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[MattFini]

 
I didn't have a TON of expectations while playing the first ME.  Sure, I'd been a fan of Baldur's Gate and KOTOR, but I didn't expect ME go blindside me as much as it did.

But the story is so good, the characters so strong that by the time you've desperately crashed onto the Citadel and find yourself racing across the outside of the tower to try and reach Saren, I just couldn't put the game down.  At the very end, when Shepard comes trotting out of the rubbing with that triumphant grin, I remember getting goosebumps for the first time in my gaming life.  It was that good ... that satisfying. 

ME2 worked similarly.  EVERYTHING after the Omega 4 Relay is perfection.  The cut scenes are exciting, the music unforgettable and that final mission is just an incredible meld of storytelling and gameplay as you see your choices pay off (or not).  

The end boss fight was over-the-top but fun and the final cinematc of Shep nodding to his team was simple, but awesome.  Again, GREAT sense of victory and accomplishment.  I felt like, for as hard as I'd worked throughout the game, as long as it took to build all the relationships up, it worked out in my favor.  Against all odd, we'd succeeded in surviving the suicide run.

The second the credits ended, I imported my next Shep and started playing again, adrennaline high.

And now we come to ME3.  There's nothing rewarding, beautiful or poetic about FutureChild.  It's odd, awkwardly placed and largely nonsensical.  When the game asks you to choose one of three choices it's not rewarding or fun, just ... baffling.  "Why are these my choices?"  and all that good stuff. 

And that final cut scene? There's no defending it becuase it makes no sense.  All of the triumph and satisfaction of parts 1 and 2 is replaced by murky understanding (at best) and crushing disappointment and confusion.  

Regardless of Shep living or not, there should've been THE GREATEST sense of victory here.  Instead it's a gray area where even the edning's fans have to use their imaginations to explain away the dodgy storytelling.  Shepard's story ends on a clunky note.  There's nothing satisfying about it and certainly nothing fulfilling.  

And for me, personally, that's why I haven't been back since.