I wasn't all that satisfied with the ending. It all became almost spiritual, but I have a theory! What if the last part of the game didn't happen? I'm under the belief that everything that happened after Harbinger knocked you out was a dream. Why else would the catalyst AI look just like that little boy from the beginning of the game? I don't see how Shepard could survive the citadel exploding and crash landing on earth. So when you see him take a deep breath at the end? I assume that's him waking up a few hundred feet before the beam of light that travels up to the citadel.

Now you don't see Shepard take a breath if you choose the other two endings right? Whether you control or blend the species together the reapers technically survive and win. So maybe if they get Shepard to choose the other two options it's their way of indoctrinating him? Ugh, I dunno. Stupid kid and stupid choices.

this is the theory I buy into , there is too much evidence to support it, all the crap with the space god looking like the kid from the dreams, no way shep survives the citadel crashing to earth considering the same exact thing is more or less what killed him dead at the start of 2, also he appears to be laying amongst piles of concrete and rebar, 2 matierals I very seriously doubt ancient all wise alien species used to create the citadel, also the most curious and the thing that bugs the shit out of me, if my squad was with me when I fired the missiles at the reaper, and I assume they were with me right after that when we rushed the beam and got shot by harbinger, how did they end up on the normandy with joker?

would they really end the entire series with a ending so full of plot holes and continuity errors? would they really provide zero closure and zero updates on what is happening to anybody at all besides your 2 squad mates being somewhere they should not and could not be?

while the ending may "fit" with the themes / tone of the game in some peoples eyes, there are just sooo many wonky questions and a complete and total lack of an epilogue or closure, not to mention that I personally felt that with the ending / endings playing out as they do and the lack of an epilogue, it really makes it feel like every choice Ive made through out the entire series didn't matter, 6 near identical endings regardless of the choices ive made, and zero follow up showing any of the ramifications of the choices I have made.

Not as bad as I thought it would be, and watching the video gasline posted pretty much summed up theories I had on what really happened. I was wondering how you would be the only one who survived the Harbinger attack, no sign of you squad mates, and there was no way Anderson got through the beam and got to the control panel before you (unhurt from the attack as well). Then after Anderson dies you're suddenly bleeding in the same place Anderson got shot? Didn't make sense to me and made me think this was going on in your head.

Now if this theory is correct, and I think it is, this means we're going to get the true ending via DLC and that's bullshit. Maybe with all this ending backlash we may get it for free but it's EA... and I don't trust them. So if we want to see the true ending we may have to fork over $10 which is horsehit. Worst part is I'll probably pay it just because I invested so much time into this series and that's what they're banking on. This is what's wrong with this generation of gaming... I am getting so sick of this bullshit and keeps giving me more reasons not to buy into the next gen as it's only going to get worse. I hope I'm wrong and that this backlash from fans gets us this DLC for free as the outcry about having to pay extra for an ending to this game will make people flip out to an even worse scale (which will be pretty impressive as fans have been so damn juvenile it's sad)

I sure hope this is the right theory, if what is in the game is the true ending, shit was slapped together with elmers in about 5 minutes, also, how the hell did my squadmates end up on the normandy when they were right in the thick of it with me?

I sure hope it was all a dream / hallucination / indoctrination

it just makes the most sense. Like I said, there's no way in hell Anderson:

a) got into the citadel before you did.

b) there's only one path to the control center so... how did you not see Anderson pass you?

c) how's Anderson completely unhurt after the Harbinger attack yet you're near death.

We all know story DLC is coming and just wait in the coming weeks when Bioware addresses the ending. They said they would as soon as more people beat it. My primary concern is you'll have to pay for the ending DLC which is a big-fat middle finger to gamers.

"Want to see how the trilogy REALLY ends? Buy this add on for only $9.99!"

If that happens I will buy it because I've invested myself in the whole series but I'll be done with the series and most likely any future Bioware games. I can't condone these kinds of DLC practices and, while I knew this would happen eventually by some company, holding an ending to a much-loved RPG trilogy hostage to squeeze more money out of consumers is wrong on so many levels. But I do have a feeling this one piece of DLC will be free just due to the fact the backlash has been so bad for the ME3 ending and it'll get so much worse if they trying charging us for ending DLC. EA and Bioware will lose a lot of fans and the swarm of hate will just be that much greater that if they're smart they'll just give us that one add on and charge us for other DLC.