Thread 719139121

So what is the "best" ending

>>719139121 (OP)
Umm the green one.

If you go through three games, over the course of 100+ hours, hellbent on destroying the reapers, and then cuck out inches from the finish line, you might as well just end it.

>>719139121 (OP)
They're all shit but Destroy or Synthesis that make any sort of sense. The entire conflict with IM is about controlling them and how that's a retarded idea but at they go "lol nah actually he was right"? Gtfo of here

>>719139139
We wuz symbiotics and sheitttt

I'm still mad
I will always be mad.
On my death bed I will be mad.
When the seas heat up and the world falls into global catastrophe I will still be fucking mad.
In the afterlife, when I get to the gates of Heaven, St. Peter and his angels will ask me "Are you still mad about ME3?" My answer will be yes.
When the race of man is no more and the ruins of man's cities have crumbled into dust, I will still be mad.
Ancient alien civilizations will find the smoldering, volcanic corpse of planet Earth and decode the secrets of the ancient "internet" and they will find this post and so my eternal anger will be brought forth into the far-flung reaches of outer space.
When the last tiny flash of heat in the universe dies and all descends into entropy, my hatred will remain.

I'm still so fucking mad I took the time to write this stupid fucking post and I'm not the slightest bit LESS mad. I fucking hate you Bioware.

Yes the ending was shit. Now the real question did you let the Krogan race die or did you let them live?

>>719139321
it vindicates TIM, so it's the best one. humanity first.

The headcanon you write that eventually becomes so long you could make a fourth game out of it.

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy is the only good ending

Control is retarded, synthesis is insane

>>719139121 (OP)
I like the red one

>>719139676
I usually let them live, even if Wrex is dead. If only for practical reasons, everyone's gonna die if everyone doesn't help so if they chimp out after the reapers are dead we'll deal with them then then

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy is only logical choice.
Control goes against everything you have been fighting for. It was the downfall of TIM.
Synthesis is fucking retarded. You are forcing billions of people into an existence they never asked for.

>>719139874
>synthesis is insane

>>719139630
Why is everyone mad about Mass Effect 3? I never played the third Mass Effect but played the first and second and I know that the first one is like a spiritual successor to Star Control 2. But why be mad at ME3 when ME2’s story was a massive detour and had virtually nothing to do with the first game? I think the entire game is a metaphorical representation of what it’s like working at NASA where all you do is lie and get lied to, usually with stuff relating to space. You get lied to so much that it makes you want to hit a woman if you choose the renegade route. Overall, I think the message is that anything is better than being a bitchless NASA nerd.

>>719139676
>>719139916
Krogans would be useful against Yahg.

Can't trust control because it's not you just an AI you. Even the ending implies something out of character for paragon Shep. The actual Shep would help rebuild then order all the Reapers to fly into a star or something, not rule forever as an immortal "watchman".

Synthesis is evil. Globohomo unveiling its underpinning bigotry, implying lasting peace is only achievable when all differences are superficial and everyone is fundamentally the same.

Destroy is the only good ending that allows autonomy and dignity to return all forms of life. I mean they basically retconned synthetic life to require reaper code because the writers were retards but you could still have new synthetic lifeforms achieving sapience without that garbage.

>>719139121 (OP)
Your imagination

>>719139753
>headcanon
Copium

>>719140620
Reapers aren't globohomo.
They're their opponents. It was never about peace, and Mass Effect itself is about things far worse than what is shown.
There are no good endings in this game, only one bad end, one whose implications escape most players because Reapers are, ironically, beyond their comprehension.

>>719139121 (OP)
It's pick your poison really.

>Destroy
removes every artificial intelligence and the mass relays from the galaxy, effectively leaving most systems permanently isolated from one another. not only would the cool geths and EDI be destroyed, a bunch of ships and services that relied on artificial intelligence would also be fucked.
>Control
unstable, and it probably only delays another conflict with the reapers later on. It'll perhaps be even worse when the time comes, considering they got Shepard.
>Synthesis
very suspicious amalgamation of biological and machine intelligence (how the fuck would that even work? It makes no sense). Who knows what the consequences of fusing with the reapers would be.

