Someone else made this joke but If I had a nickel for every time Shepard convinced someone to kill themself I’d have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird it happened twice.
@@grunt7917 as the Catalyst said they would have minimal efforts to rebuild them. It's highly likely that after the events took place all of the geth were rebuilt by the quarians and edi was likely rebuilt as well
Only some days ago I found out that it was Buzz Aldrin the man dubbing the Stargazer. Hearing him talking about reaching the stars... really send chills down my spine!
As much as I love hearing the voice of the iconic astronaut, I hate the scene because it makes it feel like the adventure that we enjoyed for the first two thirds and then crashed in the last part was either made up or embellished by the old man. 😢
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShayNot really. We dont know much time passed. I mean, he could have exaggerated as most tales go, but you saw it happen, Shepard was very real
The war against the Reapers should have been spanned over two games instead of crunched into just one game. And without Cerberus occupying more than half of the campaign. It's a disgrace that the reapers are a side character in their own War.
I salvaged a lost rant video because of how spot on it was and split it into 10 pieces and I'm currently posting it on my own feed. You should check it out and let's talk about it in the comment section.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShaydon't get me started. Cerberus almost ruined me2 and 3 for me. Luckily the games got saved by great character writing and fun gameplay but the main story was always incredibly disappointing compared to me1.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShaythat would actually have been a great idea as it didn’t feel like the entire galaxy united fought against the reapers at the end like we could at the very least properly recruited the drell and hanars at kahje rather than having it be a side mission with Kasumi
Whether or not EDI survives the red ending should have been decided by whether you salvaged the reaper brain or the reaper heart from The collector base. The reaper heart serves as an energy source while the reaper brain would have served as a processor that would have allowed Target discrimination.
Destroy feels like the right ending for a lot of reasons. I feel like there’s a lot of lines & scenes throughout Mass Effect that point that destroy is the only way to really stop the reapers. Even all the way back in ME1. Admiral Hackett, Anderson, & even Shepard point to it. “Dead reapers are how we win this” The paragon option on Rannoch has Shepard saying destroy whereas he mentions control in the renegade. Saren wanted a “union of flesh & steel” in ME1. He was indoctrinated. The Illusive Man was under the impression he could control the Reapers in ME 2 & 3, but he was already under indoctrination per the catalyst. I don’t see why the same wouldn’t also be true with Shepard who picked control. Why would he/she be an exception to Reaper indoctrination when picking Control or Synthesis, when previously we see Reapers liked these options? Indoc makes Reaper desires seem good at the time which I like to think is why control is paragon blue & destroy is renegade red. It’s reversed. I know some don’t select Destroy or even call it “evil” because it supposedly kills off EDI & the Geth. First, I’d argue EDI I believe would sacrifice herself if it meant to stop the Reapers for good. The Geth maybe not, but Mass Effect 3 repeatedly, & I do mean repeatedly, points out that there will be sacrifices to win & the “calculus of war”. We already saw this in ME2 in the Arrival dlc, sacrificing 300,000 Batarians civilians to delay the Reapers. The whole needs of the few vs the many conundrum. Those giving the Geth/EDI reason are choosing the needs of the few over the many imo. I think of Reaper tech like the One Ring in LotR. Everyone thinks they can handle it but over time it just warps your mind and you lose yourself to it. Becoming like a husk or a wraith. The only safe & sure fire way to be rid of its evil (stop the cycle) is to destroy it (or them in this case). Not to mention the Reapers are murdering 1.86 million humans a day per the codex. 1,860,000 every single day. That’s more than my entire major metro area. That’s basically a major city wiped out every 24 hours. And that’s just the humans. The batarians have also basically been wiped out. So as much as I love the Geth, I’ll sacrifice them to save trillions of more lives to ensure that the repeating genocidal cycle has “an end, once & for all” (the literal ending title of the ME3 soundtrack) in the cold calculus of war that is a major theme of ME3. There’s a line in ME3, & I can’t remember now who says it, that “humans want to save everyone” but “that it isn’t going to be possible.” And top it off with it’s the only ending Shepard has a chance to survive & the fact the catalyst has a Reaper voice if you do the “refusal ending” also seals the deal for me.
