Poll: Mass Effect 2: *SPOILERS* Dealing with the Geth

[the Revenator]

I know I post pretty much only Mass Effect Polls and stuff and this one really isn't different. In Mass Effect 2 you have the choice of rewriting a sect of the Geth or blow them up. Now I feel like I am going to destroy them, because I would rather die than be forced to change. But it comes to mind that maybe then I won't have enough troops to fight the Reapers. So really just vote and comment as you wish. P.S. I checked the forums and no one has done one of these so don't freak out on me okay?
EDIT:Hey guys the poll is broken I checked the add a poll box and then filled the choices out, but yeaa..... sorry about that guys!

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I rewrote them. I agree that rewriting is still killing them but I'll need every single able body against the Reapers.

 

[God's Clown]

I rewrote them for the simple reason the Reapers did it first. So I consider it more of a correction.

 

[MetroidNut]

Poll seems broken, but I personally tried both.

Playthrough 1 - It's not my decision, is it? No, I can't decide the fate of an entire race...well, Legion's processors voted slightly in favor of reprogramming, so it's my responsibility to go with that.

Playthrough 2 - Alright, this time, let's try actually roleplaying. Legion can't reach a real majority, so don't factor him into this. And I hold freedom to be a more important value than life. I have no choice. I must destroy the- "I WILL MURDER THE GETH BECAUSE I HATE THEM AND I AM EVIL"

So, um. Yeah. I think option 2 is the better choice, but it causes Commander Shepard to suddenly become uncharacteristically (for me, at least, seeing as I was playing Paragon) heartless and cruel. In fact, it was the only line in Mass Effect 2 that really bothered me.

 

[SovietSecrets]

I rewrote them. I loved Legion and if theres more like him/her, I am all for it.

 

[Fenring]

Rewrite. I have my ending of ME3 pretty much planned out. Through out the first two games, I have had the only goal of getting as powerful allies as possible (with the only exception

Spoiler: end spoilers

The Reaper tech at the end because that stuff with back fire.

When I go to Earth, it will be with the entire Universe coming with me. It'll be go time. Shit is gonna get real.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Rewrite. I have my ending of ME3 pretty much planned out. Through out the first two games, I have had the only goal of getting as powerful allies as possible (with the only exception

Spoiler: end spoilers

The Reaper tech at the end because that stuff with back fire.

When I go to Earth, it will be with the entire Universe coming with me. It'll be go time. Shit is gonna get real.

I'm with you. Collector Base in the hands of the Council? I'm all for it. Collector Base in the hands of a human supremacist terrorist organization? No way. My Shep is for interracial peace, not human dominance. I'll sacrifice Earth if I have to.

 

[Fenring]

Rewrite. I have my ending of ME3 pretty much planned out. Through out the first two games, I have had the only goal of getting as powerful allies as possible (with the only exception

Spoiler: end spoilers

The Reaper tech at the end because that stuff with back fire.

When I go to Earth, it will be with the entire Universe coming with me. It'll be go time. Shit is gonna get real.

I'm with you. Collector Base in the hands of the Council? I'm all for it. Collector Base in the hands of a human supremacist terrorist organization? No way. My Shep is for interracial peace, not human dominance. I'll sacrifice Earth if I have to.

Oh no, you miss understood me. My Shepard is all about planned revenge. Blew up the base because I was guessing some nebulous evil thing would happen and doom me if I didn't. If I didn't have a feeling the base would turn on me later of something, I would have handed it over. My Shepard's existence is based solely on destroying the Reapers because they fucked with him. He's perpetually pissed.

Man this game is great. Everyone has different reasons for doing what they do and everyone gets an awesome story out of it.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I rewrite them every time because Legion favor's rewrite. They are machines, so they don't think like organics, so I doubt they'll have the moral questions about it that we would. Or who knows? Perhaps I am wrong and this will be a major flash point in ME3.

 

[Hader]

For the sake of story/gameplay in ME3, I think I will rewrite them. Hopefully make the geth a better ally in ME3.

Morally, it is a bit hard to make a good choice here. Going off of what Legion says though, he makes the point about how it differs from 'rewriting' organics because with synthetics, all that occurs is a simple change in coding. On top of that, Legion emphasizes how understanding why these geth chose to break off is most important, so 'brainwashing' these ones back to the way of the rest of the geth is, for the most part, fine, as well as inconsequential, as long as the geth understand why they had differences that lead to the schism in the first place.

 

[Internet Kraken]

It's not really brainwashing. Thing is, the Reapers infected that portion of the Geth with the virus in the first place. They didn't willingly join the Reapers. They were indoctrinated like organic species can be. The re-purposed virus would clear their minds, allowing them to rejudge their actions. Hence why there's a chance for them to remain hostile; they may reexamine their actions under the Reapers, and still judge them to be the best course for the Geth and rejoin the Reapers.

