I've been playing the extended cut and watched some Youtube videos about the other endings. As soon as Shepard enters the catalyst, it seems to be against choosing the destroy option. The catalyst is very positive about the other two options. That is because the Reapers will survive. But it warns about the destroy option ("Others will be destroyed as well"). The Crucible is against it.
Also, I think if Shepard has got a high EMS, the Crucible gets worried, Shepard is so intend on destroying the Reapers that he brought half the galaxy with him. So the Crucible presents Shepard with a third option. An option where life is basically 'heaven on earth'. Very positive sounding, but the reapers survive and Shepard doesn't.
I think when choosing destroy, you survive the last trial Shepard faces: the Reapers manipulating Shepard to NOT destroy them. When choosing for destroying the Reapers, Shepard survives. I really feel Destroy is the real canon ending. Maybe there even will be a Mass Effect 4 following after the events of the Destroy ending.
I think there were more hints at destroy being the only 'right' option but I forgot some of them. Thoughts?
Does Bioware "want" us to choose "Destroy"?
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 08:44
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No, I think I read somewhere synthesis was their preferred ending.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 08:45
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DinoSteve wrote...
No, I think I read somewhere synthesis was their preferred ending.
Ugh christ help us all if all Mass Effect games from this point forward are based upon Synthesis....
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 08:53
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Nope. They want synthesis.
And the fact Shepard dies in the other endings doesn't make destroy their prefered one anyway. It's the end of Shepard's story anyway.
And there is NO canon ending. Why do you want that there will be one?
And the fact Shepard dies in the other endings doesn't make destroy their prefered one anyway. It's the end of Shepard's story anyway.
And there is NO canon ending. Why do you want that there will be one?
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 08:56
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Do not be afraid. Synthesis is peace. Synthesis is salvation.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 08:57
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It's just that I miss closure. Each of the endings are weird. It would be so cool with the indoctrination theory or when the Reapers were actually manipulating Shepard at the end.
Modifié par TimeforTravel, 02 juillet 2012 - 09:01 .
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:00
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They want speculation and debate so we don't forget the ending. They intentionally made it so there's no easy way out.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:01
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They know that if they cast destroy in a positive light and didn't give it a downside (Geth die) then almost everyone would pick it. And they know if they don't cast synthesis in a positive light with happy reaper friends then no one would pick it.
And yet the majority of people pick destroy and the majority of people despise synthesis....
And yet the majority of people pick destroy and the majority of people despise synthesis....
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:02
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Synthesis is Stagnation.agu123 wrote...
Do not be afraid. Synthesis is peace. Synthesis is salvation.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:02
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I never have trouble with choosing, even not with the huge Rannoch choice, but the endings... There's something about it. I just don't know which one I have to choose. And because I can't choose, no ending is satisfying enough for me unless there is a twist like the indoctrination theory.
Modifié par TimeforTravel, 02 juillet 2012 - 09:03 .
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:03
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What other twist is like the indoctrination theory?TimeforTravel wrote...
And because I can't choose, no ending is satisfying enough for me unless there is a twist like the indoctrination theory.
You just lost your own thread
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:05
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HagarIshay wrote...
Nope. They want synthesis.
And the fact Shepard dies in the other endings doesn't make destroy their prefered one anyway. It's the end of Shepard's story anyway.
And there is NO canon ending. Why do you want that there will be one?
It may be the end of Shep's story, but if they are ever going to move the timeline forward, the future games ARE going to be based on one of those endings. Therefore it will be the canon ending.
That's just what i think.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:06
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Billyg3453 wrote...
What other twist is like the indoctrination theory?TimeforTravel wrote...
And because I can't choose, no ending is satisfying enough for me unless there is a twist like the indoctrination theory.
You just lost your own thread
Like I said in the OP, the Reapers manipulating Shepard to choose something where the Reapers would survive.
Modifié par TimeforTravel, 02 juillet 2012 - 09:07 .
