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Lord Irvine

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Tandem Toad wrote...

BIOWARE, I LOVED THE ENDING!! Future games set in the Mass Effect universe will make more sense with the ending Bioware gave it. Having Shepard as a martyr give future games more meaning. I hate that people are hatin' on the ending.


Because it's no longer Mass Effect? It's like a whole new universe.

And where was that scene after the credits supposed to take place? Cause it sure wasn't Earth, and I don't think the Normandy had enough people to go on for very long.

#10352
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I beg to differ.  We DO want a happy ending. an option of one.  a Babilon 5 ending.  ME1 and ME2 type ending.

I'm just as tired of "no, we just want clarity" brigade as I am of "sunshine and rainbows and puppies" brigade.  neither is entirely correct.

even if the endings are "clarified"  galactic civilization is STILL screwed without relays.  the endings are STILL far too similar.  and as a result - the game is non replayable, and there's absolutely no motivation to buying any more DLC's for it.  for quite a few of us

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Agreed. 

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Me too.[/quote]

Count me in.

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That's it. Nothing to add.

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You guys have my axe. Count me in.

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" i'll buy that for a dollarrrrrr " oh...no i wont, i was watching robocop, i agree nothing to add.

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^^this..... agreed!!!!

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Hope it's not too late to join the party.[/quote]


I'm so in! [/quote]

Agreed But I'd still lenjoy a DLC ending that changes the end choices and actually gives some variety of choice (which is the basic principle of the series).

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I agree. I also wanted to see if the text going into single file.

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Getting there!

I'd also like to add that I don't need the ending to be "clarified". I understand all right. The plotholes and logical fallacies won't go away by being clarified or expanded on. 

More than anything, I want the ending to make sense. And to allow for real player choice. And to reflect the themes the Mass Effect Universe is built upon.
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I want this quote to get ENORMOUS so Bioware might take notice.

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I see you closed the "Describe Mass effect in three word" thread. Obviously there is a limit to your listening, and definately your humour.

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Motherlander wrote...

I see you closed the "Describe Mass effect in three word" thread. Obviously there is a limit to your listening, and definately your humour.


Did they close it?...... I LIKED THAT THREAD. :crying:

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[quote]Mbednar wrote...

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[quote]jeweledleah wrote...

I beg to differ.  We DO want a happy ending. an option of one.  a Babilon 5 ending.  ME1 and ME2 type ending.

I'm just as tired of "no, we just want clarity" brigade as I am of "sunshine and rainbows and puppies" brigade.  neither is entirely correct.

even if the endings are "clarified"  galactic civilization is STILL screwed without relays.  the endings are STILL far too similar.  and as a result - the game is non replayable, and there's absolutely no motivation to buying any more DLC's for it.  for quite a few of us

[/quote]

Agreed. 

[/quote]

Me too.[/quote]

Count me in.

[/quote]

That's it. Nothing to add.

[/quote]

You guys have my axe. Count me in.

[/quote]

" i'll buy that for a dollarrrrrr " oh...no i wont, i was watching robocop, i agree nothing to add.

[/quote]

^^this..... agreed!!!!

[/quote]

Hope it's not too late to join the party.[/quote]


I'm so in! [/quote]

Agreed But I'd still lenjoy a DLC ending that changes the end choices and actually gives some variety of choice (which is the basic principle of the series).

[/quote]

I agree. I also wanted to see if the text going into single file.

[/quote]

Getting there!

I'd also like to add that I don't need the ending to be "clarified". I understand all right. The plotholes and logical fallacies won't go away by being clarified or expanded on. 

More than anything, I want the ending to make sense. And to allow for real player choice. And to reflect the themes the Mass Effect Universe is built upon.
[/quote]

I want this quote to get ENORMOUS so Bioware might take notice.

[/quote]

I'm in.

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Tandem Toad wrote...

BIOWARE, I LOVED THE ENDING!! Future games set in the Mass Effect universe will make more sense with the ending Bioware gave it. Having Shepard as a martyr give future games more meaning. I hate that people are hatin' on the ending.

