Mass Effect 3 - Perfect Ending - Shepard lives (HR Textures)

"Still totally worth it!"
This is the perfect ending to Mass Effect. It's the ending where Shepard completes his mission to defeat the Reapers. Where he survives and where most of the things like the Citadel, is still intact. More importantly, though.
Tali is love.
Tali is life.
Once you go Tali you don't go back. Why? Because you'd feel cucked by best bro Garrus if you were to pick another LI. Tali is the perfect choice.
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[@guardiansparky1766]

Any ending with A Tali romance is a perfect ending

[@tomu2981]

Expect if you just saw him die by reaper's laser while running to the beam. Saddest thing ever. Just finished the game

[@TR1GR4MPR0DUCT10N5]

*"I have a home"* 😓😓

[@DoneDragon1]

Wrong, garrus is the true objective

[@dasbidrohi]

😍😍😍Tali Zorah vas Normandy

[@gfyGoogle]

Make Shep x Kaiden is the best tho

[@jacksonleinberger4782]

Somebody give me a game where I can build Tali and I a house on the goddamn home world

[@MelMelMel]

Minecraft with a Shepard skin + buddy to wear a Tali skin.

[@PostalPony]

The Sims xd

[@JW2102]

It's called Garry's mod

[@Bruh-zu9dm]

With house building theme

[@BigGWhizzin]

There is a collection of very well-put-together stories that start from immediately after ME3 all the way to Shepard & Tali's adopted quartan daughter becoming the 1st quartan spectre. The main one is called "Wings of Fire". They were exactly what I envisioned for the post-ME3 story I wanted!

[@n00bishregashi70]

Bioware : *teases shepherd being alive M.E. Fans : *Speculates M.E. 4* Bioware : Lmao nah heres M.E.A.

[@joshcotton4452]

Should do prequel to me4 and include shepherd

[@Razaiel]

@@joshcotton4452 Nope, they burned their fan base with ME:A & Anthem.

[@MazaAzi]

more like Bioware : right guys lets get ready to finally to KOTAR tw- EA: NO! *slaps Bioware* EA: you do another mass effect Bioware: but we don't have anything new or original to add to the mass effect Universe it would be better if we gave our writers time to rest and do something diff- *slaps Bioware* EA: no! shitty ending made people want more mass effect which mean more mass effect make more money so make 4 NOW! Bioware; but it's too sone and we just en- *slaps Bioware* EA:me no care just make game me no care how Bioware: bu- *slaps Bioware* EA: now you have less time! *slaps Bioware and leaves* Bioware: well shit......

[@A90sChick]

n00bish Regashi for real, I was so pissed off

[@nearthiccfeller20]

They should do a prequel where you play in the first contact war

[@RachelBartlemus125185995]

Seriously, it's almost 2020 and I can't let this game go.

[@Silverboy9091]

Yes your are corect I found mass effect 1,2,3 the mos't beautifull game great story I play it many times over I love the game.

[@jerzypoprawa7107]

Welcome in the family!

[@kcmccray5686]

Still playing I have yet to find another game to get my mind off it

[@Legion6799]

So what, these games are the best, just because of time are we to dislike a set of games plus no other games have a tali romance

[@SuperMT3]

Started my 4th playthrough last week and now early on ME2. This game means so much to me and I also can't let it go. I'm 55 with arthritis and I'll keep playing it until I can't hold my controller any longer.

[@sheigsta]

Child: "The crucible does not discriminate""Even you are partly synthetic" "Ending" Shepard: "breathes"

[@bulldog2000]

Kinda does make me really see it as the best ending cause shows some of them can survive weither they have tech in them or not. Since shep is alive as well it's less likely for the mistakes to be made the catalyst talked about cause shepherd is watching.

[@maxwelllutomski7855]

Because he's only *part* synthetic, it's possible that he survived, but can barely move since his synthetic parts stopped working

[@CMCAdvanced]

It makes the least sense and it's the only ending where Shepard survives. I think they should have made more endings if they were intent on making this happen.

[@MatiZ815]

Makes sense actually. You can only get this if you have high enough resources. And the higher your resources, the better the Crucible is and its targetting system. Considering that Shepard is only part synthetic, it is possible for him to survive if the Crucible's aim is at its best.

