User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-25305799-20120319193735/@comment-3467754-20120319201847

That is not correct. Honest question: Have you played Fallout 3 yourself or have you gained that information from elsewhere? You always had the option of sending in Sarah Lyons into the chamber instead, letting her make the sacrifice in your place. The ending of Fallout 3 was no master piece, but it was absolutely alright. I don't know if there was some kind of movement among the players demending a better ending, but Broken Steel sure as hell didn't give that; in my eyes, Broken Steel made the ending a lot worse except for the added option of having one of your companions go into the chamber. Virtually nothing about the death scene itself was changed in Broken Steel. If you have Broken Steel installed and decide to make the heroic sacrifice yourself you still get the usual ending; that is, until you suddenly wake up because you have survived. How have you survived? Literally nobody knows. The only explanation ingame is something along the lines of "there was a sudden energy spark". That is all. Your impossible survival of what was supposed to be your heroic survival is dismissed within no more than a few words and is never talked about again.