I would stop drinking

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[quote]sparrowjuice wrote...

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[quote]tschamp wrote...

[quote]InLoveWithTaliZorah wrote...

[quote]Simodon wrote...

[quote]luci90 wrote...

[quote]ifritanshiva wrote...

[quote]clarkusdarkus wrote...

[quote]Abreu Road wrote...

[quote]Thorfin_zly wrote...

[quote]Kenta Shuuichi wrote...

[quote]Tony0618 wrote...

[quote]weltraumhamster89 wrote...

[quote]jeweledleah wrote...

I beg to differ.  We DO want a happy ending. an option of one.  a Babilon 5 ending.  ME1 and ME2 type ending.

I'm just as tired of "no, we just want clarity" brigade as I am of "sunshine and rainbows and puppies" brigade.  neither is entirely correct.

even if the endings are "clarified"  galactic civilization is STILL screwed without relays.  the endings are STILL far too similar.  and as a result - the game is non replayable, and there's absolutely no motivation to buying any more DLC's for it.  for quite a few of us

[/quote]

Agreed. 

[/quote]

Me too.[/quote]

Count me in.

[/quote]

That's it. Nothing to add.

[/quote]

You guys have my axe. Count me in.

[/quote]

" i'll buy that for a dollarrrrrr " oh...no i wont, i was watching robocop, i agree nothing to add.

[/quote]

^^this..... agreed!!!!

[/quote]

Hope it's not too late to join the party.[/quote]


I'm so in! [/quote]

Agreed But I'd still lenjoy a DLC ending that changes the end choices and actually gives some variety of choice (which is the basic principle of the series).

[/quote]

I agree. I also wanted to see if the text going into single file.

[/quote]

Getting there!

I'd also like to add that I don't need the ending to be "clarified". I understand all right. The plotholes and logical fallacies won't go away by being clarified or expanded on. 

More than anything, I want the ending to make sense. And to allow for real player choice. And to reflect the themes the Mass Effect Universe is built upon.
[/quote]

I want this quote to get ENORMOUS so Bioware might take notice.

[/quote]

I'm in.

[/quote]
+1

#10358
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Tandem Toad wrote...

BIOWARE, I LOVED THE ENDING!! Future games set in the Mass Effect universe will make more sense with the ending Bioware gave it. Having Shepard as a martyr give future games more meaning. I hate that people are hatin' on the ending.


what future games?  the ones set mostly with races we've yet to meet and only one race at a time, sicne they won't be able to meet each other?  casue this cycle is basicaly shot, you know with relays destroyed and all.

honestly, I figured out what bugs me about the ending the most.  I hate that Shepard dies and I hate it that the only choice that feels in any way reasonable is the red choice (and that choice, if taken litteraly, means destruction of Geth and EDI)  but.. I could deal with it.. kinda. (still hate it, and still kinda ruins replayability for me, but at least I'd feel that my Shepard didn't die in vain)

its the fact that the galaxy as we know it is destroyed no matter what that pises me off.  becasue all those alliances I forged?  all for nothing.  fleet (if not dead) is stuck in Sol system.  smaller industrial colonies are dead, because they cannot grow their own food - they depended on relays to get it.  Krogan that are left in their DMZ, are going to die off painfuly, seeing as there are no garden planets and the shroud that was protecting them for radiation... is destroyed.  quarians and Turians that are still in Sol system would have to figure out how to produce enough food for all of them and fast.  Normandy.. who knows where it crushed.. has a pretty small crew.  that will either die off slowly or forces themselves into procreation and future insest. 

whatever we may get after this?  won't be recognizable Mass Effect anymore.  they would only be able to set the games in a past and honestly?  knowing what's coming.  I wouldn't want to play those games.

also - dear god.   that quote pyramide is terrifying.. and totaly unintentional on my part.  although.. totaly standing together with you all :D

Modifié par jeweledleah, 25 mars 2012 - 12:37 .


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HOLY QUOTE PYRAMID!!!

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"Yes we are listening..."

