"May our deeds be remembered, may our choices have counted for something. May history remember the sacrifices of the fallen and may there be hope for future generations. In silence we remember, in continuing on-wards with renewed determination do we honour those not here today. Be this an end once and for all, an end to despair and hopelessness"

Epic.

It is quite a cliché word when you think about it, it is used a lot by teen males to define much of anything like drinking alcohol and trying in vain to be sexually attractive to female teens, as well as doing dumb things to impress their equally stupid, usually, peers.

When I was a teen it was used a lot by others of the same age, I never used it mostly because I hardly ever spoke, was never considered a person so was never welcome anywhere and tended to be bullied and attacked far too often.

Others though used it often to describe much of anything, from their first shave to burping loudly, to their simple minds they thought it was 'epic'.

A constant misuse of the word in other words.

The word 'Epic' is more fitting to things that stand out, that make an impression to you to the extent where the word has meaning. The word is coined as a reference to many ancient stories like Beowulf and Ancient Greek legends, where, I guess, it fits well.

But what of our modern world? Where does the word 'Epic' fit in when it comes to our modern media? To be fair it doesn't fit in all that often thanks to the tiresome ideas that do nothing new while doing the usual chest pounding promotion of male stereotypes, hardly 'epic', more stale.

So it is rare that anything of the modern age will stand out and fit the word well.

But maybe there is a video game series that does fit it, even if the haters will complain about the ending of the series without taking the time to really think about the ending, I feel that the word 'Epic' fits the series.

What series am I talking about though? Mass Effect.

Now before I explain why I should say that I am not one to go into some blind fangirl moment without careful thought and consideration on why I am expressing my feelings on something I feel fits such an badly over used word like 'Epic'.

I am sure that others may have noticed that my feelings for the games I play are very direct, I express both the good and bad in equal measure and never go into a fangirl mode, such a mindset where I would blindly like something without considering it's flaws would be counterproductive to any bias and non-biased opinions.

So there will be no 'Fangirl mode on', the series is excellent yet flawed. No game is perfect and no game will ever be perfect, perfection is impossible and an ideal that can never be achieved in the imperfection of the human imagination.

The series is excellent though despite it's flaws.

As of this morning, about 07:30 hours AM, GMT time, Janurary 2014, I finished the series in full. As in all of the DLC, all three games, all paragon endings, no one lost in Mass Effect 2, Miranda still alive by the end of Mass Effect 3 and the Synthesis ending chosen because I felt it was the best ending to go for.

Why though? Why did I choose that ending? And why did the ending make complete sense to me so that I made that choice?

Because of a thought I had before beginning the series play through and starting Mass Effect 1 for something like the eighth time or so since it's original release.

That thought stuck with me as I made a new character – female, name of Harriet Shepard, Sentinel class, Spacer background, fought against Baterian slavers on her own, brown hair, blue eyes. From even before I made her I knew the ending I was going to go for with the final game, I understood the reason for the ending and a scene in Mass Effect 3 only strengthened my choice to go for that ending.

Synthesis is our next step in evolution, the more our technology progresses then it is only logical that we will become a blending of technology and organic development. Technology will become alive while organic life will become technological in growth, scope and ideal.

So when Harriet Shepard sacrificed herself to bring about a new era in organic and technological life after the Catalyst, or rather The Great Intelligence that the Leviathan race had created in their determination to seek a way to bring order to natural chaos, explained why the Reapers existed, it made complete sense.

And it was, well, epic.

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Many complain about the ending of Mass Effect 3 and that is their opinion and choice, but have those who have complained about the ending really thought about why the ending comes across in the way it does?

Hard to say, most who blindly hate without reason never really think it through, they simply hate for the sake of hate.

I found though that every choice and sacrifice I had made throughout the series was actually all tied off well, that ending was exactly what all of the choices and sacrifices had been working towards.

The Reapers were controlled by an ideal created by logic, the Great Intelligence sought to bring order to chaos by destroying chaos. But chaos is unpredictable, logic is pretty useless against chaos since chaos will always find a way around order.

The harvest would have continued but it would have been for nothing, the Great Intelligence would have never been able to bring order to chaos because the balance of life requires an equal measure of both, not one or the other.

Kaiden's death, I kept Ashley alive, made sense, as did Legion's death, Thane's death, Mordin's death, it all made complete sense when I choose to pursue the Synthesis ending. That ending made complete and utter sense.

Chaos is forever, as is the ideal of order, life, death, it's all one and the same thing. All of it has an impact and all of it is a balance that has to stay exactly level for life to exist in it's infinite diversity and infinite unknowns.

Maybe I've been putting a little too much thought into it, or maybe my transition is opening up new understandings as I endure the pains and long waiting to keep progressing farther.

But it made sense and it still does.

So in a sense the series is and was epic, from the very first second to the very last, it was epic.

The word fits the Mass Effect series when you take the time to think about exactly why it fits.

It was epic. Despite the flaws, the series deserves to have that word applied to it. Hopefully the next game in the series won't water it down and turn it into some mindless, empty cliché done to death mess like most games are.

Fangirl mode is still off.