From: tereziWright | #011
People spend 100 hours playing a series that's main focus is building up the character you want, and the ending doesn't reflect any of it whatsoever. You aren't even limited by your decisions up to that point.
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What's not reflected? Leading up to the final conflict, you meet one last time with the surviving squad members you've established relationships with over three games. These people are here because you, the player, brought them there. You have one last moment with your love interest. You see the fleets you've assembled into battle. In the last five minutes, the player is given a choice. These choices are consistent with both paragon and renegade Shepard. Paragon Shepard is a person open to compromise, able to bring peace to long-standing rivals, and willing to stand against a race (and a dead friend) just to give a new form of life an opportunity to live. Renegade Shepard, meanwhile, wants the Reapers dead - that's it. I fail to see where the 99 hours leading up to the final 1 are rendered meaningless. And I don't have a problem with the player given a choice at the end - how much more upset would you be if you were locked into a paragon ending just because you had slightly more paragon points, but you really wanted the renegade ending? I don't think the choice offered at the end is disrespectful of the commitment you gave to the series.
From: HeroDelTiempo17 | #020
Well a lot of people would disagree that the resolution was consistent with the rest of the universe, myself included. <_<
How are Shepard's actions inconsistent? What was out of the blue? I don't think humanity's struggle to exercise and demonstrate their free will is something Bioware put in at the last minute. It's been in all of the games. We are constantly reminded that time is cyclical, events are doomed to repeat themselves, and that there is a deterministic chain of events which will culminate in our destruction. And yet, Shepard and co. push back at every opportunity: Shepard denies death and breaks free of the Illusive Man; Miranda is determined to not let her sister suffer the same controlling fate she did; Mordin is given an opportunity to cure the genophage; the Geth and EDI are given the opportunity to experience consciousness. It's not surprising, then, that Shepard is able to break the galaxy's cycle and save humanity.
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