Is that why you aren't adding any new endings at all? If so, maybe you should work on that listening thing

#10361
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The endings doesn't make sense at all, feels like somebody else wrote them instead of the people that wrote the rest of the game.

It's funny but when i heard the game had a disapointing ending, I thought that maybe the game ended with a battle, firing the conveniently found superweapon, corny lines and a party with ewoks and people were just hating because there wasn't answers about the Reapers... but the problem is that they really gave you answers but those answers sucked and you didn't actually became saviour but you just ruined everything for everyone (I prefer the party with ewoks and to keep the Reapers misterious every day over this).

Other thing, when the prothean VI spoke of the pattern of extinction and the long term building of the Crucible along multiple cycles I thought you were going to make a nod to the hypothesis that evolution of life in the universe is basically a genetic algorithm to solve some inmeasurable godlike question... in that way, every cycle will be a candidate solution that gets eliminated by the Reapers or achieve the objective that is creating the Crucible (yeah, i know, far fetched but I think is more interesting that what came out).

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Reminds me of the scene from the matrix where neo meetsThe Architect. Just With terrible execution.


With Subtitles

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Beyond.the.Grave wrote...

Reminds me of the scene from the matrix where neo meetsThe Architect. Just With terrible execution.


With Subtitles


The only difference is that Neo had the option to refuse the Architect's garbage.

We don't have that option.  XD

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Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.

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Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.


His logic made sense in a way.

I'm just angry that Shepard couldn't refuse his logic and forge his own path... like Shepard had been doing for 3 games in a row.

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Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.


Really? Does that makes sense?

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Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.


More people are mad that Choice was completly take out of our hands..... and that shepard all the sudden lost the will to ask questions, or argue, or..... yea.....:crying:

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 Elric! C'mon dude. Whos nit picking? They are so obvious, why is Javic on the planet with joker when he was with me. In the last mission- and we "all died". Where'd Anderson come from? How did earth survive the relay explosion? These are a few and they are MAJOR holes kid. It is a personal experience and all the decisions you are talking about are null and void. Mooted by the ending. We gave them years of loyalty and support and at the end they gave us the finger. 

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Namz89 wrote...

Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.


Really? Does that makes sense?



Circular Logic, FTW...... :sick:

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Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.

Are you talking about the plan to use synthetics to kill organics before the organics make synthetics that kill them? Tell me how that works.

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ClixWizard wrote...

Flyers215 wrote...

Lord Irvine wrote...

Anyone else listen to the Catalyst and figure out his logic makes no sense?


I thought it made sense.  He had a plan and it worked for quite some time.  Shepard being too awesome made his plan no longer function, so she had to lead the charge into the new plan.  She then chooses how to get rid of the current plan.

Are you talking about the plan to use synthetics to kill organics before the organics make synthetics that kill them? Tell me how that works.


He meant he didn't want ANOTHER Reaper like race out there wiping out all (even primative) organic life in the Galaxy.

Again, I don't agree with his logic, but it can make sense in a way.  (Even if it would be easier to just wipe out all synthetics then, instead of the advanced organics)

I just want to refuse his logic on the grounds that the Geth are cool with us XD

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First of all I would just like to clarify that I in no way perceive the end choices as bad. Sacrifice always has to be made, we don’t live in a society where everything always works out well, and the drama in a video game accompanied by a sad score of music makes quite a good impact. I do not want to change the end choices, I am however incredibly displeased with how they were carried out.

If you are going to make a story end in such a manner it has to emotionally entrance the audience. The designer could have done better in this. The unexpected explosion, The melting of the armour, almost dying to a mere single enemy unit, being the sole survivor with Anderson, both barely clinging to life, this is all good storytelling and very compelling.

