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[nranola]

Quoting Shepard: "If we destroy the Reapers, this ends today". Simple as that.

Modifié par nranola, 05 avril 2012 - 09:24 .

[wotmaniac]

1. From the very first game: Aim was to destroy the Reapers.
2. Control was totally out of the question: Spend three games tellin people you can't control them and that too much powah is dangerous...then you do a 180???
3. I was gonna choose Synth, but then I thought of Garrus and Liara and Javik the rest and I thought they wouldn't be happy being transformed into cyborgs or whatta****.
4. Starkid says (about Synthesis): "You call them husks..." Ok dude. I forgot for a moment, then I remembered and made my way to Destroy.
5. Geth and EDI. I felt sorry for them, but letting the Reapers live...sry mates, and I knew EDI and the Geth were ready to sac themselves. Doesn't mean I felt like **** though...I hate that kid.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

I chose destroy because the other two options seemed insane.

Synthesis: is just you enforcing will on to other people, and dooming culture to stagnation (any statement with the term final evolution is bad) besides how can a energy pulse rewrite dna?

Control: Now this option I find to be the most ridiculous, not only does it not solve your problem it is everything you have been fighting against since mass effect 1, srsly

[pawswithclaws]

Since Shepard just minutes ago had insisted that reapers couldn't be controlled, control just seemed like an illogical option to choose. And with the 'yeah, sure we're all different but we do manage to work together most of the time, isn't that great? theme we had going on (even Javik said that the lack of diversity led to their downfall during the previous cycle) the idea of creating peace by making everything the same also didn't seem like a good idea.

Or maybe my Shepard is just too stupid to get(h) seethrough-kid's logic. Either way, destruction seemed to me (based on the info we got over the course of the games) the only thing for Shep to choose that wouldn't compromise her goals, ideals and the soul of the galaxy. I was sad to 'see' the geth go, though. 

Modifié par pawswithclaws, 05 avril 2012 - 09:45 .

[DerberAuner]

i chose it because the kid explicitly said you were going to die when choosing the other two endings (also, controll seemed a bit out of character for my shepard). basically only destroy offered the OPTION of survival (feel kind of bad for the geth and EDI, but its not like i have a lot of options).

Edit: also, didnt really trust that kid, seemed iffy

Modifié par DerberAuner, 05 avril 2012 - 10:05 .

[Nightdragon8]

DerberAuner wrote...

i chose it because the kid explicitly said you were going to die when choosing the other two endings (also, controll seemed a bit out of character for my shepard). basically only destroy offered the OPTION of survival (feel kind of bad for the geth and EDI, but its not like i have a lot of options).

Exactly

[Hendrik.III]

Iberius wrote...

why did you originally choose the destruction ending rather than the control or synthesis ending? Did you do it b/c you thought Shepard was potentially being indoctrinated? You just hate the Reapers? or something else.

Basically, I just want to know what was going through your mind and why you chose destruction.
 
*****FYI - If you chose a different ending (Control or Synthesis) feel free to put that line of reasoning as well and why you did not choose Destruction.

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

Pretty much this. The other two options were complete unknowns. Would control just solve this situation or could it happen again? Synthesis I would never, ever choose. That would be giving up all that were are - who knows what would happen?

Modifié par Hendrik.III, 05 avril 2012 - 09:57 .

[elarem]

I chose Destroy and always will because I don't trust one word that comes from that AI - which also includes the statement that no organic has ever made it to the heart of the problem before! The 'deaths' (maybe) of EDI, the Geth and the destruction of reaper technology, is collateral damage - sorry but it has to be done - everyone should be willing to sacrifice themselves to defeat the Reapers not just Shepard!

This AI, which controls the Reapers and always has done so through all the cycles in which organics were harvested, now just wants to save the surviving organics (which its minions are still killing while this conversation is going on) as well as the Reapers, for the good of the Galaxy! I don't think so - it's just in its self-preservation mode and offers Synthesis as its way out. Synthesis for me is the absolute worst choice to make - it is literally a gut reaction! Everything organic will be reaperized - so much for the soul of a species! And does that mean the Banshees, Cannibals and Marauders will now play nice?

Not choosing Control is again down to not trusting the AI and its reasons for doing what is has done for millions and millions of years. I haven't spent three games trying to destroy the Reapers just to become another psychotic AI puppet master. In ME1 and 2 I somehow had the impression that the Reapers were independent minds joined in a common cause that we puny organics were incapable of understanding. It turns out they are just misguided tools of the AI after all - so much for Sovereign and Harbinger's arrogance!

