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[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

Stat your ending of choice, list your reasons for that choice.

Let's try to go at least a page without people being called sociopaths or some such.

Alright here goes.

Ending: Destroy


Reasons for that choice:

• It's been my goal for the entire series
• It frees the galaxy from the Reapers
• No matter what happens in the future it will be on us, not them
• I don't believe that organics and synthetics are destined to destroy each other so the other choices just don't click with me.

[MetioricTest]

Ending: Destroy.

Reasons for the choice:

I have to pick 1 of 4 crappy choices. Reject while cool is ultimately a joke ending, Synthesis makes no sense and Control just seems contrary everything in the entire game.

So It's kinda the best of a bad world.

[Jadebaby]

I picked mehem because it's easily the best ending.

[hiraeth]

MetioricTest wrote...

Ending: Destroy.

Reasons for the choice:

I have to pick 1 of 4 crappy choices. Reject while cool is ultimately a joke ending, Synthesis makes no sense and Control just seems contrary everything in the entire game.

So It's kinda the best of a bad world.

Pretty much.

1) It was the least offensive to me out of the four.

2) It's what I set out to do all along.

3) Dialogue from my squadmates and people I trust (e.g., Anderson) support it as well.

4) I believe that synthetics and organics can co-exist peacefully.

*EDIT: I should note that I no longer play past the run to the beam, but back when I did, I chose destroy for the above reasons.

Modifié par MassEffectFShep, 08 avril 2013 - 04:13 .

[NovaBlastMarketing]

wonders how many times this conversion has been reset in the past year and if this is the start of an infinite  cycle like the reapers appearance .....it seems as soon as a "why did you.....ending" "What do you think of.........ending" thread ends ...someone starts another one...

IMO  The whole concept of the endings is so bad that i don't even acknowledge their existence anymore.

MEHEM = Citadel while not the perfect ending is still better than anything bioware came up with...even with that i still only  have played though ME3 once   and belive all three games have  been tarnished because of  the basic concept of the officall endings.

Modifié par NovaBlastMarketing, 08 avril 2013 - 04:28 .

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Grand Admiral Cheesecake wrote...

Stat your ending of choice, list your reasons for that choice.

Let's try to go at least a page without people being called sociopaths or some such.

Alright here goes.

Ending: Destroy


Reasons for that choice:

• It's been my goal for the entire series
• It frees the galaxy from the Reapers
• No matter what happens in the future it will be on us, not them
• I don't believe that organics and synthetics are destined to destroy each other so the other choices just don't click with me.

[*]Okay her it goes[/i]

Ending: Destroy -- I go by my first play. It is honest. No metagaming. (March 2012)

Reasons for that choice:

• It was both my goal and my mission. Complete your mission.
• Freedom at any price, I was ready to die.
• I sided with the Quarians. 6250 EMS. Kiss my ass Starboy. EDI's death was a tragedy.
• What was the point in picking one of the others?
• What's this? I LIVE! (not a reason because I didn't know)

[i]

Modifié par sH0tgUn jUliA, 08 avril 2013 - 04:22 .

[Suron]

Jadebaby wrote...

I picked mehem because it's easily the best ending.

[Rikketik]

Ending: Depends on the playthrough, but mostly either Destroy or Synthesis.

Reasons for picking those endings:
- Destroy: Reapers are destroyed, Shepard lives, et cetera et cetera. The usual reasons. I also like Destroy because it's basically the only ending that allows me to write about what happens to Shepard afterwards.
- Synthesis: Mostly to hear Tricia Helfer narrate the epilogue, to be honest. God, I just love her voice. I also like how pretty much everything seems to improve for everyone. It's the closest the game comes to a happy ending, or at least, that's what I think.

[Hadeedak]

Control for my canon -- first and still favorite.

Reasons? It fit my paragade. Sacrificing herself on a risk, taking the hit for diversity and her friends. I knew since I rolled Esperanza back in 2007 for the first time that this Shepard was riding for a fall. Control gave me that in a way I could accept as appropriate for the big girl. She was always going to go out with a bang, and I never expected her to come back from the last mission of Mass Effect.

Granted, I expected something a bit more Dragon Age ultimate sacrifice, but the way she went down works for me, too.

