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Mass Effect 3 Ending Outrage Ends In Memes

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Mass Effect 3 Ending Outrage Ends In Memes

The outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3 has resulted in a rash of memes.

The ending of the game has been poorly received and a source of grievance for many fans unimpressed that after investing time in three editions of the game, it all seems to boil down to a pretty explosion in a range of colours.

GameFront, elegantly understated, writes "some are coming away from the game‘s finale a little…upset."

The website listed brevity, being confusing and under-developed, lore errors and plot holes, the discarding of key philosophical themes and the player's choices being completely discarded as reasons for deeming the ending unacceptable.

Others, like YouTuber IAmRodyle are furious. He applied his outrage to the scene from Downfall that's the stock in trade of any outraged, or ironically outraged meme. Watch it below.

YouTube is the ideal forum for rage, and plenty of other YouTubers assembled brilliant montages of their rage at the inadequate ending.

The apparently lax finale is all the more infuriating considering the build up to the new game's launch and the hours that players put in to each edition.

Videogamer reports that a player-funded campaign to have the game's maker BioWare change the ending has received over $50,000 in donations. The money will go to the charity Child's Play.

Chris Priestly, Bioware's community coordinator said they would listen to unhappy fans: "We appreciate everyone's feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know that we are listening."

Writing on the game's official forum, he added: "We understand there is a lot of debate on the Mass Effect 3 ending and we will be more than happy to engage in healthy discussions once more people get to experience the game. We are listening to all of your feedback."

Have you completed Mass Effect 3? What did you think of the ending?

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The outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3 has resulted in a rash of memes. The ending of the game has been poorly received and a source of grievance for many fans unimpressed that after investi...
The outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3 has resulted in a rash of memes. The ending of the game has been poorly received and a source of grievance for many fans unimpressed that after investi...
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Jamal Wright: Mass Effect 3 - Why All the Attention?

Mass Effect (ME) has been in the news a fair amount lately. I'm not really shocked at the reactions as I know how people become attached to certain IPs (plus the previous titles were no strangers to controversy).

 
 
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palcsopeter
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04:44 PM on 03/30/2012
continuing the below thought:
The game ends with three choices. Two of them lead to accepting the reaper's the same way the Illusive Man (Control) or Saren (Synergy) did. The player chooses. That is what is amazing in it. The game tells us all the way to defeat the reapers, whatever the cost, whatever hard decisions need to be made, and on the final steps a little deception is enough to fool us and jump right into the arms of them. BioWare said it right. Full player choice.
The only right way out is to keep to our beliefs. No matter what. Whatever it takes.
Only with the destroy option do we have the chance (with hight EMS) to wake up in London's rubble. Which is a sign for the most dedicated players who took the right choice: now think about this a bit, fellas. You never left earth.
The story is not over yet. Now whether it finishes in a DLC, a free unlock-last-content-patch, or if it continues in Mass Effect 4, I do not know. What I know is that I can’t wait until BioWare announces it so I can kick some Reaper ass.
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palcsopeter
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04:42 PM on 03/30/2012
So far 99% of the people did not realize what happened to them in the last ten minutes of the game.
Please take 20 minutes and search for the term Indoctrination Theory on youtube and on the internet and check out the relevant videos and articles. You will be stunned (I was, after 3 days of similar rage).
Through the whole game there are signs (that we disregard/ignore) of Shepard being slowly indoctrinated (hallucinations - e.g. no-one can see the boy in the first scenes - headaches, etc). Check out the relevant vids for evidences. They are all there. After Harbringers beam, everything after, also the ending, is in Shepard's mind. He is in physically weakened state which the reapers use to finish the indoctrination. Nothing after is real. Now one thing we know about the indoctrination process is that the victim is not aware of being indoctrinated. The amazing thing BioWare did is, that it made not only Shepard the victim, but the player as well. But it gives dozens of hints that show why the scenario is strange and can’t be real, and if the player interprets this correctly, then he has a chance to see through the deception. If he doesn't, he will believe it is real, will fall to the reaper deception (and btw will then sream into the void of the internet that the ending made no sense).
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Melanie Hick
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12:18 PM on 03/22/2012
What's everyone's take on Bioware re-writing the ending? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/22/mass-effect-3-makers-to-re-write-ending_n_1371852.html?ref=uk-tech
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JoelDT1
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04:16 PM on 03/19/2012
OKay, I am going to be as constructive as I can. If you are a fan of the Mass Effect series, you love the fact that you have all these choices. More importantly those choices are going to play out in the final conflict. In the first game. There was a couple of endings, the end left you hopeful. Then there was the second game, more choices with some from the previous game coming into the game. These Choices based on proper decision making and investing time to help your crew. There were about 6 different endings with some variations as to who you might of lost. The third game, was completely redone, it has a very gears of war feel to it. The tradition RPG and minigames are gone. Then interactions have been dumbed down No personal interaction.

