Times Video Game Endings Were Changed
Mass Effect 3
You knew this was coming.
Ahhhh Mass Effect 3’s ending. What else is there to say that hasn’t already been said?
Mass Effect is a part of a particular set of Western RPGs that BioWare largely owns that sees players make choices throughout a game’s story that play out on a grand scale. Mass Effect 3 was no different — choices you made directly impacted the way the game played out, at least until the ending.
In a game defined by dozens and dozens of choices, the ending of Mass Effect 3 consisted of a choice with three options that largely had the same effect, with some minute differences in dialogue and a different color hue.
You’d think the pinnacle choice in a series about choices would matter right, more? You’d be wrong to think that. Furthermore, the final choice in Mass Effect 3 destroys everything you’ve built as Commander Shepherd throughout these three games due in part to the destruction of the galaxy’s mass relays.
Those relays are how Shepherd and everyone else in the galaxy traveled from planet to planet in seconds. With them destroyed, the galaxy you worked so hard to save is no longer united. In fact, most are isolated from all they knew before as they have no means of traveling that far any longer.
This ending left such a bad mouth in players’ mouths that BioWare delivered DLC that sought to fix the ending. While it didn’t fix every problem, it provided the much-needed closure players desired after completing Mass Effect 3.
Despite that DLC, though, Mass Effect 3 will remain infamous in the conversation of botched video game endings. Do you think it should or is it time to move on?
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