That yes. But I can give you a simpler argument in favor of the fact that this is the most correct ending: it requires the most effort from the player (especially in legendary edition). The player needs to complete the entire trilogy 100%, with correct choices and rescheduling saves. No other ending requires this (other endings do not require anything at all, so they can be considered alternative)
I disagree to having Destroy be a Good ending for the Galaxy At first that's exactly how I thought about it, its all indoctrination and you'll just be a third after Saren & the Illusive man as you've mentioned But looking at the results of the other two endings you can tell its simply not the same! its no Indoctrination since the reapers do end up changing for the better, this never has happened with Saren and mostly likely wouldn't if the illusive man has succeeded! -> *Synthesis* : part of Shepard lives in all and through EDI during the Ending we know that those affected are "Alive", are themselves! its merely in their DNA to live peacefully ever after. (Imo, this Ending is what's best for the Galaxy) -> *Control* : You see the Reapers actually pulling back from the war, ceasing hostiles even rebuilding destroyed cities the only thing uncertain is how other Life forms will react to Shepard's "Army" If Legion and EDI taught us anything, is that Synthetic are alive so if we commit to destroying all Synthetics period doesn't that make it Genocide? isn't that exactly what the Reapers planned to do on Organic races? Besides.. Sooner or later technologies will be repaired by other life forms, and Synthetics in one form or another will be created again, therefore: *You've merely delayed the Cycle, not "Destroy" it*
Shepard’s thoughts (in all 3 endings when romancing Tali): Tali: I’m sorry, but I’m not coming back. But as long as you keep living: it’s totally worth it
This is def the best ending and canon... Any ending where the reapers survive is terrible. They can influence anyone probably with synthesis just like the geth... so basically everyone would just be their slaves and they'd still be unstoppable so no one would oppose them. Also, you would essentially be ending all organic life, while synthetics remain the same, why is it that organics need to change and synthetics stay the same and just 'understand'..... that's not compromise it's bull shit.... Control is just AI acknowledging that it fucked up, and doesn't know what to do anymore, it's the simplest change, millions of years doing this and got nowhere, maybe it's the AI fault that reapers have failed. However, Shepard leading the reapers just essentially means now there's a galactic overlord with an unstoppable force and no one has freedom... The reapers needed to go, they were a failed AI made by squid people that literally went so rogue they turned civilizations into milkshakes. Where is the proof that the geth even died? They said they made some advancements that reapers couldn't control them anymore maybe could've lived. And the Geth and Turian's getting along prove the reapers were wrong.... Ai with organics was working! And can work again if the geth died...plus very end... another Shepard story? Woooo mass effect 5 LETS GOOO
@@Filiplego1 Haven't you even considered the negative impact of forcing complete evolution among all organics? not even considering the fact that the Catalyst used Shepard, a human. as a genetic template to rewrite EVERYONE?
Any time someone wants to invent super good AI id like them to see this video and get smacked in the fucking head. I know its a video game but still... How the AI gives reasoning and lame justifications for such brutal killings. Like in the game if the reapers wanted to purely preserve current cycles life in a reaper form it could have been done way less brutally. They just wanted supremacy. That's why the whole indoctrination theory ending bares the most weight in terms of game ending.
This would be the best ending if only EDI could survive through it... but I simply cannot bring myself to end her life... she is as human as the rest of the crew at that point, at least to me. It's so fucked up...
She's a machine. She doesnt have a soul. If you pick control and synthesis you actually let the reapers win. Destroy is the only real ending anyway that doesnt betray everything you been trying to do.
