What is the best ending?

Morinth's literal mind blowing orgasm.

>>714033138 (OP)
Play Mass Effect 1 and then stop.

destroy by far

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy is the real ending, followed by Refusal.

Anyone who advocates for Control or Synthesis is either a dummie who can't think further than 15 seconds ahead, or got influenced by the 'blue = good, green = compromise, red = evil' dichotomy. The only based version of these endings is Renegade Control.

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy is the only correct option

>>714033193
Based and cumpilled.

>>714033138 (OP)
High EMS Destroy, everyone else is wrong
also 1 > 3 > 2

Happy Ending Mod + Citadel Epilogue Mod

>>714033138 (OP)
There are only 2 Mass Effect games. The 3rd one never happened.

what if earth or the galaxy is not worth saving plus i also want to destroy the gay reapers
what do?

>>714033928
Shoot the star kid, reapers get destroyed next cycle

>>714033928
Low EMS Destroy so you burn everything to the ground
https://youtu.be/BAgcwhPpfa0

>>714033928
low EMS destroy nukes most of the advanced galactic life while destroying the reapers

I'm just going to say it.
Andromeda was not that bad.

>>714033403
>>714033531
>>714033345
>ITT: retards who still cling to the multiple-times debunked Shepard indoctrination theory which itself was just a cope for how shit the entirety of the game was
>>714033920
The objectively correct opinion.

>>714034308
ME2 is ass though

>>714034308
It has nothing to do with the indoctrination theory. Control is just Shepard replacing Harbinger, Synthesis is one of the most retarded ideas in storytelling history. Destroy is what Shepard set out to do and has been trying to accomplish for 3 games. It's also the only ending in which he acts with certainty in conviction before his death, and his eyes don't glow like a husk's eyes.

>>714034308
me2 sucks lol

>>714033138 (OP)
the one where u play mass effect 1 and not 2 or 3

>>714033138 (OP)
the mass effect happy ending mod
it at least solves the shit original ending
oh and all the mass effects are good
you fags just seethe over nothing

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy. Control is a betrayal of everything the narrative has been telling you across all three games that you're going to beat the Reapers. At no point throughout all of 3 can Shepard entertain the idea that control is an option and being told suddenly it can work unless you're not indoctrinated doesn't feel convincing. Synthesis feels contrived as even the Catalyst admits it tried and failed at least once but doesn't go into detail. We see the effects immediately after but for all we know it only discovered the downside hundreds or thousands of years after it tried it's solution. And Refusal feels like the realistic result of what Bioware realized how they fucked up by promising a battle against the Reapers without figuring in how it's conventionally impossible to win against an army of massive machines capable of fucking up entire fleets on their own.

>>714033138 (OP)
>Shepard's eyes during Control
>Shepard's eyes during Synthesis
>a random indoctrinated Reaper-zombie's eyes
>Shepard's eyes during Destroy

>>714033248
>>714034371
>>714034697
>>714034781
Do you guys ever get tired of going into every ME thread just to shit on it? I hate Resident Evil remake 2 and onwards but I don't act like a faggot and go into RE threads just to jerk off about how much things went to shit cause it's just unhealthy to stay perpetually miserable.

>>714033138 (OP)
I know the writers were too stupid to do this on purpose, but whether or not you pick Synthesis is almost like a test of whether you actually paid attention during the whole trilogy.

You get EDI and Joker together because organics and machines can have a connection despite their innate differences, they don't need to be physically wired together.
Legion in ME2 tells you the geth deserve to build their own future and forced uplifting is a heretical solution.
Mordin and his genophage doubts are like a lesson in why forced uplifting before cultural readiness is a disaster. And many more examples in the trilogy.

Synthesis and synthesis-adjacent ideals are pushed almost exclusively by antagonists or misguided fools. The Thorian, Illusive Man, Saren, Gavin Archer, the geth heretics, the salarians, etc.
If you pick Synthesis despite all this, then the trilogy's storytelling basically just entered in one ear and went out the other with you.

