Just amazing,seeing the reaction of a new generation of players going trough what we went years ago,this game is really special! Now i need to go see all of your ME playtrough because this was the first video i saw. Congrats.
Destruction is what Captain Anderson wanted. Control is what the Illusive Man desired. Refusal is what Leviathan did. The Synthesis is what the Catalyst planned.
Never really thought about this, but Refusal is indeed close to what the Leviathans did. Of course, at this point Shepard, or humanity, don’t really have the option to hide and wait out the invasion like the Leviathans…
What Saren had subjected himself to, willy-nilly, was not a synthesis, but a form of slavery by means of cybernetic implants. Instead, the Catalyst aimed at the birth of new life forms whose genetic code is also a computer code through which organics would achieve full awareness that their synthetic creations were beings with consciousness and not just sophisticated tools at their disposal.
@@Saber2793 Destroy is also the only one the catalyst does not support, he is way too okay with control and synthesis, not going believe the doomsday device when he says thats a good option
There are so many endings here. Different possibilities. If you ever return to this trilogy, you can have all squad members survive and unlock the last ending!! It requires a lot of War assets but more fulfilling!!
Not really, in reality if Shepard chose synthesis, and all minds were connected, then all those bad thoughts people had would be connected too, and it would cause a giant war, but no one ever thinks about that, everyone wants to believe everyone would join hands and sing, but that wouldn't happen. Also, I wish she had made her own decision instead of asking others what to do. Which most women streamers I have seen, have ultimately done.
@@justinm4497 I can understand that viewpoint. It’s just the syntheses ending they gave us was the ending that was canon for the synthesis. In that universe, everyone achieved an understanding at that story. It’s seems only synthetics and organics understood that both were a species in their own right, and shepherds DNA just made both sides complete. As for thoughts, I don’t think Shepard died. I believe he/she transcended since they added, not destroyed, themselves. I guess you can say a universal being. As for girl gamers, anyone can ask for help here and there. That’s someone’s individual preference, so it’s her choice. If she plays it again, she might make different decisions, who knows.
Yes there actually is a way to survive, but it requires over 7000 war assets. If you want it, do all the available quests. If you just cruise through the game as quickly as you can, don't expect a good ending.
I cried for three hours as well and randomly burst into tears during the following several days. The entire fanbase was emotionally destroyed. Thank you for letting us share your emotional journey. *hugs* Dragon Age: Origins has Alistair, who is almost as endearing as Garrus and definitely makes putting up with the wonky gameplay worthwhile. However, his story can be just as devastating. Bioware feeds on our tears.
4:58:15 is the scene that gets me the most, it makes me realise that even though one day all our stories will be over, our memories will wander through the cosmos until the end of time itself. Lovely playthrough Hannah :)
Watching you play through the Mass Effect trilogy has been one of my favorite recent parts of your stream. It’s been so long since I played them for the first time, so seeing a fresh perspective with your reactions was great, especially all the moments of excitement, sadness, and thirst.
I know I’m very late to the party here. I’ve played these games dozens of times over. Gotten every ending and outcome possible. Since ME:LE came out I’ve watched several people play it through fully. And you’ve been my favourite to watch. And it’s nothing to do with your choices or anything. It’s the rollercoaster of emotions you experienced. I loved the way you went from “meh” in ME1 to a tornado of emotions by the time we got to the end. I feel the same way every time I play. Every, time….
You went from not really caring and laughing at the game to full blown tears by the end. Lol. Wasn’t sure you’d crack but here we are. Haha aw. You lil marshmallow! 😛
The vanilla ending had major plot-holes. And it made it seem like everyone and everything died in Mass relay explosions. Leaving joker and the Normandy as the only survivors of the war stuck on a unknown planet.
Unless you want to end this storyline, period, full stop, you have to leave holes. I think, though it isn't looking like it, that starting at that unknown planet would be excellent for Mass Effect 4.
@@aauwhatitdo1582 well technically he is because he’s not even using the term plot holes correctly. It’s a pet peeve of writers use it incorrectly, not that it’s a big deal 99% of the population does so I understand what he’s getting at but no I don’t think they left a bunch of plot holes, they left some stuff for you to discover playing back through the game and I personally believe it’s they always intended for there to be a Mass Effect 4 to dive into those questions. Questions ARE NOT plot holes and as a writer they did a pretty good job answering a lot of those questions with repeated play throughs, especially in the Legendary Edition. Also, a LOT of those questions have already been answered in the teaser. It’s perfectly normal to leave things unanswered but that’s not a plot hole, a plot hole would be a hole in the plot that takes you right out of the game or movie, it’s like if Shepherd was on Mordins ME2 loyalty mission and all of a sudden your in Liar of the Shadowbroker with no answer of how you got there. That’s a plot hole.