The end result is a space magic god child, that tells you that hey, The reapers were created Because synthetics are going to be created, and they will also rebel (BSG RIP OFF IDEA) So because they will rebel and destroy organic life. We figured we would create synthetics to kill organics and reset the process every 50k years.

Totally ignoring the dark energy references though out ME2 Even all the DLC of ME2 were just completely abandoned. I am not sure if it was laziness, boredom with the franchise. Tight schedule to release the game. Greed. I don't know. But this ending, this game is unfitting of the franchise.
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halcyondaze
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02:39 PM on 03/19/2012
I don't like articles focusing totally on the ending of this game. Yes, it sucks. It bites, there's no way around it. But the game itself is fantastic. However, the ending left an empty feeling for anyone who gave a damn about any of the characters or any other part of the Mass Effect universe. We're left with the conclusion that our actions as Cmdr Shepard might have doomed the galaxy and everyone in it, no matter what we do. We're doomed to a locked in ending that you can get by never touching a Mass Effect game before in your life and those of us who have characters lined up to be played through ME3, it doesn't really seem worth the effort.

Read an article that says Bioware thought it would be a good idea to leave things open and have nothing but speculation but that they've realized people need closure. Whether that means they'll do something about it is something else entirely. DLC was mentioned and that this wouldn't be the last time we see Shepard, but that they still haven't decided on fixing the ending. I was hoping they'd planned a let down and then come in with something awesome to make up for it but right now it looks like I was giving them too much credit. Unfortunate. The fandom is split now and there's fighting and arguing about the ending everywhere. Casey Hudson said he wanted speculation and polarity. Well, he got it.
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Skyler McLane
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10:07 PM on 03/21/2012
Regardless of how good a game is, if the ending is crap then the entire experience is crap. Now expand that thought over a trilogy that is supposed to run off decisions that matter that the player makes.

I've been a gamer since always. I know the emotional investment games can generate, especially RPGs. To have 3 games worth of emotional connection result in the same ending, regardless of the actions you took across those 3 games, even though the entire premise of those games is a vastly different story based on those decisions, is not only reckless, but a complete kick in the crotch to any fan of the series. FF3 did a better job of multiple endings, and that was 20 some odd years ago.
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tokenblackman
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01:37 PM on 03/19/2012
I played all 3 games and invested considerable time in creating the a Mass Effect experience that was uniquely my own. The last game was great and emotional right up to last ten 10 minutes. All the decisions that you made or all the characters you saved or died were made pointless by this ending. All I wanted was a little closure to the storyline. What do you get? The worst ending to any video game I have ever played. After this experience of extreme disappointment I may give up on video game as a really good story based genre. That is how bad the ending was.
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halcyondaze
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02:42 PM on 03/19/2012
That's a bit much. The whole series is a masterpiece, even if the ending sucked. The game was great until then. Mass Effect 1 & 2 are both still great games. I hated the ending too and it mars the experience more than it really should being a video game, but I'm already on a second play-through even though I know my adorable femshep isn't going to even have the *chance* of a happy ending.
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tokenblackman
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05:25 PM on 03/19/2012
The whole series WAS a masterpiece. When you play your femshep ask yourself if all decisions that you have made for past 2 games has any impact on the ending of this game. Does it matter if to saved or destroyed the Collector base? No. does it matter that you save or killed the Racnni queen no, does it matter that you saved the Geth or the Quarians. No. Nothing you do will matter. This is a RPG/Action game where the decisions that you make are suppose to have consequences. But the crappy ending take that right out of your hands.

