And I continue to say they aren't the same, you just assume that's following what the Reapers want and assuming they are "bad" machines because they were programmed to reset the galaxy every 50000 years
There is nothing to assume here. They ARE bad machines. Period.
No they're not, they were just programmed to reset the galaxy every 50000 years, now they're reprogrammed, how is that different from the heretics to the geth?
Differences......... Blue Paragon Ending- Everyone lives and Fleets marooned on a single planet, Red Renegade Ending- All synthetics die and the remainder of the fleet is marooned on a single planet........ Rest of it is assumption- assumption that the starchild was lying to Shepard when it shows the Reapers leaving opposed to killing everyone showing he was telling the truth, or the assumption he was hallucinating or indoctrinated for the simple opinion "Oh, Anderson couldn't ever be the Renegade option, why?"
The starchild tells you you are partly synthetic when saying all synthetic life will die. Shepard survives this. Starchild is provably lying.
To believe he's not lying about anything else because it's not proven is ridiculous. It's as much an assumption as believing he is lying.
Paragon is about staying true to your morals or some semblance of pre-ascribed morals(depending on your point of view[like the brain dead guy/president]) Red is the destruction of reapers, it is, and has been your only goal the entire series. anything else and you've failed.
Let me think of the equivalent..... Matrix 3.... Despite all the killing, and enslaving, eventually the hero had no choice but to trust the machines that there will be a peace at the cost of his own life. These are the same machines killing humans for the last 3 movies, and instead of wanting to destroy them, they started talking about peace, which ended up the correct path. Hate using that crappy movie as a reference, but it's the best comparison to the Mass Effect 3 ending I could think of.
It isn't failing to NOT kill the Reapers. It's preserving all life in the Galaxy, whether it's synthetic or organic
Matrix 3 is built around one of the machines gone rogue and presenting a threat to both humanity/the machines. Here your presented with choices between destroying reapers at the cost of supposedly yourself,EDI and the Geth. We know the first part is a lie, shepard does in fact survive. The star child guy lies to you, he tries to turn you away from the red choice, that much is evident.
but, either way you are killing most species. Preservation of the galaxy is only achievable through the keeping of the Mass Relays. What you are forced to do no matter what is sentence the quarians, and krogans at the very least to starve.
And Green your just doing the Reapers job for them.
How is that evident...... your guessing
The fact Reapers left without killing all organic life which could oppose them proves he's telling the truth, now that is evident,
believing they will come back eventually is speculation and even more guessing
We know Shepard survives the Red ending after being specifically told that it would kill him. In the others he disintegrates, no special "secret endings"
Doesn't disintegrates, fuses into the Reapers like Legion did with the Geth, he's still alive persay, which is why he influenced the Reapers to leave
and that wasn't some special ending in my eyes, your just hoping for a Mass Effect 4 because he gasped for breath, though you might say the red Renegade ending maybe the choice that the series will continue from (if they do) doesn't mean it's the Paragon choice
fine he uploads himself into them, or every thing in the galaxy thereby controlling every reaper, or everything. it's a very paragon choice:whistle:<_<. It doesn't change the fact one of the last paragon dialogue option says "but you're taking away our future, without a future we have no hope. wiithout hope we might as well be machines, programmed to do as we're told." Green your taking everyone's future away via forcing evolution on them. Reapers being sentient, your forcing the future on everyone via blue/green. Red is the only one that allows sentients to develop their own future.
No i am not wishing for a ME4, but the Red ending as presented by the child is a lie.
Haha, I see you think you're clever with the smiley faces... anyways, Shepard referred to what their purpose was in the galaxy but he also said Shepard if integrated would control the Reapers, and Shepard wouldn't allow that to happen. He was telling the truth, or all life would have been destroyed then and there
he wasn't this is the ending to having a high ems and choosing red
I don't think I ever said I dont believe you, Im saying so what? Shepard didn't die in Paragon Blue decision, and if you get enough MS, he won't die in Red Renegade decision, so?
The fact that the mass relays blow up in all situations, including the "good ending" is why the starchild would be happy, since the Reapers are now the only race that would probably survive and prosper after the backlash from the relays, in a simple black and white scenario that is.
