User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1341687-20120408014727/@comment-1341687-20120408082215

@Temp

Do me a favor. Don't talk to me. You clearly didn't read what I wrote or just didn't understand it. Or worse yet completely ignored what the point of what I wrote was.

@Phantom

I don't assume that it could repair the damage. We'll heal, maybe even feel better. But we'll always have the scar. Shepard does behave out of character, but I would disagree about killing the Catalyst. I don't dispute that many probably did feel that way, but I don't think that was the issue with the whole thing. It was the feeling of having all choice taken at the last second.

Try and imagine what it would have been like had you not even talked to the Catalyst. Just end up on the Crucible and you get a little blurb (most likely by Shepard and Hackett having a brief explanation conversation about triggering. "What am I supposed to do?" "We're not sure. We only know that the dark energy function is channeled differently to each control. Anything could happen." "Then... here goes nothing/I'll see you in hell!" Then you just pick one of the three. Nothing to go on other than color hints. How do you think you/everyone would have felt? Ignoring what would most likely still seem like color confusion between Control and Destroy. Just you and pick one of the three and see how things play out.

I think that might have been an interesting thing to see. Not necessarily better, but I think it really helps one see what bits of story conclusion we could/did get.