Obvakhi wrote...
greggers1 wrote...
Obvakhi wrote...
Elite Midget wrote...
Synthesis was always their love child. You know despite raping the entire Universe into becoming cyborgs without their consent and becoming the Reapers little toy. Instead they made it out to be the ultimate ending when really it isn't.
Once again Synthesis-haters are too stubborn to even look at the potential benefits, they can only look at the negative aspects. 'It MUST be bad because I say so!'
No it's bad because you rewrite the genetic structure of every living creature and machine in the galaxy against their will, at no point in time was a there a vote to see if everyone wanted to be raped by the star child. I'm stubborn because rape is bad and at no time would I let the Catalyst a.k.a. a reaper a.k.a. the enemy, tell me what to pick. I'd show them my butts cheeks and laugh as I sent them straight to hell. The last two games all anyone has said is "We need to destroy the reapers" and "Trying to control them is a bad idea" destroy is the only option that makes logical sense in the entire universe.
What about the people turned into husks? Shouldn't synthesis mean they now walk around and talk forever turned into some cyborg looking freak? What about hte Brutes, some mashed up pile of body parts? You think they're going to like being alive as some freak?
I think any leader in history that has said anything along the lines of "We must become genetically perfect" has turned out to be a pretty bad guy.
So in your head, organics are unable to adapt to change and that they will be miserable for the rest of their lives because they were forced(or 'raped')... Sorry, but I don't see that happening anywhere in the slideshow.
So what right do you have to destroy all synthetics? At no point in time was there a vote given to them.
And I find it ironic that that you said "at no time would I let the Catalyst tell me what to pick". Yet you pick Destroy, so you actually did pick what the Catalyst gives you. By that statement, you should of went with the Refusal ending.
I'm sure some people would adapt, but do you think everyone is going to be happy with the decision to change everyone without asking? I wouldn't just be miserable, I'd be out for blood. It's like someone kicked in my front door and said "I'm sorry but we're going to have to change your ethnicity, it doesn't fit into MY world view". Synthesis changes your DNA not how you think and feel, I'm sure there'd be plenty of people just as pissed as me. It's not about adapting it's about free will. One person is making a decision for EVERYONE in the galaxy, a decision that can't be reversed. In terms of destroy everyone is in favor of it, they cast their vote by picking up a gun and refusing to be willing harvested and turned into monsters/Reaper goo.
Organics created Synthetics, doesn't matter how fancy you make your toaster or how great it is at mimicking sentience, to me it's still a toaster. A very very smart toaster that is able to contemplate on why it makes toast instead of just shutting the f*** up and making my toast. I'd sacrifice machines a million times over before I went all 'Master Race' all over every organic thing in the galaxy. You want Geth or EDI or other synthetic organisms back, make them again, easy as that.
The game has four choices, if I pick any of them (even refusing to pick is a choice) I'm going to have to make a choice presented by the game. What I meant was that control/synthesis are what the Catalyst would want. The Catalyst controls the Reapers, he wants HIS system of destruction to remain in place. And yes I know what your thinking "but Shepard is in control of the Reapers he can stop them from killing everything" wrong he merged his consciousness with the Catalyst. Shepard has ceased to exist and the new Catalyst is still partially the genocidal rogue A.I. that thinks in order to protect organic life from killing itself by creating Synthetics, it rounds up civilizations kills them and melts them into instant Reaper juice. How long before the new Catalyst deems organics too flawed to be able to keep from killing themselves and reverts back to it's old logic? (especially in the renegade control ending)
In ME1 Saren wanted to control the Reapers and bring about a synthesis between organic and synthetic life, an idea placed in his head because he was indoctrinated by the Reapers (pssst...I don't know if you remember but Saren was the bad guy and so are the Reapers) to be used as a tool to bring the cycle to it's end. In ME2 the collectors were being controlled by the Reapers and they were trying to find your body in order to use your DNA to force synthesis on everyone. If synthesis is the 'Best' ending then why did ME1 and ME2 need to happen? Might as well have agreed with Saren jumped into the laser beam pit and melted your face off in the first game.
The game is and has always been about STOPPING the Reapers, not making freaky with the galaxy's DNA, not inviting them over over for tea and asking them to kindly share all their best ways of wiping out a civilization. Stopping them. They've racked up so many genocides that the next one's free (providing they have the proper amount of hole punches on their frequent genociders card), they make Hitler look like the Ghandi. For what reason, because organics MIGHT kill themselves by creating synthetics? It's like arresting someone for THINKING about doing something illegal. "Hey I don't want you to kill yourself so I'm going to go ahead and kill you myself, to save you and me the hastle later".
TL;DR As long as the Reapers exist, the whole galaxy is in danger. Control/Synthesis is what the Reapers want. Refuse (no matter how fun it was to tell King Reaper f*** you right to his face) is dumb, because you doom everyone to death and the next cycle isn't retarded and they pick destroy anyways. Destroy makes the most logical sense in terms of saving people from the Reaper threat.
Find it hard to write a term paper, but knock out something like this easily, lol. If only there was a video games class in college.