http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/10084349/

Sup, good read.

3 endings = same outcome with different colors

Actually, it all sounds pretty magnificent and at the same time a disgusting ploy to get people to buy DLC.

Yeah, according to choice you were given, the relays weren't meant to be destroyed in the control or synthesis endings.  So i take it they weren't destroyed irrespective of what the lazy pre rendered 3 colour cutscene showed.  Besides, even if the relays are broken you can still communicate through the bad science fiction of quantum entanglement and presumably fix them.  But I'm trying hard here not to fall into the denial trap and start creating desperate fan fiction to try to rationalise what wasn't very good science fiction in the first place.

In my game I died in the believe that everything I did up to that moment was in line with my paragon character.  After that point, there's no more role-play, you're dead. 

I think I would just mod the save game if i were you.  I really didn't enjoy all that planet scanning and exploration "content" crap they had in the 1st 2 games.  UGH.

Re saving Rachni Queen, there's no other benefit other than Rachni being really useful in the construction of the crucible.

Bioware pre-announcing $9.99 DLC with alternate ending to Mass Effect 3?

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/294158,bi...re-closure.aspx

9.99 for an ending. They are getting my middle finger. I am going to write to them. Ugh , bloody money suckers

Its like uh that was an unfinished product fear not , pay 10 bucks and get yourself an awesome ending.

If they ever charged for a alternate endings DLC. 

EA really outdone themselves too much in the marketing department for ME3 this time.

I chose the destroy option. Reapers gone. Shepard gone. Normandy crashes on unknown island. The END. Uninstall.

For me, it is as simple as that. I did what I was supposed to do and moved on. I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Still worth my money since I enjoyed 95% of it, last 5% is full of turd but that was the same with The Witcher 2 which also had a very lousy ending.

You may label it however you want but, in my opinion, the indoctrination theory makes a lot of sense.

If it were to be true, mass effect would be one of the greatest trilogies of all time. A true masterpiece and a piece of literary brilliance in game form.
Right now, it commits literary suicide right at the end and it simply ends in disappointment and not the bittersweet satisfaction you get at the end of a brilliant book or movie. Sometimes, you just don't want films or books to end, but then they have to and you're content with that because the ending was satisfactory, or maybe even fantastic. But this... This is not satisfactory in any sense of the word.

I am not finding comfort in tin foil hat fan fiction and I do not believe I am entitled to that ending.
I simply want to believe that ending is true because it is bloody brilliant.

Frankly, in my opinion, the only ones with entitlement issues are those who want all the DLC for free. Just because they have the game does not make them entitled to the DLC. The stark hypocrisy is very appalling. You may argue that it is unethical or that maybe it is just not right, but well that is the exact feelings of those who drew through logical process that the indoctrination of Shepard might be, in fact, true and given the ample amount reasoning and proof behind it, I have no reason to believe it is false.

Like someone once said, "Why not believe in something until proven otherwise, rather than disbelieving it until proven true?"

Cheers.

There is already a precedent for this kind of shit. Its standard practice for game industry right now.

It first started of as a lame horse armor pack haha, then it evolved into cutting up part of the storyline and repackaging it as a DLC *cough* Deus Ex Human Revolution THE MISSING LINK *cough*. Oh the irony!  Now it has degenerated into cutting up the ending of a game and then selling it as a DLC.

Perfect marketing strategy. Most gamers are sheeps who will buy anything that reputable devs throw at them.

There was never a mystery surrounding the Protheans. The only reason they were relevant was because they were closest to defeating the Reapers. Everything else was just extra. But yes I do feel that without Javik the game would be less, I never played the game without Javik so I wouldn't know but I can't see how the game would be like without him. I won't defend their decision to release it as DLC because I feel like it should've been included in the main game as well. Besides, you never found out anything new about the Protheans in ME3 except for their touch and feel abilities. You already knew they were trying to preserve themselves but failed due to power failure in ME1. In ME2 you find out they turned into the Collectors. In ME3... Well nothing new. Since Javik was a soldier and all he couldn't even tell you anything.

The game ends with mass relay being destroyed all over the galaxy
Isin't mass relay suppose to go supernova when destroyed?

Galactic wipeout
just as planned

The more I play the ending, the more I'm convinced that Synthesis is the best ending. 

KOTOR = The father of the Old Republic.

It wouldn't be surprised if it did, there are like dozen different writers doing the storyboard for ME. Same thing like how they messed up Mass Effect: Deception.

Im more intrigued what was the lore consultant doing or if they even did any proof reading before finalizing the works for publication. The reason why I always oppose transacting a franchise to other parties to work with, which always ends up being retconned to suit their own convenience.

As an example, Icarus Effect from DX: HR was pretty damn good because it was written by the very same author who did the storyboard for the game.

^ What the crap did i just saw?

Is that what happen to that novel or its exaggerated?