I dont have trust in Bioware to make a quality scifi setting anymore, and instead I now expect all Scifi games to be of a Michael Bay like quality(which is great if you like those kinds of movies). Which means, I probably wont be buying any of their scifi games, unless their philosophy on how they deal with a scifi setting changes.
While the reapers were the issue in ME1, they never felt like they "shrank" the setting/universe of ME, instead you felt that the ME setting was an entire universe of interesting species, intergalactic conflicts, and political back and forth that that even if the reapers didnt exist the setting would easily survive on its own.
Starting with ME2, helped increase the feeling of size with the galaxy, with all the places you could go, and empowered the idea even more that the reapers were not needed to make the ME setting amazing, but imo, started "cartooning" up the setting with the "we can rebuild him" asspull and the "big reveal" at the end of the game that had me quite dissapointed.
It went from an intelligent galaxy/setting with set rules in place with-in the setting, to letting you know anything goes, as long as we think it will make a great/emotional/shocking scene. Instead of the main storyline empowering the setting, it instead started hampering it, imo.
ME3 was the final nail, to me personally that said, Bioware at least with Scifi, wants comic book villain enemies to be preeminent, established "rules" with-in the universe only matter if it makes the story better(reminding you this is a game and not an "other universe"), and an apparent desire to radically change the setting without ever actually delving into the "world" of mass effect. The ME series went from dark shades of gray to mustache twirlling villians all around, with the "gods vs creation" bullcrap completely taking over the setting, and litterally ate the setting whole, leaving nothing left but the crumbs of past games for Bioware to clean up via the genophage and the Quarians getting their home back.
Mass Effect 3 has made me lose faith in them, not because they make bad games - while the endings were incredibly silly, the main story plot being incredibly damaging to the setting and belongs in a Justice league story, imo - it was a great overall "game"; but it made me lose faith in them in terms of being able to create an enjoyable scifi setting. Instead we end up with mustache twirlling CEO and a supervillian of Zod/Superman/X-Men quality that was just misunderstood, because the gods will always be at war with their creations
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I dont dislike ME3 because it was a bad game, I extremely dislike the story becasue it shows how little revernce Bioware showed to its own setting, and its willingness to put the universe, that quite litterally carried the main storyline's of the games on its back, as second fiddle to try and have a bunch of high quality scenes with the substance of the setting itself being completely lost.
The galactic community, the politics, the infighting, the cultures and everything else I didnt mention, and how they interacted, imo, is what made the game so great, however, it seems to me that its importance was near non existant to the people who made ME3. Those endings showed the complete willingness to alter and change what made the game so great in the 1st place, the setting, for the sake of creating a narative(or Moral of the story) that apparently someone was determind to make.
All that said, even though I wasnt thrilled with how DA2 got put together, the lore and setting that was there, to me was great so I will still put my trust in Gaider with his desire to hold up the idea of just how important a setting is. You would think people would already know this, seeings as how polarizing D&D edition changes can be when you mess with the forgotten realms, but maybe the scifi developers think they are above that? I dunno, either way, I was very sadden with the direction ME3 went, and honestly, the ending was just the tip of the iceberg that was the problem with ME3, imo.
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So what if you like Miranda as a character and want to keep her alive at all costs? Then your choice obviously matters more. Its a choice and consquence on the character level. Hell, she can even die as a romance interest,w hich can shock those who like the character.
. I'm honestly not sure if the next game being great would make me be able to buy bioware games again without doing this. Part of me doesn't even want to look at the next Mass Effect game, even though I probably will. 
