So I’ve been following the buzz about Mass Effect 3’s ending despite my better judgement. I have not personally played the game due to various other things taking up my time right now. From what I have seen through videos and watching a friend go to town on it, the game seems really enjoyable. As with any AAA title, there is always a setback that fans will nitpick about. Fair warning to those not wanting to hear about the ending even in vague detail, here’s a spoiler alert.

ME3’s supposed setback is the ending. Not really a new thing for gamers to be upset about. Plenty of games have piss poor endings that simply do not do the characters justice or tie up some loose ends when there is no sequel in sight. As someone who likes to dabble in writing, I appreciate a good story and a well rounded conclusion to said story.

Mass Effect as a trilogy has been very focused on two things from what I observe. Shepard being a total badass, and flying around space picking up other total badass aliens. Now with that in mind, it makes sense that each game has you put a bit of emotional investment into your crew to flesh out their story and make them feel more like friends rather than cannon fodder.

Now, the ending to the final chapter in the game had one major problem for me. I could live with how the choices were set up, that didn’t bother me. The epilogue with the old man talking to the child was touching, and gives a perspective that maybe the entire trilogy was just that, a history lesson to a small boy watching the stars. The problem with all the endings of the game is simple: what happened to the team? From what I’ve seen, we get no closure other than a brief scene of the Normandy crash landed on a planet and Joker.

With Bioware’s announcement of a DLC pack to be released that will “expand” upon the ending, I am hopeful that they mean we will have some sort of closure on what happened to the crew of the Normandy. I’d be happy with the DLC and Mass Effect 3’s ending as a whole if that bit of the story is given to us and no longer left to fan speculation. Overall though, the game looks enjoyable and I can’t wait to finish off my Shepard from ME2 and get him imported to the third game.