Poll: Mass Effect 3 Which Ending did you pick? (Massive Spoilers in first line of text)

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**Totalwar1402**

I personally went with the destroy reapers one. It was what I wanted to do. I was suspicious I was being played for a sap. I was suspicious about Anderson's option being made the renegade one and the linkage was just too important a call to make. Much as I liked the Geth and dem helpin my Sheps girls Quarians I had to do what I had to do.

**Locclo**

Wound up going neutral, myself. Mainly because I was sort of railroaded into it by the Catalyst (If you destroy all synthetics, the cycle will repeat, and controlling the Reapers was the Illusive Man's goal in the first place).

That and after seeing EDI and Joker finally get together, it seemed like such a shame to tear them apart.

**iproxtaco**

I picked one at random, you know, because there's really no difference between them besides the colour you choose to screw the galaxy with.

**Tadashi**

Control. The relays don't get destroyed, so galactic civilization doesn't get gakked.

And EDI and Joker still get a happy ending. Provided they romance each other.

**smudgethekat**

Usually I'm not one for these massive theories in games, but this article convinced me of what I had to do.
http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7688087/1/
So in the end, I went with destroy.
Warning: it's a fairly lengthy article.

**iproxtaco**

Tadashi wrote:Control. The relays don't get destroyed, so galactic civilization doesn't get gakked.

Yeah, they do.

Every ending is basically the same except for the color.

**Totalwar1402**

smudgethekat wrote:Usually I'm not one for these massive theories in games, but this article convinced me of what I had to do.
http://w11.zetaboards.com/Theorycraftng_HUB/topic/7688087/1/
So in the end, I went with destroy.
Warning: it's a fairly lengthy article.

Yeah I heard that theory somewhere else and it makes too much sense to ignore. Surprised about Vega remarking on the humming noise.

Its clear that bioware had every intention of making a DLC ending. Perhaps it'll add a dialogue option where you expose the

Spoiler:

Personally I think Harbinger was working with half-truths

Spoiler:

Ac to the kid, the reapers introduce order by preserving organic life in reaper forms. He also clearly states that 'synthesis' is the natural evolution of all life; implying perfection. Harbinger probably was stating the reapers genuine opinion. That is what the reapers are; organic melded with synthetic. The 'chaos' that the reaper on Rannoch probably does refer to the inevitable rise of synthetics once they surpass their creators. The reapers have a Darwinian, not moral view and Jarik expresses a similar sentiment when explaining the rise of the Prothean empire was to ensure 'that our machines would not be greater than us'. However, Harbinger omits several key points already established in the reapers motives. Firstly, they show a complete contempt of organic life, as much as Sovereign showed for the Geth heretics according to Saren. Considering that other sci-fi genres where all consciousness are fused to one super-entity (the thing, the flood etc) is usually justifed as solving all the 'chaotic' elements of organic existence. United in a reaper, there is no war, no disease, no pain, no suffering, no discord, no death and all reside equally in a complete nation. Secondly, they do not do this solution to 'save' organic life. Mainly because the process kills the organics, suggesting the reapers do not understand that it is our consciousness not our flesh that we wish to preserve. Only a logical machine would assume that preserving our DNA and organic material in reaper form might achieve this. Given that so much more organic 'chaos' is subdued by the reaper solution his proposed melding of DNA doesn't make sense. Harbinger is ommitting the reapers hatred of organics which has been well-established in the lore and is indicated by their insistence on killing people to unite their flesh in a reaper shell. Also, the reapers offered the Geth to be put into a body according to Legion, who had no reason to believe any deception given by them. This would suggest that the 'we are here to save organics' is either a clear deception or misguided machine logic. So Harbinger dilutes and distorts the reapers real views into a form more palatable to Shephard in order to manipulate him. The reapers do not care for organic life, and the chaos is not just synthetics annialating organics but is also the organics own propensity for self-destruction. Both threaten the reapers ability to reproduce and need to be controlled by them.

Dwelling on the order/chaos theme the reapers keep repeating. Order, implies certainty in the universe. Chaos implies uncertainty. From a machines logic, it is best to provide order (certainty) that is in their interest. The reapers have no real purpose, as suggested above they have already solved all the issues that define so much of organic life. Without it, they have no true purpose. Indeed their deliberate vagueness probably suggests their own insecurity about this, which they hide behind deluded meglomania at how powerful they are; rather than a mysterious motive. The only thing the reapers can achieve then, is to merely replicate their own perfect forms ad infinitum. To facilitate this, much like a real-life farmer, they have to regulate consumption of organics to make more reapers. Consume them all, and the reapers will extinguish all life thus invalidating any possible purpose they might have. Let them grow too much and they risk the organics/other synthetics becoming strong enough to challenge them. The reapers plan with the citadel implies that they had this process down to an art form and could reliably harvest new hosts for eternity.