User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Perspective: Mass Effect 3/@comment-1786741-20130325014137/@comment-2250460-20130327013048

Honestly, does anyone need a valid reason to dislike the ending in order to not be considered a troll?

When I first beat Mass Effect 3, I saw no plotholes (half the things like Joker flying away didn't even bother me) or Dues Ex Machinas or whatever other latin words people use to feel smart.

What I did see was my Shepard getting told by some mind-reading- shape-shifting-Shepard-background-voiced Being of Light (which they originally hinted at it being instead of an A.I) that the only way I could destroy the Reapers was with Geth and EDI deaths, and that the two endings in which the Geth and EDI survive in my Shepard died.

I felt as though maybe for the regular joe, Shepard should die, but I was a hardcore ME fan who played a flawless Paragon throughout the series and got everything right on my first playthrough of ME3 (without walkthroughs), so I should be rewarded for my 100+ hours of gameplay with a special superfan only ending.

Instead I got the same thing a guy who beat just ME3 could get if he half-assed it (seriously, getting the War Assets in Pre-EC wasn't hard). And that's what pissed me off.

Artistic integrity or no, it is my (and everyone else) right as a human being with my own opinions and emotions to be able to dislike the endings for whatever stupid reason I want. That doesn't make me a troll. Neither does wanting an ending I like and wanting Bioware to change it for my own selfish reasons.