How does Mass Effect 3 end? Spoilers welcome.

Hey. So, I haven't played any of the Mass Effect games (except for like 20 minutes of ME1, at a friends house, way back when it came out). I'm not interested in playing them, so I don't give a crap about the story, or whether or not it will be spoiled. I have no intention of going through it on my own. I just read the GS article about the petition to change the ending. Just wondering what's the big deal? How did it end, and why is that a bad thing (or why not)?

I think this pretty much sums it up

enough is enough, what do you want, blue pill or red pill or even green pill?

Spoilers, obiovusly:


Your charecter (Commander Shepard) ultimatly ends up with a choice to either

A) Destory the reapers (bad guys, big machines) with the side effect of wipping out nearly all advanced technology and with the implied threat of another AI being created in the future
B) Control the reapers with the threat that one day it will all coem crashine down
C) Synthesis, where in your charecter fuses all organic and synthetic life together at the DNA level thereby finishing the war between machines and people forever



People seem to hate this mostly because every single choice you've made for the last 3 games don't effect the outcome (they effect the battle beforehand) and the synthesis ending is pretty high-sci-fi for most gamers.


and, yeah I'm a Mass Effect fan boy who loved all the games and the ending