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[humansrsuperior]

carilynn46 wrote...

Golferguy758 wrote...

Because no one can control the reapers
Because synthesis takes away all free will of the galaxy to forge their own destiny.
I eliminated green faster than i did blue.
Red was the only one that kept to my morals and I know that the Geth, Legion, and EDI would understand and support that choice.

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[sammysoso]

At the end of everything it was just unacceptable to have the Reapers left in the galaxy.

Also, TIM was wrong for a reason, and there was no way was I going to change the fabric of the universe on the word of some AI/God/Spacekid.

[Colonel_Klink_1]

Because destruction was the numero uno goal during the series. The "control" option sounded like it had way too much fine print. Do I control them forever? What happens to me? I can't live forever so something must be done to me to make me live eternally so the Reapers don't go murder people again. Does this process change my mind? Is it indoctrination? Was the Illusive Man indoctrinated BECAUSE of that choice? Etc.

As for synthesis, what kind of person would it make me to force that on all the people of the galaxy? Taking away the freedom of choice of an entire galaxy isn't exactly paragon. To me that's more evil than blowing up the Reapers knowing the Geth and likely EDI go down too. My good guy Shep chose the destruction option even though I WANTED the Geth to live, it was one last horrific sacrifice to set the galaxy right. In theory. Too bad it doesn't work out that way.

The good ending would have been where I could actually shoot that stupid AI kid thing, set the crucible to "Reaper only" "Extra Crispy" and "No Relay Overload", and get closure.

[RoyalGambit]

I had an unsettling feeling that control and synthesis were traps of some kind, so I chose destroy. It also helped that Anderson was shown choosing destroy.

[Janus382]

Iberius wrote...

I originally chose Destruction because ever since I played Mass Effect for the first time, destroying the Reapers has always been the goal.

OP said it best.  I saw the Catalyst/StarChild/Godkid/whatever as an enemy, telling me I had 3 options, and only 1 of those was what I set out to do... so I saw the others as a trap.

I set out to destroy the reapers, the galaxy set out to destroy the reapers, so damnit, I'm gonna destroy the reapers.

[TJX2045]

Iberius wrote...

I originally chose Destruction because ever since I played Mass Effect for the first time, destroying the Reapers has always been the goal.

Mine is similar to yours.  Ever since the first game it was Shepard's goal to defeat the reapers.  I felt bad that I would be killing the Geth allies and EDI and effectively making Joker single again (before I realized it didn't matter anyways), but here's my reasoning:

Control - TIM wanted this, and failed.  Even though starchild (who is a big fat liar) says that Shepard is not like the Illusive Man, trying to control something that is already controlling him, how long would Shepard's will survive in the "Reaper consensus" or "collective" or whatever it is? The way I saw it, the Reapers could just go right back to square one.  We don't know how many different thoughts go on inside the collective or if others have tried to control them before, etc.

Synthesis: Machine and Man as one...I initially thought of this as basically mind control/group think, getting everyone to see the same things the reapers see.  Especially since they wanted to "perfect" the species through harvesting...why would I help them perfect organic life which they considered a mistake by merging them with what they consider "perfection"?  Also, Space Hitler, anyone?

After more thinking and contemplating, and playing through Mass Effect 1 again to make a pure paragon, something seemed off and made me think about the ending again...and then it hit me: SAREN WANTED THE SAME THING.  He had good intentions behind it, but overall it was a terrible idea.  So I was even happier I didn't go that route, regardless of how "cool" it was to see glowing eyes and electronic veins in the ending.

All these considered, this is why I choose destroy.  I felt like I made the right choice (and I still do) after I saw shepard take a breath...then the credits came, and then I was like, "WHAT?" *failboat* <_<

[Iakus]

Because when I saw the endings, and that this really was how it was all going to end, I decided to mercy-kill as much of the galaxy as I could. I was so completely taken out of the story.

[Zak MWTFunny]

I ended up picking Synthesis, not because it appealed to me from a story perspective, when it got to the end, I asked myself the obligatory wtf... everything from the elevator onwards (someone once said "Bioware, when are you going to learn we hate elevators!") I sat there and thought "Ok, what would Shepard pick..." and after sitting there and not being able to decide... I asked myself "what would I pick?"

I picked Synthesis, hoping that (given an interest in transhumanism, synthetic intelligence and what not) Bioware might give me something interesting to mull over, perhaps a new way of looking at something I have a personal interest in. Then I got greensplosions, and a crash that made no sense.

In my second playthrough, I chose the Alt-F4 ending when I got to the child in the vent on earth... That was the best ending for me.

[KevShep]

Death...to...Reapers!

[Dalorm]

thesnake777 wrote...

I looked at it this way. Synthesis is essentially what the reapers are already doing its really Reaper Harvesting Lite. Control has no guarantee the cycle is really broken.
I heard the options and said if im going down you are all coming with me.

Basically this. I knew there was a very good chance when I bought the game that I would probably have to sacrifice myself and crew to stop the Reapers. So when StarChild gave me the destroy synthetics along with Reapers option I was like "Meh thats not so bad. I may die and we can always build more Geth once the Reapers and StarChild are gone." Synthesis=Husks and Control is only an illusion.

