It was not a bad game, it was a brilliant game. I liked it better than Mass Effect 2.
In my opinion, people who feel the ending was inappropriate have never thought things through. *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR REST OF POST*
The whole series the Reaper threat was slated as being unassailable and overwhelming. It should have surprised no one that the vast majority of endings were negative. It should have surprised no one that the actions we took leading to these endings were, by-and-large, futile. Hell, the whole second game was devoted to something called a suicide mission.
Something that certain gamers have decried as an error of narrative – namely that a series about choice wound up having broadly similar (and devastating) endings – was in fact a masterpiece. Ultimately, the game delivered what the franchise had always promised – significant limitations on the ability of humans and other species to impact change on the universe around them. It made complete sense, and was not a departure from the existing narrative at all. People are just so used to Hollywood endings in their video games (excepting the obligatory sad death of one or two characters 20 minutes before the ending, or to spur a revenge plot) that they couldn’t fathom that a franchise would actually end the way it had been implying it would end all along.
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