The conversation with the Illusive man is also quite compelling, However his lines and actions at the end were very poor considering how much of a role his character played. He mimicked Saren in shooting himself in the head, when Saren did this it was still fresh, when the illusive man did it, the first thought I had was, "damn really? that’s all they could think of?" At least let the man hold some integrity, he kept on believing in Shepard, if you view the vid logs, the illusive man never really wants to kill Shepard off, even as enemies, he knows Shepard is a true friend of mankind. And you always see him struggling in his conviction, deep down he is a good person. He needed an honourable death, he needed some form of redemption. Maybe as he realizes he has been indoctrinated, The reaper forces catch on to the intrusion of Shepard and Anderson, and the Illusive mans indoctrination weakening and attack, and the illusive man locks down the room putting himself on the other side of a door, Something like that, and against the oncoming onslaught has a smart line, that relates to some other dialogue he has given in the game ( as he lights a cigarette)(Yes I am aware the fact that the illusive man being right about controlling the reapers the entire time does redeem him somewhat)

After this the Anderson Shepard part is great, very moving. And the idea of the catalyst is great. But your dialogue is flawed in parts. The core part of the catalysts reasoning behind the cycle was that Synthetics will always rebel and ultimately destroy organic life, so its solution (the reapers) was an attempt to preserve it. If you are Paragon You have proven that the Geth can work together and coexist with the Quarians, Why can’t you say that to the catalyst. Why can’t I give EDI as an example of how Artificial life doesn’t have to combine with organic in order to co exist. That individuality is what gives life, not the composition of our body. Why cant I get upset and give a monologue about legion, with a few flashback images and mention his sacrifice.

Then the Catalyst would say something like “even if one race of synthetics coexists with a race of organics, organics will always destroy each other, it is inevitable". Then shepard would give a monologue of the Krogans and how He cured them, how they put aside their differences to fight for survival and work together with the people that afflicted them, how he saved the Rachni, how they after soo much destruction only wanted peace, with soo much reason for vengeance.

Catalyst: “If this battle concludes with the end of my solution, and the survival of your races, when the conflict ends, who is to say whether or not the peace will last? What is to stop a civilisation from one day amassing enough technology to build its own reapers and wage war?”.”.
Shepard: We will remember this day, we will remember what could happen, what we never want to happen again.

Ultimately this would lead into the final choices again that you have to make. The catalyst even if convinced cannot activate the device only you can.
  • Sacrifice yourself to merge with the reapers and to control them, leaving the universe up to itself whether or not the cycle continues. (giving it a good chance) In this ending, Shepard deconstructing as he holds onto the device should be drawn out, with him struggling to hold on. He should get flashbacks of quotes from all his companions, from wrex, from legion, and ultimately from his love interest, then he should have a moment of pause where he thinks about them, and draws strength from them and pushes forward finishing the process). All the Reapers turn blue cored, the twisted reaper forces ignite in blue flames releasing lights that look like souls traveling up into the sky all at once, The people of the city watch in awe, as some angelic music plays. The reapers lift up and take off. Garrus says: "he did it". I cant believe he... and then the n7 team looks up from their respective points on the ground and see the crucible explode. Tali covers her mouth and falls to the ground. Liara looks away. James salutes. Alenko says: thank you shepard. Joker watches the Debree in space and EDI puts her hand on his shoulder. News reports of Asari, Taurian, Salarian and the rest of the races beginning rebuilding efforts.

  • Destroy the Reapers, geth and Edi, but live (selfishness), ultimately Removing the chance of quarians living on their home world without suits, and continuing the cycle of destruction. Ending feels renegade, A wave of red energy literally shuts down the reapers, it has a few soldiers stepping on the corpses of reaper forces, cheering. News reports of Asari, Taurian, Salarian and the rest of the races beginning rebuilding efforts. Reports of the Geth fleets deactivating alongside the reapers. Quarians picking up dead geth on their homewold, disassembling them. Love interest barking orders for whatever reason in a badass way, Shepard gave his life for you bottomfeeders, we are going to make it count, get your asses moving. Joker finds EDI's corpse, drops to the ground and holds her. Garrus and Alenko Drinking to shepard, saying how he was a great guy and that they thought he was immortal. Ending is the part where It shows the remenants of the crucible and Shepard Inhales.
  • Or do what I figure is the ultimate evil and merge life forms By force. Making a monoculture, where everything is ordered and gray. The Citidel is still there, and Shepard becomes part of it, with the god child. You see members of shepards crew robotified. But civilisation restores itself at an alarming rate.