All in all, unfortunately I guess I'd pick destroy. It's the 'safer' option.
Though in retrospect, doesn't the explosion of the mass relays destroy practically the entire system where it was present?

>>719139727
I agree with humanity first on principle. The problem in 3 is
>IM never shows any evidence to believe the reapers can be controlled
>he actively hinders the thing that can control them by having the ninja faggot steal the VI among other things
>Earth got its shit pushed in so it's clear humanity on their own isn't gonna cut it to beat the reapers
And that's without even including the fact he's indoctrinated

>>719140951
>the mass relays from the galaxy, effectively leaving most systems permanently isolated from one another.
They retconned that in the extended ending. The relays get damaged but not destroyed and I'm pretty sure it's said outright they can be fixed

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy.
You kill all the Geth (bonus, you kill all the Quarians if you brokered peace and fused the Geth and Quarian into a hybrid cyborg race)
You cause the starvation and mass slaughter of Turian army and all Quarians because they're stranded in a galaxy without the dextro-amino acid-based shit they can digest.
You give the middle finger to the Starchild cunt.
You royally fuck up galactic society, setting motherfuckers back centuries, if not millenia.
And Shepard survives, in the rubble on Earth.
Bioware's cuck ending where everyone is kumbaya'ing and not genocided is bullshit fanfiction.

>>719142436
>they're stranded in a galaxy
solar system, not galaxy

>>719139998
>You are forcing billions of people into an existence they never asked for

>>719139121 (OP)
Refuse

Fuck the stupid AI boy and his shitty choices.

>>719139121 (OP)
destroy

>>719142891
Ah, the bitch boy pussy ass "let the Reapers kill us all" option.
Coward.

>>719139121 (OP)
molotov cocktail through biowares office windows

>>719139121 (OP)
Spacer
War Hero
Soldier only
Paragon only
Liara only
Insanity only

>>719139121 (OP)
I like green one. But I think they overdid it. Just few drops of shepherds blood would be enough

>>719139121 (OP)
Yellow
and then let multiplayer be the post-game

>>719139121 (OP)
Idk they all suck the relays all get fucked the entire galaxy is fucked its all fucked.

>>719139121 (OP)
the "uninstall" ending

>>719139121 (OP)
The ending where you tell him to fuck off too many times and it defaults into refusal.
>and if I die, I'll die knowing I did everything I could to stop you
>and I'll die free

>>719139121 (OP)
The one that allows the franchise to have a future.

>>719139139
Socialist Wet Dreams

>>719139121 (OP)
Just pick your color, it doesn't matter.

>>719139121 (OP)
perfect destroy, but the real answer is indoctrination theory.

>>719147357
There isn't one.
I have a conspiracy theory that the reason the writers botched the ending of the mass effect series so hard was somewhat of a fuck you to EA. I don't know if anyone remembers the era where gamers hated EA because they were buying up niche franchises and dudebroifying them to mass market them. Mass Effect was one of these series, where the sequel was produced after EA purchased Bioware and you can witness the dudebroification with your own eyes by looking at the differences between ME 1+2. I wonder if they didn't intentionally destroy the IP as a silent act of rebellion by making the mass relays blow up in the end. The mass relays were the keystone of the entire series, blowing them up effectively puts any sequels written into a corner and ensures that nothing can happen in the universe going forward. It's why Andromeda had to come up with the whole Ark Ship bullshit to try to side step the issue that the Mass Relays are fuckin gone. There can't be any more sequels because the setting is irrevocably damaged.
The only way they could possibly make a continuation of the story (now that the whole breakaway society gambit has been played) is to set a new game so far forward in the future that the mass relays could have been repaired/rebuilt. This removes the two main hooks of the series though, which were the galaxy wide existential threat and the Shepard team.

>>719139121 (OP)
the one that kills edi

>>719139121 (OP)
why are there like 5 different mass effect threads on /v/ right now?

