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Harry Potter and Twilight, i suppose these 2 make alot of fans create their own endings , but i am much more curious about games, because it seems ME3 was the first to cause such and outrage of the fan comunity (maybe Kingdom Hearts also had problems like this? since its the game with the most number of fanfics in fanfic.net)
Um, sorry no. The reason Kingdom Hearts has the most stories associated with it is because it's filled with Final Fantasy characters (bishonen), the Kingdom Hearts protagonists (more bishonen) and the dark counterparts of the first two categories (bad boy bishonen). So 90% of the Kingdom Hearts fanbase will be slash fic after slash fic after slash fic. 8% will be self-inserts so they can be paired with the author's personal favourite bishonen (or Kairi, for the guys or the girls who swing that way). The last 2% will be either crack fics or the rare few that try to tell an actual story.
Also, most of the crack fics will be taking the mickey (pun intended, ba dum tish) out of the fact that not even the fans know what the hell is going on in the Kingdom Hearts games anymore.
As for endings in games that people have felt this genuinely upset over, I don't think there have really been any. Sure there have been flare-ups from the more 'dedicated' segments of certain games' fanbases but nothing on this level. That's part of why the Mass Effect debacle was such a big deal. People
care about story in games now. This might not be a popular thing for me to say but before 2000, no one cared at all about story. And even since then it's been more of a niche concern. If a game had a decent story, great! If not, no big loss. 'Game stories suck anyway.', right? But Mass Effect didn't. Sure, there were clichés thrown around in the main plot of the game but you could feel the effort and creativity that Bioware poured into creating the universe and that they threw all of it away on a cop-out ending was understandably infuriating.
And I looked up the Leviathan thing. It's not a new ending. The Leviathan is apparently one of the creators of the Reapers so doing that mission means you can quiz the... thing (I can't call him anything else without adding multiple swears) on what they were before you take your three (or four with ECut) ending options. Basically the writers are saying 'no, no! Really! They totally existed in the universe already! It wasn't an ass-pull, we promise! PLEASE!' ... You know, thinking about it, maybe they really did. The Leviathan was mentioned all the way back in ME1. Maybe they just never got around to bringing them up or didn't want to since finding something from millions of years ago would seem contrived if the Reapers are explicitly stated to wipe out every trace of spacefaring races. And by ME3 they'd written themselves into a corner.
... Huh. That'd actually be kind of tragic. Seeing as it's far,
far too late now.