>>714033193
>"Shepard, having sex with my daughter will kill you"
>Betray Samara
>Recruit Morinth
>Immediately go for the CMF

Then you play ME3 as a weird dream Shepard's having as his body shuts down.

Synthesis is the best ending because everything's so fucked they can never make a sequel anymore.

this one

>>714033193
>Reject humanity
>Return to coomer

It's stated multiple times in the games that the galaxy does not have the capacity to build new relays (which logically includes rebuilding destroyed ones). So destroyfags, riddle me this, what would happen to the hundreds of billions of souls stranded on war-devastated planets, with destroyed infrastructure, now cut off from galactic trade on which they relied for survival? We shit on Synthesis for being unrealistic fairy-tale tier, well, the galaxy not fucking starving to death and descending into anarchy, then myriads of local wars for survival is also fairy tale tier.

Destroy also does fuck-all to solve the problem of AI, which is a valid and even more grave issue than the Reapers were, as it threatens the complete eradication of organic life.

Control is the only objectively good choice. The Relays are repaired quickly, and with Shepard at the helm the Reaper fleet fulfills its original purpose of being basically a peacekeeping force.
>b-b-but what if Shepeerd goes rogue and the Reapers start being genocidal again
A "what if" is better than a "definetaly" when the question is whether the galaxy gets fucked. Destroy would completely fuck the galaxy. It surely won't happen in the near future if at all, it would not be compatible with the narration's ending. And if it does eventually happen, the galaxy will sure as hell stand a better chance to defend against it than it has to survive the total and complete collapse of civilisation.

>>714036170
>Destroy also does fuck-all to solve the problem of AI, which is a valid and even more grave issue than the Reapers were
nope

>>714036170
don't they repair the destroyed relays in the enhanced edition

>>714036268
They do but it's not said when, or what survives by that time. And besides, it is about as realistic as the synthesis ending given that the ability to repair relays goes against the game's established canon.

>>714036170
>It's stated multiple times in the games that the galaxy does not have the capacity to build new relays (which logically includes rebuilding destroyed ones). So destroyfags, riddle me this, what would happen to the hundreds of billions of souls stranded on war-devastated planets, with destroyed infrastructure, now cut off from galactic trade on which they relied for survival?
as of the Extended Cut slop, high EMS destroy does not wreck the relays

>>714033138 (OP)
Shooting yourself in the face so you don't have to play this garbage.

>>714036418
a lot of shit in ME3 went against the game's established canon so who fucking knows anymore

>>714036632
>a lot of shit in ME3 went against the game's established canon so who fucking knows anymore
as opposed to ME2 which definitely did not have the same problem

>>714033248
It really is a good stopping point
>reapers stopped
>humans become respected
>shepard off to more adventures

>>714033920
I wish 2 never happened...

>>714036418
Protheans managed to recreate the mass relay technology in their time, and Council government got access to the facility where they did it following the events of ME1. Combine that with all the work that went into the Crucible project (something that directly interacts with the entire mass relay network upon activation) and you can assume that in the years following ME3 the surviving civilizations of the galaxy managed to figure out mass relays too.

>>714036170
High EMS Destroy doesn't "build new relays", it fixes the laughably small amounts of damage the Crucible energy caused the already active ones. Pay attention.

>>714036418
>They do but it's not said when
You see in one of the slides Wrex and Grunt, who were on Earth, landing on Tuchanka *onboard Alliance shuttles*. Hackett outright tells you things can be fixed because Shepard was a gigachad. Pay attention.

>>714035540
You used more words bitching about people bitching than they used to bitch.

>>714036952
THIS PISTOL DOESN'T HAVE A THERMAL CLIP

>>714036987
LE is so ugly.

>>714035958
sauce

Can we just appreciate for a moment how the endings of ME3 blatantly ripped off Stargate SG-1's ending with the Replicators?

>>714036170
The entire trilogy, including ME3, it's shown how fucking bad things get when people fuck with reaper tech.But yes let's control every reaper at once, I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like TIM lost his fucking mind either trying to achieve this.

At literally no point does this seem like a good idea. The fact that the writers made it a good choice after all for some reason is fucking mindbogglingly stupid.

