OnlyMrChill wrote...
I'm a bit late on the Mass Effect trilogy but I've been playing it these past few months and I just beat the last game (ME3 extended cut) and I got an ending that I believe might just be one of the best ending I have ever experienced in a video game. It was the Destroy Ending.
I maxed out my readiness by playing multiplayer, had all the war assets and went all out.
I:
Killed the Reapers
My Crew survived (except for edi, didn't care for her tho)
Shep survived
Life is back to normal, they just got to repair the mass relays
I also didn't care for the Geth or Tali and her species dying. I only cared about me, Miranda, ensuring humanities survival and killing those damn reapers.
So why all the hate towards the ending(s) of this game?
Gee so glad that everything fit it with what you wanted, who gives a rat's behind about anyone else. See the problem here is those who are not so happy with it all had a different view of things than you and the game let them down. It was just as valid to care about EDI, the geth, Tali, hell anyone alive on the Citadel. But as long as you got Shepard alive (sure makes complete sense based on what Destroy says, not shows, should happen) and Miranda and ensured some type of survival for humanity right now. Of course, who cares about tech being damaged-you know the stuff implanted in just about everyone. Kind of like tech of a pacemaker or a prosthetic but on a more profound level-that stuff is damaged which should effect people fairly negatively. Good luck on that survival of all humanities thing.
Variety of endings didn't just say that you'd get what you wanted-it implied that there'd be variety. It could set people up to actually care about the things you didn't. But who cares, right? The thing is how would you have liked it if in every ending Miranda had to always die, Shepard kills her to save everyone else, the geth live and rule the galaxy, EDI becomes Shepard's new love interest, and humanity is squashed like a bug. How about if there was no ending you liked? Who cares right?
Think beyond your own wishes and consider that other people that saw things differently were treated to, maybe at best, Shepard seen as probably alive (but the whole explanation for destroy and that blast indicate something different should have happened)-just say it's a given Shepard is alive. But Shepard did see the geth and EDI as real people. Heck the geth are the only ones that actually always believed the reapers existed. They also totally disprove the main focus of the problem at the end.
The kid was programmed to solve a problem that the geth and Shepard can prove can be solved by alternate methods. The geth conflict with the quarians was not solved by the reapers saving organics, but by the geth deciding to NOT kill them. The whole ending is dispelled, the existence of the reapers given what the kid says their existence is for is not required because the geth, the created that did not rebel but were attacked, retreated, didn't destroy the quarians, and had remorse. This was an amazing story but one that BW chose to ignore at the end. They had Shepard ignore it even as Shepard may be deciding to kill the very things that prove the kid was not needed. The geth could be a model of what went wrong but how synthetics could decide to work with organics instead of just inevitably killing all organic life, even puppies.
The whole story at the end, comes down to idiotic large organics who wanted to be worshipped and enthralled people (controlled them) created an uncontrolled AI to keep synthetics that their thrall races created and all synthetics from killing all organics. In order to solve the problem of organics creating synthetics that kill organics, organics created a synthetic that kills organics. And Shepard says, "ok, makes sense to me" and kills synthetics that have proven synthetics won't necessarily kill all organics.
The whole focus of the story shifts from being about large arrogant intelligent monsters in space who need no reason to kill or whose reason they feel is beyond our ability to comprehend to large arrogant stupid monsters who used to be somewhere but now are hiding in an ocean. And these other large now totally dumb monsters are controlled by an idiotic AI created by relatives of those hiding in the ocean. Sharks turned into lap dogs. Arrogant intelligent creatures turned into controlled mindless drones. And everyone is stupid. The Leviathans, the kid, the reapers, and Shepard. In fact, it is true that TIM comes out as the most brilliant if misguided of all. The reapers could be controlled. What was needed was to get rid of the idiot controlling them. Someone needed to shut off his blue box or AI core. Still doesn't make me like reapers any better because they're made of people goo. And no I wouldn't want them left alive after all that.
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