That conversation with Anderson is totally by far the most emotional one. And the mod really improved it by adding the "settling down after the war" dialogue.
I think the bit that hits the hardest is the fully restored conversation between Anderson and Shep. Really, really wish that hadn't been cut. That was... that was something special.
I wish this was the ending you could only get if you had 100% war assets. It would be a satisfying “true” ending but also leave the option for less satisfying endings if you made poor choices
Yes I dig the concept "work for your happy ending" in games. Many games hide the happy ending behind 100% completition and I think is a good reward for the player to go out of their way to get those.
@@NataliaNeeSama Also I like some of the less happy options in the game. I never let 100% of all squadmates survive the suicide mission in ME2 simply because its more interesting imo if things go wrong. Try to make Shepard a little flawed
@@ergob3907 Fair enough! Having options to the ways a story want to go is what make the franchise cool, after all, you are the one making the canon. Thats why I believe having sad and happy endings is good so you can please both sides.
@@ergob3907 “I killed a man, what are you in for?” “I let some of my squad mates die in the ME2 suicide mission because I thought it would make the story more interesting” *scoots to the other side of the bench*
This mod is actually amazing. I don't have a PC so I'm stuck with the original endings, but I'm just gonna pretend this ending is canon and the citadel DLC will be the last part I playthrough.
I didn’t mind the original ending, but I think because I just saw it differently. I took the entire game to be the end. So your choices did matter. There were so many story arcs that you got to see the end of and make a choice about what matters. Krogan vs Salarian and going into that the genophage, Wrex alive or dead, Mordin curing or not Geth vs quarians and all the choices that entail. And so on. I mean the game did a great job of tying those end points up and giving a nice conclusion. The only part it really struggled with was the reaper conclusion. That is the biggest issue so it is fair to get upset about it. But I always thought they kind of painted themselves into a corner with that story anyway. No matter what route they went I think it would have felt disappointing. So for me I just enjoy the game for the conclusion of all the different characters. And take the reapers to be the ending that happens when a MacGuffin is finally caught.
Hi Big Dan! Thanks so much for the mod review. I've made a few mods in the past (like A Lot of Videos) but this is the first actual review I've gotten! Just a couple of things to clarify: We added in forward compatibility for Joker and Thane romances. So if a mod releases in the future that allows you to romance Joker (which is currently in development: shoutout to Hatboy Project) or Thane, as long as the romance flag is set to active within the save, they will appear for the hug during the memorial scene. The other thing is that the Stargazer scene is disabled by default in AHEM, but when the Citadel Epilogue Mod is released, that scene will act as a transition into the Citadel DLC. Thanks again for the review!
You sir, are a legend. This mod is outstanding and gives many of the fans the conclusion they deserved. As a lowly console gamer I won’t ever get to experience the mod first hand, but with RUclips videos like this and your own I finally have my canon ending. Thank you. Those PC gamers lucky enough to use the mod and the forthcoming Citadel epilogue mod are in for a real treat. Exactly how the game SHOULD have ended. Now if the community could somehow convince BioWare and EA to incorporate the mod as a patch into all versions of the game that would be spectacular. Thanks again.
I don’t have the trilogy for my computer but once I do I’m gonna get this mod and kiss you on the mouth with tongue, an appropriate reward for saving this game
@@Deathlordalmighty There isn't a mod that changes that yet, but my point was that if a mod like that was made, then it would automatically work with AHEM because we set up functionality. That's what I mean by forward compatibility.
It's the best ME mod period and it became my cannon. This is the ending we should have gotten. Audemus needs a purple heart for rescuing ME from its horrible endings.
I don't know. The only reason this mod ending seems satisfying now is because we're comparing it to the incredibly crap original EC ending. But imagine if we never got that original ending, and instead Bioware would've given us this mod ending, we would've still been disappointed, just not as much as originally. To me the only possible path that would satisfy me is ending the Reaper war in a Suicide Mission style final mission in which your team can die based on loyalty missions and other decisions, blowing Harbinger into a million pieces, and finally free roam mode in which you can visit any known place in the galaxy (Earth, Citadel, Omega, Illium, etc), ME2 style.
@@excitedme530 Well I made a video about this idea in 2013, its still on my channel, though I doubt it will ever reach Bioware, or maybe it has and they just don't plan on following that blueprint. Don't forget to read the description if you ever check it out.
@@DesertStateInEU I don't mind the ME3 ending in principle (thought I very much _do_ mind the execution) because I like a sense of finality to my games. I can see both sides, though.
@@DesertStateInEU I think that's a good analysis. This mod makes the best of a bad situation, but I think it's beyond the reach of even talented mod-makers to fulfill Bioware's promise that the player's cumulative choices would somehow matter. That said, this mod at least removes the "Starchild," which is the first step for curing the ills of the ending. What the hell got into Bioware with that decision I will never understand.
@@narnianwarrior7493 If it was "perfect", they wouldn't have needed to release an update to it after the fan outcry. It was effectively the Game of Thrones Season 8 of its day - all the decisions you made across all 3 games were effectively pointless. Synthesis was the only decent ending and in it your Shepard is dead and you effectively force a change on everything living in the Galaxy without their knowledge or permission. The Starchild was a confusing and pointless plot device to explain a convoluted ending choice that made no sense. If I could choose between this mod or any of the "canon" endings, I'd go with this mod 10 out of 10 times. I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree.
I think even had this been the ending, people still would have been upset. Bioware was probably stuck because they knew they had to offer drastically different endings depending on player choice. I always chose synthesis to save EDI and the geth, and to prevent future reaper evolution. But most players chose the destroy ending.
@@FumetsuGolf the game was great, the atmosphere was inspiring hopelessness, and the ending reflected that. If a comet was heading our way and would crash on earth tomorrow, your whole life choices wouldn't change a thing. I loved it, and they released updates because people were feeling "owed" a nice or whatever ending
I find this mod makes the memorial wall scene more touching than the original. Anderson is one of my favorite characters and seeing shep tearfully place his card on it truly makes the scene better.
People who made those mods did an amazing job! It's even better than the one they did back on 2012! There's just one little mistake they did back then, and it's still on this one: Anderson's line about not having kids. Back on ME2, the shadow broker's dossier on Anderson says he has a son XD Aside that, it's perfect!
That's not Anderson's son. His wife remarried and had a son with that man, and Anderson just remained friends with her and became a role model for her son because he's a big war hero.
@@AudemusN7 didn't know that ☺️ Where did you get that info? The shadow broker's dossier did not mention that... At least I don't remember it like that...
Dang, brought a tear to my eye just watching it, Anderson basically adopting you as his kid in his final moments and that emotional exchange. Darn it, not going to tear up again, I swear!
This ending is so much more emotional than any of the originals.Seeing your Shepard lose Anderson and actually get to process that grief instead of be shuttled into Starchild buillshit....
Add this with the Take Earth Back mod for a truly wonderful ending to the series. Hopefully soon we'll see the Citadel Epilogue Mod (being worked on I believe) make it to LE, making the Citadel DLC the epilogue to the whole game.
