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Mass Effect 3's free “Extended Cut” DLC to extend ending this summer

BioWare answers angry fans with free end-game scenes

Words: on April 5, 2012
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  • Fox_Mulder - April 5, 2012 11 a.m.

    This is the best way Bioware could have handled it. I hope the original ending is left unchanged they just wrap things up a little more. I'm fine with the ending, but I do agree that more closure was needed. Now, if they change the epic cerebral ending they spent so much time and thought to make, I'll be more than slightly pissed.

  • Clovin64 - April 5, 2012 11:01 a.m.

    Nice. Even though I was kinda dissapointed with the ending, I did'nt want Bioware to do a completely new one because it just wouldnt feel like the true genuine ending they intended. I'd love to get more closure for the real ending. Is the indoctrination theory true? Are the Reapers really defeated? Is the galaxy really buggered due to the mass effect relays being destroyed? And did my Shepard survive in order to make little mutated cross-species babies with Garrus?

  • Balaska - April 5, 2012 11:15 a.m.

    So instead of new playable DLC, some new stories, new characters or what ever, we have a new ending taking up Bioware's time. /sigh

  • ParagonT - April 5, 2012 11:18 a.m.

    Lets see how they handle this... I really hope they don't just troll the community...

  • ObliqueZombie - April 5, 2012 11:35 a.m.

    I'm happy with it, since it's free and doesn't actually rewrite the ending. As unhappy as I was with the ending, I didn't want an entirely NEW one--I just wanted answers to the plethora of questions I had. And being free, it's a win-win for me! Beyond stoked for this!!

  • Hydr0ponicK - April 5, 2012 11:43 a.m.

    I can't believe they destroyed their artistic integrity by listening to their consumers... The gaming journalists warned us, the doom of all video games is near my friends.

  • Unoriginal - April 5, 2012 11:54 a.m.

    This is not destroying integrity anymore than any other DLC as it is not changing the game but rather adding to it, just like any other DLC in existence.

  • benjitenji - April 5, 2012 12:05 p.m.

    Actually, the ending WAS a last minute change. The original ending, yes the OFFICIAL original ending was supposed to involve a galaxywide dark energy apocolypse, where you could choose to definitively save the universe by letting the reapers win, then go on to stop the dark energy, or you could choose to destroy the reapers and try to stop the dark energy yourselves, but at much more risk of destroying the universe. However, something made them change their mind in development of ME3 and go with the ending that we have now. What they did did not maintain their artistic integrity. They changed the ending that they had foreshadowed and planned for, and instead plugged in a conflict (synthetics vs organics) that was slightly touched upon during the series, but never really the central conflict or theme of ME. All this DLC will be is softening the blow of the seemingly pointless theme shift that thy did at the last minute.

  • KnowYourPokemon - April 5, 2012 12:17 p.m.

    I know it might be hard to figure out over the internet, but this is sarcasm, pure sarcasm.

  • patbateman17 - April 5, 2012 12:19 p.m.

    Except the Deus Ex endings are total bullshit - "At least I never abused my power, I retained my humanity" - oh really Adam? I'm pretty sure I killed every person I could and abused my powers the whole game. I LOVED Deus Ex:HR but the endings were total shit, not that I cared, the 35+ hours beforehand were amazing.

  • patbateman17 - April 5, 2012 12:20 p.m.

    Silly gamers, this will just add to the list of end-game credits with the names of all the people that wrote in about the ending. That's the extended cut. Bazinga!

  • ChiChiRocket - April 5, 2012 12:42 p.m.

    Baseless claims FTW

  • MetroidPrimeRib - April 5, 2012 12:50 p.m.

    I'll never understand Mass Effect fan logic. Why would you want another ending when the original one was so bad? It's like a reverse Asura's Wrath were Capcom will release another ending nobody asked for for no reason

  • aliengmr - April 5, 2012 12:55 p.m.

    Facts FTW. Remember Haestrom?

  • Hydr0ponicK - April 5, 2012 12:57 p.m.

    sarcasm over the internet = so much win. Wonder if we'll see any articles now claiming the end of art and video games as we know it.

  • ChiChiRocket - April 5, 2012 1:06 p.m.

    I do remember Haestrom. Show me where this was the "official" ending that they change at the last minute.

  • james-collar - April 5, 2012 1:28 p.m.

    Nice Matt, but I think the haters would rather insist they pulled the Star-Child out of their butts at the last minute. As for my opinions on the article, I think this is the best thing Bioware could have done. While I did not HATE the ending (I in fact kinda liked it, please don't flame me though I know many will as I've gotten about as much hate directed to me as Bioware for supporting the ending), I do think it had a LOT of WTF we need more info stuff, and the fact that they are making it free is very much great and one of the biggest concerns of many of the haters that they'd have to pay for an ending fix. Well, you won't have to pay for it. :) You won guys, congratulations (and in this respect, I really mean that... While I may not have agreed with the mass droves who hated Bioware/EA, I did think the ending left something to be desired so I am getting what I want and I HOPE sincerely that you guys will be at least somewhat appeased. We as fans need to stick together WITH Bioware/EA to help all of us make better games for us to play and more money for them to give us more games. We all need to work together to make our hobby the best it can be.)

  • MayorOfAmerica - April 5, 2012 2:51 p.m.

    Seems like they will never be able to please everybody. I just hope the game can go back to being celebrated for the artistic achievement it already is :-)

  • DualWieldingIsNotFeasible - April 5, 2012 3:41 p.m.

    They need to ret-con the entire space child bullcrap ending to be a dream sequence, because that's what we all want. As it stands right now, the Mass Effect series (for me) could be summarized thusly: you go on an amazing first date. Yeah, a couple things could've been better, but the experience is so good, you forget those details. Your second date goes as perfectly as you could imagine, it's the best night of your life and you want to spend the rest of your life with this woman. The third date starts like the second, but even better, because you're both comfortable with each other. As the night winds down, she invites you back to her place. Slowly, she leads you into the bedroom. You embrace, and each move in for the kiss. As your lips touch, she grabs the back of your head and forcibly vomits what feels like gallons of bile into your open mouth. You stagger back, fall over, and stare up at her with a look of horror and betrayal. "I know it's not what you expected," she says, "but you already payed for dinner, so who cares if you don't like how it all turned out." That might seem hyperbolic, but after growing to love these character and this universe so much, to have every fond memory I have of these games ruined by the worst ending in the history of ending, I simply can't abide that.

  • christian-shaffer - April 5, 2012 4:46 p.m.

    Wow...graphic. That does pretty much sum it up though.

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