Ok, so I obviously only beat the game once because good god, why would I want to put myself through that soul crushing experience again? I decided to go on youtube and see how all the romances played out. I romanced Tali in my main playthrough and thinking back to the scene where she says "I want more time," still ticks me off. But I thought, "Oh, maybe they just wanted to make the Tali romance heart-crushing." Nope. Every single one of them (that I've seen so far) have some sort of dialogue about hope and seeing each other again followed by a tearful goodbye and they're so blasted good. This brings me to my point. I know a lot of people are saying it doesn't have to be happy as long as it makes sense but I'm fed up with that. What would be so wrong in having ONE happy ending? I think people see wanting this as some sort of sign of weakness or something. Screw that. All I want is my Shepard, who has basically been crushed by the galaxy for three games, to have some sort of relief in the end. Oh, well maybe he lives in one destroy ending but that doesn't really matter. His crew, the only people who have had his back through thick and thin, are stranded in Jurassic Park and Shep has no idea if they're alive or not and they have no idea if Shep died, even though they seem to be pretty optimistic with that ambiguity. I keep going back to that Jeremy Jahns review and he had one line that perfectly summed it up for me.
"I understand that the common belief is that in epics like these the hero has to die, but the phrase the hero has to anything in a game like Mass Effect that's built around choice and you picking your own destiny -- it goes against everything that Mass Effect is all about."
As I've said before, I'm ok with bittersweet. The galaxy is decimated, the mass relays are destroyed, the fleet who came together against all odds is stranded far from home and you are dead unless you lived but then you will never see anyone you care about ever again. Oh, and the Reapers are destroyed if you picked ketchup. I'm sorry but that just seems like it's maybe 95 percent bitter and 5 percent sweet. That is not a bittersweet ending and that's the best you can hope for. Not to mention you destroy all synthetics with blind acceptance on the idiotic notion that synthetics will always be at war with organics despite the fact that you just proved that theory wrong. So to recap, the best possible ending is galactic dark age, a decimated Earth being home to trillions of aliens and humans (which can't conceivably last without resources), the Normandy crew stranded on Fantasy Island (minus the awesomeness of Ricardo Montalban), Shepard has worked his/her butt off just to die (OR MAYBE NOT?!) with never seeing the people who really mattered ever again and never having the closure of knowing what happened to them, Shepard has just grinned like an idiot and accepted the fact that he/she committed genocide against a race he/she realized had been misunderstood and Shepard can never have pie again because all the Krogans will probably eat all the pie and there will never be pie again (after all the terrible things, I'm just assuming this happens).
So yes, I want a happy ending. I don't care if people want to call that sappy or say that I can't appreciate a good dark story. I can. But every person's journey through this great series is their own and Vincent Shepard has taken enough crap from the galaxy. He just wants to retire with his friends have some drinks and run through the streets screaming that he's "the savior of the galaxy and is dating dem hips" while high fiving everyone who still has a pulse before becoming way too drunk and having to have Garrus take his keys. Is that really so wrong?
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