Destroy for the renegon backup emergency Shepard.

Yoshimi was always about getting the job done. She cracked wise plenty, but at the end of the day, Yoshimi's a good soldier who is rather risk-adverse. She may not always be nice, but she always takes care of things. Destroy gave her a pragmatic, secure route to end the Reaper menace. As an added bonus, it got her back to Kaidan.

Reasons? Synthesis! Calling Olivia heartbroken is an understatement. Losing Kaidan on Akuze, then Thane at the Citadel, she became very aware of the frailty of life and how desperate things can become. This Shepard is the kindest (most naive) woman one could hope to meet. And at the end, she threw herself into the beam on hope for the rest of the galaxy.... And maybe looking for some peace for herself.

Reasons? Refuse! Josh just wasn't willing to deal with the Reapers. He wanted a perfect victory or perfect loss. He wasn't willing to make compromises or deal.

[drayfish]

Honestly, the first time through I picked 'Destroy' because I was so disgusted with the game, and the ugly message of intolerance that Bioware was using it to posit, that I was utterly thrown out of the fiction, and reacted instinctively.

I was effectively saying, 'Fine, if you care that little about your own universe then sure, I'll help blow it all to hell for you...'

The second time through, to check out the EC, I chose 'Refuse', because foolishly I thought there was still something to hope for.* Bioware, of course, thought ahead and made sure to belittle that belief by obliterating my Shepard, calling her a failure, and annihilating everything that she fought to protect.

Smug, nihilistic RPGs sure are fun.


* For anyone foolish enough to bother reading on, I wrote about the experience here: http://drayfish.word...s-extended-cut/

Modifié par drayfish, 08 avril 2013 - 05:13 .

[Dalael81]

On my playthrough I picked destroy. It was my goal through the whole series compared to the other two choices being the goals of the villains.

I had peace between the Geth and Quarians and an addon for the Crucible that gave it pinpoint accurate locations of every reaper, so Edi and the Geth dying were a big problem for me as it made no sense. However, Legion and Edi did both express their wishes in destroying the Reapers.

Having thought more about Control, it has me wondering if I didn't look at the bigger picture that the Reapers may be looking at. Destroying them may open the way for something much worse to wipe us out. Sacrificing Shepard may be the wiser decision in order to have a defensive force in the Reapers, but this wasn't alluded to much short of a few themes. Also, are we certain that the Shepalyst still has the ideals of Shepard? He may just take over the Reaper fleet, have access to the information the Reapers do, and go "Oh, I understand now...let the Harvest proceed..."

[Big Bad]

MEHEM is my ending, because I hate the Catalyst and everything it stands for. 

[ThinkSharp]

Initially, I chose Synthesis. (I've switched to Control after EC, however.)

When I first got to the choice, it struck me that for the past year Shepard had been living on borrowed time. Shepard died when the Collector ship attacked the Normandy. (And I do consider that to be Shep's true death.) Every moment since then was lived in pursuit of stopping the Reapers, which, yes, also meant stopping the cycle once and for all. But the end of that cycle also meant it was the end of the line for Shepard. He'd fulfilled the purpose of this second shot at life. It meant death couldn't be cheated any longer.

Destroy cost too much. Control seemed too risky.

Synthesis, however:

- Relinquished the borrowed body and returned the true essence of Shepard to the universe
- This made the universe something more; ascension was achieved (and not the deluded version Harbinger touted)*

It seemed ideal and right to me at the time.

*I never worried that the Catalyst was lying about this. Its perception of a perpetual organic/synthetic conflict seemed flawed, but its logic wasn't human logic. It was an imperfect being but it wanted a viable solution to the conflict, nothing more, nothing less. To achieve that goal, it would deal honestly with Shepard.

Modifié par ThinkSharp, 08 avril 2013 - 05:46 .

[xBUMMx]

Destroy:
1) I wanted the reapers dead, always did

2) I put a priority on organics over synthetics (the Geth were created easily, and EDI took less than two years to be created. Organic species take hundreds of thousands if not millions of years to evolve, and aren't made over a few years in a laboratory, and I want to preserve organic life as is)

3) I don't trust AI's to run galaxies.

