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[Wowky]

I chose Destroy because every "good guy" character in the game supported it, and would constantly remind Shepard that was his goal. It just felt like the obvious conclusion to the trilogy, as the whole time we'd been talking up Destroying the Reapers. Choosing Control or Synthesis just felt like it was a total backflip.

Modifié par Wowky, 17 avril 2013 - 08:14 .

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Alright... honestly? Screw all the ideals and duty and stuff. I picked Destroy because it was the only ending where Starboy didn't say "you will die, " so I figured that was the best one. Seriously. Think about it. Then....

I LIVE!!!!

[GoudaMaster]

 I picked Control.
In ME3, my Shepard was a "hero", he cured the krogan, he made peace between qarian and geth, saved the rachni queen twice... But objectively, I decided to make the krogan able to conquer the galaxy (eventually Wrex will die, how can I be sure the krogan will change by the time?), the quarian and the geth can kill each other on their planet (because I don't think the peace will last), and the threat of the rachni can come back (even if I believe in the rachni queen).
So, when the catalyst told me about control the Reaper, I chose it to fix every thing bad I made in the game. At the time, I didn't know it was the "right" choice (it's blue after all), because the one who want to achieve it was the illusive man.

[Wynterdust]

Destroy. I like the deception theory idea and it leaves it open ended enough to use my imagination to think up and write my own epilogue. It was also the initial mission, I'm not going to risk everything to trust the machines that have been killing everyone around me without mercy and turning victims into vile abominations. That isn't exactly a good start to a working relationship.

[Mangalores]

Problem is really, given the ending you are either screwed anyway ( lost by default ) or have to trust an AI telling you some wacky stuff just seconds before you flip the kill switch.

In this scenario the safest route is Destroy no matter what. Everything else demands an enormous leap of faith that the AI is not screwing with you and if he is already in your head (aka all choices are actually wrong) you lost anyway as he can intervene at any point.

[Toolbox 24]

It's simple really. I Role Play entirely. I've played the games more times than I care to think about now, and each time I've played it differently, with different outcomes to different plots...and each Shepard is different to me. Shepards choices are not my own choices, and as such the endings are not mine.

My last Shepard was a paragon with the occasional bout of insane destructive renegadeness, and he picked destroy, My previous Shepard was a bit of an "on the fence" kinda guy where he could be, and made erratic choices throughout the games - he chose synthesis cos he wasn't prepared to control and couldn't pull the trigger. My next Shep might be a bit of a douche who's not interested in anything but the main things that are going on, rarely going on side missions who'll pick refusal, i just don't know...

[Mangalores]

my problem is that even in a situation like this there really is only one answer. If you put yourself into the shoes of the character regardless of personality the facts of what your character know and how these other choices come to be make it really implausible to choose any of the options suddenly falling into your lap. It would be an entirely random act of desperation. Destroy is the only non random act because you planned this the whole game.

The other choices simply had no foreshadowing and consideration to make them feel real. If Synthesis or Control would have been deliberated beforehand, it would have been another matter but when the only proponent of Control is TIM who seemingly doesn't have an actual clue how that works and is more generally a nutter, it really doesn't help.

Hey I selected all choices one after the other ends, too. The problem is really the Starchild that essentially has taken control of your decision. From the point of view of Shepard you have no clue what will actually happen. Destroy is just in line, if starchild screws with you, you can't change that. Reject is similarily understandable but essentially assume Shepards understands Starchild won and he lost.
The other two are just huge leaps of faith that Starchild does what it tells you for which you have no data whatsoever.


maybe to prevent this from sounding like trashing people from choosing the other ends but imo the difference is making a choice in context of the situation (aka Starchild) or making an independent choice on your own. In the later all options are a matter of taste, in the former imo the control and synthesis options plainly fall flat because of context.

[AlanC9]

Mangalores wrote...

Problem is really, given the ending you are either screwed anyway ( lost by default ) or have to trust an AI telling you some wacky stuff just seconds before you flip the kill switch.

In this scenario the safest route is Destroy no matter what. Everything else demands an enormous leap of faith that the AI is not screwing with you and if he is already in your head (aka all choices are actually wrong) you lost anyway as he can intervene at any point.

Why would Destroy be safer than other choices? If I was an AI lying about stuff, I'd start there.

[Brovikk Rasputin]

I usually pick control. It enables me to save everyone with minimal losses, and Shepard will be able to watch over his old friends.

[The Night Mammoth]

I'm staying true to BioWare's theme of intolerance in the ending by not tolerating their four choices and refusing to pick any of them.

Modifié par The Night Mammoth, 17 avril 2013 - 03:31 .

[Mangalores]

AlanC9 wrote...

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Why would Destroy be safer than other choices? If I was an AI lying about stuff, I'd start there.

Because in the other choices the AI wants you to explicitly sacrifice yourself and plug yourself into its system.  If the AI is lying about Destroy you are screwed either way because it might have manipulated you in sabotaging yourself. However if that's the case it could just mindfry you in the other two options. In the Destroy option you retain control of what you are doing and don't require faith in the AI doing what it says it would do to you.

In essence, the two options where you get transformed puts you at its mercy for certain, Destroy doesn't. In the situation you are in your only hope is that you are not controlled by it and the reason it tries to negotiate with you means you are close to turn the table on it. Otherwise why should it rethink its procedure only after three guys stood in a control room and two of them got shot?

Just to iterate. If you had all three options without  context, all three would be viable and you could make a win loss analysis of the effects of each option but since the starchild is a failure as a negotiator you plainly have no basis to consider the two other options which hands you over to your enemy as realistic when you consider it in context aka who presents you what options with what arguments.

EDIT: Without context Control probably wins because it has the least casualties and doesn't force anything on anyone (Synthesis could be still possible afterwards).

Modifié par Mangalores, 18 avril 2013 - 08:49 .

[Brovikk Rasputin]

The Night Mammoth wrote...

I'm staying true to BioWare's theme of intolerance in the ending by not tolerating their four choices and refusing to pick any of them.

Nice job killing everyone in the galaxy. Your Shepard was a failure. 

[Zeldrik1389]

I picked synthesis the first time, because I really like EDI, Legion, and the geth. After watching their history in that geth virtual world mission, I kinda had a soft spot for them (managed to make peace between geth and quarian, Yes!). Washing them all away was kinda sad.
The second time I pick control xD another "everybody but Shep is safe" option.
The third time I pick Destroy, just for the breathing scene lol
Never pick the refusal one, I guess after going that far, I just don't want to go "screw it, I'm outta here." and let everybody dies.

[Vexu234]

Destroy, as to me, it is the true ending.

My mission is to destroy the reapers. Shepard constantly talks about how it's a bad idea to Control them, and Sythesis is just robbing everybody of their individuality, organic and synthetic alike.

[N7 Banshee Bait]

CONTROL

Reason: In real life I would LOVE to unleash an army of Banshees on humanity. Just imagine if humans actually got what they deserved for a change. For all their lying, cheating, stealing & misery they cause. I would totally obliterate all jobs, money & employers. It would be beautiful! Humans would live in peace or be eliminated immediately.

Modifié par N7 Banshee Bait, 18 avril 2013 - 08:47 .