No wonder Casey Hudson left. This game is missing them sc-fi feels.

We, you?, can not blame this on EA. Just because some mega corproration buys a studio, that does not make them all (BioWare) slaves. And while the new "bosses" may (and do push), their "involvement" in the creative process is next to low or nothing. Are two years too little for a project like this (ME3)? Yes, most likely, but not impossible. But you can do, it is the job of the people at BW to figure this out. And if it were realy impossible? They could have said "nope, not going to happen". I wonder how people imagine how this stuff works... gues many think: EA comes to their studio BioWare and says "do this" like a big overlord and everyone has to obey and if not, fired. They invested a LOT of money to buy BioWare, they are not going to dissolve them just because something they imagine is impossible. Whatever, Hudson cut have cut ME3 and release "more" content via DLC. Omega and Leviathan are actualy quite good examples as how you add content into your game (mind, I am not talking about the quality) and fit that game. But that is unimportant, they gave us one particular ending, they could have made another. They explicitely decided for THIS.

Oh and I am not hating Hudson, as far as I can tell, noone here hates Hudson, we just say Hudson is responsible for ME3 ending. Sure, some do like it (I do not understand why but alas, I do not have to understand everything), but most do not. And that is something YOU have to understand, right now (in this thread) you blame the lead write and EA and say Hudson is great and innocent.

PS: Thinking about it and how this stuff works... I am pretty sure EA came to BW and said: we want ME3 in two years. And Iam pretty sure BW said: hard, but not impossible.

I do not think we should hijack the thread and discuss this further, yah reapers are not evil per se. But here two proverbs:

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
THe end justifies the means.

Sorry, he approved Starchild. He'll never live that shit down.

It's kind of like the Falcons in the Superbowl. The ending matters.

The best way to beat the Reapers.

+100

I got more sci-fi feels from Andromeda than I did from ME2 or ME3, not that it was a tall order though. But I agree that it's still far from ME1.

Overall ME2 main story is bit weak, but I prefer ME2 much more than MEA because of really well written and strong characters like Miranda, Samara or Thane. Their loyalty missions also been really well done. Somehow I just like those new companions from the very beginning, I think VA is also superior to Andromeda. ME2 also got amazing soundtrack, almost non-existent in MEA.
Small things sometimes are making big difference.

I told you that you can call me crazy.
But maybe I was too "close" to the OT and that's why the ending hit me that hard. And now and thinking back I simply can't enjoy it anymore. Looking back and without my "rose tinted glasses" the OT has lost it's charme to me for playing it again. ME1 was great despite some very stupid things like the "Thorian" and other minor annoyances. ME2 was... well, I loved my Shepard, despite the forced Cerberus alliance and ME2. And I love Mordin.
ME3? Well, looking back, mixed fellings will describe it best. Some "wow!!!" and some "what?!?" moments, although the "what?!?" is in the majority. Ashley (bad habit to always have two chars running the game simultaniously. I never was a fan of Ash but omg, what have they done to her??? A whiny Miranda clone. As if one Miranda wasn't bad enough). KAI LENG. Edi. Jacob again. Shepard who is all of a sudden in a mental crackdown although she was "we can do it!" all over in the other two MEs (would have fitted better in ME2. She died, the Lazarus project sounds creepy to put it mildly, she has to side Cerberus, Kaidan/Ash called her a traitor, the alliance called her a traitor.) Running around to get useless war assets. That nothing matters in the end. Thessia. Take back earth. STARBRAT - just to name a few and out of my memory. So I guess all that made me stop playing the OT so I can look back on my Shep as the great hero she once was.
And sorry for this "rant". It's just how I feel about it.

Oh well, I go thru a lot - with a lot of people - about ME3 quality - so it's fine, words from me or anyone else will not change they way you feel.
They only thing which is making me sad is that because of all that "ME3 ending hatred" a lot of good people left BioWare - people, who got a heart for this series, who could make things better in the future, who could really learn from their own mistakes. Of course almost everyone and the end gave some silly talk about new opening, looking for something different bla bla bla, but almost all those departures been connected with ME3 reception. You can dislike ME3, but remember that the same people create the whole ME universe as we know.

Same here, I do not hate anyone ... not EA, not BW and surely not Hudson. They screwed, in my opinion, with ME3, some more then others, but thats it, there is no more about it. I made enough mistakes in my own life to know about it. It is sad there were so many people threatening them, reminds me of trigglypuff, I wonder why anyone takes such people seriously.

and one needs to point out part of the ending is vengeance vs saving who you can. Also, good or evil does not really apply to the reapers.

but that's the thing. ME2 has unique charaters that we unique among there own races. They all already decide what philosophies to live there lives. They already lived color live. No one there on the ship was a normal person. While in MEA, the characters are normal people. Each character is an example of the type of person that would go on a trip like this. The have alot of growth, the constantly interact with one another on and off the ship, and they learn in their own way. The charaters in MEA are learning 5o figure out who they are while the character in ME2 already know who they are mostly. The 2 sets of characters have 2 different goals. MEA characters are better versions of the type of character in ME1.