Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC - Synthesis Ending FULL - HD 

yeeeeeeah :) and forgiveness, he is now the heart inside the once heartless matrix

Glad you agree. Almost everyone else hates the synthesis idea.

Law vs chaos, life or death, organic or synthetic... in the end it's the bridge between the 2 that is the peacemaker :) like a phoenix, knower of both life and death - like shep, he's been there and back. Personally I love that ending but it's the way of the world to want to pick 1 of 2 sides haha.

My favourite ending

IMHO: The Synthesis ending is for those players who have a strong desire to forever be a part of the Mass Effect world itself. The game, played as trilogy can easily overwhelm you. By synthesis ending, 'your' essence of who your Shepard is, joins with all of the game's virtual existence! EDI saying that 'because of you she is alive and not alone' is actually your Normandy ship saying that it is happy that you chose to be with it forever, in this way! Thus, it is a fourth wall breaking meta-ending because you, as a human being are yourself finally joined to synthetic life, which is the game itself! So seen in this way, it is like the final closure to this trilogy and a great tribute!

agreed, i don't know why they got a bad rap for a bad ending,. i thought it was awesome. One of the best games I've played.

Well, besides the usual Problems like running counter to the point of the Series (Th Godchild says it's impossible for Synthetics and Life to co-exist yet you can save both Geth and Quarians, both making peace, and Legion is 100 % Loyal to Shepard) or the sudden introduction of a new important Character shortly before the ending (which is an absolute no-go. Go ask any writer). What my Main Problem though is, is that I HATE being lied to. I don't know about you, but I just can't accept and overlook people lying to me. And Casey Hudson did just that. He specifically said that there WON'T be an Ending A, B or C. Just google it, you'll see the interview where he promised that. And what have we got? Ending Red, Green or Blue. He also said that there will be a countless different ending depending on the choices you made. But again, we only got 3 specific Endings. Yes, there were some sliders added later on for different choices, but still far from what was promised. So yeah, I hate the endings not just for the Endings themselves, but also because of what could been and what we were promised.

Comintern1919, David Moratto , TheDishonoredWolf the endings themselves are actually pretty ok. maybe even kinda good. but not for this story. too many logical problems. and i don't even care that much about those false promises because hey, maybe they really thought about making like hundred different endings, all depending on your choice, and then just figured that it would be way too much work since casual players would only play once or twice though such a massive game and with this high diversity between endings there would probably not many people to even watch all the other endings on youtube. with every ending that you add the chance that anyone will ever see it lowers. 3 endings is pretty casual. 10 endings is much, but easy to find out or watch all on youtube. 25 endings is really a lot. once you reach 50 different endings you are at a point where you invested about the same - probably even more more - work into the endings as into the rest of the game with a very low chance of anyone even seeing all of them. choice-influence-diversity throughout a game is squared neccessary work time. the only problem i do have is that it basically does not matter at all what you chose throughout the game. it's like, "hey, let's be super awesome and make even some choices from the first game count in the third game" and then suddenly "oh, btw, you can decide the ending completely independently from previous choices, what you did before won't matter at all." this is especially bad in mass effect where everything is so much based on your choices influencing future events. and yes, i know that ending is also based on military-worth-point-thingstuff but it's not really connected to it. don't know a better way to say it, i hope you understand what i mean.

Luzilyo Stormchild Claiming that they're bad for Mass Effect is just...stupid. Who are you to decide how the ending should be? Bioware decided that they wanted the ending to go a certain way, and that's how it happened. Was the extended cut ending WAY better? Yes, absolutely; I nearly cried watching the Synthesis Extended after my journey through all three games several times. But that doesn't mean that they are bad. What else was Shepard going to do after that? Just shut down the Reapers and go home? Become an old-ass general? He died heroically and became a legend.