@@ecrulis6954 It would make more sense as well since partying like that and Brooks' whole plan makes far less sense when there's a Reaper invasion going on.
MEHE + Citadel Epilogue is the cannon ending for my Shepard. Beautiful because it still gives you closure but still optimistic, like you imagine Shepard flying off with the crew, on to some other mission.
As someone just getting into modding ME. More mod highlights please. I know anyone can just look at top downloaded and find accepted good ones but actually seeing what they change is really nice.
If you’re on MELE, try EGM. Adds a lot of new content, locations, and new options. You could also try ME2 combat remastered. Makes most guns viable, and all distinct from each other. There are a few mods that change textures, like ME3 armor for ME1. And Tali remastered, which gives her a fully functional face, and scripts. (Which is nice because I romance Tali.) Last mod I’d suggest is the ME3 patch. It’s required for all the options in EGM. So you’ll have installed it anyway. Good luck with the mods!
Dont say we, like all players wanted this ending. I don't like it. I prefer the heroic sacrifice of shepard. Thats why mass effect 4 with shepard isnt canon for me. Buy if other like happy cliche endings, good for them.
@@marcraider @Gangerworld Lol ok enjoy the bullshit Hudson and Walters cooked up at the last second with no input from anyone else, that fulfills on nothing and makes no fucking sense. At least this doesn't rely on space magic (Eezo is enough space magic for me thanks). There will always be defenders of even the stupidest bullshit it seems.
@@Geassguy360 wow...you seem offended somehow that.....someone has a different opinion from you. everything ok at home? tell me, what exact didn't the original ending fulfill on? what about the ending makes no sense?
I can only imagine when Anderson says, "come here." He holds Shepard like the child he always wanted, a child he wanted to love like a father but just then finally got a chance to hold his kid. Anderson raised us Shepards and I feel he taught us lessons that many of us never got to learn from our fathers. Thank you, Admiral Anderson.
I don't think Shepard had to survive the ending for it to be good but I'll take this over what we got any day of the week. AHEM combined with the Take Earth Back mod made the ending not only tolerable but rather enjoyable! Imagine seeing all the groups you've brought together over 3 games in the final fight and charging toward the beam with Elcor, Geth Prime, Anderson, etc. and then docking the crucible and wiping out all Reapers. No ambiguity, uncertainty, unleashing additional apocalyptic scenarios, or Star Brat. Good times
Yeah I always felt that Shepard dying was the most fitting end to such a story. But what I like about this is that the mass relays stayed intact. I always felt the mass relays being destroyed made for a sad galaxy. All the worldbuilding and diversity of species interactions in the game, would've been cut off from each other after the ending. Felt like the whole game was about different species and backgrounds working together, only to have them all separated forever is not a choice I understood the meaning of for an ending.
Damn shame this mod skips the scene with the Stargazer. I always loved that last cutscene, especially since Buzz Aldrin of all people voices the Stargazer. I think it puts a nice bow on the trilogy and ties everything back into the wonders of space travel that made us fascinated with Mass Effect and sci-fi in general in the first place
If you use it alongside the Citadel Epilogue Mod (also by Audemus), you can pretend that the Citadel DLC is the "one more story" the stargazer is talking about.
In my head , after this ending, there is a Final Cut scene (it will only be triggered if all squad mates are alive and Kaiden/Ashley rejoin your crew): Shepard, now promoted to admiral, is overseeing the reconstruction of the citadel. Ashley/Kaiden joins them and talk about all that happened so far, and now that the reapers are gone there will be peace, but they know it will not last forever. All the sudden, shepard receives a report, shares them with Ashley/Kaiden (who are surprised and worried for what they read) and are ordered by Shepard to take command of the Normandy and go to investigate. Scene ends with the Normandy and it’s crew flying away to find new adventures.
I'm very glad this exists, even though I'll probably never get to use it. I play on console lol. But at the same time it kinda makes me sad just because of how little was actually changed, they just restored some cut content, deleted some bs stuff, and did some minor tweaks to ending slides. It just shows how easy it would've been for bioware to give us a satisfying ending to one of the greatest series of games ever made. This is what should've been in the base game for legendary edition.
That last shot of the memorial wall always puts a lump in my throat, I know it's out of character but I would not have complained if they had Shepard shed tears
@@BlaineTog Exactly, personally I didn’t hate any of the endings. I think the control and synthesis endings are fine alternatives. What gets me though is the destroy ending, most of us probably pick this one, and it feels wrong that despite even if we do everything right by resolving peace with the Geth and Quarians and getting our TMS score as high as possible, all synthetics are wiped out, and Shepard will die unless your TMS is high. It feels strange that a series where it rewards you for going above and beyond, it forgets that in the end of the trilogy. I still love this series to death though. lol
Been waiting 10 years for Bioware to change that trash ending (even the DLC ending didn't do any justice). Massive thanks to the modders making that dream come true 👏🏾👏🏾💙
Just finished ME3 LE with this ending and I have to give my upmost respect to the creators. What an ending...what an ending! Thank you so much. You can feel the passion in every scene. Wonderful.
I've always been conflicted with the original/extended ME3 ending. I'm ok with Shepard dying... if the mix of choices/readiness led it that way. But there should've been conditions for him to survive. But really... getting a single ending where basically the color of the explosion was the difference negated the choices players spent years making across 3 legendary games was the culprit of the hate the ending got. Oh, that and the Star Child and space magic thing. I hereby proclaim I'll take this ending as canon. Not that it'll make any difference...
This mod is even better than the original "happy ending" mod. The sole fact that they actually recruited Keith David and other voice actors (or just masterfully synthesized their voices) to record their extended lines is astonishing and worth all the support!
Even though these changes might be small it honestly adds alot that I feel we needed tbh, to be honest if I had to replace the ending I would of preferred this gives me closure knowing my Shepard is able to settle down now with there significant other and the fight is over for a legend
I was debating using this mod. Thanks for showing it. This is my head canon ending. With as many gut punches as this trilogy can have, I feel like a happy ending is warranted. Kind of hard to do multiple plays when you know there never really is a chance for a genuinely happy ending.
I recently completed the entire Mass Effect LE a couple days ago. Now I understand what all the fuss was about in 2012 about ME3's endings. God, they did the third game so dirty
It was WORSE, man. No final squad conversation, they just vanished after the beam run. No narrated slideshow. No flying-off scene, credits just rolled when Joker and friends stepped out of the Normandy. I don't even think there was the memorial scene with Shepard getting put up on the wall.
The more attention brought to this amazing fix of a mod the better. Mods like this are one of the main reasons I'm so glad to have a gaming PC. Only way I can enjoy one of my favorite gaming franchises fully. They should follow Bethesda's lead and allow mods on consoles so everyone can be saved from that confounding disappointment of an original ending.
Tali is the best girl afterall. Followed closely by Liara. The idea of a little blue Shepard running around the universe is adorable but Tali was the dorky friend who grew up and you suddenly noticed you can't live without her.
