I have been lurking around on these forums for a very long time. But, the ending of Mass Effect 3 left me in a kind of a shocked state and forced me to login and express my views. I have finished the game twice now and both times I had to ALT+F4 after seeing that awful "You are now THE Shepard" epilogue. I don't know if I was naive to have thought that BioWare would keep their promises of "widely varying endings" but to me, the ending felt like a breach of trust. The screwy twitter feedbacks and Chris Priestly's thread which tells us "we are listening" don't help either. It's like they dropped the ball and now they're hoping that this will all just go away if they pretend to care. What hurts even more is that I convinced 2 of my friends to just buy the game so that we could enjoy playing Multiplayer together which I found pretty interesting after playing the demo. Now, I only play the MP coz I asked my friends, who wouldn't have bothered with this game otherwise, to buy it.
Please fix this BioWare. I have been a loyal customer and I will continue to be one, but after giving us a taste of choices->consequences gameplay, you can't just take it away and give us something that is ripped off (completely or partially) from a thousand other sci-fi sources like Gurren Lagann, BSG etc. and doesn't even make sense in the context of this game. Both of my Paragade Shepards proved that AI and Organics can live in peace, who is this ****ing Starchild to tell me that they can't? What proof does he have? And why did my Shepards, both of whom have made badasses like Wrex and Grunt stand down, talked down Admirals and Dalatrass and pretty much told most people who have told them "you can't do this" or "you won't succeed" (case in point, Saren in Mass Effect and The Illusive Man in Mass Effect 3) to screw off, take the advice of a corporeal AI so meekly? And no, all this talk of indoctrination theory just doesn't cut it for me. If WE have to make up theories about an ending it wasn't a good ending. This isn't Inception or Lost, damn it! This is Mass Effect. The genre is completely different. I'm sorry if I got a bit carried away. It's just that I have 2 more playthroughs of Mass Effect 2 which are now completely redundant and I know that those Shepards will never get a chance to conclude their journey. I'd rather remember them as they were at the end of Mass Effect 2, than as the meek wuss who takes their advice from the enemy after years of hardships.