I haven't had time to read all 1k+ pages, and if I try I don't think I'll reach the end given the rate of posting. Regardless of the fact that this may have been said before, this is how I feel and so is not the less for repetition of others feelings.
The ending hurt, it really hurt. I can deal with tragedy and sacrifice and unfairness. There was nothing less to be expected as possible outcomes from a final confrontation with the Reapers. I had a number of different ME characters, but into my main I poured myself: I acted how I would like to believe that I would have acted in that situation, not following pure paragon or renegade, but how I felt inside. I romanced who I felt the most affinity and affection for (Tali for those interested) and I scorned those who I thought deserved it. I had trouble facing up to the difficult decisions at the end of the game; which of the three could I cover?
I wouldn't go for control because that wouldn't solve anything, leaving Synthesis and Destruction.
If I destroyed the Reapers I destroyed the Geth, who I had worked so hard to bring into true sapience and protect, and EDI who I had tried to nurture into her new role. The Geth couldn't help the Quarians re-inhabit their world either. But I might get to see Tali again, she who wanted more time, who wanted a house on the homeworld I had helped her regain. True, we may never get there traveling by standard FTL travel, but we would have that time together which she wanted. I would see which of my friends had lived, and mourn those who had died.
If I chose synthesis, then I would lose Tali, and she would lose me. I would not know about it but the fact that she would be alone, if she survived that is, was hard for me. EDI would live, the Geth would live, but it would still take decades if not centuries to go back home. Also, what form of life would be resultant. You can't just re-write DNA to make it part synthetic and part organic, and how in the name of everything do you rewrite the DNA of machines to make them part organic? It made no sense to me.
Though I had been somewhat rutheless throughout the series, it had always been because I needed to what others were unwilling to do, but I did my best to save everyone which I could, or who needed/deserved saving, which is probably why I had nigh on 8k forces at the end of my playthrough. My actions may have been harsh at times, cold-blooded and reprehensible, I had done all that because I was willing to shoulder that responsibility for the sake of others. At the very end, however, I chose a selfish act. I chose to destroy the Reapers, the Geth and EDI, part of what I had helped create. I chose to do this so I might be able to see Tali and my friends again, and live with the burden of the trillions of Geth I had killed. It might not be a happy existence, but it was all I had, so I went for it.
Imagine my surprise, then, to see a flashback of Joker, Anderson and that Blue-arsed bimbo from the first game; I did everything for Tali. Ok, that aside, we continue on to see the Normandy trying to outrun the shockwave (for want of a better word), and having it's rear being torn apart by that same force. Yet somehow it manages to land on some unsuspecting garden world. Joker lives, Tali lives (yay) and I'm lying in rubble somewhere......
....and that's it? What happens to everyone else. Do we rebuild, can we rebuild. Do people understand why the Geth had to die, does Joker understand that he lost EDI because of my selfishness? Was that Wrex who was hit by the reaper beam? What about Garrus, or Grunt, or Jack? What about Kasumi and Zaeed. In DA:O you at least gave us epilogue slides, here we get nothing. No closure, nothing at all.
And you expect me to want to play through all that again with my other characters just to see it all thrown away again? I even decided to see what would happen if I jumped into the beam. Joker gets EDI; cute. Tali is left standing alone on a rock looking at them; heartbreak. And no, I'm not some fanboy who writes Tali/Shepard romances and slashfic, they're all just well written characters and I see her in a lot of my past loves in reality.
That's the whole point; you give us a veritable host of people to know and friendships to forge. Garrus, Tali are there from the word go. They were at my side at Ilos, against Saren, against the Collectors and against the Reapers. You gave us characters which we could associate with, such as Mordin struggling with his conscience yet knowing what he did was right, Thane trying to atone for his past and accepting his impending death. Legion, sacrificing himself for his people as I was willing to do for mine up until the very end; I thought I was ready to face death, but when there was an option to get out of it, even at high cost, I took it because I dared to hope for something more to come out of what was lost.
Yes, you gave us these characters to know and love and hate and laugh with. You took some of them away early, but at least you gave us some closure there. Where was our closure here? A brief scene of 2-3 characters and a Love Interest is not closure. And saying "a little bit of mystery there and a little bit of interpretation" is not an excuse for what is, to all intents and purposes, a cop out. Your explanations for the endings to your fans are as weak as the endings themselves.
I would be happy about Shephard's death if I had more about those who lived on after him/her. If I saw Garrus on Palaven shooting bottles shouting "This one's for you"; Kasumi looking fondly at an old and damaged N7 helmet that mysteriously vanished from my cabin; Karin Chakwas toasting to Shepard every year, an undrunk glass of Serrice Brandy next to her; Grunt remembering the time that I headbutted a Krogan for showing him disrespect, and Tali, sitting outside her house on Rannoch, or maybe Earth, or in a Liveship on her long voyage home, looking at a photo of me and sighing, perhaps adopting a war orphan and calling him Shepard. And maybe the whole gang meeting up at some time in the future and remembering the past. Ok, that last bit is cheesy but you get the idea.
Yes, if I had that then I would have no problem with the fact that Shepard did not survive the Reaper war. It would prefer it if I could be there with them, but if I had to die and there was no choice then I could deal with that.
But the fact is you don't give us that. You give us a painful lack of choice, telling us that regardless of what we do, basically you're screwed one way or another, and don't even have the decency to tell us that at least most of the other people made it out alright.
I'm not looking for a rainbows and unicorns ending. I'm not looking for offspring. I'm looking for closure which you didn't think we were worth. Shepard put their life on the line so many times for the galaxy and we paid our money to you for the privilege of guiding their hand. You responded by giving us a suspect flashback memory sequence before the end and a hint that some people might just live out their natural lives stranded on a random planet. Well you'd better hope that the planet had both levo and dextro protein foods available because otherwise some of them are screwed.
I'm not mad at the choices of endings themselves. they were decent as endings go, and the difficulty of the decisions and results of them is a masterpiece; you forced us to make a terrible decision, but you did not reward us for it. I would prefer there to be more choices, I would prefer to be able to convince the Citadel Entity to call off the reapers it controls, and to sue for peace, but I don't think you'll give us that. I can deal with the death of my Shepard, of all my Shepards, but I cannot cope without the closure.
Sorry for the rant - got carried away.
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