At least that's what I gathered from what Legion said. Anyways, I'd much rather give someone a chance for reform than kill them, so I rewrite the heretics.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

It's not really brainwashing. Thing is, the Reapers infected that portion of the Geth with the virus in the first place. They didn't willingly join the Reapers. They were indoctrinated like organic species can be. The re-purposed virus would clear their minds, allowing them to rejudge their actions. Hence why there's a chance for them to remain hostile; they may reexamine their actions under the Reapers, and still judge them to be the best course for the Geth and rejoin the Reapers.

At least that's what I gathered from what Legion said. Anyways, I'd much rather give someone a chance for reform than kill them, so I rewrite the heretics.

Really? I talked to Legion and got all of his dialogue and, from my understanding, the heretics chose their path and saw Sovereign as a god. Sovereign then gave them the means to rewrite the rest of the Geth.

 

[Windupferrari]

Rewrite. The way I see it, since Sovereign altered their programming to make them follow the Reapers, I'm just undoing that. It's like curing Stockholm syndrome. I also fail to see how genocide is ever the paragon option, when either way the threat posed by the Geth is gone, and having more allies seems as good now as it did when I released the Rachni queen.

 

[Klagermeister]

I rewrote them. When it comes to allies to fight the Reapers, the more the merrier!

 

[the Revenator]

All right almost all of you guys say rewrite, but then the Geth will be extremely powerful and might try to destroy the Quarians.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

All right almost all of you guys say rewrite, but then the Geth will be extremely powerful and might try to destroy the Quarians.

No, they wouldn't. Legion tells you that they would be open to peaceful negotiations but the Quarians have attacked the Geth anytime they have a perceived advantage.

 

[Vault101]

I know I post pretty much only Mass Effect Polls and stuff and this one really isn't different. In Mass Effect 2 you have the choice of rewriting a sect of the Geth or blow them up. Now I feel like I am going to destroy them, because I would rather die than be forced to change. But it comes to mind that maybe then I won't have enough troops to fight the Reapers. So really just vote and comment as you wish. P.S. I checked the forums and no one has done one of these so don't freak out on me okay?
EDIT:Hey guys the poll is broken I checked the add a poll box and then filled the choices out, but yeaa..... sorry about that guys!

As Ive said before the choices in ME2 are great but are undermined by the "paragon" and "renegade" systm which turns it into collecting points and takes out the thourght

I am playing as mainly paragon but also doing renegade, though it makes shepard seem a little bi-polar

 

[AK47Marine]

I chose to destroy them (doing a rewrite on my femshep, just for the sake of story in ME3) but if it was me and in the name of RP it is me, the heretics made their choices freely from what I got from legion, but they are a threat to their own people, to the galaxy (reapers or no) and of course to my own tender hide.

Also me personally, I find brain washing of any sort abhorrent, it's just not ok and somehow death seems more morally sound in that situation.

Hmmm... you know he didn't mention it in his review but I wonder what Yahtzee did for this particular question? This is certainly one of those "real" moral choices he goes on about, and as I recall you get Renagade points either way thus freeing it from the red/blue option morality spectrum of the rest of the game...

 

[Fiend Dragon]

Truly it was a difficult decision. Took me a long time to think about it, all measures of reasoning for both sides, but in the end I decided to:

Rewrite. Every play through. For one, they were altered by the "Reapahs" in the first place, so it's correcting a corruption. In the same vein, destroying an entire group of people, that are essentially just SICK, that you can CURE with ONE BUTTON, is just not acceptable. Especially when you consider that afterwards, there is ZERO chance of even one of those people that will question or dislike the rewrite once it has taken place.

Next, It has become more than obvious that collecting allies to fight the "Reapahs" is going to be extremely important, and the Geth are pretty bad ass. Given raw materials, they can produce a limitless number of foot soldiers, provide IMMENSE intel power and have powerful technology.

Also, Legion being both the largest possible, and only first hand Geth reference, produced a preference towards rewrite, it can be deduced that a majority of Geth prefer rewrite, ensuring that the majority of the affected race are satisfied with the action.

Spoiler: Of course, who knows if this whole Reapah idea turn out to be true.

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[Fenring]

Really? I talked to Legion and got all of his dialogue and, from my understanding, the heretics chose their path and saw Sovereign as a god. Sovereign then gave them the means to rewrite the rest of the Geth.

I thought it was more akin to a chemical imbalance in a human. A Geth, while unlinked to the whole, had some programming which caused a different answer something which, when he re-integrated, lead to the schism. The other Geth just caught that same imbalance.