Mass Effect 3: Not happy with the ending? Choose one of these 20 alternative endings instead

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20. The video game ending

Shepard discovers he's a character in a video game. Has existential crisis and glitches to death. Is eventually reloaded from an earlier save point.

Can you think of any alternative Mass Effect 3 endings? You can? Brilliant. You should totally tell us all about it in the comments.

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Matt Cundy
Matt Cundy
I don't have the energy to really hate anything properly. Most things I think are OK or inoffensively average. I do love quite a lot of stuff as well, though.
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