>>719149819
indoctrination theory has to be the biggest cope ever created

Destroy ending but it doesn't really matter, they should retcon the three endings in the new game and just say whatever the thing did took out the reapers and left the relays intact actually.

The bigger issue with the new game will be whether or not Rannock is populated but they can just avoid it by preventing the player from being able to visit if they have an ending where the quarians can settle on a homeworld again.

>>719151112
Or shit, not Rannock, I forget if its a new homeworld or the old one. Guess it means its time to replay it.

Maybe its just me but I cannot get the ME3 combat to click.

>>719139121 (OP)
Green and purple ending

>>719139121 (OP)
Pretending that the Arrival DLC is the end of the series because you finally got to genocide Batarians. Oh, and Harbinger gets to infinitely seethe in the void of intergalactic space because you have taken away his last shot at arriving in the galaxy within the next million years. Subsequently, you can pretend that Mass Defect 3 did never happen.

>>719149850
I don't believe that. I believe that Bioware made the Mass Effect game they wanted, they were just that out of touch with their fanbase. Same as Veilguard.

>>719152170
You know the thing that worries me the most? This

https://blog.bioware.com/2023/11/07/n7-day-2023/

>We’ve asked ourselves many of the same questions you’ve asked us over the years! What happened to everyone you know and love in the games? Who really died? Who had kids with whom? What does a baby volus sound like? What about all the galaxies? The endings! What the heck is going on with our asari scientist-turned-Shadowbroker? What about S— nevermind…you get the idea. And of course, to those questions, there are answers, but you’ll have to wait to hear them. And anything we do say won’t be easy to find, just like you’ve come to expect from our #N7Day teases.

The one where you didn't play that piece of shit in the first place, you idiot.

>>719153061
I'm excited. I know it's going to be a disaster

They spent $45 million for Andromeda but not fixing ME3 and the ending...

>synthesis was off the table for me because overriding the bodily autonomy of literally every sentient being in the universe seems a bit wrong, also there is literally zero explanation as to why forcing everyone into being synthetic/organic hybrids will solve whatever the reason for machines and organics "always destroying each other" is
>control is still unsettling because you're leaving the reapers in the universe which feels like an extremely large loose end for a "species" that committed omnicide multiple times effectively because of a programming error
>destroy is the only one that completely removes the threat but at the cost of also destroying the Geth because Fuck You Pick Synthesis

ended up settling on Destroy but they all suck ass and destroyed the series

>>719140620
>not rule forever as an immortal "watchman"
But you never know what other threats might be hidden somewhere in vast darkness of space.
And if it is a Shepard's mind controlling them, then they won't actually rule, just stay ready in case humanity is in trouble.

>fuse
Reapers win. You all get indoctrinated.
>control
Reapers win. You all get indoctrinated.
>destroy
????

>>719154286
I'm certain it will be. I'm pretty sure everyone is.

>>719152524
>Bioware made the Mass Effect game they wanted
I agree with you but I would draw a distinction between classic Bioware and Nubioware. Classic Bioware was making games that appealed to one demographic, Nubioware started making games that appeal to a different one. This transition happened under EA ownership. Pretty much anything they've made past Mass Effect and Dragon Age doesn't appeal to me whatsoever and that's largely because it's a different group of people making the games under the same name.

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy is the only morally correct one. All the others are odd and ruin the galaxy forever. Destroy is a temporary pain and it's shown in epilogues that they can rebuild the technology.

Destroy = Renegade
Control = Paragon
Synthesis = Retard

>>719157286
I don't believe that. People like Mac Walters, Patrick Weekes, Lukas Kristjanson, David Gaider, Jon Dombrow, etc. were all there before the EA acquisition, or hired soon after, regardless of the acquisition. With the exception of James Ohlen and Brent Knowles, who left, everyone else is old Bioware. I think they just changed as they grew, and kept making the games they wanted to make, regardless of what EA wanted to do with the studio.

Shepard becoming some kind of Reaper-controlling demigod seemed like the best choice to me.

What ending would he chose?

>>719157862
>or hired soon after
I believe you're just a troll.

