I don't get how Mass Effect 3 was a bad game (major spoilers)...

[Darc Requiem]

JWeinCom said:

SecondWar said:

I get where you're coming from but I have to disagree. There a YouTube video that points out the inherent flaw with the ending (my iPad won't let me link to it). The destroy option, the thing you've been working towards throughout the entire series is painted as the worse option. This could have been made as a moral point, but until you meet the catalyst it is still your overall aim. Then other options are either the aim of Cerberus (control) or Saren (synergy) so you basically end up doing their work for them.

Even reject is flawed as you can't point out the ridiculous flaw in the catalysts logic - he wants to preserve organic life, and does so by continually destroying organic life.

 

 

To add to this, the color coding of the ending is all wrong.  The control option is in paragon blue, when it has been a renegade choice throughout the rest of the game.  Anderson, who is like literally the paragon throughout the game, is portrayed in renegade red. 

The only way this makes sense is from the reaper's perspective, which to me lend credence to the indoctrination theory.  That's clearly where they were headed, but then they made a sharp turn at the last moment...

 

I disagree on the Indoctrination Theory. It was never their intention. Fans, that actually followed the lore of the series, constructed the Indoctrination Theory to cope with the terrible writing Bioware saddled ME3 with in it's conclusion. Casey Hudson and Mack Walters had never shown themselves to be clever enough to construct such an ending.