But the emotional reaction to the Suicide Mission was incredible, so you got normal levels of message board belly-aching. In some ways ME2's ending is just as ridiculous, with the Human Reaper and all that stupid stuff about essences of species and liquified goo somehow turning a machine into an organic hybrid. Ridiculous plot twists exist in many games, but the difference between shrugging and shaking your head and posting about it on message boards for years comes down to your emotional reaction, not your logical one. But had there been a happy ending (for Destroy, meaning no EDI/geth destruction, no relay destruction, Shepard surviving) then there would have been no Retake movement. Plenty of hype regarding the final part of a trilogy, the first ever to feature narrative save imports, but all people wanted was the protagonist to survive? Highly doubtful. With all the complaints against it, even with a happy ending, it's highly doubtful ME3's ending would have been well-received at all, given what leads up to it.

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