@@DrumToTheBassWoop i read the destroy option in more detail and it says it only kills the 'machine devils" aka reapers and the heretic geth. also even if somehow the machines in the mass effect universe did have a soul, EDI and Legion would have been spared because they are the good ones. The explosion from the destroy option only eliminates the evil machines so its actually a win/win. And spoiler alert; if the indoctrination theory is true then there was no ending to begin with. Shepard beats the indoctrination aka destroy ending but the game ends in the cliffhanger as you still have to finish the actual fight. this could set up mass effect 4 with shepard still being alive and this time harbinger fuses with the illusive man like sovereign did with saren and now you really will have the final battle with the illusive man harbinger form.
She made her decision to stand up to the Reapers, to fight for more than self-preservation like the Reapers do, those that she finds them repulsive, fought for what made her human. She died free, she died a true hero. Chosing anything else that is not Destroy is just a insult to every sentient being that suffered on the hand of the Reapers, organic and syntethic. Destroy is Justices, bittersweet as meant to be. War is made of sacrifices.
Shepard kills multiple Reapers throughout the series only for the dumb Crucible to go "no you won't kill the reapers, that's just illogical, you can't, I mean you can, but you won't right?" Not going to leave them alive when they've caused all this horror and manipulated everyone
Except are you willing to doom the galaxy just to spitefully kill a flawed species? When you could just fix them and save everyone Control is a bandaid and will eventually either start a new cycle or lead to near perfect prosperity. Destroy dooms the universe the second someone creates a AI which will immediately turn on organics as they have proven with actions that they will back stab murder them at their soonest convenience. Synthesis is the most promising as it brings understandings to the AI thus permanently ending the cycles as now there is no need for them and it increases friendliness, cooperation and intelligence within organics
@@davidos8760How would control start a new cycle when Shepard already and on a personal level knows that it doesn’t work? I mean he personally overcame the cycle. The star child says that solution doesn’t work. So why would he ever deploy that method again? Syntheses is literally the worst ending where you just strip everyone of their humanity
@@EggEnjoyer no one is stripped of humanity quite the opposite actually unless you think genocide, hatred and racism are the essence of humanity, as for control the ai isn’t Shepard just a ai based off Shepard thus will eventually reach the same conclusion without synthesis or the cycle organic life will wipe itself out which is a absolute fact
@@davidos8760 “Your thoughts and memories will continue”. It’s as much Shepard as Shepard is after his death in the first game. Also you’re literally advocating for trans humanism. They’re stripped of their humanity. Yeah some of the negative attributes of humanity are part of what makes us human, yes. Purging it through technology is not the way bud
So i did the destroy ending but i didnt get that extra scene with sheperd, was there something i needed to do??? Its my first time playing so im not sure
you need to have a big army. the more war assets you have, the better. If you are playing the 2012 version I suggest boosting your "Galaxy at war" by playing multiplayer as well.
Shepard survive is actually the perfect one, Its already stated that shepard was unique, Not because he/she brave or symbol or being a good leader its because of his/her LUCK. He/She survive in ME 1 and ME 2 Because of it. The endings of this game foreshadows his/her death Well Not actual death its foreshadow that despite the odds he/she survives at the end. Sooner or later shepards luck will be runout but not in this one though.
@@seth3491 so that's why I've been noticing some things differently. I've played the legendary edition (atleast 6 times now and keep finding new things added in)
It's a huge shame that the space battle is so generic. The Normandy never uses the new Thanix Cannons, and those weapons are supposed to be installed on the dreadnoughts which would make them capable of killing Reapers by themselves.
