Poll: ME2 Final Choice

[mitchell271]

When I finished ME2, I was ecstatic. i finished a fantastic game and I was satisfied with myself. I made the final decision: Give Cerberus the collector ship or destroy it? I gave the Illusive Man the ship after thinking about it for a while. Then I realized that my Renegade meter had suddenly jumped up above my Paragon meter when I had a "Good" rating the entire game up until that point!

The Illusive Man had told me he would study and use that ship to help us and he had only lied to me before so that I would not mess up my mission up until that point. I was told it would be used for the good of the galaxy and I believed him. Now, knowing that Cerberus has turned on me, I wish I hadn't.

So what did you choose?

PS With Cerberus against you, will Miranda and Jacob still be with you? Discuss

 

[AlternatePFG]

It was a stupid choice as far as getting Renegade and Paragon points goes. There is no reason to destroy it, even if it does end up in the hands of Cerberus, considering that a paragon Shepard would have helped them through the entire game at that point anyway.

 

[WorldCritic]

I destroyed the ship. Since The Illusive Man has "antagonist" written all over him I didn't trust him to be given a ship that he could use against me in the future. Also I think Miranda and Jacob will stick with you since they didn't really seem to mind my actions at the end of the game.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

I gave it up the first time, then destroyed it in my real playthrough for the Paragon rating.

Was a stupid choice, as far as what was good and bad, though it helps to find out what the Illusive Man does with technology if you give it to him.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

I played through twice, once with each ending. Actually on my second playthrough, I basically did everything the opposite of what I did the first time.

But on my first playthrough, I was paragon and chose to destroy the ship. Screw you Cerberus!

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Fuck that ship, it's simply not worth the cost it took. Knowing that it would end up with Cerberus didn't help my outlook on it, either, I NEVER trusted them. I took every opportunity I had to be a thorn in the Illusive Man's side. (And Cerberus turns on me in ME3 for UNKNOWN reasons? I gave them a middle finger the size of a Reaper by blowing up the station and telling off TIM afterwards.)

It's gonna feel GOOD to get back to my old relationship with Cerberus.

 

[Tony2077]

you have there loyalty after doing there missions so i doubt they turn on you and going trough hell has a nice way of bring people together so i doubt they'd betray you. jacob didn't really like them anyway and Miranda I'm not sure about her but i think she's on your side after all the stuff that happened

destroyed the base and told tim to go screw himself or i would have liked to but had to do there paragon choice

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Next time, please use spoiler tags.

OT: I decided to destroy it. I hate the Illusive Man. He's such a douche bag.

 

[Crazy_Man_42]

I gave him the ship

We are against an army of mechanical machines that have wiped out countless civilizations, some more advanced and more united then the current ones right now. The universe needs every advantage it can get to stop the cycle that has been repeated millions of times over. Well thats why I choose to save the ship with my shepard. And even if T.I.M is evil or misunderstood, he still wants to live past tomorrow which won't happen if the Reapers take over the universe again.

 

[Gigatoast]

Marten Sheen can go to hell! >

I'm kidding of coarse, but since it was reviled that you'd be fighting Cerberus in ME3 I suddenly gained a mistrust for them. Also I hate Miranda... on an unrelated note.

Besides that thing had a giant terminator torso that shot lasers out of it's mouth in it!

 

[nipsen]

..I reasoned like this: if Shepard thinks he's tough enough to go after the Reapers with the firepower he had before - then he's certainly mean enough to take the facility from Cerberus. Garrus also thought it might be an idea to have the ship to fight the reapers. Makes sense - after all, the few people in the universe who really understands the threat is sitting right there. So no real choice, practically.

Only problem with it would probably be that Cerberus, or whoever else would end up using it, would need a couple of hundred thousand organic meatbags to complete the construction. So a bit more about perhaps any strategic weaknesses in the construction process - or ways to infect or disassemble the reaper ships based on their composition, etc, might be something I would like to hear about from the Illusive man.

...or, basically, since it's a Bioware game, I expected none of that would come up. And then that's what I thought about would happen, and that will save me from suffering through ME3, where none of this will be treated with the interest it deserves, etc.

