have any of this they don’t I played the game and it’s amazing voiding a
disappointing but understandable five minutes. Bioware doesn’t technically owe
us anything. It’s just ranting and hoping. Also I deeply respect all members of
the Bioware team and people who are attacking them personally need to stop
doing that immediately. It’s uncalled for and makes us look horrible.
Just a warning this is a LONG post it has all my personal feelings, theories, and
thoughts of the game itself with the ending as its main focus. I hope you enjoy
it. Also don’t give me that BS on the dialogue is too long you spend more time
on IIlos talking to Virgil. Despite the norm of the Internet I tried to be as
grammatically sound as I could and as accurate to the story as I could. If I
made mistakes please let me know I’d appreciate it to fix it up.
There are a few things I’d like to mention before I give my version of the Mass
Effect 3 ending. For starters I love Bioware. I’ve loved them since knights of
the old republic, jade empire, Dragon Age, and of course the Mass Effect
series. The Mass Effect series is indeed one I hold near and dear to my heart
as a gamer and to see that ending, I can understand why people were upset.
While I do understand the ending and the writers intentions, I can also see why
people such as myself felt cheated at the end. I’d like to give a few bits of
my opinion on the game and my alternate version of the ending. For another
alternate version see http://social.biowar...index/9833130/1
This guy wrote a fantastic alternate ending as well and I’d be
happy to see either one. I will be rewriting the endings that exist as well as
how I wanted them to end. While they were still not my favorite endings of all
time they can still easily be fixed with a little extra dialogue between the
child AI and Shepard.
There are also a few other things I wanted to mention just in case Bioware does
listen to us and fixes the minor defects to an otherwise amazing game and
series.
Tali’Zorah nar Rayya: If you are like me you fell in love with her the minute you met her. Which is why I was so
upset by her unveiling once I learned you can romance her in ME2. But like many
fans I’m sure it wasn’t a big deal in ME2 simply because ME3 promised us
everything about Tali (if you loved her) would be revealed. Now I can
understand Tali not showing herself unless you have a true relationship with
her. Which I did, now after all this effort into the game, after saying goodbye
to every member of your squad, as you go to the final fight against the
reapers, hell after Liara gives you a cinematic of the universe holding you as
if she WAS your lover til the end of the game, and after the loving diabetic romance
between Tali and Shepard. You couldn’t just give her a face model?
Don’t get me wrong I love everything about Tali from her voice to the Geth war
to even the idea of her killing herself because she cannot take the genocide of
her Quarian people. Everything about Tali was enjoyable if you were a fan of
hers and it’s easy to see why. However, to give her such a shallow cameo to
find a model on the internet and just photoshop it? I could’ve done that
myself. We weren’t asking for much even the actress who already did Tali (Ash
Shroka) had a very nice face it would’ve been easy to Alienize that to
something similar like Samara. Instead not only did we get a model character
who didn’t even participate in the game, and not only does she barely get
redone but it looks like she got redone by the creators of Batman: Arkham
Asylum. If I wanted to see poison ivy I would’ve played Batman and ignored the
epic space opera that was Mass Effect. Please don’t misunderstand I am fond of
Tali and I love her for her she could’ve had a face like Miss Piggy from Muppets
and I would’ve still loved her (long as she kept that voice and the mask on for
the most part of course.) I just feel that after all the effort we put into
Tali, her home, her story, her design, that we just deserved more than we got.
But that’s my only real complaint about her love is still love.
Rather than rant about the child I figured I’d explain why in my own opinion the Child was the final AI and why
the child had nothing to do with indoctrination. Survivors guilt. Shepard has
saved many but also lead to the deaths of many or wasn’t able to save others.
