Did Bioware playtesters not turn around and go “You know what, this is ending is pure bollocks” ?

Bioware simply committed a common mistake: providing answers to questions which didn’t need them.

Mass Effect has been about defeating the cycle, not understanding it. We didn’t need to know why the reapers killed everything, it wasn’t important and the answer was never going to satisfy. The entire star child section was simply unnecessary guff, along with three choices, two of which you’ve spent the games preventing from happening.

Here’s hoping that whatever Bioware do, it somehow fixes this incredibly disappointing end to this amazing series.

“I’m controlling the reapers” HOW?
“Dark energy is green” DAFUQ?

Implausible based upon all established facts, all 70 hours of gameplay over the three games.

I guess I’m angry @ the fact that a concept of a working universe (details of mass effect travel and technology I let slide) had been rigoursly established. But apparently the writers/bioware/EA didn’t think it would be important to explain that also in the universe, that synthetics somehow exist by a process that doesn’t involve electron flow. Hell, If it had turned out every human already had implanted in their dna some type of circuitry, and that every synthetic required mass-relay technology to function….THAT would at least have been something….. but that’s not what we got. Instead we got a bible-coddlers idea of a why life exists at all, and to me that is deeply offensive. (The concept being “it’s this way because I SAID SO”)

It would be like discovering that in DA:O, Wynne was actually a griffin.

Oh and while we’re on inconsistencies (I’ll just choose one lol), ever notice the part where Miranda gives you a tracking device for Kai-Leng….instead of just TELLING YOU where the cerberus base is?

I am disappoint.

This has all happened before though. Matrix Revolutions.

I don’t mind that there are ‘only’ three endings that mean the same.
But a magical spaceship that can change DNA? get FUCKED. Want to make absolutely NO sense whatsoever? That’s the point right there. I ignored the minor trespasses that made the Mass Effect universe both interesting and engaging (and 99% of the time it actually got the physics right) but….this is simply unacceptable.

Unfortunate for Bioware. This was their last hurrah, and they’ve fucked it. They ruined Dragon Age with Dragon Age 2, and now they’ve ruined Mass Effect 1 and 2 with ME 3. And for what? To make Shepard out to be synonymous with some abrhamic religious figure? I wonder if Drew Karphshyn dry retches at the taste of bile in his mouth at the utter tripe that was contrived to finish this. I only hope he was paid enough money for the complete rape of his story.

Lazy. Greedy. Dull.

PS I played and finished Baldur’s GAte : TOB many years ago, before it was cool. Can’t help but note the gross similarities in the ending ‘choices’. At least BG’s endings made sense.