@sagequeen,
Well said and that is exactly how I feel.
Spoilers HOOOOOOOO!
The game was Mass Effect until the last five minutes of the game. And may I stress the point that I hands down loved this game until the end. I got everything I wanted out of this game up until that point. I just got the feeling that it in the end didn't matter that I saved the Rachni or converted the Geth because everything get screwed over in the end.
To top it off none of the choices fit what my Shepard would pick, she went from being the Commander of armies to someone who gets cowed into picking what horrible way you want the galaxy to fall into, by the god/controller/whatever of the Reapers.
My impressions on the endings:
Control: Shepard is evaporated and 'dies' and now can somehow control the Reapers. The Relays are destroyed but the Citadel remains, which closes. Crew get stranded on unknown planet. I really don't care for this one because it seems so weird and out there. Shepard becomes the conscious if the Reapers? Is that what they are getting at? Plus its the end TIM who was indoctrinated tells you to pick. Somehow I don't entirely believe that is a good idea.
Synthetic: Shepard jumps in a beam of light and dies(?). The Relays, Citadel, and Reapers are destroyed. Crew gets stranded on unknown planet. I don't like this one either because I feel like it makes those who survive no longer who they are. They are no longer human, salarian, asari, krogan, etc. They are something else. I can't help but believe that everyone loses what they were, their individualism. I could totally be wrong about that. There are several characters in the series who would be okay with this, but there are also those who struggle with their 'humanity' enough that something like this would be hell for them.
Destory: Shepard shots tube, lives/dies depending on your War Assets. The Relays, Citadel, Reapers, and all synthetics are destroyed. And crew is yet again stranded on unknown planet. I hate this one too because all the work you put into getting the Geth and Quarians to get along and if you told EDI and Joker to go for it is all completely undone.
Where is the fourth option where Shepard points a gun at the kids head and tells him she isn't going to stand for this kind of BS, to turn off the Reapers now or she will blast his ghost ass back to the after life? Why can't you turn and point at the battle going on around you and say "Look! Synthetics and organics are united against you. It might not be perfect forever but let us give it a try." It seems the only options we have either destory synthetics or join synthetics.
Let me be very clear I didn't expect a rainbows and butterflies ending, but I did expect an ending where the game explains to me WTF I just seen. Maybe Liara (or that horrible forced voice actor Grandpa at the end) hundreds of years telling a child (and us) what each ending meant and the results of your choice. "And so Shepard picked *blank* which means *blah blah blah* and Garrus and Tali starved to death because we didn't have food for them to eat. (Or they didn't because Shepard picked the Synthetic ending so we are all half robots anyways) And it was many years before someone with FTL found us so we all didn't slowly die off one by one from wild life/disease/accidents."
Fable 2 did something simliar to this. Three choices, Sacrifice: everyone who died in the creation of the tower is brought back to life but your family and dog remains dead. Love: Your family and dog are brought back to life but all those who died in the tower stays dead. Greed: Everyone who died stays dead and you get a million gold. But each of those choices were completely different from each other. The ending was the same but everyone got what they wanted. The bittersweet ending, the happy ending, and they evil ending.
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I still love him in ME2. Didn't expect I did not expect that our romance will end like this... 
Give me some!
