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[MouseNo4]

Which ending did YOU choose, and why?

Dont change the subject to whether you think the possible endings were good, bad or whatever.

Focus on what you chose and your reasons for choosing it. 

[Dreogan]

There's only one ending. I picked that one-- but my lights were green.

[SandTrout]

Dreogan wrote...

There's only one ending. I picked that one-- but my lights were green.

^This

[ilevakam117]

SandTrout wrote...

Dreogan wrote...

There's only one ending. I picked that one-- but my lights were green.

^This

Haha, that makes three of us now

[Phydeaux314]

I'M COLORBLIND

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE MULTIPLE ENDINGS

[thavleifrim]

i chose to take control as i couldn't destroy the geth after legion sacrificed himself to make them peaceful and i didn't trust the synergy option combining all organic and mech life into a single new species somehow seemed worse than letting the reapers win so taking control was the only option left. had i known what the actual differences in endings were, id have picked the synergy one, because green is a nicer colour than blue and red.

[MouseNo4]

Can you elaborate what green is?

And you didnt mention why you chose it.

[Karrie788]

I didn't even think about it. Destroy. I'm not playing God and changing the very nature of all living things by making them half synthetic or doom the galaxy to yet another cycle of harvesting 50 000 years later.

It fit my FemShep's character too. She's very set in her ways. For three years her goal has been to defeat the Reapers, so to hell with the damn kid, let's blow this up.

[Adugan]

I would have chosen destroy all synthetics, but I like Geth and would have chosen them over Quarians if I had to. I chose synthesis because controlling the Reapers is stupid. I could have controlled them and drove them into the sun, but that was never hinted at.

[Zulakkar]

I whent green......But in the end, does it really matter ? Not trying to derail this but they all not epic enough none of our choices matter, none what so ever....why ? Because out of nowhere ghost kid is the one dictating the terms.... I have to ask why did it have to end like this ? Hell they could have pulled out an ancient fleet from Pegasus with SG1 coming in to save the day and it would have beaten these endings hands down....

[ilevakam117]

We're all just joking that the endings are all 90% the same cinematic, with a different tint that fires in the relays.

As for why I chose synthesis ending, I chose it because it holds the most hope in my opinion. The end scene where joker and EDI stand by each other makes more sense in this context.

Controlling the reapers sounded like a bad idea when illusive man first suggested it and it still sounds stupid when a random out of the blue energy being that resembles a child says it.

[CrisisOne]

I chose synthesis

[Ainyan42]

I chose synthesis, but let's be honest. My Shep would have defied the Guardian to her last breath rather than take any of those choices. She would never commit genocide on an innocent race (the Geth) nor murder her friend (EDI), she would never follow in TIM's footsteps and take control of the Reapers, and she would never play god and strip the races of the individuality that made them special. She was a Paragon who specialized in talking people around (or shooting from the shadows when she couldn't). But she never got a chance to say two words to the kid.

So in the end, I picked the color that was my favorite, and since there was no purple option, I went with green instead.

[marshalleck]

Hey, I went green too. I thought the one ending looked nice in green.

[Karrie788]

Ainyan42 wrote...

I chose synthesis, but let's be honest. My Shep would have defied the Guardian to her last breath rather than take any of those choices. She would never commit genocide on an innocent race (the Geth) nor murder her friend (EDI), she would never follow in TIM's footsteps and take control of the Reapers, and she would never play god and strip the races of the individuality that made them special. She was a Paragon who specialized in talking people around (or shooting from the shadows when she couldn't). But she never got a chance to say two words to the kid.

So in the end, I picked the color that was my favorite, and since there was no purple option, I went with green instead.

There's actually a poll discussing the possibility of a fourth option: refusing.

http://social.biowar...72/polls/29101/

Had it been an option, I would have picked it in a heartbeat.

[Reign762]

My first ending I turned around and walked back to the elevator platform. I wanted to see if there was a trick the developers pulled where I could say, "I won't chose and we'll fight the reapers and see who wins in the end." Once I found out there wasn't a fourth option to keep fighting without destroying everything I took my pistol to the reapers and destroyed them all.

