Poll: If the 3 endings of ME3 are the only ones we're going to get, which will be your final choice?
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I'll go definitely with the destroy option. It seems at first that red is the "bad" choice. Renegade was always red and paragon blue. Further, the "boy" makes it clear that destroy is the only bad choice and the other two are the good ones.
But why should I believe the "master" of the Reapers, isn't that exactly what they'd try to do as they're last resort to stop Shepard? The option which is made to be the "bad" choice is the only one where the Reapers survive and the cycle can continue.
The boy says that synthetics will always turn on their creators but the Reapers seem to be obeying him and the Geth and EDI show that it doesn't have to be like that.
So, the Illusive Man thought that he could control them, while he was indoctrinated. He did believe what the Reapers wanted him to believe. Just because the VI says so, doesn't mean that it's any different with Shepard. Why should one human being be able to control machines like the Reapers?
Throughout the game, the Illusive Man was made out to be a crazy man and suddenly he was right? No thank you cyber boy, I don't believe a single word you say.
As for Synthesis, that seems even weirder. At least it's somewhat plausible that a blue beam will help you control the Reaper but make every organic life magically partly synthetic? Even less believable. Furthermore, synthesis was what Saren had wanted to do, who also happens to have been indoctrinated.
Besides, even if there is synthesis between organics and synthetics, there will still be creators and created and according to the VI, the problem is that the created always attack their creators. We would still make machines for labour, that wouldn't change anything.
Something which I don't understand is that the Reapers exist to stop the chaos and prevent organics from dying out but the "solutions" the boy presented, wouldn't change that at all. The Reapers just go away but it wouldn't prevent the problem that the boy was talking about, why would he be fine with that?
Or, if the VI really can control the Reapers, why doesn't he just stop them? Why give Shepard the control? He says that the created would always attack their creators but the Reapers seem obey him but he says that he's their creator.
No destroy is the only plausible option in my opinion. The first two options just seem like something the Reapers would want, you just submit to the Reapers, especially in the synthesis option.
The destroy option is the only one that was made to look "bad" by the VI. It also seems weird that a good character like Anderson is shown in the bad choice and a bad character like the Illusive Man is shown in the good choice. It's like Bioware is trying to trick you into believing that synthesis and control are good but the red option is bad, a reversal of the usual colours would be quite effective in deceiving the players.
Also, how did Shepard survive? Let's put aside that the explosion, the lack of oxygen and the crash to earth should have killed him, the VI said that nearly all the technology would be destroyed but technology is the only thing that keeps Shepard alive. The cybernetic implants should have stopped working. Destroy is the choice where his death would be the most obvious but it's the only one where he survives.
So yeah, I'd definitely always go for the destroy option. With the indoctrination theory, this option would make even more sense.
And sorry for the long text, I just finished the game yesterday and I had to write this down.
But why should I believe the "master" of the Reapers, isn't that exactly what they'd try to do as they're last resort to stop Shepard? The option which is made to be the "bad" choice is the only one where the Reapers survive and the cycle can continue.
The boy says that synthetics will always turn on their creators but the Reapers seem to be obeying him and the Geth and EDI show that it doesn't have to be like that.
So, the Illusive Man thought that he could control them, while he was indoctrinated. He did believe what the Reapers wanted him to believe. Just because the VI says so, doesn't mean that it's any different with Shepard. Why should one human being be able to control machines like the Reapers?
Throughout the game, the Illusive Man was made out to be a crazy man and suddenly he was right? No thank you cyber boy, I don't believe a single word you say.
As for Synthesis, that seems even weirder. At least it's somewhat plausible that a blue beam will help you control the Reaper but make every organic life magically partly synthetic? Even less believable. Furthermore, synthesis was what Saren had wanted to do, who also happens to have been indoctrinated.
Besides, even if there is synthesis between organics and synthetics, there will still be creators and created and according to the VI, the problem is that the created always attack their creators. We would still make machines for labour, that wouldn't change anything.