The Normandy does use them, at 03:25. I agree though I was always a bit disappointed with how plain the battle is. I know space battles can be hard to depict, but it would have been better to maybe do something like a force was trying to punch a hole through to the Citadel or something. Just two sides shooting is a bit meh
@@xz8250I used math and if the salarian councilor survives in both scenarios the gap between war assets by saving and destroying The Destiny Ascension is 25 more war assets to saving
@@imannam yeah okay, maybe im thinking of the ending where your love interest doesn't add shep's name plate to the fallen wall (aka the perfect destroy ending)
synthesis ending is i think predicated on reconcilling geth & quarians, and you can only do that if you picked the right choices in mass effect 2 and imported your ME2 save
The endings are all based on your EMS score when you launch the Cerberus Headquarters mission. 0-1599 - Bad Destroy or Control ending depending on if you destroyed or kept the collector base at the end of ME2. Destroy ending kills almost all life on Earth including organics. Both destroy the Citadel and Mass Relays. 1600-2099 - Both Destroy and Control are now available to chose. Life on Earth is not wiped out, but both endings destroy the Citadel and Mass Relays. 2100-2599 - Same as above, however if choosing the option that coincides with your choice for the collector base the Citadel and Mass Relays only receive minor damage and can be repaired. 2600-3699 - Both endings only cause minor damage to the Citadel and Mass Relays regardless of collector base choice. 3700+ - Shepard survives the Destroy ending 3100+ - Synthesis ending is unlocked, there's only one version and it causes minor damage to the Citadel and Mass Relays. Also, at any EMS rating you can choose to shoot the Catalyst causing the Reapers to continue their harvest.
How bad is the sound and graphic design. I see pixels in the fire and explosion sprites. Bioware were in such a hurry to make a game that they released a raw product. On one hand that's bad, on the other hand we got a new instalment in just a couple of years
@@d.m.1178 Technically 7400 or 7500 TMS. I've read on Reddit and other reliable sources (which I'm not going to waste time explaining) That they've reached this minimum and still got the best ending, despite not reaching 7800. Right now, I've reached 7782 TMS by playing full paragon (with a little renegade under the right circumstances) on all three games. All I have left to do in ME3 is finish the last N7 mission, collect the last batch of war assets, do the Citadel DLC storyline, and finally the main Cerberus base before launching a final assault against the Reapers on Earth.
just end ME3LE, done 100% missions - 7430, no Shephards breathing. Very wonder, cause in standart ME3 needed 6500. Now its very hadrfull to take 7800 EMS, you will have to act out “on paper” to do them
@@Hellafast2uDudeIts not that hard tbh, doing everything, dlcs, missions, and exploring the galaxy can easily get you to 8000. I was full paragon between the trilogy, so thanks to the choices like saving the council, saving the rachni queen, curing the genophage, achieving peace with quarians and geth, and exploring the galaxy in me3 i easily got to ~8200, with a bit of galaxy still unexplored, and mostly did it without a guide (damn planets in me1)
Someone else made this joke but
If I had a nickel for every time Shepard convinced someone to kill themself I’d have two nickels, which isn’t much but it’s weird it happened twice.
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Don’t forget Toombs if you picked Akuze as your background!
So him, TIM, and Saren. Oh and Samara if you don’t save her!
Javik?
I call this the canon ending.
This is and always was the Canon.
But... too bad we had to sacrifice Geth and EDI. That's not fair what their race's been through.
@@grunt7917 as the Catalyst said they would have minimal efforts to rebuild them. It's highly likely that after the events took place all of the geth were rebuilt by the quarians and edi was likely rebuilt as well
Let's hope Mass Effect 4 does too
@@grunt7917 bioware confirmed the geth will return so no worries
It likely IS the canon ending, the Mass Effect 4 teaser heavily implies it is.
Only some days ago I found out that it was Buzz Aldrin the man dubbing the Stargazer. Hearing him talking about reaching the stars... really send chills down my spine!
As much as I love hearing the voice of the iconic astronaut, I hate the scene because it makes it feel like the adventure that we enjoyed for the first two thirds and then crashed in the last part was either made up or embellished by the old man. 😢
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShayNot really. We dont know much time passed. I mean, he could have exaggerated as most tales go, but you saw it happen, Shepard was very real
When I saw the Reapers fall. I just thought...
It's over. It's finally over.
The war against the Reapers should have been spanned over two games instead of crunched into just one game.
And without Cerberus occupying more than half of the campaign.
It's a disgrace that the reapers are a side character in their own War.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay That's actually a good idea.🤔 Cerberus was a real pain the ass.
I salvaged a lost rant video because of how spot on it was and split it into 10 pieces and I'm currently posting it on my own feed.
