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[NDrag76]

I played it through twice until now and once with the classic endings and now the extended cut.

It´s been a great journey from ME1 to ME3. I think BioWare pulled an overall genius job on storyline and gameplay development.

Call me a fanboy all you like, i am not, for there were many decisions and gameplay changes BioWare made, i was quite no fan of at all.

A few examples:

- First and above and beyond all - i hate games where a weapon cannot shoot straight. The Avenger and even more the Revenant. The first shot is not able to travel a straigt line. Even with the high rate of fire no soldier with any love for his life would pick a weapon you cannot aim a straight shot with.

I first encountered this "error" in Half-Life with the MP5 as i remember. God i love that weapon - only not in those games - the first shot goes random in a small area.

Yeah i know... it´s no sniper rifle, but hey - i just KNOW that an MP5 (or any assault rifle comparable with the Avenger) can indeed fire a straigt shot!

If you can´t balance players who would snipe 30 shots in a row with an automatic rilfe - don´t bring them.

- So i got through ME1 and barely came to like the idea that i have unlimited ammo (great for the sniper rifles) - i only have a heat problem, i can live with.

Then i die in ME2 and the worst thing is not my death, it is that some dumb scientist invented clips for guns, so now they cannot fire once you run out of them... great improvement. Yeah i know, it´s a simple design mechanism to increase difficulty. Still crap.

- I was a paragon. I did a renegade shep once, but though it was quite interesting seeing the different dialog options and NPC reactions i didn´t see how a badass will bring the galaxy together for good. And it all came down to that after day 1 in Mass Effect, or at least, after Virmire.

Badass maybe cool, but if you look at the movies or novels even the badass heroes have their heart at the right place. Still - you won´t win the war by kicking everybodys butt around the galaxy, even if the game will let you.

But that´s not my point, in ME 2 i had to become a true paragon or renegade in order to keep my team in line - i learned that the hard way when i recovered the reaper IFF to early, with open loyalty and side missions.

I want my freedom - i want to be able to be a 50/50 kind of guy and still get the best result because i play good, not because some weird game mechanics.

- Then ME3 hits with a cool fast-paced gameplay, that looses it´s speed all the time because the conversation pauses... don´t get me wrong. I do like BioWare games mostly because of the conversations, but sometimes they
don´t fit in and break up the games pace.

- Last but not least - no Open world, no alternative routes in the gameplay... but that´s okay for a great more than interactive movie like Mass Effect.

And those are just a few things BioWare got me freaked out with... (is that acutally gramatically correct... i don´t care).

Soooo... i start with the endings i didn´t choose first classic the notes for the extended cut... oh wait... one more thing:

Indoctrination Theory:

Nice illuminati style conspiracy, but crap in my opinion.

• Shephard has headaches? Who wouldn´t with responsibilites like that wearing and tearing you down.
• Wound in the belly? Judging from the way Shepard moved up into the beam it was already there and even if not... you can really see the boogey man whereever you want, if you try hard enough.
• Exposed to reaper tech? Yeah and resilient, but not immune, which brings me to:

So the crappy excuse for an final fight comes around (Godchild) and tells me my options. It gives me 2(!) options - Control or Synthesis. It simply states it´s knows we thought about destroying it (third option, but not as readily presented). Self-preserving little devil

He gets sympathy points for stopping my bleeding though.

Blue Ending (Control)

I´am given the opportunity to try reaper control, though i will most likely fail over time. Because even if Shephards, my will, is strong, it will become irrelevant in the turmoil of reaper voices at some point.

But the Godchild gets a great mind of a leader, a tactician for it´s reaper horde, which might otherwise be lost.

But i will safe everybody!!! Cool. I will die. Not cool, but i can live with that

So why not take the blue road? Because every cell in my body screams this solution is a lie and betrayal to all organic (and synthetic) life, because the reapers or the catalyst may at some point calculate some variables again and think it´s a good idea to wipe the advanced civilisations from the face of the galaxy, because they create something they wage war against and might loose.

I say something because instead of synthetics, organics could likewise create an organic bio-engineered species that will kill their creators.

So what? I won´t give in to this typical computer reasoning of life, evolution etc.

EXTENDED Cut Notes:
So now i die, but become a god. Cool.... nah!
One thing that doesn´t add up: If i don´t wipe the civilisations clean, they will surpass my reaper tech and then im a god with a doppeldecker army. Yeah...

Thanks BioWare that you made this an option, but on the other hand it never was. We don´t want the reapers to control our path of evolution, as much as they wouldn´t let us determine theirs, even if some variables changed. The
general concept of the cycle is not that easily broken, even if Goddychild states it.

That brings me to GREEN ENDING (Synthesis):

So Mr. Godchild did some Cerberus style experiments on the past cycles civilisations and didn´t get it done, so they wiped their failed experiement from the galaxy to see what the next cycle brings?

And now because Shepard united all of the galaxy in their purpose to defeat the reaper threat once and for all, also means all sentient races are willing to become a half-robot / half-organic new life form?

Yeah... sure... it is still forced upon them, because the alternative would be extinction under the reapers twisted judgement.

So hell - NO. I won´t give the godchild the opportunity to make us all the way the reapers or itself sees fit, just because it means i can save the geth and my beloved EDI.

