Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

There is nothing excessive about the criticism about ME3. ME3 is not a great game. And post launch DLC serving nothing more than cash grabs does not change that. The ending is one of if not the worst/most controversial ending in recent video game history. To the point where we still talk about it 8 years later. Plot holes or not, the narrative of the story, the way it was set up and the god forsaken ending does not add up to a "great game". Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs were done very well, but that's it.

1. Bioware realized how badly they had written themselves in to a hole. What do they do? "Hey guys, humans have been on Mars for ages since they found Prothean tech! But we forgot to mention we did not find anything about a magical beam weapon that could attack the entire galaxy and wipe all the Cthulu!".

2. The first two games place heavy emphasis on developing bonds with your squadmates, the second more so. It's a massive disservice that you barely get anything more than fleeting 1 off conversations with most of your ME2 squadmates from ME2. 

3. Choices mattering yet a choice that was huge in ME1 (Rachni Queen) literally does not matter at all because she's either indoctrinated or... indoctrinated. Add this to the massive amounts of added auto-dialogue and the shrinking of the dialogue wheel and that just compounds the literary problems that ME3 had. 

4. What was the damn point of fighting Cerberus for 65 percent of the game when you have literal genocide on your doorstep? Don't even get me started on how TIM magically teleports with Anderson to the top of the "Citadel" with Shepard who can magically survive an explosion from the largest Reaper's beam. 

5. Absolutely no foreshadowing whatsoever for Udina's coup. What was the point of making Anderson part of the Council when they canonize Udina anyways? Isn't this the same community who apparently does not want a canon ending for a future MET game but stood by and watch more than one choice get canonized anyways?

6. The Spectre candidate (Kaiden/Ash) being written to be absolutely stupid. Been with Shepard through everything and still questioning why of all things, there's an entire squad ready to put down Udina? 

I would need at least an hour to compile references to how many inconsistencies (not necessarily plot holes) that are in ME3. I will give ME3 credit. Tuchanka and Rannoch were done very well. The combat was the best in the trilogy and it's not even close.