User blog comment:JediSpectre117/ME3 Ending we want & last mission improvments/@comment-4952006-20120323212233

What I would like to see is the presence of a handful of different tiered main endings based on your war assets, and a number of different short cutscenes based on the decisions you made. For example… Less than X number of the war assets that would have applied to “Hammer” and Shepard dies when he gets blasted by Harbinger, less than X number of the war assets that applied “Sword” and Shepard makes it to the Citadel but the Crucible is destroyed by the Reapers before it docks, less than X number of war assets that go to the Crucible and something goes wrong and it malfunctions. Additionally… some sort of cutscene resolving the life/death of the former crewmates that Shepard called before the final battle, Ashley/Kaiden if they were turned into a war asset, and the members of Shepard’s crew that were not selected for the final mission. And if you have at least X number of those 3 types of war assets then Shepard makes it through the beam, the Crucible successfully docks, and is activated with varying results. I would also put in other throwbacks from important decisions like: if you killed the Rachni queen in ME1 and recruited the Artificial Queen in ME3, the Crucible would be sabotaged and explode on activation; or dependant on the number of cybernetic/medical/shield upgrades researched in ME2, Shepard dies after he gets the call from Hackett on the Crucible and collapses in from t of the terminal. Something that would also be cool is if regardless of how few assets may have been recovered for “Hammer”, if you recovered like 95% of the total assets that could be collected for the “Sword”(a “Perfect ” game in ME1,2&3), then Hackett leads the fleet to a straight up victory over the reapers. Since this is supposed to be the end I would like to see multiple fully developed outcomes in which A) Shepard lives or dies, B) the Reapers win/lose, C) the impact on Shepard’s crew(live/die/show up behind him in the while he is staring out into space on the citadel), and D) what impact this war(win/lose) had on Earth and the rest of the galaxy.