ME3 Mod - A Simple, Logical Ending & Extended Anderson Convo

I feel like the more I've played ME3 the more aware I've become of the plot holes in the endings.  Thank goodness for mods!  
I've always felt that Shep is just a soldier who wants to stop the reapers.  Done.  No deep and meaningful allegories on the subject of human existence or any other crap.  Just kill the buggers.

I haven't tried Citadel DLC after the main game.  I like the 'we're all gonna die, let's party' atmosphere of it, and I'm so emotional by the end that I just need to walk away.  I'm the same with the suicide mission, I'm done right there as it's the perfect ending.
Maybe I'll try it that way round one day, in the future when I'll finally give Kaidan another chance.

Hey people  Haven't actually posted about ME in a long while... It's nice to see that people made stuff like this, but sad they had to. Shows how passionate people are, though. I have no idea why they removed the great Anderson stuff from the base game (which was the only "good" part of the original ending, I thought), so returning that is great! Having Shep just blow the Reapers back to hell and stand at the memorial is a shorter, but infinitely better ending than we ended up with. And I always thought Citadel not only played better after the end, but only made sense then, as well.

So if I ever replay the trilogy, I'll have to do ME3 with my PC version and try all 3 of these out. Still... I'm currently too emotionally scarred by it to do it even with them. Maybe if ME:A is great it'll make me want to, I don't know.

I can't possibly agree more with you both about choosing destroy, as well. See, I was an avid ITer - more than 4000 of my BSN posts were from the IT thread, ha (Which Chris Priestly was so kind to insult me for). Destroy is obviously functionally a requirement for IT, but the reasoning behind it applies to the literal interpretation as well, so it makes that easy. Why we should choose destroy may possibly be my overall, most thought-out and discussed subject about Bioware games, and the one I feel the most strongly about.

We're supposed to stop the Reapers, period. No compromise. After all, how can you compromise with entities who can bend you to their will? It's folly. Synthesis is gross on so many levels. People were banned on the original BSN for calling it "galactic rape", but it really is a violation of each and every organism in the galaxy, at their most fundamental level, so I think it's fairly applicable. A horrifying description, not to be used lightly, but accurate. It makes me sick. Control isn't at all on the same level, but it's just plain dumb after spending a game (and the previous scene) convincing TIM it wouldn't work, as Arcadia said. "But I can?" indeed.* I even went so far as planning a video about it. Not strictly IT, but supported it. The whole ending would be recorded and filled with Shepard remembering lines from her comrades, enemies, and herself, her encounters, and why she couldn't choose anything but destroy. Basically my thought process when playing. There was tons to work with. Sadly, I never actually made it, too much going on and I had trouble getting it all organized. Only made a trailer.

This clip I've posted before is actually from my work on it, and as you may have noticed, I modded it (for lack of a better term) to have Shep in full armour while choosing destroy to contrast her broken look before. It compliments her gaining the confidence to stop limping and look defiant.


So yeah... I made a post about all this stuff Sorry about that, I probably rambled. Still have stuff to get out of my system, obviously. Thanks for your posts!

*Thinking about that line just reminded me about the difference in delivery between Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale at the end. Meer sounded worn-out, like he could fall for Starkid's thinking. Hale sounded pissed, unbelieving. I loved it, suited my mood perfectly Love both performances though.

Good point, I'll change the title
By the way, it's not MEHEM, it's a lighter version.

Darn, you figured out our diabolical plan! Nyah! ;p

Why yes.  That was my plan all along.

Yes, if the Reapers wanted to stop the Crucible from docking it really should have been easy. Very easy. Oh well.

It's okay, I think we understand. My stomach turned whenever he appeared. Had a bad feeling from the demo. Honestly, despite the endings, the reaction from the fans really did produce some good, cathartic stuff.


And I don't just mean that, I mean smart stuff too. I think about half of my saved pictures are from back in 2012 and have to do with the ending But it goes to show what it all meant to people. I'm still sad and bitter about it, unfortunately. If they closed it off properly, I might actually be hyped for Andromeda. But of course if they did, ME4 wouldn't be Andromeda.

Anyway, here's a a bonus shot that applied to me at the time. Probably didn't help my performance at school

That's the main reason I still don't want to replay the trilogy even with the great mods in this thread. It would just dredge up too many feelings. Bad ones.

But thanks Arcadia for this thread, it may yet come in handy

The moment I saw the kid in the opening sequence of ME3 I knew he was going to annoy me. Now if only there was a mod that removed all trace of the brat, especially the dreams. My Shep is not going to be haunted by one kid going boom.

Yeah

I think it's a good thing you happened to do that. I think it would have helped alleviate some of the feelings I have. But even I had it better than most of the people I've talked to about it in a sense, since I only played ME after finding the ME3 demo. I played ME1 and 2 just shortly before ME3 launched, so I didn't have years to grow attached to it and build anticipation like they did. But it still affected me so much! Gah

Sorry, just rambling a bit

I hated it. I never touched ME3, only the MP, after the first PT, then I learned about MEHEM and waited patiently for the talented people who made it to refine it. So MEHEM is the first mod that I used for ME3. I tried looking for a mod to kill the dream sequence and couldn't find one. Then I came across a suggestion to run in the opposite direction than to the dumb kid; it will cut to the end after you keep going the wrong way.

For the latest PT, I had MEHEM and CEM which put the Citadel party after the war ended. A fine roundup imo. I never want to see the the kid or the moronic choices again.

This is a godsend. Now I don't have to deal with that stupid kid!

I really think it would have had a bigger impact if the Conduit/Star Child/wtfever-it's-called had taken the form of whoever had died on Virmire, instead of some kid Shepard met for, what, 30 seconds? I know it would punch me (or rather, my Shepard) in the gut to get to the Crucible and see a ghostly Ash standing there.