Why synthesis is the worst ending

How is that not ominous? User Info: Mixorz. Controlling the reapers automatically makes your voice sound like that. User Info: DarkSymbiote. Because BioWare believes the best ending is Synthesis. You know the one where the entire galaxy becomes home to cyborgs My favourite is Blue. As a proponent of the Control ending as a Paragon Shep , I agree that the choice of music was a little confusing.

User Info: Super Espio. I haven't seen Control yet in the EC, but I heard its actually a bit different, including the speech, depending on whether or not you were paragon or renegade. The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair. User Info: uberschveinen. Because no matter how 'nice' Shepard is, he's still a postphysical entity in charge of galaxy-shattering military might.

Unless he is utterly and perfectly consistent to his morals, he will eventually go bad, and if he does, the consequences will be horrific. And even if he does stay that way, the scope to disagree with his was of doing things no longer exists. It is sinister. Sinister nice, maybe, but sinister nonetheless. None of the endings are meant to be unambiguously good or bad. Control is the best because nobody else has to die or be something they didn't choose, and because there is now a near-postphysical species helping everyone.

Control is the worst ending because absolute power has been handed to a single pseudo-man, and there is nothing that anybody will ever be able to do to stop him. Destroy is the best ending, because there is no tricks, no traps, and no sinister plans. It's a military victory at horrific cost, but at a cost that compared to an indefinity of future Reapings is inedifinitely small, and it means that the survivors will have the chance to build their OWN future.

Destroy is the worst ending because there is so little left to live for, and even for that you must commit the most complete genocide the galaxy has or will ever witness. Synthesis is the best ending because nobody has to die, and everybody has power and understanding in what must eventually become a utopia. Synthesis is the worst ending, because you have taken control of the destinies of all aware creatures in the galaxy and twisted them to your own purpose, advancing all kinds with power they neither earned nor understand, and taking away any future advancement and so any reason to care foir the future.

Control is, in my opinion, the next best ending after Destroy. Control certainly sounds amazing on paper: prevent the Reapers from killing everyone in the galaxy, while also preventing the deaths of those who would otherwise bite the dust if you had chosen Destroy. As an added bonus, Shepard now acts as the police force for the galaxy, using his ability to command the Reapers in a peacekeeping role.

Power corrupts. But is that a chance that should be taken? For that reason, I consider Control less viable than Destroy. It puts the entire future of the galaxy at risk on the chance that Shepard will resist that devilish voice in the back of his head.

These are the infamous last words of Shepard during the Refusal ending, in which Shepard decides to allow the Reapers to complete their cycle and put stock in the future cycle in the hope they will find a way to defeat the Reapers on their own terms.

The writing here is incredibly mediocre, in my opinion. Conventional war is something that has only proven to delay the Reapers, not achieve victory over them. Shepard knows that, somehow, they need to be stopped. Especially when the lives of billions are in his hands?

To refuse to make a choice would be logically stupid, and morally wrong. Mass Effect 3 certainly does a good job of selling it as the best one, though — ending the eternal conflict between synthetics and organics, while also merging the two and achieving peak evolution.

First off, the ending itself being unashamedly nonsensical. Mass Effect is and always has been a grounded science-fiction universe, designed with realism or at the very least, psuedo-realism in mind. Almost everything in this universe has some sort of detailed explanation, including Reaper indoctrination.

With Synthesis, though…not even close. Do we become half metal, half flesh? Do our minds all become connected in some form of network, like the Geth? What about nutrition? Do all of the species of the galaxy now share a requirement for the same foodstuffs?

As you can imagine, the questions go on and on, and the answers to them are incredibly important. Say an outside threat comes into the Milky Way, and discovers that everyone in the galaxy shares some form of synthetic DNA structure. What if they target that specifically? All of the sudden, the entire galaxy shares a weakness. By using it, they are able to weaken the entire race , nearly taking Rannoch back before the Geth are forced to utilize a Reaper upgrade.

In addition to this, Javik says in a conversation with Shepard that the reason his species lost the war with the Reapers was because they were too homogenized. An enemy that has the ability to adapt quickly and effectively will always defeat foes that share a common weakness.

The lack of clarity with Synthesis, and the fact that every species shares the distinctive green eyes during the Extended Cut, tells me that the result of Synthesis is indeed this dangerous homogeneity.

According to him, and according to the Reapers, synthetic and organic life cannot coexist as they are. War will always be inevitable, and if nothing is done, synthetics could eventually wipe out organics. I hate that. From the real-world history of humanity to the in-universe conflicts between the Krogan and Turians, organic life goes to war on itself.

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Ask A Question. Browse More Questions. Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? User Info: Ubergrim3 Ubergrim3 8 years ago 1 I mean, I was right there with most of you when I beat the game for the first time: I was so disappointed I couldn't replay the game for months. But after the extended cut and Leviathan DLC added much needed context regardless of whether you still like the story or not , I don't really have anything against the story's endings anymore the execution is still weak though.

That is, except for the synthesis ending. I HATE it. I never pick it. From a plausibility stand point, I can accept that the crucible can send out a pulse of energy that can either destroy most advanced technology including the reapers or rewrite them to be not evil.

I can even accept Shepard's brain being downloaded to become the new basis for the catalyst. But the synthesis ending is just bullcrap space-magic. It makes NO sense! Not to mention the only downside is Shepard dying.

Poor-writing surrounds or surrounded the entire ending sequence, but the synthesis ending is just It's insultingly stupid, especially since it's supposed to be the "best" ending.

I'm sure plenty of you still hate all of the ending sequence, but is there anyone else who just can't STAND the synthesis one specifically? User Info: krono krono 8 years ago 4 It's my least favorite for all the reasons you already gave.

User Info: Iokua Iokua 8 years ago 7 It's easily the worst ending of the three, it's a typical sacrifice ending with a botched happy super disney funtime ending shoehorned in. User Info: Nafzger Nafzger 8 years ago 10 Iokua posted Box art spoilers femshep technically considered canon again. A small glimmer of hope for us ME3MP fans.