Adding multiplayer is fine but they should've kept it as a separate module - maybe for grinding new weapons for their single player characters or additional epilogues to the single player campaign. Also, what happens if you buy the game later and people stop playing multiplayer? You're pretty much destined never to have the best ending.
#Mass effect 3 endings plus
There is no mention of playing the multiplayer during the single player campaign plus when you play it, it's awfully laggy for Australians. So how should it have been done?Firstly, having the multiplayer determine the outcomes of the single player campaign was a mistake. Yes, I know it was possible for Shepard to die in Mass Effect 2 as well but the chances of that happening were low - in ME3 it's the more likely outcome not the exception. You'd feel a bit disappointed you wasted that much time. Imagine being told there's a 99% chance your character will die at the end of your 50 hour game.
#Mass effect 3 endings movie
With games, it's a harder act to pull since a movie is only a 2-hour investment of your time - a game of Mass Effect 3 can take almost 50 hours.
With movies, a depressing, surreal or ambiguous ending you can probably get away with. While choice is always good the endings are all a bit depressing (unless you have heaps of points as I've mentioned above). It's an interesting mix - some of the endings are pre-determined by your actions in the ME3 and the previous games, but you also get a choice of ending.
Another option is Shepard controlling the Reapers, maybe a bit like JC Denton merging himself with the Helios AI? Then there's one where you combine synthetics and organics together so they can all get along, similar to the advanced e-democracy ending of Invisible War perhaps where humans basically transcend. One is destroy all synthetics and the mass relays with them, kind of starting a new Dark Age like Tracer Tong wanted in the first Deus Ex. They creepily draw parallels with the endings from the Deus Ex series. If you manage to get onto the Citadel with a moderate EMS (which is what I had) you actually get three choices for an ending. Oh and that brings me to another point: the choices you get for an ending. Maybe I didn't get enough support from the Salarians or maybe Renegades get a bonus from ME1 if they happened to save the Alliance fleet, although I thought it wouldn't have made much of a difference.ĭifferent choicesAs a consequence, I was quite disappointed with my ending, even though it was technically a win for organic life. Consequently, it seems quite unlikely that anyone could get the requisite 4,000 points minimum in order to get an ideal ending. I ended the game with around 3,300 EMS and this is after doing 95% of the side quests - I think I missed a couple somehow but I did just about every side quest I could.
Apparently you need have an Effective Military Strength (EMS) of 4,000 if you've maxed your paragon/renegade points or 5,000 if you haven't. However, after some reading into the endings, it turns out that it actually is possible for Shepard to survive which is the perfect ending. Hell, Shepard's cheated death so many times it's probably about time his luck ran out. You don't want a stupid Hollywood ending where against all odds, Shepard somehow survives. Initially, I was okay with the idea that Shepard dies. I was relieved at first when Bioware reassured fans that you could still get the perfect ending with single player, however I find this hard to believe and it's actually either impossible or very difficult to achieve with single player alone.īe warned, the material below will contain spoilers!Įffective Military StrengthOkay, so for those of you who have actually finished the game, you'll realise that most endings results in Shepard's death - even the so-called better endings. If you want to have the "best" ending in the game available, make sure you not only do all the side quests but that you also play Galaxy at War (the multiplayer component to ME3). For those who haven't started playing Mass Effect 3 yet a word of advice: Well I've finally finished Mass Effect 3 and I can have an informed opinion on the game's ending (or at least the ending I got).
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