Also, my major grievance with the ending isn't mentioned here. As I've been telling anyone who'll listen, Commander Shepard is essentially the personification of defiance. He scoffs at the mere notion of laying down and dying when confronted by Sovereign on Virmire and then proceeds to blow Sovereign from the sky.
He dies and is resurected and, instead of spending the remainder of his years getting over PTSD from the event, he picks up his gun and destroys the Reapers' minions the Collectors. He's threatened time and again by mercs, The Shadow Broker, and the Reapers' forces and he simply refuses to give up and refuses to see any other option than fighting with every fiber of his being.
On the asteroid plummeting for the Alpha Relay he tells Harbinger what he intends to do: "Maybe we can't win this. But we will fight you regardless."
Throughout ME3 Shepard is told peace between the Turians and Krogan is impossible and he proves the naysayers wrong. He singlehandedly ends a 300 year old war and forms an alliance with a race of synthetic beings in spite of every claim that it was impossible.
When shown defeat at the hands of Kai Leng on Thessia, Shepard rallies and devastates Cerberus in their base of operations. He refuses to allow a rogue human group compromise his plans.
Finally, when he almost reaches the conduit that leads to the Citadel, he is nearly killed by a Reaper but he defiantly forces himself on.
Everything Shepard has done in 3 games has been in direct defiance of the Reapers. He doesn't pale at the sight of their fleets, he doesn't tire in his effort to stop their inexorable march across the galaxy, he fights and fights until he is at the brink of defeating them.
And then he accepts the Guardian's false dilemma as his only options, ignoring all other possibilities right when it matters.
That is what bothers me about this ending. Not the fact that there is very little difference between endings, not the fact that there are plot holes, not the fact that it's dark and Shepard dies/is separated from his crew, and not the fact that all Dextro DNA species in orbit around Earth would die of starvation.
My Shepard fights until he dies, and Bioware's gave up right when it mattered most.
Modifié par GuardianAngel470, 13 mars 2012 - 05:18 .