Modifié par Sladarius, 25 mars 2012 - 01:20 .


#10373
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I am glad to hear you are listening to fan feedback.  I personally started playing with Mass Effect 2.  I liked it so much I went back and purchased Mass Effect 1, then pre-ordered Mass Effect 3.  I think by now you know almost everyone loved ME1 and ME2, however the feeling was not the same with ME 3.  I understand the need to be creative and explore new concepts, and while the effort was good, it did not work with the ending of Mass Effect 3.  Instead of feeling great and even elated like I did after completing  ME 1 and 2, I was left feeling defeated.  I know this was not your intent but this is what my experance was like and I did not enjoy the game because of the ending.  It actually had me wondering what was it all for...
 
Until that point I did enjoy the game. I liked the way you found your old team mates, sometimes unexpectedly. I accepted that some of them died.  It really got me when Mordin scarfaced his life in my scenaro.  And it was the same with Legion. 

One of my favorite "short" scenes was when Garrus and Shepard go to the top of the Citidal and have fun "shooting."   It lended credibality to a tough time coming shortly.  I loved the extended fight scene with the Thresher Maw. I loved the whay Shepard came to Miranda's rescue.   And I thought is was fitting to have Buzz Aldren as the Stargazer at the epilogue telling the Shepard legend.  I just wish the legend had been different.

Louis L'Amour once was asked why he was so succesful in writting so many books. He simply stated you can write what you want , or you can write what people will buy. 

You have the same opportunity as the Coke-A-Cola company did several years back when they introduced the "New Coke."  They took a product that failed and successfully rebranded their existing tried and true product "Coke." The came back with an even stonger product, which in turn lead to stronger sales.  It is my hope you can do the same.  I will be waiting...

And yes, I was hoping for a very tried and true ending, the hero saves the day, he walks away with his girl or man ( Miranda in my scenaro ), and let the universe go on without them. They have done their part.


All the Best

Kyle Shepard

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Sladarius wrote...

First of all I would just like to clarify that I in no way perceive the end choices as bad. Sacrifice always has to be made, we don’t live in a society where everything always works out well, and the drama in a video game accompanied by a sad score of music makes quite a good impact. I do not want to change the end choices, I am however incredibly displeased with how they were carried out.

If you are going to make a story end in such a manner it has to emotionally entrance the audience. The designer coulve done better in this. The unexpected explosion, The melting of the armour, almost dying to a mere single enemy unit, being the sole survivor with Anderson, both barely clinging to life, this is all good storytelling and very compelling.

The conversation with the Illusive man is also quite compelling, However his lines and actions at the end were very poor considering how much of a role his character played. He mimicked Saren in shooting himself in the head, when Saren did this it was still fresh, when the illusive man did it, the first thought I had was, "damn really? that’s all they could think of?" At least let the man hold some integrity, he kept on believing in Shepard, if you view the vid logs, the illusive man never really wants to kill Shepard off, even as enemies, he knows Shepard is a true friend of mankind. And you always see him struggling in his conviction, deep down he is a good person. He needed an honourable death, he needed some form of redemption. Maybe as he realizes he has been indoctrinated, The reaper forces catch on to the intrusion of Shepard and Anderson, and the Illusive mans indoctrination weakening and attack, and the illusive man locks down the room putting himself on the other side of a door, Something like that, and against the oncoming onslaught has a smart line, that relates to some other dialogue he has given in the game ( as he lights a cigarette)

After this the Anderson Shepard part is great, very moving. And the idea of the catalyst is great. But your dialogue is flawed in parts. The core part of the catalysts reasoning behind the cycle was that Synthetics will always rebel and ultimately destroy organic life, so its solution (the reapers) was an attempt to preserve it. If you are Paragon You have proven that the Geth can work together and coexist with the Quarians, Why can’t you say that to the catalyst. Why can’t I give EDI as an example of how Artificial life doesn’t have to combine with organic in order to co exist. That individuality is what gives life, not the composition of our body. Why cant I get upset and give a monologue about legion, with a few flashback images and mention his sacrifice.

