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Subject: Control, Destruction, or Synthesis?
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You're in Commander Shepard's shoes at the last minutes of Mass Effect 3. The Star Brat has given you three options to end the Reaper menace: Control, Destruction, or Synthesis.

Which do you choose and why?

[Edited on 12.22.2012 2:11 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 2:10 AM PDT

I'm 23, I have a house, dog, girlfriend, job and I have no interest in any fanboyism so if you're thinking about sending me a childish PM, don't be surprised when I don't call back.

I pick randomly because every choice is dumb and the star child is dumb so it doesn't matter either way.

  • 12.22.2012 2:12 AM PDT

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synthesis. only because destroy kills EDI and the Geth.

  • 12.22.2012 2:15 AM PDT

Non Nobis Nascimur - We are not born for ourselves.

Synthesis, so Joker and EDI can finally get it on.

  • 12.22.2012 2:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: Wild Smurf 14
Synthesis, so Joker and EDI can finally get it on.
There's still the issue of Joker's brittle bones. And that EDI is made of metal...

  • 12.22.2012 2:22 AM PDT
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I chose Control because I have a primarily Paragon Shephard.

But it doesn't matter anyway since most of your choices in the game as well as the previous titles have no effect on the ending...

  • 12.22.2012 2:24 AM PDT

I persist too long after my own defeat,
Yet I still press forward, staggering on my feet.
But I know that my resolution will be my end.
And once I fall, I shall ruefully transcend.


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Posted by: Wild Smurf 14
Synthesis, so Joker and EDI can finally get it on.
There's still the issue of Joker's brittle bones. And that EDI is made of metal...


It matters not. The last night of his life will also be the best night.

  • 12.22.2012 2:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: Wild Smurf 14
Synthesis, so Joker and EDI can finally get it on.
There's still the issue of Joker's brittle bones. And that EDI is made of metal...


It matters not. The last night of his life will also be the best night.
I suppose he would die with a smile on his face.

  • 12.22.2012 2:25 AM PDT

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My third montage!

Destruction. I set out to stop the reapers and that's what I did.

  • 12.22.2012 2:33 AM PDT

Destroy. Control is what the Illusive Man wanted and Synthesis is what Saren wanted.

  • 12.22.2012 2:36 AM PDT

All roads lead to Sol.

I stop playing after Anderson dies. There is no reason for me to continue.

It hurts less that way.

  • 12.22.2012 2:38 AM PDT
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I chose synthesis the first time around, but at that point I had absolutely no clue what was going on.

  • 12.22.2012 2:45 AM PDT


Posted by: I Judge Bread I
I pick randomly because every choice is dumb and the star child is dumb so it doesn't matter either way.

  • 12.22.2012 2:46 AM PDT

I persist too long after my own defeat,
Yet I still press forward, staggering on my feet.
But I know that my resolution will be my end.
And once I fall, I shall ruefully transcend.


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Posted by: The_Didact

Posted by: AK 47625714

Posted by: Wild Smurf 14
Synthesis, so Joker and EDI can finally get it on.
There's still the issue of Joker's brittle bones. And that EDI is made of metal...


It matters not. The last night of his life will also be the best night.
I suppose he would die with a smile on his face.


Indeed

  • 12.22.2012 2:48 AM PDT

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Nice poll.

OT: Control. Who wouldn't want to control the Reapers?

  • 12.22.2012 2:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: OdorousLicense3
Nice poll.
Wouldn't touch a poll with a ten-foot pole.

[Edited on 12.22.2012 2:57 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 2:55 AM PDT

im dumd

[Edited on 12.22.2012 3:21 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 3:03 AM PDT

Well I'd like to choose Refuse if it wasn't so lackluster. They could've at least had a few cutscenes of your army going out in a blaze of glory or something, I would've dug that.

Other than that, Control I guess. It's the second-closest thing to a -blam!- you to the star child, taking control of all his -blam!-. Plus the Geth live and everyone gets to keep their individual-ality.

Synthesis does have it's perks though; seeing EDI and Liara/whatever hug and cry at the end gets a real good emotional response :'( Probably the best of the Shepard funeral things, actually.

As for Destroy, having to destroy the Geth is a stupid twist on the Crucible.

  • 12.22.2012 3:13 AM PDT

Recon Number 54 -
If they are still looking, then while holding the snarl, I let drool start to drip from my mouth, I stand, curl my fingers into claws and with a hunched over crouch, I then make slow and deliberate steps towards them. When I get close enough, I let them hear my agonized and gasping growls and then, if they continue to stare, when I get within arm's reach? I kiss them on the nose, and run away giggling.

Synthesis, Organics + Mechanics = Win.

  • 12.22.2012 3:13 AM PDT

Posted by: culexus
Synthesis, Organics + Mechanics = Win.
unless you're an advocate of free will and things-that-aren't-pretentious-asspulls.

[Edited on 12.22.2012 3:17 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 3:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: OdorousLicense3
Nice poll.
a poll would imply choice
...Isn't that the whole point?

  • 12.22.2012 3:17 AM PDT

Posted by: OdorousLicense3
Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: OdorousLicense3
Nice poll.
a poll would imply choice
...Isn't that the whole point?
woops, sorry. it's late and i'm full of hate.

[Edited on 12.22.2012 3:21 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 3:21 AM PDT

Destroy is the best.


... Though I did kill the Quarians and then basically used the Geth to take back earth and then killed them too.. But whatevs.

  • 12.22.2012 3:35 AM PDT

Somebody showed me the Scarab Gun in Halo 2 once.
I was like WHOA DUDE, WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA
Then I sorta blanked out in a red haze and when I came to, everyone was dead.

I chose the Red explosion first.

Then I reloaded my save and chose the Green one, to see what would happen. Then I just stopped playing after that because all the endings were crap anyway and I was tired of the game.

If I was in Shepard's shoes (boots?) at that very moment, I would have chosen Destroy, because getting rid of the Reapers was the entire point of the trilogy, and the other two options made no sense whatsoever.

[Edited on 12.22.2012 3:45 AM PST]

  • 12.22.2012 3:43 AM PDT

Control, it just seems like the most awesome one to me. I guess Synthesis is quite cool since they get like eternal life and what not.

  • 12.22.2012 3:57 AM PDT

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