It seems somehow fitting that my first journal entry be about one of my all time favorite video game series, that of "Mass Effect". After 40 hours or so of gameplay, last night I finished Mass Effect 3. I won't give away any story elements here because I hate spoilers, but I will say today I am on a total downer.

When you've invested around 150+ hours in a video game franchise, you hope for and expect the best and as developers BioWare rarely fail the gamer in this respect, but this time they failed horribly. This isn't a whiny post about me not getting my 'happy' ending, though that would have been nice, this is about continuity, a lack of 'choice', something the entire franchise runs on... this is about nonsensical outcomes.

As I said I won't be covering story here, I don't want to spoil it for anyone still playing. Be prepared for plot-holes aplenty. This is where this entire debacle makes no sense to me, surely the devs and even play testers stopped for a moment and thought.. hold on, this isn't right, we've screwed up the entire canon by these events. Apparently not, apparently everyone just went along with the whole silly thing.

You might argue this is good for BioWare, that the reason so many people are talking about the ending is because we're hurt, which in turn means we are emotionally connected, and to a point that's true, but with this emotional connection should come a responsibility by the developer not to let us down and this time, they did, with a thud.

I feel devastated and cheated and I am not alone.