Mass Effect 3 originally had a different ending that would have lined up the fourth game in the main space RPG series, a former BioWare writer explains during a Reddit AMA.
Be careful, this story contains spoilers for the entire Mass Effect series.
As we all know, Mass Effect 3 ending is perfect, beautiful and loved by fans all over the world. The Catalyst gives Shepard three options: destroy the Reapers, along with any other synthetic life in the process; he takes control of the Reapers, but is killed in the process; or throwing himself into the Crucible, somehow creating perfect unison between the Reapers and the rest of the galaxy, but also, of course, dying in the process.
There are many reasons why people get offended. Personally, I think that these so-called “moral” choices in video games are often very simple and ridiculously weighted in favor of a particular option, and that the ending of Mass Effect 3 is one of the best, or at least the most visible examples of the issue. But that’s just me, and I digress.
Drew Karpyshyn, a Canadian former BioWare writer who also has Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic under his belt, recently revealed on Reddit that Mass Effect 3 was initially going to end in a completely different way, potentially more enjoyable than it would also imply for Mass. Effect four.
“We plan very rough ideas,” says Karpyshyn. “Basically, this involved bringing in the Harvesters via mass relays and then blowing up the entire network to destroy them, as well as destroying/damaging the relays and isolating each galactic community from the others. But we still had a lot of loose ends to work out, and there were some problems with this option, like what we will do in the next series of games.
So it seems like it was possible to take out the Reapers without killing everyone, and maybe the ending wasn’t up to player choice at all. Therefore, the fourth game may have included the restoration of the mass relays and the reunification of the galaxy after the war. Actually, it looks quite promising.
But I remember this meme, the shiny, elegant and futuristic city with the title “What would society be like if…”. Perhaps somewhere else, among the vast intergalactic firmament, lurks a portal to an alternate dimension, where Mass Effect 3 ended differently and there was no Mass Effect: Andromeda. Unfortunately, this is not our schedule.
Source : PC Gamesn
