Mass Effect 3 Director Casey Hudson Responds To Endgame Criticisms

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Personally i enjoyed my ending, I chose green as its obvious that's what they wanted you to do plus it sounded like what my shep would do, considering it makes everything and everyone share even more bonds creating what would hopefully lead to peace through the cosmos. That is further concreted through all the events i played through during the game choosing to unite all the species. Its during game play that your end really change's, only it ask's to use your own imagination a little. How did you leave the state of your galaxy?

As for people upset about the stargazer and kid end, I don't see why unless you are taking things to literal at that point they are saying Shepard has become a legend, bigger than what s/he really was, what we played was the literal, the stargazer more than likely told a story larger than life that has lost accuracy over the many years besides how would anyone know Shepards last moments. All i saw in that end was, Hey things worked out in the end peace came about, species travel the stars everything is peachy keen. Just my opinion i guess

Next up, why was the illusive man on the citadel. This one I am sad i need go through the finger fatigue to explain. Its clear from the start of ME3 that the illusive man is indoctrinated with that said he is nothing more than a tool for the reapers, more than likely he wasn't even sure why he was on the citadel just that was where he had to be, poor guy had voices whispering in his head for a long time now. With that being said its clear as to why the reapers would keep an agent who represents the only remaining division in humanity next to the "open citadel arms" button.

Next up, what happens to all the fleets sitting next to earth. Necessity is the mother of all invention along with a newly united galaxy i think they can either up the speed of their FTL (their FTL does allow for travel between solar systems just needs a decent amount of eezo to keep going so a new fuel source would be nice as well) or use their already set up com buoys to coordinate a mass rebuilding effort of the mass relay or new tech relay. Hell in my universe everything is synthetic organic so some rules had to change there the available options are limitless, but all i hear is you need a predefined canonized idea for you to memorize and gloat over others with.

Alright as for the joker turning tale and running. Again the fact that i need to spell this out for you does not bode well for you creativity, imagination, or ability to grasp the obvious, when you see an explosion regardless of color you are probably going to try and get away from it, i am sure all of the ships tried to outrun it considering the reapers have already broken off from combat, though only the Normandy could actually make a somewhat go of it.

As for how everyone from you team got back to the Normandy, IDK space magic? LOL Cortez is BA pilot decided everyone would wanna help shep on the citadel but the beam was off so he picked them up and made a mad dash for Normandy which then began to try and outrun multicolored explosion. As for why the mass relays didn't blow up the system they were in, it was a calculated explosion one that clearly was making a different use of energy than a physical force, idk about the different endings but in green it somehow rewrites DNA of everything, so yeah i am going to go with not the typical kind of mass relay failure.

A couple final thoughts, the end battle could have been bigger and better i heard it described as a "wet firecracker as a opposed to a grand firework show" and i really couldn't agree more. There should have been a long hard push where you bump into all your friends on the battlefield and help along the way, or something IDK anything but a very short run where banshee's and brutes are the best that's getting thrown at me. The whole end battle felt a little rushed to me. That was not shep landing in a sunflower farm fighting hoards of enemies along side a strong personally built military force like the commercial promised LOL. Really though where were my Rachni where was criminal syndicates i jumped through hoops for that could have been an interesting ally on the battlefield having to trust them and the sort and for that matter where was any of my support, that's great 50% made it, i recruited the effin galaxy there should still be over a million people pushing with me, instead i felt like a had a rag tag team of plush doll humans with targets painted over their face. If any part of the end made me upset it was the let down of what should have been a battle to end all battles, well you cant always get what you want though.

Now i could probably keep going on about other topics people have raised but i mainly wanted to touch on the things people had to say about the loopholes and discrepancies in the end. Most important to take away from this.

"Its not the destination that matters, its the journey there."