"Could've been worse". Yeah, that's pretty much what I felt.

*startmasseffect3endingbitchfest

Don't spoil it, I haven't gotten to the end yet. I want to see it for myself before I decide to start to bitch.

Dear god. What the hell did they do to the sound balancing for this review? That was AWFUL. Almost unlistentoable. It was like playing Mass Effect 3.

By the time the ending rolled up for me, I was just glad to finally get there. I'd been avoiding all the whiny rants and articles spoiling the ending but eventually just pushed myself to sit down and finish it and was relieved to have finally done it. The game itself, i found a chore to get through. Now the more I think about it, the more unsatisfying it was but simply because of lack of info, not because of the events, there's lots of "why did that..."s and "then what happened?"s leaving you feeling unfulfilled.

There is one criticism that has little merit... to keep it spoiler free... um; they CAN actually still do it, I mean that bit wasn't the only way, it's just not as... good. Maybe we should have like hidden spoiler text options or something, because that made no sense.

As for the game itself, in my opinion while it's not dreadful, it is very average. It's certainly not fantastic. The combat's pretty average, the visuals are fugly, animations are awful, cinematics were sometimes laughable, was super buggy, dialogue wasn't great, dialogue choices were be a dick or be Jesus with what you select and what you say sometimes being exactly NOT what you wanted, and the RPG mechanics were non-existent. It does have a great universe and great over arcing story, which is why people love it and love Bioware. But makes me want to finally try Dragon Age Origins to see how a proper RPG is done

I gotta admit, the last bit of combat WAS a chore. I found myself saying "GEEEZ, can I just skip all the shooting?"

Then again, the shooting was always the least interesting part of the game for me...

My biggest complaint continues to be the screwed up face import if your character made it all the way from Mass Effect 1. My Shepard didn't look like my Shepard, at all. It really screwed up the game for me.

@braindonut same, had to redo my Shepard. Didn't look right. QA fail there

>> ^braindonut:

I gotta admit, the last bit of combat WAS a chore. I found myself saying "GEEEZ, can I just skip all the shooting?"
Then again, the shooting was always the least interesting part of the game for me...


QFT

Having just recently finished this, and having loved the series all the way through, it this one just feels...unfinished.

Essentially, everything seemed pretty awesome to me before going into the final series of missions.

I think it's fixable if they give us either a) a different ending, or a b) post-ending denouement.

The ending we got just seems like something they came up with last minute to make making another sequel easier.