Here i agree with the indoctrination theory at some point - Godchild still tries to pull us over to the reaper side.

Different races, mean different opinions and different courses of action, which will, eventually lead to wars. Maybe event wars that lead to total extinction of a galaxy. That is NOT for the Reapers to decide.

And why by the way of crap, shouldn´t all same DNA (great for adult parties ) Turian, Krogan, Salarian, Asari, Batarian, Human etc. go to war against each other at some time in the future? If i understand synthesis correct every being still retains it´s own will and personality.

Even if we were all networked like the geth, they got divided and waged war on each other, just because of the quarian threat (which wasn´t that big of a threat).

EXTENDED CUT Notes:

Great. Synthesis will work and we will all grow happily ever after. The only good thing here is that i can actually save the geth and EDI.

Beyond that, the above counts.

So the ending for me, the only true one i chose when i first stood there, wounded, barely alive in the citadel was

DESTROY ENDING (Red)

After the Battle of the Citadel, it was all headed for the ultimate conflict with the reapers, god i hoped i did the right thing when sparing the rachni queen on Noveria.

This ending is presented by the godchild, but not really noted as a choice - again tricky little bastard tries to lure me away from everything i have fought for in those 3 games.

I will die. The Geth will die. EDI will die! I believed the part that i would die, because i was reconstructed using high tech, as far as the game states the only thing that really stayed intact was Shepards brain, in terms of trauma.

So what - i will die in the godchild favored solutions as well, i can rather die by doing it my way.

So that leaves the moral implications of my friend and the geth, an entire race which has just become more than simply self-aware, that will die along if i take this path.

I stood there almost 30 Min. thinking what would be "right" - making coffee, wandering the room. Even considering the other two options for the sake of the geth which in the form of Legion i came to like even more that the rough charming krogans or my own race.

I thought about the conversation with EDI about her being afraid. I felt like red would be like betraying Joker.

I finally brought together the geth with their creators... i would´ve liked to see how they would reclaim their past together as friends, standing for an example that Godchild, Harbinger, the Reapers were a mistake in the first place.

I didn´t calculate the "few" synthetics against the many organic lifes, Reapers do and calculate wrong because they still have that intel floating point bug.

I took my gut feeling, knowing that´s the one that does not betray me. I chose the right ramp, and thanks to infinite ammo i could blow up Citadel (and the Reapers) with the crappiest gun in the game!

This is what makes BioWare games that great, every shot i took, it also gave me pain because of the consequences that would follow, the reaper threat would be over once and for all, but i would sacrifice the geth and EDI.

This is why i also often curse BioWare - remember Drage Age Origins, cool, i am a member of the elite warriors of the realm, the sole defenders against the darknes, the wardens... but doomed to die of insantiy or die before that, by going on a doubtful useful suicide mission.

What really p*** me off is that there is actual no way to win the game in style. There are already enough movies, novels, stories out there with the archetypical hero, that dies in order save the world, galaxy or just his favorite bar.

Really... Who came up with the dumb idea that being a hero automatically means being dead? That´s sooo archetyptical concept from real world wars. And it´s boring.

Make it hard, make it frustrating to achieve, make it take 360 hours, i don´t care, just give us the goddam option to beat the reapers and survive it.

I won this war the best way (war assets) possible, losses have been heavy already. Maybe no personal ones, but you did a good job on showing us the death this war brings on Thessia - it was brutal enough to see it on Palavan,
Tuchanka (well i think the krogan would hold up a little bit better than the other races) and Earth and all the other planets.

My point is that by not offering us a real way to survive this (and get our lil blue children in the process) and give us the payback at the reapers we fought for by doing so, the victory feels shallow.

I don´t agree on that part of artistic freedom or betterdesign - a dead hero is so boring typical.

Sometimes i wonder if story writers do so, because it would be hard to continue the world´s story if the hero was still alive - and kickin´which would be a problem for future enemies and new heroes.

NEVERTHELESS

I chose red and felt right about it and... can you believe it? I SURVIVED - at least i took a final breath, which doesn´t sounded final.

So i got myself a lil bit selfishness and delight seeing that Shephard somehow survived the activation of the Crucible. Great! Good ending. Only true one for me!

Okay there is this matter with the destroyed mass relays...
And then we just get every species on one planet. It´s bombed anyway and has only few humans left, so theres plenty of space

EXTENDED Cut Notes:

Ahhhhh.... the Mass Relays are just damaged and our scientists that never understood the mass relays fully can repair it. I can live with that.

But how the heck did i survive the explosion of the citadel?

My N7 suit was gone, so no way i could survive an orbital re-entry this time (i think there was a codex entry in ME2 that stated that hardsuits can indeed survive atmospheric descend.)

Ahhh... it´s just blown a apart a little, so i lie somewhere in the wards with life support still working somehow.

That´s my Shephard. A survivor against all odds. No pseudo avatar of a new DNA and no wannabe (half)god.

I´m starting a new game soon. I will choose red again. It was my first choice and that will never change. I´m fine just looking at the other endings on youtube - that´s where they belong.

Not on my screen.

Regards

NDrag

Modifié par NDrag76, 19 juillet 2012 - 10:20 .