User blog comment:Spartan0700/Mass Effect 3 Ending, a Different Argument. (SPOILERS!)/@comment-174.118.138.81-20120315030351/@comment-3062992-20120315102932

Actually, I did pay attention, thank-you.

With every post I've read, I'm pretty much familiar with every rage, gripe and tick against this game, evil corporations schemes included. My gripes in those respects have already been voiced by others, but most likely, with less civility and cool. If you had looked a few posts down, you'll see that I actually have acknowledged the possible evil corporation marketing plot and it is VERY fresh in my mind.

Respectfully, don't count me as the cause for the sad day just yet, especially when there are rabid fans out there calling for blood...

I played Arrival and I've been looking things up on this Wiki for longer than I have been posting on it; I'm not a romantic airhead like you must think I am, I know a fair amount about how things work in the ME universe. One of the first things that popped into my mind when the relays blew was that overlooked "goof" regarding the supernovas. Considering the god-child curveball they threw at us, I only figured the Citadel/Crucible fried the relays in such a way that they somehow didn't destroy all life. The Reapers/Crucible built the relays, they must know of some way to destroy them without killing everything in several thousand light-years, huh?

And as I said in the initial post, I wasn't going to get into the plot-holes in this post; how Haestrom was ignored, as well as the lack of consequences of preserving or destroying the Collector Base or why the Destiny Ascension was present, even though it was destroyed years prior.

It's really hard to miss what everyone hates about the game when there are about a million pages on BSN all saying basically the same thing... The ending was crap, yes; it was rushed and it had plenty of plot holes and raised more questions rather than answering the ones that already existed. My reaction to the lack of emotion in the ending and how your choices in previous games didn't seem to matter are what hit me the hardest; in comparison, I didn't really care about the plot-holes. If they had taken some time to explain what had happened to your friends, LI and the galaxy as a whole, it would have been easier for me, PERSONALLY, to stomach. Most of us probably wouldn't have logged in so many hours online discussing and raging about it if they hadn't dropped the ball in the last fifteen minutes.

It was a bad move; was it on purpose? Was it an act of desperation? I don't know. Either way, Bioware has put themselves in a bit of a rut, and depending on how Bioware handles this situation, we're either going to have a great redemption, or spiraling failure.

So yes, I have been paying attention. I just have different priorities than other fans...