which ending was best?

>>386878779
ME2 bad end

>>386878779
Renegade Control, if you really care

>>386878779
>Control just lets you have an army of omnipotent robots at your disposal to do whatever you want
>Merge makes everyone into some kind of weird shit that makes no sense and probably nobody wants
>Destroy results in the destruction of AIs who at this point have shown themselves to be both advanced and peace seeking
HMMM I WONDER WHICH ENDING IS THE LEAST DETRIMENTAL
COULD IT BE THE ONE WHERE YOU GET AN ARMY OF OMNIPOTENT SPACE ROBOTS WHO CAN BASICALLY HELP REBUILD CIVILIZATION IN A MATTER OF A FEW YEARS?

>>386878779
Crip ending. Bloodfags need not apply.

>>386878779
>destroy only ending with an extra cutscene
Pretty obvious which is the canon one

>>386878779
BioWare Montreal

>>386878779
uninstall end

>play directors cut
>get the final scene
>want red ending since I had the exp required and plot played out the way I want
>by mistake walk toward the green ending
>I still dont know what the fuck happened
>reload
>realize the cutscene was so long it got me confused

In my defense I was 10h on the PC at that point just wanted to end.

>>386878779
rejection ending, just to be pissy about it

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>>386878779
never4get

>>386878779
Colorblind options

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>Paragon Shepard becomes a galactic guardian
>Lmao all A.I. die because fuck you
>Everyone becomes a synthetic hivemind or some stupid bullshit because lazy writing


really jogs the noggin

>>386878779
I'm still amazed that this even happened.
They completely missed the point of their games. What other company has fucked up this badly?

>>386878779
Control was best ending.
But rejection is canon and the only option an unindoctrinated Shepard would pick.
Which he was indoctrinated by the way. Don't kid yourself.

>>386879438
Hello Games
Bioware Montreal

>>386878779
shoot that fuckin kid and let him fuck the galaxy up


control ending "best" ending

I don't understand why we can't just repair the fucking AIs.

>>386878779
red
you got that extra bit of footage at the end

Destroy with M3HEM

>>386879649
>But rejection is canon
>t. my ass

>>386878779
I knew it wasnt going to end well when 30 minutes into the game they go "btw we already figured out how to kill every reaper in the galaxy at once. We had the schematics for a super weapon all along."

The ending takes the cake but the whole game had bad writting. The signs of NuBioware were already there.

>>386879993
having the reapers being repairable would defeat the purpose of the destroy option.

EA filing chapter 13

The one where my waifu Tali lives.

>>386880653
>filing chapter 13
businesses can't file chapter 13

>>386879407
>paragon shepard
faggot
human supremacist shepard controlling a reaper army is way cooler

>>386880818
What then
From continental europe so dunno

>>386880885
Shame you could only be a human supremacist in the first game

>>386880942
chapter 7 is total liquidation and chapter 11 is debt restructuring

>>386881078
>become member of a human supremacist organization in the sequel
>can't actually sympathize with them
I can't comprehend how someone could physically make the decision to not add that in the game

Control

>>386880809
Geths>>>>>>>>>Quarians.
Tali a shit. Better to let the dirty gipsy die.

>>386880562
Feel free to explain to me how any other choice makes sense for a character whose sole purpose(for the entirety of three 50+ hour games) was to defeat the reapers, suddenly turning heel and trusts them AT THEIR WORD at the end by killing himself at said enemy's behest?

Shepard was indoctrinated as fuck, and a canon Shepard would've known as much and refused to play into the Reaper's agenda.

Destroy, the only one where Shephard completes his mission and lives.

>>386881375
>indoctrination

This is what actual ending is best, not what fan fiction is best.

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>>386878779
the one where you uninstall the game and pretend it never happened

>ABSOLUTE GOD TIER
Humans

>OK TIER
Turians
Geth

>SHIT TIER
Everyone else

>>386881378
Shepard surviving that explosion is incredibly retarded.

>>386881304
>Geths>>>>>>>>>Quarians.
Legion isn't real you cuck. At least Tali has an original design.

>>386880885
>Controlling a reaper army
Truly believing Shepard wouldn't eventually assimilate and disappear into the Reaper consciousness itself after like >1,000 years only to have the Reapers' primary objective of wiping organic life manifest itself all over again.

>>386881493
You just don't realize how meta ME3 was.

But real talk. Adhering to indoctrination theory is the only way to make the trainwreck of ME3's ending bearable. And as far as I'm concerned, Star Child's ominous "so be it" when you refuse him is a soft-confirmation of Shepard throwing off indoctrination.

Destroy because shep survives and can spend the rest of her life mindfucking Liara

>>386878779
Destroy

>>386881292
Because Bioware games aren't RPGs.

Destroy is canon.

