LogFAQs > #926254512

Like, idk. It should have built up to a single definitive ending. Throttling you down to a static decision at the end was a bad idea.

Import a save through all three games, complete the most stuff and hit a hidden list of prerequisites, and you get a Golden Ending. Complete - at minimum - as much of Mass Effect 3 as you can, and you get a bittersweet ending that's a bit more sweet than bitter. Don't do anything except the story, make garbage decisions and overall just fuck everything up? Bad ending. I respect the idea behind the endings that we got, but Destroy, Control and Synthesis is just weirdly gross. The Catalyst is dogshit, and not even retconning it into "it is well-meaning but inherently flawed" does much to fix just how fucking stupid the Catalyst's process is.

I did the Refusal ending the first time I played ME3 through, and the game had the gall to lock me out of the "Legend" and "Long Service Medal" trophies - that ending doesn't count as finishing the game.

Mass Effect 3 is an incredible game, and I really love the Mass Effect universe. But it's genuinely such a bummer that the game ended on the note that it did.

I ended up picking Synthesis because of EDI and Keiji's graybox.
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