Noncommittal Kaidan is noncommittal

[rydain]

So last year I really got into Mass Effect. I finished the first game and made it through a bunch of the second before being distracted by novel brainstorming and my related marathon of The Wire. With the third game impending, I kept meaning to pick it back up. I was psyched to finish the story of Kira Shepard and her red beehive of mostly paragon

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[rydain]

It is awful, and even worse in its full context. I watched the end of a playthrough to figure out where to break with canon for the fix-it fic I'm working on. At least the other 99% of ME3 is ace. When I play through it myself, I can pretend that my console magically switched to some other game for the past 20 minutes.

Trust me, Linkin Park is dead on for this. All your effort in crafting the perfect ME1 + ME2 playthrough is wasted on the same three button presses and the galaxy blown back into a proverbial Dark Age with no indication of your choices' effect on the damage or recovery. That said, I do have to agree that we were massively trolled, especially with the immediate post-ending offer to continue Shepard's legend (pre-ending-sequence) with DLC.

[penm_rx3]

Bab 5 seemed to handle this type of story pretty damn well. Lots of losses, lots of sacrifices, and in the end the accomplishment was making sure the cycle didn't necessarily end, but was properly set in good favor. The series ended for me once the big bosses left

[penm_rx3]

Orz. Mass Effect 3 is really the bad ending to Silent Hill 1. I can see it now. "Have you seen my squadmates?".