Relays don't blow up in control.
This is something that bothers me a lot because it keeps getting said. 'Releasing the energy of the catalyst will destroy the mass relays', which happens with synthesis or destroy. In control's ending the citadel arms close and the energy is transmitted through the network but watch the ending video. The relays don't explode in control.
The starchild says they get destroyed
Actually he says releasing the energy of the catalyst will destroy them. In Control the Citadel simply closes again, it doesn't explode.
And I continue to say they aren't the same, you just assume that's following what the Reapers want and assuming they are "bad" machines because they were programmed to reset the galaxy every 50000 years
It's a pretty reasonable assumption, since they COULD return if they aren't destroyed. Besides, you aren't doing anything to convince me, at all. Control and Destroy are different, since the Reapers aren't destroyed in the former but are in the latter, and the Geth and EDI are definitely dead in the latter. Synthesis and control are identical except the Citadel survives in Control. All three have the exact same consequences for everyone in the galaxy.
The last part is just nitpicking, eitherway that would be the ending in any case, but in that case, EDI is alive, and so are all other synthetics
I'm nitpicking? You were the one who mentioned them in the first place. No matter what happens, EDI is going to run out of power, and Joker could well starve or die in pain through lack of treatment for his disease.
Paragon is about staying true to your morals or some semblance of pre-ascribed morals(depending on your point of view[like the brain dead guy/president]) Red is the destruction of reapers, it is, and has been your only goal the entire series. anything else and you've failed.
Let me think of the equivalent..... Matrix 3.... Despite all the killing, and enslaving, eventually the hero had no choice but to trust the machines that there will be a peace at the cost of his own life. These are the same machines killing humans for the last 3 movies, and instead of wanting to destroy them, they started talking about peace, which ended up the correct path. Hate using that crappy movie as a reference, but it's the best comparison to the Mass Effect 3 ending I could think of.
It isn't failing to NOT kill the Reapers. It's preserving all life in the Galaxy, whether it's synthetic or organic
Matrix 3 is built around one of the machines gone rogue and presenting a threat to both humanity/the machines. Here your presented with choices between destroying reapers at the cost of supposedly yourself,EDI and the Geth. We know the first part is a lie, shepard does in fact survive. The star child guy lies to you, he tries to turn you away from the red choice, that much is evident.
but, either way you are killing most species. Preservation of the galaxy is only achievable through the keeping of the Mass Relays. What you are forced to do no matter what is sentence the quarians, and krogans at the very least to starve.
And Green your just doing the Reapers job for them.
How is that evident...... your guessing
The fact Reapers left without killing all organic life which could oppose them proves he's telling the truth, now that is evident,
believing they will come back eventually is speculation and even more guessing
We know Shepard survives the Red ending after being specifically told that it would kill him. In the others he disintegrates, no special "secret endings"
Doesn't disintegrates, fuses into the Reapers like Legion did with the Geth, he's still alive persay, which is why he influenced the Reapers to leave
and that wasn't some special ending in my eyes, your just hoping for a Mass Effect 4 because he gasped for breath, though you might say the red Renegade ending maybe the choice that the series will continue from (if they do) doesn't mean it's the Paragon choice
fine he uploads himself into them, or every thing in the galaxy thereby controlling every reaper, or everything. it's a very paragon choice:whistle:<_<. It doesn't change the fact one of the last paragon dialogue option says "but you're taking away our future, without a future we have no hope. wiithout hope we might as well be machines, programmed to do as we're told." Green your taking everyone's future away via forcing evolution on them. Reapers being sentient, your forcing the future on everyone via blue/green. Red is the only one that allows sentients to develop their own future.
No i am not wishing for a ME4, but the Red ending as presented by the child is a lie.
Haha, I see you think you're clever with the smiley faces... anyways, Shepard referred to what their purpose was in the galaxy but he also said Shepard if integrated would control the Reapers, and Shepard wouldn't allow that to happen. He was telling the truth, or all life would have been destroyed then and there
he wasn't this is the ending to having a high ems and choosing red
I don't think I ever said I dont believe you, Im saying so what? Shepard didn't die in Paragon Blue decision, and if you get enough MS, he won't die in Red Renegade decision, so?
