10 Video Games That Punish You For Caring

To be honest, there is no world where Mass Effect 3 doesn't end up being some degree of disappointing. BioWare set an extraordinarily high bar with Mass Effect 2 and the promise of all of your choices culminating in any number of ways for the final game was simply an unrealistic goal for the time. But the forgettable cast deflates the entire journey, not just the ending.

ME2's cast is one of the best in RPG history. There aren't many games with more iconic characters in one neat package. And the idea of the game's final "suicide mission" potentially killing any or all of them drove the emotional stakes through the roof.

It also made it really hard, if not impossible, to include them all as potential crew mates in ME3 - there are just too many variables. But those connections were so strong that a new cast felt like an attempt to replace the friends you lived and died for previously.

However, between the bland muscle-head, the sexy robot who looks like she came from another game, and one of two of the first game's least popular characters, it's hard to imagine a bigger swing and miss.