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Ruthless Spacer 4 lyfe. Give me a prequel game where I earn that title on Torfan like some kind of space version of the Saint of Killers, just a mountain of corpses and the classic Shep smug smirk while anyone else still alive just cat-stares into infinity at her.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:The barebones guestlist result is pretty sad but I'm waiting for the psycho Shepard party mod, where you're the only attendee and the apartment is filled with cardboard cutouts of your dead crewmembers. Ghost Thane shows up, realizes he is in hell because he'll never be able to forget this.
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"Hey, uh, James." "Eyyy Lola, what's up with this bein' all...empty? Don't you got any friends?' "No." "Oh." "I did, once,"
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Earthborn Ruthless renegade was one of my favourite runs. Be max renegade and kill all aliens except be paragon to the humans  Butcher of Torfan
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I bought this game on the PS3 back in January and it's pretty much all I've played since then. After finishing only my second full trilogy run-through I chose Control and I have to say, yeah, Shepard "dies", but it really was the right ending. TIM was right all along, he was just the wrong person to do it. Now having finished it again, I figured I'd start over with an insanity/max out/trophy hunter replay and... ugh, I just can't be assed. 
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My Q-Face posted:I bought this game on the PS3 back in January and it's pretty much all I've played since then. After finishing only my second full trilogy run-through I chose Control and I have to say, yeah, Shepard "dies", but it really was the right ending. TIM was right all along, he was just the wrong person to do it. Congratulations on being indoctrinated. I look forward to destroying your insane god-spaceship form in ME4.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:40
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sassassin posted:Congratulations on being indoctrinated. I look forward to destroying your insane god-spaceship form in ME4.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:43
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Control is an underrated choice. Immortal God Femshep watching over the galaxy from her deathless palace in the stars is a good ending
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Hmm, how immortal is she in that scenario? There won't be new Reapers, and they can be destroyed, though with great difficulty. Even with only one casualty per century, someday they would all be gone. Then you only have to destroy the Citadel, and she would cease to exist as well.
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Torrannor posted:Hmm, how immortal is she in that scenario? There won't be new Reapers, and they can be destroyed, though with great difficulty. Even with only one casualty per century, someday they would all be gone. Then you only have to destroy the Citadel, and she would cease to exist as well. Well then immortal God Shepard would just make more Reapers, it's easy to do, you just turn an entire civilization into paste. People who support Control as an ending are literally Hitler.
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Torrannor posted:Hmm, how immortal is she in that scenario? There won't be new Reapers, and they can be destroyed, though with great difficulty. Even with only one casualty per century, someday they would all be gone. Then you only have to destroy the Citadel, and she would cease to exist as well. well, entropy always wins all immortality is figurative. Should be able to get a few billion years of benevolent GodShep, though, given what we know of Reaper/Catalyst longevity.
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Crappy Jack posted:Well then immortal God Shepard would just make more Reapers, it's easy to do, you just turn an entire civilization into paste. right, the people who don't push the button that genocides a sentient allied race are Hitler.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:32
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Fag Boy Jim posted:right, the people who don't push the button that genocides a sentient allied race are Hitler. nice qualifier
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I think the other button genocides zero people, giving it a low score on the Hitler Scale.
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Jun 2, 2014 20:37
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I think the other button genocides zero people, giving it a low score on the Hitler Scale. Good thing the Geth aren't people
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You're not a person.
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.nosrep a ton er'uoY
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Bah, I wanted the Reapers destroyed and Shepard to live. I get that out of the Destroy ending. And I like the narration and music over the ending slides.
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sassassin posted:Congratulations on being indoctrinated. I look forward to destroying your insane god-spaceship form in ME4. I thought about it this time. Synthesis was definitely the Reaper goal the whole time, it's literally what every Reaper you spoke to said they were doing when they harvested the other races. Also, I'd like to think with the decisions my Fem-Shep made along the way for the betterment of all races, as opposed to TIM's Earth First view, that Reaper-God-Shep would have fixed everything then sent the reapers into the sun once all the repairs to the galaxy were made. After seeing that ending, yes the Destroy ending ended the reapers once and for all, and I suppose civilization eventually rebuilt, but a lot of people died to make that happen. Shep sort of lived (assuming medical care in time), but all the relays were destroyed, the citadel was destroyed, the blast radius from the reapers killed a lot more people, and the Normandy was stranded on random jungle planet.
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the Normandy is stranded in all endings. I'm not sure how more people due in Destroy vs. the other endings (reapers falling on them?) but it's probably not that many more.
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The Normandy flies away in the best version of the Destroy, Control, and Synthesis endings.
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If you are a pussy-rear end motherfucker with the EC.
