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I know talking about the endings has been done to death, but please, have a seat.

I think it's really cool how we're pretty much the opposite in terms of Synthesis vs. Destroy. I personally chose Destroy, not only because Shepard MAYBE survives, but because I'd become so indoctrinated with the idea that the Reapers HAD to be annihilated, no matter what. I play almost exclusively a paragon Shep (90% of renegade options make me feel like an asshole), but Destroy was a no brainer for me; I had been fighting these murderous giant space squids for three games, hell yeah I'll blast them back to the Stone Age.

but do not throw the geth and EDI under the bus just so your OTP can get their happily ever after.

Yes, this bothered me SO FUCKING MUCH. I hesitated on Destroy because I love the geth, I love Edi, and I don't want either to die. I get that this is a war, and casualties are a thing, but fuck.... So many people have already died, and the relays get severely damaged which is utterly devastating for all of the civilizations involved. Isn't that enough hurt, Bioware?? Did you really have to bring genocide into the equation??? Why do you make me hurt?????

Side-note: I've seen some people mention this special upgrade for the Crucible that likely made it so that the EMP exclusively targeted Reapers, sparing the geth and Edi. It'd be nice if Word of God could confirm that to be the case, buuuuut...

I liked Synthesis initially. It seemed like it was the happier ending of the three. But I thought about it some more, and I got super skeeved out by how intrusive it is. So here we have one person, making a decision for trillions of people about what to do with these monsters. One Person chooses an option that makes it so that every living being in the entire galaxy has their DNA altered without their permission. Oh, and now you get to live with the same things that tried to kill you. And Lucy the Husk? Well, at least now she's not gonna try to eat your face anymore. Overall, all the changes were definitely for the better, but I have a hard time being okay with something like that happening on such a massive scale. I also have a hard time believing that a future with Reapers would even be a good thing in the long-run.

Either way, we'll never know because Bioware doesn't want to fix the giant clusterfuck of an ending they created.

If it makes you feel any better, the fact that they moved the next installment to another galaxy millions of light-years away is a pretty good indication that all three endings (and that bullshit refusal non-ending, THAT IS NOT AN ENDING IT DID NOT HAPPEN) will get ignored. They have been very adamant about this being its own game, and not a ME4.

hell, invent your own happy fix-it ending where everyone lives

There's a mod for that! I haven't bothered with it, though. I've heard that ME is a notoriously mod-unfriendly game.

ANYWAY

In fact maybe my #1 desire for Andromeda is a romanceable male quarian

OMG KAL REEGAR PLS. Maybe he got aboard the ship taking everyone to Andromeda, and he becomes part of your crew once everyone's arrived and is woken up from cryogenic sleep. I KNOW IT'S A PIPE DREAM BUT I CAN DREAM, RIGHT???? It'd be super cool if we got to interact with a quarian that wasn't a techie. I'd love if there was a quarian biotic, but I'll take a soldier ~~like Kal Reegar~~.

There's going to be at least one krogan*, despite the fact that you could completely screw them over in ME3 (like with the geth and the quarians). Maybe a quarian or two, and a super flexible geth, managed to stow away aboard the ship?? Idk, I hope they show up, too. I loved the geth so much. ;u;

They did SUCH good job with the writing on the Rannoch missions. I was crying the entire time. Those missions, and the Tuchanka missions, were the highlight of ME3 for me. I cried even more during Tuchanka. I am the biggest sap.

*I'm just happy that there's a krogan squadmate. It could be the shittiest game for all I know, but I am so delighted about having a krogan on my team again. I fucking love those guys, and I absolutely HATED how everyone in the galaxy kept treating them (especially after you find out the reason why they got uplifted in the first place. Fuck you, salarians).

nayrt!

the ending makes me so mad because the game goes out of its way to show how peace can be forged between synthetics & organics (the joker/EDI pairing, that you can convince quarians & geth, of all races, to get along, etc), then the kid at the end just goes "no that's wrong we're destined to be enemies 5ever!!!"

and i mean, really? that's totally bullshit. maybe i'd believe that in ME1, but the other two games prove that idea completely wrong. so stop lying, go away and give me the real ending, please???

my ending of choice is control, by default, just because i refuse to pick the genocide option, and synthesis creeps me the hell out. i'm not gonna forcibly change the essence of every living creatre ever! my shepard was paragon, anyway, so i'm just gonna assume that she'll handle the reapers responsibly.

but yeah, most of the time i pretend the ending never happened, which seems like the best way to go about things, hahaha. and at least the game is still replayable despite the ending (unlike life is strange, ughhhh).

i mostly try to ignore reading up too much on new games before i play them because i don't want to end up spoiled (or get my hopes up too high), but i really hope they strike a good balance with including new races without forgetting about the old ones? i also hope they don't go all hardcore about picking & enforcing canon choices for the major parts of the last games (like the endings or the genophage stuff, like you mentioned); i mean, what's the point of playing a game about choice if the company's just going to override everything you choose?

in any case, i'm going to wait at least a couple months after it comes out to see what the reception's like before deciding whether to buy it or not. also, that way, if i end up hating it at least i won't have paid full price!

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