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Destory, Control or Reject, which is true to Shepard's character?


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Cobalt2113 wrote...

thearbiter1337 wrote...

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Anyone who chooses Refusal is not playing to character.

So a full Paragon Shepard is going to fall into the demands of the enemys (Reapers,TIM,Saren)

and ****** on the Geth after he/she told them they were gonna live in peace when he/she can take the chances with the united galaxy.


The Geth still die in refusal. The only difference is, so does everyone else.

So yes, to answer your question. With the needs of the many outweighing those of the few, a paragon shepard would definitely not pick refusal. Y'know, the option that leads to everyone's death.

Really? And how exactly Shepard knew apriory, that choices given by the enemy would not lead to that exact result? Consulted a fortune teller? :wizard:

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HYR 2.0 wrote...

 Synthesis. :innocent:

this...

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Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Modifié par RadicalDisconnect, 02 octobre 2012 - 03:06 .


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RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Yeah, sure, Shepard never had a predefined personality with small fluctuations(which completely removed by ME3).

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HYR 2.0 wrote...
 Synthesis. :innocent:


This. It's clearly demonstrated to be the most paragon ending. :whistle:

/flameshield

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Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Yeah, sure, Shepard never had a predefined personality with small fluctuations(which completely removed by ME3).


Point, brah, is that Sheps in the ME series have quite malleable personalities (less so in ME3, but still not set in stone). Each ending can accommodate a certain Shepard.

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Maxster_ wrote...

Really? And how exactly Shepard knew apriory, that choices given by the enemy would not lead to that exact result? Consulted a fortune teller? :wizard:


or just used basic logic?

The catalyst has to either be lying or telling the truth. It can only be one or the other. You also only have two real choices. to pick one of the options offered, or refuse. That makes for a grand total of 4 possibilites.

Catalyst is lying; and you pick one of the options: it was a trap, everyone dies.
Catalyst is lying; and you refuse: still can't beat them conventionally, everyone dies.

Catalyst is telling the truth: and you refuse: still can't beat them conventionally, everyone dies.
Catalyst is telling the truth: and you pick one of the options: Everyone lives, except the Geth if you pick destroy.

I guess your Shepard wasn't smart enough to go through those logical steps.

Modifié par Cobalt2113, 02 octobre 2012 - 03:26 .


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Control for my Paragon Shep. After sacrificing so many of his friends and wiping out entire systems of innocents without any other recourse, it seemed only appropriate that the series should end with Shepard's death, and his alone. There was enough blood on Shepard's hands at the end of ME3 without more genocide.

Subsequently everyone survives, the damage is undone by the very beings who caused it, Shepard assumes control of Harbinger (WIN), the galaxy rapidly advances into technological renaissance and Shepard himself, the single outlier in the catalysts logic and the only being capable of maintaining semblance of peace between the various races benevolently (without taking forcibly extracting their identities) presides for an eternity. The fact that the ending is split into 6 paragon/renegade variations also pleases me; the only ending that takes into account 'who' your Shepard really was and the accordant decisions he made.

Seems like the ultimate win in my opinion (if you're a paragon of course). Also if you're thinking of responding with a vacuous adage like 'Shepard might randomly turn evil and kill everyone/something might possibly go wrong', please don't bother.

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RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Yeah, sure, Shepard never had a predefined personality with small fluctuations(which completely removed by ME3).


Point, brah, is that Sheps in the ME series have quite malleable personalities (less so in ME3, but still not set in stone). Each ending can accommodate a certain Shepard.

So you can agree with Saren not only in ME3, but also in ME1?

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Cobalt2113 wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

Really? And how exactly Shepard knew apriory, that choices given by the enemy would not lead to that exact result? Consulted a fortune teller? :wizard:


or just used basic logic?

The catalyst has to either be lying or telling the truth. It can only be one or the other. You also only have two real choices. to pick one of the options offered, or refuse. That makes for a grand total of 4 possibilites.

Catalyst is lying; and you pick one of the options: it was a trap, everyone dies.
Catalyst is lying; and you refuse: still can't beat them conventionally, everyone dies.

Catalyst is telling the truth: and you refuse: still can't beat them conventionally, everyone dies.
Catalyst is telling the truth: and you pick one of the options: Everyone lives, except the Geth if you pick destroy.

I guess your Shepard wasn't smart enough to go through those logical steps.

You are saying, that Shepard and every civilization was defeated, and forced to surrender to Catalyst on his terms. And then you are unconditionally surrendering to his whim.
After that, being a obviously retarded entity, Catalyst just decided to offer you three ways to end reaper threat.

