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What ways exactly?




Choices are made during war. And that war, dangerous enemies influence your choices, including genophage or quarians.  Settings, situations have their effect in any case. 

False. Gave example where definition of "conflict" suits just fine. Gave addinitional information about "feelings" (from definition). Read posts.

Then don't say there's no negative consequences to making peace since you can't/won't give a reason to upload the code. Or that it' provides the right solution, from what you call a quarian narrative. The game gives no reason to upload that code. If Bioware wants me to choose peace, then how about there's an option to have Han " I have an itchy trigger finger" Gerrell stand down leading to the geth possibly standing long enough for both sides to come to some agreement long enough to destroy the reapers. After that. worry about what might happen once that agreement starts to break down.

Does your Shepard know any of that before deciding to have peace or not? I wish my Shepard had psychic abilities like that. Instead of putting her/his talents into the military, those talents would have been used to win the lottery. 

This is, in part, why I don't mind that she dies in Destroy. Sure, she's fine as a crew member, but she's not that valuable and I've lost much more valuable crew members. She's just collateral damage.

Its nonsense to suggest the Krogan arc is written in an even handed way - the issue of the Genophage is *massively* slanted towards siding with the Krogan on this in all 3 games. In Mordin's Loyalty mission, arguing the Genophage was wrong gets that whole sequence of him starting to express his regrets and exploring religion etc in a very powerful and profound sequence whereas supporting the genophage in that same conversation  gets... nothing. Same as Zaeed's mission where defying him over Vido gives a whole extra sequence of dialogue to turn his heartless attitude around and the endorsing his plan has no follow up at all - Vido is offed, mission over and Sheperd never raises any 'don't pull any crap like that again' or anything. Its clear the writers thought (correctly) that everyone would go Paragon on this and just chucked the Renegade version together in a 'Really? Well okay...but don't expect us to waste any interesting story time on your WRONG decision...'

Same with ME3's Krogan route. Because that's what it is. On one side you have 4 fan favourite characters arguing for the cure (Wrex, Mordin, Kirrahe and Grunt). And on the other side you have... nobody. The new characters are similarly lop sided. Eve who has suffered much, fights and travels with you explaining along with Mordin how STG's original projections were flawed from a lack of knowledge about pre nuclear war Krogan society) and Dalatrass Linron who is written as a shrill, unrepentently racist old battleaxe.

You honestly think they wrote that storyline thinking anyone give a damn about the potential consequences when every character but her supports the cure? When the Krogan are given tons of badass action scenes to win the crowd over the Questline compared to the *zero* that the genophage defenders get? Its obvious who they wanted you to side with - they don't even bother changing the music and tone of the dispersal cutscene. Its still treated as an uplifting rebirth event, a great injustice corrected etc. And if that wasn't enough they have the 'BRZZT WRONG you traitrous racist Swine' aftermath if you do support the Salarians (whose level of support is a joke anyway compared to the Krogan).

And can we blame them? You may not think there's anything wrong with discarding your honour, living up to your agreements, supporting the rights of the unjustly persecuted using their rebellions at their treatment to crush them (Krogan, Geth) even harder. To be outraged when Legion conceals information due to centuries of evidence suggesting it will be suspected and stopped and wanting to show you the results instead of asking permission that organics have never traditionally given and have in fact attacked when the inquiry was made.

And EDI. Loyal for 2 whole games, the partner of your also loyal pilot who has never once asked for *anything* from you until the end where he begs you to look after her for him. And you don't find it an outrageous act of dishonour to repay both their loyalty withbetrayal to save your own skin. Because don't kid yourself - Sheperd's survival is *the* reason people pick Destroy. Bioware didn't predict it - they assumed because everyone was Paragon they'd go for what they were clearly pushing as the 'right' ending (need most EMS to unlock, the widest most well lit visually noticeable route right in front of you). But people's childish refusal to let their character die trumped that.

Why on earth they didn't just retcon it in the extended ending or LE with 'Sheperd lives in all routes if your EMS is high enough or Paragon\Renegade whatever is high enough' I will never understand. It would have taken all the real sting out of the endings fiasco because most players wanted Sheperd to live without sacrificing their honour killing EDI and the Geth.

I think it's ludicrous to suggest that it's not written in an even handed way.  It's self-evident BECAUSE you're all here arguing that the krogan are brutish monsters USING stuff that Bioware wrote into the games.  If it wasn't written in such an even handed way, you all would not be coming to the conclusion that they are brutish monsters and that the genophage should not be cured.  You believe what you believe about them because Bioware has written that "evidence" into the games.  If they just wrote them up as victims, everyone would have no reasons to believe they are not victims.

I choose the quarians. I have no proof the code will have the reapers remain in control of the geth. The geth can say whatever it wants, the machines aligned with the reapers so they can remain instead of being destroyed. I prefer death over being a slave. If there was the opportunity to get peace, even if it is temporary, without the code, then I would consider that.

Of course it's fine. Why wouldn't it be? 

You seriously look at that arc and don't see how completely skewed it is towards siding with the Krogan? Any nuance on this issue has to be provided by the player because it sure as hell isn't provided by the writers. The game is just written with such a heavy hand, coming down so mightily on the side of the Krogan and Geth that you'd have to be Dick Dastardly not to feel emotionally blackmailed into supporting them\finding a peaceful compromise with the Geth.

The Salarians in general get such a pasting from the writers. They're distrusted and disliked by practically every race and NPC who encounter them with only the STG guys like Mordin, Kirrahe etc coming across okay. Characters who encounter them for the 1st time like Javik from the dlc and Jaal from MEA both comment that they don't trust Salarians and since practically every Salarian is a criminal and\or sells out their allies (Chorban, Anoleis, Dr Saleon, Jarroth, Maelon, Ish, Sayn, Dalatrass Linron etc) its easy to see why.

I'm always willing to hear both sides of an argument if its well written. ME3 is not and that's where our annoyance lies. Bioware simplifying complex issues into right and wrong. I understand the pressures to not be seen to be impartial on racism etc but there were more nuanced ways to go about it Otherwise why even have the Renegade option at all if you're just going to label it as the option that the racist bigots take and write it as such? Cerberus, the Salarian Union get this hard especially in 3. And the majority of the Quarian Admirals (Rael, Xen, Han'Gerel and until very late Shala Ran) are all written as being completely unpentent and ignorant of the Quarians' share of culpability in the Geth problem, still intent on exterminating them as simple malfunctioning machines despite all the evidence to the contrary.

And after shooting at you when you just helped them and double crossing you by continuing to attack instead of the agreed upon retreat, they still expect you to help them! Its because the writers were so hell bent on shoving you towards the 'Make peace between the 2' option. They left out Kal'Reegar and didn't originally want Tali as a squadmate in ME3 to push and push and push the 'the Geth are innocent! Feel sorry for them, not the warmongering Quarians who never help you' angle.

Tali and Legion both support peace - again all the fan favorite support one outcome to drive home Bioware's wish for you to 'pick a card, any card... as long as its this one'. And if you don't they shout WRONG and either have Tali commit suicide or make you murder Legion (murder being exactly what Tali considers it to be).