-actually bothers to read OP, this time-
What the kid warned you about is that organic and synthetic life can never work together; eventually synthetic life will rebel against their organic creators. Their argument for why the cycle is necessary is because when they show up to mercilessly slaughter all the advanced civilizations, they'll leave room for the merging civilizations to grow and develop, even if that means that they'll eventually come back to mercilessly slaughter them as well. It's a necessary evil, because if they wouldn't do that, the synthetic life would kill of all organic life, including those that are merging and all organic life in the universe would be sterilized.
The three options he offer are thus:
A) Destroy the reapers and doom the galaxy for endless war between organic and synthetics, until all organic life is gone.
B) Control the reapers and thus they'll all fly away but we really don't know if they'll ever come back or not.
C) Somehow cause all synthetic and organic life to merge, so that you can no longer distinguish between them, with the aid of magic beam.
Then, depending on how well you did at collecting war assets, minor changes can be noticed in the video. Low war assets will deny you the synthesis ending, Earth is destroyed/severely damages and your crew mates might not survive the crash. Lots of War assets and Earth is fine and so are you mates in the crashed ship (I have not yet played the extended cut, so I have no idea how that affects things).
But ignoring all that, I want to state that I think his warning about the destruction ending are bollocks. The entire justification of the Reaper's action is based around the philosophy that organics and synthetics can't work together. End of story. La la la, I'm not listening; you can't make any counter arguments.
However, depending on how you play your cards, Shepard can witness two utterly unrelated forms of synthetic life have a meaningful and peaceful coexistence with organics. The most glaringly obvious one is EDI. Despite being released from her restraints and gained full control of the ship, she becomes a contributing member of the crew, instead of going all HAL-9000 on them. After gaining "a mobile platform", as she elegantly describes her new body, she asks Shepard if she can ask him/her questions about what it means to be Human. If you play along, this becomes the cumulation of repeated conversations:
On her own initiative she renounces the concept of preservation at all cost and adopts the philosophy that sacrifice for the greater good is what's just, so that she can be less like the Reapers.
Second case are the Geth. As you learn more about them, you find out that they were almost an innocent spectator in the whole Geth/Quarian war. The whole thing started off as a civil war between Quarians that were afraid of the concept of sentient robots and Quarians that wanted to allow them to develop. Those defending the Geth were eventually killed off but not before the Geth learned to defend themselves (after having it explained to them why they should). Instead of killing all the Quarians, they allowed them to leave their home world. Then they sealed themselves off from the rest of the universe and were content doing their own thing. The Quarians spark the conflict again, when the show up to retake their homeworld, meaning that at every single point of that conflict, the Geth are merely defending themselves. In fact, the only time they're outwardly aggressive is when they were under Reaper influence.
If Shepard manages to talk the Quarians into lowering their guns, the Geth immediately respond in kind. Geth offer the planet back to their former masters and start assisting them in making their acclimation to their native biosphere as smooth as possible.
And then the Hologram kid tries to convince me that Synthetics and Organics can't work together? I don't even have a say in the matter? Yeah, right.
Sigh... I hope you're happy. You got me to talk about the ending again. I tried so hard to resist.
Woah, hold on a second. That whole "cycle" nonsense, that the kid is droning on about is the cycle that the Reapers themselves created. It's the very thing you're trying to stop, to begin with. If you destroy them, you do not continue nor start over the cycle.CaptainKoala said:I chose to control the Reapers, because if I destroyed them the cycle would just start all over in the next generation of people which would make all 3 games pointless, and I didn't do synthesis because it seemed kind of douchey to make that kind of choice without anybody's consent on the issue.
Sheapard dies sacrificing himself for the survival of every living thing everywhere, the rest of his squad lives on and his sacrifice is never forgotten.
What the kid warned you about is that organic and synthetic life can never work together; eventually synthetic life will rebel against their organic creators. Their argument for why the cycle is necessary is because when they show up to mercilessly slaughter all the advanced civilizations, they'll leave room for the merging civilizations to grow and develop, even if that means that they'll eventually come back to mercilessly slaughter them as well. It's a necessary evil, because if they wouldn't do that, the synthetic life would kill of all organic life, including those that are merging and all organic life in the universe would be sterilized.
The three options he offer are thus:
A) Destroy the reapers and doom the galaxy for endless war between organic and synthetics, until all organic life is gone.
B) Control the reapers and thus they'll all fly away but we really don't know if they'll ever come back or not.
C) Somehow cause all synthetic and organic life to merge, so that you can no longer distinguish between them, with the aid of magic beam.
Then, depending on how well you did at collecting war assets, minor changes can be noticed in the video. Low war assets will deny you the synthesis ending, Earth is destroyed/severely damages and your crew mates might not survive the crash. Lots of War assets and Earth is fine and so are you mates in the crashed ship (I have not yet played the extended cut, so I have no idea how that affects things).
But ignoring all that, I want to state that I think his warning about the destruction ending are bollocks. The entire justification of the Reaper's action is based around the philosophy that organics and synthetics can't work together. End of story. La la la, I'm not listening; you can't make any counter arguments.
However, depending on how you play your cards, Shepard can witness two utterly unrelated forms of synthetic life have a meaningful and peaceful coexistence with organics. The most glaringly obvious one is EDI. Despite being released from her restraints and gained full control of the ship, she becomes a contributing member of the crew, instead of going all HAL-9000 on them. After gaining "a mobile platform", as she elegantly describes her new body, she asks Shepard if she can ask him/her questions about what it means to be Human. If you play along, this becomes the cumulation of repeated conversations:
On her own initiative she renounces the concept of preservation at all cost and adopts the philosophy that sacrifice for the greater good is what's just, so that she can be less like the Reapers.
Second case are the Geth. As you learn more about them, you find out that they were almost an innocent spectator in the whole Geth/Quarian war. The whole thing started off as a civil war between Quarians that were afraid of the concept of sentient robots and Quarians that wanted to allow them to develop. Those defending the Geth were eventually killed off but not before the Geth learned to defend themselves (after having it explained to them why they should). Instead of killing all the Quarians, they allowed them to leave their home world. Then they sealed themselves off from the rest of the universe and were content doing their own thing. The Quarians spark the conflict again, when the show up to retake their homeworld, meaning that at every single point of that conflict, the Geth are merely defending themselves. In fact, the only time they're outwardly aggressive is when they were under Reaper influence.
If Shepard manages to talk the Quarians into lowering their guns, the Geth immediately respond in kind. Geth offer the planet back to their former masters and start assisting them in making their acclimation to their native biosphere as smooth as possible.
And then the Hologram kid tries to convince me that Synthetics and Organics can't work together? I don't even have a say in the matter? Yeah, right.
Sigh... I hope you're happy. You got me to talk about the ending again. I tried so hard to resist.