Poll: Mass Effect 3 ending

With the extended cut just released and the controversy over the endings I thought it might be good to open a poll to see what people thought.

Now before we begin just a few ground rules:

• No bashing the game or the developers, or those for or against the endings. I have strong feelings about this topic as well but please try and keep them in check.

• This isn't a place for in depth discussion over the endings. There's plenty of other places to go into detail about this topic.

• We are not trying to convince people one way or another. This is simply an honest look at what people think.

So with that said, the question is: Do you think the endings in Mass Effect 3 are good or bad, yes or no?

edited 27th Jun '12 5:22:53 AM by tsstevens

I like them, now that the Extended Cut is out.

Before the Extended Cut, they were far too abrupt and lacked closure.

After the Extended Cut, Red and Blue became awesome. Green is kind of a Mary Suetopia and seems rather too idealistic, even though ME is a pretty idealistic series to begin with. But apparently, that does appeal to some people. The fourth option was an awesome case of Reality Ensues. As far as I'm concerned, Bioware has been more than forgiven for the original endings.

edited 27th Jun '12 7:00:16 AM by lrrose

Green ending is still omgwtf space magic.

I was okay with the original endings and am now a fair bit more okay with the revised ones. I can't say they are good or bad, but if I had to pick one of the two I'd say they are now closer to the former than the latter.

edited 27th Jun '12 7:40:20 AM by Spirit

Synthesis always sounded way to creepy to me. Fuse all organic and synthetic life? Sounds too much like playing God, which is just silly and too improbable. Besides, how would all sentient races react when they suddenly realize they've been genetically altered without their consent to be cyborgs forever? Would they be overjoyed or horrified and freak out? I'm betting on the latter.

I like that Bioware realized they were being stupid and flat out changed several things about the endings. The goodbye to my love interest was also really sweet, but Good!Extended!Destroy is the only ending I'd classify as "acceptable". I would've liked a confrontation with Harby and a slideshow that changes majorly based on your decisions a la the Fallout series, but I guess that was too much for them. The Catalyst's new dialogue that's supposed to expain his motivation, origin, and how Synthesis works just makes everything more confusing, however, and I'm still filled with the resolve to kill that smug little genocidal prick.

The new refusal and synthesis options really annoy me, though. The former seemed like a Take That, Audience! and the latter like the cliched "sunshine and lollipops" ending that ironically all the pro-ending people were mocking.

edited 27th Jun '12 7:44:07 AM by CP/FMfan

Tensions over this game are high enough. This thread violates the one thread per game rule, and it's enough of a controversy magnet as it is.