darthspudius: If it's anything like ME 2/3 then it's a no buy for me. Utter crap!
Lemon_Curry: I'm always puzzled by such hyperbolic outcries over the sequel* from people who admire the original. It's one thing to dislike the changes and/or other aspects but quite another to hate the entire game with a passion.
Not in this case. Mass Effect 3 just wasn't a very good game. The one thing holding it together was the story, story from that game and both previous ones. And then they fucked it up at the very end. And I mean really Highlander 2 level fucked it up. Made every single thing we did not matter for shit, and made the whole story have less sense then Darth Vader peeling potatoes with a rubber chicken.
I stayed up most of the night to finish the big final battle. To get to the end. And I already knew that something bad will happen, I've heard, but I avoided spoilers. But even knowing it would be a let down I did not expect that. It's an amazing thing that ending. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen in any work of fiction. The experience of playing all three games, and staying up most night to play through the finale and getting to that ending... that mindfuck, facepalm shitbiscuit of an ending cannot be described. If you care at all, not about Mass Effect but about storytelling as an art, about writing quality in fiction, that shit will haunt you for the rest of your days.