@@blitzphantom9488 Well the jump from sitting next to Anderson and TIM's corpses to talking to a hologram child is a rather abrupt change especially if you didn't play Levithan.
I personally don't choose the control ending but I like it. I found it very interesting and fascinating. I empathize with your emotions during the ending. I myself was crying my eyes out 8 years ago when I myself finish it. Other people had to check out on me because I was so bing so hard. Beautiful game
Enjoyed ur ME Playthrough Journey and tears esp at the end, its been an emotional ride indeed :) Liara will always be my Love.. she has a beautiful piano scene at the apartment if you are her romantic interest
That was the first time I saw someone chose the control ending for another reason than trying out all possible andings. Obviously your war assets were so low that destroy was a very poor option and synthesis didn't even show up. It is woth noting that every option for the ending is far better when you do get more assets. Maybe on your next playthrough. Because there is always something new to discover. And because it will always be an emotional rollercoaster, even on your fifth playthrough...
Totally agree. Not interested in the story, just going through the motions and worst of all fills 1/4 of the screen with her Face cam..all about Her. The game is just a vehicle for Her self promo. sad really.
I've played through the whole trilogy ~10 times and have watched other streamers play as well and thought I'd seen everything, but somehow you managed to stumble unto some lines of dialog I've never seen before.
Mass Effect is my favorite video game series. The entire series they touted was all about your choices and how they will impact the game. All the way through the three games you have choices that affect your gameplay only to have the ending just use different color animation to highlight the difference between destruction and control along with a few cut scenes. They later added the synthesis option and more description about the differences between the choices. I am fairly certain the devs said the default end was destruction and the other two were to give the illusion of choice. I hope whatever they end up doing with ME4 going forward they put more thought into the end result of the player's choices and don't have another cop-out like the end of ME3.
I've only seen a few of these videos I didn't know that she was doing this series. It is nice please people enjoy this. It's been a really nice watching different playthroughs. And everyone's choices the characters they get attached to. I remember March 6th 2012, prior to that waiting for 3 to drop. How anxious I was. Because I knew that in some form or another this was the end and I would miss these characters. I remember seeing a review for Mass Effect 2 and the reviewer saying seeing old characters from Mass Effect 1 was like catching up with old friends you hadn't seen in years. And it's the truth.
I never chose anything other than destroy the reapers because that's what we've been trying to do for 3 whole games, didn't make sense to me to do anything else, and to believe in that demonic child, who's to say he was not lying? but everyone has a different view of that, and I'm just glad to see more people playing mass effect 😊
@@anonymous-bb2dw why not? people should always be able to change their minds when new information becomes available. we wanted to kill the reapers bc we thought that was the only option, at the end we learn there are other options. nothing wrong with picking them, all of the endings are valid and have pros and cons to them.
@@sparkleclover hm maybe because you shouldn't trust the very thing that wants to destroy you / and has destroyed all lives for centuries? and maybe because the reapers shouldn't be controlled or maybe because we have no authority to change life as it is and mix organics and synthetics? just maybe
@@anonymous-bb2dw he doesn't want to destroy you, you're ascribing human bitterness and malice to an AI/machine who is incapable of such intentions or emotions. he was designed with a purpose in mind, that purpose isn't to destroy you and all people, it's to end the conflict between organics and synthetics. that is his only goal, and all of the endings achieves that goal in some manner. why shouldn't they be controlled? and why do you think that we don't have the authority to change life but we have the authority to genocide all the geth (who the game goes out of their way with legion to show they are people in their own right) and all other synthetic lifeforms? the authority to destroy the technology that BILLIONS of people in the galaxy currently rely on? destroying all the mass relays? you're perfectly comfortable making that huge, life changing decision, right? i get that you like destroy best and that's fine, but the game writers intentionally designed the ending so that there was no "correct" option. they all have pros and cons, and what you consider "best" is going to totally depend on personal bias and perspective.
@@louiseyhannahVODs No, you only watch the destruction ending. There are three endings, or four if you want to count refusal to choose. Control, Destruction, Synthesis, and refusal.
The more years go by, the better I like all the endings. I hated it when it first got out (before the DLC), but there is a lot of thought gone into it. There are no easy answers.
