AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I didn't want to bring it up,

I'm playing on an Xbox

You can't adjust controls in the xbox version? Wow, and people wonder why PC gamers call themselves master race.

Some extra closure would be nice. Changing the ending completely though? Honestly I feel like that's be complete bullshit to expect and to even feel you deserve. Yeah, some explanations would be really nice, mostly on The Normandy's weird running away, I mean I could explain it through speculation of what we know but it still feels weird, but if people are seriously suggesting that they change the entire ending of the game then there needs to be some sort of reality check here.

Why don't the Quarians colonize new worlds?

Are they just that bad

I... don't know.

Huh. Why don't they colonize new worlds?

They're looking through most of the series.

There's several issues however, the largest being that they simply physically can't. They're looking for a permanent home, one that they can adapt to, and their immune systems are so weak this makes it nigh-impossible without enormous losses. Their homeworld is the closest they are going to find to an area without much disease or problems like that (rannoch had little disease to begin with, quarians just got worse after centuries on ships.)

Another issue is that after years of being told about the "evil" geth, they want their world back. Bad. It's a major political issue and most quarians want it finished.

There's also the bit where most planets that can be colonized... are. It's a BUSINESS to colonize worlds. The Quarians can't just settle somewhere, because it could be someone's property and more than likely already is.

They're looking for uninhabited, low-disease and insect population, and geth-populated planets.

there are not many of those.

They want a different one because you could play as a total paragon and I could play as a total renegade and wed still get the same endings. There was no variation in the endings except color. The cut scenes are practically all the same. There is no character resolution and it doesn't matter what the hell you did the last 3 games because everything turns out the same.

You may argue that its like that for all the other choices. You either cure the genophage or sabotage it right? There are only 2 choices there. However in doing that whole quest line, choices I made came back to me. Saving Maelons Data, going after the Bomb first, not killing Wrex or having Mordin die. All these things were incorporated and helped to make the moment really feel like a culmination of storylines. Everything you did came back and mattered. With the current ending, nothing matters.

All three games have had endings that play out almost exactly the same. ME1's paragon/renegade ending changes boiled down to what color the planet was behind you in the end cutscene. ME2's is the color of the Illusive Man's background-sun-thingy. I've yet to see anyone who complained there.

Oh not to mention in ME2 you could get the paragon or renegade ending no matter what you've done, it boils down to one choice, and nothing else matters really except mow many people survived. That's exactly what ME3 does.

What you've done in all three games matters in the end as well. Your war assets give you your ending choices, and not only that, but they control how much of the universe survives. You'll notice, in the very worst ending, Earth is more than decimated, all life is swept from it. This same energy is then spread through the REST OF THE GALAXY. Good job, everyone died. In the SECOND to worst ending, everyone can still die, or just MOST of everyone. This trend continues, until finally Shepard him/herself can live Seeing as almost EVERY action from the whole series is represented as war assets, they affect the ending a lot.



I just explained HOW everything matters so lets go a different route here.

Everything has been wrapped up.

By the end of ME3, you've solved the genophage problem in SOME way, you've finished the quarian/geth conflicts, your previous squadmates' individual stories are wrapped up VERY nicely and so is most of your crew.

Everything has been tied up in a nice, neat, comforting bow of ending.

By the time the ending actually HITS, everything has been done. You've said goodbye, you've finished all the subplots that have traveled through the series, everything is DONE.

What, pray-tell, needs to be wrapped up more concerning your decisions? How everyone survives afterwards? Yeah, it'd be nice, but that's never been what the story is about. The story has been about Shepard. This is the end of Shepard's story. Shepard's story IS Mass Effect. So now Mass Effect has been wrapped up. Everything else is just what was wanted, not what was needed.

Am I saying I don't want to see what happens to everyone? Hell no. That'd be great. I'd fucking LOVE to see what happens to everyone else.

Is it necessary to the story at all? No.
Is it more fun to imagine what happens? Possibly.

It also depends on where you think the ending begins and ends. Personally, I'm in the group that says ME3 WAS the ending. The actual ending was just the period on the sentence. Mass Effect 3 IS the climax of the series. The series dosen't climax at some point during it, the whole game is the peak of the action. The game has it's own climax, yeah, but that's not for the whole series that's just for the one game.

They wrote ME3 as an ending. The actual ending is nothing more than just finishing up what happens to Shepard. Just a last "oh yeah this happens."

For me, Mass Effect started to end the second I put that disk in. That was my ending. The whole daisies game.

So yeah, I liked the ending.

brilliant

Ahahhahaha.

Is that based on a real scene or just hilarious nonsense?

yeah Its when you meet up with Garrus at the citadel.
You go shooting and hang out and other bro stuff.
(was weird cause I boned him in #2)

So did I but the game seems to be railroading me into Kaiden again.

I am not okay with that.

railroading?
like this?