The elephant in the room

Plot holes so big that the Citadel is like a drop in the sea, in comparison...

It's not like we're going back to the Milky Way, so I think I can make an informed decision as to what my Shepard's personality imprint would lead to. It's not the same as Shepard, because she's super-dead, as mentioned. But the thing has her thoughts, her memories, and frankly, I'd rather assume positives instead of wallowing in gloom and doom.

Granted, the endings never really filled me with ire. They're not good, either, but after the EC and Leviathan, they're passable.

And the best thing about them for me continues to be that there's no one empirically right choice. All four have pros and cons, and I've picked them all on different Shepards.

Including renegade control. Teehee.

Destroy.
And then, years later, quarians and engineers achived to recover the Geth and EDI.

There's no guarantee that the Shepard AI won't be 'tweaked' (rewritten) in the process. That's the problem with an AI. It's a digital thing. It's out of your hands. Like we've seen with the Geth in ME2, it only takes a tiny alteration to make them come to different conclusions.

Too much risk.

DESTROY.

Did somebody say elephant!?

9 times out of 10 I've gone for Destroy with High EMS. But I've been thinking about a different ending for my final "canon" playthrough and could use everybody's thoughts on the choices:

bsn.boards.net/thread/356/choosing-andromeda-canon

And again you've confused your headcanon with actual canon.  Headcanons are fine, as long people realize that's all they are.

This happened to me the first time. I was very confused and thought that maybe the game automatically decided your choice based on some accumulation of your past choices. There was much, much nerdrage until I reloaded and tried again.

No. My notion that control might backfire is backed up by actual content and being able to put 2 and 2 together. Your headcanon that Shepard goes all reclusive is absolutely refuted by in-game evidence. There is 0% chance it's true. That's simply all there is to it.



Yeah, and why not? It's not like Lovecraftian horror stories aren't chipper.



You mean like how Cerberus tried to control... anything, and they always broke free and went murdery on them? Or rewrite Shepard tried to control the geth and then they went back to the Reapers? Or how the Reapers tried to control the geth after that, but the geth broke free and started attacking them? Or how the Leviathans tried to control the Reapers, but they betrayed them and killed them? Or how TIM tried to control the Reapers and ended up indoctrinated? Or how the quarians tried to control the geth and wound up losing their homeworld and becoming space gypsies with space AIDS? Or... eh, screw it, you get the idea. Control constantly backfiring is a major theme of the series. There's a reason the one I used for control is "I have no pattern recognition."

In before controllers insist that this is somehow different from every other instance because <arbitrary reason here>.

Look, when I upgrade my computer, it changes. And that's what you're doing. Shepard, the fallible human, is dead in control. What s/he's being replaced with is a program. What we see the Shepalyst doing is largely positive, and the ending breaks the fourth wall to tell you Shepard stopped the Reapers.

What happened afterwards is headcanon, and it's certainly headcanon to assume it all went terribly wrong.

And, again, there's a direct message from the writers telling you it stopped the Reapers, sooooooooo....

But if you insist on the glass being half empty, then I'm not going to stop you. I'm just saying, my view of the ending is just as valid and backed up by the game as yours is. Granted, I've always found "Man was not meant to know this" stories a bit trite and annoying. More knowledge is generally positive, and humanity hasn't killed itself peaking behind the curtain yet.

Starchild was the type of person you could talk to, he said "my plan won't work anymore" it's almost like he's asking for a solution himself, on behalf of the Reapers.

They seem very receptive to change.

I think it's telling the truth, in a severe mentally ill kind of way. Like how some schizophrenics are convinced people are out to get them. For them, it's the truth even if you're trying to tell them you have no idea what they're talking about.