I'm just amazed people still care what Nolan Bushnell has to say. Of course, any desperate attempt to stir up console wars is good for the old Google juice I suppose...

@valeria_victrix I have no problem with people who want to discuss whether or not the ending was good or bad on subjective terms. But the sense of outrage and entitlement of people who got butthurt that the ending wasn't the balls out fireworks laden roller coaster ride they were expecting, and therefore have the audacity to demand that Bioware alter their vision of the game because they didn't like it are immature at best and idiots at worst. I'm not here to worship Bioware, but I am here to lambaste whiny little tools who piss and moan while claiming their voice represents the only voice worth hearing. Also, for the record, it's not irony when someone smarter than you calls you an idiot. Nor is it irony to insist that the vocal minority exists in an echo chamber of nerd-raging commenters. Go look at the definition of irony again, champ.

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The tenor of comments here is proof positive that there's nothing like an echo chamber to convince loud-mouthed idiots that their voice is the only voice. The ending was okay, not spectacular, but it was okay. Sometimes heroes die. The choices you made throughout the course of the first three games affected the tone of Shepard's character and the actions of the supporting cast, not the core narrative. That's fine. The characters are more important to a piece than the events of a narrative structure, and the characters will stay with me for a long time. I trusted a Quarian admiral to see reason and do the right thing. I was wrong in that choice and watched helplessly as he lead his entire species into the maw of destruction. I grasped at thin air when my friend and companion Talizorah vas Normandy cast herself from a cliff in despair. That moment will be with me for years. But the ending didn't see Shepard riding the back of a reaper playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic while Bill Pullman rips off Shakespeare's Henry V. Furthermore, there was some ambiguity in the final fate of the galaxy. So, obviously, Bioware has betrayed me. Obviously.