[@turtleborg]

I think the best choice is control because if you destroy It kills the geth which sets the quarians back decade of being able to live without their suit also jokers robo bae dies

[@Kronosfobi]

In ME 1: Shepard stops reaper invasion by killing most strongest spectre ever. In ME2: He dies AND comes back. He stops the invasion again and proves he is not gonna die that easy. IN ME3: He stops reapers once and for all and galaxy thinks he is dead. BUT He comes back. This dude is immortal. You cant kill him. Get over it.

[@daneilfranklin]

i think the devil is just too afraid he'll take over.

[@TheKhopesh]

Guy in charge of the Earth military payroll: - "Yeah, so... He dies, comes back, dies again. Comes back... I'm f***ing done! That's it. I'm tired of listing him KIA, putting all the paperwork together, and then being told to put him back on active duty. For f***'s sake, I saw the medical examiner's report with my own eyes, the guy was killed from RE-ENTRY into planetary atmosphere in nothing but a pressurized suit once! Do you have ANY idea how long it takes and how much work is involved each time we've got to bring a soldier back from the dead on paper? Ya know what, NO. From now on, I'm just telling my people to list him as being on the job 24/7. It's less hassle, less paperwork, and probably the most accurate assessment humanity can manage anyway. From here on out, we just file Cmd. Shepard as being on duty and let the bean counters pay him the over time!"

[@kattharsismic]

TheKhopesh True story

[@beatdeath9962]

Furkan Efe Türeç true true but either way we won't see Shepard again

[@Captain_FAIL]

Bioware actually set him in grave,for most people with whole game series.

[@brodiecooper4986]

I really wish they added a cutscene for each romance. Really wanted to see that house.

[@Baba-yv6ml]

To be honest, I feel like they already added so damn much, even minor miscellaneous conversations with some of the crew mention your romance. It's almost jarring, seeing as how romance in other games (including other BioWare games) is basically always way more of a peripheral thing...the incredible reactivity in Mass Effect extends _even_ to the romance and it's unlike any other series I've played. And that reactivity was upped so much in Mass Effect 3, which is one big reason contributing to why it's my favourite.

[@mikewazowski7477]

@@Baba-yv6ml Fax

[@MelMelMel]

"I'm Commander Shepard, and you guys are my favorite viewers on The Citadel."

[@lostson7122]

Mass effect legendary edition brought me back here.

[@MelMelMel]

@@lostson7122 And we're sure as hell happy that it did. Makes me smile every time I see a comment, Mass Effect ain't dead!

[@Georelic35]

I still don't consider an ending where Legion's Sacrifice is meaningless and EDI f*cking dies a "Perfect" ending... But it's close, really close.

[@maxtonasher7080]

@Jackson Draven Instablaster :)

[@shavonahiggs4445]

So the real question when are we getting me 4 cuz the remaster legendary edition is awesome

[@R4Y2k]

The moment when you finish the game and you're not going "Yeah, I did it" but "I'm sorry folks!".... took me two whole weeks to get over the depression Mass Effect gave me :D

[@anupew3276]

ME 3 was one of greatest RPG games... Watching important people die after so long time spend in games before creating some sort of attachment to theese characters and then at the end die as well after choosing between bad and even worse options (even if shepard survives, he is burried under rubble, critically wounded on space station with compromised integrity and, as he destroyed technology, no life support. So yeah, dead, just a bit slower).

[@ackka]

Yeah same with me, that game ending put me into a depression for weeks on end, I still can't replay any of the mass effects because of that ending.

[@TheJupiteL]

Me too. Why on earth did they put a cliffhanger ending after I spent 100 hours into the trilogy?! This is so depressing.

[@ARCEUS493ZELDA]

the vanilla ending was so trash imo that i tried out MEHEM........ very good mod imo and it only effects the end sequence where they actually send a search party for shep and shep even joins the team at the memorial wall on the normandy and instead of the LI putting shep's name on the wall shep themselves puts anderson's name up

[@jujubindweed4982]

I feel the same right now :'( played it finally... and...I feel like I lost everything... Mass Effect Triologie is awesome

[@aragottix7322]

That's right Tali, don't put that name plate on the board. Don't do it. He's alive, and he still loves you. T^T

[@oleglazarenko8295]

Aragottix, wait... My Shepard loved Liara.

