Furthermore you should know that I'm not the kind of guy that sees plotholes on his own (but in this case they were practically screaming at me). I paid 90€ for the CE, and this is what I have to say upon reflecting on the game.
Pleae also note this isn't a fan discussing his interpretation of the ending, rather than me telling everybody why I'm so unsatisfied with the game.
The things Star Child/Uber-Reaper/brat/whatever says:
Now, everything he says may follow a cerain logic (even if the logic IS stupid and by further looking into it contradicts itself), up until the point he tells me that organics and synthetics can't coexcist. At this point I started to think. Didn't I just spent 30 hours on a game where I had my very own AI on board, which was actually wanting to understand organics rather than seeking to destroy them ?! And ulitmately openly emphasized with them and even started a relationship (of some sort) with Joker?! "The created will always rebel against their creators" (geth-quarian, anyone?). But didn't I just witness the geht becoming fully developed AIs due to the Reaper tech and yet they CHOOSE to help quarians retake their homeworld? WTF is going on?
Then the kid magically presents me with three choices, with everyone meaning my own death. I honestly thought that this would be the point, where Shepard would start to fight back, trying to show the brat, why its logic is flawed, but no. He rather bents over and takes it.
The endings themselves:
I'll start with CONTROL. That, in my opinion, is the true renegade ending (more about that later on). It's just something I don't think would work, since Shepard is/was clearly indocrtinated or at least trying to control a powerful unknown sounds like a stupid idea anyway.
Now DESTROY is the ending I picked everytime, because that's what I set out to do three games ago. Wasn't too happy with it, but the other options were worse.
SYNTHESIS. I'm sorry, but this just doesn't fit with Mass Effect. On the one hand because Javik said, that the protheans ultiamte downfall was, them being to homogenic (I hope this is the word I'm looking for). It would be the perfect solution to the kids problem, if his logic wasn't so flawed. Strength through diversity, wasn't that the whole point of bringing together the galaxy or at least the reason why they send you looking for squadmates in EVERY game?!
And furthermore, Mass Effect goes through the trouble to establish this HUGE codex, telling us all about how everything works and why, but in the end a magical green explosion rewrites everyones DNA, just like that? What witchcraft is this?!
Relay problem:
I think the relays being destroyed is a bad choice, since it pretty much dooms like every spacestation or smaller colony to slowly starve away. Not to mention the larger ones depending on the smaller ones for ressources.
Also I don't think that the destruction we see here is the same as in Arrival, so I don't think this would cause a supernova.
Indoctrination Theory:
For most parts the theory sounds to me like people desperately clinging on to anything they can find, that renders the current endings wrong (that being said, it still shows just how MASSIVELY unsatisfied people are). I do think Shepard actually WAS indoctrinated at some point, but only as far as him shooting Anderson and seeing the "destroy"/Anderson-ending was bad/renegade and vice versa.
Conclusion:
For me, this ending robbed me of all motivation to play through this game again. I was gonna give multiplayer a try in my next playthrough to get my readyness up, but frankly I don't sew why. I won't be buying ANY singleplayer DLC that doesn't change the variety of endings, simply because I don't want to waste another 30 hours of my freetime to die in the end anyway.
And yes, the ending WAS so bad, it spoiled the whole game for me. Ultimately I won't the remember the intense amount of fun I had playing through ME1, ME2, ME3, and being hyped for the finale upon returning to earth, but rather being unsatisfied with the ending I got the first time around and the OVERWHELMING sense of disappointment I got upon discovering that there are no other endings and exactly how flawed the last 10 minutes are.
Modifié par JMJ_91, 20 mars 2012 - 09:53 .
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