The rage about the endings is quite informative.

Is it too hard to ask for a Dragon Age: Origins style ending?

Heh. That doesn't sound good for a game that sells itself on "CHOICES MATTER, THE GALAXY LIVES OR DIE BASED ON IT". The galaxy dies anyway, no matter what you do.

Inb4BrokenSteelDLCforME3togettherealending. 

*cough* Broken Steel DLC *cough*

I wished Khalisa Jilani replaced Diana Allers instead...

To explain this,

You gain Galactic Readiness (GR) by playing multiplayer. GR is 50% by default
You gain Total Military Strength (TMS) by playing the single player campaign.
Effective Military Strength (EMS) will determine what ending you will get.

EMS = TMS x GR

If you're not into any multiplayer at all, all your TMS will be halved. Example, if you managed to amass 8000 TMS in single player mode, your EMS is only 4000 if you don't play multiplayer mode. However, if you do play multiplayer and you manage to get your GR to 100%, your EMS will be 8000.

How EMS will influence your ending
<4000 Bad ending
>4000 Good ending, however to get the best possible ending, you need to save Anderson
>5000 Best ending possible, without needing to save Anderson

yeah bro. i mean what's the point of making peace between the krogan, turians, geth & quarians if all i'd get in the end is a crash-landed Normandy? 

i had hoped to see Liara's baby, Tali & Garrus's wedding and a goddamnit Shepard statue as big as Harbinger!

ok maybe i need to lie down now.. 

i also didn't like the London fight. AT ALL. from start to finish. felt it was kinda dull after Tuchanka & Rannoch..

and maybe because i kept getting raped by Brutes & Banshees. why u no stop chasing me? 

there's one other thing i don't get. what the heck was the Normandy doing in the end? outrunning the Crucible beam?

WHY??? 

banshee took a shit load of time to kill even with maximum upgraded sniper and armor piercing ammo, tank and the flying sheep is pretty much a 1 hit KO for me

and ending did suck but somewhat true if they didn't had such ending, the storyline will never end. Eventually, somebody will fight and Shepard have to be the universe saviour again and again.

And Kai Leng sucks. Too easy already prior to the final fight

they even had a cliched lets look at the pretty sunset afterwards.. 

i would have been happy if the ending only showed the Shepard hologram device that Liara made being played.. 

The reason why most people got pissed with the last 10 minutes of the game 

That is why the hallucination theory is so popular.

Or alternatively, he managed to survive both the explosion of the Citadel and atmospheric re-entry into Earth to land in London.

That right there is preferable to the mess we got right now. Because at least it makes sense.

I feel you bro. It's like an end to an era. 

EDIT: @hallucination
Fan-theory goes that he didn't trigger the Crucible. It was all an attempt by Harbringer to indoctrinate Shepard into siding with the Reapers. Or something. It gets rather messy.

Maybe it should've been like this? 
I just had catharsis watching that ending.

....Omg lah. I HATE KIDS.

hmm...how does the leaked ending plays out anyway?
can someone story me tl;dr version.

OK the endings sucked.  I'm not making apologies for bioware because they did drop the ball towards the end of the game.

I'm on my 2nd playthrough, after finishing the 1st playthrough on the PC with a ME1&2 imported save, and the moral choices that you make are even bleaker with "canon" shepard conditions.

You never helped subject zero come to terms with the crap that she went through so no Jack at Grissom academy, so some students will die.

Wrex is dead, so you pretty much screw yourself and everyone else by curing the Genophage because Wreav is in charge.  No matter what you do, Eve will die.  Mordin lives and you get the Salarian fleet if you lie about curing the Genophage.

Thane - dead, so he doesn't come to rescue the Salarian councilor from kailan.  So if you cured the Genophage, you're stuck without a Salarian fleet.  You also miss out on his sadding and emotional death scene.

No Samara, so there's no real context in that ardat-yakshi mission apart from introducing banshees as enemies.

Canon Shepard never met legion or saved tali from being exiled.  Essentially, you're forced to make a genocidal decision either way and there's no way you can broker peace between geth and quarrian.  I suppose causing the extinction of one species is no biggie since canon shepard has already killed off the last Rachni queen anyway.

bullet point: It's really hard to play paragon canon Shepard.

I suppose all this can be seen as rewarding players who played and enjoyed the prequels.  Seeing the contrast between import and no import really helped me to see how my paragon shepard's decisions helped shaped the ME universe and and appreciate how they closed off the various storylines.  The point I'm making in this post is that apart from the tricolour ending, ME3 was pretty much one long endgame right from the start.  My Femshep has never been shaped by the familiar RPG trope thats about levelling up, collecting party members and gear to save world etc.  It's always been about how her character has been shaped by all those decisions involving her friends, races and worlds that she's encountered.

To say what you do at the end doesn't matter is bullshit because i cured the genophage and helped the Krogan into a new renaissance, helped the Geth evolve to true sentient beings, brought peace to the geth and quarrians and basically united ALL the races.  That is a pretty legendary feat.

Considering you spend the last talky area saying goodbye to practically everyone you've ever worked with in the ME3, particularly in that ridiculous quantum telephone room where everyone you call just so happens to be home.  Shepard had to die.

3 button ending? Fine.  So i picked the control ending which meant that all the decisions I made could take effect, the humans, turians, asaris - everyone basically could rebuild in peace as I'd saved the galaxy from the reapers, I'd broken the 50k cycle.
AND THEN THEY DO THE BLUE EXPLOSION SHIT..

So basically I enjoyed 98% of the game, and that final 2% troll ending really pissed me off.

Yeah, according to choice you were given, the relays weren't meant to be destroyed in the control or synthesis endings.  So i take it they weren't destroyed irrespective of what the lazy pre rendered 3 colour cutscene showed.  Besides, even if the relays are broken you can still communicate through the bad science fiction of quantum entanglement and presumably fix them.  But I'm trying hard here not to fall into the denial trap and start creating desperate fan fiction to try to rationalise what wasn't very good science fiction in the first place.

In my game I died in the believe that everything I did up to that moment was in line with my paragon character.  After that point, there's no more role-play, you're dead. 

I think I would just mod the save game if i were you.  I really didn't enjoy all that planet scanning and exploration "content" crap they had in the 1st 2 games.  UGH.

Re saving Rachni Queen, there's no other benefit other than Rachni being really useful in the construction of the crucible.

Actually, I did get the good ending for Rachni queen.  I didn't kill her in the first one because she promised she would leave forever.  She gets captured by the reapers which means I have to save her sorry ass.  The good ending is that while aralakh company does die while holding off the modified rachni, Grunt who leads aralakh company doesnt.  You meet him again at the end of the game.  Also, I get aralakh company as a war asset even if that team died.  The Rachni Queen becomes a war asset in the completion of the crucible, to get vengeance on the reapers.  Everyone wins.

Yeah QE phones are rare in ME2 but apparently everyone has one now.  It's hilarious at the end when you go into that room with the communicator and you're able to pretty much speak with everyone you've ever met.

Bioware pre-announcing $9.99 DLC with alternate ending to Mass Effect 3?

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/294158,bi...re-closure.aspx

I personally enjoy the MP. And while I agree it sucks that you have to play the MP to get 4000EMS, you could just use a save file editor to increase your EMS if you absolutely don't want to play it.

Thats why people are pissed. Mass Effect 3 is a very well crafted game, except the ending.