We will all remember and honour the memory of EDI and the Geth. Those who remain will carry the torch for those that perish with the Reapers, and make sure the future is one that would make them proud. The Catalyst mentioned this was its solution to the issue between Organics and Synthetics, but everyone deserves to make their own choices, to learn by stumbling and getting hurt. Paragon – The Greater Good: The Reapers must be stopped.Synthesis crushes both their dreams and directives, changing the universe into a form where they no longer hold any validity, where they have no purpose.ĭestruction: The pulse from the crucible destroys all synthetics, Geth and EDI included. There’s also Cerberus, another idea, one of purity and human dominance. We need to destroy what they stand for, crush the very ideals they represent. Renegade – Crush Them: The mission has always been to end the Reapers, but destruction isn’t enough, not for the pain they have caused.

To save the galaxy, to prevent the creation of a new breed of Reapers sometime in the future, the universe’s paradigm must change and discard notions like Organic and Synthetic. Even if the Reapers were gone, the Quarians and Geth proved that conflict could happen again. Paragon – A new beginning: The Reapers were the solution to end the conflict between Synthetics and Organics, resetting civilisations before they could eliminate all Synthetic life.The Reapers become just another species in this new fused universe, sharing their knowledge of ancient civilisations and helping to rebuild. All life in the universe becomes techno-organic, even plants. Synthesis: In this ending the Crucible’s pulses rewrites organic and synthetic life to be one and the same. To prove that, here’s my take on what the endings mean for each path. All three endings work perfectly for both Paragon and Renegade, you just have to put them into context and allow for some roleplaying-something, as I’ve mentioned before, is central to a roleplaying game! Having said so, the argument that certain endings don’t work for a given alignment is a flawed one. If you agree with the Illusive Man on the idea of control and human superiority, then Control played for you.Īll your decisions up to that point should’ve decided which ending you got. If you valued synthetic life as much as organic, then Synthesis should’ve been the default way to go. If you stated that the only thing you cared about was destroying the Reapers then it should’ve picked that ending for you. I think the choices should have come naturally from all decisions up to that point. Now, before I continue I will say I disagree with the three choices in the end. I remember one of the issues people had with the endings was that the three doors didn’t exactly work for both “alignments.” Some said control didn’t work with a Paragon character, or that Synthesis didn’t work with a Renegade. I picked it up again when I launched the LawfulGeek channel and decided to complete the trilogy with my renegade FemShep, the one I lovingly call Darth FemShep. I went through the first game on a Renegade playthrough and then got as far as I could in the second one before the charity event ended. I’ve been playing the game since Extra Life in November. A couple of weeks ago I spoke about the issues in Mass Effect 3’s storytelling, primarily how bad its characterisation was.

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