It's the only ME that I played through only one time. They released a new ending and I said I'd replay the whole saga from the beginning. I never did and I never saw the updated ending. I guess I know what I must do.

This. +1,000,000,000. My scrotum has never the same. It seems like they said fuck it when it came to 2nd half of ME3. 

They made a gaming sin and connected (a potentially paid for on Xbox 360) multiplayer part affect the main story. A HUGE mistake in my personal opinion as one day, they'll turn those servers off.

Also, the ending 'Well done, not pick 1 of 3... sorry 4, options'. Rest of the game was good. It just wasn't as good as number 2.

You can still get all endings playing solo, but you really gotta give all you've got, and leave no secondary mission undone.

Not justifying that multiplayer bullshit, though. Especially not when, for no reason whatsoever, you get every troop number halved "just because you're not playing multiplayer".

See, that latter is the reason it pisses me off. I didn't know and I played all the main story before touching, what I assumed, was just multiplayer. My first play throughs of games like ME or DA are always 'go with the flow' stories, not all good all bad, so when it came to taking back earth and nearly doing pretty much everything I could and my Shepard saying 'We aren't ready for this.' or some crap I ignored it as part of the game, little did I know it's because I wasn't playing the MP. When it came to the very ending... only 2 choices, not 3 (before patch).

I did get confused when people talked about the 3 options and I only got 2.

MP should never be connected to a single player RPG like that ever. 

Oh well. /rant

Sure there was the part of mass effect 3 with the Geth and Quarian, but that was just one plot point.  No more focussed on than the genophage, or the fall of the Asari homeworld.  Organics vs synthetics was a theme, but it was hardly THE theme.  Legion questioned if Geth had a soul in Mass Effect 2, but that was just one of many threads running through it.  Like Miranda's genetic modifications, or Garrus' plot for revenge, and so on.  It wasn't given much more prevalance.

To say it was the main plain, or the one plot point that *needed* to be resolved isn't right.  The idea of humanity's relationship with the rest of the galaxy was a far more important theme.  The beginning of the first game is about Shepard being named the first Spectre, and it ends with humans being appointed to the council.  It is far and away the dominant focus of Mass Effect 2. (The Collectors are after the humans because they are somehow special, Cerberus and the Illusive man plot for human dominance in the galaxy, and so on).   It is less focussed on in Mass Effect 3, but still as prominent of a plotpoint as anything else.  There's a reason why Earth is the epicenter of this game.

I don't know who you talked to and I'm not really that interested.  I don't care what any of the developers say, because I've played the game for myself.  The authors could say anything they want, but that doesn't make it so.

Don't bother.  It's the same ending pretty much, but with some added details.  The first ending was shitty and incoherent.  The second is shitty and coherent.  A minor upgrade.

The updated ending is much better than the original but that doesn't say much. The biggest problem with the ending to ME3 is that the game takes a huge thematic shift in the last five minutes. The "Star Child", Reaper motivations, and sudden pushing of the Organics vs. Synthetics as the main theme of the series flew in the face of the rest of the series. Also, they never explained how Cerberus suddenly had such a large fleet of ships. The Council had strict limits on the amount of ships that could be produced. Cerberus started as a splinter group from the Alliance. It's one thing to construct one ship in secret. It's another to construct an entire fleet that rivals the Council races.

Weather you wish  to agree or not. Is not the point. That is your personal interpretation of the game. That doesn't make it true or false. In your head, that may be true. However, according to the developers, at Bioware. The main point of the series is the parallels of organics vs synthetics. The Geth war is a very small point of that. The Reapers are a major point in this. Changing biological life into synthetic life because no matter what. There will never be peace with organics. War is natural for them. With synthetics. It is not. However as long as both persist. There can never be peace. By merging the two together, Shepard had created a master race. They synthetic ending is the only one, and I mean the only one that brings peace to the galaxy. I can, with great confidence, confirm to you that the war between organics and synthetics continues on in the ALL of the other endings. There is no peace.

You are correct that there are many plot points. Of course there is. It's Mass Effect. There is tons of them. First contact war (which also has a Reaper point with technology, read the novels that are written by the writer of the series. Mac Walters). The Illusive Man is obsessed with finding the secrets of the reapers and even ensures everything is cyberneticly enhanced. Shepard is a victim of this. EDI plays a huge role in the whole synthetic debates. From Mass Effect 2, all the way to Mass Effect 3 where she got a humanoid body. She was not very human friendly at the beginning of ME2 but then grew upon them. Wished to become on and feel like one. And she did. She felt love, sympathy, anger, confusion, and the whole ranger of humanlike emotion. We saw a growth of both kin. The story really evolved.

I respect your perception of the story and I do not wished to call you wrong on the matter. However.... I think arguing with the writers and developers of the series is rather... silly. They certainly know the story better than you,, or any of us will.