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy is the only right ending.
Suck for EDI but it is a mercy for the Geth after ME3 writers got rid of their real dream of being united as one in favor of them wanting to be individual soulful boys

>>719158514
Control, probably?
If i remember invisible war right he merged with the super computer to lead humanity into a brighter future, it's just that lots of shit that was out of his control went wrong after he did so.
Using control to create a benevolent AI using the Reapers to benefit the galaxy has a kind of similar vibe.

>>719139121 (OP)
If you didn't pick destroy you're an idiot.

>>719139121 (OP)
Synthesis is plainly retarded.
The entire conflict is built on the supposed inevitability of synthetics killing organics, so their proposed solution is to make everyone some form of cyborg, which will for whatever reason lead to an unprecedented age of peace. All this despite the fact that you can broker peace between one such conflict and the fact that the Citadel races themselves have been fighting each other for as long as they've been in contact, showing that even if everyone is on the same side of the organics-synthetic scale, conflict will keep arising. Not to mention that even between the Geth themselves, a hive mind, there's an internal conflict happening between their decision to support the Reapers or not.

The writers don't explain why giving Geth viscera and organics a couple circuits will magically make everyone into a pacifist, it would have to be mind control or something, because the games show that the synth-org conflict isn't as inevitable and that making everyone equal won't put an end to conflicts.

>>719158836
The answer is in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

>>719157496
>Red = Bad
>Blue = Good
I can't believe retards actually think like this

Obviously we ended picking the yellow ending.

>>719139121 (OP)
Destruction is the only when that actually feels like you accomplished what you set out to do and the only one that doesn't have you acting exactly like the other big bads (Blue is Tim's ending and Green is Saren's ending).

>>719158547
I'm not talking about Corinne Busche. Which one of the people working on these games, on the level that they can actually influence the game, were EA employees?

>>719142436
>because they're stranded in a galaxy without the dextro-amino acid-based shit they can digest
I'd find it likely that Earth would have some infrastructure to manufacture those foods to a limited extent to account for tourism. It's not Palaven where we're told non-Turians have never come on account of their heavily militarised culture.
What's more damning is that due to the fact that for some reason the war to decide the fate of the galaxy would happen in London of all places you leave stranded the brunt of this cycles forces, being a number far too large for Earth alone to sustain. The war over not starving to death would be fierce

>>719158514
A beer, please.

>>719159832
A bomb
What a shame

>>719139121 (OP)
The one where Bioware goes bankrupt

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy still. Control is a betrayal of everything the series has told you and at no point can you entertain the idea or think the Illusive Man is right. Synthesis has too many unknowns like why the Catalysts attempts at it had failed, husks and other reaper forces gaining sentience trapping them in eternal hell, and with how condescending Sovereign and Harbinger were to Shepard I can't imagine that the Reapers won't finish the job at some point later on.

>>719158836
People that choose anything other than green, forget that these Reapers are made by making goo out of people.
Thousands of races fought against that fate, failed, and here's the one mother fucker that has the choice to end their suffering, and chooses control or synthesis.
The Reapers haven't earned the right to be spared.
If you are OK with them, defiling trillions of people, then you had no right to fight against the Reapers to begin with.

>>719160050
Edinboro was a /meg/ namefag back in the day.

>>719158514
I think Destroy, to mirror Tong's. I know people usually see JC merging with Helios but I don't think he'd choose to become Big Brother after seeing the outcome of unchecked power

>>719139121 (OP)
The happy ending mod.

>>719160006
Heh heh.

>>719139121 (OP)
Destroy. The other two endings are literally just you getting Indoctrinated (Saren thought synthesis with Reapers was possible, Illusive Man thought Control was possible, both were Indoctrinated) and doing nothing just lets the Reapers win anyway. Destroy is the only way to finish your mission.

Wish you could have done more with Saren, he was a cooler villain than TIM.

>>719139121 (OP)
I came here to destroy the Reapers and that's what I'm doing.

>>719161030
and what about Batarians?

>>719160346
This. Bioware should have cut out the starchild themselves, if they had any sense.

>>719139121 (OP)
The threesome with Tali and EDI.