That's great of course. But being a completely retarded entity, Catalyst could decide the same at any time, not even in current cycle.
That means, that everything that Shepard did, every sacrifice he made - meant completely nothing, zero, void. "Victory" was made possible only by Catalyst, whatever Shepard(or every civilization before current cycle) did was completely irrelevant to the "victory".

That EAWare crap have nothing to do with ME1 and ME2 heroic saga.

Yeah, sure, for some submission is certainly preferable to extinction. :D

Modifié par Maxster_, 02 octobre 2012 - 04:21 .


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For my Shepard the "GET THE JOB DONE AND GO HOME ENDING".
But that's my Shepard.
It doesn't mean somebody else his/her Shepard is wrong.
But for me it's the only way.

Modifié par FOX216BC, 02 octobre 2012 - 04:24 .


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Isn't the reason the Catalyst allows Shepard these options because he acknowledges his methods (Reapers killing everyone) were flawed (surprise!)? A lot of talk about Shepard being an anomaly and whatnot.

Edit: Also as someone else pointed out it's a shackled AI and can't mislead Shepard.

Modifié par Comsky159, 02 octobre 2012 - 04:36 .


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Maxster_ wrote...

LDS Darth Revan wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

LDS Darth Revan wrote...

Catalyst is the Reaper's leader, not pawn. Also, don't bring the 'trust issue" up because you trust that shooting a tube will destroy all synthetic life.

So, MerchantGOL are the Catalyst? That's new :o
Also, from did you got that to believe a enemy leader is better than to believe his pawn? That's new, also :D
And from where did you got an idea, that I trusted catalyst?
My ending before EC is Alt+F4, after - Alt+F4 after Shepard speech.

1) I misread your post
2) Leviathan states that Catalyst is still shackled, thus cannot give false information, thus is telling the truth.
3) You seemed like a Destroy-supporter, so I apologize for assuming

1) I know. That was funny, really :)
2) Of course EAWare now trying to justify that plot-hole ridden non-rpg auto-dialogue mess, that was ME3. They enjoy raping their own lore.
3) no problem :D

I'm glad i amused you.
While I'll admit that having Leviathan in the core game would have saved everyone a headache, I still trusted the Catalyst before because he offers you the choices when he could have let you bleed out next to Anderson and Harper and won anyway. Why would he do that if the choices aren't genuine?

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Due to Shepard being unable to agree with TIM at all during ME3... Destroy or Refuse.

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LDS Darth Revan wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

LDS Darth Revan wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

LDS Darth Revan wrote...

Catalyst is the Reaper's leader, not pawn. Also, don't bring the 'trust issue" up because you trust that shooting a tube will destroy all synthetic life.

So, MerchantGOL are the Catalyst? That's new :o
Also, from did you got that to believe a enemy leader is better than to believe his pawn? That's new, also :D
And from where did you got an idea, that I trusted catalyst?
My ending before EC is Alt+F4, after - Alt+F4 after Shepard speech.

1) I misread your post
2) Leviathan states that Catalyst is still shackled, thus cannot give false information, thus is telling the truth.
3) You seemed like a Destroy-supporter, so I apologize for assuming

1) I know. That was funny, really :)
2) Of course EAWare now trying to justify that plot-hole ridden non-rpg auto-dialogue mess, that was ME3. They enjoy raping their own lore.
3) no problem :D

I'm glad i amused you.
While I'll admit that having Leviathan in the core game would have saved everyone a headache, I still trusted the Catalyst before because he offers you the choices when he could have let you bleed out next to Anderson and Harper and won anyway. Why would he do that if the choices aren't genuine?

Nah, Leviathan DLC could not save ME3, it is still retarded plothole ridden mess(included with lore-butchering), that have nothing in common with heroic saga that was ME1 and ME2.

Yeah,  submission is always preferable to an extinction. :D

"You could have resisted, you could have fought, instead you surrendered, you quit!" - Shepard.
Also better with femshep.

Modifié par Maxster_, 02 octobre 2012 - 04:40 .


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Depends on the Shepard.

I think for all but the most extreme paragons, destroy is a viable option. Sure the Geth die, but it's not like the other options are all that appeasing. It accomplishes your goal with no chance of it backfiring later.

Control just seems out of character for everyone considering the TIM confrontation 5 minutes ago. However, a pro-cerberus or egotistical Shepard could be seen to choose it. Also paragons who don't who are totally against sacrificing for the greater good.

Synthesis really only becomes acceptable if you are a head-in-the-clouds super-paragon and want to go for utopia. Though in my opinion,these paragons are too naive.

Modifié par justafan, 02 octobre 2012 - 04:49 .


