Now, I hate all three endings. The mere thought of them makes me wanna rage all day, wrecking furniture and shouting at people in the street (I don't do that, in case anyone wonders). The first time I finished the game, I was stupefied and just kind of walked into the beam.
However, now that I have had some time to consider the ending, I came to the following conclusion: if EC just cements existing endings the way Catalyst presented them, I will Alt+F... sorry, I will choose Synthesis on my canon Shepard.
Because it's the least awful option for her, and that's why:
Why I can't choose Destroy.
My Shep is renegade (Me1 and Me2 renegade, not the crazy jerk of ME3), so she knows that sometimes you have to sacrifice 10 people for the good of 100. Or sacrifice a race to save all others. However, all her lifetime she believed that synthetics and organics can live peacefully, it was one of her main goals - to show that synthetics are people just like us and we can co-exist. To destroy them all just when they started to prove us right by helping the quarians would be destroying everything she fought her, nullify her biggest victory.
And it's not only personal matter. Peace between synthetics and organics is hard to achieve, not because "the created will always rebel against the creators" bull****, but because we are so different and so naturally suspicious of each other, especially given how fast synthetics can evolve. It took a lot of efforts from Shepard to establish peace, and it's fragile for now, but it can blossom. While if we destroy the geth now, we can only hope that in the future somebody else manages the same thing.... but it only took one question to start the Morning War, and who is to say another spark like that won't ignite another centuries-long conflict?
Of couse, if it was an only option - then yes. But we also have:
Control
Which I think is a real trap here. It looks better than all other options - you don't destroy your friends, Citadel seems fine and mass relays are merely damaged and you now have bigass army you can control. However, do I believe, that one person, no matter how awesome my or your Shepard is, can control thousands of sentiens ancient warships? No.
Which brings us to synthesis.
Synthesis is, without a doubt, the most retarded ending ever, with possible exception for the ending of the Limbo of the Lost (which was at least funny). It's explanation doesn't make sense, it's pure space magic at its best. We don't get to see the consequences of our choices so we can only speculate.
But I disagree with a few points which are over and over again brought up against the synthesis:
You are a space Hitler! You cannot decide for all the galaxy!
Guess what, that happens in most of videogames where you are the saviour of the galaxy/earth/your country/whatever. Your choices affect the rest of your people's lives. You just choose what you think is best.
Yes, such a major change will be scary for some, but my Shepard (who went full retard at this point, but that has already been discussed) is not afraid of making a few people upset
Synthesis destroys diversity.
No it doesn't. From what we have seen, all it does is give people green eyes. Which sucks if you liked your girlfriend's baby blues, but is preferable to extinction.
There are still different races, its just they have been upgraded. It's like you and I went out and got a similar tattoo - would not change the fact we are both different.
Synthesis doesn't solve anything! You can still create new synthetics and be killed by them!
To that I can only say - F*CK Catalyst and his "created will always rebel agains the creator". I have a car and it didn't kill me yet
You are doing what Saren wanted, as opposed to what Anderson wanted.
This makes me facepalm every single time. Saren wanted to live in submission. Shepard doesn't.
And Anderson... Anderson is a simple man. A soldier. He just wants to blow all this ****ers up. But he isn't the hero of this story (neither, admittedly, are you, but you get to decide between Red, Blue or Green).
You have been indoctrinated.
Don't believe IT, don't care about IT, don't bring it into this discussion
If anyone had read it up to this point - thank you. Have a cookie
Modifié par Gexora, 06 juin 2012 - 07:55 .
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