>>714033138 (OP)
shooting the kid, it makes the devs angry

>>714038293
Based jew.

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy. I didn't spend 3 games chasing the Reapers just to let them get away.

>>714036973
It ends with them literally going "the reapers are still out there".

>>714033138 (OP)
The green one

>>714035401
/thread

>>714033726
What the hell, I've never seen this. Is there somewhere in 3 you can just fly to and see the entire fleet like this?

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy so you can keep plapping quarian pussy.

>>714033138 (OP)
Destroy is the only ending I've ever done so that.
>>714035958
>playing as femshep
Gayboy

>>714035401
>gamers: this is deep symbolism
>lazy ass devs: so uh just reuse this synth eyeball texture who cares

>>714035401
Duh, his appearance changes because why wouldn't it with those choices. Aesthetics is not an argument here.

What are your hopes for the real spiritual successor coming up?
We don't have dusters ITT, right?

>>714035809
Yea but maybe Shepard and the crucible do it right after all that. He's the one to pull the sword out of the stone or climb out of the pit like Christian Bale.

>>714040778
I'm not really fan of the Expanse setting.

>>714040778
Unlike Mass Effect it might actually be good.

>>714040868
The first ME was actually good, the only mistake was making Tali non romanceable but they fixed it in their next game sacrificing the RPG mechanics for an action tp shooter to please a broader audience.

>>714040778
I'd hoped it would run on my potato but doesn't look likely.

>>714040863
The setting isn't that unique but the writing is good and it has some good characters
My main problem with the upcoming game is how much role playing and character building there even could be, like how much variety could there even be? It's not like it's a setting with stealth tech that lets you be invisible or move shit with your mind

>>714040778
>no sexy aliens
>almost no aliens at all in fact

>>714040778
I'm willing to try it, but personally I 'd like it much more if it had cool aliens to play as or interact with.

>>714041216
At least we can have sexy reporters

>>714041216
>>714041287
I agree that aliens are always cool but the setting just wouldn't work if it wasn't based around on humans

>>714041173
40% of players choose the Soldier class in ME. Don't they get a big explosion skill and bullet-time? You could have those in The Expanse. Not every game has or needs to have magic. Back in the day I thought the not-Force was stupid in Mass Effect too, but I like it now.

>>714036987
>Demastered Edition

How would (You) name your spaceship in a sci-fi setting, anon?

Will The Expanse game be based on the show and its aesthetic or the books alone?

>>714035809
i cbf I picked blue

>>714041660
Why, U.S.S. Peanus Weanus of course :)

hahah! :D

It's my weeeenus peanus! :) hahah

How I would name my spaceship - my answer is, of course, my peanus weenus :D

Hahahaha!

>>714041716
Obviously the show. For the same reason why every Tolkien adaptation has to follow the Peter Jackson aesthetic now.

>>714042040
unhinged

>>714041501
I don't think most people played soldier because they "hate magic" or whatever. They mostly played it because soldiers can use every weapon type, and you can just use your squadmates for powers. Especially in ME1 where each weapon type had it's own power and squadmates had more powers. For ME2, biotics were nerfed and SMG feels like shit. The non-Soldier classes that were always the most liked were Infiltrator and Vanguard because they at least had a weapon other than pistol/SMG, sniping and shotgunning.

>>714042395
The biggest reason soldiers were most played is they're the default
Like literally the most played character-type is the one you get by pressing next next next next during character creation without changing anything, Male Shepard Soldier

I think the other classes were always pretty equally represented after that except Engineer which lagged far behind

>>714042787
That's actually a pretty small factor. In all the voluntary polls throughout the years Soldier still wins with a majority, and Infiltrator/Vanguard right behind it.

I hate Mass Effect 2. They made the best party in space game history, and then proceeded to kill/ruin all of them. It so baffling.

>>714042395
I didn't say people picked Soldier because they don't like biotics, I'm just saying that a third person game can be a straight-up shooter with just gun- and tech-related abilities, even if the game is being compared to Mass Effect in advertising. I don't see that lack of variety automatically being a problem, and that's how a lot of people played ME anyway.