In the reworked memorial scene, they replaced Anderson’s original name plate with “Ad astra, per aspera.” Latin for “Through hardships to the stars" Such a fitting sum up of the entire trilogy journey!
Amazing that what would probably be considered a plane ending is a way better ending then what we actually got. I think the writers were a bit to caught up in the idea of blowing our minds over giving us something satisfying
@@narnianwarrior7493 What matters is player choice. Dragon Age Origins respected player choice, why couldn't Mass Effect 3? Not to mention none of our choices and actions over 3 games had consequences at the end.
it's a similar story with TLJ i think, where it wanted to challange the past and subvert expectations but ended up forgetting about the writting to back it up
100%. First game ended with Shepard basically beating down Sovereign's avatar. Shep charged a yahg and punched it in the face. I wanted to see Shep be a total badass and rip out Harbinger's heart, not talk to some bullshit AI who clearly is reading his mind and presenting itself as a child he saw murdered.
The Anderson scene was like jesus that was a gut punch, leagues above the shallow one in vanilla, the only thing i thought that wouldve completed it is anderson finishing off his sentence about not having kids, with something to the effect of "but you were the closest thing i ever had to a son" to shepard Also, the old man talking to his son i think wouldve been fine, by default i got the vibes of "this happened like 100 years from now" from how they reference shepard and say it was a long time ago, but i also got the vibes that it was like, joker or hackett that was the old man
Just beat the trilogy after a few years with this mod and Take Back Earth. Mass effect was the first series of games to make me cry and now it made it even harder. Damn what a journey.
I think this is pretty much the definitive way to finish the 3rd game. Just waiting for an update on the Citadel DLC mod that lets you play it AFTER this ending. Unless that has come out already, and I am just slow to it 🤔
Oh my goodness! I had never seen this! That scene with Shepard and Anderson...... 😭**sniff** So many feels. 🥺 Thank you for sharing this with us Dan. ❤Fantastic mod! Thank you to the creators!
When I finally fix my PC I'm buying another copy of legendary edition (already have it in console) soley for the mod support, that conversation with Anderson made me cry like a waterfall
This makes me want to start a whole trilogy playthrough on PC. My favorite part is where it doesn’t shit on your achievement of making peace with the quarians and geth
@@narnianwarrior7493 It's real garbage is what it is. Don't defend the company that wouldn't let the developers finish the game but forced a crunch for the extended cut afterwards because of customer backlash.
@@zynix3698 Name a war that the human race has been in that has ever ended happily. This mod was born of a desire for people to see Shepherd live and for things to be all feel good. That's not how it works. It's great and fantastic that people made a mod to fulfill fantasies, but in reality, this is not a real ending.
That’s SO good! That scene with Anderson actually made me cry, especially the bit about how proud your kids would be, telling everyone their mom (in my case) is Commander Shepard. Dang, this mod is fantastic. I’d love to be able to install this on my Xbox. Considering that, from what I hear, it’s basically a PC on the inside with a different UI, I wouldn’t imagine it’d be TOO hard… not that I know how to do any of that myself.
I thought this was going to be dumb, but it's actually pretty good. I only play console, so I won't be able to do it personally, but this seems like a better pure Paragon ending than what people got. I was never a big hater of the RGB endings, but I do think players deserved a more solid W if they did everything right.
"No longer space magic" is such a crucial point. Mass Effect had always existed firmly in the realm of science fiction but the crucible pivoted hard towards science fantasy. That rubbed everyone the wrong way, even if they didn't consciously realise it. Great change!
This mod restored my faith in the mass effect series. I really wish the game creators would seriously take a look at what they produced and do better. This modded ending was the ending I was expecting. Why else would I spend all my time gathering assets if not for a chance at victory...??? Good job to the makers. Loved it!!!
You know what also would’ve been cool? If there was an epilogue post credit cutscene that altered depending on your relationships Like if you had a romance with one of the ladies you are like with them somewhere like if you romanced Tali you’re on Ranock with her And if you bromanced Garrus you’re shooting with him on the crucible
I absolutely love this mod, I'm not someone who necessarily hates the vanilla endings + catalyst, but I do prefer a happy ending for Shepard... also, the mod page for AHEM mentions having permission to port over the Citadel Epilogue Mod to be partnered with AHEM (but until CEM is ported over you can keep the Stargazer scene in via the mod settings menu) I'm surprised you didn't mention CEM being mentioned on the mod page, as I was really wondering if you'd cover that when it gets ported over, as well as maybe the FemShep v BroShep mod for the Citadel DLC as well? Awesome video by the way, I think this is the first video of yours that I've commented on :D
I might just replay ME3 with this mod so I can fix the bad mark it left on my heart. Finally, a home on Rannoch is in sight. Definitely among the best narrative fixes to a game I’ve ever seen.
To this day I'm still BAFFLED by the design choices for the "canon" endings. Were all the writers going through a divorce or something when they got to the endings? Just... how can a project that was so well-written and nuanced up to the very end take such a left turn in the final scene? All of the options are such... downers. Either commit synthetic genocide, become the gun pointed at the head of the universe, or use space magic to alter the fabric of reality without anyone's consent. And then when fans asked Bioware for a better option, they answered with the story equivalent of a middle finger. It's like they hated the fanbase and wanted us to know it. I just don't get it.
Supposedly - the ending with the star child and the whole 'this is what reapers are for - and these are your choices" were done by one guy who more or less stonewalled any feedback from the rest of the writers.
@@lissaquon607 But yet, the whole team stands by it. Whenever questioned (it might be angry now, but it was honest questions back then) they stood by the damned endings. I just don’t get why.
Mass Effect 3’s final treatment heralded the oncoming of shit game writers to the industry. First they just sucked at their jobs, then they wanted to shove their real life with beliefs into the game, then they hated the game and wanted to mock every player base. Even today. Mass Effect Legendary Edition released a year or two ago? There was known interesting content that was cut (for one example, ever feel Admiral Xen seems a bit cut? In Mass3, after the Quarian war ended, she would have gone to the citadel, and started abducting citizens, performing all sorts of horrific crimes and creating monstrosities, being a person needed to be taken down.) Why the heck was ZERO effort made to create it for the LEGENDARY EDITION??? (Also final petty note, they ‘lost the DLC coding’??? WTF it’s on the bloody internet, pirated a million f*cking times and even in the code of a version they sold on EA. Why the f*ck wouldn’t you just take the code out from there???)
Considering how bad the next game was afterwards, my guess is yes, they either got brainwashed by EA to give the middle finger to fans while cashing our dollars on buying the franchise games or they just simply don't care anymore for whatever personal reason. Either way its also reason why when Legendary Edition came out, I didn't bother buying it simply because I don't want to give EA any more of my dollars.