So that is why I will always choose Destroy - Shepard doesn't have the luxury of seeing the endgame play out on YouTube before making a decision so for me, at that moment, the only feasible one is Destroy. Do I/Shepard trust that AI? No way! Let the Greater Cycle begin.

[Phategod1]

Total Biscuit wrote...

Phategod1 wrote...

I chose synthesis, One reason I did not choose destroy is because The starchild basically said the process would start all over again and there would be basically be no force to keep synthetic life from destoying all biological life. I kept thinking that in a fit of blind guilt the Quarians would make a new AI based off of the Reaper left on Rannoch and then your right back to square one. Synthesis makes us all equal no BS not pettiness, besides destruction invalidates everything I told EDI and everything I did for the Geth.

Yep, nothing like removing all diversity and forcing everyone to conform to a genocidal maniacs idea of racial purity and evolutionary perfection for a happy ending eh? I mean thats the only way to prevent bigotry and intolernce in real life, forcing everyone to be the same, because diversity is totally a weakness, and no two different groups can ever coexist, and never have.

And it's not like anyone will evolve down divergent paths now, because Evolution is totally a straight line, from bad to good everyone is heading for the same end result with, right?

And no one could possibly build a new AI either from purely mechanical parts that everyone still has the knowledge and means to create or a build techno-organic one, that would be just as likely to freak out and see everyone else as a threat.

Frankly synthesis is an appallingly bad message for Bioware to be promoting as their 'perfect' ending, as well as displaying their complete ignorance on so many scientific fields, while giving no explanation at all for how it works (not least of all because it's completely impossible) that I'm insulted by its inclusion in the game. It's just abhorrent and retarded

1st who decided that the Synthesis was "The 'perfect' ending"" and 2nd. could you sound like a bigger douche. Do yourself a favor play another game and get over yourself. 

Modifié par Phategod1, 05 avril 2012 - 10:01 .

[joiner87]

From ME1 to ME3 I fought to bring about the destruction on the Reapers, to not do that in the end would (for me anyway) fly in the face of everything I had done to get there.

[S Atomeha]

i reloaded after chosing synthesis. honestly i stared at the starchild not understanding what the hell he was talking bout (that and synth really freaked me out)... then I chose destroy, because yea... i don't like the kid.

[Calmb4tehpwn]

There was a lot of confusion in the last 10 minutes, and I wasn't actually sure what was going on, or what I was required to do. It's like my brain shut down on me and wasn't accepting new information. So I followed the man I could trust from the beginning.

Anderson showed me the way.

[Keltikone]

I chose the destruction ending for 2 diverse reasons:

1: I work as a GP in real life, after a 16 year career in the military, where I attained the rank of Lt Cmmdr while dishing out pills and treating sprains, unlike Shep, who got to blow crap up.

2: After 16 years in the military where I didn't get to blow crap up, I now get to blow crap up.

[ScriptDiver]

 I didn't know how it would all end at the time but took the destruction ending because I saw it as the only way where the reapers would be 100% dead. My Shepard saw the geth as a reasonable sacrifice, and only brokered the peace between quarians and geth to maximize the number of ships in the final battle in the first place. It was all about using people to save humanity at all costs. Altruistic? No, but it was my Shepard

[Vexille]

I honestly cant understand how anyone could be ok with anything besides Destroy... Saren advocated Synthesis... and Shep talks him into killing himself. TIM advocates control... and Shep again talks him into killing himself. Theres only one "right" option.

spacebrat IS the reapers remember... and Destroy is the ONLY option he speaks negatively about and tries to steer you away from. I mean... 2 options consist of Shep committing suicide... just because YOUR ENEMY tells you too.

what was it Garrus called it? Ruthless calculus? I kill 10 billion here to save 20 billion there. Sorry but I view EDI and a few billion Geth as an acceptable price to save ALL other races and end the reaper threat for good.

plus I see no reason to believe the Geth actually die too... I mean my shep lived, so its obvious space brat was full of ****

[p__q]

I chose synthesis because I was honestly so thrown by how bad the game was suddenly turning in the ending dialogue that I didn't even take in whether I had to go to the right or the left for destruction/control and when I was in control of Shep again I just went for the big beam in the middle so I could at least be sure what brand of manure I was choosing

[deakka562]

Picked destroy here. Mainly because I didn't trust the star child/harbinger. Destroy is the most logical choice.

