Besides, there have been some warning signs. If you ground out 3 or 4 playthroughs of those games because you were anticipating some sweet, sweet Mass Effect 3 love and not because you genuinely enjoyed those terrific games, you were already wasting your time and it’s not Mass Effect‘s fault you made a gamble. I heartily, heartily disagree for a few reasons.įirst and foremost, if you feel that you “lost” 100 hours (or so) of your life playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 because 3 didn’t pay off, you were doing it wrong. The retort to that (besides just “YES IT DOES”) is that Mass Effect is all about making choices and if those very choices are disregarded at the bitter end, the games are pointless. It’s like the argument that a crummy ending doesn’t ruin the rest of an otherwise good film. Where I draw the line however, is at saying that this admittedly stupid ending somehow retroactively diminishes the validity of the previous two games in the series, or everything but the last 5 minutes of Mass Effect 3. It should have been no-holds-barred, but instead it seemed a little more “Use this same cinematic in all of them and make it simple for the ‘new players’ we seem to think we have!” It would have been nice to see a bad ending, I mean, a good bad ending, or some endings where at least one of your choices - the final choice if nothing else - came into play. I mean, Mass Effect 3 was built for non-canon endings, or only canon endings, or something. As is the uniform destruction of the mass relays. It really is a matter of deciding the color of your explosion, which is pretty inexcusable. I felt the same way after I watched the other cinematics on YouTube. My first playthough, my main Shepard, was Renegade, so I rushed to the ending and felt no penalty for having done so. I was looking forward to seeing a post- Mass Effect 3 world, struggling to catch up with its seat-of-the-pants solutions to centuries old conflicts, but at this point I’d settle for anything verifiable.Īnd lastly, where I think most of the ire comes down, is the similarity of the endings. And the star child? Not fine! Not fine under any circumstances! With the game mentioning that things must occur “at all costs” practically every other minute, I think it’s perfectly fine for mass relays to be destroyed, or hell, for only primitive unevolved lifeforms to survive the Crucible blast, just so long as the effects are dealt with and addressed. That’s fine! Just tell me about it! The Normandy crash-landed on a random planet and Joker is miracuously still able to walk? Fine! Where? Who else? Why? Or even just tell me that they don’t know. Take the destruction of the mass relays stranding everyone on Earth. Granted, some of these plot holes are annoying just because of the lack of resolution.
This is all on top of that stupid kid’s attempt to humanize Shepard which was painfully misguided because Shepard isn’t a even character per se, you are the character. synthetic dichotomy that was not properly foreshadowed at all. As if the Mass Effect universe wasn’t large and rich enough, the endings all bolted on a bunch of spirituality and a whole organic vs. And don’t even get me started on that damned star child. From where? To where? Were they running from the fight? Not to mention the lion’s share of the galaxy’s military force is now stranded in a ravaged solar system. For instance, when the mass relays are inevitably destroyed (more on that later) the Normandy is in transit. If you want to talk plot holes, there is no shortage of them, and the worst bit is that it wasn’t like there were just some issues the ending couldn’t resolve, it’s that there are plot holes the ending raised and then refused to resolve. As best as I can parse it for myself, there are three main problems with the Mass Effect 3 endings, and that’s their plot holes, lack of resolution, and similarity. That being said, man, what a bummer, right? The only choice players seemed to have was between being upset and being enraged, and that one is pretty difficult to make.
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