[Ginkasa]

I don't personally mind the lack of super happy endings. A horde of invincible apocalyptic Cthulhu robots invading from the dark space between galaxies is not going to end well no matter how Paragon your Shepard is. A bittersweet ending is okay. I also don't really see ME3's ending as "dark" as a lot of people are saying. The final image of Joker and EDI standing together to face the dawn of a new synthorganic future seemed pretty optimistic to me. Sure, the galaxy was not the same you one in ME1, but again, Cthulhu robots and all... Bound to happen.

If you can't tell, I also didn't really mind the details of the ending either. Blending organics and synthetics together (which is the ending I chose) seemed to make some sense on a thematic level and fit fairly well with the rest of the series. I don't know about anyone else, but my Shepard would totally choose that option (I saved the Geth and the Quarians and might have even chosen the Geth over the Quarians if forced... maybe). I didn't mind the choices or that they were there.

I don't even mind the lack of a "and here's a list of how your choices mattered in the years to come" epilogue like in DA:O. I felt my choices flavored the story at least (even if it may not have drastically changed it as some had hoped for) which is enough for me.

My issue is that the star child thing and choices itself came out of no where and felt really surreal. The series was based on a more or less realistic feeling universe. Everything in the series pointed to a more or less conventional "robots go boom" type ending. To have the origin of the Reapers suddenly thrust on us with barely any explanation and a lot of extrapolation and asking us to make some choice with forces that don't make much sense just really flies in the face of the rest of the series. The tone of it just doesn't fit with the tone of everything else. It borders on mystical which the rest of the series was not. If the game had ended with Anderson and Shepard talking (and probably dying) and the reapers blowing up with everything else mostly the same (Mass Relays 'splodin' and all) I'd have probably been more satisfied.

End coda, however, I'm not nearly as unhappy about the ending as a lot of people are. I was a little disappointed, but I'm actually already planning a full trilogy run through soon (with a FemShep!), so it clearly doesn't bother me that much.