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>>386878779

>>386881792
>Legion isn't real you cuck
And Tali is? What the fuck am I reading?

>>386881812
>Indoctrination tinfoils are still around

Listen, everyone agrees it's better than the main plot but stop being delusional.

i never got any of the ends, I shot the kid and he got mad and i cant remember what happened after that

>>386881812
Ok so what you're saying is that you are in denial that Mass Effect was complete shit all along so you decide to preach some dude's headcanon he made up to try and explain horrible writing.
Got it.

Can someone tell me what the point of ME2 was? What was the big deal with defeating the Collectors when the Reapers were just going to show up in a few months anyway?

>>386882230
They planned out a trilogy but realized they only had enough story for 2 games so they made a 40 hour long side quest

>>386881292
>how could you sympathise with them dont you know the politician we told you not to like is with them now for some reason?

>>386878949

Becoming a God is ethically and morally the most evil, dubious choice.

Merge is the "good" ending, destroy the "neutral"

>>386882368
>the politician we told you not to like
Can we all agree that the Coup attempt was just fan-service for the brainlets that wanted to shoot Udina

>>386878779
Destroy - Shephard Lives is the only acceptable one that benefits to Humanity's existence

>>386882353
And it was better than either of the other two games.

>>386881378
>>386881834
>>386882572
Shepard surviving makes no fucking sense and you know it

>>386882480
You can literally just order every single reaper to self destruct the instant you assume control. Merge on the other hand forces people to undergo biological changes that would permanently fuck them up, and I'm sure many, many people wouldn't want their body to become some biomechanical horror. You don't even know what merging means on any level, how is that not an awful choice?

>>386881994
Waifu for laifu.

>>386882230
The point was to romance Tali.

>>386882654
It did some things better and did some things worse. Still prefer ME1

>>386882786
I like ME1 in many respects but it plays like shit on PC

>>386881304
>he fell for the "ai are human beans" meme

>>386882230
Now that I think about it, what was the big deal with finding the Conduit as well, when the Reapers could just stroll into the galaxy in a few months time? What's a few months to a span of 50,000 years? It's not like they really need the element of surprise when they can just destroy everything with overwhelming force.

>>386882843
The Geth just want to fuck off somewhere, meanwhile the quarians are useless niggers and a waste of space in the galaxy

>>386878779
Someone post the pic of the guy on twitter asking for color blind mode.

>>386882047
>>386882161
Listen. Is indoctrination official irrefutable canon?
No.
Are the ending sequences of that game vague as fuck filled with weird cuts and nonsense surrealistic moments in game design?
Yes.

There's plenty of room left to fit in the interpretation of indoctrination theory. Just because the writers may not have intended it to be ran with, doesn't mean they didn't leave that room there.

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>>386878779
>control gives you power
>merge turns everyone into reaper's bitches while claiming equality and shit
>destroy just fuck my shit up
>refusal just cuck everyone's shit up

i end up with control, in my headcanon I can do synthesis later while still being in charge instead of cucktalyst in green ending

>>386878927
2 words: shit writing

>>386882978
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>>386882230
The point was to have an immediate thread that need to be dealt with.
At the time they didn't know that the Reapers are already coming because they killed Sovereign before he could send out a signal.

>>386883067
In my headcannon shepard wakes up from indoctrination midway through the 3rd game

>>386883201
My headcanon is that ME3 isn't canon

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>>386883091
>ASCII
go back to whatever shithole you came from

>>386883201
jfc there's more of them.

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Why did Lead Writer Mac Walters had to completely shit on the Legion and the Geth.
Does BioWare just hate good writing

>>386883347
I liked legion, but the entire thing with him and the geth was fucking nonsense

>>386882978
>>The Geth just want to fuck off somewhere
>Legion tells you the Geth want peace and don't wanna deal with Reaper shit no more
>the first fucking thing they do in ME3 is to deal with reapers for literally no reason
Fuck those Toasters, at least the Quarians can be excused because they're living creatures. Geth literally came to a fucking consensus that joining reapers and getting their tech (something flat out said they'd never do) was a good decision.

>>386882741
>here i made you eggs
>oops you fucking died
Great waifu m8

>>386883698
>ME3
wow almost has if the writers had no idea what they were doing

Why the fuck was Merge even an available ending?
ME1 had you stop Saren because he wanted to do the exact same thing.

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>>386878779
Fucking kek I'm so glad I never fell for the mass effect meme.

>>386882669
>any people wouldn't want their body to become some biomechanical horror
i want luddites to stop using technology so they die in the next five years of some easily preventable disease

>>386883859
Doesn't matter, anon
It's canon.
Your toaster husbando is a literal walking trashcan and there's nothing you can do about it

>>386883256
Africa, by the sounds of it.