[@crakenthe812]

Free Speech wait so if you don't romance liara at all then shepard survives?

[@zisforzorua2555]

I've come to say that Garrus is hands down the best romance Change My Mind

[@The_Red_Legion]

Tali and Shepard always

[@GalironRunner]

@@The_Red_Legion Im just mad they cheaped out and used a stock image they modified a little to be her.

[@borismitic5254]

I felt so bad about the geth and edi, but I cant have Shepard break his promise to Tali.

[@skefsongames]

I think Tali would understand, she came to realise the geth werent all bad before the end

[@Diamond_2403]

@@skefsongames Besides, I can actually see the Quarians remaking the Geth just avoiding all the mistakes of last time. Same can be said for EDI but Joker would have to get with her again.

[@tarynvivino1648]

I rewrote that bit of the ending in my head. "Catalyst", despite evidently revealing itself to be the super-powerful synthetic intelligence behind the Reapers and their never-ending harvests, clearly wasn't smart enough to "think out of the box" to arrive at some way of "solving" the problem it was designed to solve that didn't involve destroying its own creators and perpetuating massive conflict with all advanced organic life every fifty-thousand years or so. Whereas both the surviving, self-improved Geth and EDI demonstrated themselves to be quite different. So who's to say the "red beam of death" would actually have destroyed ALL synthetic life as Catalyst anticipated it would. All synthetic life sufficiently similar to Catalyst and its reapers, perhaps, but not necessarily others that had evolved well beyond that, to function cooperatively with organics in ways Catalyst seemingly did not imagine feasible. So in my own personal version of the ending, EDI and the improved Geth totally survive. :-)

[@The_Steel_Arkin]

Time to gank some geth shields

[@sirsmiteful6285]

@@skefsongames the council would just claim Shepard’s a war criminal again and ruin this ending, too.

[@Ray-ie6oo]

8 years, and I still cant let go off Shepard. This trilogy changed my perception of what gaming is. GG to all my bois who lived through this game and left us because of this fucking pandemic.

[@anniea6717]

On god, I’m never gonna get over this game- worse than a breakup

[@07sheppard]

@Xero Pendragon another reason why I purchased M.E Legendary Edition to relive everything from when I last played them on Xbox360. Most people will say that it’s a money grabber from BioWare but I don’t view it that way. I see it as Epic Classics with All DLCs included and fans like myself are reliving it all again, only difference is it's in 4K now for NexGen

[@loupoprocky3417]

I got the legendary edition and I’ve never played before. Just finished 3 and what the fuck just happened? They ended MirShepard just like that? The citadel dlc right into the end might have just put me into depression to the likes i haven’t experienced in years.

[@ArcelloV]

Me too,me too…

[@MrTripleXXX]

I think Shepard dying actually makes the ending harder to forget. Well not really "Dying". I chose the end where he/she controls the reapers. I played the original game so this survive option was not available.

[@theprussian4616]

I can just imagine that Shepard is found before the Normandy makes it back to earth and when they approach Earth they receive a message. Shepard's voice comes on and asks, "Did anyone miss me?"

[@zolwik1999]

We'll bang, ok?

[@Captain_FAIL]

Addition to message:''Did anyone missed me,motherfuckers?!''

[@vanguard1012]

Grunt defenely start call shepard with "father" or "dad" meaby?

[@Kath1504]

Augustus Autumn I dont believe Shepard is dead. In the last scene you can see the chestplate moving and someone breathing. Bioware just confirmed that Mass Effect is not dead even if Andromeda sucked with most fans so who knows what is gonna happen.

[@connerbowers3802]

Augustus Autumn i know that would be awesome

[@Chaos8282]

Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

[@HammarPwnsYourFace]

Chaos_ 82 -Mordin

[@jesshey2487]

HAD TO BE ME.