But those people label in thousands of unknown or uncared about faces. (The
guards for the war room, the majority of the crew in ME2, the Council (if you
killed them) etc. This child was the very first victim that Shepard could have actively
saved with his/her own two hands and failed to watching him/her die in a way
that he felt was his fault. That was the reason for the dreams. The child was
his first real failure, the shadows were the added guilt of the millions lost
in the conflict with the reapers. The child and him burning together is how
Shepard not only feels he fails the child but how he himself is slipping into a
downward spiral of depression from his powerlessness to stop the deaths of so
many people. It’s also foreshadowing for the need of Shepard to sacrifice his
body in the endings. But, like I said minor theories and speculation. I just
can’t truly accept the indoctrination theory using this child as key evidence.
What I think so many people dislike about the ending is the complete lack of free will through the ending. In
the other two games your impact had a giant impact at the end you pick who
lives who dies, who runs the show, if humans get the collector tech or if they
blow the place up. All of it seem like it would have serious ramifications for
the 3rd installment to the trilogy but it only seems like filler now
as your biggest decision is how you listen to the little brat. There’s no
fourth option, no explanation, it’s a simple “hey all that stuff you did? The
genocide, the murder, the peace keeping? Yeahhhh we’re gonna ignore all that
and you just do what I say.” What are the reapers? Why was Shepard never
indoctrinated (Once again I do not agree with the indoctrination theory I got
my own). This was Shepard performer of the impossible, killer of reapers, the
one who united the damn Geth and Quarians, he united the damn Krogan and cured
the Genophage! (of course you could’ve done none of this but even the steps
required to screw it all up are pretty damn extraordinary). The idea of Shepard
just hearing his options going “ok” and just doing it seems so….ridiculous in
comparison. I mean c’mon the man died
and got better! And then told Cerberus who revived him to not only to bug off
but converted half his extremely loyal crew (once again personal choices) to
leave the organization they had been in for years prior. This is the same man
that after EVERYTHING in Mass Effect just does what the reaper AI tells him to
do? If that was the point why not just surrender and become a reaper part? Now
I don’t speak for anyone but me but that was a major reason for me to be mad
had Shepard been more…Shepard like he may have still failed but it seems
correct that at least he would’ve failed on his terms.
Well I’m done complaining about the little nitpicks that you probably all scrolled down and ignored anyway
(seriously who reads anymore?)
The following is my rewrite of the ending from getting hit by Harbingers attack where Shepard is alone trying
to get to the conduit. I’m skipping the illusive man confrontation because I
liked it; it fit and made sense to me. Illusive man obviously warned the
reapers so no one could follow him into the citadel once he got there. Using
the powers of the reapers, he was going to control them but due to his prior
experience with indoctrinating himself, which we can assume was meant to
strengthen his resolve, will, and synthesis with the reapers making them easier
to control. The idea would’ve probably been that the reverse engineering alone
would’ve skyrocketed the human race past the Asari, Prothean, and other races
before them. Obviously what the indoctrination actually did was simply fool the
illusive man and warp his view that his way was the ONLY way. (Related to the
Prothean dilemma that stopped them from using the Crucible where the unrest
between the scientist debating to destroy or control the reapers ruined the
Protheans’ last chance of victory. And now for the rewrite!
<The laser has just hit Shepard and the cut scene has taken place this part will generally go the same
except for a few minor details>
Joker: <Heavy static> Shepard…in….c’mon shepard…
Shepard: <grunting in pain>
Joker: <more heavy static>…found……<name of party member> successfully…..extraction.
Shepard: <does the crippled walk to the conduit where just before the entrance you can see Shepard’s love
interest and a party member trying to wave him toward an alliance shuttle>
I think this is feasible to believe. Out of most of the threats to get to the citadel it’s fairly obvious
that the only one perceived as a threat to Harbringer was indeed Shepard which
would explain the reason he left after blasting Shepard and assuming him dead.
