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Why comment so condescendingly on a subject when you don't understand what happened? Does it play to your own personal sense of delusional superiority to think people overreacted to the ending "they didn't want"? You need to grow out of that childish mentality.

What happened was that Bioware had long promised an ending that would reflect your decisions across 100 hours of gameplay. They promised relationships would be explored and closure would be brought to the series. They promised it would not be an A-choice, B-choice, C-choice cookie-cutter ending, and it was quite literally exactly that. This wasn't a product where people expected some la-dee-da happy ending, they expected the same level of care and quality writing to be carried through to end the series, and it all falls through in what is the last 30 minutes of the game (that is not an exaggeration, the game de-rails in the final segment completely).

To better understand this issue, you can watch videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0Cf864P7E

It's not just that the ending was bad, it was because it was insultingly offensive on every level as a fan and as a consumer of the medium.



I did play the game and I do know what happened. I also think everyone is way overblown on this. IMO there are bigger fish to fry in the world then complaining about the ending of a video game.




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