Ieldra2 wrote...
What did you expect, BlueStorm? An ending with no bad side effects *and* no moral compromise? That would've been utterly boring.
It *is* a bright future. There is a difference between murder/genocide and sacrificing people for victory in a war. It's your ending, so you know how your Control!Shepard will act in future, and the "abominations" (a term that shouldn't even exist) - the eyes are artistic representations of a mostly invisible change, and if the ability to seamlessly integrate technology is enough for you to use that term for people then that says something about you rather than about those people, doesn't it?
If you want the 10k year dark age back then you can always play low-EMS Destroy, but pardon me if I'm looking forward to a more interesting future for my ME universe. In any of the three main options.
Oh so now adhering to morality and your values is boring? Gee just what do you do for fun? It is not a bright future.
Shepard that exerts control is no longer Shepard once becoming Shreaper. Unless you think that all a person is is their intelligence and that emotion and feeling, empathy and caring and even hate mean nothing. We aren't just what we think, we are even more what we feel. Shreaper (the thing that controls the reapers) is no longer Shepard. In fact, our morality (what Shreaper would think is right) comes even more from our emotions than it does from our intellect. You have no idea how Shreaper will act in the future and the ominous tone of Control suggests it might not be good. My paragon Shepard/Shreaper said the woman she was always knew she had to become something greater-no, she didn't. No paragon ever thought that. It also talks about taking care of the many-again not a paragon "thought". Also, no one knows that Shepard is controlling them-they all think Shepard died. And suddenly the reapers are fixing things and are policing the galaxy. Do you honestly think no one will ever worry that they might attack again? Do you honestly think everyone will just sing songs and hold hands and be happy with reapers living and working around them? The reapers have people goo in them. If you were living on Earth at the time, isn't it possible you might wonder which reaper "ate" your family and want the reapers gone? Isn't it possible other people would?
And what happens when old disagreements arise? Think the Batarians will just all retire? What if the Salarians and Krogan start fighting? And the reapers fly in to stop the fighting? That can't end well--who wins and who loses and which "many" does Shreaper protect?
A lot of people even in the ME "universe" see the use internally of tech as an abomination. Choosing synthesis forces your "easy" choice on them without their consent. And the change to people is unnatural and thus is an abomination. Furthermore, it is complete drivel to say that the fusion of synthetics and organics is something that will one day naturally happen, that is unless the star kid is God. In making it happen, you are buying into the idea that he is either psychic or a deity. He was programmed by someone, so he is by virtue of that a fallible being with limits to his knowledge and yet he is telling you he knows all. Also, by choosing synthesis you are solving his problem, achieving his goals and not yours.
Where in 3 games did anyone other than the repugnant and insane and indoctrinated ever attempt synthesis? Where in 3 games did Shepard ever indicate it sounded like a good idea. Attempts to achieve it (overlord, Saren, Cerberus husks, collectors, the reapers themselves) have always been abominations. So, now it's just great because it seems innocuous and is being offered by Mr. Innocent-in the form of a kid? It is even abominable to select it based upon what he thinks it means. He sees it as perfection and what all people aspire to become through tech. Talk about warped. He is tech so in one of the best examples of what racists think those inferior to them want, he is telling you that all people want to be more like him. No they don't. Perfection does not exist but when we talk about it we say it is in a baby's smile, or a beautiful day, or in the sleek lines of some designed work a person created. It often exists within our emotions about things and not in the things themselves. Nothing is perfect, but if it ever is then there's no way or reason to go beyond perfect. Add to that the idea of immortality and I ask you can you really not see the problems that might come of it? Krogan have babies. Rachni have babies. They both have a lot of babies. Reapers still exist and are now what, controlling themselves? This is not utopia. And it is unnatural. And it is forced.
So destroy. Sacrifice in battle does happen, sure. But the targeting of a whole race or whole races of people is intentional and is genocide. They are not casualties of war, they are gratuitous victims on a lack of imagination or a persistent expression of punishment upon players of the game. The choice could target reapers only but that would be too much like fun, so in choosing it morality is thrown out the window along with Shepard's heart. And for good measure let's smash that heart and all those values and leave Shepard where such a selfish person as s/he deserves to be-under rubble and headless. You cannot compare great freely offered sacrifice and death in battle to planned extermination of whole races of people. My paragon Shepard said you don't condemn a race of people to extinction based upon what might happen AND you don't sacrifice some over here to save others over there.
There's a big difference between someone running forward willingly toward the enemy and dying and you being told by your enemy you must shoot someone in the head to save others.
So refuse seems natural and makes sense, but the writers decided that since you don't want to see how cool the other choices are, you need to be punished. Game over, idiot.
None of these are victories and certainly not for the people I care about. I care about Shepard, Shepard's friends and loved ones. I care about the galaxy and even those that didn't want to save themselves. I care about this moment n time and not the future-one that may or may not happen, but also one the free and self-reliant people can attain. But in caring about all that there have to be overriding factors that determine the quality of life after any victory and that is "is it moral, was it achieved with honor and values intact, with the heart leading the way, or was it achieved for expediency-was the easy road the one I traveled?" You don't win at all costs or the costs are too high. You win because it is the right thing to do and you did the right things to get there. There's no "win" in ME3.
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