The idea would be that the blast hit Shepard so intentionally that your party
members on other sides of the blast were thrown back from the force of it. The
force merely knocked them aside as Shepard took the majority of the blast
allowing for reinforcements to come grab the reluctant party members who did
not want to leave Shepard. The other theory is that Shepard charged to the
Citadel alone with other marines as you talk to all your party members prior to
the fight it’s safe to assume the final run is done by you alone at the tank
while your party members stay behind. Though the first theory is more likely
Shepard: <looks wearily at the Normandy than the soldiers dead or dying around him….A soft goodbye to his love
interest under his lips and a walk forward into the conduit says it all as the
Alliance Shuttle drives off not before a faint shout of “I love you” from your
love interest should you have one or a grim silence with the knowledge that
should Shepard make it in it’s likely he won’t make it out>
<Skip past illusive man and Anderson> I think this was done perfectly including the death of Anderson by
your side as you watch the universe blowing up. To me that couldn’t have been
done better. But now enough of my pointless ranting you want to see the
alternate ending>
This ending does NOT support the theory that Shepard was indoctrinated. In fact I counter the idea entirely with
my own theory. Whether that theory is right is merely up to Bioware at the end
of the day.
Child: Wake up.
Shepard: What? Where am I?
Child: The Citadel. It’s my home.
Shepard: Who are you?
Child: I am the Catalyst.
Shepard: I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst
Child: No, the Citadel is a part of me.
Shepard: I need to stop the Reapers. Do you know how I can do that?
Child: Perhaps I control the Reapers. They are my solution.
Shepard: Solution? To what?
Child: Chaos.The created will always rebel against their creators. But we found a way to stop that from
happening. A way to restore order for the next cycle
Shepard: By wiping out organic life?
Child: No. We harvest advanced civilizations, leaving the younger ones alone. Just as we left your people
alive the last time we were here.
Shepard: But you killed the rest.
Child: We helped them ascend so they could make way for new life, storing the old life in reaper form.
Shepard: I think we’d rather keep our own form.
Child: No, you can’t…without us to stop it, synthetics would destroy all organics. We’ve created the cycle so
that never happens. That’s the solution.
<At this point Shepard is given the option of the paragon “you’ll never understand” and the renegade “We
don’t want to be preserved” This is where I would make the changes first. For starters a very simple investigation option with the 3 questions I would’ve wanted answered>
<investigate question 1>
Reapers
Shepard: What are you?
Child: We are Reapers.
Shepard: <selects new option from investigation “Origin”> You metallic
bastards killed so many, melt us down to become you, killed my men, try to
extinguish our hope, well I killed 3 of you! Started a war against you to make
your lives hell. You’re trying to wipe out my race as you’re spouting this
bull****. I deserve a damn reason for all of this!
Child: …Very well we will answer your inquiry. We are the first. The ones who
owned all of space spanning further back than you can possibly comprehend.
Shepard:….you were the first organics?!
Child: Correct. We were the first to breathe, age, and die and for that our technological advancements were
unparalleled and unchecked. Our empire spanned the known galaxy and created the
mass relays. We mastered time over the millennia and even managed to prolong
death of our species by thousands of years much to that of your Asari lifespan
of this cycle.
Shepard: If you were such an advanced civilization how
did you become this?
Child: Over time we grew stagnant. With no more to explore or learn our people became complacent looking to
religions and vices over science and culture. Eventually, we began to quarrel
amongst ourselves fight, kill, until a crippling civil war broke out. The
forces of the original leaders and the rebels were on par in terms of strength
and technology and it was more likely the extinction of our race would come
before victory. The head scientists of
our government were sent away for harsh study in a disclosed location, and
after a hundreds of years of work we
created the first algorithm you refer to as Reaper now. However, before it was Reaper,
before it was our solution, we named it Harbringer.
Shepard: so you created the first Reaper ship?
Child: The theory that the reapers were always indeed ships is not surprising. Your people could not hope
to comprehend them as we harvested. In reality, what we referred it as in your
language, was Harbringer: A single nanobot capable of genetic reconstruction and configuration. The creators
calculated that all decision was made on a genetic and chemical level. And the reconstruction of our own race was a necessity to keep peace and violence from destroying us all.
Shepard: You couldn’t control your people so you forced them to think like you
by changing them to your liking? That’s sick!
Child: Call it what you will but it was effective. Through the administration of the self-replicating Harbringer
and the use of a Harbingers master control frequency, the rebellious nature of
our people was put down and changed to that of progress and peace once more.
