Leaked video of upcoming ME:A patch from BioWare

While funny, I do wonder if Liara's signal landed in Andromeda......

Lol no. It may be your head cannon ending but it is never going to be the cannon ending. I personally felt what we got at release was good but needed polish. Once we got that I loved the ending. I know some don't and that's fine. I watched the MEHEM mod and don't like it it's not the ending that it should be. Just don't act like that is the actual ending.

I tried using it once. ME3 told me it was an illegal DLC and I ended up with starbrat anyway.

I'm a Destruction guy, myself. But I've always maintained that Refusal is the best ending for the main trilogy with the move to Andromeda being considered.

With the other three endings, the stakes of the Andromeda Initiative aren't so high. A hundred and twenty thousand people may or may not be fucked. That's a tragedy but they all knew the risk when they signed up for an expedition to another galaxy. But with Refusal, we're not talking about the fates of 120k people, we're talking about the continuity of several species and the fate of entire cultures and civilizations. If Refusal was chosen, then the Andromeda Initiative's failure or success goes from meaning "Well, those idiots starved to death" to "everything that remains of our history and culture rides on their success".

It's also a good way of avoiding the idea that the Milky Way races post war could meet up with the Andromeda Initiative again or, in the case of the synthesis ending, why they didn't lap the initiative and get there first.

Hahaha... yea, stuff like that happens...

...when you are 12.

Personally, I'd be ok with refuse/loose... the other games have been for naught no matter what ending you choose, so better to dump the whole thing.

Agreed Destroy is the to me the only real ending I can't imagine Shep doing anything else. That is what drove him/her for three years Destruction. Period.

Well, technically it wasn't an A, B, or C ending.  It was a Red, Blue, or Green ending.    I'm sure Casey like a good politician would point out the obvious difference there.

The endings just feel like they were pulled from another game.  You spend three games and hundreds of hours getting all the various organic and synthetic races allied and working together only to be told in the last 5 minutes "nope none of that matters it isn't possible".  Then what was even the point of the previous three games?

Anyway, just glad we, so far, don't having anything remotely that stupid happening in MEA.

True, refuse was added via the EC, that's why I call the EC the actual f-you to the fans... BW doubled down on their "artistic vision" and the only option out of it was: Loose.

Which is why I said it's the ultimate middle finger

Or, you could make the only rational decision in that game: Destroy. It's the only option that allows you to definitively destroy the Catalyst and the Reapers, bringing the entire conflict to a close without any ambiguity. All of the other options are terrible for the simple fact that they don't actually conclude what Shepard set out to do and in no way guarantee what the Catalyst says (who is a compulsive liar).

I never expected a happy ending after what we had come to face in ME1 and ME2. It was unrealistic and downright silly to believe Shepard and the galaxy would come out of this war unscathed. That's why I think the MEHEM is equally as terrible as most of the choices presented at the end.

The original ending didn't have a refusal option....