User blog comment:Legionwrex/Revised Mass Effect 3 ending./@comment-4888821-20120312215008/@comment-4579012-20120413211315

Hmm. I'd accept a retcon of the last ten minutes. And if they wanted to provide a free-roam afterwards, assuming your Shep survives, all the better for it. But - they've done it wrong now. My problem is that even if they fix it, it was broken originally. i just feel like I've been ripped off a bit. Not the endings - incomplete and unsatisfying though they may be; I'm not someone who simply had to have the perfect 'ride into the sunset' ending; it's the plot holes, the lazy writing, the lack of closure and tying up loose ends, the fourth-wall break that gets me.

And I can't UNSEE that. I can't just go 'oh hey - cool guys, they fixed it' with a more expansive ending. They thought that the ending worked and pretty much everyone has gone back and said - "You know what? It doesn't work at all". For me it's not HOW it ended that's the issue - it's WHY it ended the way it did. It feels like it ended the way it did because people couldn't be bothered to make it as polished as it should have been. We all developed our characters and relationships - this is a story-driven game not a FPS, no matter what some people say, so we all grew to connect with the universe we were influencing in myriad ways - and it feels like the last five pages are missing.

Well, thanks BW/EA. Thanks a whole bunch. Free DLC will fix it technically, but if you kick me in the teeth and then apologise, we still have a situation where you've just kicked me in the teeth. I've always loved Bioware games. I just feel a bit - let down? Bitter? I think that's too strong. Wistful, or melancholic - that's probably closer (and yes, a bit OTT too, I suppose) but I'm not full of hate, or anger, or righteousness like some other people are; I just feel like someone I trusted has really let me down. it's a really weird feeling to have about a computer game, I can tell you!

Oh, and for crying out loud - the mass relays blowing up is DUMB. So we beat the Reapers! Yay! But we're basically back in the stoneage and cut off from each other forever - Boo.