Then the Catalyst would say something like “even if one race of synthetics coexists with a race of organics, organics will always destroy each other, it is inevitable. Then shepard would give a monologue of the Krogans and how He cured them, how they put aside their differences to fight for survival and work together with the people that afflicted them, how he saved the Rachni, how they after soo much destruction only wanted peace, with soo much reason for vengeance.

Catalyst: “If this battle concludes with the end of my solution, and the survival of your races, when the conflict ends, who is to say whether or not the peace will last? What is to stop a civilisation from one day amassing enough technology to build its own reapers and wage war?”.”.
Shepard: We will remember this day, we will remember what could happen, what we never want to happen again.

Ultimately this would lead into the final choices again that you have to make. The catalyst even if convinced cannot activate the device only you can.

  • Sacrifice yourself to merge with the reapers and to control them, leaving the universe up to itself whether or not the cycle continues. (giving it a good chance) In this ending, Shepard deconstructing as he holds onto the device should be drawn out, with him struggling to hold on. He should get flashbacks of quotes from all his companions, from wrex, from legion, and ultimately from his love interest, then he should have a moment of pause where he thinks about them, and draws strength from them and pushes forward finishing the process). All the Reapers turn blue cored, the twisted reaper forces ignite in blue flames releasing lights that look like souls traveling up into the sky all at once, The people of the city watch in awe, as some angelic music plays. The reapers lift up and take off. Garrus says: "he did it". I cant believe he... and then the n7 team looks up from their respective points on the ground and see the crucible explode. Tali covers her mouth and falls to the ground. Liara looks away. James salutes. Alenko says: thank you shepard. Joker watches the Debree in space and EDI puts her hand on his shoulder. News reports of Asari, Taurian, Salarian and the rest of the races beginning rebuilding efforts.

  • Destroy the Reapers, geth and Edi, but live (selfishness), ultimately Removing the chance of quarians living on their home world without suits, and continuing the cycle of destruction. Ending feels renegade, A wave of red energy literally shuts down the reapers, it has a few soldiers stepping on the corpses of reaper forces, cheering. News reports of Asari, Taurian, Salarian and the rest of the races beginning rebuilding efforts. Reports of the Geth fleets deactivating alongside the reapers. Quarians picking up dead geth on their homewold, disassembling them. Love interest barking orders for whatever reason in a badass way, Shepard gave his life for you bottomfeeders, we are going to make it count, get your asses moving. Joker finds EDI's corpse, drops to the ground and holds her. Garrus and Alenko Drinking to shepard, saying how he was a great guy and that they thought he was immortal. Ending is the part where It shows the remenants of the crucible and Shepard Inhales.
  • Or do the ultimate evil and merge life forms By force. Making a monoculture, where everything is ordered and gray. The Citidel is still there, and Shepard becomes part of it, with the god child. You see members of shepards crew robotified. But civilisation restores itself at an alarming rate.


Right.

Except for the fact that the relays blow up.

Meaning if they went supernova, everyone in a system with a relay in it is dead (this includes Earth).

If they didn't go supernova, then none of the fleets on Earth can get home.  And theres a TON of them.  Tragedy of the Commons anyone?

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pnathan281

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this game has been the most amazing and emotional experience i have had as a gamer.the story , writing and gameplay are top notch and you can see how all your previous choices are leading up to. That being said , the last 10mins of the game are just AWFUL!! i won't give anything away but to end the trilogy in that fashion is just mind numbing. it didn't even hit me right away, when the credits roll i just felt shortchanged then i went back and played the last bit over and almost threw my controller through the tv.....it was that bad. I would also advise people to definitely buy and play the game. as an overall experience it is just too good to pass up.

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here's my issue with the ending is that it just didn't add up. the issue is that we're not asking for a happy everyone lives happily ever after ending but just something that doesn't spit in the face of everything you have accomplished over the las 150 hours. no matter how much you prepare in this game it didn't matter you just get the same cutscenes and the same 3 bogus choices. Also to add an omnipotent god-space-child character is such a cop out and just shows lack of imagination