JustKnowz wrote...
I believe EC DLC should've been included in the original game... a lot of headaches would have been avoided by both Bioware and US (the fans). I've read a lot of good points here in favor of Destroy and Control... after the EC... I chose Synthesis. Here's why:
- Evolution is inevitable,, be it via Crucible or vis how many more hundreds of thousands of years of "harvesting" by the Reapers.. we'll get there sooner or later.
- I've read opinions on choosing Synthesis as an indoctrinated choice... I disagree. Control seems more like a tyrannical, indoctrinated choice. The Geth used the Reaper Code and "evolved" and actually stopped using "consensus"--- they became unique individuals (i.e, Legion said "I" must return to them (geth)... no longer using "we")
- I think people are creeped out by the glowing eyes and "circuit-skin"... but after reaching that level of enlightment... that's probably irrelevant. Besides, we all got the glowing eyes! So we are equally creepy 
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- Why deny knowledge of the past to all? When it can be shared and used. I dont think this is a utopian state... with this much intelligence there are bound to be disagreements-- but I think there will be much more civil ways to disagree. Who knows.
WITH THIS.... I lay down this game as a satisfied customer... sure.. I wanted a final showdown with Harbinger using the targeting system to blast his a** to kingdom come. Yeah, I wanted to get a homecoming ceremony a la Star Trek for Capt Kirk and retire to Thessia and have blue baby Shepards (how cool is that?) But the endings provided here--- are good for the story that wanted to be told by the authors (bad job to you guys for sending an UNFINISHED game out in the market)
I will be waiting for the next ME game, although I may not be getting it on opening night, but with reluctance-- I'll follow, maybe
No, if this was the original ending it would still be flawed because it is basically the same ending with a coat of paint and lots more words. Glad you liked it, but Casey Hudson said the endings weren't fundamentally changed and they weren't. They just look and sound cool now, but not in my opinion.
All choices must be meta-gamed. No way Shepard would trust the kid is being truthful and since he's even crazier in the EC, his explanations more wild and non-sensical, he's even less credible. Given even the things that he most likely is being truthful about he is totally insane for an AI.
In what perverse universe do you actually think all life is going to just evolve and unite organic and synthetic beings into basically one new life. And not by the reapers certainly. The star kid says he can't do it, it can't be forced. But that's crazy because the only way to do it (synthesis) is to force it. I don't care if people have butterflies coming out their mouths or if they are not green eyed with green circuit boards under their skin. If even one person would not want this done to them it is an assault being done by Shepard. And there were people in ME that did not even want implants of any kind.
Why give everyone instant knowledge? Gee, when in the game has there ever been a problem with advancing people beyond what is natural and what they "deserve" and are ready to advance to? Only repeatedly. The Rachni were advanced by the Protheans in order to become more warlike. The Krogan were advanced in order to deal with the Rachni and Mordin says some very interesting things about how wrong that and synthesis are.
Synthesis also raises questions of immortality (what happens when the population explodes) and many other things that are not answered. It is also the star kid's choice.
Control is similar to synthesis but instead of having some internal change to force people to develop a certain way, it uses the physical presence of the reapers to do so. Shepard is no more-Shepard was more than just intelligence and thought, but also emotion, caring, and all those things that help keep intelligence in line with what the heart and soul know.
Control and Synthesis both deny people the right and ability to decide the path they will take. Evolution is not an end state, it is a process of growth that isn't only physical but is also something less tangible. You appreciate what you learn on your own far more than what someone tells you. Really look back at what Mordin says in ME2 about the Collectors.
Destroy isn't really any better than either of those-it forces Shepard to kill the best examples of why the kid is wrong. It's the only choice that lets people free to make their own way into the future-to succeed and fail on their own, and to grow, but it's also genocide. It is however the only thing Shepard was ordered to do and was given permission to do.
But, all choices are based on the kid telling the truth.
Refuse is a real non-choice and a middle finger to fans by Bioware. So there still is no good choice for the ending and the idea of these artificially inserted choices and the never-before-mentioned starkid is as repugnant as ever. IMO.
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