10 Video Games That Retconned EVERYTHING
4. Mass Effect 3
While the Mass Effect series is beloved for its epic storyline, wonderful characters and impressive world building, the third entry is perhaps more well known for all the wrong reasons.
While the main narrative of Mass Effect 3 was littered with epic moments and solid resolutions to pressing questions, the final hour of the trilogy was perhaps the series' lowest moment.
The ending of Mass Effect 3 is notoriously bad, and has a well-earned reputation for its poor writing and haphazard approach to character decisions. Marooning the Normandy's crew on an unknown planet while Shepard's fate is unknown is frustrating, and what would come from the conclusion effectively retcons all the beautiful lore and storytelling that propped the franchise up for so long.
The Mass Relays are all destroyed and all the time the series spent telling its players about the coexistence of alien species is rendered pointless. It needlessly wipes away the whole point of Shepard's quest and means that the Asari, Turians, Quarians and the like can never live in harmony with one another.
Far from the happy ending that players were expecting.