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Maxster_ wrote...

LDS Darth Revan wrote...
I'm glad i amused you.
While I'll admit that having Leviathan in the core game would have saved everyone a headache, I still trusted the Catalyst before because he offers you the choices when he could have let you bleed out next to Anderson and Harper and won anyway. Why would he do that if the choices aren't genuine?

Nah, Leviathan DLC could not save ME3, it is still retarded plothole ridden mess(included with lore-butchering), that have nothing in common with heroic saga that was ME1 and ME2.

Yeah,  submission is always preferable to an extinction. :D

"You could have resisted, you could have fought, instead you surrendered, you quit!" - Shepard.
Also better with femshep.

It wouldn't have made everyone go "who's this" with the Catalyst. As for the rest, i respect your opinion, but I feel differently.

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Almost every single thing you just said is wrong, but I'll go through it anyway.

Maxster_ wrote...

You are saying, that Shepard and every civilization was defeated, and forced to surrender to Catalyst on his terms. And then you are unconditionally surrendering to his whim.
After that, being a obviously retarded entity, Catalyst just decided to offer you three ways to end reaper threat.


Surrender? No, we didn't surrender, we fought. We Fought all that way to the beam. And then, as comsky said, the fact that we, the first organic ever, made it that far forced it to re-evaluate its solution. I don't know what you're talking about when you call it retarded, as there's no evidence to back that up. That word can't even be applied to a computer.

That's great of course. But being a completely retarded entity, Catalyst could decide the same at any time, not even in current cycle.
That means, that everything that Shepard did, every sacrifice he made - meant completely nothing, zero, void. "Victory" was made possible only by Catalyst, whatever Shepard(or every civilization before current cycle) did was completely irrelevant to the "victory".


No, it really doesn't mean that. Those sacrifices mean just as much if not more in the end. If it hadn't been for those people's sacrifices Shepard never would have made it to the catalyst and the galaxy would have been harvested as it is in refuse. So, those peoples sacrifices saved trillions of lives. I don't see how that can possibly be considered meaningless.

That EAWare crap have nothing to do with ME1 and ME2 heroic saga.

Yeah, sure, for some submission is certainly preferable to extinction. :D


You're really just looking at it the wrong way. I never submitted to it. It offered my Shepard a chance to change the status quo. And then I destroyed it. You can't submit to something that you've just destroyed can you?

Personally I'd say refusal is a lot closer to submission. The catalyst gets to keep doing exactly what it wants. Harvesting advanced species.

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Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Yeah, sure, Shepard never had a predefined personality with small fluctuations(which completely removed by ME3).


Point, brah, is that Sheps in the ME series have quite malleable personalities (less so in ME3, but still not set in stone). Each ending can accommodate a certain Shepard.

So you can agree with Saren not only in ME3, but also in ME1?


Try not to make the association fallacy. Thanks.

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Depends on your Shepard brah, which ever one you "roleplayed" if that's even possible with how some people view him or her and the 'pre-defined' aspects.

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Cobalt2113 wrote...

Almost every single thing you just said is wrong, but I'll go through it anyway.

Sure, sure. All you have to do, is to prove me wrong. Which you can't do.

Maxster_ wrote...

You are saying, that Shepard and every civilization was defeated, and forced to surrender to Catalyst on his terms. And then you are unconditionally surrendering to his whim.
After that, being a obviously retarded entity, Catalyst just decided to offer you three ways to end reaper threat.


Surrender? No, we didn't surrender, we fought. We Fought all that way to the beam. And then, as comsky said, the fact that we, the first organic ever, made it that far forced it to re-evaluate its solution. I don't know what you're talking about when you call it retarded, as there's no evidence to back that up. That word can't even be applied to a computer.

I don't need some retarded explanation to differ heroic victory from unconditional surrender, thank you very much. :D

And then, as comsky said, the fact that we, the first organic ever, made it that far forced it to re-evaluate its solution.

That is utterly stupid. You are basically saying, that every other civilizations of previous and current cycles, never thoroughly examined the citadel, never researched the structure, never even flied around it. Because that same place where Shepard was surrendered to the Catalyst, is perfectly visible and accesible from space.
"You have hope. More than you think. The fact that you are standing here, the first organic ever, proves it. But it also proves, that my solution is won't work anymore." - Catalyst.

You still do not see retardation level of that nonsensical *censored*?

So, no one in countless cycles never noticed that exact place, with strange structures(crucible interface). No one ever examined the Citadel, researched it's structure and flied near to examine.
That is completely retarded. Every countless civilizations cleansed by reapers including current cycle, never even tried to examine a convenient alien artifact. Lol what?

