SajuukKhar said:
1. Because the reapers couldn't make that choice for the other species it had to be made by them. Beyond they state IN THE GAME that the Catalyst itself couldnt do that by himself due to the way the thing was designed.
2.It isn't magic, that is just plain hyperbole.
3.If you cant understand the difference between destroying out ONLY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED life to prevent the destruction of ALL future life, and the wholesale destruction of all life permanently then you must not have been paying attention.
Because it is easier to harvest already living life then taking blood cloning more people and then harvesting them anyways.
4. It is an AI taking the form of something that Shepards mind can understand, much like the anceints from stargate or the Q from star trek they exist beyond forms.
Secondly The Reapers want to preserve life in the galaxy, Shepard being there gives them options they didnt have before and a possible way to end the cycle, which they never really WANTED to have to do in the first place. It is obvious why he would help Shepard
Im sorry but you are reaching on several levels here.
1. This is highly speculative and not actually expressed in the game. . But to continue to speculate, if the reapers really wanted to "save" undeveloped species they would have destroyed the Relays a long time ago to keep them from following the reaper tech, how are they trying to give future organic life a "chance" if they are at the same time setting them up for failure?
1-a Furthermore if Reaper tech is the result of some early robot apocalypse millions of years ago, that means that other aliens created the mass relays and the entities that would become the reapers. If this is the situation, how does the destruction of the relays keep future races from getting to the same point which they always seems to do.
2- So you are saying that the Catlyst has the technology to merge organic and synthetic life instantly. We now have to assume that they have technology that is advanced to the point of replicating magic. If this was the case, why would they go through the trouble of the whole reaper process. Why wouldnt they figure out a way to fix things without killing trillions of organcis(and synthetic) life? It just seems like the worst/dumbest choice to use in "helping" organic life and makes little sense. The sudden presence of technology that can replicate magic is just poor writing.
3- I understand that difference, but why? Why would they not choose another option. Furthermore, why would they allow Shepard to make any decision that would in thier mind inevitably lead to the same conclusion. Why would they do so and then keep the mass relays which automatically means that the cycle will complete. It is literally a self fulfilling prophecy. Furthermore you say its "harder" to do this and that, yet their technology has risen to the level of mysticism, they are literally infinite, so i dont get why they dont bother with other alternatives if their goals are so honorable and benevolent.
4- I get why its a kid, but i dont get how shepard getting there somehow gives them new options, nor how these new options somehow solve the problem. As i have stated before, their solution before shepard clearly just kept the issue spiraling, but by letting shep control/destroy all they are doing is resetting the system but there is no reason to think that it wont lead back to the same conclusion. The "merge" option still doesnt make sense becuase A- it such a grand event why didnt they do it before, and B- how will this change peoples will to advance and make their lives easier?
Further points
1- What is the purpose of allowing organics to develop without the knowledge that they would eventually be destroyed? It is clear that they cultivate them in order to kill them, why not put an indoctrination signal on each planet to make the people wait patiently and hopfully for the reapers, why go through the struggle of a painful and ugly war everytime if their goal is "salvation."
2- It still makes no sense that Joker and half the crew were randomly in the Normandy flying though a relay when they were clearly in the middle of the battle at the very end.
3- We still have little clue to the reaper origins. Where did they come from, why did they get here. If we are going to speculate on their purpose then we should have gotten more backround info.
4- The biggest issue of all of this is that this is a GAME not a book. If it were a book where i had no choice in what actions took place then i would not mind such a bittersweet ending; however, in EVERY other "choice" game, especially bioware choices, we as the players have the ability to do work in order to get "happy" choices, sad ones, bitter sweet ones, etc. For them to give us choice all through and then take away that choice at the end is a serious misstep in narrative/interactive story telling. Its like a choose your own path book that has only one ending. If that was the case why let me choose? I get what they were trying to do, i get the symbolic and thematic elements of life, choice, humanity and will, etc, but that doesnt mean that these should be the only options that the players have at the end. We all played the game wanting to see Shep save the galaxy not hit the reset button, to be shown in the last 5 min of a 3 game epic that the only way to really save the galaxy is to destroy it as it has been for the last few centuries/eons is a true kick in the groing and a bad decision.
5- The fans (such as myself) love this story's universe. The ending of the game means that there is nothing else possible in this universe as we know it. Even a prequel would still be hard to get into becuase you know the end result. I dont even want to replay the game becuase i know that all of the hopes and expectations i wanted for the story will not come to fruition. Again, if it were a book, that would be great. It is not a book, it is a game it has different parameters for what should and should not be done.
