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[Menagra]

This makes me like the endings even less.

[Ithurael]

BatmanTurian wrote...

What they didn't want is idiots droning on and on about bad writing. Clearly there was good writing up until the end or you wouldn't have played the games, people. But whatever. I've made my point.

I am just speaking for myself and my observations but I see far more b*tching and whining about the last 30 minutes or so of the game - not the whole game itself.

There is good writing, up until the ending. The problem is that endings (especially to trilogies) are f*cking difficult. The journey leading up to the ending was great (and I am sure many of the haters would agree with that). But in the end, it is unfortunate that we are left in nonsense, contrivances, and sub-standard writing for a finale that proved it could do so much better. That is the problem for me, I cannot fathom the difference between the greatness of the first 99% of the game (and the prior two installments) vs the last 1%.

MrBtounge stated it best (I paraphrase):
"There was art in ME3, but not in the ending, it was in all the hard yeomenship that went into the first 95% of the game. The response to that was overwhelmingly positive, the response to the last 5% was overwhelmingly negative. What is the cause of this discrepancy?"

[Suspire]

Nah ME3 had bad writing from the start. But hey I played the first 2, needed to end my Shep's story, and I had already bought ME3, so of course played it.

[His Name was HYR!!]

HYR 2.0 wrote...

Still don't see how the Matrix thing disproves face-value interpretation.

.... Anyone??

[CELL55]

Damn that ending sucked hard.

[N7Gold]

I'm really glad someone brought up the comparison between The Matrix and the Mass Effect trilogy. Some people may call it bad writing, but I see the similarity between the Architect and Intelligence (Catalyst). Just like the Architect couldn't create a version of the Matrix that suited humans, the Intelligence (Catalyst) couldn't manifest Synthesis, the ideal solution because it can't be "forced", likely because like the Architect, the Intelligence is "bound by the parameters of perfection", as they are both intelligent, trying to find a solution. They need Neo and Shepard because they are both anomalies. In the Intelligence's case, Shepard is not an "unbalanced equation", Shepard is needed to assist the Catalyst to help fulfill its purpose its creators the Leviathans gave it to pursue. The Crucible is a tool of the Catalyst and its creators. The Reapers are meant to be unconquerable enemies that "herd" humans, asari, turians and other races into building and using the Crucible even though they don't know what it does.If they try looking for alternatives, the Reapers will destroy or harvest them. Desparation and/or blind hope is what drives them to use a machine as mysterious as the Crucible.

"The Architect - Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion,
simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest
weakness."

Hope can encourage people to face seemingly impossible odds, or it can drive people into an elaborate trap. The Intelligence likely knows this too. Without the Reapers, or any enemy that can't be defeated by conventional means, races considered "lesser" by the Leviathans won't be pressured into building and using the Crucible, and the Catalyst's purpose will never be fulfilled.