I've not played the extended ending, whilst I didn't think much of the last section of the game, I got the conclusion I wanted in Shepard dying and it didn't spoil how good the rest of the game was. Shooting my favourite NPC Mordin in the back because of a choices I'd made in previous games is one of my all time favourite computer gaming moments.
In general, I preferred ME2 because I liked the whole "gathering a dirty dozen" and the way you had to choose people for various mission roles in the final scenario (which could get them killed).
Endings are hard though - and I doubt any ending would have truly satisfied the masses for ME3.
I felt terrible. It started as a calculation, con the Krogan and get their help as well as the Salarians, and in the unlikely event that we avert galactic catastrophe the Krogan aren't going to be a threat. I may like Wrex, but the rest of them are dicks. Then things change with the Matriarch's speech, her and Wrex in charge give me hope that the Krogan deserve a second chance. Then they change again when Mordin appears at the tower on his own. The Matriarch has died, likely because we destroyed all the research to the genophage cure files in ME2, and Wrex alone isn't enough. I agonised for a minute or more before saving the Rachni queen earlier in the game, but condemning the Krogan is almost instant when the moment comes, I pull the trigger and murder Mordin. The cut scene after was hard to watch.
Roleplaying game is a tag that most computer RPGs don't deserve, but ME3 does.
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In general, I preferred ME2 because I liked the whole "gathering a dirty dozen" and the way you had to choose people for various mission roles in the final scenario (which could get them killed).
Endings are hard though - and I doubt any ending would have truly satisfied the masses for ME3.
(This is also true for Maelstrom)
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Thoth may largely be me chanelling Mordin, thinking about it.
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Roleplaying game is a tag that most computer RPGs don't deserve, but ME3 does.
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In a Parallel reality, I may have done the same - only I kept the krogan data and the matriarch lived.
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