all the rage about the original endings, now with the EC is all sunshine and
bunnies for some people. Good for them.
Altough I recognize, and thank Bioware for the effort they made
in order to give the fans this new DLC, and specially the fact that it came at
no cost, after playing it and looking back trough the entire series, I feel
like I crossed the english channel swimming.....just to die on the shore.
All the effort put in developing my Shepards (both male and
female) all the countless hours playing ME 1 & 2 (about 25 times each game)
were laid to waste by the last 10 minutes of ME3.
In my opinion ME3 is a good game, not as good as 1 & 2
but still is good, and to its credit I must say that it has some of the most emotional
moments in the whole trilogy.
I wasn´t expecting a "Star Wars Happy Ending”, no war has it
anyway, but I certainly hoped my hero, our hero, could live to tell the story,
just as his intention was.
In one of the dialogues with the Catalyst he says to Shepard
that they harvest the more advanced civilizations, both organic and synthetic,
to prevent them from killing each other, and then preserve them in Reaper form.
To my knowledge, there’s no trace in the galaxy of an advanced
synthetic civilization, only stories, told by Javik, about conflict between
organic and synthetics, but no trace of cities, temples, cultural and artistic expressions
that define a civilization (like Egypt, Greece or Rome, for example).
More recently, we have the Geth-Quarian conflict, but where
in the game we find a Geth city? they live in servers, you may say, and were
constructing a Dyson Sphere, and you’re right, but a lot of servers and a big
sphere hardly constitute a civilization.
Sorry if I drifted a little from the before mentioned
dialogue, but I wanted to make my idea clear.
I find the fact that the Reapers were created to avoid
conflict between organics and synthetics, by
wipping them all in repeating cycles, as odd as going to someone’s house
and telling him: “I’m going to kill you and your kids, to avoid that you kill each
other, and from your remains I will make some Frankenstein monster that will be
eternal and an emotionless killer like me, and that periodically will do as I
did”.
I fail to see the logic in that.
About Shepard’s death in two of the options presented to
him, I must ask Bioware: who had the idea that victory in a war is achieved by death?
To whoever had it, I must respectfully reply by quoting general Geroge S.
Patton Jr.: “I want you to remember that no dumb ba***rd, ever, won a war by
diying for his country; he won it, by making the other poor dumb ba***rd, to die
for his country”.
So, according to one of the greatest american generals,
there’s no victory in death; victory is achieved by killing the enemy, in this
case, the Reapers.
Therefore the destruction option, at least for this humble
poster, is the only logical one if Shepard wants to win the war, and send the
Reapers back to “whatever black hole ther crawled of” like Garrus said.
Also, that option is the only one that seems to keep Shepard
alive (thoug maybe what we hear in the rubble is his last diying breath, but
let’s be hopeful)
About the new DLC that is sure to come, I’m not personally inclined
to buy it, because I don’t see the point in buying new pre-ending content if I
know how the game is going to end (and not to my liking precisely).
However I wish
Bioware the best luck with it, and to the potential buyers a lot of fun too.
Alter all, I’m a just a single person and, what’s a drop of
water to the ocean?
I wanted to share this reflections with you all, and
specially with the long, die hard and harcore fans (those people who, like me,
have the ME universe under our skin) and that are less than happy about the way
the trilogy ended.
Whatever your replies may be, positive or negative, I thank
you for taking the time to read this rather long post, and for sharing the same
love for this great trilogy that has completely redefined the idea of “role playing game”
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