>>386884070
Saren wanted to surrender to the Reapers. Synthesis is merging AI and organics in one single life form/consciousness or whatever the fuck

>>386884189
I can still suicide bomb Hudson and Walters for revenge

>>386883698
>the first fucking thing they do in ME3 is to deal with reapers for literally no reason

have you played the game? legion explains that spacegypsies attacked geth's superstructure that was meant to contain ALL GETHS while lot of them were loaded in so they were lost forever (not enough backup servers) diminishing collective intelligence that caused survival to take priority over freedom

Was there a single vidya ending worse than Mass Effect 3's?

The only one I can think of that even comes close to competing with all the negative feedback is Ultima IX

>>386883050
I think a lot agree that it fills the holes quite well for fan fiction, but Shephard dying at the start of 2 and not playing anything after that is even better.

>>386884451
ME2's intro was unironically the best part of the game. I guess it's because it reminded me of ME1

>>386878779
>Shows how big each explosion is in a fucking Galaxy scale
>Later shows the ship trying to outrun the Explosion

Isn't that ship is a bit too fast

>>386884213
it's same, they claim equality but then go oppose a two kilometer tall metal squid with different opinion and see how that equality goes fir you

Reminder that if you cured the Genophage you deserve to be fucking shot

>>386884213
>Saren: The relationship is symbiotic. Organic and machine intertwined, a union of flesh and steel. The strengths of both, the weaknesses of neither.
>Saren: I am a vision of the future, Shepard. The evolution of all organic life. This is our destiny. Join Sovereign and experience true rebirth
This is after Sovereign gives him "implants" and basically merges him with reaper tech, just like the Synthesis ending.

>TFW more mad about all the fucking character development ME3 steamrolled over in 3.

Congratulations for ruining the reason I enjoyed 2. I'm just going to sit in a corner in Mass Effect 1 and listen to Garrus and Wrex banter for hours.

>>386885735
The story, dialogue, plot, script. Every single piece of writing in Mass Effect 3 was fucking awful

>>386884359

That storyline was retarded, both raced act like morons for no reason.

Sad thing is, it's still one of the best parts of the game.

>>386885735
To me ME3 felt like wrapping it up,nothing really happened besides clearing story and loose ends.
Didn't expect anything else to be honest so im fine with it.

>>386884557
>writers
>understanding anything related to science, even basic shit like scale

>>386884213
No, synthesis is bullshit space magic that makes no fucking sense.

>>386885865
The missions in Mass Effect 3 are great fun to play but the story for them makes no fucking sense. Especially the Rannoch missions which just straight up contradict ME2 lore

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>le 3 color endings
>not like muh me2 which only had 2 color options

>>386881974
He's now the President of Bioware

>>386886392
At least the dialogue changed. And your choice presumably was going to have consequences on the sequel

>>386886636
dialogue changed in 3

>choice was presumably going to have consequences
thats what we thought in 1 until you realized 2 just flushed them all down the toilet

>>386886890
>dialogue changed in 3
Yeah it only took a fucking DLC

>>386887073
just admit its wrong to shit on 3s ending with 2 pulled the same garbage

>>386887203
>its wrong to shit on 3s ending
Ok Casey

the "alt-f4 and uninstall and delete torrent + data" ending

>>386886392
The final mission in 2 involved all your companions and they could all die. There's nothing like that in 3, you collect all of these allies but they do jack shit in the end.

>>386886392
> tfw TIM was observing the dark matter in effect
holy shit

>>386887705
Dude the entire pacing and atmosphere of ME3 was fucked. The big scary monsters have arrived, literally the boogeyman that wiped unfathomable amount of civilizations are right here NOW committing a holocaust of unbelievable fucking scale. The entire tone of the game should be, panic, scared, dark, desperate. Nations blowing up overran planets to cut their losses, Admirals blowing up suns to wipe out entire fucking systems to delay the reapers, etc you get the point.

What the fuck did we get ? It never rainds but it pours Eh Shepard? Lol run around the Citadel, then run around Tuchanka, then run around chasing Yahg and fight cerberus, etc. Man 3rd game was so fucking shit

>>386889109
I remember reading that the original plan was stopping the Reapers before they reached Milky Way because if they actually reached the galaxy we'd all be fucked.
Remember it took the entire Citadel fleet and at least 3 more Alliance fleets to take down Sovereign alone

>>386889680
Not only that, but the only reason they were able to take down Sovereign is because it linked itself with Saren, which Shepard then killed. The fact that you were able to take down a Reaper with nothing more than a giant laser in ME3 is so ridiculous.

Still convinced ME3 was a parody of the first two

>>386890491
if only

>>386878779
destroy by far

Apart from the ending, ME3 wasn't bad.

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Why does EA have to ruin everything I love?

>>386878779
Finish the mission, Shepard.