On the other hand the actually gameplay is really good and I can understand why you might want to play it for that aspect but if you aer into games with intricate story line that have consequences for your actions, which Bioware said it would, never materialize in this terrible ending that is the same no matter what you do.
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lokiesteve
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11:39 AM on 03/19/2012
Poor Hitler. I haven't played this game but I do know what its like to finish a game you like and so I'm having Schadenfreude at all those who played it.
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ConnieMack77
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09:56 AM on 03/19/2012
In the words of the great Ralphie who waited so long for his Little Orphan Annie Decoder..."Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a B!"
The hype usually never lives up to expectations. So let's move on with our lives, and enjoy the things that truly matter.
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Ryab Brosch
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05:47 AM on 03/19/2012
I can see them be intimidated by plotting out 60 different endings depending on the choices you made, but let's be honest, that's what people wanted.

Before I started ME3 I was worried because I'd lost my previous Shepards to a hard drive wipe. But when I finished the game, I was relieved that my choices were irrelevant anyway.
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Will Hogan
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08:11 PM on 03/18/2012
"...once more people get to experience the game." In other words, never. I was considering getting this game. Not any more.
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redsquad
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01:30 PM on 03/18/2012
I can think of far more important things to get "outraged" about.

...and before some anally retentive person makes a "what do you know" comment, I've been gaming since the 80's, starting with an original "pong", and have owned a SNES, Gameboy, Nintedo 64, Gamecube, Mega Drive, Mega CD, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Atari Jaguar, Phillips CDi, XBox, and a PS1, 2 & 3.
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Lassi Kinnunen
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02:02 PM on 03/19/2012
you obviously didn't play me1, me2 and me3 then, but of course you could think of more disappointing things in life.

you'd be pissed off too. all it would have taken them for to fix it would have been 20 lines of text. it really is so bad that it destroys replay value out of even me1 if you see it, which is amazing as me1 as it's own game was pretty good and much more versatile than me3. so the ending is so badly executed it defies all logic. even a half-life 2:ep-something style mid explosion ending would have been better! even just cutting it half sentence to black and "the end" would have been better!

it's like sw:ep1 of game endings. all it lacks is jarjar.
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cihancaglayan
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07:29 AM on 03/18/2012
No Marauder Shields? This article is empty without him. My life is emptier without him, if only I would have listened...
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sev129
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04:56 AM on 03/18/2012
I'm one of the people involved in this movement, and respected news organizations such as these covering our story is definitely uplifting. That and the poll I conducted about the endings being quoted on CNN earlier definitely put me in a good mood.
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Jonathan Eltgroth
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04:31 AM on 03/18/2012
Here's a mission statement and goal outlining what Retake Mass Effect is about.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/10160364/1

Read it, if you agree, sign in and bump the topic.
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pete78
waiting for that big lotto win
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11:31 PM on 03/17/2012
there is life outside your front door go and explore your own world not deleve in fantasy realy sad for grown men to get turned on by a x-box
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Phattee
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04:38 AM on 03/18/2012
Please refrain from commenting on things you know nothing about.
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chipochipo
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04:49 AM on 03/18/2012
Entertainment can be important for a person's psychological health. It's why the U.S.O. exists. It's why happy endings where the hero triumphs over adversity fill us with feelings of hope that we can buoy us in own day-to-day lives. It's why the Wii is such a hit in nursing homes. Watching a movie or playing a game can have a very positive affect on a person's mental outlook and feelings of self-worth. This is a serious and important impact that the entertainment industry has in the real lives of real people.

That's one of the reasons why some people's response to the absolute dystopia of the ending of this game, which heretofore sent a never-give-up message that 'You can beat the odds,' is actually causing some people to feel depressed, from a loss of appetite to difficulty sleeping and a loss of interest in things. (This was not my personal experience, but I can sympathize.) The ability to have such a profound influence on a person should not be taken lightly.

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chipochipo
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04:49 AM on 03/18/2012
(continued...)

Games, more than traditional non-interactive media, engage and involve the audience. What happens to the player's avatar, to a lesser extent, can be felt to happen to the player. That's the nature of audience identification with a protagonist. Their journey is our journey. Otherwise, we would not care about any story and entertainment could not touch our hearts.

For the ME3 hero's journey to end so unexpectedly, illogically, and dismally would naturally affect some players in a deeply negative way. As in all good writing, the characters are concentrated representations of humanity, and thus provide valuable insights into "real world" human concerns. Priceless life lessons can be learned from good fiction, and I feel, are not to be dismissed out of hand.
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