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I just finished it Sunday night. I'm the kind of guy who can get past the flaws in a favourite franchise, defending, rationalising or accepting them for what they are without it ruining the rest for me, or otherwise simply buying into it even if the writing or explanations aren't all that great.
Can't do it here. I'm just astonished. Surely it was deliberate? I don't know how anyone can screw up that bad by accident, let alone the writing team of Mass Effect.
At the very least I was expecting it to have something to do with Dark Energy messing up stars like that of Haestrom as we learned from Tali and Kal'Reegar in ME2, or an explanation for the Collectors building a Reaper without doing the whole invasion thing. But space magic, illogical bullshit and surrendering to the Reapers' own spoonfed solutions? It took Mass Effect's message, spirit, style, plot, lore and the fundamental rules of storytelling, tore it all down and pissed all over it. It's been three days and I still feel sick.
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It's been over a month since I completed it and I still feel sick at the thought that this ending is real. Each time I watch something related to the ending on Youtube every fiber in my body is hoping that
the indoctrination theory is right and that Bioware is going to go down in history as the greatest troll ever in video game history.
At the same time I can't imagine someone at the PR department at Bioware (or EA for that matter) would think this is a good idea. This is like commercial suicide. Right now it can go either way though, there is evidence (even from Bioware themselves) that the theory might be right. But we're gonna have to wait for the DLC, I guess.