User blog comment:Stabber ApSig/Mass Relays Gone, ME3 ending/@comment-84391-20120313140831

We're they on crack? Destroying the relays in ALL 3 endings. They even had Seth Green record a line where he says something to Cortez about not wanting to miss the party, but they cut it in favor of that bizarre crash landing, someone needs to put a gun to their heads and force them to put that back in. The Normandy should be providing air support in the final battle, not being transported to some random jungle world.

All this talk about "freedom coming at a high cost," bullshit. As is, WITHOUT the destruction of relays and the Citadel, there are coutless dead and pulverized planets. The price is high enough already, destroying the relays and the Citadel was just overkill.

In Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos (likely a major inspiration for the series), it ends with the World Web network being destroyed; its sequel, Endymion, takes place nearly 300 years later, and involves our heroes dealing with the machinations of a corrupt theocratic dictatorship and the Reapers (yes, Simmons series has Reapers too).

Now, incomprehensible endings are nothing new to SF:

2001: A Space Odyssey The Black Hole EON (Greg Bear novel)

But Mass Effect has the potential for a Star Trek like franchise, whereas those above titles didn't (though 2001 did have its share of sequels), and they also didn't promise multiple endings. They should've had at least one ending where the relays were still intact and Shepard (if alive, otherwise Hackett) gives a powerful speech about rebuilding, it should be hard to obtain, but it should still be there.

I remember in ME2, Liara's "father" said that asari could build new relays. They really need to give us a newer ending with more clarity, explaining how the merge ending is harmony and synergy as opposed to Ghost in the Shell weirdess, spelling out Liara's dad's aforementioned comments, and explaining how Shepard could wake up in London.

I kindof doubt we'll get a Clarity DLC, though, if they do offer another DLC, it would probably involve sending you to Omega to take out that Russian guy from the comic.