Shepard's dream in ME3

By all means don't let me stop you.  Objectively, not all sushi is fish.

Are you sure you can tell when someone is taking the mick?

Well, it's been fun chatting with you.  I can tell you're starting to get upset though, so I'll end it here.  Bye.

I liked the IT reason why.

But ya know, IT wasn't true!

Yeah I think I certainly felt this was one of those stories where the protag was going to have to sacrifice themselves at the end to stop the threat the reapers posed. It's probably the moment for me where our character Shep  themselves realise this in that they finally know they're not going to walk away from this conflict at the end and that the only way to stop the reapers was going to be them needing to sacrifice themselves. 

Nah, it would have been way more intriguing than what we got imo.

I agree.  You can almost see it making sense but by the end I can see the flaws.  I don't care for indoctrination, I don't think it can be shrugged off with sufficient willpower, and I'm not even certain if those indoctrinated weren't simply reprogrammed rather than being personally controlled.  Can you imagine Reapers have to issue specific commands for each and every indoctrinated person out there?  Given that indoctrination can sometimes take time, I assume minds might be slowly reprogrammed.  Which is why I've posited in the past that people may remain indoctrinated after the Reapers are destroyed even if they no longer have cause.  If that were true, we'd end up with a still-indoctrinated Shepard and who wants that?

Yes, true. I forgot Saren could break free for a few seconds if you have high enough persuasion points. But, as you say, indoctrination makes you think you're doing the right thing. TIM thought the horrors he was inflicting on humanity was somehow beneficial. Kenson thinks the Reapers aren't really the destructive force everyone thinks they are. Saren thought the Reapers could be reasoned with to allow organics to continue living as slaves. Nothing indicates hallucinations.

While I don’t think the endings were fine I’d agree about the miles ahead part. IT and MEHEM are terrible. They don’t make sense and are far far lamer.

I’m not a fan of the core concept of a magic wand to solve the problems. This would have required changes to me2 most likely but I wanted things you did in previous games just give you a fighting chance. Like I legit don’t get why you need an alliance if you are just trying to get a magic wand to work. Sure they show up in the fight but it’s just happenstance that there even is one much less it happens on earth which you secured their aid for.

If you had effected the reapers enough where you could fight them then an alliance makes sense. Heck drop arrival just have the reapers not show up, a sword of Damocles that me3 is about removing. Like they remain in hibernation but you aren’t sure when they will wake up so you go to them fight servitors around their looming presence while you come up with a way to stop them forever. Maybe you destroy their dark space relay or something.

Assuming you need a magic wand they should have just had 1 ending with varying levels of success. You basically tanked your setting with 3. And I’m all about taking my toys and going home but it’s not a good choice overall.

That being said it was most of it presented very well so as illogical and silly as the endings are they are a fun ride. Starbrat I could do without though.

I am/was OK with the endings, except starkid, I just figured that they tried to tie it up as best as possible and left it open to player interpretation. Personally, I liked the Dark Energy idea (the bits that actually made it in anyway), it's mentioned in ME2 a few times, but barely in ME3. My ending is the Party (usually anyway), since I think it makes a better ending scene.

There was a fanfic that sort of combined parts of the original endings, some IT, and their own ideas, that I thought was a better, and more complete, ending than what's in game.