I've come to the determination that the main thing I can't stand about the Destroy ending is that it's an option presented to Shepard by the Catalyst. Had the Catalyst presented Control and Synthesis as the only two options, and Shepard been able to give his/her FU speech and chosen to start shooting things on his/her own terms and the ending played out exactly like the Destroy ending, I'd have actually been able to live with it. I just can't stand being forced to go along with one of the Catalyst's "options" when it's clearly an antagonistic force incapable of understanding the real value of organic life (and aside from that, really needs a bullet to the head after it's flawed attempts at justifying genocide on a galactic scale).
It doesn't seem like a big difference, I'll admit, but if the destroy ending had been initiated by Shepard rather than presented to him/her as an option by the Catalyst, it would have felt like a much more satisfying victory, regardless of the fact that EDI and the Geth are also lost. In a series all about player choice, the last thing I wanted was to get to the end of the game and have the main antagonist (setting aside the fact that said antagonist was introduced for the first time 10 minutes from the end) decide what I can or cannot choose. Can you imagine Mass Effect if at every major decision point one of your enemies walked over and started telling Shepard "So, here are your options: pick one."?
Anyway, what do the rest of you think? Would anyone else have been more satisfied if Shepard had initiated the Destroy ending against the Catalyst's will?
My primary issue with the Destroy ending
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Osterneth
, juin 27 2012 05:38
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Posté 27 juin 2012 - 06:02
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Maybe it would have been more realistic than the Destroy ending we have.
Yes, Shepard doesn't listen to the Catalyst (who wants to save his ass and threat Sheppy) and choose to blow all things up.
It's not neither artistic (i feel sick when i hear this) or original anyway, it's simply a classic stereotype, a stereotype i think almost everybody likes.
But i'm not going to criticize the Destroy Ending for that, because in that context the Catalyst is not just an enemy, and we don't know if the Crucible does something to the Catalyst himself, but i think so.
Yes, Shepard doesn't listen to the Catalyst (who wants to save his ass and threat Sheppy) and choose to blow all things up.
It's not neither artistic (i feel sick when i hear this) or original anyway, it's simply a classic stereotype, a stereotype i think almost everybody likes.
But i'm not going to criticize the Destroy Ending for that, because in that context the Catalyst is not just an enemy, and we don't know if the Crucible does something to the Catalyst himself, but i think so.
