There's no accounting for tasteRocketboy1313 wrote:Unless you're into that kind of thing.Fixer wrote: However instead of getting a dessert, you're shown a video of the catering staff spitting loogies into the meal you just ate.
Now it doesn't matter how much you may have enjoyed that meal when you ate it, that extra bit of terrible knowledge means you will never remember that fondly again.
I think what people have mentioned regarding their own feelings with the ending shows a difference in how it was it experienced.
They did re-write the ending from a distant finale where a bunch of nonsensical things happened, it was implied everyone died and a new civilisation was built from the wreckage thousands of years later (with a "now buy DLC!" pop up).
At the moment of the game's release, people didn't believe that was the ending, they couldn't even get an answer from BioWare as to whether or not that was the ending which lead to a theories that EA was making them release the real ending as paid for DLC, or the "indoctrination theory" which made sense of the illogical ending and series of events by making it into a dream sequence.
Then BioWare called their fanbase whiny and entitled for not getting how "deep" their writing was.
With all the drama gone, the rewritten ending and the zero expectations from new players due to the endings bad reputation. Mass Effect 3's ending experience can now just be merely considered bad, rather than worst ending to a piece of fiction ever created by mankind.
One good thing that seemed to come from it that was MrBTongue's "tasteful understated nerdrage" videos on the subject and the and the in depth analysis of people loved the series (and hated the ending) were the basis for the Citadel DLC.
