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the thing is even if i take the entire game to be the ending, the conclusion of that ending is no less bullshit, saying that the entire game is the ending of the series is just semantics.

The ending of Mass Effect 3 explains things that needed no explanation, feels like a complete non-sequitur (it does not fit with the rest of the tone of the series), renders everything you have done to be completely meaningless, cannot stand up by its own internal logic, definately cannot stand up by the logic of the rest of the game, does not even show you what your efforts have accomplished and denies you any form of good ending even if you have done all the sidequests and made all the best choices.

The ending here should not have been hard to do. The ending that would have made the most sense would have been predictable yes, but predictable does not mean bad in the same way that doing something different and unexpected does not automatically make it good.