How to cope with the ending?

[Dishonored Ghost]

No other way of putting it: I’m traumatized. How did y’all cope with these endings man? After all you go through with your squad, your relationships, your choices. Doesn’t help that I chose to shoot the Illusive man at the end there and then the little cosmic tech god shows up and is like “Yeah haha you can control the reapers if u want like he was trying to do but say bye to ur body, or you can commit a selfish act of genocide and keep that bod, or you can hit up the anime fuse but like…God knows how that will turn out right? Will u or any other humans even be urself anymore? Also u don’t get to keep ur body for that one either good luck ;)”

Like damn man :,( I just sat there for like 20 min like: “I can’t make this decision, I just can’t” (and yes I know that’s an option but hell no I’m not letting this all be for nothing). Then after realizing I wasn’t gonna be happy with any ending and I love the writers for doing that but also hate them severely I was like “Time to be the selfless hero ig this galaxy needs and give up my body for the galaxy” and activated the control ending. It’s really as depressing as some of the cyberpunk endings and now idk if I can sleep tonight plz help <3

[Rotten_]

Post Mass Effect Depression usually lasts a week for me, My first ending was actually control as well, Control is the most depressing because it turns Shepard in a non organic reaper to help rebuild relays, It's tricky but I think Shepard would still remember everything as a reaper but they haven't got a form that can go see friends or anything, that's why I think it's the most depressing.

" Will u or any other humans even be urself anymore?" - I agree, it's exactly why I really hate Synthesis, It's not Shepards choice to make, that could cause some weird outcomes.

Next time you Replay, max out your War Assets and shoot the red light instead, that's my suggestion, this is how I always do it now.

[Dishonored Ghost]

Originally posted by LordKyle:

Post Mass Effect Depression usually lasts a week for me, My first ending was actually control as well, Control is the most depressing because it turns Shepard in a non organic reaper to help rebuild relays, It's tricky but I think Shepard would still remember everything as a reaper but they haven't got a form that can go see friends or anything, that's why I think it's the most depressing.

" Will u or any other humans even be urself anymore?" - I agree, it's exactly why I really hate Synthesis, It's not Shepards choice to make, that could cause some weird outcomes.

Next time you Replay, max out your War Assets and shoot the red light instead, that's my suggestion, this is how I always do it now.

Appreciate the diagnosis my friend. Figured it was untreatable. Totally agree with what you said and it is depressing for those exact reasons. Especially since my Shepard can’t get back to Tali </3 Fortunately I did max out my war assets so I can just re-load the last mission to try another ending but I plan on replaying again and again with fem Shep, to do Liara romance all the way through, and to do a renegade run.

[Viscount Danku]

Weakling. True gigachads go for refuse ending.

Happy ending mod + Citadel epilogue mod

[Master_Skywalker]

Well, even after all these years I still can't accept the ending.

[Dishonored Ghost]

Originally posted by Cris_Skywalker:

Well, even after all these years I still can't accept the ending.

</3

[countgrey]

To be fair, roughly 6-8 months before release there was a major leak that revealed most of the plot for ME3, and the writers all went "oh no" and rewrote practically the entire story. Originally the plot featured a lot about "Dark Energy" which was talked about in ME2, but that all got cut out during the rewrite. Notably, Karphyshyn has publicly stated that he thinks everyone would have been equally dissatisfied with the "original" ME3 ending because of how hard it is to end a series like ME. As an apology, the Citadel DLC was created and released for free.

[Dishonored Ghost]

Originally posted by countgrey:

To be fair, roughly 6-8 months before release there was a major leak that revealed most of the plot for ME3, and the writers all went "oh no" and rewrote practically the entire story. Originally the plot featured a lot about "Dark Energy" which was talked about in ME2, but that all got cut out during the rewrite. Notably, Karphyshyn has publicly stated that he thinks everyone would have been equally dissatisfied with the "original" ME3 ending because of how hard it is to end a series like ME. As an apology, the Citadel DLC was created and released for free.

Fascinating! I had no idea ab any of that thanks for the info! Yeah I could see why it would be incredibly hard to end the series. I think they did a great job overall just hard on the emotions. I think the endings are great don't get me wrong, it kinda hit me in that Life is Strange way where you can't get everything you want and I like that a lot because it's realistic, but man my heart...

[Coffee Addict]

i cope by realizing its just a game and not taking it too seriously

same way i cope with game of thrones or the last airbender movie i accept that its a thing and move on

[barzai]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i cope by realizing its just a game and not taking it too seriously

same way i cope with game of thrones or the last airbender movie i accept that its a thing and move on

Amen to that, friend.

Disappointed? Yeah.
Irritated? Yeah.
Ticked off at EA/Bioware? No doubt about it.

"Traumatized" ?!? Um...no. Not even a little bit.

