My critique:

So I played it, I took my renegade biotic shepard through the game with Tali and Edi (I'll take my paragon through with Liara and the DLC character. What I absolutely loved was the fact that the renegade choices were no longer just things like *punch him in the face* or *shoot him before he gets a chance to shoot you*, some of them were difficult choices (you know the ones I mean =P, won't spoil it for wimps/paragons) that left you feeling guilty. Much worse than that Wrex death in ME1 that came from playing a neutral character =(.

The ending? Ok the lead up to it was great, the space battle, the arrival of the crucible, the desperate dash for the beam, the final chat with squad mates, the final pep talk... all great stuff. But what the hell was with the blue/red (and green which i've not yet seen but plan to unlock at some point, not too thrilled by the premis of it however, heard very bad things) endings, that's pretty much the choice. And the crash on an eden world, what on earth was with that? No getting to see the ramifications of my final choice on the squadmates/galactic races? I was quite underwhelmed. The nonsensical Dues Ex machina was the worst bit imo, but the space ship (with my crew we were on earth/orbiting earth not 20 seconds ago) somehow going through the mass relay came close. I'm in the 'would like a new ending, but it's their game and they can write whatever story they want.' The first 99.9 hours were great, the final 8 mins were a let down. What do you guys think, were you left feeling satisfied?

Best song ever, leaving earth/an end once and for all (better than the credits to ME1 (M2 by Faunts)

Wait... mass effect 3 is out? 0.o

Doesn't matter if I can't play it yet, eh?

Haven't got the game yet but if they don't wrap things up and tell you what happens to your squadmates after all that then I'll be massively pissed.

What did you think about the ending and ultimately the 3 choices Shepard had to make?

The ending was perfect. Whether bioware knows it or not, this ending ultimately reflects the choices we all have in the end. We either Choose to align ourselves with our versions of Heaven/good, Hell/evil or we strive to maintain our idea of humanity.
Heaven can be represented in joining the collective, (The next evolution.) the Hell option is represented by the Master control exerted over others (Lucifer's want and desire for himself) The allegiance to humanity is illustrated by the destruction of the "old cycle." Shunning the whole process to try and strive to live beyond what has been destined for us.
My question is: What is the "team" doing on the Normandy running from earth when the mass effect relays were being destroyed? What was all of the talk about unity and team work when Shepard is on the citadel taking one for th team, and all of them have rallied together apparently hop on the ship and then traveled past Pluto to make a relay jump?
There was still fighting going on, on earth. Where did they NEED to go so badly? Or did they just think Shepard Failed and they were getting out of dodge before everything was destroyed?

(This is what i wrote on another site trying to start a similar thread on ME3

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I love the game and the series as a whole. It gets a little preachy on the paragon path, but it does have you make an equally hard choice that had me stop game play cold and rethink my decisions.

The whole Normandy bugging out really threw me but otherwise, Awesome experience all the way round!

I know this forum is 'themed' but not sure how you managed to shoehorn a christian message in there.

Here's a great article about the ending - Its obviously laden with spoilers, but I had to know what all the fuss was about and tbh I have real reservations about buying this game now... Well, until it's about £10 anyway
http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-e...are-right/

(March 20, 2012 at 2:08 pm)Chuff Wrote: I know this forum is 'themed' but not sure how you managed to shoehorn a christian message in there.

Here's a great article about the ending - Its obviously laden with spoilers, but I had to know what all the fuss was about and tbh I have real reservations about buying this game now... Well, until it's about £10 anyway
http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-e...are-right/

Have you never seen a preacher they can jam christianity into everything.

Well apparently thanks to the whiny little girls pissing and moaning about the ending, Bioware is going to fix the ending via DLC. Congrats pussies, you have successfully killed artistic integrity in a company that gave us 7 years of epic space opera.

(March 21, 2012 at 6:27 pm)SleepingDemon Wrote: Well apparently thanks to the whiny little girls pissing and moaning about the ending, Bioware is going to fix the ending via DLC. Congrats pussies, you have successfully killed artistic integrity in a company that gave us 7 years of epic space opera.

Lol, artistic integrity? No, man. Just. No. XD THere was nothing artistic about that ending, it was literally a rushed-in-five-days ending they slapped on because the original one was leaked a week before the game went gold.

It was still their ending. How many movies have had shitty endings? Do you slam the director on Twitter and force them to reshoot? No. I hated the movie Skyline, so after I watched it, I sold it. The ending of Mass Effect was the 10 minutes on the citadel, not the multicolored explosion endings. I liked it. So now does every publisher have to bend to the will of unsatisfied customers? Why don't they just put it up for a vote before they finish it and let the majority decide how a publisher ends their game that they put thousands of hours into.

(March 21, 2012 at 6:33 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Lol, artistic integrity? No, man. Just. No. XD THere was nothing artistic about that ending, it was literally a rushed-in-five-days ending they slapped on because the original one was leaked a week before the game went gold.

The ending was leaked... so fucking what?

The (vast) majority of their playerbase would have bought the game regardless of knowing about the ending. Hell... I didn't even know the ending got leaked.