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7. Mass Effect 3's Ending Pisses Everyone Off

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Don't worry, BioWare, despite the unenviable backlash you've had to endure from Andromeda's troubled launch, not even its putty-faced NPCs and wonky animations can incite the same level of rage that Mass Effect 3's ending managed.

As is the universal truth of trilogies, the third and final one is inevitably always the worst, and there's a very simple reason why. Expectation. Unlike its successor, the middle child doesn't need to wrap up any loose ends or make any grand, definitive statement - it keeps on upping the ante and adding to the mystery, all the while knowing that it doesn't need to worry about providing the answers, those are a problem for an unfortunate sequel.

Mass Effect 3, with its hundreds, if not thousands, of unique outcomes and eventualities due to open-ended player choice, never had a hope in hell of accounting for all of it by journey's end, but it didn't even try.

BioWare took the easy way out. Three static choices. One good, one bad, the other neutral, all presented in a painfully generic and bland package. Boring.

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