The ending and the crunch to extend it (Kotaku)

No, I did not see the insanity achievement being solved and the patching for MELE appears 'done'.

I will attempt a fresh playthrough at some point because I recognise that fixes are sometimes not retrospective and I don't want to rule out that the achievement may yet trigger if I do a critical path run without DLC diversions.

Ironic. I also never completed Dragon Age Inquisition as the mosaic collectibles were broken and were patched after my (4th?) playthrough.

I play to do a series playthrough of DA ahead of DA4 so I'll save it for then.

I might do another MELE ahead of ME5.

Could the ending have been better than what it currently is? yes. Even Mac Walters agree. He said in late spring/early summer 2016 the ending could have been better. Only he can answer what he would have done to make it better. I will post something that is much better later in the post.

The number one thing that hurt ME3 was time. Here is something I've posted many times showing a few things that would have been different Bioware originally wanted to do. Here's a video of some more stuff that might have happened.

Roughly a year before release, Bioware had to cut stuff to make the deadline. At that time did they have any work done for the ending, or was the ending all done near the end? Here's why I ask. How much time did it take for them to have all that dialogue with thing, the cinematics and everything else after Shepard made the choice? I'm sure someone might have an idea. Why is this important? Because Bioware already told the player what the ending was going to be. I call it Hackett's ending. After the coup, Hackett tells Shepard the one's working on the crucible believe it has enough energy to destroy the reapers. That's your ending. After Shepard passes out in front of the console, and the arms to the Citadel are fully opened, the crucible fires destroying the reapers. That is much better that what is currently in the game. It's also much simpler. 

That extra time could have been used for other area's of the game that could use more time. I also would have cut some content in the game since that content had nothing to do with nothing.

The other thing Bioware could have done is make ME3 2 games especially with the amount of content in the game. I would guess one reason is that ME4 would be on the new console making imports hard to do. If they thought of doing a ME keep, would that have made a difference? 

Another thing that hurt the game was a lack of communication between writers. When seeing Tali on the Citadel the first time, she will say it's been exactly 3 years since assassins tried to kill her. When talking with t'soni, after Thessia, Shepard will say you've been warning your people for 4 years. 4 years ago neither character knew each other. That shouldn't be surprising. Someone posted shortly after ME3 released roughly 75% of the people who worked on ME1 did not work on ME3. That is a lot of people. 

There are other things that hurt the game. How much time did it take to include action mode? How much stuff was put in the game because it was cool? ah yes the cool stuff? Remember Legion having a piece of N7 armor? Here is the reason why from Chris l'Etoile

If you want to read other stuff related to ME from him, here it is.

Crunch time can be a bad thing. Obviously each person is different, but when you're tired, it can lead to bad things. Even though EA gave Bioware a deadline, I put the blame on the management in Bioware for the crunch. I say an interview with Hudson before ME3 released. You can tell the guy hadn't got a lot of sleep. When you're tired, things can be overlooked. I would say Q&A were tired given the amount of stuff that they should have caught before the game released.

Like I said above, had they used Hackett's ending, it's very likely there would have been a lot less negative feedback. 

One last thing. The thought that ME3 was the best place to start playing a trilogy was stupid. 

About Tali, she had a run in with assassins before the events we saw in ME1 and Liara might have been warning her people for a whole year before ME1.