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[Gamer79]

Do not proceed further unless you have completed the game.....


So after the crucible is in place we finally get to meet the Catalyst. It appears as a reflection of the little boy who died early in the game and the one haunting Sheppard's dreams. So you are given two choices but can also get a third if you meet certain Requirements.

The first choice is for Sheppard to give up his life but transfer his essence to control the reapers. The illusion man is right they could of been controlled. In this ending the Reapers are controlled by a digital version of Sheppard. These Reapers actually are shown to be helping rebuild all the destruction. Reapers and the various races working together look to be creating a new age. This could be a Utopia of sorts due to the Reapers adapting Sheppard's sense of honor.

The Second Choice is to destroy all A.I in the galaxy. This would instantly kill the Reapers, Legion/the Geth, Eve, The Catalyst and every other A.I in the galaxy. This would create peace for a time but the cycle will continue. In generations New A.I will be created and again the same struggles will be seen. Remember that the Reapers were a form of A.I created by the Leviathans millions of years ago. Eventually with this ending this A.I. organic battle will come full circle.

The Third choice is if you complete certain criteria you can have a third option. The choice to meld Organic and Synthetic life into one new type of Race. In this option peace is created between A.I. and organic life because they are one in the same.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Cyborg

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[Nok Su Kow]

The green one because it was less distance to walk and Shep was doing a slow walk animation

 

[kyussman]

The greeen one I think.......fuck me,all that time in those games and it came down to red,blue or green.I was underwhelmed.

 

[Mister Wolf]

The red one. I'm not letting some robots bully me into anything.

 

[ReBurn]

Major spoilers? They're pretty much all the same. The first cut of the ending sucked.

 

[Irobot82]

So strange, I watched the movie Nope last night and immediately recognized the father's voice as Captain Anderson.

 

[STARSBarry]

You forgot the "fuck you" 4th ending option

 

[Husky]

I went with kill. Fuck off, bots.

 

[AJUMP23]

I did them all with my various sheps.

 

[MagnesD3]

Unite all Organic and Synthetic Life, it was actually the perfect solution to solving peace forever honestly. I wish that ending got more respect than it does. People way overblow how bad the ending was in this game.

 

[diffusionx]

I honestly cant remember, it was completely inconsequential.

 

[brian0057]

I chose Green but I also liked Red.
But if you think about them deeper for longer than 5 seconds, they're all shit.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Unite, so Joker can have his robot fuck fantasies come true.

 

[-Zelda-]

Unite, so Joker can have his robot fuck fantasies come true.

It would have been really cool in that ending if they showed him walk out of the normandy during the ending, but his legs are perfect. He's cyber now, so the bone problem he has should be a none issue. missed opportunity, unless I am misremembering?

 

[MALpractice311]

Destroy, always and forever. Destroying the Reapers was the goal from Day One. I'm sorry that EDI and the Geth die too, but artificial "life" is not life. They're machines. They're hardware and software. They exist because they were built by living things to be tools and serve a purpose and as such, can be decommissioned whenever their designers have deemed them unnecessary.

Control of the Reapers, even if it's a legit possibility which I doubt, is too much power for one entity to be trusted with. Of course, I personally think its a trick to get Shepard to join the Reapers, anyway.

Synthesis is completely morally wrong. Every living thing has the right to choose its own destiny. You can't force everyone to conform to becoming partially synthetic. Also, illogical space magic.

 

[Yoboman]

ME3 is so underrated

 

[MagnesD3]

ME3 is so underrated

ME1 is my favorite but I absolutely believe ME3 is the best.

 

[Tomeru]

I chose red the first time. Which on is that?

 

[WoJ]

Destroy. It's the only halfway decent option. Besides refuse.

 

[Corian33]

I actually beat the trilogy for the first time recently, so this is still fresh in my mind.

I went with kill the robots. Even though it’s presented as the “renegade” option, I felt like that was what Sheppard was sent there to do. There was no way of knowing if taking control of the Reapers was just a trick or if it would backfire. Merging all life into cyborgs would be quite the decision for one person to decide on behalf of everyone in the galaxy.

Killing the robots wasn’t the ideal outcome, but millions of people had died to get him in that room to defeat the Reapers, so that’s what I did.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I picked the Initiative ending. I joined the Quarian ark bound for Andromeda. That way, I miss all of the dude bro lazy nonsense of the last two games and I die before I get to be involved with Andromeda at all.

 

[Mokus]

Not sure, the one where I saved the most life. I used the last save file to go through all the endings (I think there were actually 4).

The way they were presented, all were dissatisfying endings for an amazing trilogy. Thanks 2012 EA.

 

[Nico_D]

There was only one ending. If you chose any of the other two, the game was playing you.

 

[Warablo]

I think the green ending, think the other choices were red or blue.

 

[March Climber]

The red ending(kill) is what I felt should happen, so I chose it on 1st playthrough.

After checking them out, the green and blue endings felt off, off in a way that implied the player screwed up. The reapers tried way too hard to convince you to agree to multiple situations where they would ultimately win. It made it feel like I put everyone into a version of the future where no one is really allowed to step out of line and they're made to wear a smile every day.

For any Mass Effect fans here who also know the Matrix, the green and blue endings reminded me of moments like this:

All of these people don't know that they're stuck within the Matrix, but Neo knows, just like Shepard would know.

 

[skit_data]

Synthesis ofc

 

[sobaka770]

There is no choice - the only ending is Destroy.

The other two are either against the point of the whole game (control) or some magic BS that has no place in mass effect universe (synthesis).

It's also the only one that has an extra bit at the end if you did well so hopefully - canon.

 

[masterkajo]

Missing the 4th option! Which is my canon ending. Shooting the stupid kid in the face!

 

[Big Baller]

Cant remember. Time to finish the Legendary collection.