re: I decided to do another ME2 and ME3 play

I guess you could say it's good for mindless fun. The side quests were good in a vacuum. Visually the game was good. But can you completely extract the story from a game that is so driven by the story? It wasn't just the last 2 minutes that were bad. It was the fact that everything that you were doing and everything that was happening made no fricking sense the whole game. The reason you kept playing was that you had 100% faith in bioware to somehow pull this all together in the end because of their stellar track record up to that point.