User blog comment:Sperez2012/What is YOUR favorite Mass Effect?/@comment-26906867-20120817044430/@comment-1786741-20120817091104

Like I said, they're both parts of a whole. You can't have an ending without a journey and you can't have a journey without an ending. If one isn't up to snuff, it adversely affects the other. If you never find out who the killer is when that was the whole point of the book, it makes it feel as if you wasted your time. Sure, it could have been one of the best written mystery novels but it never reached it's intended conclusion. I felt this way with Mass Effect. I spent multiple games building up to this final and absolute conclusion, something that I was looking forward since ME1, and it simply did not live up to my expectations, my very bare and basic expectations. I spent countless hours creating multiple perfect Shepards, and in the end it didn't really effect anything. It felt like I wasted time, something any form of entertainment media should NEVER do.