By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: Vampire Master
Posted by: Soul drinker108
Destroy. it stopped the reapers and is the only way to keep Shep aliveDestroy would be the worst ending, in the future... our children will build robots and thus the reapers are reborn again.if you accept the fundamentally retarded over-generalizations of casper the friendly reaper, sure.
all the endings are horrible and directly oppose at least *some* key theme of the mass effect universe (ex: free will, tolerance, freedom from tyranny).
This.
I think the ending that opposes the least key themes is Refuse, but it's a complete non-ending and serves as little more than a middle finger to those of us who wanted something better. That leaves Destroy as the second-least thematically destructive ending, yet even that is completely retarded. Shepard becomes a genocidal murderer. Legion states that the geth joined with the Reapers because they didn't want to be killed by the quarians, in my playthrough Shepard then works to solve the issue and unite the geth and quarians together. Yet you end up butchering them in the end anyway.
Apparently it was too much to even conclude the game by having what you do matter in the end. You get the top EMS score by making choices that adhere to the themes of the series across ME1, 2 and 3? You get all the War Assets you need to defeat the Reapers and get the best ending, as it was established in ME1 that our Cycle is different due to the Reapers losing control of the Relay network. It should absolutely never have come down to this utterly contrived Crucible ('Reaper off-switch') bollocks.