[Xilizhra]

As opposed to... what, fake reasons? Why aren't you already absolutely confident that people blather on about their true and heartfelt reasons for choosing which ending they did in practically every other post?

Anyway, Control, because Destroy and Refuse are too bloody, and Synthesis is too poorly-explained. And I can make good use of Control: I can deal with both the krogan and Leviathans should the need arise, I'm immortal, I can probably build a new physical body to return to the living, etc.

[Argolas]

Destroy. I am not philosophizing with an A.I. that is slaughtering everyone as we speak.

[Iakus]

 Ending:  MEHEM

Why?

I don't believe that organics and synthetics are destined to destroy each other anymore than any other two races are.

The Catalyst is full of it and drags the story down

Standard Destroy is arbitrarilly tragic , forcing Shepqrd to commit genocide to stop the Reapers

Control and Synthesis are violations on a galactic level

Refuse is a middle finger to the audience.

There are eight "standard" endings.  Seven of them Shepard is definitively dead.  One of them has Shepard ambiguously alive.  There are none where Shepard is definitively alive.  This needs to be rectified, and MEHEM does just that.

[Xilizhra]

I really, really don't understand how Control is a violation on a galactic level. It's a regime change, nothing more.

[xBUMMx]

Xilizhra wrote...

I really, really don't understand how Control is a violation on a galactic level. It's a regime change, nothing more.

A regime I don't trust. Is that a good enough reason?

[Iakus]

Xilizhra wrote...

I really, really don't understand how Control is a violation on a galactic level. It's a regime change, nothing more.

Because the Reapers are running the galaxy now.  No one is free to find their own paths.  It's saying the galaxy can't be trusted to solve their own problems, so Big Brother/Big Sister has to take care of you...for all eternity.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

Xilizhra wrote...

I really, really don't understand how Control is a violation on a galactic level. It's a regime change, nothing more.

Even if Shreaper is as paragon as paragon can be galactic freedom is...well dead.

Turians and Humans having a border dispute? Reaper cops.

Quarians and Geth having a spat? Reaper cops.

Refund guy trying to return something else? Well you see where this is going.

Modifié par Grand Admiral Cheesecake, 08 avril 2013 - 05:52 .

[RustySam]

Apart from two refuse choices, all I ever choose is destroy.

On my first playthrough I chose destroy - by instinct.
I played to destroy the reapers and that's what I did.
Later decisions are based more on principle than choice. My way of giving the finger to bioware
The Geth and EDI dying is just unfortunate and for some reason I never felt anything for the synthetics so they were expendable.


Edit: I also support MEHEM but can't really choose it since I play on Xbox. (Unless I want to head canon things.)

Modifié par RustySam, 08 avril 2013 - 05:55 .

[Xilizhra]

Grand Admiral Cheesecake wrote...

Xilizhra wrote...

I really, really don't understand how Control is a violation on a galactic level. It's a regime change, nothing more.

Even if Shreaper is as paragon as paragon can be galactic freedom is...well dead.

Turians and Humans having a border dispute? Reaper cops.

Quarians and Geth having a spat? Reaper cops.

Refund guy trying to return something else? Well you see where this is going.

Question: how often do federal troops, in one country, actually intervene in these matters? How often, in the Mass Effect galaxy, do Spectres interfere in these matters? Why would it be more likely for Reapers to do more, especially when institutions for handling that kind of thing already exist?

Because the Reapers are running the galaxy now.  No one is free to find
their own paths.  It's saying the galaxy can't be trusted to solve their
own problems, so Big Brother/Big Sister has to take care of you...for
all eternity.

Any galaxy that still has warfare has clearly not developed enough to consider itself deserving to be completely free of oversight. And large-scale conflict of that nature is the only thing I'd plan to interfere with directly.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

The end result would be Shreaper using the Reapers to force compliance.

No one should have that kind of power.

Modifié par Grand Admiral Cheesecake, 08 avril 2013 - 06:00 .

[Nanox Vox]

My choice was Synthesis.

My Shepard was a man who believed that the solution that killed the least individuals was the best choice. He was also a man who believed kn changing the balance of the galaxy for the better. He let the rachni live, cured the genophage, made piece with the geth and quarrians, and gave up his life so that all others could live another day and beyond.