The Huskar Social Union wrote:Honestly i think the canon ending should have been that you lose and the Reapers win. But you could do a ton of damage to them and weaken them enough based on your decisions in the games, or as FGR said, leave behind data in a time capsule for the next generation of species to defeat the Reapers in the next cycle.
Well that's one of the endings so yeah. IMO that's the shit ending which is why I'm glad you can pick your own ending
The problem with the entirety of Mass Effect is that the writers didn't really know how to handle the Reapers. It's difficult, admittedly, but IMO, why not just avoid that. They wrote themselves into a corner trying to make the Reapers as epic as possible which is going to leave you disappointed no matter what you do.
The plot was not Mass Effect's strongest point anyway but rather the relationships, the sociopolitics of the Council, and the little stories in them. Mass Effect 3 was IMO the writers giving up after they ran out of ideas on what to do with Shepard and cutting things early... Especially considering the aimless shitshow Andromeda ended up being.
You're seriously telling me that nobody wanted to explore the rest of the galaxy? Go to the Elcor homeworld and romance a big boi? Fight Batarian pirates in Batarian space? Do sketchy corpo shit in Asari space? Write a game centered around a Krogan?