User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-4631135-20120409044224/@comment-1074875-20120409051338

Actually, that is the first of the Mass Effect games that the role playing element actually influence the character.

Yes, the ending was disappointing and nothing got resolved (apart from the obvious Reapers dead/alive), but fans were not lied to, just that the 16 endings are similar.