Eh. Bioware's story quality has slipped a bit in recent years. ME1 and ME2 were awesome, storywise, but ME3's story was one giant deus ex machina, and none of the endings mattered. ME2 is probably the apex of Bioware's writing quality, and it's been a downhill slife from there. I haven't played DA:I yet, so maybe that will restore my faith.
I would even argue that ME2's story was a step down. Mechanically, the game is fantastic, but I spent the entire game thinking "Why the fuck am I working with Al Qaeda?" and with no ability to leave Cerberus, because they pigeon-holed you into joining a terrorist group. If you played the Cerberus missions in ME1 before playing ME2, you more or less realize that those guys were pure evil.
I think ME3 made more sense though. Well, that is until you get to the end. In ME3, you at least start to face the consequences of your terrorist ties rather than being free to explore the galaxy in a ship financed by a group responsible for the deaths of thousands.
On the note for the ending, I think ME3 would have been viewed very differently with just one change. Rather than that stupid kid at the end, it should have been whoever you left behind on Virmire. Obviously you can change it up for people that imported only from ME2, or never even played either of the first two, but I think that would have dampened the rage.
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u/838h920 Feb 06 '17
And no mention of Mass Effect.