the fact is not that they are sad, played some other games with really good sad endings (example: starpoint gemini. spoiler alert: everyone who fought alongside you dies to make it possible for you to do the last neccessary step in defeating the enemy. really strong ending, even kept me from doing my intended replay, but great none the less). the difference is that those endings actually didn't have major flaws in logic like harbinger completely ignoring the fact that geth and quarians do have peace even though geth have already become sentient which has appearently never happened before, since it is stated that organics create synthetics to reach perfection which is only possible through synthetics becoming sentient which ultimately leads to a war similar to those the quarians have fought and all life has to be harvested before it is completely destroyed in that war. that would however ignore the fact that the people in the galaxy have already learned that synthetic beings are also alive and can be peaceful though the quarians and geth coming to peace. and synthetics likewise learned that not all organics are a threat to them. it would make synthesis obsolete. also legion states at one point that the upgrades which the reapers gave them would have been reached anyways at some point of time, just later. however, even though they have the reaper technology they are still not hostile and willing to fight alongside shepard to save the galaxy from the reapers. this indicates that even though the reapers are hostile, the geth and organic, advancing the same way in technology, might still come to a different conclusion, based on how they peacefully live together instead of trying to kill each other. second, actually a fact that someone else has pointed out, maybe under a different video, there were hints that the story was actually supposed to take a completely different turn, where that strange phenomenon that is mentioned at haestrom actually plays a big role and has something to do with the reapers (which would make sense. i mean, srsly, tali gets sent out to a mission deep in geth territory, finds some very strange phenomenon that would probably not have occured naturally but it just means nothing and is completely obsolete? doesn't really make sense to me). this was appearently due to the fact that the guy who wrote the story for me1 and 2 got assigned to a different game and ea chose another writer to do the story for me3. third is a small one, it's just that in storywriting it's a no-go to introduce an important character just a few minutes before it all ends, since it's impossible to evolve the character appropriately in such a short time. and last something rather personal, it was stated (or at least the person that i mentioned before said so, didn't have time to verify his info) that the me-series would not end with just having ending a, b, c and instead have a range of possible endings based on your decisions. this would make sense since what ultimately makes this game so special is that many of your decisions influence either the current game or the next part and a few decisions from me1 even influence me3. and then it's suddenly all like "lol, fuck you and your decisions, here, have 3 endings based on military-value-point-thingstuff, you can choose any of them and it does not really matter at all what you did before, you might as well have been playing a completely linear storyline instead." ps: of course it's always pretty strong to let someone die a hero, but not neccessary. it doesn't affect the quality of the ending wether the character survives or dies, which is why i haven't included this into my list, but there are some possibilities. as you have said, shepard could live as an honored general and war-hero and help with rebuilding military forces and become old and die of a heart-attack or whatever (like it would probably happen in reality) or he could just be like "allright, enough of the fighting, i had my fair share and now it's time to rest my famous ass on a quiet planet in a small house with whoever i romanced most throughout the games." or he could, as he did, and die as hero, or he could try something different since war-stuff is not really neccessary anymore so he might try to put his abilities to good use elsewhere to help people, or something completely different that none of us has thought of yet. however, as i said, that wouldn't really affect the ending as it would not even have to be mentioned. might as well just be a scene of shepard and his crew celebrating victory, or a scene where he and the one he romanced most holding hands and being happy that it's now over or whatever. again, doesn't really affect the quality of the ending (unless someone horribly screws it up, but you gotta try hard to screw up something like that).

The organics have been improved by tech, so their bodies are nearly perfect(inmune to many illness, genetical errors corrected)so they can focus on improve as a society, and the synthetics(incluiding the reapers) mind has been improved to fully undertand organics(emotions, feelings) so they can coexist. As in any society there will be conflicts but now that they can understand each other and with the knowledge of every civilization that came before the galaxy have a future full of hope. P.D:sorry for my english.

In short: Humans are as perfect as a machine yet they maintain their own individual personality. Synthetic beings now truly get what organic beings feel and have ways to better themselves. With that, both sides coexist together and share technology from thousands of years ago and improve on it.

It's always good :')

I still watch it too. It never gets old.

That would be cool

She won't. I'd be surprised if any of them appear at all. Shepard probably will by name, but no appearance

Even after years roll on, this is still the best.

my love was tali. the only correct choice

That was a great, quick burn indeed!!! Hello from 8 years in the future!!

Id wager that due to the experiments conducted on them, they are more machine than organic.....meaning their memories and such are irrelevant.....they are probably closer to geth post synthesis than organics...if anything

Xigmus If there's one thing anyone quickly picks up from playing Mass Effect, it's that every choice has consequences. I fully understand what you're getting at, but the implications of the other endings aren't better. If you reject the three choices, EVERYONE dies and another collection of races afterwards has to suffer horribly for a CHANCE to defeat the Reapers. If you destroy synthetics, that means the Geth and EDI die. An entire race, gone. And for what? So that the problem the Reapers tried to "fix" can kick back up again in full force later on? If you choose to control the Reapers, you're putting the care of all life in the hands of one person. Even if that person is someone as capable as Shepard, or more so, he'll make mistakes like the Catalyst did before him. In some versions of that ending, he turns into an artificial overlord. Best case scenario is he has to help rebuild the galaxy with everyone terrified of him and then spend an eternity cut off from everything he cares about as it slowly ages and fades away/dies and is replaced by something new, all the while wondering who and what he is now. What's to say he won't wind up resuming the cycle later? A lot can change in just a few years, including someone's personal beliefs. In that sense, the Indoctrination Theory holds some water. Shepard himself said it nicely enough: You start thinking like the Reapers after a while, even if they don't actually indoctrinate you. Plus it doesn't actually solve the problem of synthetics vs. organics, it just delays the onset of conflict for maybe a few centuries or millennia. Eventually, the organics will reach technological parity with the Reapers but continue to produce synthetics at the same level. And then the chaos resumes. Frankly, next to those possibilities, a few possibly-immortal traumatized circus freaks who can probably be surgically/mechanically repaired or at least cosmetically altered to APPEAR normal and have a chance to psychologically heal, and maybe even find peace and happiness seems relatively light. People are resilient, they eventually bounce back from the worst things imaginable, as long as they don't die in the meantime. On the flip side to that, the knowledge of every living thing from the days of the Leviathan race is now available to use to propel all life forward, and there is no longer a need for conflict between organics and synthetics. I'm sure there will still be wars and conflicts over other things, but that particular highly destructive cycle will be put six feet under so it will never threaten the galaxy again. There's a reason Synthesis is touted as the "ideal solution." It sucks the least. That's really the point of most Mass Effect choices. You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, if you try, you get what you need.

+UnitDCCXXXI I'm not sure if it's a long shot to just assume that the husks and others all just went kapput, the people inside were effectively dead already to my understanding

Jordan Clark Then it's just one less thing to feel crappy about if you pick Synthesis.

+UnitDCCXXXI Well said! Couldn't have said it better myself.