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Extremely bad news, IMO
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My Q-Face posted:I thought about it this time. Synthesis was definitely the Reaper goal the whole time, it's literally what every Reaper you spoke to said they were doing when they harvested the other races.  consequences and hard choices ) but the effects are the same otherwise, except now the Reapers are gone and can't be used by an insane God Emperor or get fused to the rest of the organic population of the universe by green space magic.
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I rid the universe of the reapers and the Geth in one fell swoop, I am the best Cmdr Shepard and I'd do it again too e: and the rachni
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It's been said before but just to reiterate: Destroy is the correct ending.
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PupsOfWar posted:Control is an underrated choice. And the next Warhammer 40k campaign.
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With all this discussion of the Control ending, I feel like reposting this from the old spoiler thread:quote:Control is the official ending. It's been decades since the War ended, and everything is being rebuilt, restored to perfection. It is always perfection. Everyone is so grateful to The Shepard for its salvation. Everyone always tells The Shepard how grateful they are, even as they quake in terror before its throne on the citadel. The Watchers patrol the depths of space, watching for any sign of disorder. They are The Shepard's loyal hounds, incapable of mercy or compromise. The galaxy will be great, again, no matter the price. Sacrifices will be made.
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Waltzing Along posted:It's been said before but just to reiterate: Destroy is the correct ending. Just remember that EDI and the geth are both smart enough to keep some back-ups handy, ignore that you enemy just told you how to kill it for no real reason, and shoot that tube.
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Utritum posted:With all this discussion of the Control ending, I feel like reposting this from the old spoiler thread: This might be a bit fan-fictiony, but man, how much better would the ending have been if the secret to killing Reapers was reprogramming the FTL drives to smash into crap. Last mission would have been assaulting that research lab the Reapers hit early on. Would have totally made sense with how the Reapers seeded the knowledge for FTL but with those limiters in place, since they knew it was the only thing that could really kill them. Your fleet strength could have determined whether you figured out the knowledge in a last-ditch effort and had to spread the secret of how to do it to everyone, which ends the Reapers but now every rear end in a top hat in space has a planet-killing nuke in their spaceship, or if things go well enough you can control it so the secret doesn't get out. Then there wouldn't need to be any bullshit rationalization about Reapers vs Synthetics Star Child crap and they could remain what they were in Mass Effect 1, Unknowable Space Assholes That Kill Everyone.
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What'll always be funny to me is how Control can basically be a mostly consequence-free Destroy if they had thought about it. Just fly all the fuckers into the Sun! The existing version of Destroy could've been unnecessary. They could've made Control the sole purpose of the Crucible, and then you choose between Into the Sun! or Lonely God. gently caress Synthesis. Lycus fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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I think the Codex explains somewhere why FTL as a weapon doesn't work- almost every piece of sci-fi that has FTL travel has to explain why you can't kill a planet with an infinite-speed baseball at some point.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I think the Codex explains somewhere why FTL as a weapon doesn't work- almost every piece of sci-fi that has FTL travel has to explain why you can't kill a planet with an infinite-speed baseball at some point. Right, in this case, it was built into the Prothean technology that everyone used, which was created by the Reapers. It was implied that the Reapers didn't want people doing advanced physics: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Trikalon posted:When the Reapers entered the system, they dispatched a swarm of capital ships toward Trikalon, treating the supercollider as a greater threat than the asari naval fleet stationed at Sanves. They could have picked up the thread that what they were working on could have led to home-grown FTL without the limitation, which could have led to FTL-ship nukes, but they didn't.
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Hmm, On actually reading up on indoctrination theory, I see that my very first solution was the right one all along. The only reasonable option is to reject all of the options the Catalyst gives you in the first place and trust in Liara's information being passed on to subsequent generations to give them millennia to prepare and build the crucible properly, while trusting that the massive technologically advanced and strategically diverse fleet you spent the game building is able to put such a hurt on the Reapers over the next centuries that they will know they've been in a fight by the time they return to dark space, and when they do come back, they'll come back to a civilization that knows everything and is ready with a fully-studied and ready to go crucible instead of a hastily built in the middle of the invasion we-don't-know-what-it-will-do crucible. Or yeah, destroy is the only correct option, Shepard was always never on the Citadel in the first place, his/her body was left in the rubble after Harbinger's attack on the beam site, and the crucible did what it was supposed to without you interfering.
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The real ending of Mass Effect 3 is you going back in time with a crowbar so you can pull Mac Walter's head out of his rear end.
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I haven't gotten to the real ending yet, which is when I stop posting in this thread.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I haven't gotten to the real ending yet, which is when I stop posting in this thread. Let me tell you about The Forums, my sweet.
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"Will I read the ME3 spoiler thread?" "One day, my sweet, when archives is back up"
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I haven't gotten to the real ending yet, which is when I stop posting in this thread.
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