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[Joshuaaaaa]

 First of all I want to thank bioware for an amazing trilogy, I appreciate your time and effort Bioware.

Now onto the meat of the topic.

Mass Effect 3 was an amazing game for me, up until when Harbinger pulls a "IMA CHARGIN MUH LAAAAZZEEERRR!"

Even after that when your BBQ'd it still made a decent amount of sense, though I'm still wondering about how Anderson got to the console before you when he said he followed you in. He did mention everything was shifting and changing so maybe a path opened up to take him there despite being ported in to another location. One more thought on that before I move on, I do find it odd how he arrives there seemingly unharmed and my Commander shepard, in heavy armor, shields and a layer of PURE AWESOME are burnt to a crisp and limping my way along with a pistol that never needs a new thermal clip. (The thermal clip wasn't a big deal, I just wanted to make jokes. I get why it was like that.)

Ok! Now I'm confronted with the Illusive man and Anderson and I are seemingly resisting being indoctrinated. Didn't work to well though because I shot Anderson. (Oops) Although the game didn't give me a choice in that matter. We talk a bit and everything is still flowing fine, then the Illusive man is about to duece up Anderson (because my paragon wasn't maxed I guess, couldn't choose that last Paragon dialog) so I pulled a Renegade and ended him right quick. The last part with Anderson before he died I felt was well done. Good touching dialog between them two.

This is where the crap hit the fan. My broke off Shepard attempts to crawl his way to the console to figure out why the Crucible isn't dropping a duece on the Reapers, before he can get to it, he passes out. Low and Behold he passes out on a shiny glowing lift and it takes him up to the Lair of the God Child VI Reaper...Thing. One thing real quick,  Shepard passed out trying to wiggle his way to the console yet when he gets up to the Lair o' Awsome he springs back up like "Hey lets talk and make choices n stuffs" Anyway, the VI approaches me and well as we all know, in the form of the child from the very beginning. I'll ask the same question others have asked, how did the VI know to take on that form? and why would it? I also find it weird how you can't really ask more in the dialog with the VI, like an "Investigate" option, with more dialog choices. If I was Shepard i'd be wondering why it looked like the kid in my nightmares.

Moving on, the child will then explain that it created the Reapers to wipe out all organics that are far enough along technology wise, to prevent them from creating Syntehtics that wipe them out, this happens every 50,000 years. So the Reapers were created to kills us all to prevent us from creating synthetics that would kill us all. Ok. My biggest issue with that is, well in our cycle the Quarians created the Geth, and since they were sort of douchebags toward them, they rebelled and expelled them from there own homeworld solely because they just wanted to live, and they also DID NOT wipe out teh quarians nor had any desire to, which is why they kept to themselves on Rannoch. So the whole "you'll create synthetics and then they will wipe out all organics" doesn't seem to hold up, especially when I brokered a peace with them and the Quarians. Not to mention we upgraded them with the reaper code and made them sentient individuals, who CHOSE to help me. So the the VI was incorrect.

After this the VI goes on to say that Shepard just being there talking to it was enough to prove that a new solution was needed. Apparently wiping everything out every 50,000 years is getting old. I was then presented with 3 Options. I have to make a comment on this first before I go into it, I honestly with the last 3 choices felt pushed into an ending I didnt want, with a game built around MY choices, I didn't feel like I had a choice at all at the very end of the trilogy, it was more like "We have 3 choices, there all the same except that something slightly different happens in each one." Enough about that, I'll give my thought process when I was presented with each one.

Destroy all Synthetics - This one I didn't want to do, because it would destroy the Reapers AND the Geth. I couldn't wipe out the Geth, not after they just became sentient and individuals, and also when they have no idea what's about to happen to them. That to me was wrong, but with another way of thinking, it's either them or the whole galaxy falls, but that isn't my way. I always look to do the right thing by everyone. I know that can't always happen, but in a game tailored by my choices that's what I wanted. Alright next.

Synthesis - Definitely not. It's not my place to combine all organics and Reapers into a "new framework" and creating a whole new "DNA". I'm fighting to save individuals in the galaxy and I'm 100% sure they aren't all ok with, "Yeah lets all be combined into one big new thingy." I don't feel that a choice like that is mine to make, similiar to sacrificing the Geth without them even having a choice in the matter.

Control - I don't want to pull an Illusive Man. I don't want to control them I want them gone. What if I ever lost control of them? Could we even know for sure if we could? The VI who created them is telling me they could be under my control if I chose that path, but how do I know it's not playing me? Nope, they have to go b00m.

All in all after looking at what I wrote about the endings, the big word I keep seeing come up is CHOICE. Yes those 3 endings are choices, but 3 choices that lead to the same outcome. Each outcome will do one of the 3 and then destroy the relays. My next bit is on the relay part.

Relays go boom. Well we know that if a relay is destroyed, it goes Super Nova which will wipe out the solar system its in, if not more depending on distance to anything else. So when you choose one of these choices, your literally wiping out EVERYWHERE you've ever been to during these games. Aria won't be able to take back Omega, because it was destroyed. (If she wasn't already dead when the reapers brought the citadel to earth.) Tuchanka is gone, Thessia, Noveria, all gone. Even Earth and EVERYTHING in that system. Every ship, and every race and ever soldier, civillian everything is dead. So to me it seems evident that the writers of this game forced you into a Galactic Extermination of everything for the good of future cycles? So that they might live without the reapers? If that was a SINGLE way to do it, that sounds great, makes sense, that's what I figured from the get go with a weapon like the crucible. It should not however be the ONLY choice.

Let me ask you, what was the point of controlling the reapers choice, if right after the Relay goes Nova and wipes everything out? What was the point of Synthesis, when the relay afterward goes nova and wipes everything out? What was the point of destroying all synthetics, when the relay afterward goes nova and wipes everything out?

I was given 3 choices but either one is irrelevant. The end is, the relays go nova and wipe out most of the galaxies advanced races. There is no choice to the ending of Mass Effect 3, maybe an illusion that you have a choice but the consequences of choosing one is the same all around.

Although somehow Joker knew to make a break for it? I'm not sure if he was traveling through a Relay or FTL. He couldn't have used a relay because if he did, travel between relays is instantaneous, but since they all went boom, he would've got caught in the blast somehow or another. If he jumped to FTL in a random direction then still how would he escape the blast from the relay? Apparently he didn't because the wave hit the ship and apparently it wasn't a big deal and he just somehow went "Hey a nice random jungle planet, with an oxygen atmosphere, I'll just crash land there". Then not to mention some of your squad are on the normandy that were with you at the last dash to the beam. Speaking of which how did they not get lazered along with you? I don't remember clearly if they were making that mad rush with you or not.

I think I got to everything on my mind. It's just thoughts and I know there have been lots of them since a lot have finished the game.

If you took the time to read this I appreciate it and wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts as well.

Despite all the aformentioned feedback these were 3 amazing games wern't they? 

Look forward to more from Bioware, in the future.

Thanks everyone!