I'd like to put in my three cents about the endings. First off, I would like to say, I loved the game, probably the best in the series in my opinion (kudos Bioware for that)...with the exception of the last 15 minutes. Extremely EXTREMELY, disappointing. I read a lot of the spoilers and sort of was expecting what was coming, though I still foolishly held hope that if I did everything right (100 percent readiness, all war assets, etc etc) Bioware would reward me with a 'good' ending. In my mind, that would involve Shepard and at least some of his crew alive, TOGETHER, especially the love interest. Not saying their environment would be all peachy but at least some hope for survival together and happy would be nice. And if people want a cliched happy ending where everyone lives and Normandy lands heroically in the ashes of Earth so everyone can get medals, that's fine too, I never understand why some people don't like those...yeah, maybe not entirely realistic, but its a video game. And for those of you who like the endings...they can keep them, and maybe add an ending where the reapers win...but I think It's nice for things to work out, everyone knows they don't in real life. In any case, I, nor any of you got that from the ME3 endings.
Its hard to say what irritated me most but I think it was the reduction of everything you had done in the previous 2 games plus the third into 3 choices. We were told all our decisions would make a difference...and I suppose they did to a certain extent...but for all intensive purposes the endings were the same with minute variation. And worse, they posed more questions than gave answers. 'What happened to Shepard?' Yeah the breathing **** at the end of the 'good' destroy ending doesn't count. 'Does the Normandy now have teleporters?' (must, since your team from Earth all got back there) Sure would've come in handy earlier instead of taking the damn shuttle all the time. 'Why the hell was the Normandy in FTL and crashing on some stupid planet?.' I mean really, did Bioware just make it this way so they could make DLC? I mean, who in their right mind thinks this is a good way to wrap up the franchise? I could understand if it was a movie and it was their artistic blah blah, but they've always told us (and delivered) about how our opinions mattered and in game we had choice. Did the play testers think this was ok? It seems like a lot of what we did in the game didn't matter. I'm sure I'm just beating a dead horse here, I've read a lot of what you all said and from a lot of you it was very similar. I just wanted to vent and add my feelings to Bioware's collection of tears. I just hope they realize the mistake they've made and do something to rectify it. New Ending(s) DLC would be nice...but I'm not sure if that'll ever happen. I'm hoping they will and soon because as of right now, the re-playability is rather limited...at least for me. In any case thanks for reading.
As a side note: Any word on the 'surprise New Game plus ending'?