That makes everyone in entire mass effect universe's history complete moron, with negative IQ. :D

- Oh, look, a giant space station! Yay!
- How convenient! Let's use
it as place for our goverment, archives, and fleet bases! We will not
even check examine and research structure of that station, it is OBVIOUS that it
is completely safe!
...
SUDDENLY, reapers.
...
- Crap, who got
that brilliant idea to use Citadel as a center of goverment, archives
and a fleet base? Mass relays is down, fleets crippled, archives
occupied by the enemy, goverment and entire administration is dead!
- We're all doomed!!!!


I don't know what you're talking about when you call it retarded, as
there's no evidence to back that up. That word can't even be applied to a
computer.

You know that term "retarded" could be applied to alive and sentient being, do you?
You are basically saying, that AI are not alive, just computers.
And i'm calling catalyst retarded, because of circular logic.
Also, his creators(Leviathans) are retarded too.

- Let's make an AI to solve problem of AI rebelling against their creators? What could possibly go wrong?
- Sure, i'll start the preparations.
...Some time later...
- Damn! The AI we created, to solve problem of AI rebelling against it's creators, SUDDENLY rebelled against us, it's creators!
- How could that even happen?!

That's great of course. But being a completely retarded entity, Catalyst could decide the same at any time, not even in current cycle.
That means, that everything that Shepard did, every sacrifice he made - meant completely nothing, zero, void. "Victory" was made possible only by Catalyst, whatever Shepard(or every civilization before current cycle) did was completely irrelevant to the "victory".


No, it really doesn't mean that. Those sacrifices mean just as much if not more in the end. If it hadn't been for those people's sacrifices Shepard never would have made it to the catalyst and the galaxy would have been harvested as it is in refuse. So, those peoples sacrifices saved trillions of lives. I don't see how that can possibly be considered meaningless.

Nah, those sacrifices is completely irrelevant to the "victory".

Because if not for Massive Retardation Syndrome, the first organic ever, "standing here", would be the first research team from the first civilization from the first cycle, who were first to discover the Citadel after reapers finished it's construction.
And, by those research teams, that entire point would thoroughly searched, and catalyst would be immediately discovered.
Well, mere existence of the catalyst completely retconned ME1 into oblivion, anyways.

That EAWare crap have nothing to do with ME1 and ME2 heroic saga.

Yeah, sure, for some submission is certainly preferable to extinction. :D


You're really just looking at it the wrong way. I never submitted to it. It offered my Shepard a chance to change the status quo. And then I destroyed it. You can't submit to something that you've just destroyed can you?

Personally I'd say refusal is a lot closer to submission. The catalyst gets to keep doing exactly what it wants. Harvesting advanced species.

ME3 completely changes series direction. From "I rather die than live like this" we came to "Submission is preferable to the extinction".
It is not a part of a heroic saga, that was ME1 and ME2.

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RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Maxster_ wrote...

RadicalDisconnect wrote...

Depends on your Shepard. Is that not fucking obvious? Considering all the bitching about how railroaded ME3 Shep is, this thread reeks of hypocrisy.

Yeah, sure, Shepard never had a predefined personality with small fluctuations(which completely removed by ME3).


Point, brah, is that Sheps in the ME series have quite malleable personalities (less so in ME3, but still not set in stone). Each ending can accommodate a certain Shepard.

So you can agree with Saren not only in ME3, but also in ME1?


Try not to make the association fallacy. Thanks.

I'm saying, that Shepard always had a predefined personality with fluctuations of some range.
In ME1 and ME2 those fluctuations had one range. In ME3, before the catalyst choice, that range was much less than in ME1 and ME2.
In that choice, range of fluctuations from a predefined personality greatly increases, to the point that a lot of those fluctuations completely out of range with ME1 and ME2 fluctuations.

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Mr Cloud wrote...

It depends on your Shepard. Everyone's Shepard is different.


This. Some of my Shepards chose Synthesis, while others chose Control. More than a few chose Destroy in honor of Anderson.

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Quoting Hackett; ''Dead Reapers is how we win this.'' -- Destroy it is.

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Ticonderoga117 wrote...

Due to Shepard being unable to agree with TIM at all during ME3... Destroy or Refuse.


Yeah I think that is also problem with the endings and ME3 story, they should have gave you more options to become a Cerebus sympathizer. Yes, the TIM was indoctrinated but half of my shepards playthroughs gave the Collector base to him and they should have let Shepards entertain the reasonings why s/he even chose to do so throughout the ME3 story line. He should have been able to see the reasoning about being able to utilize some form of knowledge to control the Reapers.