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

One thing I have grown very tired of is the "The endings were just color coded" argument. It's one thing to say we had no variation. Its another to say that they were simply colors.

If you really think about it we only lacked closure. Because the first two games were also color coded. They just had more closure.

ME

Save Council - Blue Planet

Sacrifice Council - Red Planet

Open because we know more games are coming. Closure to that games' story.

ME2

Save Collector Base - Red Star

Destroy Collector Base - Blue Star

More narrow, but we know there is finality. We have closure to that games' story.

ME3

Control - Blue

Synthesis - Green

Destroy - Red

Seems a little backwards but OK. New with Green. No closure because we just don't understand what happened to everyone.