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Sahuagin posted...

there's 3. in ME3 you literally just pick one. in Deus Ex 1 you at least have to take a different path and solve a different puzzle for whichever one you go for.

The original DE had 3, and it really just changes how you play the final level and which boss you fight. In Invisible War there's technically 4 (5 if you count the developer room ending), which basically just comes down to you picking a side and killing everyone who isn't on it (or killing everyone). And Human Revolution has a final room with four buttons and you pick which one to press (one of three sides, or screw them all).

Actually, I've always said that Mass Effect 3 blatantly stole its ending from Deus Ex. It basically stole the "push a button at the very end" idea from Human Revolution (and later even added in a "screw everyone" option like HR had with the Extended Cut), and the choices they offer you (Destroy, Control, Synthesis) are literally the exact same choices you're offered in Deus Ex (Destroy the Internet, Control the World, Fuse with an AI).

It's not really surprising that they'd still ideas from other people who did them way better, though. Considering how much they wound up stealing from Battlestar Galactica, it's kind of obvious that they just hamhandedly took ideas from anything they liked a lot during development.