Something which I don't understand is that the Reapers exist to stop the chaos and prevent organics from dying out but the "solutions" the boy presented, wouldn't change that at all. The Reapers just go away but it wouldn't prevent the problem that the boy was talking about, why would he be fine with that?
Or, if the VI really can control the Reapers, why doesn't he just stop them? Why give Shepard the control? He says that the created would always attack their creators but the Reapers seem obey him but he says that he's their creator.
No destroy is the only plausible option in my opinion. The first two options just seem like something the Reapers would want, you just submit to the Reapers, especially in the synthesis option.
The destroy option is the only one that was made to look "bad" by the VI. It also seems weird that a good character like Anderson is shown in the bad choice and a bad character like the Illusive Man is shown in the good choice. It's like Bioware is trying to trick you into believing that synthesis and control are good but the red option is bad, a reversal of the usual colours would be quite effective in deceiving the players.
Also, how did Shepard survive? Let's put aside that the explosion, the lack of oxygen and the crash to earth should have killed him, the VI said that nearly all the technology would be destroyed but technology is the only thing that keeps Shepard alive. The cybernetic implants should have stopped working. Destroy is the choice where his death would be the most obvious but it's the only one where he survives.
So yeah, I'd definitely always go for the destroy option. With the indoctrination theory, this option would make even more sense.
And sorry for the long text, I just finished the game yesterday and I had to write this down.
Plus, Synthesis is sooooo silly. A magic wave of energy turns people across the galaxy into machine-human hybrids? I know people will point out that there's a lot of suspension of disbelief already in Mass Effect, but Synthesis breaks that element within the fiction of the series.boag said:
For 3 years I tried to destroy the fuckin' Reapers. I'd go for red explosion ending and imagine that it was all just indoctrination. I have good imagination anyway so it shouldn't be hard.
Because there's no other option, right? I was promised that my choices throughout the game in particular--and the series in general--would effect the ending I got, and the only choice that mattered was "what's your favorite color?" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA]Credossuck said:
Besides, my Shepard wouldn't pick any of the three options. The Red ending means condemning a squadmate and an entire race, the Blue ending leaves no guarantee that the Reapers wouldn't eventually break free of her control and come back (which is exactly what she said to the Illusive Man not five minutes earlier), and the Green ending means forcing a completely unknown and unexplained transformation on every living thing in the galaxy without their consent (which is what the Reapers have been doing the whole time). And she was told that all three choices would destroy the relays, which would effectively end galactic civilization.
And on top of all of that, she's essentially being given this choice by the Reapers themselves. Neither she nor any of her allies came this far and fought this hard just to take whatever their would-be murderers were willing to offer them.
If there had been an option to tell the Star Child to sit and spin, that's what she'd have done.
Captcha: "game is up." (That seems appropriate somehow.)
For me, it's that you know that in ANY of the 3 'solutions' that you pick, everyone is screwed. In all 3 of the endings, the Mass Effect relays are destroyed, while almost every important political, military, or scientific person in the entire galaxy is in the Sol System.Daystar Clarion said:
In the Mass Effect universe, ships run on fuel, so there is no way for anyone to reach another system.
This would be like having the important people (and their armies) from all across Earth trapped in England with no means of getting out. Ever.
Not to mention Earth has been bombarded for months by the Reapers, it would be hard for Earth's citizens to carve out an existance without support from the other colonies.
Except for the small crew of the Normandy, which are trapped on some (seemingly) remote, uninhabited world.
The ending just doesn't seem like Mass Effect. There is no victory, and, worst of all, Shepard just accepts that these are the ONLY choices he can make. It goes completely against the one character trait that Shepard has always had in this series. His refusal to compromise his goals. In every game, Shepard makes choices that he believes are necessary, and if he isn't offered a choice that he believes in, he finds a new option.
Agreed.Fidelias said:
Shepard can be many things to many people.
Submissive, isn't one of these things.
Blow up the Reapers. I could care what color that light was, I was told to stop the reapers since the first game. I am Paragon but there are times where I say, "FUCK THAT". I blew those reapers up.