User blog comment:Der Schreiber/Casey Hudson Comments on ME3 Ending/@comment-4909524-20120314021457

I have felt that the Mass Effect trilogy has been memorable since the very beginning, so memorable that I can remember fighting Saren on Virmire like it was yesterday. I've talked about the game, discussing it through and through with friends. At first, I wasn't satisfied with the ending, but after stepping back to catch my breath I delved in to and began explicating it. I think we all knew where we were going with the game, even from the very beginning. Shepard barely survives in the first game, dies at the beginning of the second and is brought back to go on a SUICIDE mission (and barely makes it out.) Shepard, the first human spectre, savior of the Galaxy; it couldn't have ended any other way and made sense.