Final ME3 DLC - Citadel

[frozentundra123456]

That's not how my ending was. Pretty much everyone lived on in one form or another.

Well, 3 members of my party survived and were seen getting out of a crashed ship. Whether they could survive or not is another question. The rest of my crew, who knows, it didnt really show what happened to them. Then there was some lame cutscene with "papa shepard" and a little boy.

When I say the universe was "basically destroyed" I meant the universe as we knew it. With the mass relays destroyed, who knows how many civilizations would survive without supplies and materials. Certainly the universe would revert to basically a "dark age", and might never recover the technology to perform interstellar travel. One could argue that the universe would have been better off if Shepard had done nothing, and let the destroy/rebuild cycle just continue.

I am only talking about the original ending. After this many years of the franchise, they should not have put out an ending unless it was ready. Bioware does not get do-overs in my book for the "epic" ending to this game.

 

[Red Hawk]

Well, 3 members of my party survived and were seen getting out of a crashed ship. Whether they could survive or not is another question. The rest of my crew, who knows, it didnt really show what happened to them. Then there was some lame cutscene with "papa shepard" and a little boy.

When I say the universe was "basically destroyed" I meant the universe as we knew it. With the mass relays destroyed, who knows how many civilizations would survive without supplies and materials. Certainly the universe would revert to basically a "dark age", and might never recover the technology to perform interstellar travel. One could argue that the universe would have been better off if Shepard had done nothing, and let the destroy/rebuild cycle just continue.

I am only talking about the original ending. After this many years of the franchise, they should not have put out an ending unless it was ready. Bioware does not get do-overs in my book for the "epic" ending to this game.

I won't argue that BioWare should not have had to go back and change the ending. If you don't want to give them your time for a "do-over", fine. I find that approach too self-depressing, though. Why focus on the old, bad stuff when there is new, better stuff?

But that was not the point of what you are saying. You are acting as if the original ending still holds true and that the details from the Extended Cut don't apply to the lore in general. Stuff like the mass relays being destroyed and the universe being inevitably devastated does not happen with the Extended Cut. It doesn't matter that BioWare does not get do-overs "in your book"; that's where the lore stands right now.

 

[Arg Clin]

This DLC feels like irelevant bits that was left out in editing. (though I assume this is not the case).

It was ok - I enjoyed it. I still would have preferred to have paid the same extra $ that I paid for the DLC for the main game and have had more content within the original storyline instead. But that's a different discussion.

I'll say; if you're a fan of ME3 get it - it's worth the money. But don't expect something spectacular.

 

[Arg Clin]

Well, 3 members of my party survived and were seen getting out of a crashed ship. Whether they could survive or not is another question. The rest of my crew, who knows, it didnt really show what happened to them. Then there was some lame cutscene with "papa shepard" and a little boy.

When I say the universe was "basically destroyed" I meant the universe as we knew it. With the mass relays destroyed, who knows how many civilizations would survive without supplies and materials. Certainly the universe would revert to basically a "dark age", and might never recover the technology to perform interstellar travel. One could argue that the universe would have been better off if Shepard had done nothing, and let the destroy/rebuild cycle just continue.

I am only talking about the original ending. After this many years of the franchise, they should not have put out an ending unless it was ready. Bioware does not get do-overs in my book for the "epic" ending to this game.

I think Bioware had to walk a tightrope on this one. Because it seems as if they felt they had to defend their position that the original game was not broken. (in an artistic, legal, PR or whatever sense)

In reality they changed a lot of things, like the mass relays and citadel not being destroyed. The Normandy was not marooned and Shepard did not die in the destory ending. (yes I realize this last bit was not exclusive to the EC, but in EC it was uplifted from 'a sort of easter egg' to more or less dedault)

The whole mood (at least in destroy that I played) was changed from bleak to hopeful.

I think it was mission accomplished for Bioware. Though EC is not the perfect ending to the Mass Effect series it's acceptable and addressed a lot of the critisim by fans.

On a side note I do hope they made notes for future games to make the endings more like it was originally intended (16 truly different endings based on player choices thoughout the game(s)) More like DA:O basically - so it should be wellknown stuff for Bioware.

 

[darkewaffle]

The morning after the party is pretty amusing. You get an amazing audio note from

Spoiler

Mordin

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Also everyone has the hots for Liara lol. My playthrough didn't do anything more with the Tali / Garrus romance either (I romanced Traynor so they're both available) which was I was hoping to see more of. I wish all the little one-on-one sequences were a bit more developed, a lot of them end in a matter of seconds it feels like. Still a highly entertaining expansion.

And I never played and saw the 'original' ending but I don't think the Extended Cut told you anything that you shouldn't have already known personally, with the exception of maybe your crew's survival.