JeffZero wrote...
Dark_Caduceus wrote...
Moonshadow_Dark wrote...
I liked the ending. Did my job. Life is safe. I did my job. Next hero, please.
Did you accomplish anything though. The goal of the series has always been defeating the Reapers. If you go down the route to destroy the Reapers however the Godchild just tells you the problem will arise once again as soon as organic life develops AI, so... did you do your job? Was the sacrifice worth it? I feel like I should have gone with Liara's idea and just dissapeared off the grid, pick up all your allies and friends and find a secluded planet to hide away and die on happily...
The goal of the series has been saving the galaxy from the Reapers. The specifics of that endeavor were never written in stone. That's how I view it. You're just as free to view it as you do, but I think it's a very subjective issue.
And hell yes I accomplished things. Just because uniting clans, curing diseases, ending centuries-old stalemates and straight down to giving widows closure isn't reflected in the ending cinematic doesn't mean it didn't happen and it doesn't mean the galaxy's survivors, albeit whilst fumbling in the dark for several hundred years or more while running around the galaxy in a much more difficult way, won't be better off for it.
I don't believe the entire game would be written around such great trilogy-capping accomplishments on Shepard's part if the writers intended to convey that the endgame decision renders any of them meaningless in the grand scheme of things. When they start freely discussing what they were aiming for in the coming weeks, that's something I think they are absolutely going to drive home. Not a lot of people are going to be satisfied with such a response and yeah, maybe they will indeed release alternate ending DLCs because at this rate it seems like a profitable motive. But I do believe they're going to start off by saying that, at the very least.
I went with the "Red" ending as it felt the most optimistic for me. Certainly a great deal of sacrifice was involved, trillions lost and entire civilizations reduced to rubble, but I felt that there was still light at the proverbial tunnel. I felt that maybe in 100 years, or maybe in 100,000 years the civilizations of the galaxy will repopulate, advance and create new FTL technology independent of Reaper(or contrived Godchild) technology. And your crewmembers are safe and ready to begin a new life of a beautiful planet, hell Shepard might even still be alive. All in all this ending was dark and gloomy, but it wasn't without hope, which seems to be the overarching theme of the series, as long as there is a tiny chance we can ebat the Reapers, it will be done, no matter the cost.
What people are seeming to forget is the Godchild's line that even with the Reapers and Mass Relays destroyed there won't be lasting peace because synthetics will war and conquer organic beings all over again. So...no, there is no sense of accomplishment, all you've done is delay the inevitable at a terrible cost. And the Godchild says the geth and all other AI in the galaxy will be destroyed when the red beam goes off, so all your work helping EDI discover humanity and brokering peace and cooperation ebtween the geth and the organic races is for nought, they're dead, but thanks for the effort.
Not to mention many of the races will likely die off, the quarians without the massive fleet, FTL or the geth to help them repair Rannoch? The humans with a bombed out, hollwoed out husk of a planet orbited by a massive fleet of aliens who are going to start looking out for their ebst itnerests. All the planets without strong agriculture? Dead, dead, dead. All the leaders isolated from their people, Tuchanka is an irradiated wasteland and the Krogan can't reach new places to populate now that the Genophage is cured? The game even retroactively spits on your work uniting and fixing the galaxy.
Unnecessarily bleak and shoehorned in, ont how I expected or wished for Mass Effect to turn out.
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