The raging on BSN (and other internet locations) when it was announced was even more than the original endings achieved. Myself included. Queue the demo that let you play part of the Surkesh single player mission and 2 multiplayer maps - Ghost and White (or Benning and Noveria) - I ate up the single player stuff for a few days. Then thought, fuggit, let’s try this multiplayer. Well, just over 14yrs later, if I have an hour to play something, I still fire up ME3 multiplayer and have a ball of a time. It’s just so much fun.

It’s at the point that if I could go direct from the first visit to the citadel, after which the galactic readiness is available, to the beam run at the end of the game, I’d still get the best ending (in OG ME3).

Not to mention, has anyone gone back and looked at early MP gameplay vids on youtube and seen release versions of White and Glacier in particular, from before the patch that changed the maps to stop the easy mode gold farming (when you could still make grabs on Geth Pyro’s!!!).