User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-903543-20120531040823

"a good story should make you feel feelings" well apparently it made you feel rage and anger, that's progress I see. Not to be a schlauberger or anything, and I didn't like the endings either, I just dont think they are quite as bad as everyone seems to think they are.

Why beat on a horse that is already dead, I'm one of those people on blaming the multiplayer for the end. I dont know when BioWare suddenly became obsessed with online multiplayer gameplay in single-player RPG's but as far as I know, I haven't the slightest clue as to what might have came to their minds when they tried pulling one of those stunts. But here's the punch line, I do recall that BioWare had intended to have ending DLC before the game was even released, but it could also be the fact they were looking for everyone to be pissed off because they had something in mind when they made the endings that blew over 99% of peoples' heads. And no, I'm not getting all Indoctrination Theory on you.

"BioWare thanked us for the feedback and said they were proud of their poorly written ending"

Something tells me that they would've said that even if they weren't proud of their ending, either that or they were proud of their hyper-raged reactions they got from everyone. Either they are the biggest liars in town or they are they are the biggest flat-out geniuses that has ever been coughed up. Now I'm not picking sides on that one but apparently, bottom line, I have a feeling they would've said they'd be proud of their ending regardless of whether they really were proud of it or not.


 * "There is only one bridge leading to the control panel. How then, did Anderson, the third and last person to enter get there first, despite the fact he followed Shepard from behind? How did the Illusive Man, who was the first to the Citadel out of the three, get there last? There is a single, straight-shot, linear path to the control panel. Where was the Illusive Man this whole time? Was he hiding in a corpse pile?"
 * "How did Anderson get to the Citadel unscathed?"
 * "In the Arrival DLC, it is established that destroying a Mass Relay creates a supernova explosion capable of destroying a solar system. Is this explosion different? All I recall the Catalyst saying is that the Relays would be destroyed. A little clarification as to whether not I just trillions upon trillions of people, indeed, all life in the entire Milky Way, would be nice."
 * "The Catalyst states that no matter what I do, I will die. He clearly explains that because I am partly synthetic, I will die if the destroy option is taken. Despite this, it is possible to survive if your war assets are high enough. Don't ask me how these things are related, but does this mean that this god child was lying, or is it ignorant?"
 * "How does Shepard's armour and weapons get disintegrated, but not the pistol?"
 * Not to get all Indoctrination Theory, but all this stuff can pretty much give a good impression that there is something going on that we dont know about.

"Why I am walking toward the exploding doohickey? Generally speaking, walking toward explosions is bad for your health."

It's a pistol, not a sniper rifle. Pistols don't exactly have the greatest range you can imagine. You can argue this all you want, but my thought is because it's a pistol and not a sniper rifle. Either that, or Shepard is just one huge idiot.