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Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn reveals original Mass Effect 3 endings
Posted: 15.03.2012 17:40 by JonahFalcon Comments: 6
Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn revealed his original intent for the ending of Mass Effect 3, which involved the concept of Dark Energy, which was hinted at in the previous two games, such as on Haelstrom during Tali's recruitment mission, when she commented that the planet's sun was an advanced age for no scientific reason.


The Dark Energy was a force that was going to consume everything. According to Karpyshyn, "The Reapers as a whole were 'nations' of people who had fused together in the most horrific way possible to help find a way to stop the spread of the Dark Energy. The real reason for the Human Reaper was supposed to be the Reapers saving throw because they had run out of time. Humanity in Mass Effect is supposedly unique because of its genetic diversity and represented the universe's best chance at stopping Dark Energy's spread."

The original choice was between killing the Reapers and trying to find a way to stop the Dark Energy threat with what little time was left before it consumed the galaxy, or, "Sacrifice humanity, allowing them to be horrifically processed in hopes that the end result will justify the means."

This still doesn't change the main sticking point of fans: all of the recruitment, all of the alliances, all of the sacrifices, were essentially moot because they essentially were inconsequential to the resolution.
Source: OXM

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By nocutius (SI Elite) on Mar 15, 2012
nocutius
Well apparently anything would be better that the actual endings.

And this alternative ending sounds awesome, an actual moral choice that would have resulted in a few distinctly different endings.
By Longsword (SI Core Member) on Mar 16, 2012
Longsword
Red explosion, green explosion, blue explosion! Yeah, can't say I was too happy with that. The dark matter thing did sound cool. I guess I just wanted the Dragon Age: Origin sort of ending, a proper epilogue for dozens if not hundreds of hours worth of game time :/
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Mar 16, 2012
herodotus
The game obviously just neeed a good ending to a trilogy. Not much to ask for, anyway. Smaks of "HALO 2".
By Sshodan (I just got here) on Mar 19, 2012
Sshodan
That's what the ending should have been! And the decisions that we made would have been very much relevant - united galaxy has much better chance to actually find a solution when if we failed with some of the unifications it may be problematic. With a proper epilogue is would have been awesome.
By KurallCreator (I just got here) on Mar 26, 2012
KurallCreator
So, according to him it's -

Yo Dawg, to ensure you don't destroy the galaxy with dark energy we created devices that create so much dark energy that you can travel across the galaxy in hours without fuel, so you don't destroy the galaxy with dark energy!
By fenixf03 (I just got here) on Apr 09, 2012
fenixf03
I prefer this ending a hundred times over the ones we got. It is actually an ending and a serious one at that, not a rushed retarded thing that destroyed the trilogy.

What we got was the worst ending to any game I have played. I am not asking for a perfect ending, but not one where it destroys the trilogy with a retarded explanation of organics and synthetics, and one where the normandy is flying through a mass relay while the fight of the galaxy is going on.

It be wise for them to release a free download content to erase or fix what they have done, because they will deservingly lose a fan base and faith, and of course the fans deserve closure. The ending would have even been better if the game ended once Shepard passed out on the citidel...talk about more annoying then halo 2. With all this, they are releasing a multiplayer download.

In closure, The Old Republic is a key contributing reason this game had this fail of an ending, and that game even failed its predecessor KOTOR.