[Rotten_]

Originally posted by barzai:

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

i cope by realizing its just a game and not taking it too seriously

same way i cope with game of thrones or the last airbender movie i accept that its a thing and move on

Amen to that, friend.

Disappointed? Yeah.
Irritated? Yeah.
Ticked off at EA/Bioware? No doubt about it.

"Traumatized" ?!? Um...no. Not even a little bit.

You’ve misunderstood the whole point of this discussion, it’s not about whether the ending is disappointing or not, OP is specifically talking about post game depression, it happens when people get invested in a story so much that when it ends you feel empty, that’s what OP is on about NOT the controversy of the ending.

[barzai]

Originally posted by LordKyle:

Originally posted by barzai:

Amen to that, friend.

Disappointed? Yeah.
Irritated? Yeah.
Ticked off at EA/Bioware? No doubt about it.

"Traumatized" ?!? Um...no. Not even a little bit.

You’ve misunderstood the whole point of this discussion, it’s not about whether the ending is disappointing or not, OP is specifically talking about post game depression, it happens when people get invested in a story so much that when it ends you feel empty, that’s what OP is on about NOT the controversy of the ending.

I have misunderstood nothing.

I am expressing my opinion that to be "traumatized" by a video game is grotesquely over-the-top and eviscerates the meaning of the term.

Losing a close friend or family member--that's traumatizing.

Driving past the Pentagon the day after 9/11 and getting a whiff of the smell--that's traumatizing.

Watching images of desperate people trying to climb onto a U.S. military transport and falling from the skies to their death--that's traumatizing.

Playing a video game? Um, no.

[hgshurtugal01]

Do the hidden ending

[Rotten_]

Originally posted by barzai:

Originally posted by LordKyle:

You’ve misunderstood the whole point of this discussion, it’s not about whether the ending is disappointing or not, OP is specifically talking about post game depression, it happens when people get invested in a story so much that when it ends you feel empty, that’s what OP is on about NOT the controversy of the ending.

I have misunderstood nothing.

I am expressing my opinion that to be "traumatized" by a video game is grotesquely over-the-top and eviscerates the meaning of the term.

Losing a close friend or family member--that's traumatizing.

Driving past the Pentagon the day after 9/11 and getting a whiff of the smell--that's traumatizing.

Watching images of desperate people trying to climb onto a U.S. military transport and falling from the skies to their death--that's traumatizing.

Playing a video game? Um, no.

Yes you did, you mistook OP thinking that he was on about the controversy of the ending rather than the depression someone feels for finishing a game they like, if you didn’t have that, you probably wasn’t invested into it, you can get traumatised by media, many films I have watched stuck with me, but am I really going to get through the head of someone who compares the death of a friend to the end of a game, not really.

[barzai]

Originally posted by LordKyle:

Originally posted by barzai:

I have misunderstood nothing.

I am expressing my opinion that to be "traumatized" by a video game is grotesquely over-the-top and eviscerates the meaning of the term.

Losing a close friend or family member--that's traumatizing.

Driving past the Pentagon the day after 9/11 and getting a whiff of the smell--that's traumatizing.

Watching images of desperate people trying to climb onto a U.S. military transport and falling from the skies to their death--that's traumatizing.

Playing a video game? Um, no.

Yes you did, you mistook OP thinking that he was on about the controversy of the ending rather than the depression someone feels for finishing a game they like, if you didn’t have that, you probably wasn’t invested into it, you can get traumatised by media, many films I have watched stuck with me, but am I really going to get through the head of someone who compares the death of a friend to the end of a game, not really.

So now you want to be the topic cop? I thought you were better than that.

And if you want to get into what the OP meant, here's his lede: "No other way of putting it: I’m traumatized."

Not "depressed." Traumatized.

Anyhow, I'm done with you. Have a great life.

[Rotten_]

Originally posted by barzai:

Originally posted by LordKyle:

Yes you did, you mistook OP thinking that he was on about the controversy of the ending rather than the depression someone feels for finishing a game they like, if you didn’t have that, you probably wasn’t invested into it, you can get traumatised by media, many films I have watched stuck with me, but am I really going to get through the head of someone who compares the death of a friend to the end of a game, not really.

So now you want to be the topic cop? I thought you were better than that.

And if you want to get into what the OP meant, here's his lede: "No other way of putting it: I’m traumatized."

Not "depressed." Traumatized.

Anyhow, I'm done with you. Have a great life.

There’s different types of trauma that warrant different situations, you are taking the word traumatised too literally.
you comparing the death of a family member and friend to the ending of game makes zero sense, it’s complete idiocy.

Anyway if the OP is sad and traumatised by the events of Mass Effect he is entitled to feel that way, I know I do, it’s had a lasting effect on me.
But who are you to say otherwise.
Extremely pointless either way.