@@Norinia The real sin is ME2. Originally there was going to be no fixed order for recruitment. I've even heard you would recruit Legion first on your way out of the Cerberus base, which would explain why he has dialogue for every single mission in the game even though you get him after the final time limit starts. All because of the Xbox 360 being shit.
while the synthesis ending _looks_ really stupid (hooray everything is green now) EDI's speech really made me content with this final conclusion. After such a big trial, the defeat of the reapers, the unification of the galaxy something new needs to happen. an evolutionary scale of development for all the species in the galaxy. The galaxy became one and Shepard became one with everything they loved, their crew, their ship and the galaxy they defended. They also became part of their love interest which in all other endings, you just leave them behind. In my latest playthrough I romanced Garrus, and when EDI hugs him at the end it was just the right amount of feels for such an epic journey. The destroy ending just stranded everyone on earth and killed every cyborg, synthetic and currently spaceborne, which would ensure the destruction of this current galactic civilization and without the reapers repairing the mass effect relays, it is not sure a spacefaring civilization will ever see the light of day again in the milky way. The control ending is just a return to status quo, the reapers repair the relays and then piss off back to dark space, and even with paragon Shepard as their .exe who knows if the cycle truely ends.
I think one more thing would have helped. When Anderson asks about settling down have Shepard mention their love interest. Like "Tali would be great parent, but I'm not sure I'll be good at it." a last detail for the moment.
The problem is that the mod is just using existing content that was simply cut from the game. The mod isn't adding newly recorded dialogue to that scene.
I really like the synthesis ending. The themes of synthetics and organics in ME2/3 finding understanding in each other, speartipped with the Joker/Edi ship and climaxed by them becoming one at the end.
Imagine if, in their weak and dying state, Shepard called Anderson "Dad" if you picked the Earthborn origin. Since you basically grew up without a family, he became the dad that was never there. I know headcannon and stuff, but...god damn Anderson dying was already the emotional gut-punch that the ending needed.
Keep in mind people, literally no video games ending is talked about to great lengths like this... about how incredibly awful it was that decades later people are literally still fixing it.
Simply amazing! It's been like 10 years but for such a fix (and one I didn't think was ever possible and from fans no less) it's perfect. Throwing in that star brat was like when the matrix reloaded threw in the architect but worse because it was at the very end. I remember this horrible ending sticking with me. I rushed through it late at night into the AM even though I had work (at my first job) in the morning and I remember (and I know it sounds ridiculous) feeling utterly depressed throughout the day the amazing trilogy I played and grew with had such a terrible ending. I replayed the trilogy multiple times thinking maybe if I got more resources I could unlock an at least decent ending I even played that extended ending (if you could call it that) bioware came out with shortly later due to fan outcry but it still felt hollow and empty. This looks more along the lines of what we should have got and I am glad it was able to come to fruition. I don't have much faith in ME4 with the current bioware however with this fan made mod I at least have closure to one of my all time favorite rpg series!
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That conversation with Anderson is totally by far the most emotional one. And the mod really improved it by adding the "settling down after the war" dialogue.
I think the bit that hits the hardest is the fully restored conversation between Anderson and Shep. Really, really wish that hadn't been cut. That was... that was something special.
Really it's sounds so cringe
The feels when Anderson mentions he doesn't have a family, talks about how Shepard's kids would be proud of him and finally calls Shepard 'son'. Q_Q
@@enjoythestruggle yeah, Anderson calling Shepard "son" gave me goosebumps when playing for first time.
@@enjoythestruggle "You did good son. You did good." feels x10 if you really immersed yourself in the orphan background.
I wish this was the ending you could only get if you had 100% war assets. It would be a satisfying “true” ending but also leave the option for less satisfying endings if you made poor choices
Yes I dig the concept "work for your happy ending" in games. Many games hide the happy ending behind 100% completition and I think is a good reward for the player to go out of their way to get those.
@@NataliaNeeSama Also I like some of the less happy options in the game. I never let 100% of all squadmates survive the suicide mission in ME2 simply because its more interesting imo if things go wrong. Try to make Shepard a little flawed
@@ergob3907 Fair enough! Having options to the ways a story want to go is what make the franchise cool, after all, you are the one making the canon.
Thats why I believe having sad and happy endings is good so you can please both sides.
Nah. I would say 9000 war assets.
@@ergob3907 “I killed a man, what are you in for?”
“I let some of my squad mates die in the ME2 suicide mission because I thought it would make the story more interesting”
*scoots to the other side of the bench*
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite mod that I can't use.
I don't care if I can't use it it's now my personal cannon end screw the other three
@@Diaphat im not sure why you're posting that here lol
@@garrettfrench5574 the other FOUR u mean
@@garrettfrench5574 You can't even _spell_ canon, how could anything _become_ canon to you in the first place?
"I'm commander shepard. And this is my favorite store on the citadel
This mod is actually amazing. I don't have a PC so I'm stuck with the original endings, but I'm just gonna pretend this ending is canon and the citadel DLC will be the last part I playthrough.
Is there no way to mod the game for PS4, I got the same problem :/
@@zionzed3664 consoles don't have mod support, but I always choose control Ending as my canon
I really wish this was the true ending
Same, playing through (again) on PS5 but not gaming pc. Sad that this is so much better than what we got
I didn’t mind the original ending, but I think because I just saw it differently. I took the entire game to be the end. So your choices did matter. There were so many story arcs that you got to see the end of and make a choice about what matters.
Krogan vs Salarian and going into that the genophage, Wrex alive or dead, Mordin curing or not
Geth vs quarians and all the choices that entail.
And so on. I mean the game did a great job of tying those end points up and giving a nice conclusion. The only part it really struggled with was the reaper conclusion. That is the biggest issue so it is fair to get upset about it. But I always thought they kind of painted themselves into a corner with that story anyway. No matter what route they went I think it would have felt disappointing.
So for me I just enjoy the game for the conclusion of all the different characters. And take the reapers to be the ending that happens when a MacGuffin is finally caught.
Hi Big Dan! Thanks so much for the mod review. I've made a few mods in the past (like A Lot of Videos) but this is the first actual review I've gotten!
Just a couple of things to clarify: We added in forward compatibility for Joker and Thane romances. So if a mod releases in the future that allows you to romance Joker (which is currently in development: shoutout to Hatboy Project) or Thane, as long as the romance flag is set to active within the save, they will appear for the hug during the memorial scene.
The other thing is that the Stargazer scene is disabled by default in AHEM, but when the Citadel Epilogue Mod is released, that scene will act as a transition into the Citadel DLC.
Thanks again for the review!
You sir, are a legend. This mod is outstanding and gives many of the fans the conclusion they deserved.
As a lowly console gamer I won’t ever get to experience the mod first hand, but with RUclips videos like this and your own I finally have my canon ending.
Thank you.
Those PC gamers lucky enough to use the mod and the forthcoming Citadel epilogue mod are in for a real treat.
Exactly how the game SHOULD have ended.
Now if the community could somehow convince BioWare and EA to incorporate the mod as a patch into all versions of the game that would be spectacular.
Thanks again.
I don’t have the trilogy for my computer but once I do I’m gonna get this mod and kiss you on the mouth with tongue, an appropriate reward for saving this game
How does Thane appear for the hug? Doesn't he die no matter what you do, or is there a mod that changes that?
