Out of Pod Experience

Its hard for them to turn a blind eye when over 60 thousand u s d (Sorry but my phones auto correct kept changing it to use) has already been donated to child's play.... to get them to change the ending of the game.

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Yes I know it doesn't make much sense, but there you have it.

Well the moment that I saw it hit 10k I already figured bioware loses this fight. The fact that it went well beyond that was surprising.

CCP is reading this and going "oh man I hope our players don't get any bright ideas from this".

EA sold you a watered down piece of crap, and then tried to sell you DLC that made it not-so-much a watered down piece of crap? Who wudda thunk.

There's a reason I don't buy games from EA that don't have extensive 100% great reviews.

I played the previous 2 games although not the third. I didn't even know it came out for a week. With all the brouhaha about the ending I did not chose to buy the game. I just watched the ending and I see where everyone is going with this. The ending is not bad, it's just not fitting.

Let me elaborate.

The ending felt more suited for a linear game like CoD or something. You didn't feel like the choices you made influenced anything. The ending was just.... it.

Also people are mad at the ending because it's the ending of the ME series and that makes them sad no matter what.

Very BSG'ish ending. ;)

I actually don't mind endings like that, if they are done well. In fact I didn't have much of an issue with the ending of ME3 for that matter.

What I did have an issue with, and can understand why other people feel this way, is in how it seemed like the ending was the same regardless of your actions... At least for the most part.

And that kind of stands in direct contrast to one of the reasons people loved the series the most, and what has been heralded even by Bioware as one of the revolutionary claim to fame features of the series.

I don't think they can *not* fix it now, honestly. This has gone beyond the scale of even the monocle. It is... the Monocle Effect!

IE: Ending DLC coming.

On the other hand, it could really be a dose of fridge brilliance.

This is also a good vid.

I have watched the video and also read this article and have to agree with you.

I have now changed my mind from 'this ending sucks' to 'brilliant!!'

Also, why the old man (Stargazer) at the very end says: One more story. Why would he say that if the game ended? Maybe because it's not really over. F***** epic!!!!

Or maybe we're just wise enough to not take everything so literally and actually give human intelligence the credit it deserves?

I'll admit that there's a lot about the indoctrination theory which could just be explained away as "bad writing," but there's some stuff which is completely undeniable.

1. After you shoot Anderson, you're bleeding in the same spot where you shot him.

2. When you wake up from getting hit with Harbinger's beam, you hear that "the entire force was decimated, nobody got to the beam." Why didn't the person saying that see Shepard?

3. The first time you see the kid, in a duct on Earth, when Shepard gets interrupted by Anderson and the boy disappears, a Reaper growl can be heard. In one of the books, it's explained that this noise occurs when a reaper indoctrination attempt is thwarted.

4. James hearing an unusual "hum" on the Normandy. This line of dialogue would be completely pointless if it wasn't a hint that there's some semblence of indoctrination going on.

5. The rachni queen talks about how "oily shadows" caused her people to become indoctrinated once again. Later on in Shepard's dreams of the burning kid, you can see shimmering black, oily shadows, and at the end of the game when you're talking with the Illusive man, there are clear black, shadowy lines on the edge of the screen.

6. Shep's eyes. If you pick either "control" or "synthesis" - the options which the reapers want you to pick - your eyes very clearly become like The Illusive Man's, and before that, Saren's, two indoctrinated people. On the other hand, in "destroy," where you defy the reapers, your eyes very clearly remain the same.

More astute gamers will also note that the final area on the Citadel is actually a mixture of the Cerberus base, the Collector base, and the Shadow Broker's lair, all things which could just be assembled from Shepard's memories.

Why would the writers include any of these things if the ending was meant to be taken literally? If you can explain these things, then sure, maybe the theory is just a bad attempt to grasp at straws and believe the ending was good. But don't go around calling all of us butthurt because we're able to see and interpret things that you can't.