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[samuraibob1]

 Now let me start by saying that Mass Effect 1 and 2, while 'flawed,' have nearly perfect storylines/endings. And I also understand this theory that the series suddenly went to a 'Dark Science Fiction' place and it's stupid to expect a 'happy ending filled with ponies and flowers.'

But this isn't dark science fiction, this is bludgeoning me with emotions over and over and then leaving me empty inside.

This is taking everything I loved about the series: the choices I make impacting the mission, the decisions I've made coming back to haunt me, new friends turning out to be people I had already known, and instead removing any ideas I had about what the series ending would be like and taking any choice out of it at all.

I love the ME universe, and when I started ME3, I was absolutely in awe of the scope of the game. They made it feel like a real war, that real people were dying, and that my efforts would save the galaxy from destruction at the hands of these nearly-immortal creatures bent on everyone's destruction. As the game progressed, it only cemented how far I would go to save the galaxy and everyone in it.

What I got was an ending (go on, pick one) full of plot holes and completely devoid of any hope for the future at all.

1: Every one of the Humans, Asari, Quarians or Geth, Turians, Volus, Elcor, and any other race involved in the fighting is now trapped in the Sol system with nothing but conventional drives to get them anywhere, assuming those even still work. So now every advanced race in the known galaxy is essentially confined to one system whose resources are nowhere near capable of supporting them all.

2: Every single member of every single race is completely cut off from communication, travel, etc.  and most of them won't even know why.

3: Everyone I told to go to the Citadel for safekeeping? Dead.

4: Normandy destroyed and the crew marooned on some planet with no hopes of escape and only the hope that they will survive on it? Check.

5: Any resolution at all to that Dark Energy stuff on Haestrom? Meh, who needs it.

6: A proper love story resolution with any love interest? Completely out the window.

7: Skykid claims he controls the Reapers, but he can't turn them off? Uhhh, why? Why does it require outside intervention to turn off what you control? Why does the fate of the galaxy rely on the guy you just met? If you're so concerned with the fate of the galaxy based on whether synthetics control it, why can't you turn just off the reapers and let us forge our own way since any choice the guy makes destroys you anyway? Also, you're obviously not a biological lifeform, which means you are synthetic as well, and therefore you are a synthetic destroying organics, which is exactly what you claim to be preventing?

8: What was the point of galactic readiiness? None of those decisions made any impact on if the Crucible got made, if the Crucible made it to the Citadel in time, whether any of the upgrades mattered, or whether I had enough ships/people/technology for the final fight. 

Now Bioware, I understand it's hard to write a galaxy spanning epic like this and not have some casualties in the plot holes department, but this is a great majority of nearly every single race in the galaxy now trapped on one little planet. This is all of my hard work getting the Citadel's security up to snuff, getting all those little things for the Crucible online, and in return I get what feels like nothing. The whole game wound up feeling like a George R.R. Martin novel, right up to the end, when the White Walkers kill/torture/convert everyone in the north, begin a march on the southlands and then someone saying, 'But that is another story.' So plot holes aside, this was just one, long, 'slit my wrists if another person I cared about dies' game with an ending that makes me choose instead to elect beheading as my suicide method instead because it's quicker and I won't have to think about what I just went through as long.

And if you made it this far, thanks for taking the time to read my rant. I am sure I missed something along the way, this is what I could remember in my moment of despair.

Also, I know about the 'original' ending and it made SO much more sense and offered us the 'ultimate' choice (and it gives us bleeding-heart, flower-picker-pony-lovers a happiness option).