You should check it out and let's talk about it in the comment section.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShaydon't get me started. Cerberus almost ruined me2 and 3 for me. Luckily the games got saved by great character writing and fun gameplay but the main story was always incredibly disappointing compared to me1.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShaythat would actually have been a great idea as it didn’t feel like the entire galaxy united fought against the reapers at the end like we could at the very least properly recruited the drell and hanars at kahje rather than having it be a side mission with Kasumi
All they did with the collectors.....I couldn't in good consciousness keep the reapers alive. For any reason.
Whether or not EDI survives the red ending should have been decided by whether you salvaged the reaper brain or the reaper heart from The collector base.
The reaper heart serves as an energy source while the reaper brain would have served as a processor that would have allowed Target discrimination.
Yeah
I was depressed when my character couldn’t say goodbye to tali
i always do destroy and see shep breathing at the end
Destroy feels like the right ending for a lot of reasons.
I feel like there’s a lot of lines & scenes throughout Mass Effect that point that destroy is the only way to really stop the reapers. Even all the way back in ME1.
Admiral Hackett, Anderson, & even Shepard point to it.
“Dead reapers are how we win this”
The paragon option on Rannoch has Shepard saying destroy whereas he mentions control in the renegade.
Saren wanted a “union of flesh & steel” in ME1. He was indoctrinated. The Illusive Man was under the impression he could control the Reapers in ME 2 & 3, but he was already under indoctrination per the catalyst.
I don’t see why the same wouldn’t also be true with Shepard who picked control. Why would he/she be an exception to Reaper indoctrination when picking Control or Synthesis, when previously we see Reapers liked these options?
Indoc makes Reaper desires seem good at the time which I like to think is why control is paragon blue & destroy is renegade red. It’s reversed.
I know some don’t select Destroy or even call it “evil” because it supposedly kills off EDI & the Geth. First, I’d argue EDI I believe would sacrifice herself if it meant to stop the Reapers for good. The Geth maybe not, but Mass Effect 3 repeatedly, & I do mean repeatedly, points out that there will be sacrifices to win & the “calculus of war”. We already saw this in ME2 in the Arrival dlc, sacrificing 300,000 Batarians civilians to delay the Reapers.
The whole needs of the few vs the many conundrum. Those giving the Geth/EDI reason are choosing the needs of the few over the many imo.
I think of Reaper tech like the One Ring in LotR. Everyone thinks they can handle it but over time it just warps your mind and you lose yourself to it. Becoming like a husk or a wraith. The only safe & sure fire way to be rid of its evil (stop the cycle) is to destroy it (or them in this case).
Not to mention the Reapers are murdering 1.86 million humans a day per the codex. 1,860,000 every single day. That’s more than my entire major metro area. That’s basically a major city wiped out every 24 hours. And that’s just the humans. The batarians have also basically been wiped out. So as much as I love the Geth, I’ll sacrifice them to save trillions of more lives to ensure that the repeating genocidal cycle has “an end, once & for all” (the literal ending title of the ME3 soundtrack) in the cold calculus of war that is a major theme of ME3.
There’s a line in ME3, & I can’t remember now who says it, that “humans want to save everyone” but “that it isn’t going to be possible.”
And top it off with it’s the only ending Shepard has a chance to survive & the fact the catalyst has a Reaper voice if you do the “refusal ending” also seals the deal for me.
That yes. But I can give you a simpler argument in favor of the fact that this is the most correct ending: it requires the most effort from the player (especially in legendary edition). The player needs to complete the entire trilogy 100%, with correct choices and rescheduling saves. No other ending requires this (other endings do not require anything at all, so they can be considered alternative)
I disagree to having Destroy be a Good ending for the Galaxy
At first that's exactly how I thought about it, its all indoctrination and you'll just be a third after Saren & the Illusive man as you've mentioned
But looking at the results of the other two endings you can tell its simply not the same! its no Indoctrination since the reapers do end up changing for the better, this never has happened with Saren and mostly likely wouldn't if the illusive man has succeeded!
