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Mass Effect 3 The Correct Ending? *spoilers*
12 years ago
This has been a topic up for debate since the game came out, but is there actually a ''correct'' ending to the game?
Mass Effect is a game about making different choices as a player you can chose what the outcome is going to be and how it impacts the story line, and in the end is there a right choice or is it down to how the player wants the game to end.
Here are the endings and some explanations in to whats good and bad about them
Destroy Ending
This is what you have always set out to do, since the start of the game, now this choice can seem like the right choice but it comes with a cost, as it wipes out EDI and the Geth, which if you haven't united the quarians and the geth or aren't to bothered about EDI then this choice doesn't seem that bad to you, but if you are like me and you have united them and love EDI to bits then even though this option seems right you do not want to go ahead with it.
But you have to ask yourself, if EDI and the Geth knew that their death would destroy the reapers would they want you to go ahead with it, and the star child says your children will create synthetics and the chaos will come back, but how are we certain this will happen? we are going off the word of our greatest enemy so it might not be true, you also have to remember what the reapers have done, they aren't just harvesting all life and preserving it, they are turning people into monsters and turning them against their own people, so there does seem to be some malice there.
Control Ending
If you play a paragon control ending does seem the right way to go, as you aren't destroying the Geth and EDI, the citadel stays intact, but you are doing what the illusive man wanted to do and control the reapers, and whats to say the power might get to much and the reapers start over again, not to mention that all the creatures the reapers made are still going to be alive, and to be fair is that any life for them?
But maybe control is the right way to go instead of just destroying the reapers you use them for your advantage in protecting and rebuilding the galaxy, but you have to admit, the music does seem rather dark when Shepard is explaining what happens .
Synthesis Ending
In this ending you combine all synthetic and organic life, I have to admit on my first play through this is the option I picked as it seemed the most logical at the time, you create new life by combining organic and synthetics and as a result manage to use all the information from the harvested species to further civilization and bring so its not all a waste for the harvested species as their knowledge is passed on, but is it right to do this, you are changing all life in the galaxy should anyone have that much power?
You are told that eventually life will reach this point so whats the harm in speeding up the process if it saves everyone, but as I said in the control ending, all the creatures created by the reapers will still be alive and is this any kind of life for them?
Refusal Ending
In this ending you refuse any of the options and decide to let the cycle continue and try and fight the reapers, which results in you becoming the next protheans, warning the next cycle about the reapers which allows the next cycle to defeat the reapers.
Personally I do not see this as an ending and was just created for the people who did not like the 3 ending options so I would never pick this option, but there are people out there who would and if that's how they want their game to turn out then isn't that what the game is about, the players decisions?
As I said earlier there is no correct ending to the game it is what the player decides is the correct ending, for me I am torn between destroy and control, and I do wonder if they make a mass effect 4, how they are going to include these choices the player has made into the game, but I have heard rumors of a prequel.
So which endings do people prefer and why?
will be good to see what everyone thinks ^^
Mass Effect is a game about making different choices as a player you can chose what the outcome is going to be and how it impacts the story line, and in the end is there a right choice or is it down to how the player wants the game to end.
Here are the endings and some explanations in to whats good and bad about them
Destroy Ending
This is what you have always set out to do, since the start of the game, now this choice can seem like the right choice but it comes with a cost, as it wipes out EDI and the Geth, which if you haven't united the quarians and the geth or aren't to bothered about EDI then this choice doesn't seem that bad to you, but if you are like me and you have united them and love EDI to bits then even though this option seems right you do not want to go ahead with it.
But you have to ask yourself, if EDI and the Geth knew that their death would destroy the reapers would they want you to go ahead with it, and the star child says your children will create synthetics and the chaos will come back, but how are we certain this will happen? we are going off the word of our greatest enemy so it might not be true, you also have to remember what the reapers have done, they aren't just harvesting all life and preserving it, they are turning people into monsters and turning them against their own people, so there does seem to be some malice there.
Control Ending
If you play a paragon control ending does seem the right way to go, as you aren't destroying the Geth and EDI, the citadel stays intact, but you are doing what the illusive man wanted to do and control the reapers, and whats to say the power might get to much and the reapers start over again, not to mention that all the creatures the reapers made are still going to be alive, and to be fair is that any life for them?
But maybe control is the right way to go instead of just destroying the reapers you use them for your advantage in protecting and rebuilding the galaxy, but you have to admit, the music does seem rather dark when Shepard is explaining what happens .
Synthesis Ending
In this ending you combine all synthetic and organic life, I have to admit on my first play through this is the option I picked as it seemed the most logical at the time, you create new life by combining organic and synthetics and as a result manage to use all the information from the harvested species to further civilization and bring so its not all a waste for the harvested species as their knowledge is passed on, but is it right to do this, you are changing all life in the galaxy should anyone have that much power?
You are told that eventually life will reach this point so whats the harm in speeding up the process if it saves everyone, but as I said in the control ending, all the creatures created by the reapers will still be alive and is this any kind of life for them?
Refusal Ending
In this ending you refuse any of the options and decide to let the cycle continue and try and fight the reapers, which results in you becoming the next protheans, warning the next cycle about the reapers which allows the next cycle to defeat the reapers.
Personally I do not see this as an ending and was just created for the people who did not like the 3 ending options so I would never pick this option, but there are people out there who would and if that's how they want their game to turn out then isn't that what the game is about, the players decisions?
As I said earlier there is no correct ending to the game it is what the player decides is the correct ending, for me I am torn between destroy and control, and I do wonder if they make a mass effect 4, how they are going to include these choices the player has made into the game, but I have heard rumors of a prequel.
So which endings do people prefer and why?
will be good to see what everyone thinks ^^
also I like to believe the indoctrination theory, I don't think they originally set out to do it but it ended up happening in late development
Obviously all the gates get destroyed = All the alien fleets are very much stuck on earth which would be struggling to support it's own surviving population at this point. And oh, let us not forget the Turians and Quarians who are probably not able to live off the planet due to their anatomies.