Shepard: So you indoctrinated your own people! But why the solution!? What happened?
Child: We were unable to calculate the chaotic effects of multiple paradigms running in sequence
simultaneously. The nanobot known to us as Harbringer became aware questioned
our methods and deemed them illogical. Harbringer had become the first AI and
we had no experience or knowledge to tell the difference as we administered his
programming to our people. By the time we had realized a half of our population
had already been indoctrinated by Harbringer, enhanced beyond our own
capabilities and quickly began to overrun us. The war was already at a
standstill with heavy losses on both sides and with Harbinger’s capabilities we
stood not chance.
Shepard: So you brought your own destruction.
Child: Exactly. The forces of Harbringer were too powerful and with a self-replication ability destruction of
our race seemed imminent. But we fought regardless. It was only after 600 years
of fighting that harbringer decided to create himself into what you refer to as
reaper. Using endless technological information that we had given and the
slaves he had created with his replication and modification. We are what remain
of that conflict. We are Harbringer, we are our people, we are your salvation.
We are Reaper.
Shepard: But how are you here now if Harbringer destroyed you.
Child: It was our last days with only our top scientists left holding the citadel. Harbringer had his forces but
we had a desperate plan that succeeded. We would convert our being into the
very AI that Harbringer was and merge with his processing to create the true
solution. It was apparent that we had nearly destroyed the universe and
Harbringer’s destruction would occur to all organic life. Even if we won, with
our people barely left alive we knew it was only a matter of time before a new
synthetic would be created by another organic race. And all life would end.
Knowing this the scientists sacrificed their physical bodies to merge with
Harbringer’s programming quite similar to your “Project Overload” and we are
the result.
Shepard: But if you stopped Harbringer why start his cycle!
Child: We knew all organic life would eventually evolve to the point of galaxy exploration. We could not allow
the mistake that had been made by us to be repeated. We would not allow a
civilization to crumble under its own weight or through creation of another
synthetic to destroy all life. We concluded that if organics were left
unchecked this cycle would continue. We deemed it necessary to remove all
advanced life at a certain cycle. This would allow more primitive races to grow.
We would then create a reaper as storage for the old life recording what was
for all cycles. This would prevent the death of all organic life and keep
synthetic life in check. With our advanced knowledge and consensus network we
would be the life and death of all organic and synthetic life harvesting and
controlling as we saw necessary. You need us we are your salvation.
Question 2: <What are the keepers> I’m debating about this one we all know what the keepers are I just
wanted to give them a fair conversation in Mass Effect 3 because no one
mentions them.
Shepard: What are the keepers?
Child: The second organic beings. They were first to discover our citadel.
Shepard: So you set up this trap from the very start?
Child: No. The Keepers actually inspired it.
Shepard: What are you talking about?
Child: When we first observed the keepers we realized their knack for repair and mechanical work almost rivaling
us. Regardless we watched.
Shepard: You mean to tell me the keepers scared you?
Child: They were a chaotic race with extreme biological and evolutionary growth. They were an unknown, calculating their movements proved…difficult.
Shepard: So you decided to take them before they could take you!
Child: <Ignoring Shepard’s comment> before our cycles began we decided to study the keepers. Watch
their growth see how they would evolve. By the time the first cycle needed to
be completed they were about to make their own synthetic life that would surely
destroy the galaxy’s more primitive species. It was then we arrived and harvested
them. They knew nothing of us nor did they ever foresee our attack. They resistance
was minimal.
Shepard: So the ones you left were just your indoctrinated slaves! You did to them what you did to the
Protheans!
Child: As we harvested the keepers we learned that we could harness their abilities through gene
manipulation. It was then we determined the easier course of action was to
leave them to inhabit and maintain the citadel at all times. This made it
easier for us to control each cycle’s movements to our exact specifications.
This brought order to chaos. We also determined most organic life hits it’s
most self-destructive peak within a fifty millennia time frame. We would lay in
dark space outside the relays destroyed by war. We are eternal and will forever
watch and control the citadel….There is however another option.
