my main problem with the ending

 is it's just like all deus ex endings (all 3) Despite that being my favorite franchise, and lestatdark liking them, I think all deus ex endings aren't executed very well, though some of the ideas are intriguing. This is what I feel about ME3. The games gives you choices throughout the it that don't effect the outcome at the end. Which just seems silly beings there's events that occur that are more complex throughout the game in each series.

Now I don't think the endings aweful, abysmal, etc. Because no matter what they did, people would be pissed I think.

I want to love this ending so much

But I can't

I haven't been invested enough in a game to feel disappointment in... years. But here it is.

did you read that link. From above. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9727423/1

where the ending is a hallucination, or indoctrination or something, and the real one is going to be DLC.

Though, I don't buy that viewpoint personally, but we'll see.

I felt the endings were alright. Were they what I wanted to see happen? No, but with each choice comes repercussions.

Option 1: Destroy - This destroys all synthetic life. The Geth, Reapers, EDI, and any other machine in the galaxy. That is pretty much a genocide. Mass Relays are gone.

Option 2: Control - The reapers leave, and the relays are destroyed but it is implied they can return in the future making all of this effort for naught.

Option 3: Synthesis - Shepard dies at the cost of Reapers never coming back, but all the other races will be fine. Outside of the fact that the Mass Relays are gone.

Shepard can live in option 1/2.

I chose option 3. I love Shepard as a character but I couldn't kill the synthetics, nor could I have let it be possible for the reapers to kill the future races. I don't believe Shepard would put himself above his friends or the other species.

I would drop ten dollars on that and pretend it was part of the original package all along. The ending isn't bad, it's not offensive, but it.... it needed to be fantastic, you know? I didn't need for it to be explicitly influenced by my choices from earlier in the series. I got enough of that in the scenes leading up to it. But it needed to have weight and finality and a sense of concrete connection to things that had already happened, echoing back to the conversation with Sovereign, which is still the watershed moment of the entire series.

To quote my wife, "Any time a little kid has to explain something, you are probably doing something wrong."

Yeah, that whole idea you have behind number 3?

Not how it happens. You're combining organic and synthetic life. See, they already do that in this series. They call it making Reapers.

I've gotta play it again, after I give it a breather and let my initial impressions wear off. I'll do it with my Female Shepard Renegade who made a lot of different decisions than my male paragon.

I have a feeling my opinion of this game will go up. Currently, I still like the game and think its quite good. I did rate it,  but, I have to mull over everything before I can form a final opinion, it's good, but a little dissapointing. How much I observe my different actions in ME1 and 2 affecting the story and events will be a factor.

So I think my opinion might go up, in subsequent playthroughs. I doubt it will go down.

I just have one thing to say. The Widow/Infiltrator combo rapes all life in Multiplayer. It's going to get even more ridiculous once I unlock the Salarian Infiltrator with the Energy Drain power.

No longer as upset about the ending as I was before. I mean, it was disappointing, but the game itself was still great! It was just, just covered in greatness, head to foot.

I'm going to start my full-stop Renegade Insanity Infiltrator run-through soon, and try out some different, non-optimal choices. We'll see how it goes.

So what?