Everyone is stuck on their planets without any hope of reconnecting with loved ones, ever. The entire galactic civilization is over. Similarly Wrex, will never get to see the children he sired and he will never get to lead his people, because he is either dead or stuck on Earth. Though she will likely starve to death first, seeing how Quarians (much like Turians) can’t eat our food, and even if they could the bacteria in it would probably kill her. Will Tali ever get to build that house she wanted? Doesn’t matter – she is either dead, or stuck on some jungle planet with Joker and EDI, and out of supplies to fix her suit when it breaks. Why did I hate the ending of the game so much? Because it made my favorite parts of the game not only irrelevant but meaningless. That was what I was hoping to see in the end: the Krogan developing high culture, the Quarians flourishing on their home planet… And maybe Tali in a bikini or something. I loved giving Quarians their home world back, and planning to build a house there with Tali. But what I enjoyed the most was curing Wrex’s people and giving them a chance to rebuild their civilization. And while I was completely creeped out by Joker’s romantic fling with EDI’s plastic body, I consider it one of the fun parts of the game. I loved letting Garrus win at shooting cans and letting him brag about it. Of course I loved the other things about the game too. Because they neatly closed long running story arcs from two previous games. Because they forced you to make difficult, morally ambiguous choices. What was the main reason why it didn’t work for me? I already told you what I loved about the game the most: the Tuchanka and Ranonch quest chains. Hell, Mass Effect 3 was an excellent game, right up to the ending. Mass Effect on the other hand was excellent game series. Yes, it was worse than Duke Nukem Forever, because hell – I did not expect Duke to be anything but a novelty anyway. It suffices to say that I think the ending was the worst video game disappointment of the decade. There is just no way I can top that, so I won’t even attempt. It’s kinda long, but watch the whole thing – he makes a lot of excellent points: Hell, I think this video by MrBtongue is possibly the best analysis of the ending I have seen on the internet so far. I don’t think I can count the plot holes better than Angry Joe did in his video: I really don’t think I could do a better job at this than Shamus Young did on his blog and in his Escapist column. Beating it inexpertly, long after other people displayed a world class skills at the same beating. I’m late to this party and I feel like whining about the ending now would just be beating a dead horse. I could write a few thousand words on this, but it would all be redundant. How can enumerate the massive failure it was without repeating the stuff you already head dozens of times before. What can I say about the Mass Effect 3 ending that was not already said. If you have not played the game yet, and you wish to do so in the future, turn back now, before you find out how much the ending really sucks. This post contains massive end-game spoilers for Mass Effect 3.
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