Shepard was vaporised in the Control ending. He loses all that he has, including his life, starchild says so.
Differences......... Blue Paragon Ending- Everyone lives and Fleets marooned on a single planet, Red Renegade Ending- All synthetics die and the remainder of the fleet is marooned on a single planet........ Rest of it is assumption- assumption that the starchild was lying to Shepard when it shows the Reapers leaving opposed to killing everyone showing he was telling the truth, or the assumption he was hallucinating or indoctrinated for the simple opinion "Oh, Anderson couldn't ever be the Renegade option, why?"
The starchild tells you you are partly synthetic when saying all synthetic life will die. Shepard survives this. Starchild is provably lying.
To believe he's not lying about anything else because it's not proven is ridiculous. It's as much an assumption as believing he is lying.
He wasn't lying, he didn't say he would die, just a warning that he was partly synthetic, Im sure the Reapers don't want to die and starchild is their spokesperson, but they didn't lie. Shepard is partly synthetic lol.
They aren't machines, it's pretty obvious. They don't have programming; they're living beings all of themselves. Shepard is simply in control of them now, as the Starchild was previously. But you're making the assumption that they won't corrupt Shepard, which is entirely feasible, if your Shepard was already convinced to give up everything him and all of his friends had been fighting for, in order to attempt to control the things they'd sought to destroy.
Lol, I can imagine you going "in your face" when you wrote that. Like I said, Shepard didn't die when interfacing with the Reapers, as shown that he was controlling them.... and the fact your basing this off of an instance that it shows he gasps for breath..... your basing this off of a hope they'll make a Mass Effect 4. That's to appease ppl like you who want Shepard to live
There was nothing in your face about it. I'm confronting you with facts, taking everything the ending offers at face-value, same as you claim to. Again, the Catalyst says that, and I quote from the actual game: "You can wipe out all synthetic life if you want. Including the geth. Most of the technology you rely on, even you, are partly synthetic."
So if the Destroy ending is chosen, Shepard will die, no doubt about it, right? Well, he doesn't, he is shown somewhere, alive, even if for just a while longer. What is important to take from this is that the Catalyst was either a) wrong or lying. This means we can't take everything he says at face value, giving us room for interpretation, which is what the Indoctrination theory is.
So, allow me to repeat myself - explain that, or adjust your theory accordingly.
edit: You argue that Shepard is only partly synthetic, but it is stated within the game that he will die without his implants.
because Anderson=Paragon
Anderson=Saren's foil(saren became a husk more or less)
Anderson=Udina's foil(turned to verberus)
Anderson=TIM's foil(same fate as Saren)
And Bioware never changes its archetypes for the good mentor.
Red ending=allowing organics to choose.
Blue/green=giving away free will/evolution.
Paragon is about staying true to your morals or some semblance of pre-ascribed morals(depending on your point of view[like the brain dead guy/president]) Red is the destruction of reapers, it is, and has been your only goal the entire series. anything else and you've failed.[/quote]
Let me think of the equivalent..... Matrix 3.... Despite all the killing, and enslaving, eventually the hero had no choice but to trust the machines that there will be a peace at the cost of his own life. These are the same machines killing humans for the last 3 movies, and instead of wanting to destroy them, they started talking about peace, which ended up the correct path. Hate using that crappy movie as a reference, but it's the best comparison to the Mass Effect 3 ending I could think of.
It isn't failing to NOT kill the Reapers. It's preserving all life in the Galaxy, whether it's synthetic or organic
[/quote] Matrix 3 is built around one of the machines gone rogue and presenting a threat to both humanity/the machines. Here your presented with choices between destroying reapers at the cost of supposedly yourself,EDI and the Geth. We know the first part is a lie, shepard does in fact survive. The star child guy lies to you, he tries to turn you away from the red choice, that much is evident.
but, either way you are killing most species. Preservation of the galaxy is only achievable through the keeping of the Mass Relays. What you are forced to do no matter what is sentence the quarians, and krogans at the very least to starve.