@@Deathlordalmighty There isn't a mod that changes that yet, but my point was that if a mod like that was made, then it would automatically work with AHEM because we set up functionality. That's what I mean by forward compatibility.
i cant wait for cem to come to le !
It's the best ME mod period and it became my cannon. This is the ending we should have gotten. Audemus needs a purple heart for rescuing ME from its horrible endings.
Aw thank you! I'll make sure to share custody of the purple heart with the other ending mod authors :D
The REAL ending is perfect.
Purple heart? Did someone shoot him while he made it?
@@venlocity2 Bioware did
@@venlocity2 injured his back carrying ME3 across the finish line
That ending looks so much better than what we got in the OG game.
This is my canon ending. I don’t care if Shepard sacrificing themself for the galaxy is ‘more fitting’, they deserve a happy ending.
Now all we need is Citadel Epilogue Mod to be ported over and we're all set
Yes.. putting the Citadel DLC as the final epilogue mission and the conclussion of the story. The last mission
@@theultimatedragoon2231 Makes for a great send-off, and just fits the story a little better imo
@@RowsenW IT's one of the best possible endings for the trilogy.
Literally the combo I'm waiting for to describe the game to the blind.
And the completed EGM+SEM and Project Variety. With Tali Remastered recently ported over things are getting close to a new playthrough.
This could have been a satisfying end to ME3. The current ending could have been good with a few changes as well.
I don't know. The only reason this mod ending seems satisfying now is because we're comparing it to the incredibly crap original EC ending. But imagine if we never got that original ending, and instead Bioware would've given us this mod ending, we would've still been disappointed, just not as much as originally.
To me the only possible path that would satisfy me is ending the Reaper war in a Suicide Mission style final mission in which your team can die based on loyalty missions and other decisions, blowing Harbinger into a million pieces, and finally free roam mode in which you can visit any known place in the galaxy (Earth, Citadel, Omega, Illium, etc), ME2 style.
@@DesertStateInEU this, the ME2 end mission was perfect for ME3, such a missed oppurtunity and sadly cant be fixed with any mods
@@excitedme530 Well I made a video about this idea in 2013, its still on my channel, though I doubt it will ever reach Bioware, or maybe it has and they just don't plan on following that blueprint. Don't forget to read the description if you ever check it out.
@@DesertStateInEU I don't mind the ME3 ending in principle (thought I very much _do_ mind the execution) because I like a sense of finality to my games. I can see both sides, though.
@@DesertStateInEU I think that's a good analysis. This mod makes the best of a bad situation, but I think it's beyond the reach of even talented mod-makers to fulfill Bioware's promise that the player's cumulative choices would somehow matter.
That said, this mod at least removes the "Starchild," which is the first step for curing the ills of the ending. What the hell got into Bioware with that decision I will never understand.
This mod shows how easy it would have been to make a satisfying conclusion to the ME series. It's really a shame they went in the direction they did.
The REAL ending is perfect.
@@narnianwarrior7493 If it was "perfect", they wouldn't have needed to release an update to it after the fan outcry. It was effectively the Game of Thrones Season 8 of its day - all the decisions you made across all 3 games were effectively pointless. Synthesis was the only decent ending and in it your Shepard is dead and you effectively force a change on everything living in the Galaxy without their knowledge or permission. The Starchild was a confusing and pointless plot device to explain a convoluted ending choice that made no sense. If I could choose between this mod or any of the "canon" endings, I'd go with this mod 10 out of 10 times. I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree.
I think even had this been the ending, people still would have been upset. Bioware was probably stuck because they knew they had to offer drastically different endings depending on player choice.
I always chose synthesis to save EDI and the geth, and to prevent future reaper evolution. But most players chose the destroy ending.
@@FumetsuGolf the game was great, the atmosphere was inspiring hopelessness, and the ending reflected that. If a comet was heading our way and would crash on earth tomorrow, your whole life choices wouldn't change a thing. I loved it, and they released updates because people were feeling "owed" a nice or whatever ending
@@narnianwarrior7493 No
Anderson: You'd be a great dad.
Shepard: *dates someone he can't reproduce with*
Adoption's always a choice I guess.
I think my Shepard would be a great dad
Plenty of orphans to adopt.
@@shawngillogly6873 don't cloud the issue with logic.
Grunt is their child, baby angry space frog forever
I find this mod makes the memorial wall scene more touching than the original. Anderson is one of my favorite characters and seeing shep tearfully place his card on it truly makes the scene better.
People who made those mods did an amazing job! It's even better than the one they did back on 2012!
There's just one little mistake they did back then, and it's still on this one: Anderson's line about not having kids.
Back on ME2, the shadow broker's dossier on Anderson says he has a son XD
Aside that, it's perfect!
That too is something that could be corrected by a mod. Maybe in the ME2LE community patch once it releases?
That's such a small contradiction you could canonise it how you want, maybe SB was wrong, maybe the kid was adopted, etc
@@sadas3190 Yeah sure.
Still, it is funny. XD
That's not Anderson's son. His wife remarried and had a son with that man, and Anderson just remained friends with her and became a role model for her son because he's a big war hero.
@@AudemusN7 didn't know that ☺️
Where did you get that info?
The shadow broker's dossier did not mention that... At least I don't remember it like that...
Dang, brought a tear to my eye just watching it, Anderson basically adopting you as his kid in his final moments and that emotional exchange. Darn it, not going to tear up again, I swear!
Nah. It's enough to make a grown man cry
This ending is so much more emotional than any of the originals.Seeing your Shepard lose Anderson and actually get to process that grief instead of be shuttled into Starchild buillshit....
That docking scene was so good! Need to install this on my next play through.
Add this with the Take Earth Back mod for a truly wonderful ending to the series.
Hopefully soon we'll see the Citadel Epilogue Mod (being worked on I believe) make it to LE, making the Citadel DLC the epilogue to the whole game.
@@ecrulis6954 It would make more sense as well since partying like that and Brooks' whole plan makes far less sense when there's a Reaper invasion going on.
MEHE + Citadel Epilogue is the cannon ending for my Shepard. Beautiful because it still gives you closure but still optimistic, like you imagine Shepard flying off with the crew, on to some other mission.
Y'alls too stupid to spell "canon" or what?
As someone just getting into modding ME. More mod highlights please. I know anyone can just look at top downloaded and find accepted good ones but actually seeing what they change is really nice.
If you’re on MELE, try EGM. Adds a lot of new content, locations, and new options. You could also try ME2 combat remastered. Makes most guns viable, and all distinct from each other. There are a few mods that change textures, like ME3 armor for ME1. And Tali remastered, which gives her a fully functional face, and scripts. (Which is nice because I romance Tali.) Last mod I’d suggest is the ME3 patch. It’s required for all the options in EGM. So you’ll have installed it anyway. Good luck with the mods!
This was a must have mod when I was playing through ME3 the first time. Pleased that someone brought it forwards to the LE.
An ending with Tali as romance is indeed the Happy Ending!
