kain_kusanagi said:
Rath said:
I agree that the ending being unexpected is a good thing, I was quite happy with Shepard being dead (and the ending that keeps him alive is stupid in my opinion). An 'everyone lives happily ever after' ending would have seemed pretty damned weak to me.
I don't have a problem with two of the actual endings (the destroy and merge endings), conceptually they're fine, but the actual writing of the scene was poor compared to the rest of the series and big ideas don't excuse poor writing. The ending I do have a problem with (synthesis of man and machine) just took away my suspension of disbelief. The idea that some green beam of light can turn all organics half synthetic and all synthetics half organic seems absurd to me even in a science fiction universe.
Also did anybody else kind of get the feeling they were playing Deus Ex again? The three options to destroy, control or merge...
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What you consider poor writing is really just a minor complaint. As for the "green beam of light", as you call it, in my opinion it is no more absurd than the "magical science" of biotics, relays, or most of the "reaper tech". A lot of impossible things happen in Mass Effect, but people suddeningly have a problem with the ending because the technology is so advanced it seems like magic? That's the way all technology feels to those who don't understand it.
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Biotics, relays and reaper tech make sense within the ME universe. The same way that the Force makes sense within the Star Wars universe. It doesn't make sense in the ME universe for a green beam of light to turn everyone half synthetic and give them weird symbols all over their skin. It no longer plays by the rules of the universe they created over 2 and 95/100 games.
