Does a video game with branching choices have one ending, or many endings along the way?

[StaceyPowers]

One common complaint about the ending of Mass Effect 3 is that you are presented with three choices. These determine certain outcomes, and gamers wanted more permutations of results. But I feel like the entire series of ME was one long series of endings. By the time one reached the final choice, one had already made choices that determined outcomes for individuals, species, etc.

Do you feel such games have just one "ending," or many?

[Heatman]

Personally, I don't really care about such games having more than one ending based on the players choices made in the game like Mass Effect. It's even more interesting to me that it gives more than one option to the gamer on how they desire their ending to be.