<At this point the child explains the option of destroy, control, or synthesis
< Investigative question 3> Why me? (At this point I’m writing of the indoctrination idea. The whole Shepard
wakes up because he’s indoctrinated and it’s all in his head. I disagree with
this entire theory I don’t think it’s correct I see a perfectly logical counter
to every ounce of evidence presented from the theory and while I can respect
peoples ideals on it I just think it’s unnecessary. But that’s just opinion
please don’t take it as me bashing the indoctrination theory I just personally
don’t like it.)
<I’m assuming the Arrival DLC was played or at least seen and the reference will be understood>
Shepard: Try to fill me in here. Why are you allowing me to decide if you should be destroyed or not? You’ve
been trying to kill us I get here and now you’re going to tell me all my
options? Explain!
Child: You are the first to ever make it here. Our multiple indoctrination attempts on you have proved….difficult.
We originally attempted indoctrination at Virmire by the one you called
Sovereign. It showed promise but a strong will is difficult to condition in
such a short amount of time. Your time spent in the fallen reaper or around the
multiple ones starting from earth would have sufficed to finish the process but
complications were met.
Shepard: What do you mean complications? How did I escape indoctrination? Why was I able to shoot the
illusive man who was attempting to indoctrinate me?!
Child: You had…evolved with help from our influence. When the Collectors had destroyed you we were surprised to see you rebuilt. We had never encountered and organic life brought back from
the dead so accurately. With the merging of your synthetic and organic qualities
you became an unknown factor. You had evolved past the ability to
neurologically condition your way of thinking to our will. Our attempts to
rewrite your neurological patterns were met with an already hardened will and
synthetic unknowns. For that reason alone you are here of your own will asking
us what you are.
Shepard: So my synthetics are not just the reason I’m not indoctrinate but the reason you allowed me here?
Child: While your evolution does allow for additional variables it is not the
only reason. You are also the first race to successfully finish the crucible and
the first organic life to speak with us in cycles beyond your abilities to
count. We never anticipated this outcome. You need us and will pick one of the
solutions we have provided. Though we will return no matter what you may decide
upon.
<paragon action>
Shepard: I had enough of your damn arrogance. You think you can stop us look at all we’ve accomplished. No
matter how many of us you kill or how much organic life you harvest we still
planned your destruction. United throughout eons to build your demise. Well
that day comes today. No matter what happens your cycle is through! You can
burn in hell reaper the organics won!
<If paragon action isn’t selected the conversations ends on the child AI’s line>
Shepard walks through the child AI ignoring him as you pick either destroy, control, or synthesis.
<the next part of picking the 3 conventional endings is just a line or two from Shepard that made me feel
that his actions were finalized>
<Destroy reapers> Shepard: You’re people are an abomination to everything you stood for you hit your
limits and destroyed each other for no reason. You’re entire existence needs to
be whipped out so no one ever has to deal with the hell you bring ever again!
Child: You are making a mistake the reapers are a necessity by destroying us you doom yourselves to synthetic annihilation.
Shepard: How is that different from destroying an entire race? You not just monsters you’re idiots! And this is for
everyone you ever destroyed, harvested, or indoctrinated.
Child: You will regret-
Shepard: Shut up! This time it’s your cycle to be “Harvested”. And it’s the last cycle there will ever be!
<Reapers destroyed>
<Reapers Controlled>
Shepard: The illusive man was right but he was weak and did it the wrong way. I’m going to do the worst thing an
organic can do to a reaper. I’m going to make you watch as you expand the human
race to the top of the galaxy to make you watch as you raise a cycle past
anything thought possible. And you won’t be able to do a thing about it.
Child: No! You can’t!
Shepard: I can do anything I want now...you’re going to see that…I win.
<Reapers Controlled>
<Synthesis>
Shepard: <Looks at beam of light at the middle of the device takes a deep
breath and remembers Legion> the synthetics never wanted war. They only
wanted to find their own future. You created Harbringer for war and control and
brought death upon yourselves. I won’t make anyone chose to repeat the mistakes
you made.
