Forum:Everyone relax...here is why.

SPOILERS AHEAD.

Below is just my opinion and I may be proven wrong down the road but do hear me out and I ask not to be flamed or trolled. I can appreciate everyone's opinion.

Some of us really weren't as prepared to go into the final mission as we thougth we were. In order to get the "good" ending, which stay may not be great by some people's standards, you really have to have the following:

1)Import a character with the "right" decisions having been made from the previous games. Because the game just came out, we don't really know what the right decisions were this entire time. Give it time, soon enough, we will figureout what is actually needed from our Shepards in ME1 and ME2 in order to achieve some sort of an acceptable, if not bittersweet, end to ME3.

2) Very hight Effective Military Strength. This is something that a lot of people have either not understood or overlooked. I was one of those people. I had EMS of 4500 but since my galactic prepardness was at 50 percent due to lack of multiplayer gameplay, my EMS is actually 2250. This had a huge impact on my ability to "win".

3) Your paragon/renagade have to be maxed out. It has been made clear that ME3 is all about clear choices; no grey areas. If you have a maxed out paragon or renegade bar, you will be able to have certain responses in the end that I, for example, did not have. This must have had an impact on my ending.

In order to really enjoy the game, you have to remember that it is about the journey. Anyone who is upset that BioWare has mislead their fans by promising that there would be endings that tended to everyone's individual playthrough is not being reasonable. Just how many endings do people think should have existed? 10? 15? 20? Imagine that you get ending 15 instead of 16 just because you did something in ME1 that you thought was inconsiquential but turned out to be the tipping point of battle...two games down the road? To me that's more forced and unbelievable than the current ending.

Though I wasn't happy with my ending, I have mostly myself to blame. Even with the three overly simplistc decisons that I was forced to make, I am convinced that had I been better prepared, the one I did make would have had a better result.

Some people are unhappy about the decisions that Shepard all of a sudden had to make there and then. To those people I recommend that they read up on the ridiculous amount of foreshadowing that all of the games illustrate that suggests that Shepard was slowly being indoctirnated since ME1. None of what you saw happened in the ending actually happened and it is up to you to finish the game with sufficient EMS, paragon/renagade, proper choices for the game to reveal that to you. Even then, the ending won't be happy in the traditional sense but at least it will be hopeful.

Last but not least, I think that most people are angry because they are sad that the journey is finally over. We cannot play as Shepard anymore (unless BioWare does prequels) and his/her story ends. I know I am, regardless of ending.