For many reasons, I thought that The Stanley Parable had a great system of endings and choices, but the most important was the narrator's comment that the ending was whenever I stopped playing the game, and his constant insistence that if I wanted something to end I could simply exit. The narrator saved Mass Effect 1 & 2 for me. I learned that I could simply feed Shepard to Morinth at the end of the game, stop playing the trilogy, and it would be just as "real" of an ending as that pretentious tripe we know to be generally know to be canon.