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TheEvilDog:
Haven't played it yet and I won't for a few weeks (I'm waiting for Operation: Raccoon City), but from what I've heard, a lot of people are pissed with how it ended. I've never been the biggest fan of the series, but I'd like to hear everyone's opinion about 3, seeing as how many of you have played the series from the beginning.

Asterus:
I'd say the ending is perfectly fine, with the exception of skimping a bit on the ending cutscene. I've heard quite a few people would have preferred a Fallout-style narration for epilogue stories on the surviving characters, but considering what happens, it wouldn't have fit very well.

On a side note, can Mass Effect 3 really be spoiled with the exception of the ending at this point? Half the characters involved are either DLC or possibly dead...
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ArcAirbender:
I pre-ordered Mass Effect 3 and started playing it from day 1. Finished my first play this Saturday.
Been playing it from M.E. 1 and this is what I have to say about it:

M.E. 3 is a game that has no focus, it doesn't know what it wants to be and that's a terrible burden for a game that happens to be in its third and final act. Most games go exactly the other way around: They are born, don't know exactly what they are, then mature and define themselves in a genre, subgenre, etc. Mass Effect goes the other way around from 3, to 2, to 1 --where in my opinion, is as... "mass-effecty" as it gets--.
M.E. 3 wants to be an online shooter, wants to be an ipad app, and still wants to retain its single player campaign as high quality as it used to. Whether it achieves it or not, it is a matter of debate and personal preference.

To me, M.E. 3 is a good enough game to purchase the Collectors edition on day one. I love the game, care deeply for the Universe Bioware created, and I'm a sci-fi enthusiast...
That being said, the ending is underwhelming, and  not necessarily because of what it says or how it says it.
The ending is underwhelming because it finally and finitely makes you aware of the fact that your choices are of no consequence. Kill them, nurture them, fuck them, fall in love with them, take them to war, create everlasting peace. It matters not, all roads lead to Rome.

Some people like Jeff Gertsmann make their case about form-and-function: how M.E.3 is not an excellent game because of pacing or technical issues. Those are valid, but I can personally dismiss them because I'm invested in Mass Effect's story, not its ability to compete with Left 4 Dead, Modern Warfare or Skyrim.
I agree with Jeff, however, that Mass Effect 3 is a worthy game if you played M.E. 1 and 2. It is by no means a bad game, just a game that falls flat to the ground --face first-- in the last bit of its life. That doesn't take away all the merits it built in the last 5 or so years of its trilogy.

The bottom line is that I can always imagine a better finish to a Universe I'm utterly invested in. And that's precisely it: for a person to care enough for a world to imagine their own adventures in it, has to be the greatest indicator of how Bioware did more things "right" than "wrong" in it. 

Ps. I edited some of the text because DAYUM with my orthography & grammar.

JD:
The ending is a total ass pull but I enjoyed most of the rest of the game.

DrPhibes:
I've started playing ME3 some days ago and haven't played 1 or 2. From my experience it's another RPG-Shooter. Done well. Have yet to finish the game.

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