Unless you have a pirated copy of the game in the first place its not worth doing, EA will probably ban the Origin accounts of anyone they catch doing it. Bye-bye any games you tied to that Origin account.

I have been following the "ending hallucination" thread on BSN and while they make some compelling arguments, I really don't think Bioware made fake endings. I think the fans are just trying to tie all the plot holes together into a fake ending as they can't grasp that Bioware just put a crappy ending on the series.

1. If they intended to make a fake ending why would they go through the trouble to make 3? With 3 somewhat different cut scenes? All ending with the whole goal of mass effect "Stop the Reapers." In all 3 Shepard sacrifices himself to stop the Reapers and protect organic life. Yes, the mass relays are destroyed and it would cause a lot of problems since the fleet would be stuck in the Sol system but life does go on as we see from the ending scene with the Stargazer telling to story to the kid.

2. Making a fake ending means everyone would have to download a DLC later so the people who don't have internet would be screwed. Not to mention they wouldn't be able to charge for it otherwise fans would be more outraged that Bioware sold them a game with the wrong ending just so you would have to pay more for the real one later. While an alternate DLC ending isn't out of the question since we saw this with Fallout I don't think it would be released specifically to replace the current ones.

3. The argument of Shepard being indoctrinated by Harbinger seems stupid to me. Why would he try to indoctrinate Shepard instead of just kill him? What purpose would it serve if the reapers hell bent on destroying all organic life? Also why try to indoctrinate him in the middle of the battle?

4. The argument that Shepard starts to turn into a husk in the synthesis and control endings because he is getting indoctrinated but not in the destroy ending doesn't make sense. He doesn't look like he turns into a husk but "burns" which makes total sense as he is "electrocuted" in one and in an energy beam in the other. In the destroy ending we don't see him die. All we see is the explosion engulf him so he could have survived.

This also makes the "secret" ending of him being alive only possible in the destroy ending as it's the only one we don't see him getting vaporized. I believe he is still on the Citadel as he is buried under rubble and it's quiet. People have been saying he woke up on the street after breaking Harbinger's hold but that doesn't make sense. He would have passed out in the middle of a warzone on the street yet it's quiet and he is buried under rubble?

5. The infinite ammo gun/dream feeling makes sense as the ending is supposed to be more cinematic and you aren't supposed to run out of ammo. And the slow motion seems to add more of a "I'm half dead and making a last stand mood."

6. People claim the Guardian tries to keep you from going to the destroy ending and killing the reapers but there is a youtube video where the player only gets the destroy ending and the Guardian says "you only have one choice." To me this shows the endings are in fact real since there is no way one can claim the reapers would indoctrinate Shepard and then get him to destroy them.

7. I really don't know what the scene with the Normandy crashing on the planet is other than bad writing. I guess it shows not everyone in your team died and is sort of an epilogue? However, it doesn't make sense that people in my team on Earth would magically appear on the Normandy flying away from battle; maybe it's just random.

All in all I think Bioware just put a bad ending on their game and people are grasping for straws to make sense of it. Granted Bioware could run with the indoctrination theory and spin the situation claiming it was their plan all along and offer a pay for DLC ending. But I hope it's not a "pony and sunshine" happy ending as I think the best way to end Mass Effect is for Shepard to sacrifice himself to save everyone not show him on a beach having a drink with his LI watching his kids run around like some people want.

As for Bioware they have been quiet since release probably due to everyone going on vacation and the major ****storm people have raised over the endings which can't be dealt with until their staff gets back. We saw something along the same lines with CCP when the NEX store hit and P2W fiasco. I bet we will hear something next week and it will either put the nail in the coffin for Mass Effect or be a "We got you so good" spin on the ending.

Unless you have a pirated copy of the game in the first place its not worth doing, EA will probably ban the Origin accounts of anyone they catch doing it. Bye-bye any games you tied to that Origin account.

I remember not so long ago when that guy got banned from actually playing Dragon Age II after his BSN account got banned because he criticised DA II on the BSN forum. I can see the same **** happening with Origin accounts now they are all tied in together.