This is the ending we all wanted. I will definitely get this mod if I ever get the game on PC
Dont say we, like all players wanted this ending. I don't like it. I prefer the heroic sacrifice of shepard. Thats why mass effect 4 with shepard isnt canon for me. Buy if other like happy cliche endings, good for them.
Please don't speak for all fans lol
@@marcraider @Gangerworld Lol ok enjoy the bullshit Hudson and Walters cooked up at the last second with no input from anyone else, that fulfills on nothing and makes no fucking sense. At least this doesn't rely on space magic (Eezo is enough space magic for me thanks).
There will always be defenders of even the stupidest bullshit it seems.
I love this ending, better than the BS we got originally
@@Geassguy360 wow...you seem offended somehow that.....someone has a different opinion from you. everything ok at home?
tell me, what exact didn't the original ending fulfill on? what about the ending makes no sense?
I really like how all the human companions are wearing their formal attire in honor of Anderson.
This whole mod puts more respect on Anderson's name. As it should be.
I can only imagine when Anderson says, "come here." He holds Shepard like the child he always wanted, a child he wanted to love like a father but just then finally got a chance to hold his kid. Anderson raised us Shepards and I feel he taught us lessons that many of us never got to learn from our fathers. Thank you, Admiral Anderson.
RIP Dadmiral Anderson o7
Just played it. It's literally a number 1 Ending that we all deserve to see
And of course, Tali gets more time. :D
I don't think Shepard had to survive the ending for it to be good but I'll take this over what we got any day of the week. AHEM combined with the Take Earth Back mod made the ending not only tolerable but rather enjoyable! Imagine seeing all the groups you've brought together over 3 games in the final fight and charging toward the beam with Elcor, Geth Prime, Anderson, etc. and then docking the crucible and wiping out all Reapers. No ambiguity, uncertainty, unleashing additional apocalyptic scenarios, or Star Brat. Good times
Yeah I always felt that Shepard dying was the most fitting end to such a story. But what I like about this is that the mass relays stayed intact. I always felt the mass relays being destroyed made for a sad galaxy. All the worldbuilding and diversity of species interactions in the game, would've been cut off from each other after the ending. Felt like the whole game was about different species and backgrounds working together, only to have them all separated forever is not a choice I understood the meaning of for an ending.
This mod was the ending we deserved :') I literally cried playing it, I just felt so fulfilled.
This is LITERALLY how the perfect ending should have been
That "I'm proud of you. You did good son." from Anderson always has me chopping onions. One of the few times an entertainment medium made me cry.
There is a difference between "did good son" and "did good, son", and only one of those you'd want.
It’s even more heartbreaking if you have the earthborn Shepherd, Anderson was probably the closest thing to a father Shepherd had
Damn shame this mod skips the scene with the Stargazer. I always loved that last cutscene, especially since Buzz Aldrin of all people voices the Stargazer. I think it puts a nice bow on the trilogy and ties everything back into the wonders of space travel that made us fascinated with Mass Effect and sci-fi in general in the first place
It's disabled by default but it can be easily turned back on in the mod settings menu. I personally have it enabled :)
@@AudemusN7 Oh great - because ... Buzz Aldrin
@@AudemusN7 Yep, just installed it and saw this setting. Thanks for including that
If you use it alongside the Citadel Epilogue Mod (also by Audemus), you can pretend that the Citadel DLC is the "one more story" the stargazer is talking about.
Thank you for having quality taste and showcasing Tali for that scene. She's the superior choice.
In my head , after this ending, there is a Final Cut scene (it will only be triggered if all squad mates are alive and Kaiden/Ashley rejoin your crew):
Shepard, now promoted to admiral, is overseeing the reconstruction of the citadel. Ashley/Kaiden joins them and talk about all that happened so far, and now that the reapers are gone there will be peace, but they know it will not last forever. All the sudden, shepard receives a report, shares them with Ashley/Kaiden (who are surprised and worried for what they read) and are ordered by Shepard to take command of the Normandy and go to investigate. Scene ends with the Normandy and it’s crew flying away to find new adventures.
I don't know why but I get goosebumps when I hear the crew trying to search for Shepherd
I'm very glad this exists, even though I'll probably never get to use it. I play on console lol. But at the same time it kinda makes me sad just because of how little was actually changed, they just restored some cut content, deleted some bs stuff, and did some minor tweaks to ending slides. It just shows how easy it would've been for bioware to give us a satisfying ending to one of the greatest series of games ever made. This is what should've been in the base game for legendary edition.
This ending is waaaaaay better than any of those 3 endings in the game. Props to mod or mods who created this👊🏿
That last shot of the memorial wall always puts a lump in my throat, I know it's out of character but I would not have complained if they had Shepard shed tears
That’s the ending I think most fans wanted.
I don't mind having "worse" endings, I just wanted this ending as one of the possibilities.
@@BlaineTog Exactly! A variety of endings.
@@BlaineTog Considering Dragon Age Origins gave us different endings (hero's sacrifice, hero lives, etc), I don't know why Mass Effect 3 couldn't.
@@CelestialDraconis Good point.
@@BlaineTog Exactly, personally I didn’t hate any of the endings. I think the control and synthesis endings are fine alternatives. What gets me though is the destroy ending, most of us probably pick this one, and it feels wrong that despite even if we do everything right by resolving peace with the Geth and Quarians and getting our TMS score as high as possible, all synthetics are wiped out, and Shepard will die unless your TMS is high. It feels strange that a series where it rewards you for going above and beyond, it forgets that in the end of the trilogy. I still love this series to death though. lol
Been waiting 10 years for Bioware to change that trash ending (even the DLC ending didn't do any justice). Massive thanks to the modders making that dream come true 👏🏾👏🏾💙
Just finished ME3 LE with this ending and I have to give my upmost respect to the creators. What an ending...what an ending! Thank you so much. You can feel the passion in every scene. Wonderful.
I've always been conflicted with the original/extended ME3 ending. I'm ok with Shepard dying... if the mix of choices/readiness led it that way. But there should've been conditions for him to survive.
But really... getting a single ending where basically the color of the explosion was the difference negated the choices players spent years making across 3 legendary games was the culprit of the hate the ending got. Oh, that and the Star Child and space magic thing.
I hereby proclaim I'll take this ending as canon. Not that it'll make any difference...
This mod is even better than the original "happy ending" mod. The sole fact that they actually recruited Keith David and other voice actors (or just masterfully synthesized their voices) to record their extended lines is astonishing and worth all the support!
im fairly certian that last conversation is actual cut dioluage and scene that were in the game files.
@@gracie1964Correct. The devs cut the original convo for being "too long"
That expanded talk with anderson was beautiful…
For me it's canon now. If, by chance, I'll ever meet the author I swear hugs will be given. Only reason to go past Marauder Shields.
Even though these changes might be small it honestly adds alot that I feel we needed tbh, to be honest if I had to replace the ending I would of preferred this gives me closure knowing my Shepard is able to settle down now with there significant other and the fight is over for a legend
I was debating using this mod. Thanks for showing it. This is my head canon ending. With as many gut punches as this trilogy can have, I feel like a happy ending is warranted. Kind of hard to do multiple plays when you know there never really is a chance for a genuinely happy ending.
