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'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite mod that I can't use.

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

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.

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!

The added Crucible docking scene is pretty intense and definitely welcomed. I never understood how Hackett's escort somehow managed to coast past the Reapers in the vanilla version 😂

That ending looks so much better than what we got in the OG game.

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.

Anderson: You'd be a great dad. Shepard: *dates someone he can't reproduce with*

Now all we need is Citadel Epilogue Mod to be ported over and we're all set

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!

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

That docking scene was so good! Need to install this on my next play through.

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 could have been a satisfying end to ME3. The current ending could have been good with a few changes as well.

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.

This was a must have mod when I was playing through ME3 the first time. Pleased that someone brought it forwards to the LE.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That’s the ending I think most fans wanted.

This mod was the ending we deserved :') I literally cried playing it, I just felt so fulfilled.

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 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

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.

I really like how all the human companions are wearing their formal attire in honor of Anderson.

Thank you for having quality taste and showcasing Tali for that scene. She's the superior choice.

This is my canon ending. I don’t care if Shepard sacrificing themself for the galaxy is ‘more fitting’, they deserve a happy ending.

I don't know why but I get goosebumps when I hear the crew trying to search for Shepherd

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!

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

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

That expanded talk with anderson was beautiful…

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 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

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

When I bought the legendary edition I made sure to download this and the Earth mod. This made the final experience 10x better and more satisfying.

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.

This ending is waaaaaay better than any of those 3 endings in the game. Props to mod or mods who created this👊🏿

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 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.

AWESOME! Serrious this is the ending ME3 deserved! thanks all the mod devs for this

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! 🎸 ⭐️

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.

This is LITERALLY how the perfect ending should have been

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 is one of the best mods for Mass Effect. Audemus did a fantastic job!

That is AWESOME! Thank you Mod Maker for making this alternate ending! Simply Beautiful! Love it!

The music, seeing the emotion of adnersons death on the characters really shows how amazing this really is. Worth it just for that.

Such a nice a touch with all Allience personals in uniforms at the memorial for Anderson also.

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!

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 👏🏾👏🏾💙

I’ve never heard of this!! Can’t wait to play again and see it this way.

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.

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 🤔

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!

Thanks for sharing this, I generally only play on Consoles so it was really interesting seeing some of the scenes.

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 TRUE cannon ending

BROO... THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS MOD TO MY ATTENTION. Totally going to use it.

Using this from now on, thanks for showing me this.

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...

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.

Damn. That new Anderson cut scene brought a tear to my eyes. So well done

That scene with Anderson made me cry all over again. 👍 great mod.❤️

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

2:33 this Cutscene actually happens if u have a low War asset score by priority: earth 2

I have played with the older happy ending mod but this one seems great...I'll try it out for my next playthrough. Thanks

That's... quite well done; thanks for sharing!

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.

This is the ending we should've gotten

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

OMG! I ddn't know of this mod! Thank you so much. I finally have the ending I wanted!! 👏👏👏

Okay the conversation with Anderson has me tearing up… why did they scrap that 😭

Is this compatible with Take Earth Back? Those two together really feel like a great cinematic story.

Makes me actually want to replay this game now. Good stuff.

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.

Such a better ending, going to have to get this on pc just for this.

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!!!

Holy balls, thanks for the heads up Dan, gearing up to replay the trilogy and I will definitely use this one! =)

"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 love this, really this should be canon

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.

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

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.

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 needed that Tali hug in the end… thank you.

This is amazing!

Man this mod deserves its place as one of the mandatory ones. So many options and so much polish. Truly a great work.

Great Review. I will definitely download this Mod. Just can't leave poor Tali alone.

So glad these mods keep coming. I will probably install it after my first rerun of ME3. I also like how compatibility is available in a timely manner. Modding has come so far and glad Bioware didn't make it nearly impossible to do. I am curious to see if they take some of these ideas for 5. Since with destroy we get a scene with Shepard gasping for air in the game before the LE edition. Love your videos and thinking of jumping into Andromeda to see if I can get through it. I'll probably even stream it to. I am also going to run the multiple romance mod in my fem playthrough of ME2 and ME3. I wonder if it will conflict with it so we shall see.

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

I mean perfect destroy is the good ending though.

Full battle ending: “god damn it, Internet is lagging.” Low battle ready: *Normandy covered in gore and crashing through a sea of bodies*

I installed this mod for my current playthrough. I am excited to see it play out!

This is the ending ME3 should have had.