Control won't work mainly because the only people vouching for it are the Star Child and TIM. The story has shown that you do NOT trust either. My Shepard never randomly trusted strangers, especially not see-through ghost kids who claim to be controlling reapers.

Synthesis is faulty because... well when I heard the "new DNA" line, I wanted to punch my screen. The thing Synthetics and Organics share is sentience, not genetic data. This was just silly. This ending was by far the most "space magic" filled one of the bunch, as such I dismissed it right away. How is a blast of green energy going to fundamentally change the body composition of the entire galaxy (and not end up frying everyone in existence)?

So although my "canon" Shep was a full paragon outside of punching reporters, he went with the Destroy option. Even if "space magic" triumphs past any ending revisions/clarifications, I interpret the red ending to merely disable Reaper Code (which EDI and the Geth all have). While it would cripple them, it would make no sense for our favorite sexybot and flashlight head buddies to simply go "poof".

[Pelle6666]

I figured that if I choose the control option I would do what TIM wanted and I think that he was dabbling with some crazy ****. Not doing that, the reapers are way too dangerous to be kept alive. If I'd chosen the synthesis I figured that I would just do what Saren would have wanted, why not just let him win in the first game then?
No, I came to destroy the reapers and damn it, that's what I'll do. So I shot the glass and hoped for some final way out of killen Edi and the geth. none came and the galaxy was screwed over. Shepard survived but Tali and all the others were stranded on a random planet.
WHY!!!!?

[DarkShadow]

Like I said in similar threads, I didn't care about anything story-related at that point, I was angry with the game and I had to destroy SOMETHING. You ask why I sacrificed the geth/EDI? I didn't, because I didn't accept the flawed logic behind that.

[Syenthros]

 For years, my goal was to destroy the Reapers.

I had no idea about the Indoctrination Theory to cloud my judgement on the matter, and it took me several minutes to finally come to a decision on what to do, because, silly me, I thought it'd matter.

As a Paragon Shepard, I weighed my options. Control... I'd seen the terrible things Control could do - I'd just been mentally backhanded by TIM only moments before, after all. Throughout my trilogy as a Paragon, I held free will and the right to make your own choices as paramount.

Synth just seemed... wrong. I mean, how could you possibly rewrite the genetic codes of everything in the galaxy by adding synthetic/organic DNA (Synthetics don't even have DNA, Bioware! ) and expect anything to survive the process? To be honest, I assumed that everything in the galaxy would die with this choice. Avoided like the plague.

Destroy, however, embodied my goal from the very beginning - destroy the Reapers. I didn't want to do it - not with the price as heavy as it was. I had spent the whole game humanizing EDI, getting her and Joker together, working to get the Quarians and the Geth to work together... And here it was, time to get Old Testament on the Reapers but I'd have to destroy what I'd built to do it.

But in the end, Control and Synth simply seemed like too large of risks to do. Destroying the Reapers would end the conflict - permanently. Sometimes, the few must die for the many. For me, EDI and the Geth were to be the final sacrifices necessary to save the remaining trillions.

If only it hadn't all been in vain.

Modifié par Syenthros, 05 avril 2012 - 10:55 .

[CommanderApollo]

It is the best of all three endings but I just don't like how the Citadel,Mass Relays and the Crucible get destroyed.I mean how will all of those fleets get out of the Sol System.

[Biotic_Warlock]

Iberius wrote...

why did you originally choose the destruction ending rather than the control or synthesis ending? Did you do it b/c you thought Shepard was potentially being indoctrinated? You just hate the Reapers? or something else.

Basically, I just want to know what was going through your mind and why you chose destruction.
 
*****FYI - If you chose a different ending (Control or Synthesis) feel free to put that line of reasoning as well and why you did not choose Destruction.

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

I didn't trust the BieberReaper at first. Thinking back i might have chosen synthesis.

[Escocido]

Because both control and synthesis are the goals of the main indoctrinated villains and I felt that turning Mass Effect into "the story of Shepard, the man who was wrong all along", was stupid.

[Syenthros]

Biotic_Warlock wrote...
I didn't trust the BieberReaper at first. Thinking back i might have chosen synthesis.

You just made my night. 

[Bombe]

I chose destroy because it had been the main point all along. It had been made pretty clear that you can't control the reapers, and synthesis jusyt wasn't an option (husks etc). My shep wasn't going to get to the finish line and not blow the reapers to hell.