askanec wrote...
There are good endings. All 3 are good endings, just not the kind of classic Hollywood good endings you are used to.
Shepard can live, depending on your choice. His story is remembered and passed down the generations. His crew and the Normandy survived the battle. The Reaper threat is no more. Even better, the Catalyst who controlled the Reapers had agreed to a new solution (which means no more future cycle of destruction).
Best of all, the mass relays are gone, which means the galaxy is free to advance in their own way. Some players mourned the loss of the mass relays, but that is short-sighted. As Legion mentioned in ME2, using such technology only serves to put the users on the path of advancement the Reapers wanted them to.
By selecting the synthesis ending, alien races don't even need the mass relays anymore. They can go on years, even centuries of space voyage. Synthetics don't need food for the long journey and they don't die from aging.
I've got six pages on why that doesn't hold up. The link's in my signature, if you're curious. I'd love to see a counterpoint to it. But, quickly:
There isn't a choice for Shepard to live. As in, there is no amount of prepardedness or not that allows Shepard to walk out of the Catalyst alive. The choice is, you either kill off the Geth and EDI, or you die. And then, it's simply a matter of what you chose to die for.
The idea that Shepard is immortalized because she hasn't died the second death yet (Second death: the death of the memories of a person that continue on after they, the person, dies) is... well it's a consolation statement. You know how else Shepard could have lived on past the events in the Catalyst? By not dying a first time. Or, well, a second time, if you count that Lazarus thing. Seriously, at this point, Shepard's actions have immortalized her, no matter what.
The penultimate statement, about how without the mass relays, society can advance on its own merits, is, well, it's the best defense the current endings are ever going to get, I think. Thing is, the point about withholding technology isn't so people don't have the tech, it's so people aren't aware of the idea behind the tech. Society may not have mass relays, any more, but they've got most of the galaxy's smartest people and most of the galaxy's tech all in one place, and you can be damn sure they're going to try and find a way to reconnect with the rest of the galaxy. Mass relays may not be the only method they try. It may not be the method they settle on, since you still need to get one to wherever you're going, but they're demonstably effective and demonstrably efficient. They're going to get made again, in the future.
And that last bit, about synthetics not need food, and being able to wait forever: Possibly true. Now if only BioWare had actually said something to that effect. All we know for sure is that Joker's eyes changed color.
Modifié par FunstuffofDoom, 11 mars 2012 - 01:54 .
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