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Okay, so I still can't get off the goddamned soap box about how much the ending of Mass Effect 3 SUCKS! If you like that series but haven't played the last game yet, I suggest you do so only so you can be as equally disappointed as me! Are you telling me that NOBODY at EA or Bioware, who had worked on this series for more then five years. Programmers, artist, voice actors, fucking script writers, or anyone stopped and said "You know what? This ending fucking sucks!"

Let me try to put it in a nutshell. The whole series is based on choices which have consequences that can carry over to the sequels when you load your saved file. That being siad, you would think the ending would be a culmination of all those choices which would give you an ending ranging from super-shitty to super-happy. NOPE! Bioware's version of a happy ending is "We don't tell you shit that happened and what we did tell kind of sucked."

It's a shame because the game was great right up until the ending. The ending not only ruined the game, but the entire series. I have no desire to go back and play any of them anymore. Which is funny, because apparently no one else does either. When it came out, all my xbox live friends were playing, but after a few weeks... Nothing. I haven't seen any one of them play it in a long time. Oh and Gamestop has piles of them in the used section. What does that tell you.

Here's a few videos that pretty much spell out what was wrong with it.

And a more thorough one:

Did I mention there's no final boss? What about Harbinger, the leader of the Reapers. I was looking forward to a showdown with him. No final boss is one of the great sins in my book of game making!

Now let's talk about Tali. You can form relationships in this game even with alien chicks and I wanted Tali right away. But you couldn't get her till the second game. Her species has weak immune systems and they have to wear a bio-suit 24/7. So one of the great mysteries in the series (at least for Tali fans) is what they look like. They must not be too hideous since Shepard can bone Tali in the second and third games. But countless fans were waiting for the big reveal in ME3. Did it happen? Yes and No. There is fanart galore of what Tali realy looks like, but apparently nobody at Bioware gave a shit about it during the production of the series. Because not once does she ever reveal her face to the players. Instead, Bioware did something worse then not showing her face or even making her ugly. They got their lowest paid graphics intern (probably) and had them photoshop (about 3% difference) a stock photo off the internet and used that as picture Shepard can earn for romancing Tali. Some say who cares? Well, it was something important to a lot of people (like me) and bioware half-assed it just to shut us up. I'm glad she's beautiful but coulnd't they have put more effort into it. Hell, if they were to lazy themselves, they could have just held a fanart contest and the winner gets their picture in the game. Thousands would have entered.

Someone recently brought to my attention that there are several theories about what the ending really meant. Ones like Shepard was indoctrinated, Shepard was dreaming, etc. I hate to tell you but the ending happened exactly as in the game. Bioware made a shitty ending for a great series. It's no more complicated then that. There's no hidden meanings (unless Bioware themselves come forward and say there was). It's pretty sad that the ending is so bad, fans have to make up stupid conspiracy theories just to make the ending easier to accept.

In conclusion, Bioware built up an fun set of games with an awesome story and awesome characters and then shit all over it with the last 20 minutes of the third game.

Here's the shitty Tali photoshop job. With the original photo on the left and the one in the game on the right. Bioware, this is the internet. Did you really think no on would find this out?