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8. Mass Effect 3

What you were promised: The culmination of your individual story, giving you an incredible finale that was literally stated not to be a 'choose-your-own' ending. What you got: A choose-your-own ending. Like the closing scene of The Sopranos in TV, Mass Effect 3's divisive ending is the stuff of bile-inducing legend for gamers. Never before had we been so hyped up to see how a couple hundred-hour long plot - one that was tailored to a character you helped mould, no less - was going to wrap up, and never again will we be so completely gutted by its execution. We were told by many of Bioware's team that the ending wouldn't be something that could be referred to as 'multiple choice', that all our previous decisions and impact on the galaxy would matter, that even inside Mass Effect 3's structure, the Galaxy Readiness stat would factor into the endgame in some way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjoorZo1IlE Instead, the end of Mass Effect 3 saw you literally, literally pick from three 'coloured' endings, that all then resulted in the exact same cutscene playing out with different hued explosions depending on what said explosion was supposed to do. There were randomised elements like former friends and squadmates abandoning you, and the final 20 minutes of the game's story felt completely out of place tonally, than the rest of the trilogy. It later came about that EA had crunched Bioware's schedule to get the game out, with plot-centric DLC character Javik originally being intended to be on-disc. Bioware tried to smooth things over with an 'Extended Cut' of the ending after EA were voted Worst Company in America by The Consumerist (and suffered the beginnings of a lawsuit for false advertising until it was thrown out), but it was too little, too late for what remains the biggest disappointment in gaming history.