I honestly cannot believe how far this has gone, I mean, I was disappointed with the ending but it's not like we have any right telling the writers of the game what we think should happen. If they wrote Mass Effect one and two without any complaints from us, then maybe we should give them a break, after all they did start it and have a right to finish it as they please...

I Can See where your coming from c-man but as a player of all 3 mass effects i can also see where the fans are coming from we have spent almost 3 years aclimatising to the wide optioned style of play that mass effect incorporates only to find out that in the end the choices we face are restricted in one manner (will not say how as i dont one to spoil the game for anyone) but as i said i do get where your coming from and hey in the end of it all we have raised $30,000 for charity so at least in the end our money went to a worthy cause
Thanks
Snchmbrs
p.s. all in all i thought the game was amazing but i did feel a little dissapointed with the ending aswell

EA/Bioware is a for profit corporation, If one of there flagship products fails to provide the promised level of "experience" in this case then, yes they have the right to ask for a product line change. This whole game series has spent all this play time leading up to a certain ending. They have failed there fans to the highest degree.

Haters gonna hate. I love the "true" ending. Everybody becoming partially synthetic with Shepard living is a great ending.
The full renegade ending actually has everybody dying. If anything, change the full paragon ending

Hey, I want lucars art to retake star wars and Indiana jone 4, someone with me?

I have spent well over a couple hundred hours playing the previous Mass Effect games. I LOVE ME1-2 but the ME3 ending was simply not fair to us dedicated fan. What happen to the various cultures and relationships we developed in the previous two games. I am a former AirBorne/Air Assualt soldier with the US Army but how you allowed Sheperd to die just was not right. I wife was angry with me for spending too much time on ME2-I know I will never play another play through of ME3. I am taking my copy to GameStop tomorrow. BioWare you and that damn gay guy and your ending of ME3 has clearly made me understand it is now time to put down "childest games".

Just to be clear, the end was not only grim, it was also badly written by any objective measure, introduced a number of inconsistencies into the plot at the last minute, and used space magic as pretty much the final action to introduce a sweeping change to the game universe, while giving the player one of a series of bad choices which also led to the protagonist dying.

All I can compare it to is an act of madness as an acclaimed novelist abandons a heroic war novel on the last page, drops narrative style and world consistency and ends with a couple of paragraphs where everyone dies and the world blows up. I was stunned on playing through it.

I would not be surprised if Bioware have succeeded in permanently alienating a good chunk of the fan base, and have managed to retrospectively tarnish a fine IP.

Personally, I -and I know there are many others around who did the same- spent days upon days playing through the Mass Effect series to get the different endings. The first game started building on the morality system, which affected the game to some degree, but the ending was the same nevertheless. The second game improved the system, but the ending was based on your loyalty missions, not the morality system. The reason the third game was so hyped was that everyone wanted the small choices made in previous games that people went back through everything to complete, and instead it ends up as a point scoring system. I'm disappointed at the ending as I expected at least SOME of the choices to take a major factor.

The rachni queen is the biggest example. You save her, an ENTIRE SPECIES, and in return you get a message in the second game, and 100 points in the system for the third game (which you can still get if you don't save her again). That alone is disappointing. What is more so is that if you didn't save her, NOTHING CHANGES. The reapers magically build another one. No change to enemies, no change to plot line other than 10 seconds of different speech!

All your decisions that you spent so long pondering boil down to points for an ending that has no relevance to the fact you pondered them. How does preparing better for a war suddenly allow life to become synthetic?

After every game not so subtly hinting at loading screens that what you do will affect the future, not much changes when it finally came around.

One other thing that got on my nerves was the almost complete exclusion of the other races. They spent so long focusing on turians and asari that jack all else went on with others. The hanar, volus and elcor were pretty much each a 5 minute mission that gave 20 points to the story. Hell, the entire sum of elcor and volus was scan this planet, then talk to me again.

Overall, I think Bioware failed due to the idiotic idea that they should try to recreate the game so anyone can play from scratch rather than the loyal fans who've been with them since the beginning. Their want of sales destroyed the complexity that could have been achieved.