I recently completed the entire Mass Effect LE a couple days ago. Now I understand what all the fuss was about in 2012 about ME3's endings. God, they did the third game so dirty
It was WORSE, man. No final squad conversation, they just vanished after the beam run. No narrated slideshow. No flying-off scene, credits just rolled when Joker and friends stepped out of the Normandy. I don't even think there was the memorial scene with Shepard getting put up on the wall.
Such a nice a touch with all Allience personals in uniforms at the memorial for Anderson also.
The more attention brought to this amazing fix of a mod the better.
Mods like this are one of the main reasons I'm so glad to have a gaming PC. Only way I can enjoy one of my favorite gaming franchises fully. They should follow Bethesda's lead and allow mods on consoles so everyone can be saved from that confounding disappointment of an original ending.
Yeah. This ending is a billion times better than what Casey Hzdson gave us. Audemzs is basically an angel in disguise for giving us this mod.
Tali is the best girl afterall. Followed closely by Liara. The idea of a little blue Shepard running around the universe is adorable but Tali was the dorky friend who grew up and you suddenly noticed you can't live without her.
In the reworked memorial scene, they replaced Anderson’s original name plate with “Ad astra, per aspera.”
Latin for “Through hardships to the stars"
Such a fitting sum up of the entire trilogy journey!
AWESOME!
Serrious this is the ending ME3 deserved! thanks all the mod devs for this
This is one of the best mods for Mass Effect. Audemus did a fantastic job!
Amazing that what would probably be considered a plane ending is a way better ending then what we actually got. I think the writers were a bit to caught up in the idea of blowing our minds over giving us something satisfying
The REAL ending is perfect and very satisfying. Shepard surviving ruins it.
@@narnianwarrior7493 How so? Remember Shepard do survive on the Destroy ending with high EMS on the original endings too.
@@narnianwarrior7493 What matters is player choice. Dragon Age Origins respected player choice, why couldn't Mass Effect 3? Not to mention none of our choices and actions over 3 games had consequences at the end.
it's a similar story with TLJ i think, where it wanted to challange the past and subvert expectations but ended up forgetting about the writting to back it up
100%. First game ended with Shepard basically beating down Sovereign's avatar. Shep charged a yahg and punched it in the face. I wanted to see Shep be a total badass and rip out Harbinger's heart, not talk to some bullshit AI who clearly is reading his mind and presenting itself as a child he saw murdered.
The Anderson scene was like jesus that was a gut punch, leagues above the shallow one in vanilla, the only thing i thought that wouldve completed it is anderson finishing off his sentence about not having kids, with something to the effect of "but you were the closest thing i ever had to a son" to shepard
Also, the old man talking to his son i think wouldve been fine, by default i got the vibes of "this happened like 100 years from now" from how they reference shepard and say it was a long time ago, but i also got the vibes that it was like, joker or hackett that was the old man
The music, seeing the emotion of adnersons death on the characters really shows how amazing this really is. Worth it just for that.
Just beat the trilogy after a few years with this mod and Take Back Earth. Mass effect was the first series of games to make me cry and now it made it even harder. Damn what a journey.
I think this is pretty much the definitive way to finish the 3rd game. Just waiting for an update on the Citadel DLC mod that lets you play it AFTER this ending. Unless that has come out already, and I am just slow to it 🤔
Oh my goodness! I had never seen this! That scene with Shepard and Anderson...... 😭**sniff** So many feels. 🥺 Thank you for sharing this with us Dan. ❤Fantastic mod! Thank you to the creators!
This is fantastic!!
Also, I refuse to call the God Child the Star Child. There is only one Star Child, and that’s Paul Stanley! 🎸 ⭐️
When I finally fix my PC I'm buying another copy of legendary edition (already have it in console) soley for the mod support, that conversation with Anderson made me cry like a waterfall
This mod is epic.
And I would have settled for a meme ending where the old man says “…and on the third day the shepherd arose from death.” 😂
This makes me want to start a whole trilogy playthrough on PC. My favorite part is where it doesn’t shit on your achievement of making peace with the quarians and geth
Now why in the fuck couldn't bioware give us this ending themselves!? They had to botch the whole ending to one of the best game trilogies ever made.
They did'nt botch anything your just a child who thinks everything should end the way you want it to. The REAL ending is perfect.
@@narnianwarrior7493 It's real garbage is what it is. Don't defend the company that wouldn't let the developers finish the game but forced a crunch for the extended cut afterwards because of customer backlash.
@@zynix3698 it's not tho shepherd needed to die
@@zynix3698 Name a war that the human race has been in that has ever ended happily. This mod was born of a desire for people to see Shepherd live and for things to be all feel good. That's not how it works. It's great and fantastic that people made a mod to fulfill fantasies, but in reality, this is not a real ending.
@@snyperwulffgaming9575 ME3 is the last ME anyway. Andromeda is garbage, anything after will also be as good as garbage
That’s SO good! That scene with Anderson actually made me cry, especially the bit about how proud your kids would be, telling everyone their mom (in my case) is Commander Shepard. Dang, this mod is fantastic. I’d love to be able to install this on my Xbox. Considering that, from what I hear, it’s basically a PC on the inside with a different UI, I wouldn’t imagine it’d be TOO hard… not that I know how to do any of that myself.
I thought this was going to be dumb, but it's actually pretty good. I only play console, so I won't be able to do it personally, but this seems like a better pure Paragon ending than what people got. I was never a big hater of the RGB endings, but I do think players deserved a more solid W if they did everything right.
The second you said the crucible doesn’t kill EDI and the Geth, I was sold on this mod… or at least that’s what I would say if I had the PC version.
"No longer space magic" is such a crucial point. Mass Effect had always existed firmly in the realm of science fiction but the crucible pivoted hard towards science fantasy. That rubbed everyone the wrong way, even if they didn't consciously realise it. Great change!
I never had a problem with it.
That is AWESOME! Thank you Mod Maker for making this alternate ending! Simply Beautiful! Love it!
When you combine this with the CEM(citadel ending mod)...oh so good...
This mod restored my faith in the mass effect series. I really wish the game creators would seriously take a look at what they produced and do better. This modded ending was the ending I was expecting. Why else would I spend all my time gathering assets if not for a chance at victory...??? Good job to the makers. Loved it!!!
2:33 this Cutscene actually happens if u have a low War asset score by priority: earth 2
You know what also would’ve been cool? If there was an epilogue post credit cutscene that altered depending on your relationships
Like if you had a romance with one of the ladies you are like with them somewhere like if you romanced Tali you’re on Ranock with her
And if you bromanced Garrus you’re shooting with him on the crucible
I absolutely love this mod, I'm not someone who necessarily hates the vanilla endings + catalyst, but I do prefer a happy ending for Shepard... also, the mod page for AHEM mentions having permission to port over the Citadel Epilogue Mod to be partnered with AHEM (but until CEM is ported over you can keep the Stargazer scene in via the mod settings menu)
I'm surprised you didn't mention CEM being mentioned on the mod page, as I was really wondering if you'd cover that when it gets ported over, as well as maybe the FemShep v BroShep mod for the Citadel DLC as well?
