User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Perspective: Mass Effect 3/@comment-1786741-20130325014137/@comment-2250460-20130327044748

That argument is flawed Nord, because 2 wasn't the climax of the series.

Once again I must point out, I don't care about variety and what not, my only beef with the ending is the Shepard or Synthetics catch 22 they threw in there for seemingly no other reason than to make a Virmire like choice.... except Virmire doesn't leave me feeling like an empty husk that feels like I am no different than the average joe.

They could have at least put in a special charm and intimidate option, (similar to the one on Rannoch and with the TIM) that makes it so that if you played through the entire trilogy and met the right criteria, you could reason with the Catalyst in one of Shepard's famous "find another way" speeches.