GroverA125 wrote...
Really though, in essence no matter how many forces you bring with you, or how hard you work to get what you want in the end, you still get the same endings as if you had brought no-one along. No matter what happens, all Mass Relays are gone, your squad (with who you bring mysteriously appearing on the normandy after getting blasted by a laser) is stranded on a tropical planet and nobody gets the ending they want.
Everything we do, everyone we save, has utterly no purpose or meaning in the end, because everyone loses everything anyways, all the effort to do good on rannoch, with the krogans (to give them their future) and all that work around the galaxy, doesn't yield anything other than a "everything you just did has no purpose because they're all going to die" video.
Long term, no option is good, and no option is bad. all three options are a kick in the balls to anyone who likes the franchise, now nothing we did or will do for the last 5 years is gone. There's never going to be a Mass Effect 4, I'll never see the Krogans thrive among the galaxy, the Quarians live in peace on Rannoch, the Turians remain on Palaven in peace, the batarians become a government once again, Aria take back Omega, or anyone ever see each other again in the end. It's not three bad endings, it's three swift and sharp denials of us ever seeing anything we did bear fruit.
First off, they don't all lose everything. The Quarians have a home. The Krogan get to start over. They're NOT all going to die. For a while they are going to be limited to their own cluster.
Most of the races (save, maybe the Krogan) have most likely been studying the Prothean gate on the Citadel since ME1. They made it pretty clear that there were elements of every race that took Shepards warnings seriously. It's
not difficult at all to see each of those races having their own and co-operative "Create a Relay" project.
As for the Normandy? You have no idea where it is, therefore, the only reason it's not within standard FTL reach of *someone* isa because you wanna be bummed out because all the dots weren't connected for you.
At worst, all you can say is that they pulled an X-Men 3...ending it in such a way that, if they ever want to go back to it, post ME 3 that they can make canon whatever they need to.