Poll: If the 3 endings of ME3 are the only ones we're going to get, which will be your final choice?
- Thread starter Aisaku
- Start date
If and when I can bring myself to play the game again? I'll turn it off when the elevator starts to rise and then make up my own ending. Even I could do a better job.Aisaku said:
This. I could write a better ending to Mass Effect with no trouble whatsoever.dreadedcandiru99 said:
I'm still a bit confused by this ending. If it leads to the destruction of all synthetics, but Tali's suit still works and so does Garrus' eyepiece. So does that mean only synthetic lifeforms are destroyed? If so then what's to stop us from creating more AIs?Aisaku said:
I'll choose control, if only because the destroy ending would also eradicate the Geth. I killed the quarians (and Tali) to fight for the Geth's right to live as a species and I'd rather not just kill 'em all anyway.
Beyond that, with Shepard controlling the Reapers they could probably assist in the reconstruction of the Mass relays or maybe act as starships themselves.
I didn't get the synthesis ending the first time, but I find its existence to be silly anyway. I can buy that the Crucible could destroy or control the Reapers, but I don't see how it could rewrite DNA. Unless the space magic theory actually works.
Beyond that, with Shepard controlling the Reapers they could probably assist in the reconstruction of the Mass relays or maybe act as starships themselves.
I didn't get the synthesis ending the first time, but I find its existence to be silly anyway. I can buy that the Crucible could destroy or control the Reapers, but I don't see how it could rewrite DNA. Unless the space magic theory actually works.
that's kinda explained by theMercurySteam said:
he says that it destroys all synthetic life forms but doesn't stop anyone from creating more and thus restarting the cycle
I'll make my own ending.
This will include Garrus and Shepard, sitting on a beach, drinking a beer.
Garrus: So, Shepard, looks like everything is back to normal.
Shepard: Couldn't have done it without you, Garrus.
Garrus: Of course you couldn't have.
Shepard: Look at that sunset.
Garrus: A sight for sore eyes.
Camera pans out, revealing the remains of several reaper corpses protruding from the ocean.
This will include Garrus and Shepard, sitting on a beach, drinking a beer.
Garrus: So, Shepard, looks like everything is back to normal.
Shepard: Couldn't have done it without you, Garrus.
Garrus: Of course you couldn't have.
Shepard: Look at that sunset.
Garrus: A sight for sore eyes.
Camera pans out, revealing the remains of several reaper corpses protruding from the ocean.
If the one ending with three palette swaps is all we're ever going to get, then my final choice will be running my copy of Mass Effect 3 through a shredder, then mailing the fragments off to Casey Hudson with a long letter telling him in long and excruciating detail exactly how he and his staff fucked up the last ten minutes of an amazing game trilogy.
I will then release DLC in which Casey Hudson pays me $10 to have me shit in a box and mail him that.
I will then release DLC in which Casey Hudson pays me $10 to have me shit in a box and mail him that.
As i understood it there were about 17 endings in the game... right?
Anyway i would be Assuming Direct Control over the Reapers.
The word you meant is spelled as 'Canon'. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Canon]
Anyway i would be Assuming Direct Control over the Reapers.
This is a Cannon. [http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkL2nE2ZMj-IkxyQy4iVMsB0pbjiSlKNa3Jf9A5xTsmTE2qxaQ]Ilikemilkshake said:
The word you meant is spelled as 'Canon'. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Canon]
This. I mean when Shepard can survive even though The Catalyst specifically told him he wouldn't, who's to say that any of the consequences mentioned actually happen. So in my playthough the Reapers get destroyed and the Geth/EDI/all cybernetically enhanced life in the galaxy get to stay very much alive thanks.Ilikemilkshake said:
That said, I'm really not one to get into a shit fit about the endings (God knows enough people are doing that for me). Nor will I go to the opposite extreme and accuse anyone who would rather get into a shit fit about it as being wrong or entitled. There's far too much black and white, us or them, divisiveness going on in gamer fandom, but that's a whole other issue...
Point is I loved the game. Yes, the endings sucked balls (in my opinion), and I'm very much hoping for a free DLC epilogue, or perhaps a later edition of the game with an alternative ending. However, even if I get neither of those things the ending, shitty as it was, isn't bad enough to eclipse what I loved about the game (ie. every single Goddamn second up until that point), and in my opinion it's still set the bar for the games industry this year pretty damn high.
Except that isn't true. EDI would have been affected, but can still be seen walking out of the normandy, meaning that not all synthetic lifeforms are destroyed. There are only three explanations for this:teh_Canape said:
1. Shitty writing
2. The crucible only affects the reapers, but the AI kid lies to you with self-preservation in mind
3. Hallucination theory.
I myself go for red, because I believe in the hallucination theory.
I wouldn't know about EDI, she didn't pop out of the normandy in the end, thought it was because she was in my squad, but then Javik came out of the ship and he was in my squad, so ehSpaceBat said:
the hallucination theory seems pretty plausible
and I think "shitty writing" is a lame comeback, but that's just my opinion
For me i chose neutral (synthesis) for no real reason but at the time destroy was not the option i wanted, since i united the geth and the quarians (but i lost Legion, which sucked)on rannoch thus for the moment disproving the catalyst AI statement of synthetics will turn on organics. Might do the destroy with the secret extra ending thing that or stick with neutral at least then Joker and EDI can stay together.
Although what has annoyed me is Bioware said to keep the ME3 saves so I expect another ME game to come out. And judging from the endings Shepard is likely dead or at least that particular story arc is over and it takes place sometime in the future and all the choices frame the new story-arc.
I must admit though the way the ending is framed feels like the Deus Ex: HR way of picking a button.
Although what has annoyed me is Bioware said to keep the ME3 saves so I expect another ME game to come out. And judging from the endings Shepard is likely dead or at least that particular story arc is over and it takes place sometime in the future and all the choices frame the new story-arc.
I must admit though the way the ending is framed feels like the Deus Ex: HR way of picking a button.
Synthesis. It fits with how my Shepard does things. I already united one group of synthetics and organics. Why not do the same with the Reapers? And whining about the endings is not going to change anything. It's weird, but not bad. I don't see where all the hate is coming from, seriously.