For reference, I did not care for the ending of ME3, and I felt that the Extended Cut was better, but still kinda bad. But ultimately my dissatisfaction with the story started at the beginning of ME2. My main quibbles with the story were the Lazarus Project, the irrelevance of the Collectors in the larger narrative, the absurdity of the Human Reaper and human harvesting, the McGuffin-esque quality of the Crucible, the laziness of the Indoctrination plot point as antagonist motivation, the preposterous and unchallenged idea of synthetics vs. organics, the inconsistent application of that idea, the much-discussed deus ex machina that is the Catalyst, and the horrific implications of Synthesis, the "good" ending from a tone standpoint. From a story standpoint, this game franchise started going off the rails in the second game for me, and the third game was a total train wreck. Fortunately or unfortunately, I was engaged by a variety of wonderful characters along the way, so I stuck with it. But after playing ME3 a few times with my favorite Shepards, I lost interest in single player for the most part. Then I played multiplayer for awhile, and that was fun until they started making a billion different "rare" items to unlock, making it all but impossible to really get anything up to a decent level unless you play MP full time (it ain't THAT fun). So I bailed on that too.
So, my peers, should I fork over 10 bucks and dust off one of my Shepards and take a run through Leviathan? Or is it going to make my head explode from more Story Fail™? Thanks in advance for your input!
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