-> *Synthesis* : part of Shepard lives in all and through EDI during the Ending we know that those affected are "Alive", are themselves! its merely in their DNA to live peacefully ever after. (Imo, this Ending is what's best for the Galaxy)
-> *Control* : You see the Reapers actually pulling back from the war, ceasing hostiles even rebuilding destroyed cities the only thing uncertain is how other Life forms will react to Shepard's "Army"
If Legion and EDI taught us anything, is that Synthetic are alive so if we commit to destroying all Synthetics period doesn't that make it Genocide? isn't that exactly what the Reapers planned to do on Organic races?
Besides.. Sooner or later technologies will be repaired by other life forms, and Synthetics in one form or another will be created again, therefore:
*You've merely delayed the Cycle, not "Destroy" it*
That’s only because that was the only option until the catalyst showed up and said there’s another way that requires no casualties
0:11 I can’t believe people will look at this scene and still say this game sucks
Yeah this game was great
Breaks my heart how we never get to say a proper goodbye to Tali
Shepard’s thoughts (in all 3 endings when romancing Tali): Tali: I’m sorry, but I’m not coming back. But as long as you keep living: it’s totally worth it
This is def the best ending and canon... Any ending where the reapers survive is terrible. They can influence anyone probably with synthesis just like the geth... so basically everyone would just be their slaves and they'd still be unstoppable so no one would oppose them. Also, you would essentially be ending all organic life, while synthetics remain the same, why is it that organics need to change and synthetics stay the same and just 'understand'..... that's not compromise it's bull shit.... Control is just AI acknowledging that it fucked up, and doesn't know what to do anymore, it's the simplest change, millions of years doing this and got nowhere, maybe it's the AI fault that reapers have failed. However, Shepard leading the reapers just essentially means now there's a galactic overlord with an unstoppable force and no one has freedom... The reapers needed to go, they were a failed AI made by squid people that literally went so rogue they turned civilizations into milkshakes. Where is the proof that the geth even died? They said they made some advancements that reapers couldn't control them anymore maybe could've lived. And the Geth and Turian's getting along prove the reapers were wrong.... Ai with organics was working! And can work again if the geth died...plus very end... another Shepard story? Woooo mass effect 5 LETS GOOO
You missed the point, it said that even the synthetics will be upgraded with organic features, both get perfected in their own desired way.
@@Filiplego1 Haven't you even considered the negative impact of forcing complete evolution among all organics? not even considering the fact that the Catalyst used Shepard, a human. as a genetic template to rewrite EVERYONE?
@@johnP0908genetic upgrade
Any time someone wants to invent super good AI id like them to see this video and get smacked in the fucking head. I know its a video game but still... How the AI gives reasoning and lame justifications for such brutal killings. Like in the game if the reapers wanted to purely preserve current cycles life in a reaper form it could have been done way less brutally. They just wanted supremacy. That's why the whole indoctrination theory ending bares the most weight in terms of game ending.
I have a feeling the old man is Shepard or a descendant of him. Recounting the story to the reincarnated Starchild that carried on through his genes
How can it be his descendant? Shepard and Tali can’t have kids with each other due to being different species
0:48 I absolutely love that "clunk!" noise.
I still can’t get over Marauder shields death 😔
This would be the best ending if only EDI could survive through it... but I simply cannot bring myself to end her life... she is as human as the rest of the crew at that point, at least to me. It's so fucked up...
yeah.....
She's a machine. She doesnt have a soul. If you pick control and synthesis you actually let the reapers win. Destroy is the only real ending anyway that doesnt betray everything you been trying to do.
@@greasy8394 plus EDI is also part of the ship (which survives) so she's okay.
@@DrumToTheBassWoop i read the destroy option in more detail and it says it only kills the 'machine devils" aka reapers and the heretic geth. also even if somehow the machines in the mass effect universe did have a soul, EDI and Legion would have been spared because they are the good ones. The explosion from the destroy option only eliminates the evil machines so its actually a win/win. And spoiler alert; if the indoctrination theory is true then there was no ending to begin with. Shepard beats the indoctrination aka destroy ending but the game ends in the cliffhanger as you still have to finish the actual fight. this could set up mass effect 4 with shepard still being alive and this time harbinger fuses with the illusive man like sovereign did with saren and now you really will have the final battle with the illusive man harbinger form.
