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Hatikvah07 wrote...
I dunno, you've clearly put a lot of time and effort into these, but I can't really say I think they're an improvement on what we got. Shepard mind-rapes Harbinger and gets super special tactics that allow the fleet to destroy the Reapers with ease? Come on, Harbinger's not the Borg Queen.
"Starchild controls the Reapers. He states it flat out. So I just made it so that Starchild is an element of Harbinger. I'll admit it's not perfect, and if I wasn't bound by constraints, I'd write something totally different. However, the constraints are part of the exercise and it takes a long time to clean up after a disaster, or whatever you want to call it. Some things are never fully repaired. But if you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy to read them. It is everyone's story, after all, and if you think you've got a cool strategy for beating the Reapers, lemme know (or let m0keys know -- I'm not always around.)"
Hatikvah07 wrote...
Furthermore, these are cartoonishly slanted towards Destroy being the preferable option (seriously, your version of Synthesis is just bugnuts).
"I'd like to say I'm sorry you saw it that way, but it's all open for interpretation if you feel like interpreting. I certainly didn't intend it to feel like 'le best ending,' though. They're all supposed to ring hollow in a way, and I left that option open for people who felt it the strongest. That's why you can disappear as Shepard and convince everyone you're dead. You killed the Geth, you killed Joker's growing girlfriend/wife.. That is not preferable. At best, it's tragic. At worst, well.. It's evil.
Joker tries to fight to keep his friend going because, hey, it's his best friend and the Hero of the Galaxy, but ultimately it's up to the player to decide if the 'cost,' so-called, was worth it. But it also still wasn't the worst ending, so it can't be entirely without hope, either. The galaxy isn't doomed. Hope still survives, but..perhaps not in Shepard, and not in his cause. The Galaxy never will be the same. The old world is dead. Long live the new world and all the innocent corpses you're scraping out of London.
And yeah, Synthesis is totally 'bugnuts,' and I'm proud to admit it. *looks all defiant and stuff*"
Hatikvah07 wrote...
One of the few things I liked about the ending was that it seemed there was no "right" choice. I picked Destroy, my roommate picked Control, and we both had good reasons for doing so. Making Control a super hollow victory, and Synthesis a cheap "Zombie Apocalypse" with Shepard somehow surviving his swan dive into the beam doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
"Well, alright. I mean, if you guys liked those endings in the beginning, I'm not here to rain on your parade. The ones you picked are still Canon with a capital C, and you can go and be proud of your difficult choices.
I saw all the choices as wrong in their own horrible, unique ways, but not everyone sees it like that. And that's okay. Mass Effect exists to give everyone a choice in their story. There are people who see the Geth as 'just machines' and there were choices to give them the story they wanted to. I may think those people, if they hold that belief about everything in the same fashion, are terribly misguided, but if you're writing Mass Effect it's not up to you to tell them their choices don't matter.
I'm not sure why you thought the endings were worth keeping, but it seems like that's your feeling, and like I said, that's fine. Either everyone's choices matter, or no one's do.
If you want a second Synthesis option, I'm open to suggestions, but I'm not sure what it would look like."
Hatikvah07 wrote...
There are some good ideas here, especially the behind-the-scenes-metric of "Evil Shepard/Resistance Shepard", but I think you don't really stick the landing. If anything, my favorite ending was the "Rejection" ending, with Shepard smoking and watching the Fleet going down fighting.
"Well, I'm glad you enjoyed one of them.
So thanks for reading, and cheers for the comments. They were helpful in seeing what someone thinks of the endings, and I really appreciate that. Even the people who dislike what you've written have got something worthwhile to say, and you should take them into account. The day you start believing everything you write is gold is the day you turn into George Lucas or M. Night Shyamalan, and those men frighten me.
Cheers!"
edit: Grub seems to have missed the RetakeME3 graphic in your sig. I should tell him that.
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