Then as my rage slightly subsided I had to come to the forums and see if I just got the "wrong" ending. I can't believe anyone at BioWare thought that ending was intelligent. After playing DA2 and now this. Seriously the one thing you HAVE to get right in the Mass Effect series is the epic ending and failing ... its a travesty. If I was on that writing team the one thing I would have been concerned with the most was making sure the ending was right. 10 years of essentially one long video game despite the 1/2/3 number after it and that's what we get. So disappointing. The writers have to be caught in the dark void of their own stupidity to not be humbled by that atrocity they wrote at the end.

In my opinion ... the ending stopped when Anderson died and the crucible didn't work.

[astrophyzcs]

Ainyan42 wrote...

I chose synthesis, but let's be honest. My Shep would have defied the Guardian to her last breath rather than take any of those choices. She would never commit genocide on an innocent race (the Geth) nor murder her friend (EDI), she would never follow in TIM's footsteps and take control of the Reapers, and she would never play god and strip the races of the individuality that made them special. She was a Paragon who specialized in talking people around (or shooting from the shadows when she couldn't). But she never got a chance to say two words to the kid.

So in the end, I picked the color that was my favorite, and since there was no purple option, I went with green instead.

Same. That's exactly how I picture my Shepard handling the situation. Defiance, refusal, and staying true to her roots.

Anyway, I chose Control, but for two reasons. Like Ainyan, I didn't want to strip the races of their individuality. She was never one to force anything on anybody, and it felt like a cop-out--like regardless, you were succumbing to the will of the Reapers and their Creator.

As for Destroy...after all my Shepard did to forge peace between the Geth and the Quarians, how would it have made sense for her to then destroy the Geth? She believed that they were in possession of "souls." That's some pretty deep stuff. To her, they were living entities. She wouldn't have sacrificed them anymore than she would've sacrificed humans, or turians, or any other race. It would've also killed EDI, and Shepard fully believed EDI to be "human." It's unthinkable. 

My reasoning for choosing Control is that 50,000 years is a pretty long damn time. That's long enough to decide whether or not the galaxy deserves a second chance. See how long the unspoken treaties last. It was in my mind the only way to say, "let me show you that they can do this. I'm going to remove the Reapers from this cosmic equation, and prove to you that we're capable of living amongst each other in peace."

in any case these were some terrible decisions to have to make in the first place

(Also, maybe I missed it but did Godchild actually say that they would return for another cycle, or would Shepard being in control prevent that from happening anyway?) 

Modifié par astrophyzcs, 10 mars 2012 - 09:02 .

[CaptainWow110]

Shepard slumps against the console, sitting next to Anderson as they share some final thoughts. The Crucible's about to fire, rescue is on its way for Shepard and Anderson, the battle is over for them. Then all this other stuff. Why is it that every epic story now requires that the main character sacrifice themselves? Why can we no longer just have the hero ride off into the sunset? Way I see it, Shepard had already sacrificed his life. He devoted his existence to the defeat of the Reapers. Once that was over, I had always just assumed he would retire and just.... leave. His purpose would have been fulfilled and he could finally just relax. Settle down with Liara or Ashley or Cortez or Chakwas or Barla Von or a Keeper or Batman or Atticus Finch or whoever. There's no way Bioware could have lived up to our expectations, but damn if I wasn't hoping. I feel ever so empty.

[deathscythe517]

I like red.

[Holoe4]

I can't believe the catalyst was a bloody kid, seriously kinda killed the mood for me....

Anyway I went screw it, let's jump into the pretty glowing light!

[deathscythe517]

Shepard God Consciousness: This is Shepard, I am now in your mind.
Random Person: What? What the bloody hell? Is this some kind of joke?
Shepard God Consciousness: No, I am now inside of you, you are now part of me, we are all united in harmony.
Random Person: Oh lord, that sounds so wrong...and why am I thinking of Barney the Dinosaur?

[NoUserNameHere]

Destroy.

The Role Play:
- Killing the Geth even after they united with the quarians was a neccessary sacrifice, like letting Kaiden die on Virmire.
- Killing the Reapers was what he went there to do. It took on a secondary purpose after a while there, because...
- The primary reason he went with destroy was to kill off that pompous and horribly complacent Catalyst AI that rules from the Citadel like some kind of god. The kid's a cancer choking the galaxy.


Metagame:
- It deprives Joker of his sexbot.
- My Sole Survivor Shep's going to at least have a chance to survive. He turns to goo in all the other endings.
- Shep's unconcious on the streets of London anyway. Tali will slap him awake and drag him through that portal any second now. Red is Shep's favorite color, so it precedent in the dream sequence.