Do you prefer ANDROMEDA? or Milkyway?

It’s not really sentimentality. They’re different settings. I get immersed in settings moreso than characters. I liked Shepard. He’s a cool character. My love for MET, though, was for getting to play as Shepard (or whoever else it might’ve been) in that setting. MEA is related, but distinct. I prefer the MW setting.

With the Geth question, I was just trying to throw the toaster-lovers a bone. That particular idea is pretty iffy and could easily be an eye-roller if it appeared in a game.

This really goes to the major weaknesses of an ending as slapdash as ME3's even after the Extended Cut (which I guess wasn't nearly extended enough). It says something though when the geth have a prominent slide in both Control and Synthesis should they be spared at Rannoch, (though the rachni only appear in a slide if the krogan die out). In any case, I could take or leave the geth. It's EDI that was the real hostage of that choice, and we know for a fact that she dies in Destroy.

I would've preferred more fast-tracking through the final dialogue. "I don't care just let me kill you." 

The Eva Core mech doesn't matter, I'm talking about just the AI herself. Only way to give any real incentive to pick any other ending I guess.

In terms of narrative for the characters, that kinda sucks. Nothing new will have the memories, just like any new geth wouldn't. Without the shared experience, they might as well not exist anymore.

Yeah, in the end I don't really care what setting it's in. The core of the game that really matters is the protagonist and small gaggle of companions. If Andromeda was about JUST the Tempest lost entirely with absolutely nothing else from the Milky Way as a reminder, I'd be just as happy with my Lost In Mass Effect version.

I think it adds to what ultimately makes the whole thing kind of unsatisfying, right down to how little sense it makes that the magical wave picks and chooses which technologies cease to function. An iPhone in the future would be unaffected, but the talking robot next to it drops dead. If there was a good sensible reason for the character(s) to die, then that's fine, but when it's for dumb reasons, it's a total waste.

I prefer both, with a slight edge to Andromeda because it's different I want to see more of it.

I think the whole code thing is kind of bonkers anyway.

Warning, use of the Crucible device may interfere with your ReaperOS product. Please see holographic interactive manual for details.

Shoulda just been kill codes like what we used to stop Hades. I guess that wouldn't really allow us to do a Deus Ex techno-bukkake all over the galaxy.

In any case, I've come to decide that I don't think the Milky Way should be touched again. Anything big and weird they could've written into the big blank parts of the galaxy we know can just as well be inserted here, without having to frame it within the events of the previous games. 

I interpret it in this way, but I don't think it's actually presented this way. It's a little annoyingly to me that they had the EC to really clear some muddied waters, yet still left some things murky. Oh, well. It's been 6 years. It's not a huge deal. I hope for tighter, attentive writing out of each game I play. I love BioWare games, but they've never been big on clarity, internal consistency and the like. Most games aren't. The ones that are really stand out from the crowd.

Yeah a kill code would be plausible especially if the crucible was started by the leviathans.

Basically for me,

1. Control somewhat plausible given space magic that a uploaded shepard can hack the reapers and control them. 
2. Destroy, less plausible, but still somewhat plausible I see it as some super hi-tech EMP blast that wrecks all tech that has tech of X level which all AI and many other systems have.
3.  Syntheses: So far outside the realm of plausible I try to pretend it doesn't exist as I'd like to think they would never write something that bad.

Basically all the choices weren't plausible 2 of which I could kind of accept in the realm of mass effects space magic.

*Raises hand slowly*.... ....but wouldn't destroy be the somewhat obvious choice in general? After going through 3 games of knowing what the Reapers are doing, the chaos and destruction they are causing...the whole climatic ending event would be to try and end this thing....if Destroy meant the Reapers are annihilated, then wouldn't everybody pretty much choose that option?...it ends the war.


Yeah we don't want to go down ME3 ending mode, but the catalyst i felt also couldn't be trusted since that if you shoot him (IT)....all of a sudden that innocent child voice turns into Harbinger or at least sounds like it...not sure if you can truly trust what it is saying...it seems like in a way it was trying to manipulate you and looking out for it's own a$$.....that is all i have to say about the endings....