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[Teneroth]

 So arguing on the internet is about as rewarding as ever, so I decided to just go through my problems with the pre EC ending and see if they fixed them. Just to be fair I will only go over problems within the current ending, not my issues with the ending itself. 

Problem one: Lack of explination on what the Crucible was and how it worked.
-Ok, so they did fix this to some extent, but what they did explain only manage to raise more questions, for me at least. So the Crucible is basically just a large generator which allows the citidel, and by extent the starbrat, to do new things. Sooo... you mean I could of pulled the Destiny Ascention along side the counsil chamber with a pair of jumper cables and gotten the same result? 

Alright, so I will accept that the crucible may provide more or better power, but it still leaves me with some questions and that's what I'm getting at here.

Problem two: Who is this starbrat anyways?
-This one was solved, its an insane AI who thinks killing all organics will solve some imagined slight. While this did solve one issue it simply raised another: if this is the best solution why will it no longer work simply cause we showed up with our own generator. Was the starbrat pissed because his creators didn't go along with his 'Bring your Power Source to Work' day, so he Reaperized them? 

Problem three: Shepard provides none of the forward momentum in the last scene, it all comes from the star brat.
-So this hasn't changed, sadly, I feel this may have to do with the whole concept but it still seems to me that the starbrat is more allowing Shepard to defeat the reapers then actually defeating them on his own. So he let's me press the button, woo hoo? 

Problem four: The star brat doesn't really explain the choices and what they do.
-Ok, so this is probably the best solved of all the problems here. While I don't agree with any of the choices, at least we know what they do now. I feel I must complain that the choice they (the bioware team) obviously wants you to take, synthesis, just seems.... I dunno... horrific. Starbrat says that it can't be forced, never mind that no one else in the galaxy has the capability to make an informed decision about this and it would only be forced on them. As I said, it's an insane crazy AI, though I do wish that bioware had stuck with that, and not so obviously (to me) let their desires show through.

-On a side note, the endings are also expanded on so we can see the results of our choice. With one exception, which I am getting to now...

Problem five: We can't tell the starbrat to shove his 'solutions' and choose to fight to the death instead.
-And it was so. My problem with this is NOT that we loose, it's been set up at length that the reapers can't be beat in a head on fight. And even with non-standard Asymetric warfare we would eventually loose, and I'm fine with that. But, why am I not allowed to see the battle? All the other endings got a long voice over, stills showing what happened, and everything. Where as the refuse ending is now closer to the pre EC endings, and provides no explination, no closure, and then there is the implication that the next cycle just used the crucible that you refused to, out of princible, and bought into the star brats 'logic' which you refused to. It makes it feel like the ability to refuse its logic was just put in as a 'see THIS is what you get, you don't like our endings? YOU DIE! How's that feel? huh? HUH?' If they had not included it.... actually I would complain about that, but they could of at least put some time into it to make it a real ending.

Honestly, the biggest problem with the endings was simply that they weren't in the base game. By the time I got though the new endings my emotional attachment to the world and characters had been stretched so much that it didn't have the impact that it would of had, should of had, if it had been the first ending.

All in all, I think this is the best bioware could of done with the current endings (except the refuse ending) and for now, I consider them to be on probation. Will I buy bioware games in the future? Maybe, but not on release day. I find that if I wait for some, if any, free DLC to be released the game will be much better. I notice that the price for ME3 has dropped to ~40 dollars US, so that will be the price I will buy future bioware games at. 

So, in conclusion, if Bioware and their EA overlords had watched Episode 15, season 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which is about taking time to do things right, they wouldn't of lost 20 US dollars per game out of me. And, more importantly, but harder to quantify, customer loyalty.

-Teneroth