Taboo-XX wrote...
You've presented a rather poor case for yourself and have come across looking exatcly like Bioware has been treating you.
1. You assume for whatever reason that everyone's Shepard is the same.
2. You assume you know what Bioware wanted us to make out of their game.
3. You make disingenious assertions about things you cannot possibly have answers to.
What confuses me most is your lack of communication in this thread. You are either not interested in giving your opinion or are simply flame baiting.
I have yet to see one Pro-ender elcidate in clear detail the utter lack of perpicacity that the schizoid bull rush of the ending details. It makes me uncomfortable that people are so easily satiated when given something that insults their intelligence and they then use it to promote personal vanity.
I've seen this type of meta weirdness before. It's nothing new. It's been going on for well over forty years. I find your lack of knowledge in this area distrubing.
Sorry, I've been unable to post in this thread after I made it. I was out all night and away from my computer. I really wanted to have this debate with people, as I knew pretty much everyone would disagree with me and can't possibly understand how someone could have a differing opinion from the norm, which is to hate the game for everything its worth just because they didn't like the ending.
First things first: the apparent contradictory nature of this thread. The title says I thought the ending was perfect, then in the OP, I say, "Was it perfect? No." That looks like I'm trolling, but what I was saying was even though I thought the ending was perfect for me and my Shepard, the game itself - as a whole- was not without its flaws. Such as the terrible journal and the fact that romances felt a little unfulfilling. That's what I meant about the game not being perfect. However, I found the ending that I chose to be perfect.
Now, let me address head on why I chose the synthesis ending. A lot of folks in this thread are saying how atrocious and barbaric synthesis is. How it is the forced homogenization of all organic life in the galaxy. How is that a good thing? I should also point out that a buddy of mine who like all of you also hated the ending and couldn't POSSIBLY understand how someone could have a different opinion, said that the synthesis ending was not only a solution it was essentially "The Final Solution."
But instead of offering a full on defense of synthesis, I'm going to explain why I DIDN'T chose the other two. Let's start with Destroy. Going back to ME2, my paragon Shepard worked very hard to talk the quarians out of going to war with the geth, how devastating that would be for the quarians. Then, after meeting Legion, she begins to see the geth in a different light. The geth become three dimensional people that, as is later revealed in ME3, never wanted a war with their creators. It was the quarians that brought war to them, and even forced the geth into reaper hands.
Not to mention that on a very personal level, Shepard now saw Legion as a member of her crew and a friend. So, finally having achieved peace between both the geth and the quarians, coupled with the fact that choosing to destroy the reapers would also wipe out the geth and all other synthetic life - including EDI - was something that my Shepard would NEVER choose. Ever. It's genocide. Synthetics had now evolved to be self aware, sentient beings. They had all the rights that any other organic lifeform had. So, choosing Destroy was 100% not an option.
Next is Control. Again, no way in hell would my Shepard choose that option. She spent the entire game fighting Cerberus and TIM who were trying to do that very thing. Right up until that final scene on the Citadel. After talking to the Catalyst, it is revealed that TIM was right but that he was indeed indoctrinated. He would not have succeeded. Though Shepard was not under reaper control, the old saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely IMMEDIATELY sprung to mind when presented with that option.
Just because Shepard was not indoctrinated doesn't mean that she (or he) would not succumb to the corruption that such power would bring. Shepard is after all, only human. Plus, it was never fully explained if Shepard's consciousness lives on forever within the reaper framework, kind of like within the Geth Consensus. After Shepard dies, what happens to the reapers? This option presented far more questions than answers, and the possiblity for there to be more danger in the future was just too high. I even thought a lot about what happened to Anders when he bonded with Justice in DA2, how his lust for vengeance ended up twising Justice's spriit. It drove them both mad. I can see something like that happening to Shepard by joining - or controlling - the reapers. So, once again, not a realistic option for my Shepard.
That leaves us with synthesis. The lesser of all three evils. The Catalyst explains that it is the next natural step of evolution, a meshing of organic and synthetic life to form a new species. The only real problem I had with this option is that BioWare didn't delve into what this truly meant. They probably didn't have time. But again, it mirrors the Matrix Revolutions or even 2001: A Space Odyssey (Star Child, anyone?). Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" aka "Blade Runner") would have been proud of this option. That doesn't mean that you had to like the Matrix, just that if you had seen it you would understand EXACTLY where BW was coming from with this option, whether you liked it or not, agreed with it or disagreed with it. As stated by Agent Smith in the FIRST Matrix film:
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It
came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that
you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively
develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you
humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until
every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is
to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that
follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings
are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the
cure.
"
That is exactly what the Catalyst says just in different words. But the definition is identical. That is the purpose of the harvesting of organic life.
But sci-fi writers such as Clarke, Philip or Asimov would have presented more ambiguous questions that would have been open to interpretation by the reader or viewer. Questions that I just don't think BioWare had the time to ask the gamer. Was the synthesis option without its consequences? No. It not only would cost Shepard his or her life, but as you all pointed out, it involuntarily forces EVERYONE in the galaxy to be the same. This is a great topic to debate. And had BW done more fleshing out of this point, I'm not sure everyone would revile it so much. You would still have haters or people that simply disagreed with it, which is fine and even healthy, but probably not the sheer amount of negativity surrounding it.
The writers of this game warned you REPEATEDLY throughout ME3 that you were going to have make an incredibly difficult decision at the end that you may not like. That whatever lies ahead will come with great consequence. I guess you guys just didn't think they actually meant it. By the way, I will admit that the "space magic" was a little odd. Like this green light shooting out in all directions somehow combined all organic and synthetic life in one fell swoop. That actually reminded more of The Dark Crystal than the Matrix Revolutions.
But I knew what the intent was.
Finally, my point of saying I've lost all respect for this community is highlighting the fact that though EVERYONE is entitled to their own opinion and some people just simply wouldn't like the game, the sheer amount of hate and negativity just seems so disproportionate to the reality of the game itself. It comes off as just hate for hate's sake. As in, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. It's fine not to like something. But to hate like what we're seeing on BSN? It just comes off as juvenile. So to wrap this up bluntly, I'm going to say that for everyone of you that says those of us that like the game don't understand what's wrong with it or are just trolling or whatever, that you yourselves are quite simply, lemmings. Incapable of independent thought and just following the mob mentality perpetuated by the internet, also known as nerdrage.
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