User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4933332-20120405231522

I think it shows that people have different major problems of the ending

Some people it was the normandy escape. Other people was the mass relay destruction, some was the colour coded ending

Although that did bother me

From my point, what really bother me was the fact that Shepard was down right compliant to the starchild. How this opinionated outspoken, stronged will commander who just so happens to debate with virtually every character friend or foe throughout the series become so weak willed, compliant and simply fooled by the villain who was responsible for all of the problems throughout the series. They went through all the trouble about the deaths of her crewmates scarring Shepard, well that catalyst was responsible for Ashley, Mordin and Thane's death and you going to sit here and trust the freaking starchild.

It's not really lack of choice, I mean ME1 ending had save the council or let the council die, ME 2 had give the collector base to TIM or destroy it. The difference in the ending was colour coded as well. Nevertheless I felt it grew organically from the plot, the choices fit with the main theme of the game (humanity first, or humanity with aliens as equals) and I didn't feel like I was forced into doing something that i wouldn't choose to do.

I feel like either committing genocide (destroy), producing galaxy homogenisation ( I'm find the synthesis ending to be down right offensive and racist) or bloody trust the starchild that I can control the reapers even though TIM wasn't allowed to control it for reason unexplained. Seriously the control ending just looks like a bloody trap, if the reapers were happy for Shepard to control it and then to do whatever Shepard wants with it (probably order the reapers ship to stop destroying organic life and perhaps send all the ships to the sun to blow up) and the catalsyt was happy with the conclusion. Why can't the catalyst do it themselves, why do they need shepard to sacrifice his/her life to do it. But of couse the story needs Shepard to sacrifice their life to produce a bittersweet ending and therefore logic has to give way to this forces sacrifice.

So does this epilogue address that. The answer is no. Yeah I get to see the consequences of my actions and some of my relationship with the crew which would be cool but I don't get the bloody renegade interrupt to shoot the starchild and this epilogue DLC doesn't address my frustration with the ending.