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[Duelist]

Just imagine Javik's reaction to the green ending though:

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"In addition to being part machine, I am part primitive. How charming."

[FemHawke FTW]

Just imagine Javik's reaction to the green ending though:

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"In addition to being part machine, I am part primitive. How charming."

He builds an airlock big enough to throw the galaxy out of.

[raging_monkey]

It could be worse

[Basement Cat]

He builds an airlock big enough to throw the galaxy out of.

A black hole then?

[Cespar]

soon as he talked of the fade i said screw MT fights... lets merge the realms and become transended.... the markers will bring us to immortality XD

Well Thedas was already merged with the fade a little, hence the hole in the sky.

I could see how that would be a problem though, because if spirits are living with the people of Thedas, then there would also be demons. But then again, there are always bad people in the world.

[YourFunnyUncle]

I mostly hate it because it's the end then. It's essentially saying that you want the game setting to burn. And then have it be another setting that no one can write about with any competence.

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It's hardly a new idea to have stories about a new society in which human and machine consciousnesses have merged to some degree or other, be that augmenting human memory or perceptions, downloading various consciousnesses into one big machine, etc. I'd see synthesis as a variation on these ideas, with plenty of potential, not as a dead end.

To KaiserShep's point, just because synthetics and organics have merged, that doesn't guarantee "everlasting peace" the way I see it. It's not as though all the individuals have merged into some gestalt consciousness, unless I completely misunderstood. It just means that the distinction between organic and synthetic life is lost.

[raging_monkey]

Well Thedas was already merged with the fade a little, hence the hole in the sky.
I could see how that would be a problem though, because if spirits are living with the people of Thedas, then there would also be demons. But then again, there are always bad people in the world.

it will drive the templars mad knowing they are "abominations" hara-kiri for them all * insane laughter then goes into coughing fit*. If i had it my way id sunder it completly and such if cory did anything right its that

[Rel Fexive]

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I too chose synthesis. I'm always surprised when people such as crimmy and alexia react so strongly against it. I guess it's because I don't believe in an afterlife/souls, or that organic life is fundamentally different from synthetic, once self-awareness is achieved. For me, human consciousness is nothing more than an emergent property of a complex brain, just as Geth consciousness emerged from complex interactions between Geth units. I certainly saw everyone staying alive as the best option from a bad lot, and something my Shepard would gladly do, even though it meant sacrificing her life and never seeing Liara again.

I react badly to it because it dehumanizes things. I like the fantastical, but not to that extent. Same goes for DA, if there were ever some storyline that mingled the spirit world with the real. I couldn't take it. Everything I want to see more of this setting is more mundane, more racial/human based conflict and drama. Not this level of fantasy that rearranges the nature of existence itself. 

 

I think many people's dislike for that option stems from...

 

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...the fact that synthesis is forced on the galaxy without their say so.  Plus, it is a very "wizard did it" ending and not everyone likes that.

 

Personally, I just found it to be the best of the three... but that doesn't mean I really like it all that much.  As I said before, it's the inevitable death that overshadows the endings for me.

 

...and I know Shep can apparently survive the destroy ending, but you'd have to kill EDI and the Geth (and countless unknown other synthetics) to get that.  I'm not happy with that choice, and I know Alexander wouldn't be happy with it either.

[Duelist]

He builds an airlock big enough to throw the galaxy out of.

[raging_monkey]

It's not new, yeah. I just think it's all crap. Those stories are just too esoteric for their own good. Like Philip K Dick. Overrated ramblings of a drug addled madman.

he did wonderland right?

[Cespar]

but if you change questions about life itself, I'll throw it out.

Welcome to Fantasy/Science Fiction.

[Cespar]

it will drive the templars mad knowing they are "abominations" hara-kiri for them all * insane laughter then goes into coughing fit*. If i had it my way id sunder it completly and such if cory did anything right its that

The old inquisition fought demons on a day-to-day basis. Something like demon hunters.

[Basement Cat]

The old inquisition fought demons on a day-to-day basis. Something like demon hunters.

Pity we couldn't recruit any agents named Belmont... that would have been a nice little wink.  *Castlevania reference*

[raging_monkey]

Not sure about that one. Some of his best stuff was adapted and made sense out of from others. Total Recall and Blade Runner, for example.

ah i see

The old inquisition fought demons on a day-to-day basis. Something like demon hunters.

and purged "heratics,rogue mages, goats and ate a lot of lyrium" but still mundies do that still... im just evening the playground

[YourFunnyUncle]

It's not new, yeah. I just think it's all crap. Those stories are just too esoteric for their own good. Like Philip K Dick. Overrated ramblings of a drug addled madman.

I can't stress enough how much I disagree with this. I don't think "the singularity" is coming within a few decades as some do, but I do think that these are real questions that we will have to face with the advancement of technology, unless of course we wipe ourselves out first. We are already beginning to develop real cybernetic technology that works, such as cybernetic arms where the hand can be opened and closed by the brain, and we're only at the start. Sci-fi is a good way for us to explore these technologies and their implications.

 

[raging_monkey]

Pity we couldn't recruit any agents named Belmont... that would have been a nice little wink.  *Castlevania reference*

belmonts are awsome even gabrial

Fun fact: the castlvainia series got turned into a archetype/support for vampire in yugioh due to konami owning both games

[Cespar]

I've always known it. Don't need the welcome map exactly. I just dislike it when it reaches some of these levels.

It's fun as a backdrop and for adding new elements (like races) to everyday life. Don't care for much else.

Well there are different kinds of fantasy. High fantasy usually reaches out for the beyond. You sound like you're interested in Urban Fantasy, which stays really close to personal human stories, like Percy Jackson.

[Cespar]

Pity we couldn't recruit any agents named Belmont... that would have been a nice little wink. *Castlevania reference*

I think I've only played one of those games, but remember the Final Fantasy series(♡) more, since I played Castlevania and FF along side each other.