This inside look at Mass Effect 3's endings is well worth a look and dives into much more about the fan's reception to the ending, how the team was split about the Extended Cut DLC that was released, and how the team was even sent green, red, and blue cupcakes with the letters a, b, and c on them following the release of the game. Look, it’s not a good fix, but we didn’t expect it to blow up as… I mean we should've, we completely should've, but we didn’t expect it to completely blow up.” "It’s two ninjas that are two different colors. "You know, it’s Scorpion and Sub-Zero," Scott said when comparing two of Mortal Kombat's most iconic fighters to the color choices of the ending. Additionally, cinematic designer Zachariah Scott shared that, while they should have expected the reception of some to the ending, they simply didn't. It was also explained how the endings happened very late in the development cycle and that they were very expensive to make, which may have led to the reusing of some of the assets seen in-game. "And then we would be drifting and we’d follow them and we’d hear this woman explaining to her daughter how we came to this place, and we reach them and they’re like Asaris but they’re Asaris who are a little bit different, and she’s just telling the story about how Shepard made everything better and saved everybody from the Reapers.” "There was an ending where there was a mom and a daughter, and I had them sitting on a hill, and I shot in with us drifting through stars and the stars get blurry, we then we re-focus and it’s like little like dandelion fluffy things floating on the wind, but everything’s got this weird green like circuitry coating stuff on it, like it’s just an effect on it.
Everybody’s going to get affected by this, and everybody’s going to change," Wilkinson shared. "And the ending that everybody could get was Synthesis, where the queen was like, ‘we’re going to use space magic and we’re going to combine the best parts of you and the best parts of me and we’re going to send it out through the universe and it’s going to change everything. The final option, Synthesis, was available to everyone and has an ending that is similar to what is seen in one of the final scenes with the Stargazer.
"You still said, ‘f*** you’ to the queen, but you did it because you became the reaper and you could lead the reapers to be a power for good or whatever the f*** that meant.’ "The Paragon option was like, ‘I’m so awesome, that I can take control of these Reapers and I’ll use them for the right reason.’ So, then Shepard turns into kinda like the big king Reaper," Wilkinson continued. The Paragon option was a little more hopeful, and it also had the benefit of turning Shepard into the "big king Reaper." "And then the whole Citadel basically blows up and wipes out the Earth, but in the process, he’s now destroyed the Reapers and he’s given organics a chance." "And so the Renegade option was like Shepard just goes, ‘Go f*** yourself,’ and he rips himself out of the thing and he starts blowing up the f******… the room in the Citadel where the stuff is kept, which then causes the Citadel to detonate, because it was in the middle of doing something and he f**** it all up," Wilkinson said. However, the outcomes were a bit different. So, then the conversation was really like her going, ‘This is the chance to evolve everything, we can move everything forward.’"Īfter this initial conversation, Shepard would have some choices, much like those found in Mass Effect 3. "She was their queen, but she proposed things the Reapers didn’t like so they basically just locked her away inside the Citadel and just never ever listened to her again. I think it was a queen? And he had this conversation with the queen, and the queen basically said, ‘the way the Reapers keep going, this isn’t sustainable, blah blah blah blah blah blah, we have to evolve, but we’re incapable of evolution because of the limitations of our AI and stuff like that.’ "I actually had him just plug himself into the Citadel, and then within a virtual world he has a conversation with what was described as a god of the Reapers. "At that point, Shepard was so augmented with like electronic bits and all the rest of this s***," Wilkonson said. He shared the original plans for the Paragon, Renegade, and Synthesis endings and how it all began by Shepard plugging himself into The Citadel.
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