If Bioware ever decides to choose a canon ending for Mass Effect 3, which one would you prefer?

Wasn't that also back in the days when they were saying that people should keep their ME3 saves?

Of course we don't like Synthesis, it turns all life in the galaxy into freaks of nature.

We were just saying that Hudson's dream ending (Synthesis) is not as liked as he thinks it is.

A sidequel could work for a smaller game, like Halo 3: ODST. Set it during the Reaper War on worlds we never experienced, fight the Reapers on some of the homeworlds we missed out on in ME3, perhaps fight indoctrinated enemies rather than Cerberus, maybe with the ability to play as some of the Council races rather than just humans. It could be interesting and use an imported ME1-3 save to dictate certain elements, such as what happens at the end.

Then why weren't the reviewers of MEA similarly bribed? Maybe because I didn't play the MET until early 2016, I was less attached to the endings. They didn't bother me overall but I still believe MEHEM was a better alternative. I still chose Destroy regardless. Tried Synthesis and Control once. Neither appealed to me so I moved on. NBD.

I can only conclude that people hated the ending because they wanted Shepard to continue in a fourth ME game. Otherwise, who cares? Nothing is preventing you from having the ending you prefer.

I have to say Synthesis.

We only see the very beginning of Synthesis, what we don't see is how the knowledge and wisdom of countless previous civilizations could be tapped into.
We don't see the possibility of "undoing" the damage the Reapers caused to husks, marauders, canibaals, brutes, banshees, etc., ergo returning them to their natural form.
Because we only see the next few minutes proper, and then only a few years (at most) via slideshow/narration.

I am NOT saying that others cannot have their ending choice, I am NOT saying that picking a different ending makes you "dumb" or "stupid".

To be perfectly frank, I really think the best ending is "Destroy-Indoctrination Theory".
It's poetically pristine, and thematically thunderous in complexity and scope, and had BioWare been allowed to do that they would have been immortalized as Paragons of storytelling.

HOWEVER, that ending doesn't exist, so while the Synthesis ending is messy, no doubts there; it has the most potential for good AND removes the reason for the Reapers to exist.

Therefore, I am destroying them physically (thereabouts, not quite literally) AND their idea, preventing the cycle from ever happening again.

Destroy just "resets" the clock, but doesn't solve the underlying problem. At best, you get to "try again" but have ultimately learned nothing. There is a great risk of repetition of the same paths that led here.

Control maybe solves the problem initially, but who's to say YOU don't reach the same conclusion as the Catalyst after eons of seeing a repeat of the same crap that led to the creation of the Catalyst in the first place?

Synthesis is the only option I've reasoned to be the one that REALLY solves the problem.
It's not easy, it's not pretty, and yet again I emphasize with all haste and exuberance that I am not trying to take away one's canon nor minimize it's value.

Simply that these are among my reasons for picking Synthesis.

It doesn't look good on any suface.

Yep

They can still get the knowledge. Its possible that the knowledge could be obtained from darkspace when Shepard heads there to make sure the reapers are no longer a threat even after they're destroyed. bsn.boards.net/post/1007439/thread

We barely saw the Reaper War at all. We saw certain actions as Shepard worked to gain allies, but we're talking about a war where starships are trying to commit genocide against trillions. There are countless stories to tell, on worlds we never got to see such as Dekuuna and Irune. A short sidequel could do wonders for telling a good story, and would allow our previous game decisions, including ME3's, to influence how the story plays out.

How do you come that conclusion? Renegade Shepard maybe... As a Paragon Shepard, Control in no way entails enslavement of the Milky Way, and neither does Neutral... See here;




FemShep Paragon starts 0:00
FemShep Renegade starts 3:48
FemShep Neutral starts 7:23
ManShep Paragon starts 11:13
ManShep Renegade starts 15:04
ManShep Neutral starts 18:39


So this is about revenge then, rather than what is best for the Galaxy? This issue is practically the same as Maelon's data, the Mordin mission in ME2. Do you destroy something because it was used as something evil or acquired in an evil way, or do you preserve it and change its use for good, from the perspective that the ones that suffered didn't do so for nothing? If all that technology can be used for repair of the galaxy for starters, why destroy it? If it can protect the galaxy from the Leviathans, why destroy it?

Really? Not the same at all from my perspective. I'm under the impression you don't understand the Control ending. It's not about controlling the galaxy. It's about getting control over the reapers. I can trust my Shepard with that. If you can't trust your Shepard with it, I don't know what kind of psychopath you played as lol. 

If we take the fishbowl analogy...
Destroy is killing the dentist hoping you can ultimately get out of the bowl
Control is having mind control over the dentist to help you get out of the bowl
Synthesis is... Fusing humans and fish together so you won't need a bowl. 

The number one problem I have with the green and blue is the reapers are still around. Destroying them prevents that.

The number one problem I have with destroy is that the Leviathans are still around and there's NOTHING left to defend against them.