And Green your just doing the Reapers job for them.[/quote]
How is that evident...... your guessing
The fact Reapers left without killing all organic life which could oppose them proves he's telling the truth, now that is evident,
believing they will come back eventually is speculation and even more guessing
[/quote] We know Shepard survives the Red ending after being specifically told that it would kill him. In the others he disintegrates, no special "secret endings"
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Doesn't disintegrates, fuses into the Reapers like Legion did with the Geth, he's still alive persay, which is why he influenced the Reapers to leave
and that wasn't some special ending in my eyes, your just hoping for a Mass Effect 4 because he gasped for breath, though you might say the red Renegade ending maybe the choice that the series will continue from (if they do) doesn't mean it's the Paragon choice
[/quote] fine he uploads himself into them, or every thing in the galaxy thereby controlling every reaper, or everything. it's a very paragon choice:whistle:<_<. It doesn't change the fact one of the last paragon dialogue option says "but you're taking away our future, without a future we have no hope. wiithout hope we might as well be machines, programmed to do as we're told." Green your taking everyone's future away via forcing evolution on them. Reapers being sentient, your forcing the future on everyone via blue/green. Red is the only one that allows sentients to develop their own future.
No i am not wishing for a ME4, but the Red ending as presented by the child is a lie. [/quote]
Haha, I see you think you're clever with the smiley faces... anyways, Shepard referred to what their purpose was in the galaxy but he also said Shepard if integrated would control the Reapers, and Shepard wouldn't allow that to happen. He was telling the truth, or all life would have been destroyed then and there
[/quote] he wasn't this is the ending to having a high ems and choosing red
I don't think I ever said I dont believe you, Im saying so what? Shepard didn't die in Paragon Blue decision, and if you get enough MS, he won't die in Red Renegade decision, so?
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Shepard was vaporised in the Control ending. He loses all that he has, including his life, starchild says so.
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In terms of life yes, but he now controls the Reapers, and them leaving shows he's not integrated into them aswell, seeing as how they didn't "kill" everyone
Didn't realize so many are committed to the indoctrination fiasco
The fact that the mass relays blow up in all situations, including the "good ending" is why the starchild would be happy, since the Reapers are now the only race that would probably survive and prosper after the backlash from the relays, in a simple black and white scenario that is.
Relays don't blow up in control.
This is something that bothers me a lot because it keeps getting said. 'Releasing the energy of the catalyst will destroy the mass relays', which happens with synthesis or destroy. In control's ending the citadel arms close and the energy is transmitted through the network but watch the ending video. The relays don't explode in control.
The starchild says they get destroyed
Actually he says releasing the energy of the catalyst will destroy them. In Control the Citadel simply closes again, it doesn't explode.
The energy of the Crucible is released, it destroys the Charon Relay. It's exactly what the star kid says will happen.
because Anderson=Paragon Anderson=Saren's foil(saren became a husk more or less) Anderson=Udina's foil(turned to verberus) Anderson=TIM's foil(same fate as Saren) And Bioware never changes its archetypes for the good mentor. Red ending=allowing organics to choose. Blue/green=giving away free will/evolution.
Red ending = allowing ONLY organics to live, correction
as for Anderson, assumptions, The Illusive Man was a pretty stand up guy in how he reconstructed Shepard without any control devices or bugs. And how he up until the end was doing all this for humanity and to fight the Reapers, but then at the end he turned evil. Same with Udina, he was a butt, but he only turned into a cospirist in the middle of ME3
It is the end that Saren tried to invoke in the first game, merging whith the machines. I don't see how that is good at all. Every one gets screwed over anyway.
Then explain why Anderson (obviously the good guy) chose to destroy the reapers..
And Tim ( The villan in the game) chose to control them..
The ending doesn't make sence and if you wont want to believe the theory than watch the vid on youtube explaining it.. It makes more sence than the **** you're telling...
In terms of life yes, but he now controls the Reapers, and them leaving shows he's not integrated into them aswell, seeing as how they didn't "kill" everyone
Didn't realize so many are committed to the indoctrination fiasco
I'm not supporting the indoctrination theory: I'm saying that sacrificing yourself to give a dyning command to the Reapers is as likely an outcome as 'becoming the godly voice controlling the reapers'.
