Leaked video of upcoming ME:A patch from BioWare

So I usually wind up in the ending defender's camp. Partially out of a deeply ingrained need to be contrary play the devil's advocate.

They weren't good, but maybe I just read too much sf -- especially the short stories -- because they were never bad enough to make me recoil in terror and cupcakes. I mean, you pretty much have to have a weird transhumanism mindfuck at the end, or else people might think you were just writing it to have spaceships! It's very traditional. And since the EC, I find them tolerable. I appreciate the intent, but will absolutely agree that the execution left much to be desired.

I'll hold this particular grudge until BW learns... but I doubt that will ever happen.

I don't follow the "whole premise of the series" bit. Anyway, this is going into total-rewrite territory, and doesn't really answer my question. Are you standing by the position that adding Refuse was a bad thing?

Ok sure whatever. Enjoy your own little reality.🙂

Just simply by comparison any ending we would have gotten would have been considered stellar.

That was pretty much the impression I got as well.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the person directly responsible for the poetry that was Mass Effect 3's ending became the project lead for Mass Effect Andromeda

The endings were so bad, they had to cart the sequel off 600 years later in some otehr ga;axy because the Milky Way ended either robot-human hybrids, completely devoid of AI/synthetics, or Shepard became Papa Reaper.

There's simply no reconciling that mess; they would have needed for any sequel to chreate three entirely different settings to play through, since a world with each of those endings looks vastly different.

Well played!

At some point they are going to have to address what is the current status of the Milky Way galaxy tho right? Or are they just going to continue this series in Andromeda and not discuss anything related as to what happened in the trilogy?

I personally wasn't too upset at the endings, but they missed such a huge opportunity. The way the narrative was developing was in a manner that was pointing to beings possibly responsible for creation itself and the entire prospect of what the meaning of life is and significant or insignificant it is. Maybe the plot and the weight of trying to tell that story crumbled under it's own weight, but i thought there was going to be a huge climax with all that was involved to confront the one entity possibly responsible for what we considered to be all creation or an entity on such a level.

Maybe time constraints forced them to tell a uninspired ending, but what we received wasn't that bad and EC cleared some things up, but even with the EC, i felt Bioware missed the chance to tell a mind-numbing, compelling story that would have lead to striking conclusion....something that huge would probably have needed a 4th game in the trilogy lol...

I'm not expecting Andromeda to top the trilogy in terms of scope since there is no galaxy/universal wide threat going on, but my experience so far with the few hours i've experienced, it already feels like a watered down version of Star-Trek....and maybe the story gets better later on, but eh, i guess i'm used to this series having dark themes and levels of desperation and peril....i'm not really gettin' that vibe from Andromeda, but maybe we aren't supposed to since we are "pathfinders"...