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:08
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I think it's obvious in the game that synthesis is the writers preferred choice. It's complete and total nonsense and it makes me feel physically ill but it's obviously the one the writers want you to pick. Bleh, I still choose destory every time.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:09
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I would think there wasn't a preferred ending, since all of them have their own benefits and drawbacks. But if they make a new, post 3 game based on synthesis, I'm probably not getting it.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:10
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Synthesis is their favorite ending. Not sure why, but it is. If anything, they intentionally made Destroy the worst ending. It doesn't improve the Galaxy at all, and all the synthetics are dead. The only positive is Shepard being able to live. However, some people really like Destroy, for whatever reason, so I suppose it balances out... kinda...
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:11
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No they want us to choose that stupid pit in the middle and they thought putting the death of geth and EDI in destroy was going to stop the majority. LOL
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:12
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"Inappropriate" usage of quotation marks.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:13
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DinoSteve wrote...
Synthesis is Stagnation.agu123 wrote...
Do not be afraid. Synthesis is peace. Synthesis is salvation.
It was a joke.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:14
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Synthesis is too much Body Horror stuff. Sci-fi version of the Human Centipede.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:18
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Jeez, so Bioware prefers Synthesis? The Catalyst prefers synthesis too... Everytime I pick my favorite ending (destroy) I didn't pick the 'best ending'. But I don't like synthesis...
To be fair, there is something wrong with each ending. I really don't know what or why, but no ending satisfies me. It would satisfy me if there was one canon ending, it would also satisfy me if the last segment of the game was manipulation or indoctrination, a final trial Shepard needed to overcome. But now it isn't and I don't quite get why. Does anyone else feel like this and can't they explain this unsatisfying feeling?
To be fair, there is something wrong with each ending. I really don't know what or why, but no ending satisfies me. It would satisfy me if there was one canon ending, it would also satisfy me if the last segment of the game was manipulation or indoctrination, a final trial Shepard needed to overcome. But now it isn't and I don't quite get why. Does anyone else feel like this and can't they explain this unsatisfying feeling?
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:18
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Legbiter wrote...
Synthesis is too much Body Horror stuff. Sci-fi version of the Human Centipede.
Bottom left picture on page 33 of the Artbook.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:19
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Malkeor wrote...
It may be the end of Shep's story, but if they are ever going to move the timeline forward, the future games ARE going to be based on one of those endings. Therefore it will be the canon ending.
That's just what i think.
What...?
How do you figure that because the games will be based on the endings, it means destroy will only be canon?
Why destroy and not the other three endings? What makes destroy so special (I remind you, that the reapers have been stopped no matter what you chose. Future games will be not be focused on the reapers, or at least have them in the plot in a different way).
Why give players the ending choices, if they won't have any ability to have the future galaxy with their preferred ending?
BioWare will not have a canon ending. In the tiny chance that they will, it'll be synthesis, since it's obviously preferred on them.
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Posté 02 juillet 2012 - 09:25
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HagarIshay wrote...
Malkeor wrote...
It may be the end of Shep's story, but if they are ever going to move the timeline forward, the future games ARE going to be based on one of those endings. Therefore it will be the canon ending.
That's just what i think.
What...?
How do you figure that because the games will be based on the endings, it means destroy will only be canon?
Why destroy and not the other three endings? What makes destroy so special (I remind you, that the reapers have been stopped no matter what you chose. Future games will be not be focused on the reapers, or at least have them in the plot in a different way).
Why give players the ending choices, if they won't have any ability to have the future galaxy with their preferred ending?
BioWare will not have a canon ending. In the tiny chance that they will, it'll be synthesis, since it's obviously preferred on them.
I was just saying that, if they ever make a game ahead of the timeline...and don't go into the past or paralell story line, then something is going to be based on one of these endings....that doesn't make sense to you? I just find the scale to hard to imagine to fit the setting based on your choice in the past. Right now it's just really hard to think about....just imagine the new game, taking place in the future, and everyone complaining why everyone doesn't have green eyes and a "computer chip" wavey sheen on everyone's body.
On the other hand, imagine how weird it would be....maybe not to you or other fans of synthesis, but to everyone else it would just be plain weird to have everything synthesized.
Unless they did some alternate reality jumbo... I just think Destroy would be the easier to go off of.
Personally I don't believe there is a preferred ending in general, becaues them saying it's the preferred ending means it's the best...and really there is no BEST. These choices were made to be difficult on purpose. What you get out of the endings is up to you.
Them saying that and getting that response from the community probably wasn't really the intended effect.
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