Wordy, but needs to be said!
I was one of the many people who watched you play this game
live online and I understand where you are coming from, you said yourself your Shepard was
anti-synthetic and god fearing. Fair enough, wiping out all synthetic life in
the galaxy wouldn’t have been a hard call. If however you were like
me and had Shepard be pro-choice, pro-life, and always open to new possibilities
then you would see the problem I think. After everything my Shepard went
through trying to promote tolerance and co-operation between the races of the
galaxy. Arguing for peace between the Geth and the Quarians, telling EDI that
only she could decide what was right and wrong for her, that she had to figure
it out for herself because, essentially that’s what It meant to be alive. After
working so hard to fix so many injustices in the galaxy where people had no
choice and he gave them that choice… I loved the arrival DLC because it was the
first time my Shepard was really forced to go against everything he stood for
and blow up a mass relay killing hundreds of thousands. Of course he turned himself
in, he couldn’t live with himself. In my game that was the true essence of the
nightmares he was having… seeing what was happening to his world and knowing
he had a role in doing that to another one… but here’s where it gets sticky.
After hundreds of hours fighting to stop the reapers, fighting to bring peace
to the galaxy and freedom of life to all he gets forced to make that choice all
over again, and this time it’s just poorly done.
Option a) blue light/control reapers… Shepard just argued
against control with the illusive man, in fact has been doing that for a while
now (hence blowing up the collector base) the reapers are just too powerful and
too dangerous how do you know you can control them? How long will it last…. Nothing
is forever so if Shepard eventually dies or stop or whatever does it start all
over again? This is too big of a risk, like he said.
Option

green light/ Synthesis … turn all life into a hybrid
of organic and technological WTF…. I don’t know what to make of this outcome…. Force
a change of existence on the ENTIRE GALAXY? It’s one thing to blow up the mass
relays, it’s just a thing they will adept eventually, but to change the very
nature of existence for countless beings? What about people like your Shepard
the ones that hate AI’s what about the AI’s? What gives him the right to force
that on everyone… He’d be no better than the Reapers since that’s essentially
what they want to do anyway.
Option c) red light/destroy all synthetic life… there is
just no way my Shepard would or even could do this… it, like synthesis just isn’t
an option. Destroying the reapers is one thing…. But all synthetic life? After he
helped joker and EDI stop kidding themselves and develop a real relationship? After
the geth are finally at peace with the Quarians and helping them to rebuild? That’s
not even thinking about any other synthetic life out there? EDI was once a VI
does that mean that since a VI can become an AI all of them end too… what if
there were AI’s on other worlds critical to the survival of an entire species?
So there you have it, after everything else I got
down to a) betray yourself,

betray everyone, or c) betray your friends and
allies… first time I died since I couldn’t choose. Eventually though I chose A…
at least there was a chance it would work out… swallow your pride and your
beliefs and hope for the best at least he was dead…. I think. So with this
profound sense of betrayal I awaited the consequences of my choice and go….
NOTHING, sorry… worse than nothing, since it turns out my crew had skipped out
on the battle anyway. Apparently nobody had any faith in me in the end so what
difference does it make. I loved the game, I was cool with everything right up
until “pick a,b,or c” and then turn off your console. So yeah, I want a better
ending…. I want it to have mattered.
Not intending to inflame or insult... just trying to adress what was said in my own way.
HOLD THE LINE!
AND SUPPORT BIOWARE!
Modifié par Aindrui, 25 mars 2012 - 12:54 .