Loved this! Thank god I'm not the only one to find myself developing emotional connections to fictitious characters in a game :) That said, Jennifer Hale was such a perfect pick to voice Shepard, really adds a lot to the overall experience (at least I thought so)
You are not the only one. Her voice acting was sublime, so emotional when it needed to be. That woman can break a man's heart with her voice alone. Her work in Thane's romance arc is devastating.
Just found your channel. Subbed. Now I am going back to watch the whole lot. This series hits me hard every time, and that is after 1500 hours and 12 playthroughs. Also impressed that you stuck with some less than perfect outcomes. Makes it better in my opinion. Not all tears are evil. No Shepard without Vakarian. The replay of the bar scene was a nice touch. The Shakarian Tango was a special event in this series.
No other game evokes a back of emotion in people. I love watching such reactions because it reminds me of my first moments with the trilogy. I understand perfectly well what you were going through. :)
@@KittyBoom360 ya but we defeated the reapers, they didn't. They never even fought a reaper and still lost. Humans and the rest of galaxy fought all the reapers and won. The Leviathans are less of a threat than the Reapers. We don't even know how many of them there are. The 3 we see in the DLC might be it, we don't know. They have to live in water, bro, that's a pretty big weakness. The Krell of MEA seems like a much greater threat than the Leviathans. The Leviathan didn't even try to regain power when the reapers completely left the galaxy for 50,000 years.
@@KittyBoom360 That doesn't make any sense. What happens in the destroy ending then? You are only really talking about the synthesis ending, which per the ME4 trailer, is clearly not the ending they went with. Liara didn't have green eyes nor any bars on her skin like everyone does in the green ending. Also, the whole point of the green ending was to end the conflict so unless ME4 ends up being Farmville in paradise the game is going to have conflict. The Leviathans can simply be wiped out with a planetary bombardment, or putting too much chlorine in the water. They aren't a threat and they won't be the antagonist in ME4. Guaranteed.
@@KittyBoom360 "Why else would the AI tell Shep what the options were" It's exposition for the the player, so you know what's going on. LOL. If the starchild doesn't explain it to you then you just 3 options (assuming you have enough war assets) without any context of what they do. "It also said its own method would not work and Shep was proof that something else was required. " This statement only applies to the green ending. It doesn't apply to blue or red. How does the red ending play into the reapers plans? It doesn't, they are dead. LOL. That makes no sense. If you don't have enough war assets and can't do the green ending the Starchild does not make the statement you are referencing. The dialogue is different. A) You don't know how many Leviathans there are. B) They WERE the apex predators just like the dinosaurs were apex predators. Doesn't mean they would be now. They lost to the AI that humans beat so their power is very much in question.
@@KittyBoom360 LOL. You claimed the reason the AI told Sheperd the plan was to: "the AI could had left Shep in the dark or on the lower level and just wait for the Reapers to wipe out the forces and then had them destroy the Crucible. But that would mean just more repeated cycles without a solution possibly ever. " There was no narrative reason for why the AI told Sheperd the plan. The reason was purely for exposition, a way of telling the gamer what their options were, without breaking the fourth wall. It was a way of relaying information. You don't have any idea what exposition is. It's obvious. You are wrong on the endings. The green ending is unlocked once you are at 5600 war assets and does not change when you reach 8000 war assets. The only ending that changes when you reach 8000 war assets is the red ending and it is the only ending where Sheperd lives. It's the best ending and is the only one that requires 8000 or more assets. So again, you are wrong. The AI is the collective intelligence of the Reapers. Seriously, listen to the dialogue in the game. A dude in a tank would kill a dinosaur. Your arguments are descending into madness. You have been watching way too much Jurassic Park.