She made her decision to stand up to the Reapers, to fight for more than self-preservation like the Reapers do, those that she finds them repulsive, fought for what made her human. She died free, she died a true hero.
Chosing anything else that is not Destroy is just a insult to every sentient being that suffered on the hand of the Reapers, organic and syntethic. Destroy is Justices, bittersweet as meant to be. War is made of sacrifices.
F for the Geth and Edi.
Shepard kills multiple Reapers throughout the series only for the dumb Crucible to go "no you won't kill the reapers, that's just illogical, you can't, I mean you can, but you won't right?" Not going to leave them alive when they've caused all this horror and manipulated everyone
100%.
Except are you willing to doom the galaxy just to spitefully kill a flawed species? When you could just fix them and save everyone Control is a bandaid and will eventually either start a new cycle or lead to near perfect prosperity. Destroy dooms the universe the second someone creates a AI which will immediately turn on organics as they have proven with actions that they will back stab murder them at their soonest convenience. Synthesis is the most promising as it brings understandings to the AI thus permanently ending the cycles as now there is no need for them and it increases friendliness, cooperation and intelligence within organics
@@davidos8760How would control start a new cycle when Shepard already and on a personal level knows that it doesn’t work? I mean he personally overcame the cycle. The star child says that solution doesn’t work. So why would he ever deploy that method again?
Syntheses is literally the worst ending where you just strip everyone of their humanity
@@EggEnjoyer no one is stripped of humanity quite the opposite actually unless you think genocide, hatred and racism are the essence of humanity, as for control the ai isn’t Shepard just a ai based off Shepard thus will eventually reach the same conclusion without synthesis or the cycle organic life will wipe itself out which is a absolute fact
@@davidos8760 “Your thoughts and memories will continue”. It’s as much Shepard as Shepard is after his death in the first game.
Also you’re literally advocating for trans humanism. They’re stripped of their humanity. Yeah some of the negative attributes of humanity are part of what makes us human, yes. Purging it through technology is not the way bud
So i did the destroy ending but i didnt get that extra scene with sheperd, was there something i needed to do??? Its my first time playing so im not sure
You most likely missed something.
you need to have a big army. the more war assets you have, the better. If you are playing the 2012 version I suggest boosting your "Galaxy at war" by playing multiplayer as well.
@@arhangeo playing legendary edition
@@ScourgePrimal i figured that too, but what!?
@@Winterking23 Well have you done all of the side missions including DLC?
Shepard survive is actually the perfect one, Its already stated that shepard was unique, Not because he/she brave or symbol or being a good leader its because of his/her LUCK. He/She survive in ME 1 and ME 2 Because of it. The endings of this game foreshadows his/her death Well Not actual death its foreshadow that despite the odds he/she survives at the end. Sooner or later shepards luck will be runout but not in this one though.
Pardon my asking, but whatever happened to the Ghost of Love AMV for Mass Effect that used to be on this channel?
Why don't I remember shepherd shaking jokers hand?? I've played this game a million times.
It was cut content that was restored in Legendary Edition
@@seth3491 so that's why I've been noticing some things differently. I've played the legendary edition (atleast 6 times now and keep finding new things added in)
It's a huge shame that the space battle is so generic.
The Normandy never uses the new Thanix Cannons, and those weapons are supposed to be installed on the dreadnoughts which would make them capable of killing Reapers by themselves.
The Normandy does use them, at 03:25. I agree though I was always a bit disappointed with how plain the battle is. I know space battles can be hard to depict, but it would have been better to maybe do something like a force was trying to punch a hole through to the Citadel or something. Just two sides shooting is a bit meh
which path is it?
Hmm I thought my EM shot himself?