..sorry, off topic..

 

[Klitch]

I was told it would be used for the good of the galaxy and I believed him.

Well there's your problem. Cerberus/TIM has never done anything for the good of the galaxy and the prick never told you the truth. In fact he nearly got you killed on numerous occasions because he felt like lying to you for no justifiable reason.

I was trying to decide whether to keep or destroy the station until TIM popped up and asked me to keep it. After that I couldn't click the destroy option fast enough.

I guess Bioware forced us to work with Cerberus for all of ME2 so that their betrayal in ME3 would have some emotional weight, but honestly I'm looking forward to ME3 so that I can finally start shooting the human supremacist terrorists again instead of being forced to work for them.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I blew it up because it was dreadfully obvious that the Illusive Man wasn't exactly a character of high moral fiber.

 

[JohnnyCakes]

I destroyed it. The reason was because I believed him a hundred percent when he said he was gonna put human interests first, and if we do survive the reapers as a galactic civilization we are going to have an extremist, manipulative, egomaniac in control of reaper technology who's gonna be putting human interests firsts in a big, bad, way.

 

[trooper6]

I decided to destroy the ship.

Why? For a couple of reasons.
1) I don't trust the Illusive Man...at all. I give him that ship and the next thing I know he's using it against me, or against non-human allies...or even against humans who stand in his way. I could not take the risk that he decides to bring on the Reapers himself.
2) By the time I got to that choice I'd already seen the effect of Reaper Indoctrination more than once--the Cerebus team on the derelict Reaper, that acheological team. Even if the Illusive Man were really planing on being a good guy on this one, he was too arrogant. He'd believe he could control the technology...but I was pretty sure the technology would indoctrinate whoever was there studying the thing...and the ship would take over again. I didn't believe the ship was truly dead. It was too dangerous to leave intact...even in "the right hands."

 

[Indecipherable]

Paragon Shepherd destroyed it.

Renegade Shepherd kept it.

I wish there was an option for keeping it for yourself instead of the Illusive Man, but oh well. This way I can play ME3 with two totally different paths and see what the difference will be (probably very little).

 

[kampori]

I don't understand why poeple would even consider destroying the ship.

It possesses unlimited technological knowledge that could/will help defeat the Reapers. The Reapers are the ONLY threat in the universe that could kill everything. The Illusive Man? He is just a man/machine. He would cause nothing more than a civil war.. that is NOTHING compared to what the Reapers will do. The Ship is, to me, the only proper means (as far as ME1 & ME2 goes) for real success against the Reapers.

The Illusive man is nothing, NOTHING. He is the boss of an expansion AT MOST. He is not the real villain, he is not worth worrying about. I trust him completely.

Destroying the ship is stupid, and all who did should feel ashamed that they are going to let all sentient life die.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

I blew it up simply cause TIM pissed me off after a while.
There's only so many times I'm willing to be lied to.

 

[Randomanom]

Destroy the ship. Cerberus can not be trusted, even between themselves, they've had rouge operations, blatant lies, deliberate sacrifice of their own operatives, etc. not to mention their previous actions in ME1

I have the Rachni, Wrex will deliver the Krogans, Tali the Quarians, Legion the Geth. Bring it

As to miranda and jacob. miranda i can see sticking with the team. Jacob is totally turning on you. He's supposed to be just a foot soldier in charge of security at the first space station. So then why is he watching your meetings with illisive man, and every new member there he is questioning my orders, "oh dont trust the assassin", "kill legion", "pick on the quarian".
You know what jacob. shut up and get off my ship.

 

[trooper6]

Destroying the ship is stupid, and all who did should feel ashamed that they are going to let all sentient life die.

I beg to differ. We have seen numerous times that Reaper technology can indoctrinate people. The ship could bury its way into the minds of the scientists trying to study it like it did with the earlier Cerberus team, or those archeologists. Rather than using the ship to learn about the Reapers, the ship would use the scientists and escape or attack us.

The ship was too dangerous--Illusive Man or no Illusive Man.