Love this playthrough. Talking about what the catalyst said about preserving organic life... I think this falls into the 'artificial life doesn't understand organic life... on a fundamental level'. Imagine if you tried to figure out how people work, and all you had to compare them to was computers and servers. Then, our bodies are our platforms, our hardware. Our minds, our 'selves'? For them that would be their programming and their memory storage? Then that's our DNA. That is our 'programming', to an AI. So, the Catalyst viewed us like the Geth (before their upgrade if you did that) without a common server. All he was doing is taking our 'programming', and 'uploading it' to a new platform, like taking your computer's data and porting it to a new, better computer. And hey, it's a CLOUD mega-server, it can hold all the computers' data. And no squishiness, no planned obsolescence. Who'd object to that? Right? Geth are really on their server (so only destroying their server really kills the Geth), their bodies are just devices they are streaming to. Like, if you take EDI on that last run, there's an option (if she's the one with the highest approval/relationship) for HER to be the injured one. Shepard runs her back to the transport to be taken to 'safety'. She tries to tell Shepard that the body is just a platform. She's REALLY in the ship, streaming to the body. But humans anthropomorphize EVERYTHING, so Shepard still does it anyway. That, but in reverse, and with less actual knowledge. If Shepard wasn't emotionally vested, in Joker's reaction if nothing else, she KNOWS what Edi says is true. But the Catalyst has no clue. They really think they are 'preserving' organic life, instead of killing a bunch of people, turning them into a genetic slurry that is spliced onto a cybernetic body to become a whole new being that has only certain traits and characteristics in common with its 'genetic source material'. The way Harvester was the only Reaper who could do a version of THEIR originators, the Leviathan's 'possession' trick, it was part of their genetic code, but only a 'version' of it. And it isn't like the reapers could tell the Catalyst it isn't true, they don't KNOW. They start out as 'newborns' and as far as they know, they are what the other reapers and the catalyst says they are. Like the Leviathans said, they were programmed to 'preserve organic life' and when asked when they broke away from their programming, Shepard is told 'they're still following it'. They just have no way to understand what really IS the core of organic life, and it can't be ported to a new platform. And you're right. The whole idea is stupid, and it's based entirely on a complete ignorance of the nature of organic life. The real irony is the Leviathans KNEW that they saw species after species destroyed by their own creations. Then created an AI to figure out why, who then turns on their creator and destroys them.
Idk if i shoud feel ashamed but i acted the same when i first played it 4 or 5 years ago, i was 17 at the time and also a boy. I finished the citadel dlc in LE like 20 minutes ago for the 5th time i think, part of my soul dies every time i see Tali say “We had a good ride” … even after all the years and all these playtroughs i still got teared up
Craaaap, I'm really glad to find someone else who chose Control It's honestly the best choice of ending IMO, although others may have different opinions, but it's glad to see a streamer pick it too I enjoyed this whole playthrough watching your choices, thanks a lot for the journey with your Shep!
Yes, I was also pleasently surprised to see a lets play with the control ending. It's such a unique ending. I understand why many players refuse it and prefer the destroy-ending or synthesis. But for me control is simply more interesting than the canon (yet boring) destroy ending or the freaky synthesis.
@@joshg5657 Synthesis is popular cuz the cutscene in the end in happly ever after. But it just feels wrong to me with all that green stuff lol Destroy just throws your peace with synthetics in the trash by killing off the geth and Edi Control has that feeling that shepard may lose control in the future, but at least nobody dies and you still have the reaper tech to help people rebuild... People are afraid of it cuz they dont want to agree with the illusive man, even tho its basically the best option if you dont want to sacrifice geth peace and mutating a whole galaxy out of nowhere.
Everyone gives the ending shit, I honestly don’t think it’s that bad.. Not that it’s really that deep but the AI is just using it’s own logic, fulfilling its mission.
Star brat is just playing you. Harby, i mean star brat uses the “life without your cell phone” and “only you can because you’re special” tricks to bribe you out of destroy
Pretty much shows why adding a new character and plot in the last 10 min of the game was not a good idea, even when it break “How to write a ending 101”.
Just saw this now, when it came to that DECISION I have my case why or why not... thing of it is just pure expression... wish I lay two hands on your shoulders (viewing about about a dozen endings thus far on RU-vid), just because your true emotions. It was not my ending, it is the popular one, but as guy mid-aged saw this video and saw your emotion, you made weep. That is hard to do for me just watching fan videos in general. Empathetically, I lnow about year or so, I am with you there with that decision. Hope you are doing okay in reality :)
@@РоманРовнинин Not quite. While it is true that Shepards body only survives in the high EMS, it was (at least unofficially) confirmed a decade ago (through the leaked developer chat) that Shepards consciousness survives the control-ending. Synthesis `= full self sacrifice. Shepard sacrifices his/her essence body and mind to transform everyone. Control= partial self sacrifice. Destruction of organic body but mind sustained and transferred to new platform in order to take control of the Reapers from the catalyst. Destroy= Attempted external sacrifice/revenge (even though the Reapers are actually only tools of the catalyst). Shepard attempts and succeeds in destroying the Reapers and the catalyst. They forgot to make the explosion smaller if the EMS is high enough for Shepard to somehow survive.