Awesome video by the way, I think this is the first video of yours that I've commented on :D
That scene with Anderson made me cry all over again. 👍 great mod.❤️
The TRUE cannon ending
The conversation with Anderson is awesome.
I Cried after these endings. I got so attached to characters and the story but it all just died. It felt as if all 4 base endings were terrible.
I’ve never heard of this!! Can’t wait to play again and see it this way.
I love this, really this should be canon
I might just replay ME3 with this mod so I can fix the bad mark it left on my heart. Finally, a home on Rannoch is in sight. Definitely among the best narrative fixes to a game I’ve ever seen.
To this day I'm still BAFFLED by the design choices for the "canon" endings. Were all the writers going through a divorce or something when they got to the endings? Just... how can a project that was so well-written and nuanced up to the very end take such a left turn in the final scene? All of the options are such... downers. Either commit synthetic genocide, become the gun pointed at the head of the universe, or use space magic to alter the fabric of reality without anyone's consent. And then when fans asked Bioware for a better option, they answered with the story equivalent of a middle finger. It's like they hated the fanbase and wanted us to know it. I just don't get it.
Supposedly - the ending with the star child and the whole 'this is what reapers are for - and these are your choices" were done by one guy who more or less stonewalled any feedback from the rest of the writers.
@@lissaquon607 But yet, the whole team stands by it. Whenever questioned (it might be angry now, but it was honest questions back then) they stood by the damned endings.
I just don’t get why.
Mass Effect 3’s final treatment heralded the oncoming of shit game writers to the industry.
First they just sucked at their jobs, then they wanted to shove their real life with beliefs into the game, then they hated the game and wanted to mock every player base.
Even today. Mass Effect Legendary Edition released a year or two ago? There was known interesting content that was cut (for one example, ever feel Admiral Xen seems a bit cut? In Mass3, after the Quarian war ended, she would have gone to the citadel, and started abducting citizens, performing all sorts of horrific crimes and creating monstrosities, being a person needed to be taken down.) Why the heck was ZERO effort made to create it for the LEGENDARY EDITION???
(Also final petty note, they ‘lost the DLC coding’??? WTF it’s on the bloody internet, pirated a million f*cking times and even in the code of a version they sold on EA. Why the f*ck wouldn’t you just take the code out from there???)
Considering how bad the next game was afterwards, my guess is yes, they either got brainwashed by EA to give the middle finger to fans while cashing our dollars on buying the franchise games or they just simply don't care anymore for whatever personal reason. Either way its also reason why when Legendary Edition came out, I didn't bother buying it simply because I don't want to give EA any more of my dollars.
@@Norinia The real sin is ME2. Originally there was going to be no fixed order for recruitment. I've even heard you would recruit Legion first on your way out of the Cerberus base, which would explain why he has dialogue for every single mission in the game even though you get him after the final time limit starts. All because of the Xbox 360 being shit.
while the synthesis ending _looks_ really stupid (hooray everything is green now) EDI's speech really made me content with this final conclusion. After such a big trial, the defeat of the reapers, the unification of the galaxy something new needs to happen. an evolutionary scale of development for all the species in the galaxy. The galaxy became one and Shepard became one with everything they loved, their crew, their ship and the galaxy they defended. They also became part of their love interest which in all other endings, you just leave them behind.
In my latest playthrough I romanced Garrus, and when EDI hugs him at the end it was just the right amount of feels for such an epic journey.
The destroy ending just stranded everyone on earth and killed every cyborg, synthetic and currently spaceborne, which would ensure the destruction of this current galactic civilization and without the reapers repairing the mass effect relays, it is not sure a spacefaring civilization will ever see the light of day again in the milky way.
The control ending is just a return to status quo, the reapers repair the relays and then piss off back to dark space, and even with paragon Shepard as their .exe who knows if the cycle truely ends.
Such a better ending, going to have to get this on pc just for this.
Full battle ending: “god damn it, Internet is lagging.”
Low battle ready: *Normandy covered in gore and crashing through a sea of bodies*
This is the ending we should've gotten
Damn. That new Anderson cut scene brought a tear to my eyes. So well done
Okay the conversation with Anderson has me tearing up… why did they scrap that 😭
well.. A mod I will be getting behind.. I adore the ending.. Playing through ME3 after the other two again and I need this in my life.
I think one more thing would have helped. When Anderson asks about settling down have Shepard mention their love interest. Like "Tali would be great parent, but I'm not sure I'll be good at it." a last detail for the moment.
The problem is that the mod is just using existing content that was simply cut from the game. The mod isn't adding newly recorded dialogue to that scene.
@@jamesramos5442 I know. Just wishful thinking and if they had more time to make the game.
You did the scenes with the Tali romance, which is proper.
I really like the synthesis ending. The themes of synthetics and organics in ME2/3 finding understanding in each other, speartipped with the Joker/Edi ship and climaxed by them becoming one at the end.
Imagine if, in their weak and dying state, Shepard called Anderson "Dad" if you picked the Earthborn origin. Since you basically grew up without a family, he became the dad that was never there.
I know headcannon and stuff, but...god damn Anderson dying was already the emotional gut-punch that the ending needed.
Keep in mind people, literally no video games ending is talked about to great lengths like this... about how incredibly awful it was that decades later people are literally still fixing it.
Simply amazing! It's been like 10 years but for such a fix (and one I didn't think was ever possible and from fans no less) it's perfect. Throwing in that star brat was like when the matrix reloaded threw in the architect but worse because it was at the very end. I remember this horrible ending sticking with me. I rushed through it late at night into the AM even though I had work (at my first job) in the morning and I remember (and I know it sounds ridiculous) feeling utterly depressed throughout the day the amazing trilogy I played and grew with had such a terrible ending. I replayed the trilogy multiple times thinking maybe if I got more resources I could unlock an at least decent ending I even played that extended ending (if you could call it that) bioware came out with shortly later due to fan outcry but it still felt hollow and empty. This looks more along the lines of what we should have got and I am glad it was able to come to fruition. I don't have much faith in ME4 with the current bioware however with this fan made mod I at least have closure to one of my all time favorite rpg series!
Why am I crying again? This is the only kind of ending I personally could choose above the synthesis one.
way to go big Dan for making this video and having tali Zora the love interest.. best romance partner in the game in my opinion
Well...for us ladies Garrus is that XD
I can’t even hear male sheps voice now without thinking about gamerpoop
Man this mod deserves its place as one of the mandatory ones. So many options and so much polish. Truly a great work.
Always thought it was strange seeing the Crucible dock with the Citadel and the Reapers were all just like "let's see what it does."
This is the ending ME3 should have had.
this ending mod is great, helps to fix the bullshit ending that still didn't make sense even after the extended cut