Is it normal to feel absolutely frustrated after beating ME3? For context, I just finished my second playthrough of the triology as a full paragon Shep and got the "perfect" Destroy ending, after screwing up a lot in my first playthrough (playing a "mixed" Shep). Lost Tali and Solus in ME2, only got up to 7150 in War Assets due to losing the Quarians in ME3 and ended up dying at the end so my second playthrough was arguably much better (got over 8000 in War Assets, 8197 if I'm not mistaken. Also had everyone alive and kicking, even minor side characters like Balak).

So about the ending... it's just... ugh. I don't even have a way to describe it, but I guess my biggest frustration with ME3 is the fact that Shepard dies (or almost dies, regarding "perfect" Destroy) without interference of the player. There's is not a cheaper way of ending a story, let alone solving the ultimate challenge of that story. I'm very familiar with what went down back when ME3 released and all the backlash, and knowing all of this just makes me feel like BW came up with everything on the fly. Suddenly the Reapers are commanded by an AI instead of Harbinger (or governed by a wicked consensus, as in not as "harmonious" as the Geth consensus), suddenly we get to meet the creator(s) of the Reapers (seriously, why isn't Leviathan an end-of-game major lore mission?) and SUDDENLY the Reapers start their invasion which is my biggest problem. Sure, they made the long journey out of Dark Space and into the Milky Way, okay... BUT HOW? At least explain THAT to me.

*Sigh* and the fact that we'll never get an actual, proper ending to Shepard's story makes everything that much worse, especially with that short scene which supposed proves his/her survival after destroying the Reapers. No, I don't count on the so-called Mass Effect 5 actually releasing and with the state Bioware is in... yeah, I don't want THEM releasing it anyway.