Played Mass Effect 3 demo and Arkham City this weekend

[scipioafricanus]

Anyone have thoughts on Extended Ending? I was fine with the original ending, but this did explain a few things. I doubt the angry people will be satisfied though.

[spoiler]The scene with the crew putting Shepard's name on the memorial wall should have been in the original ending, and I think a lot of people wouldn't have many problems with it.[/spoiler]

SA

[Jericho941]

It's actually an ending now. It's a garbage ending, but at least it's an ending, and Extended Cut fixed it about as well as they could while inexplicably sticking to their guns about [spoiler]StarChild and the Crucible.[/spoiler]

As Larry Correia said of Prometheus:

The problem with Prometheus being a Thinking movie is that the more you think about it, the less it makes sense. The more I think about it, the more things I have a hard time with. (you’ll notice that you never hear anybody complaining about the plot holes of the Avengers, because it didn’t try to be a Thinking movie. It just says shut up and enjoy your awesome).

This is what happened in the end of ME3. This is what happens when your lead writer basically locks himself in a closet, craps out an ending specifically to cause "Lots of speculation for everyone!!1" and sends it straight to the game's programmers without bouncing it off the rest of his team:

Pretentious garbage. And that's the end of Mass Effect.

But, here's the thing. EC did "fix" the ending enough that I can replay Mass Effect without feeling like, "What? Really? That's what I'm building up to? Why am I even bothering?"

The game is still 99% irrelevant fluff until you fire the Deus Ex Machina cannon, but at least there's a payoff now.