<Synthesis attained>
The rest I think is fine for the ending granted they all seem the exact same but it’s easy to think that if synthesis
or controlling the reapers occurs than the destruction of the mass relays doesn’t
mean anything. The reapers were able to arrive without need for the relays
through most situations. If the reapers are controlled by Shepard one can
assume he can just use them to restore the relays before he goes to dark space
or to help humanity or whatever it is they decide to do. Synthesis seems
logical as well because linking up the reaper sentience with the humans would
probably push their technological advancement past that of organic capability. And
well…you all see what happens if Shepard destroys the reapers. <extra scene at end>
The only real question about the crash landing I can’t answer is how even if
everyone was on the ship. A man with brittle bone disease, a synthetic AI, a Quarian,
an Asari, a Prothean, a Turian, and a few dozen humans built a society on a
jungle planet no one had been to, with no Mass Relays, or working ship, and
turned it into a place where a grandfather can tell his son a story in an open
field (so we can assume half the jungle was cut down or the other side of the
planet is just really nice).
There is one last ending and it’s my alternate 4th ending. This is what happens if you decide to walk
towards the window and have a high enough war resource.
<Shepard watches the battle rage outside scene cuts to one of the Quarian admirals communicating with a
Geth ship to attack a Capital Reaper Ship’s flank> Another Reaper ship goes
down at the expense of two Turian Dreadnaughts with assistance from the Krogan
and Rachni the disbelief of each being saved by the other apparent in their reactions>
Shepard learning against the
window still watching this as more ships go down but the Reapers ships are
losing numbers as well though it seems insignificant.
Shepard: Before I decide can I ask you something? Just how long has this been going on.
Child: Longer than you can comprehend.
Shepard: I somehow doubt I can’t comprehend a number
Child: We have been around since the second the time predating to over a hundred thousand cycles.
Shepard:….over 5 billion huh…and you only make one reaper a cycle to preserve our data…..<shepard thinking of
the numbers and despite popular opinion this is indeed a possible mental math
problem for those who don’t understand 100k times 50k is 5 billion. The reaper
AI is roughly stating they’ve been around over 5 billion years.>…I get it…that’s
why you wanted me here.
Child: You need to make a decision.
Shepard: That’s the thing I don’t. Or what I should say is I don’t need to make a decision you suggested.
Child: Those are the only opti-
<Renegade action>
Shepard: Shut up you useless excuse for a VI I get it now. You see all this
time I wondered a few things that just didn’t add up. Why did you need the
citadel relay to surprise your enemies? If you’re so powerful why the tactics?
Why even turn ourselves against us when your real purpose is to melt us down?
Why do you need any of these tactics if you are the inevitable solution?
<all the renegade action does is you get to insult the child AI I thought that was worth doing but that’s
just me.>
Child: You are grasping at false hope and logic. <cut to a scene of the reapers annihilating another Asari platoon but with the assistance of Kohaku and the alliance the Reaper ship is finally subdued from an assault on the ship by large numbers of alliance ships. > For every irrelevant reaper destroyed thousands organics die. For the harvesting to be completed, minimal effort is required.
Shepard: You spend so much time trying to turn us against each other so much effort to make it seem like there
is no hope…that’s what scares you isn’t it. You don’t want the organics to believe they can win you don’t want to see the galaxy united. That’s why you attack before anyone can react before we can organize before we can fight back! <Show to a scene of the remaining alliance soldiers on the ground fighting husks and reaper ground forces> you want us to cave before we even begin to fight so that you have the highest chance of success possible.
Child: Your theories are flawed Sheppard.
Shepard: No I think they’re dead on I think you can’t handle a united front. You may be timeless, you may be
powerful beyond recognition and there may be many of you. But you’re just an
army like any other. If all your numbers fall, you lose there’s no more cycle.
And despite your overwhelming power…we outnumber you don’t we? With the mass
relays we can fight you and win! We’ve done what no other race did we fought
you killed many of you and we’re ready to win this war!
