Mass Effect 3 Ending and Why We Hate It!

Many people are enraged about the ending to "Mass Effect 3". Jeremy gives you his thoughts on the Mass Effect 3 ending, and what they could have done (and still could do) do to make it better....

[youeyez]

One thing I never got is Shepard didn't have to die. If you choose to destroy the reapers why get closer when you have a gun with unlimited ammo? So your bullets do slightly more damage? Because you enjoy the feel of fire against your skin? Did you think it was a moving target? Was it a personal vendetta against the thing? There's no good reason for walking up to the fucking explosion!

[ghostgate]

"My 76, 000 subscribers" LOL. JJ sure has come a long way in three years!

[LGF]

Reaper's motivation: We're robots who are going to kill you every 50, 000 years so you don't get killed by other robots. Because organics will always create robots who will destroy them (cough...Geth & Quarians).

If you haven't already come across it, I'd recommend the MEHEM mod if you didn't like the canon ending.

[heatseeker]

It's been 3 fucking years and I (and I'm sure many others) am still mad. There is no peace from this rustling.

[MomoMochi]

I just pretend Citadel DLC is the real ending to the trilogy

[chrisokeeffe]

I bet EA rushed the game out and didnt give Bioware enough time to finish the ending, i mean its happened before **cough cough** Battlefield

[blendingdude]

Your Garrus impression is just perfect!

[TravisMohan]

instead of the citadel commander Shepard transports to bioware office and beats the writers with the script.

[pkr]

Marauder Shields and the Three Husketeers. Never forget their sacrifice. As they tried in vain to protect us from the ending.

[KevinKoolx]

The ending of Mass Effect 3 is a what happens when EA pressures a game to be released and they don't have enough time. I bet Bioware had an actual ending but they ran out of time and had to rework the ending to meet a deadline. The Mass Effect series is amazing until the last 10 minutes of it.

[warhawk]

The thing I hate about the ending is how they just make Shepard nod their head to whatever the God Child says. Especially when Shepard themself before this confrontation proved the God Child's circular logic wrong... repeatedly. What happened to the Shepard who looked Harbinger straight in the eyes and said "Maybe you're right. Maybe we can't win this. But we will fight you regardless! Just like we did Sovereign! Just like I'm doing now! However insignificant we might be. We will fight. We will sacrifice. And we will find a way! That's what Humans do."? What happened to the Shepard who when they met the unstoppable force they pushed back?

[dylanalexander]

Guys, it's almost March of 2014, and we're still talking about this shit ending. Not saying Jeremy is, but I've noticed that on forums, comments and other websites that this ending is STILL being discussed. Why? Because we loved the rest so much, and the degree to which we hate the ending is directly proportional to the degree that we loved the first 98%.

[neil]

Story architecture 101: Never introduce new plot points/characters near the end, and always have the hero play a fundamental part in resolving the story's conclusion.

[IndigoSeth]

5:16 "If someone play good for the entire time, they should earn a good ending !"
You said it all !

[BigBoss]

Pretty wild how things go: just finished a full series playthrough of the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, and now I'm back to this video that, in many ways, launched Jeremy to stardom. Crazy! ME: LE is 10/10 btw. Go play it.

[sizords]

from 76, 000 from when this was made to 673, 000 today. well done jeremy

[CapsTheArbiter]

76k subs? 2 years later, and he's approaching half a mill....well done, Jeremy. Proud of you, bud.

[weldinsson]

Relays blowing up would destroy the solar system, the armada was destroyed..

[lindseybirrell]

YES! This series has all the feels, only to leave you feeling crushed and cheated in the end. Bosh'tet!

[sebastianjoseph]

Just finished playing the trilogy. Always wondered why people hate the Mass Effect 3 ending. Now I know why. I chose the destroy ending only so that Shepard could live. If Shepard was able to still be alive in the synthesize ending, I would have chosen that since that seems to be the noble, life lasting and peaceful ending.

In the Destroy ending, you may destroy the reapers but you kill all synthetics like EDI and the Geth and like the blue kid said, future generations will build synthetics only to repeat this.

Assuming control of the reapers could be risky considering that it may control Shepard eventually like it did with Illusive man.

The synthesize ending seems to be the better ending but it would have been a perfect ending had Shepard lived in that ending. I mean, humans could coexist between the synthetics like EDI and the Geth. Not to mention that the reapers help in rebuilding life back again. Synthetic ending + Shepard living would have been the best ending. Hands down!