If Shepard is absorbed into the consciousness of the Reapers that by no means is the same as surviving. That is becoming something else.
If you're demadning we take the ending at face value Shepard is vaporised.
By saying that I am not saying the indoctrination theory is correct, I am saying you are wrong. You are presenting a false choice that states either you are right or the indoctrination theory is right. I am introducing a third possibility, a synthesis if you like, wherein you're both making things up and as likely to be wrong as each other.
Lol, I can imagine you going "in your face" when you wrote that. Like I said, Shepard didn't die when interfacing with the Reapers, as shown that he was controlling them.... and the fact your basing this off of an instance that it shows he gasps for breath..... your basing this off of a hope they'll make a Mass Effect 4. That's to appease ppl like you who want Shepard to live
There was nothing in your face about it. I'm confronting you with facts, taking everything the ending offers at face-value, same as you claim to. Again, the Catalyst says that, and I quote from the actual game: "You can wipe out all synthetic life if you want. Including the geth. Most of the technology you rely on, even you, are partly synthetic."
So if the Destroy ending is chosen, Shepard will die, no doubt about it, right? Well, he doesn't, he is shown somewhere, alive, even if for just a while longer. What is important to take from this is that the Catalyst was either a) wrong or lying. This means we can't take everything he says at face value, giving us room for interpretation, which is what the Indoctrination theory is.
So, allow me to repeat myself - explain that, or adjust your theory accordingly.
edit: You argue that Shepard is only partly synthetic, but it is stated within the game that he will die without his implants.
He never said Shepard will die, just that Shepard was partly synthetic, which is true
Then explain why Anderson (obviously the good guy) chose to destroy the reapers.. And Tim ( The villan in the game) chose to control them.. The ending doesn't make sence and if you wont want to believe the theory than watch the vid on youtube explaining it.. It makes more sence than the **** you're telling...
Because Anderson fought since the beginning of ME 3 against an enemy that was killing and harvesting the planet. But again, that's what they were programmed to do, based on what they believed was right, but with new programming, Shepard's influence they found a different path. No difference between what Legion did to the Geth
And I continue to say they aren't the same, you just assume that's following what the Reapers want and assuming they are "bad" machines because they were programmed to reset the galaxy every 50000 years
There is nothing to assume here. They ARE bad machines. Period.
No they're not, they were just programmed to reset the galaxy every 50000 years, now they're reprogrammed, how is that different from the heretics to the geth?
The heretics chose to follow the Reapers. Legion explains this. And seeing what colossal dicks the Reapers are and seeing how we don't know how they came to be other than some godchild telling us that they are his "solution", which doesn't really say anything about them or prove they're simply programmed to do the terrible things they do, I'd say they are bad, given that their sole purpose is to wipe us out.
He never said Shepard will die, just that Shepard was partly synthetic, which is true
He said all synthetics will die. Shepard's body consinst majorly out of synthetic parts. Shepard can survive the destroy ending. What's not to understand here?
You were indoctrinated right from the point where you got hit by Harbingers laser.
Proof....
1. You never run out of bullets in your Carnifex pistol after that point. You can reload, but you can fire thousands of rounds without ever reloading.
2. The black tendrils are cluing you in that you are under the very heavy effects of indoctrination, just like they were effecting you in your dreams.
3. When you shoot Anderson in the gut, you also get shot in the gut for no reason whatsoever.
4. When you are talking to the God Child, he tries to make the "Destroy the Reapers" option the least attractive, and even makes Shephard say "So the Illusive Man was right after all..." to take you away from even thinking of it.
5. The Synthesis Option is to bring the weak-minded and people who can't decide to come to a compromise. This option is the same as trying to control the Reapers - they still win.
Once you realize that the entire level after you get hit by Harbinger is a dream and you are indoctrinated, it all makes sense. Bioware wouldn't do this to their game, they are too intelligent.
They have effectively indoctrinated and fooled 2/3 of the people that played their game. That is why after the game "ends", you revert back to before you attack the Illusive Mans base. They are likely working on the canon, DLC ending.
Bioware already said earlier that they want everyone to experience the "fake" ending before they say anything.