Kaiser Shepard wrote...
And don't expect the Legion choice to matter that much.
Or many others for that matter, rachni and the collector base for instance.
TLDR inc, just felt like typing.
Hard to believe when I first got into the series years ago I was mostly paragon, with only killing the rachni and focusing on sovereign being the only 2 big choices that weren't paragon. ME2 comes around, oh hey, so Cerberus wants to work with me to stop the Collectors.
I never really thought much of Cerberus one way or the other in ME1, and how could I? The side missions sorta just came and went. I still had my suspicions of them, but started to appreciate their place. I thought of them as an ally I had to put aside my differences with in order to achieve a goal that helps us against "the big bad." No big deal, my ego isn't that big and I don't believe Shepard is infallible, well apparently paragon Shepard is prohibited to make a mistake ever, which compounded on the character's somewhat brick personality only makes them more dull.
A few missions and apparently I'm led into traps on purpose. I should be angry right? Ah ok, so you didn't want to risk tipping the collectors off, I can understand that, it's only logical that you don't want your enemy to know your damn plans, I mean I've seen this scenario countless times before in life and such. We have no idea what kind of surveillance equipment the bugs have, I mean the Shadow Broker is able to stream data on the Normandy's cams to his ship for pete's sake, who knows what the bugs can do.
Getting to the end of ME2, another big decision, and that silly loading tip about decisions could have dire ramifications in ME3 is in the back of my mind as I ponder the CB base for several minutes (naive ol me at the time actually believing both paragon and renegade will have bad consquences to some of their actions), much longer than deciding to kill Sovereign. I went through the scenarios, possible indoctrination I thought? Well ok, if Reaper tech is inherently bad and evil, then what about the Thannix, EDI, Mass Relays, all of Sovereigns body parts on the Citadel, the Citadel itself? Surely the Citadel is capable of indoctrination on a large scale, I mean it's only Reaper tech.
Realizing the scenario was ridiculous, I went on to my next concern, giving the possibility of so much immense power to one person, or a small amount of people. First thought, absolute power corrupts absolutely, this was the hardest for me to get through. However the same thing kept going around in my head, we're fighting ancient beings who have the capacity to withstand firepower of a few fleets for an extended period of time, numbers unknown, thousands or millions. Superior numbers, firepower, ****ing MIND CONTROL, who are driven by apparently cold logic to wipe out organic life, and I'm worried about the possibility of TIM using it for human dominance if we survive? ****, when I think of dominance I think of USA style dominance, that isn't so bad, others however seem to think it amounts to genocide and slavery or etc.
In the end, it was a good thing Legion was in my party, "this base has no inherent ethical value, it's data, destroying it won't bring those dead back, but could save others." So I kept it, got everyone out alive, hooray. Then he pulls a total 180 on me. Thus the seeds of doubt were planted, and started to realize why am I wasting my time putting so much thought into my decisions, because thanks to the spoilers and a few things from ME2, choices don't matter, well they do, if you want a different line of dialogue or email, if that's what constitutes choices mattering to you.
Man that felt good. Back to having mindless fun in Skyrim.
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