>>714042395
One of those how did they even let that happen things is the state of SMGs in ME2 and the classes that were restricted to them, they're *awful* without the DLC SMG, and it's only really 'okay' and it's still eventually boring being restricted to that one

>>714042921
Voluntary polls are skewed, Bioware released the stats from their own phone home tracking that was more accurate. However it's not totally wrong, I believe the remaster shifted things fairly significantly towards exactly what you mention, the Sol/Inf/Van trinity ahead of the others

>>714043469
No, the stats are what's skewed because it's just recording what people pick on their first playthrough, not recording their preference. A poll is more accurate to actually see what people who actually play the game more than once *prefer*. In any case, it's exactly the same distribution. Soldier first, Infiltrator/Vanguard next as runner ups, everything else last.

>>714033138 (OP)
The happy ending mod lol.

>>714043383
I wasn't the guy worried about variety. Smart devs can make variety out of anything. I do think the setting isn't as interesting as other sci-fi though.

>>714043383
Man, couldn't they've found a good looking chick to play Drummer
At least someone that's not a sticc

TOTAL BATARIAN DEATH

>>714033248
Came here to say this

>>714040778
>Owlkek
No.

>>714033138 (OP)
playing the first game and pretending it ends there

>>714040778
They better have power armor that actually change how you play in it, those were cool

>>714039756
Yeah but they're blocked from invading through the Citadel. An indefinite delay until they figure out a permanent solution.

>>714041660
>new construction options

>>714039756
>the reapers are still out there
Where's the edit

>>714033138 (OP)
There is no discussion, destroy obviously.

All the species and people you united joined the war for one purpose: to destroy the Reapers.

Not to control them. Definitely not to fucking join with them.

To END the Reapers, once and for all.

red
lmao tough breaks, Legion

>>714033138 (OP)
The one where the trannies working at bioware released dragon age veilguard

>>714035540
>REEEEE, let people enjoy things
no

>>714033138 (OP)
The highest EMS value only alters the destroy ending, therefore it is the most correct.

>>714034371
Mass Effect has always been shit.
As are you.
And your mom.

>>714035958
Can we stop pretending this fucking heinous bitch was ever attractive?

>>714040778
>No hot aliens
>No interesting character designs
>full of uggos
My hope is that it is trash and someone makes something better than what was shown here, because I don't want the future of space RPGs to be only realism, no aliens, nothing cool and this protomolecule stuff isn't saving it.

>>714041660
I always like the name Icarus.

>>714033193
fpbp

>>714033138 (OP)
>kill geth
>control geth
>become geth
how is this even a question, shepard-commander

Geth?
More like GAYYY

>>714051605
>I want to name my ship in a manner that shouts "I'm gonna kill myself out of retardation one day"
Bro...

>>714033138 (OP)
control ending but shepard control the reapers to kill eachother or fly into the nearest sun, thus saving the geth and edi
why didn't shepard do this? or better yet why did bioware become so dogshit in less than 5 years?

>>714033138 (OP)
synth is the nicest, but destroy is realistically the only true option.

>>714040778
why would i want to play something as vanilla as the expanse le MAO
>no cool aliens
>no sexy aliens
>no aliens at all actually
>muh hooman drama
yeah no thanks ill rather wait and cope for ME5

What now?

>>714059602
Charge!

>>714058991
>force people's body to change against their will
>the nicest

>>714033138 (OP)
Shepard dies in the suicide mission and the reapers are all killed in Joker Effect 3.

>>714055485
We're just a plucky group of misfits punching above our paygrade, so Icarus is fine.

>>714061294
its whats best for them
>they didnt choose it!
who cares

>>714056438
>why did bioware become so dogshit in less than 5 years

staff departures

>>714056438
>why did bioware become so dogshit
talent left
blue haired mutant troons took over
not only those things took over, they are being paraded and celebrated

Destroy.
Sorry, Joker.

>>714033138 (OP)
Batarians ceasing to exist

>>714033138 (OP)
The one of ME1