[oksbad]

Synthesis makes a mockery of free will and diversity. Also, it is the most blatantly space magicy of the bunch. I can understand a reaper deactivation (destroy) or control signal. A re-write everyone on the cellular level wave? Blatant idiocy. Furthermore, it does nothing to prevent the hybirds from creating their own "pure" synthetics and causing "chaos" per starbrat's idiot logic.

Control just feels like its going to backfire at some point. (Though I wonder if you can simply take control of the reapers... and promptly order them to fly into the sun. Destroy ending with geth and EDI alive lol.).

[Wesley Wyndam Price]

I couldn't chose destroy and still haven't since I couldn't bring myself to destroy the geth who I just gave free will and thought. Even if I wanted to destroy the reapers I couldn't do so at the cost of genocide (even though everyone is more or less screwed no matter what you do)

[Tietj]

Well, to be fair, Shepard commits genocide in synthesis, too, as the Citadel explodes and kills all the keepers.

[Alexius]

Because Destroy was the only option that really ended the Reapers threat.

The other two seemed like playing with fire. Sure, spacebrat can warn me all he wants about the cycle starting again with Destroy and what not... But really? I'd rather give organics the benefit of the doubt.

Synthesis is forced peace. Thus, it's not real. How can we value something that we didn't achieve, it just happened? Shepard was all about unity through diversity. And Control... well, no way in hell I'd go for that one.

I'm still terribly sorry for EDI and the geth, though.

[yahtzo]

Because it was the goal from the very first game: DESTROY the reapers.  Not shoo them away with flashy blue/green graphics.

[OmegaXI]

Well on my first cannon playthrough (paragade) I choose destroy because I felt it was the only safe route to go. Yes it was implied that Shep. would die and it would kill the geth and EDI, but the way I saw it Shep. was telling people all through the game they had to willing to die to stop the Reapers and both Legion and EDI would have agreed with my actions.

There it was, a sure fire way to stop the Reapers cycle of genocide once an for all.

Even when that little bastard tried to tempt me with the essenttial godhood of controling the reapers, or when he wanted me to rewrite the DNA of everything againist their free will. No.......too many have died and so much had been sacraficed there was to be no barginning with me, the cycle had to stop once and for all to make things right.

I walked to my death knowing that if I was going to die I was taking those Reaper sons of b****** with me. And with the final recoil of my gun I whispered my LI name and died knowing the cycle has ended.

[edwards_77]

I hadn't heard of the IT when I finished. I chose destroy because that is what I felt was most fitting for my Shepard based on the decisions he had made earlier. I assumed it would kill him and that was the basis for my decision. I felt awful for killing the Geth, but I felt the Reapers had to be destroyed so that the Galaxy could sort itself out afterwards.

[Ansa2791]

i chose the synthesis ending first because the was no way i was gonna kill the geth and EDI but i was still not happy with the decision.

[Smiley556]

Cos shepard set out to destroy the reapers, at any cost. Control sounded like TIM, synthesis sounded like Saren, and both worked for the reapers. I have to note when I first played I didnt realise indoctination immidiatly but I deducted that starchild was harbinger, so in a way choosing destroy was a bit of a **** you in his direction.

[tidus1199]

Out of the three it's the only option Shepard would have chosen.

Although, given the option I think Shepard would have preferred to have killed the little s**t and found anoher way.

[charon45]

Shepard was against controlling the Reapers the whole game. He said that it was not possible and the Reapers represented too much power even if it were. I wanted to go for destroy because I believed Shepard was right on the subject for the whole game.

[RoamerZA]

Out of all the choices Casper the unfriendly Ghost gave us, it seemed right, as quite honestly I did not think my Shep had the right to enforce control or synthesis on the galaxy.
Oh ... and Shepard lives, and I am still dying to know why destroy, despite Casper telling me I will die, is the only option where that 25 second cutscene is added.
If that is the last time I play ME3, I want to leave my Shepard with a chance of survival.

[Gruzmog]

I had not played multiplayer and skipped a few artifacts + the elkor quest so my EMS was around 2900? Just a bit below the bar for the unlock of synthesis in any case.

Basilcy I chose destroy because I thought the starchild told me that control would make the relays explode, basicly ushering in a dark age. Gess I lost track of his insane thought process somewhere and since I could not ask him to repeat himself I made my choise on the assumption I was sacrificing EDI and the geth for an end to the reapers with all the lives safed by not destroying the relays.

Hence my dismay at the result of my choise.

To be honest I do now know what I would have chosen if I had known all option blew op the relays and I had had all 3 options.

I was actually pretty ok with the ending at first as I walked in with about 50% of max points I figured mine was halfway in the bad spectrum and there would be logic in the rest of the 15 endings.... we all know how that turned out.

Modifié par Gruzmog, 05 avril 2012 - 07:13 .

[Wes Finley]

Just working left to right...

CONTROL: Well, that's what TIM was all about, and that turned out so well. Also, electrocution does not look like fun.

SYNTHESIS: That sounds nice and all, but you want me jump off a ledge? Just take a flying leap? Naaaaah.

DESTROY: Hey, shootin' stuff! I'm good at that!

[charon45]

Tietj wrote...

Well, to be fair, Shepard commits genocide in synthesis, too, as the Citadel explodes and kills all the keepers.

I don't see that as genocide.  I see the Keepers as a shell of a race repurposed for Reaper use, much like the Collectors.