ME:A Ending Thread (EXTREME SPOILERS)

The ending was ok, i guess, with all the major choices paying off (Like The pathfinders, Reyes-Sloane, etc...).
But i was expecting to fight the Archon, not a bunch of robots and defend the hack zone...
Good epilogue tho', it left the door open for the game.

I'm looking foward to that Quarian DLC (rip wallet).  *Coughs*

Yea, but then they did Solas. So it's 50/50, I only wish it was...more obvious that Solas isn't who he seemed, though. We don't know the scale of the benefactor though as of yet, so to be determined. 

I finished ME:A last week, the ending up to the final boss fight was good, but it was totally unsatisfying. Doing the hack points to defeat the Archon was so totally unsatisfying. Blowing up a robot and not the Archon didn't give any feeling of victory any more than in ME2.

I was like, 'this was it? I at least got to put a bullet in Saren's head, what about that guy?'

No, we just got to be taunted, insulted, demeaned and then our sibling gets kidnapped, badly hurt by him and absolutely ZERO payback. That was what ticked me off with the terminator baby in ME2.

Yeah, we never saw much of his capabilities, not even a cut scene to show him being a bad-ass, just his annoying taunts and insults

Yep.

Still feels like too little for me though.

Like they could have done a fight like this half way through the game, then more development and maybe a bigger final fight.

In a different game/series I guess.

And they tease something of more Archon in MEA anyway.

And also where are the Quarians?

Just finished the game a couple of days ago, so my thoughts are still pretty fresh.

First, I absolutely loved the game, and adored the ending even more.

Going down to Meridian, watching Sara struggle and everything go black... playing as Scott, scared but resolute to save his sister, SAM's ever so subtle regret in going too far in merging with the Pathfinder. The emotion in that section was amazing. How futile that tiny pistol feels, how Dunn tells you to go, to save the Pathfinder, that they're with you all the way. That's the first hint of how emotional things are going to get.

I actually screamed at the monitor, "Vindication!" when Sarissa used her biotic shield to protect the shuttles (I exposed the truth but supported her all the way for doing the right thing in the situation). Seeing everyone turn up was amazing, the Pathfinders and the Moshae kicking ass, Reyes' little comment on the comms, which makes me sort of want to swap romance to him next game (stupid sexy Reyes).

I turned around at one point and several krogan suddenly appeared, yelling that they owed me, and I recognised the scouts I saved. My other squadmates turning up.

Then the boss battle, which I found really frantic, even on casual. Archon, slowly getting less self-assured and increasingly angry as control starts slipping away from him.

Then the epilogue, which I haven't seen since Dragon Age: Origins, which it really felt like. The reassurance that none of our crew wanted to stay was wonderful.

My Ryder is ready for the next adventure.

I actually thought for one stomach clenching moment that the Archon was going to exalt our twin. (Still time for that I guess.)

I do have one gripe but its pretty small. While Sara was stumbling towards the door with Archon gloating at her, the companions were just idly wandering about. Jaal, my romance, stood nearby and just watched. I was like, really? You're not even concerned? Of course, later on Drack is trying to charge the door down and Jaal is yelling into the comm with appropriate panic in his voice, so it was forgiven.

With Patch 1.10 being the last one, knowing there's no more single player content coming up and what happened to Quarian Arc will be explained through comics... I guess MEA2 is coming up with the twins as main protags and maybe then everything we've found out in MEA will be explained.

The final mission was really well designed, and other than not getting to shoot the Archon in the face, I was generally pleased with the ending.

There are some open points, true, but that was obviously meant for DLC/game 2. I was very sad to hear DLC will not be coming

I see. Thanks for the clarification. Who knows, if they continue the game then that's good, but i think people won't be very happy to wait 5 or more years to answer these things that left unanswered.

Just finished a completionist kind of playthrough, every nook and cranny I could find. And still, I just want MORE MORE MORE