Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

I personally just walk my own path and do my thing. I disliked the MET because the story had some problems that I just shake my head at. If I were to play it now, that would be all I see, thus ruining the experience for me.

Nah, I would be decked out in Terminator Armour while wielding a thunderhammer and a storm bolter (if I was a Space Marine).

Or I would be piloting a Riptide battlesuit with a ion accelerator.

Edit: I swear I'm going to murder my phone....😠

Come on now.

There is no point, because it's the same point as before. No. Still no.

Though, judging by the kill bots’ methods, it doesn’t seem like those quintillion would really be spared their own brand of extermination in the end. Like, let’s say they ended up successfully harvesting the current cycle, destroyed the Crucible and finally erased the plans (as they apparently intended), and continued to harvest for another million years. So out of the, let’s say 250 billion stars, only a small fraction of that would ever have the capacity to not only support life, but provide an ample environment for life that will have the capacity to develop technology and leave its star system. When that species is finally found out and eradicated, which is something that seems to happen even if that individual species isn’t really involved in any kind of AI conflict itself, that world will not likely produce another. At some point, life in the galaxy would see an exhaustion of its potential to even have any kind of civilization, and considering that 50,000 years is really a snapshot on any meaningful scale of time, that might not even need to take that long. I imagine from the reapers’ perspective, it doesn’t really make much of a difference. Life is life, be it man or amoeba. If there’s nothing left but thresher maws and shifty cows, it would probably not be a meaningful distinction to machines of death that just do the same task over and over again for eons, because in the end, the only true peace is death. 

Maybe the real problem is that meddlesome beings who were too lazy (or perhaps too stupid) to really figure out their own problems decided that it would be best to just offload their philosophical issues onto a cold calculating machine in the first place. 

Planets are capable of producing more life. When the Reapers harvest they do not render the planet dead. If they wanted to they could easily just wipe out life with orbital bombardments that would kill everyone and render the planet incapable of ever supporting life again.  Earth along has gone though several global extinction events and we exist.

It’s not a matter of life in its totality, but civilization itself. Obviously a focused extermination of any species doesn’t diminish a planet’s ability to support more life, but it’s a good bet that once that species is gone, it will not be replaced by another with the capacity to build its own civilization and develop its own technologies. Like, if human beings are wiped out, it won’t automatically set it down a path for the planet of the apes, with the apes becoming a spacefaring race themselves. The earth would most likely live and die never seeing another advanced civilization again, unless colonized by another species. Total annihilation of civilization would be the inevitable result of a constant tearing down after each reemergence. The point is, from the perspective of the reapers, that shouldn’t make a difference. 

The problem though, is that there would be no difference between this and a rebellious synthetic race wiping out its creators and just systematically wiping out all other advanced civilizations either. The geth are our only frame of reference, and by all accounts, they seem to have zero interest in non-sapient life. Would a machine race care to wipe out a school of fish or a jungle? Would a robot really go out of its way to stomp on crabs at beaches? I guess they could be like the Faro plague, consuming all biomatter until it scrapes the galaxy entirely clean, but we’ve never seen anything like that in Mass Effect. Even if a rogue AI managed to kill all humans, organic life would probably continue, just none that cold hold up a conversation. 

The idea that a species can not develop beyond primitive animals is questionable at best in the real world and blatantly contradicted in the game.  Given the limited amount of golden planets and the Reapers being at this for billions of years and millions of harvests.

Yeah, I personally think that Gothpunk apart of the Reaper "fanclub".

So stoping with the "the Reaper's Genocide of the galaxy is super awesome" isn't gonna happen.