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I realize for a lot of people the endings were really disappointing, but didn't anyone else find them some what poetic?

I guess my biggest complaint is that it seems like Shepard dies alone, unable to tell anyone he/she cares about about what happens on the Citadel, and with his/her friends on the Normandy stranded. That to me, is kind of disappointing, especially the latter.

I really think the goodbyes were underdone. I think the only goodbye that really hit the mark was Liara's. She was not my Shepard's LI on this play through, but honestly by the end of ME3 I felt like Shepard was more connected to her then anyone else. It was a really good goodbye, and frankly the others were really subpar IMHO.

But I have to admit, when you save Anderson and Shepard sits down and talks to him on the Citadel, there's something really poetic about the whole scene. I think Anderson was definitely the right person to have be there with Shepard at the end. After all they've been through - and the fact that he's basically the first important character you really get to know in the games, besides the brief starting scene in ME1 involving Joker - I think it's really fitting that Shepard spends his last moments - and the most important moments - with Anderson on the Citadel.

I also found the ending choices some what appropriate. I mean, giving the player a "Paragon" "Renegade" (and if you unlocked it) "Neutral" option was really a testament to the entire story processes. I will admit to having mixed feelings about Shepard dying (except that he perhaps doesn't under the Renegade option under certain cercumstances).

It's a nice story element to have the main character make the final sacrifice to save as many people as he can. I guess it's mostly frustrating that despite that, the mass relays are destroyed, and worse still the Normandy winds up stuck on some random planet. It really would have been more satisfactory if the sacrifice was made by Shepard alone, and not by everyone, everyone doesn't wind up stranded and cut off from each other.

The ending still has me reeling. But I guess that was bound to happen. To me, I think the one thing that the ending did do well is prevent things from just going back to the way they were. I don't think there'd be anything more anti-climatic then the Reaper invasion ending and everyone just goes back to the way things use to be. It just doesn't make any sense, and I think without some kind of galaxy-altering choice, that would be inevitable.

Further still, it's hard to see what Shepard would do after the Reaper war. Unless the Mass Relays were to survive, and Shepard wound up with his/her LI, it seems anti-climatic that he would retire from the Alliance, or continue with them. What more is there to do after you saved the entire galaxy besides spending it with the people you care about?

I am curious about the story-telling element at the end though. It would be interesting to know what that was all about.

So I guess the tl;dr version:

There are definitely some things I respect about the ending, that everything is has changed most of all. But I think it's pretty disappointing that despite all the sacrifices by everyone involved, even the best out comes require even more sacrifices from them - I think if they're going to make Shepard give his life to end the Reaper invasion, they should do it without making everyone else sacrifice everything too.