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⌈ Secret Post #3077 ⌋

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[Lackadaisy Cats]

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(Gorillaz)

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(Tripping over you)

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[Stitchers]

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[Dragon Age]

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[The Mighty Boosh]

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[LOVE LIVE!]

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[Brooklyn 99]

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[Mad Max Fury Road]

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[Maggie Stiefvater]

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[Emily Alice Ovenden]

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[When Marnie Was There/Omoide no Marnie]

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(Rick and Morty)

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[Suppression]

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[Wall-e]

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[Ancillary Justice & Ancillary Sword]

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Ahahaha, see, I don't think any of the endings were necessarily happy or good. The point was there was no 100% good ending and you're supposed to be conflicted and unsure. Synthesis is just the best option available.

Being conflicted and unsure at the end of an epic trilogy honestly sucks ass, anon. And being conflicted and unsure over four really shitty options is worse. Sacrifice is one thing, but options that all either involved a) total loss of everything, b) genocide or c) wacky, basically unbelievable, and also really creepy, asspulls isn't the kind of harrowing epic choice they could have made it in line with the rest of the game.

Except it's exactly in line with the rest of the game. The choices have always been similar, just on a much more minor scale. Like, seriously, go look back at it. The entire game is one person deciding the fate of literally everyone in the galaxy repeatedly, with no input from anyone else.

Literally EVERYONE? Yeah, Shep makes hard choices and sometimes has to choose one ally over another, but at what point before the end does s/he make a choice that singlehandedly decides the fate of the entire galaxy?

Plus I think everyone fully expected there to be a choice at the end - it's the way it was written and the way the options hold up to previous choices/potential choices that sucks.

Tetralogy, or more depending on how much Bioware/EA is going to milk the rubes.

But my unpopular opinion is that Bioware painted themselves into a corner by establishing the Citadel/Mass Relays as a poison pill technology in Mass Effect, and then went into Indoctrination in ME2. There is no "good" solution that doesn't involve either control or elimination of the Reapers including Citadel and Relays.

One of the problems is that the few hints that Council races were reverse-engineering that technology ended up buried in the codex or three or four layers deep in dialogue trees. The end result is that most of the fandom ended up taking the "ancient alien, no mortal race could do this" hook line and sinker.

Edited 2015-06-08 22:15 (UTC)

Not a tetralogy. ME4 is not a sequel to ME3 (thank goodness). It's set in the ME universe, but Shepard's story stands on its own as a trilogy.

There is no "good" solution that doesn't involve either control or elimination of the Reapers including Citadel and Relays.

That's kind of (part of) the point. They made it so the only choice that could eliminate the Reapers also involved genocide as well as general destruction to all sapient life.

I can't parse the first line in your last paragraph. Could you explain?

The Council had developed their own independent relay technology capable of bouncing EM over galactic distances (source Codex). They had developed their own independent long-distance communication systems (EDI, Anderson). They were developing independent methods of mass transport (source Aethyta). The Rachni had their own FTL communication that could be studied (source Traynor). Javik and Starchild both admit that the Council had passed the Protheans in some respects. And the big reveal of ME1 was that the Citadel and Relays were honeypots to slow or prevent independent development of galactic-scale communication and transport (source Vigil).

So rather than looking at "general destruction to all sapient life" we're talking more about an Eve Online situation of relative isolation and rebuilding of galactic infrastructure.

However, many of those hints were buried in the codex or behind optional dialogue trees. The possibility for life after Relays could have been made explicit through mission design. For example, we could have had a mission to recapture a stolen prototype Asari/Salarian warship with a long- or medium-distance jump drive. (Possibly while escorting Joker to the command bridge while he says "shit" a lot.)

I could be wrong since it's been a couple years since I finished the games (I'm gearing up for a replay soon though! once I ~~get off my lazy ass and~~ obtain all the DLC) but I thought Destroy basically destroyed all technology, or all sufficiently advanced technology, and not just Reaper tech?

All "synthetic" tech. The Normandy is obviously intact after the conclusion so it ends up pretty arbitrary.

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