise I feel pretty much indifferent about it. I only want to know how the hell it got green-lit.
As it’s not that only its ending was badly made (which it oh so is), the movie as a whole is simply bad.
It was badly paced, nothing happens for the most part, it almost only consisted on objects floating around in space. It is also a movie I won’t for the life of me call art. I have more fun study the pattern of my wood-chip wallpaper.
The comparison to Mass Effects fails, as I never was compelled or emotionally invested in this movie’s universe as I was with the one of Mass Effect. I never expected it to end well (in the sense of satisfying, well made, not as in “happy ending”); in the end I just hoped for something to happen — which didn’t. So I labeled it as “stupid movie” and moved on.
The movie never amazed me, it just weirded me out. Mass Effect amazed me, the ending weirded me out and frustrated me, and left me felt betrayed.
Sadly pro genophage.
(Source: europhilianovus)
I swear if I hear one more bitch about the ending of Mass Effect 3 I may fucking implode!!! No it wasn’t ideal. But to me it made sense.
Could you tell me please, which button you pressed and how you would justify its repercussions? As I for one couldn’t press neither, and also didn’t accept star-child’s so-called explanations.
Don’t get me wrong I STILL WANT MA BLUE BABIES GODDAMMIT!! But moving on from My Liara/Asari obsession.
And I wanted to build Tali a house on Rannoch. Yet that’s not the point.
It was always stated throughout all the games that Shepard was the only one that could do this so for her to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the galaxy was logical.
I won’t even argue the faulty proposition that a sacrifice is necessary. Heck, in my Dragon Age: Origins play-through I had someone die a honorable death in my place because my character very much wanted to live. You see: Role. Playing. Game. As in: I make the decisions (yeah, in the narrative the developers set out, I know).
However I’m quite fond of the little “indoctrination videos” that are going around. They amuse and make you think.
The indoctrination speculations are desperate straws in order to make sense of a senseless ending. The reasoning goes like this: This … whatever this is, cannot be the actual ending, there MUST be more . Reapers have mind-control powers, so that MUST BE IT!
It’s pure denial combined with wishful thinking.
Make for far better entertainment than the bitter, angry ramblings I’ve came across in the last 3 days of completing the game. No wonder I stayed offline until I’d completed it!I find it incredibly deluded that people think they’ll release a new DLC for the “true” ending. For one I’d be pissed to spend yet more money on ME3 considering I bought the Collector’s Edition - I regret nothing btw. For 2 I doubt they’ll cave into pressure from the fans just because they didn’t like the ending.
There is a difference between not liking an ending, and an ending that makes no sense whatsoever.
You can’t please everyone all the time. Considering all the people who slate Bioware do you really see them doing this?
I hope so. And yes, I would throw some money at them for fixing this. And you don’t need to buy it if you are satisfied with the ending you got.
Out of curiosity what would you prefer the ending to be? Shepard’s story was never going to end well.
That’s the whole point of the Mass Effect saga, one man against impossible odds earns his happy ending. And this whole outcry does not happen because it is not a happy ending. It happens because it doesn’t make sense.
Big fuck off synthetics were destroying the galaxy,
And did you get the reasons why the big fuck off synthetics were destroying the galaxy? They wanted to protect organics from being destroyed by synthetics … erm … seems logical …
it would be naive to think she would survive that one.
Mass Effect 2 was based around a suicide mission, that if tackled wrong could kill everyone including Shepard, and if tackled right could save every single one of your crew.
That’s what I expected the Galactic Readiness to count for. The higher, the better ending you will get. Yet it pretty much is useless.
Yes there are plotholes, but there have been plotholes in every major scfi show that ever was!
Yes, there are plot holes in every show. No, that doesn’t excuse this mess of an pseudo-ending. It still is bad writing, bad execution, and downright insulting. This isn’t nit-picking. No one complains about the availability of faster that light travel, English speaking aliens, and bio-magic-powers. I can suspend my disbelief when a story remains consistent with its own rules.
The illusive Man could have killed Shepard’s love interest, Shepard could have died, the Geth could have been wiped out by the Quarian and vice versa, and the Krogans could have conquered earth and declare Galactic Dominance if you cured the Genophage.
I take any sad ending that concludes this saga over this mess we got any day.
And if we are talking about sci-fi: Mass Effect is now on one level as “Enterprise” and the reimaged “Battlestar Galactica” as far as bad ending goes.
Especially the ending of BSG left me with a similar mindfrak, making all my emotional attachment in the series … pointless.
Don’t even get me started on this “Take ME3 Back” pish! What the fuck??? Are people’s lives so empty they feel this is a worth while cause. Well maybe they’re right. Not like there’s any other major problems in the world like, poverty, homeless or multiple wars. Silly me, I must have been living in another reality.
So instead of fighting poverty, homelessness, stopping multiple wars, you rant about people ranting against the Mass Effect 3 ending? I don’t mind, but please, inform yourself about the reasons why we are ranting: http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/ . You still have every right to disagree, but please don’t label us because we fight for something that is important to us that does not infringe you.
And by the way: The RetakeMassEffect movement has donated over 60.000(!) Dollars to charity just to make a point. To actually channel all those negative emotions into something positive.
If Bioware makes a DLC to fix the ending, we win. If they don’t, we at least helped children in hospitals. I call that a no-lose scenario if I ever have seen one.
Oh and one thing people seem to forget to mention is what they got right…..emotion. Did anyone like me completely bawl your eyes out at the end? I’ve never cried at a video game in my life. The emotion was spot on!
The end was ludicrous. I watched what was happening on screen but I could not believe what happened on screen. It was a multi-minute, long stretched out WTF-moment.
But yes, there were many great moments over all three games, but in the end, it all feels so … void. Nullified. Trashed.
Yes I do realise this is a bitching post about bitching an d frankly I don’t care.
At the end of the day IT’S A FUCKING GAME! Deal with it, move on. Personally I have far more pressing “real life” problems to contend with.
I fully expect this post to result in hate mail (it’s how Tumblr seems to work if certain people don’t like what they’re reading) I’m also sure it will end up in being unfollowed and if that’s the case you were never my friend in the first place.
Well, if you put yourself out this way, you have to expect some kind of response :)
I know it is a video game. Yet it also is so much more. Mass Effect 1 and 2 were shining examples of what gaming could be as an experience.
I invested many hours into this strange, great universe, and the perceived betrayal from Bioware (aka “no, there won’t be endings like choice A, B, C”, “everybody defines their own ending” ) really put the fun out of it.
I can forgive a bad start, I can forgive weak middle parts, but in my book, the ending of a role playing game, the part of the game that shows you all the consequences of your deeds, it what’s makes it so great.
I wanted to love this game. Sadly, I cannot.
(Source: destiny-ascension)
Some spoilers ahead so don’t read unless you’ve finished it. If you have and you think the end was crap then by all means have a read, because there’s probably a few missing links. It’s a bit wordy but you might appreciate it and you may well sympathise with me.
The very fact that you have to ad-hoc interpret the ending to be some sort of indoctrination attempt, which at this point is wild mass guessing up to eleven, indicates: Yes, it is as bad an ending as I think it is.
This gamefront article really encompasses bascially all my own feeling and musings about the ending of Mass Effect 3 in a very rational, in-depth manor. Highely, highely recommended.
