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As I recall, they actually made changes to the ending based on feedback from that leaked script. The fanbase more or less got what it asked for.
We asked for our choices to matter.
Not one person can say with a straight face that this is the ending that they wanted.
Our choices did matter. Perhaps not in the way you wanted, but they did matter in what options you were presented with in the ending. If you did really bad, you won't even get a choice in the ending. You'll stop the Reapers but torch Earth in the process.
Yes, your choices being reflected by war assets is still your choices mattering. Is it optimal? Perhaps not. But they did not lie on that point.
You're not getting it. Why are you possibly defending them?
You seriously think that all of these 'heavy choices' that we made throughout the series should be handled as a tiny little number in the gigantic climactic finale? You're so bogged down with semantics. Technically, we weren't lied to, our choices add either +25, or +0 to the final battle. They merely took everything from the first two games, reduced it to dust, and said "BUT THEY STILL MATTER SEE THAT NUMBER? IT'S HIGHER NOW. LOOK JACK GAVE YOU 25 ASSETS!"
Our choices boiled down to one ending with slightly different hues.
If you think that's what we asked for, hoped for, invested all this time into the series for, and then think that Bioware's actually completely in the right for it, I apologize on your behalf. It must be horrible not being passionate about anything.
I know.
Just like the Mass Effect 1 and 2 endings...it's such a crime that our choices boiled down to something like that!
Considering the first two games were building up to the finale with all the choices you were making mattering in the end, yes. Yes it is.
Actually if that is the case, then Mass Effect 3 should be an instant classic.
The first two games built up choices that mattered while playing the game. So you got what you wanted really! Hell, it resolved a lot of ongoing plot threads better than most RPGs out there.
Fact of the matter is, the endings to all three games showcase a problem, choice is an illusion in Mass Effect. No matter what you do, you will always save or kill the council. No matter what you do, you will either survive the suicide mission with everyone, or with missing people, or not. No matter what you do, you need to make a choice at the end of Mass Effect 3.
You are kidding yourself if the choices didn't matter. They did, you just didn't like the last one in the end.