@@Thedeepseanomad can you share a link on that info? I've read different versions about it, includes the indoctrination (wich I think most likely version in general)
@@РоманРовнинин sadly I do no longer have it. I had it as a txt file that I got from another user over at the bioware board. This was back in late 2012. It covered a wide range of topics, from the nature of consciousness in the ME universe, the history of the Reapers/catalyst, how the crucible works, how Shepard could be brought back from the dead etc But I do hold the information as sound as there also were a few spoilers in it regarding the upcoming citadel dlc, among other things. All the verifiable info turned out to be true.
@@Thedeepseanomad the next mass effect trailer seems to suggest that the destroy ending is canon as you see some dead reapers but if Shepard survived remains to be seen
I’m glad you picked Control ending, it’s by far the best ending. Yes your ultimate objective was to destroy the Reapers but after talking with the Catalyst that objective changes when you find out it’s only really a short term solution and what came before will repeat itself. Control puts a stop to all the senseless death, including the Reapers and you can start to all live peacefully amongst each other. Mass Effect 4 will more than likely not go with the Control ending which is kinda sad for me because it really is my favourite choice but I’m defo gonna play the next one regardless of what ending they make the cannon ending.
Great Playthrough - Not trying to be a completionist and that's what makes it different from a lot of others I've watched. Lots of choices to see if you ever play through it again. It's a great series of games, the journey, the characters developing over all three games.
This is the first vid I’ve seen of her Mass Effect playthrough but I can’t watch the rest of it knowing that Tali dies😭 (coming from a Tali romancer) I’m sure the rest of the playthroughs are nice tho
I really enjoyed your video! As someone else here said, it's really fun to see the reaction of new players to a game we played 10 years ago! Loved your reactions to it! What was the difficulty of your gameplay? And just for the record: Garrus is my favourite too :)
Here is a little interesting fact for the heart section of the Cerberus base, if you sold legion in ME2, and/or don’t do Grissom’s academy you fight an evil legion and jack there.
Oh damn. What a playthrough... This was a damn interesting ride, if the train was derailed, rolled over, blew up and landed on another rail to continue with anyone who survived lol Love the branching this game has and i love to watch which path people are going to get. This was really entertaining, kinda painful tho. Cant wait for the next game to come, and what new paths we gonna get.
Shame you didn't pick destroy, it's the only ending where Shepard survives (if you got enough war assets). Gotta remember you're literally talking to the reapers there and they do not want you to destroy them. You'll notice that the two main villains of the series represent the other endings. TIM is control, Saren is synthesis. They are meant to show us that destroy is the only option. Notice how the catalyst talks about destroy vs the other two, it makes it clear that it doesn't want you to choose destroy, because that's the only option where the reapers can take back control. Saren and TIM were both indoctrinated, their ideas of synthesis and control were twisted to the reaper's benefit. And the same will happen to Shepard.
The 'if' applies big time here. She didn't have enough assets for 'good' destroy ending so it's not a shame. The destroy ending would've been brutal in this playthrough, with none of the crew confirmed surviving.
@@maviebaby for me, I hated the idea of making a choice for other people without thier knowledge. Synthesis just seemed wrong to me. Felt like giving in to what the machines truly wanted.
I haven't seen these exact responses from the Catalyst before. I have been hit and miss on these videos, what was the final war asset level on this playthrough?
Choose the destroy ending and Shepard survives a lot bunged up but she survives. And you have to remember the "child" you're speaking to is your enemy you can't believe him. I think It would have been great if that conversation and the 3 choices ended up being only the product of her mind because the Reapers were trying to control her and save themselves and she got aware of that and woke up in front of the consolle and pushed the botton to destroy them It would have been also a lesson for people to understand that sometimes you have no choice in life. Another thing I would have liked they did differently was the Normandy leaving those people went through the Omega 4 relay without even knowing if they could survive to save people they didn't know and now they leave the person they love respect and admire more than anybody else because they don't know what effect the crucible firing would have on their ship? And again it would have been a good lesson to show people that even great heroes sometimes need to be saved.
Shepard doesn't survive in destroy ending if you don't have enough war assets like in this playthrough. If you have low assets, the destroy is very brutal. Basically, everyone is presumed dead with only a few survivors.
Not really, the endings are ok, but they're all kind of neutral bad, just little variations of one another. There is no good ending, there is no bad ending (Only if you rush the game and dont have enough points) Kinda sucks that the game doesnt show you much of what happens after the ending, like how your friends are doing and things like that.
