The Mass Effect ending support group

See, this doesn't bother me at all.  I'm gay, but the overwhelming majority of players are straight guys.  This appeals to them.  Miranda is meant to come off as the type who enemies will underestimate because of her looks.  It's outright a part of her character that she's "perfect".  So, yeah, she's hot and the player is meant to understand that.  If BW did that with a guy would any gay guys get upset about it?  I know I wouldn't.

The game definitely needed more Jacob codpiece focus. 

The primary issue here is that people leegitimatley liiked the endings, people legitimatley liked the extended cut, heck people even liked the original endings.

And sure the counter argument could be 'well people liked the butt shots'. And this would be right...but then it does come down to milleage will vary when it comes to this sort of thing because it comes down to A. while I am sure you are right the ending *might* be changeable through sheer math I would still think it would be a lot easier to just move the virtual camera a couple of degrees *up* rather then cutting your ending. And B. at least imo the changing of the butt shots does not really compromise their vision or the tone of the work...actually imo the inclusion of said shots tends to do just that...changing the ending, even through sheer math, just might compromise that vision.

I am sure the ME3 ending meltdown was all a figment of my imagination then. As we've established, though, they're already void. Liara lives regardless, the contract is broken.


Actually, the UE3 editor suite, is very easy for that. It has flow charts and all you have to do, is find the code that has the Anderson scene trigger and cut the line that connects to the Starchild sequence and connect it to the ending.mp4 of your choice. No editing within the sequence required. The same suite is available in the UE4 engine, which I have some limited experience in, but it is free and available for you to try, if you want? It is easily verifiable for everyone here. It's how the engine works. And it is a perfect spot, because all choices converge to that single scene, like, you're going to get it to play out regardless and everything after it is entirely disconnected. It's basically ... beautifully simple, as how the sequence plays out. Like the original plan was to have it end there and have the Crucible fire and somebody smoked way too much of the wacky tobaccy and decided to make something "artistic".

It's a good thing that Bioware decided for us, already, then. Refuse is already out, Synthesis is out and Liara is alive. The endings are already invalidated.

 People are very inconsistent when it comes to fanservice. They say it's bad but until it isn't, it's just a mess.

Reapers died before green beam (we are involved in the death of 4 in ME3 alone), and you pointed out one of many ways to deal with the circuits.
The only thing about the Reaper War we can possibly unpack from the trailer is that this is after.

You can't do away with the circuits with no established lore about them. If that is so, everyone is alive in that trailer. No established lore needed. Nobody is in quantum state anymore. Just because you didn't see them, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Again, if you are to "unpack" anything in the trailer, some things have to be taken at face value. Liara is alive, no synthesis. Otherwise, it's false advertisement.

You do raise a good point. While Liara's quantumness is a bit of a...question mark...for me (I have heard she is actually one of the most unquantum characters in the entire series), the whole ME 5 trailer does...at least imply...certain things. Now of course we can come to find out that our implications and reads of things are entirely off base but this also does suggest at least some cannonization of the ending...which then kind of begs the question about their insistance that the LEs ending will be the EC.

(Though also keep in mind I suppose we could also just get a situation like at the end of ME 2 if Shepard died.)

Even if they can, nothing has given any indication it is. Therefore, if we are to "unpack" from the trailer, Synthesis is non canon.
No connection has been established. There is no reason to come to such a conclusion.


Then it is false advertisement. Even in the cases of the previous trailers, of other games, there is truth. Ashley can be in ME3, Kaidan can be in ME3, Sheploo and FemShep can be in ME3. This will be the first trailer that is plot sensitive and is entirely fabricated, not even proof of concept, like the Anthem trailer was, which while not entirely true, it was, at least, approximately correct.

I think themikefest posted a guide where everyone dies, but you can still get Synthesis, with only the people left on the Normandy alive

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None of that has been established, there's no reason to think so. At least, not yet. Again, if we are to unpack anything from the trailers, lots of Reapers dead, no green circuitry. The trailer heavily implies Destroy as the ending.