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>>386884359
I still hate how Bioware wrote such a copout for what was the most interesting race in the franchise

Legion talking about the Geth in ME2 made them feel truly alien

Is the Citadel DLC for ME3 even good? I read people praising it, but I can't help but feel that's because of the complete lack of actual character interaction in the rest of the game. I watched a couple scenes on youtube since they popped up on my feed, but they all seemed kind of out of character, especially Tali.

>>386886392
you and everyone you love could die

>>386878779
I liked the Merge end. But I honestly hope we as humans take that route or go 100% organic, and finally into energy based life-forms.

>>386891229
You have to suffer from brain damage if you think even for a second that ME1 had the best gameplay. It was downright trash.
>shittiest combat
>shittiest inventory system and item management
>shit elevators
>shit mako exploration
>etc

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What are you guys talking about? The secret ending was dope as fuck

>>386892906
>shit elevators
>shit mako exploration
Man fuck you, mako is bae. sniping geth with a canon from half a planet away always brings a little smirk to my face
and having little comments during loading scenes is great, i honestly don't get the issue with that

>>386891229
Put gameplay on ME3 and this is 100% correct

>>386891196
Yes it was. The only good thing it had was combat.

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>>386892906
>shittiest inventory system and item management
>shit mako exploration
t. shit taste

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>>386878779
>it's been 5 years already
>still pissed as fuck

>>386893409
Oh yeah anon, I sure do enjoy having to stop every 5 seconds to turn all that trash into omnigel.

>>386884179
Not that anon but the way they show in that ending is actually fucked up since transhumanism you make a choice, no one forces you to change anything and you only seek what is the best most efficient path for yourself, there they just make everything biomechanical, why the fuck should the Geth be downgraded to being part biological when they were far superior as a hivemind planet? Can their hivemind even work after that shit?

This isn't about being a luddite since I hate them for being hypocrites

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>>386878779
>It STILL got another sequel

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>>386893409
>you will never lie next to a shirtless Patrick Stewart

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>mfw there are people who willingly play ME3 without the Expanded Galaxy and Happy Ending mods

>>386894461
>Expanded Galaxy
My fucking nigga. I've been following that mod since the beta, it's fucking great

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>>386894461
>mfw there are people who willingly play ME3

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>>386894461
>mfw there are people who willingly play ME3

>>386882657
The ending makes no fucking sense and you know it

>>386894830
The story makes no fucking sense and you know it

>>386893775
It's certainly better than to have almost no inventory system at all like in ME2.

>>386878779
I dropped the game around the time you meet tranny Ashley, but I would have picked Destroy without hesitation

>>386894939
That's like 10 minutes into the game
I wish I did that

>>386890297
>The fact that you were able to take down a Reaper with nothing more than a giant laser in ME3 is so ridiculous.
Don't we take down a reaper with assault rifles and grenades?

>>386894272
On the bright side it flopped so hard they have outright killed it

>>386882480
There's no good, bad, or neutral endings, just three slightly different variations of shit

The only victory condition is Destroy. The rest just see you fooled into becoming a Reaper slave.

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The only comfort I can take in the High EMS destroy ending is that the developers already tweeted Shep lives if you go that route

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>>386896260
>last panel
my waifu is stuck in one of the shittiest games ever made please send help

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>>386894461
I tried it with the expanded Galaxy mod. It just hurt too much, when you saw what ME3 could have been had not EA's hubris gotten to them.

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this fucker should be the most hated man in gaming history

>>386897353
I think I hate Walters more

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>>386897353

>>386895219
Think that's ridiculous?

Remember the moment before we met Marauder Shields. Shepard takes a full Reaper laser blast. To the face. From Sovereign himself.

The same laser blast that is currently cutting through Alliance, Turian, Geth, Asari, Quarian, etc ships in space above earth like butter, being beside such a laser blast should have cooked Shepard alive. Instead he gets up and limps a bit.

>>386898267
>Marauder Shields
Holy fuck, almost forgot about him.

Does he still have that stupid ass webcomic going around?

>>386879357
I can never make fun of ME3 the same way again.

Red Ending.

The one where you live and don't succumb to Reaper indoctrination. #indoctrinationtheory

>>386893232
This.
People who seriously think ME1 had the best gameplay have their rose colored glasses on way too tight.

>>386894650
>>386894663
>less than 10 seconds apart
Fucking hive-mind I tell you.

>>386878779
Paragon Destroy.

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>>386891229
>ME3
>level design

>>386902238
yes

>>386891229
Mass effect had GARBAGE gameplay
shooting a guy in the foot did as much damage as shooting them in the head

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Stop trying to make sense of it. Stop referencing the old games when it's painfully obvious they pulled ME3's ending out of their ass at the last minute.
It's depressing.