Indeed. Also, C64 owners never suffered the humiliation of having a computer that was smaller than their joystick ;-)

Personally I am still not sure what I would think if a "new" ending DLC was(will be?) released.

Either, the current ending are supposed to be taken at the first level, no special reading, in which case it's just lazy script writing, but well it's not like it would be a first in video games history or even for Bioware.

In which case I am not sure I would really like having them change it, if it's really the endings they "planed" then they should assume them and keep them, no matter how bad/silly they are and not change them just because fans asked them too.


But if it's option two and the "I-something" theory (I am trying to avoid spoilers here) that floats on the Net is correct then that would be actually pretty clever on Bioware side (Bioware doing something really clever in one of their scripts... the world is really going to end in 9 months).

In which case it would mean that this "new" ending would have always been the "real" ending and that not releasing it with the game original release but later as an hopefully free DLC would have just been a ploy to get peoples talk about the game.

But in this case I would still be very pissed because it would mean that "real" ending of the game is only available if you actually play online as you can't have enough EMS points by only playing offline even if you do all the side quests.

in the ending chapter of the primary game (where you have to go fight the big bad queen that is more of a push over than any other boss) there is a part where you encounter a version of Aribeth who is from another dimension (where in she never went all evil), this is part of the whole thing with the "old ones" living in a dimensional rift or something and this un-fallen version of the character just happened to have wandered into it.

why the fuck there is no mention of this at all, anywhere .... because they re-named her "Asheera" and she just gives you her anti-lizard pendant, not joins you. why the fuck they needed to drum this whole thing up when it just kinda diminishes the character and distracts from the plot environment, not to mention provides all the function of a pedestal with a really good item on it ....

Came to this place for the games, stayed for the old school techno-poetry.

Oh, you mean the original campaign. Do not care. That one sucked. ;)

This video does a pretty good job at explaining why the ending was bad, and why a simple DLC that adds to the ending won't fix it. The only way to fix it is to completely rewrite it.

I really, really liked the ending. As I did the whole series. I now consider Mass Effect series among the best games I ever played. (And I played most of them).

I haven't seen the vid above and I haven't yet viewed the discussion why the ending is supposed to be bad (I wanted to avoid spoilers). But I really don't get the uproar. At least the way I played through the story and especially the narrative worked great for me.

Edit: Allright, I get it. I watched the video you posted.

I was just so awed by the whole game that all the things he (mostly) rightfully ciritizises didn't bother me.

Well, the community is trying to fix things right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4EyfXOTJ4&feature=related