hi people, the extended cut dlc came out a few days ago, i didn't personally had a chance to experience it however i watched helluva vids since it came up.
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i liked how they gave you a chance to experience a few more moments with your LI and that touchy scene where they put your name up and stuff, i have some(!) conclusions however;
Destroy
it was always known for the most renegade ending, not because of it's color, because of its outcome which the dlc didn't very much change. thousand of species will starve to death while few salarians try to figure how to bend space magic to build mass relays. and lets keep in mind that mass relays work both ways, they dont just throw you to some direction billions light years away casually, they throw you to other working relays direction. so lets say they somehow figured how to fix the sole relay, the other relays won't magically fix themselves. how will krogans get home, i can't imagine krogans fixing tuchanka relay. in the best scenario salarians and quarian will be the only species that will ever see home.
Control
it currently seems to me like the most logical option but it a little bothers me how it appears to be alittle too much organic dominant. i always figured synthetics can develop, lets say, emotions. (i am materialist so the concept of emotion, or soul existing separate from the body is not my thing) you are using a species which infinity times wiser and older than you as slaves. i, from the very beginning of the series, always thought it is possible to reason with them if given the chance. it is understandable why they harvest organics because thats how they breed. which is the most organic instinct, the main reason of an organic life span. think, if they feel need to breed, to reproduce, they must also crave for life, which can also mean that they are at some point, mortal. not their knowledge but their bodies. so what will happen when the last reaper dies out, perhaps millennias later, will software shepard harvest a few species to keep his/her mega army, i think not, all their powers and knowledge will vanish with them.
Synthesis
doesnt makes any sense. the game already agreed that synthetics can have, what we call, emotions. i dont think it is too hard for an organic to access to the data in a synthetic either. process of evolution already forces an enhanced technology to the features of an organic. and an organic mind is capable of understanding, not computing, infinitive knowledge. i dont understand the reason of having glowing green eyes in this concept. if it is the "peace" option, if peace is possible, if organics are willing to forgive reapers for what they have done; i would rather a simpler peace where synthetics and organics simply live in harmony. where organics discover how to produce reapers without the necessary need of usage of organic life or something like that.
Refusal
let someoneelse deal with this, i'm too old for this shit! option.
Soooo... tell me what you also think!
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