I will. I like the gameplay, I like the stories INCLUDING the endings, I like the characters, I would pay for more of it.
And if any of you look at this and immediately quote it and say, "YOU LIKED THE ENDINGS, GTFO," once you have read this whole post from beginning to end, you have my permission to blather incoherently about how I am wrong and shut your noise hole. It's a Kobayashi Maru situation. I can't believe no one has realized this before and brought it up. Okay, I haven't seen anyone bring it up before now, maybe someone has and it slipped my radar, I've been meaning to get it calibrated. Think about it, no matter what your decisions up to that point were, there really is no "good" way out of it. Oh sure, your efforts can soften the impact, but ultimately there is not and will never be a magic "make the Reapers go away and we all ride off into the sunset" button. If that existed, that would've marked my exit from the series, because THAT little bit of deus ex machina plot convenience would have been Space Magic. What we got, and what the endings are? That isn't Space Magic. That's part of what I loved about the Extended Cut, I was really more confused than anything as to what actually happened in the endings. Now yes, there could have been other ways of Shepard getting onto the Citadel, such as going back to Ilos and using the Conduit, even though I think they mentioned that the Conduit burned out after Shepard went through it at some point, I'm probably wrong, but that's not the point. People claim that there's no good ending, but that's the rub. All the endings (except the Screw You, Catalyst ending) have something good about them. People, sometimes things just don't go how you want and there's nothing you can do, no one you can call on and nothing that your past actions can do to help you. THAT ISN'T BAD WRITING, THAT'S JUST HOW LIFE IS SOMETIMES. That's the hand you were dealt, now all you can do is play it. And as for the Screw You, Catalyst ending, you want to know why 'hacking the system so that you can win' ultimately leads to you not winning? Because it basically shakes down as trying to get rid of hornets by stomping on their nest.
TL:DR version: No. You go back and read the whole thing.
Small sidebar, feel free to skip this, if you're going to bring up the argument of "if this is a Kobayashi Maru, Captain Kirk beat it by hacking the system so he could win, so should Shepard," think about how TERRIBLE of a captain Kirk was. Constantly getting starship crew members of varying degrees of vital killed in equally-varied means of horrible, nearly no leadership skills, leading more with his gut than any sort of rational thought, James Tiberius Kirk was not a man I'd follow into the reaches of space. The only reason he got a position of leadership was that he cheated, and ultimately, cheaters do NOT prosper. Yeah, he got a commendation by thinking outside the box, but in any real-world situation, he would have been court-marshalled for tampering with vital Starfleet equipment and most likely spent the rest of his life in a cell. Now yes, particularly sadistic or bad players could or would make a runthrough where Shepard gets some, most or all of his crew killed, but Shepard still shows plenty of times where he uses his head and displays actual leadership skills. Even RenegadeShep, even when he's treating his squad like dirt, does this.
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