Control
Why? Because every other canon ending choice is a varying degree of failure. Every one. Unless you installed MEHEM or some other similar ending mod, if you picked
anything but Control, you failed the end of the game. If you picked Refusal, I can at least respect your position on the meta level for giving the finger right back to Bioware. Anything else? You simply failed without qualification.
And from here, I'll copy/paste my longer explanation from elsewhere since this is fundamentally the same thread ...
First, let's get Indoctrination out of the way:
Yes, I acknowledge that Control could be a trap. Okay, but so could any of the endings. So could Destroy! You're expected to believe that ... shooting the Crucible somehow activates it? Does anyone else find that a little questionable? Is anyone else wondering if the Catalyst simply tricked you into breaking the Crucible, and the rest of it might just be your dying hallucination of a good outcome in the tradition of "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" while Starbrat laughs his ass off at you?
Basically, my point is that once we start questioning Shepard's perceptions or what Starbrat says (and I acknowledge there are reasons to question either or both, but even still), we can say anything we want to about the situation. Destroy is just as likely to be indoctrination as Control or Synthesis, or hell --
all three could be.
Okay. So now, taking the endings at face value:
Refusal: You fail, and everyone dies. This ending is still an understandable choice, however, both in the meta sense (flipping the proverbial bird at Bioware and its Starbrat) and within the context of the story (why should Shepard believe anything Starbrat says at all?). Still, taking the endings at face value, it's arguably the worst ending. I say arguably because there is also ...
Synthesis: You turn everyone into hybrid synthetic/organic ... mutant ... things. Against their will.
Everyone. The implications of this are staggering and nightmare-inducing. As has been pointed out elsewhere, you may have just sterilized everyone everywhere and frozen all people in the galaxy at whatever state of development they were currently in. What does it even mean to turn everyone into synthetic/organic hybrids? And what stops the hybrids from making more synthetics that Starbrat will then believe will turn on their hybrid creators? Unless everything is organic now, absolutely
everything? Do rocks
bleed now?? I just ... I don't even.
But perhaps the worst part is that with this ending,
you've solved the wrong problem. Starbrat thinks the problem is the singularity, but the real problem is
Starbrat itself. Until you get that screwy, insane, illogical AI permanently out of the way, no one is safe.
Destroy: Or as I think of it, the "bad" successful ending. Of course, narratively, this is the ending that
makes should make the most sense. We've learned from Saren (Synthesis) and The Illusive Man (Control) that Destroy should be the logical choice. However, due to
bad writing "artistic integrity," it's actually a pretty horrible outcome compared with what could have been, despite ultimately ending in victory.
So you eliminate the core problem, Starbrat, and save the galaxy. Unfortunately, you
also just committed mass genocide and murdered a loyal friend to boot. Now this would be understandable if it were the only option, but ... it
wasn't. So ... it
isn't.
Control: This is the good ending. This is the
only good ending. Narratively, it should not be ... but it is. You eliminate Starbrat by replacing it, save the galaxy, repurpose the Reapers from a destructive force into a protective one, and become an immortal god-protector. Depending on how you interpret your transition into AI form (to wit, whether you believe it's still Shepard or not), you might even be able to pull an EDI (or do something similar) and go see your friends again!
Either way, however, you saved the galaxy, did it without committing genocide, and even gave the galaxy a powerful protective force just in case some other horrible threat from beyond decides to come along one day again and cause trouble.
Modifié par PirateMouse, 09 avril 2013 - 04:29 .
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