[ SECRET POST #2041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[murderershair.livejournal.com]

As somebody whose only exposure to ME is through Video Games Awesome's playthroughs, I was initially irritated by all the ending wank, but by the extended cut and all the essays about the "Fuck You Ending", I was just really, really glad I'd never played the series, tbh. And kinda amused.

[world_eater]

You missed out tbh. I only played the extended ending and I don't understand why people would wank about that.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Because it wasn't what THEY WANTED.

Some wanted their LI to have some great moment. Some wanted shepard to be unmistakeably alive. Some wnated Garrus to be naked. Whatever it was they didn't get, they were mad about it. As if they were ever entitled in the first place.

I mean, I hated the endings, and I'm glad they made them better, but that doesn't mean I expected the endings to be a blowjob by the games makers. And a lot seemed to expect just that.

[(Anonymous)]

The EC was more of what I wanted. The original endings were too confusing and vague, and endings with Shepard and the LI reuniting and all that explicitly-spelled-out crap would have been way overboard.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Fuck you ending was hilarious though. To this day I don't understand the butthurt.

The entirety of the third game was drilling in "WE ARE LOSING BADLY, OUR EVERY VICTORY COSTING US FAR TOO MUCH. THIS ONE PLAN IS THE ONLY HOPE."

So what does abandoning the one plan get you? YOU LOSE.

It makes sense. The troll way they did it was best though. So many people found it out in ways that injected the hurt right into their butt.

[(Anonymous)]

When I played the EC for the first time, I got the 'Fuck You' ending (which I didn't realise it was being referred to as until now lol) by mistake. I heard the catalyst out and listened to everything he had to say and then, while walking backwards towards "destroy", I shot in his direction (like I had done the first time round) and when it zoomed in on his face and his voice changed, oh my god, I couldn't stop laughing. I couldn't believe shooting him in the face would make everything go so wrong. I thought it was brilliant that they put that in.

[darkmanifest]

Bioware's reaction was just as butthurt, though. Like, auto-forcing the Reject ending if you so much as shoot through the Starchild's hologram because, apparently, they found out that players were firing at him out of sheer frustration? You could practically hear Bioware crying "No, YOU!"

[(Anonymous)]

Shooting at the hologram was how I found that ending, and honestly? I thought it was great that such and ending was added and that it could be sprung onto you in such a surprising fashion.

I don't pretend to know the motivation behind making that trigger the ending, but I honestly saw it more as an easter egg - and a hilarious one at that - than as a passive-aggressive "take that" at the fans. Then again, I got ME3 something like a week before the EC was announced, so although I had found the original ending(s) lacking, I never had the time to actively participate in the fandom's disappointment or to let said disappointment fester. It's possible that the surprise Fuck You ending was mean-spirited in intent, but I think it's also possible they just thought it would be funny or make sense that the Starchild would react to open hostility.

[darkmanifest]

I agree that it's possible it's just for a lark (though I don't think it makes sense in-story - why would a hologram of an invincible intelligence older than dirt care if you're mean to it?) The surprise and the Reject ending as a whole is just one of those things that would have been pretty innocuous if part of the game from the start, but come off as suspicious after months of so many fans writing unwieldy essays about where Bioware can shove their Starchild. I can't say what was intended, but they had to knew exactly how it might come across at this point, so there's at least a dash of trollolololol going on.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Because it accepts that as your answer.

You are shooting at it? Well fuck you little hairless monkey. You want to respond to reason with violence? SO BE IT.

Just cause you can't physically hurt it doesn't mean you can't insult it.

[darkmanifest]

So basically the invincible, eons-old, galaxy-harvesting synthetic intelligence has more delicate fee-fees than a krogan, okay.

[aetter]

It was hilarious trolling on BW's part and I appreciate that. Plus, it was a good use of Liara's beacon thing, which I loved.

Honestly my favourite ending out of that mess.