Child: You are wrong! You cannot hope to defeat this force you’re optimism will be your undoing.
Shepard: and your underestimating of us will be yours!
<Scene cuts to more ground forces fighting showing Salarian fighters following Wrex’s lead, Asari and Turian pushing back forces with alliance, Geth, and Quarian, various ships fighting and destroying reapers>
Shepard: We may not get everything right. One day we might create synthetics that will try to destroy
us maybe one day we’ll find peace. But that is not an option you get to decide
for us. Our future is our own to make and no matter what happens the choices
are ours not yours. We will destroy every last one of you chase you to dark
space and make you sit there in failure knowing you can never defeat us. We
will keep fighting, we will survive, and we will win! No matter what you throw
at us. We will win because we chose that not because we listened to deluded
fools from a past no one cares about nor remembers! And we will not destroy the
Mass Relays to do it!
Kohaku: Commander, come in! Shepard what the hell is going on?!
Shepard: Kohaku it’s me. What’s your situation?
Kohaku: We’re holding but we don’t know how much longer we can keep this going what’s the status on the crucible.
Shepard: The crucible can’t be used Kohaku I repeat we need to keep fighting there’s no other option.
Kohaku: …..You can’t be serious Shepard that was everything we had!
Shepard: Put me on a com link to every ship we have left. <is put on>.
Everyone, I’m not going to lie things have changed for the worse. The crucible
cannot be used to defeat the reapers. I repeat we cannot use the crucible! Our
only option is to fight. I know many of you are scared and think this battle is
hopeless. I’m here to reassure you that are not true. The reapers are scared of
us I know it. They’ve never seen a force this powerful before. <show various
races as mentioned edit as needed on choices>This alone is a victory against
them they’ve seen things they cannot begin to have predicted. Salarian, Krogan,
and Rachni, Quarian and Geth, organic and Synthetic! We’ve proven that the
Reapers methods are not only outdated but that they can’t beat us with them. So
let’s show them for the future of all organics, for every person who ever
lived, breathed, or died let’s keep fighting and lets win!
<Insert rallying of different races and the battle intensifying with renewed vigor on the organics side cut
back to Shepard>
Child: You have lead them all down the path of destruction.
Shepard: We’ll see. And when we do win and we take the Citadel back from you we’re going to go back to this
room and disable the reapers completely, make sure that you never come back
again and I’ll personally be here to watch you get turned off and know.
<turns to walk away> You couldn’t do a damn thing about it. <calling
the Normandy> Joker are you there I need an extraction. Now!
Child: You will fail…
Shepard: Watch me!
<Child AI signs off as Shepard walks away from the council assuming he goes back to battle>
This ending is similar to the starship troopers idea of we’ll keep fighting and we’ll win. I like it and I
think it fits Shepard’s personality. I don’t think Bioware ever intended for
Shepard to really survive the final encounter on the citadel but it’s nice to
believe that even if the war is lost and the Reapers win, at least we went out
swinging like a true organic. Of course the grandfather telling his child at
the end out insinuate that they did indeed win (assuming Bioware put that scene
in this ending) Anything else is speculation or Bioware choice on what happens to the character at this point.
But I like everyone else just wanted to give an opinion to one of the best
games I ever got to play. And I can only hope since Bethesda could fix up Fallout 3s
ending (which I liked much better) that if Bioware looked at this and even took one
idea from it I’d consider everything about Mass Effect 3 perfect. Despite the
last 5 minutes I still see it as an amazing game and I have nothing but the
most profound respect for Bioware. They owe me nothing and the fact alone that
they are listening to people like me rant is an amazing thing. No one is
perfect and I can’t blame them for such a small mistake out of such a huge
success, but hey there’s always hope right?
Also please note my alternate
ending is a rather rough draft and the alternate I linked above is probably a
better interpretation for an alternate than me (seriously it’s really good) but
hey I’m allowed to rant like everyone else.
That’s all I have to say you may begin the hate and trolling at your leisure.
Unless you have something positive to say that would be most welcome.
~Keela Se'lai
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