Lets check all three shall we?
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Red one:really the only acceptable ending.Destruction of all synthetics.
Green:Saren's dream.How was it.... The relationship is symbiotic, organic and machine intertwined, a union of flesh and steel, the strengths of both, the weaknesses of neither!"
Indocrinated.
Blue:wanted to control but got controlled him self.Indocrinated.
So red or nothing then?Right?
IT Theory?
Pancakes?
& OnlyPickMeControlEnding
I like my ending (this is with the EC not installed). I repeatedly walk around the Catalyst, shooting the pleasant sounding and pre-thermal clip Carnifex through it's wispy body until I grow bored or the Reapers blow up the Crucible.
I've liked my ending thusly:
High EMS Destroy: Breath followed by this music for about a minute (head canon of Shepard sitting in outside somewhere reading a newspaper several months later).
Followed by the Citadel DLC ignoring all mention of the war - or the war is some aftermath.
Well... no. Saren clearly didn't want to stop the cycles with synthesis that wasn't his goal and TIM wanted to use the reapers to assure human dominance. More importantly they were both indoctrinated before they came up with those ideas, they didn't become indoctrinated because they had those ideas. A while ago you could argue that shepard himself was indoctrinated but the IT theory is kind of dead in the water now. TIM believed in control only because the reapers wanted to give him something he could believe in to fight the galaxy for the reapers same with saren.
You can debate which ending is the best based on the implications and so on but you can't just judge which is the "best" based on whether an indoctrinated bad guy did it or not.
You can debate which ending is the best based on the implications and so on but you can't just judge which is the "best" based on whether an indoctrinated bad guy did it or not.
Thankfully not, else everybody would be smoking like a chimney and torturing animals, just for the heck of it.
Cause you know, a certain guy named Hitler wanted to ban smoking and install animal rights/welfare.
I have no idea what you're talking about, man. Shep destroyed the Reapers and had a huge party in Anderson's apartment with all of his friends to celebrate. Then they all took one last joyride in the Normandy before he settled down on Rannoch with Tali. The End.
I pick destroy all the time, every time.
I think the Destruction ending is better than the others in that after it's done the galaxy can rebuild and advance freely. Synthesis is he very opposite because it enforces some other being's predetermined notion of the "ultimate evolutionary peak" or whatever the Catalyst called it. Even Control just has the Reapers fix things back up to the way they were beforehand, makes it all feel kind of pointless. To me the endings are a case of start fresh (Destroy) vs. back to normal (Control) vs. take what you're given (Synthesis). I suppose the trade-off with Destroy is that all synthetics are eliminated, enforcing the thing of them being unable to live alongside Organics, which I admit I actually think is partly true, but not for the stupid non-reasons the Catalyst gives. It's kind of a non-issue for me since I never pick Geth over Quarians and I actually started to really hate EDI.
No bad ending, no good ending. No best ending, no worst ending. Every choice you pick is a possibility. That's Mass Effect's ending.
No good endings. Not even satisfying endings.
Unless you played Commander Shepard as Walter White
No good endings. Not even satisfying endings.
Unless you played Commander Shepard as Walter White
Guess I missed the ending of Breaking Bad where Walter White became a techno-God and took control of giant space robo-ticks.
Guess I missed the ending of Breaking Bad where Walter White became a techno-God and took control of giant space robo-ticks.
It’s been 18-19 months since it came out and my thoughts on it are that we addressed it the best we could in the extended cut. We’re obviously not going to be changing anything now. We’re only going forward. But you know what’s interesting? The only view I’ve had on it was, well, I was watching Breaking Bad, and that deals with (spoiler alert) the main character dying. And in no way do I think that anybody was surprised that he died. It was set up, even from the get-go, that this was a character that was going to die. But the interesting difference there is that that’s not a character that people had control of. They didn’t have any say at any point at what would happen to Walter White. Period.
And I think that’s one of the things we really underestimated, which was how much ownership people would take over a character that they could do that. You know, you’ve been given free choice to make all these decisions with this character, with the fates of millions of people, and then, you don’t get to choose your own fate. And I’m not saying that our decision was wrong or right. I think we just underestimated the impact that would have on certain players. To be fair, I get people, especially at the Cons, who will say, “I loved it. It was heart-wrenching, but I felt it was right for my Shepard.” And to me, that’s why it was the right path. But because there was no choice, it was going to be right for some people, and for others, in the middle, and other people were obviously very upset about it. In hindsight, I don’t think there was anything we would have changed about that, but it is a really good lesson learned
Mac Walters
Oh, I'm well aware of where your comment's coming from, Iakus.
Of course Mac is going to get people at the Cons who will say "I love it. It was heart wrenching...." There are fanboys and fangirls everywhere. He's probably also had had people tell him his ending sucked. He just won't say that in an interview.
Of course Mac is going to get people at the Cons who will say "I love it. It was heart wrenching...." There are fanboys and fangirls everywhere. He's probably also had had people tell him his ending sucked. He just won't say that in an interview.
Yup. Just like every other creative professional on the face of the planet.
Of course Mac is going to get people at the Cons who will say "I love it. It was heart wrenching...." There are fanboys and fangirls everywhere. He's probably also had had people tell him his ending sucked. He just won't say that in an interview.
I wonder if more people said the ending sucked to him than one's that said they liked it.
To OP: You figured this out allready?
Yup. Just like every other creative professional on the face of the planet.
And to me, that’s why it was the right path. But because there was no choice, it was going to be right for some people, and for others, in the middle, and other people were obviously very upset about it
So the right path is to screw over a large segment of the players, simply because it was "right" for another segment of the players.
And to me, that’s why it was the right path. But because there was no choice, it was going to be right for some people, and for others, in the middle, and other people were obviously very upset about it
So the right path is to screw over a large segment of the players, simply because it was "right" for another segment of the players.
Yes. That's the way storytelling works, especially endings.
Writers get that brand of whiny drivel over their endings all the damn time.
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Unless you played Commander Shepard as Walter White
Can you explain a little more this part please? I have not a single problem with the endings of ME3 but the finale of breaking bad really gets on my nerves. Vince Gilligan destroyed everything he built before with this lazy redemption-happy ending.
Can you explain a little more this part please? I have not a single problem with the endings of ME3 but the finale of breaking bad really gets on my nerves. Vince Gilligan destroyed everything he built before with this lazy redemption-happy ending.
That's kind of the point. Walter White was (at least as far as I'm concerned) absolute scum who only at the end does something kinda-goodish in an attempt to clean up the wreckage he left of the lives of those close to him.
But Shepard isn't necesailly Walter White. Shepard doesn't have to do things that require redemption. Or Shepard might not believe redemption is needed or even wanted.
And on top of all that, White's story pretty much opens with lung cancer. He was dying from the get-go. Shepard wasn't. There was no set-up for that. There was never a point anywhere that said "Shepard has no chance of living a long, full life"
Well, being smacked in the face with Alchera aside... 
Yes. That's the way storytelling works, especially endings.
Writers get that brand of whiny drivel over their endings all the damn time.
So maybe I should do a nonimport run and turn chocies off so I can figure out how I was doing it wrong.
Because clearly my Shepard wasn't Mac Walters'
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