"Perfect" ending but no Destiny Ascension??
Get more war assets by it falling
Even better, never liked the original council anyway.
@@xz8250I used math and if the salarian councilor survives in both scenarios the gap between war assets by saving and destroying The Destiny Ascension is 25 more war assets to saving
How i get this ending?
destroy is standard ending, but if you get your military rating up past 7800, then you get that last scene with shep breathing
@@shadowmaster335 I got it in LE with just 6800 or something like that
@@imannam yeah okay, maybe im thinking of the ending where your love interest doesn't add shep's name plate to the fallen wall (aka the perfect destroy ending)
@@shadowmaster335 I don't remember whether my alien wife did that or not, but I definitely remember Shepard breathing in beneath the rubble
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I tried each chose in this video but I still can't get the 3rd choice. Why?
synthesis ending is i think predicated on reconcilling geth & quarians, and you can only do that if you picked the right choices in mass effect 2 and imported your ME2 save
@@shadowmaster335 And the Right choice is if you go straight good guy?
@@tonyhamilton6948 that i can't remember, since i always had both the control and destruction option in all my playthroughs
@@shadowmaster335 ok. I I liked that option More.
The endings are all based on your EMS score when you launch the Cerberus Headquarters mission.
0-1599 - Bad Destroy or Control ending depending on if you destroyed or kept the collector base at the end of ME2. Destroy ending kills almost all life on Earth including organics. Both destroy the Citadel and Mass Relays.
1600-2099 - Both Destroy and Control are now available to chose. Life on Earth is not wiped out, but both endings destroy the Citadel and Mass Relays.
2100-2599 - Same as above, however if choosing the option that coincides with your choice for the collector base the Citadel and Mass Relays only receive minor damage and can be repaired.
2600-3699 - Both endings only cause minor damage to the Citadel and Mass Relays regardless of collector base choice.
3700+ - Shepard survives the Destroy ending
3100+ - Synthesis ending is unlocked, there's only one version and it causes minor damage to the Citadel and Mass Relays.
Also, at any EMS rating you can choose to shoot the Catalyst causing the Reapers to continue their harvest.
Anyone find it stupid that it's Shepard giving the orders for the entire fleet and not an actual admiral?
YES, I WAS THINKING THAT, HOW CAN A 'COMMANDER' LEAD AN ENTIRE FLEET???
You can get a scene where Hackett tells Shepard why he’s putting him in charge.
Yes because it's a morale thing, but here Shepard is giving tactical orders. IMO I'd have put a Turian in charge. @@teamxgsfx1329
How bad is the sound and graphic design. I see pixels in the fire and explosion sprites. Bioware were in such a hurry to make a game that they released a raw product. On one hand that's bad, on the other hand we got a new instalment in just a couple of years
How can i do this ending???
You need tms of 7800 points
@@d.m.1178 Technically 7400 or 7500 TMS. I've read on Reddit and other reliable sources (which I'm not going to waste time explaining) That they've reached this minimum and still got the best ending, despite not reaching 7800.
Right now, I've reached 7782 TMS by playing full paragon (with a little renegade under the right circumstances) on all three games. All I have left to do in ME3 is finish the last N7 mission, collect the last batch of war assets, do the Citadel DLC storyline, and finally the main Cerberus base before launching a final assault against the Reapers on Earth.
just end ME3LE, done 100% missions - 7430, no Shephards breathing. Very wonder, cause in standart ME3 needed 6500. Now its very hadrfull to take 7800 EMS, you will have to act out “on paper” to do them
@@Hellafast2uDudeIts not that hard tbh, doing everything, dlcs, missions, and exploring the galaxy can easily get you to 8000.
I was full paragon between the trilogy, so thanks to the choices like saving the council, saving the rachni queen, curing the genophage, achieving peace with quarians and geth, and exploring the galaxy in me3 i easily got to ~8200, with a bit of galaxy still unexplored, and mostly did it without a guide (damn planets in me1)
@@Edki. 8100 is cap, wtf are u talking about xDDD. "easily" xDDD