User blog comment:James12708/Bioware Hasn't written themselves into a corner/@comment-4950455-20121109062047

This analogy doesn't work for a couple of reasons (which I'll elaborate on when I'm not feeling so tired), but what actually bothers me here is the whole "writing themselves into a corner" phrase itself. It makes it sound like a mistake, and more importantly an accident, which is definitely not the case. Bioware has said all along that ME3 would be the end of Shepard's story, and I think it's safe to say that they knew exactly what they were doing when writing such a difficult-to-follow conclusion. In fact, if I had been the one to write Mass Effect 3, while I wouldn't have done anything close to the ending we got, I'd still have tried just as hard to leave things with little room for a sequel.