If you did everything right and choose the right ending you get a scene where Shepard lives.

I don't see how that would be possible unless the endings were a hallucination.... ;p

If you did everything right and choose the right ending you get a scene where Shepard lives.

I don't see how that would be possible unless the endings were a hallucination.... ;p

It doesn't make any sense! It's like someone had a really detailed plan on what was going to happen in the third game then they got booted from the project and some moron took over instead, in fact, knowing EA I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened.

It's got some flaws, to be certain, but it's a bit like pointing out the scratches on a lightbulb - when it's shining you don't notice them at all

Funny you say this, actually. You know that guy who wrote KOTOR, ME1, and ME2? He had nothing to do with ME3.

And goddamnit, I want to play KOTOR now.

I'm compelled to reply to this thread, but I won't read it - I'm only 3 days into playing the game and, while I hope I'm wrong, experience has taught me to never trust the Eve forum community to maintain a thread like this beyond a page or two without some asshat posting spoilers without warning. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm not taking the chance

Well just because we get a scene with Shepard taking a breath at the end doesn't mean it's all a hallucination. If you look closely at the video you will notice he is buried in a large amount of rubble. Some of this rubble looks rectangular implying it's part of the support structure of the Citadel. And unfortunately a good example of this is that the rubble looks a lot like what they showed on TV after the World Trade Centers fell.

If Shepard was waking up on the street after Harbinger almost killed him with the laser there wouldn't be that much rubble laying around him and it would look more like what we saw when Shepard is running toward the beam. It seems to me like it's a way to continue the story if Bioware chooses to like Halo 3 did when MC gets in the stasis pod.

The ending sucks at so many levels, no matter the effort we did in 3 games with building a perfect Shep, it all comes down to 3 choices, Shep dies, reapers gone (possibly Geth and EDI also) and mass relays gone (space goes back to stone age) in all of them.

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Best i could do in first pass, and i have no will to play anymore.

On the account of "best ending", we just killed all Geth + EDI, blown everything up to hell.
And then Shep takes a breath of air, how did he survive the citadel explosion at point blank? No station means no air (and he breaths), no gravity (nothing floating around Shep) and no heat (space is cold usually).

And even if he survived all of that, he somehow made it in atmosphere reentry without roasting himself to hell, he smacks the earth in god knows what speed, doesn't splatter himself across the continent, he manages to land in some rubble, and take a breath of air...not to mention he was injured like hell and if we take into account his last scenes with Anderson, Shep had a "bullet" wound in his left side (around kidney) and was bleeding like a pig.

People have confirmed, that if you romanced Tali, you screwed up on Rannoch, Tali takes a cliff dive, she is dead, and in the end she walks out of the crashed Normandy....
Same thing with your 2 teammates that vanished before the Beam charge, i lead EDI and Tali to final battle, we all got "wiped out" and they walk out of Normandy. Plot holes all around.

So "dream" ending or epic laziness from bioware. Dunno whats worse.

My bet is on dream ending. The rest of the game is too consistent to make it not true >_>

Still, i am afraid to get my hopes up. This was a massive "F you" to the fans. Still cant get how the hell could they even imagine showing this, after the leak months ago when they said its just temporary ending, and to be revised. Then it goes live...

If they didn't have the end ready, they should have said so, not take this hit from the fans, unsubs from SWTOR and shitstorm all around.

If they plan to release it as a DLC, and even charge for it, that's a new low.

I DO like it that the endings are not Hollywood endings and I think a large part of the fanbase is ranting because of this.

Hi, don't speak for other people please, you remind me of that stupid 99% soundbite that the occupy movement was throwing around, I happen to believe the central banks are the route cause of the problem and have more power than the actual government which is why all their buddies got bailed out while the other ones failed.

Selling an ending to a game as DLC? Hmm, I wonder why the movies never tried this..

Oh, that's right, gamers are idiots


(Do it EA, at this point I'd bet they all buy it.)