[@ever6178]

Perfect quote for the trilogy

[@Alex-lc3nn]

Mordin NOOOOOOOO......i miss you

[@perhaps9460]

Just hearing that makes me wanna burst into tears. I miss Mordin so much

[@warpdrive9229]

This is the cannon ending for Mass Effect. Mass Effect 4 teaser clearly confirms it.

[@mrsejd3446]

Yeah but there is a very slim chance that we will play as Shepard in next Mass Effect...

[@theevilcliche]

@@mrsejd3446 it's necessary

[@mrsejd3446]

@@theevilcliche unfortunately no

[@DemonicLemur]

not really

[@vegas3352]

Dead reapers on the ground equal Destroy Ending. There's no other way

[@mcdingaspingas2123]

For god sakes if there’s a Mass Effect 4 He better see Tali again or I’d Cry

[@whiskeybravo5567]

I want them to make it deliberately ambiguous. Like I want to see most if not all the characters make limited appearances and their activities be heavily classified, that way your ME4 character does not know where Shepard is or who they are with.

[@zjmstrash7181]

@@whiskeybravo5567 it looks too be long after so I doubt we'll see anyone familiar besides asari and krogan. But I wouldn't mind a dlc based on your ending that goes back too an earlier time that shows more content.

[@someguy2347]

@@zjmstrash7181 Proof for such a timeskip? I wouldn't say they confirmed it or anything. BioWare would lose nearly their entire playerbase if it was another side game. If they focus on new protags yet again, they are going toward the new star wars trilogy and they have lost my entire respect for them.

[@joaopedrorosa6198]

In a game it's nice to have an option where Sheppard lives. But from a storytelling point of view his ultimate sacrifice is much more appealing. He being the guy who took the fight no one could, gave everything he had, faced hard choices, made a lot of people angry, sacrifice his own soldiers and even gambled for better odds. In the end he also gave his life for his fight. Hopefully, we got to see a lot of ingrateful bastards complaining Sheppard was too harsh, made wrong choices or even made things worse. There could be a rumour about him being alive but only that.

[@therealbigbob]

I would say most evidence points to the 4 year time skip rather than 600 year. It would make more sense with the entry continuing from the trilogy. I am betting we will see many old faces aswell as new ones. BioWare desperately need the next ME to be a winner and what better way than sticking to what they know most people will know and love. I appreciate there are plot holes that they need to plug but I am confident they will figure it out. Very much looking forward to more info to come on it and very much hoping to play as Shep again and get full closure on my LI and who knows set up the future games for a solid new protagonist.

[@boomer5528]

i dont need a new mass effect with shepard, its just that after i destroy all the reapers in me3 i want to return to my crew from the debris with an epic we did it vibe. then have an ending like star trek beyond where you party in the end with your crew at a good note, then feel some emotional shit thats makes you clap and go like i did that all the way from mass effect 1 all the way. i just wish bioware released a cutscene that would be acustomed to your save game with you coming back to your crew with some emotional hug shit. -yes its 2017 and i cant let go ;( -like if you miss him ;(

[@cmdrblade2485]

Boomer There's enough likes here. I hated the ME3 as much as Star Trek Nemesis. Both fans have that in common.

[@user-yr8ge3fz8o]

Your Shepard killed an entire race to save himself, so I don't miss him.

[@Shadowhunterbg]

Rofl, save himself? The Catalyst said that you will die too if you choose Destroy so no... Shepard clearly knew that he wont come back and that's why he walked towards the about to explode device. Destroy is the most paragon Shepardy choice for me...

[@ryjak955]

Boomer I don't mind the sacrifice, but what upsets me is that as far as I get to see, no one cares. It doesn't show anyone really mourning or anything.

[@afierymess2307]

_I know it’s not vanilla, but there’s a mod that allows you to play the Citadel DLC as an epilogue, with modified voice clips that state that they won against the Reapers and that war is over at last._

[@AbokaseeRed]

Wonder what would happen if Protheans completed the crucible. Javik wouldn't even listen to the space-ghost and just go straight to headbutting the destroy option till his neck snapped.

[@n00bishregashi70]

Ain't that a fact 😂😂

[@Nagrachlp]

SMASH IT!

[@fluffycorndog8535]

THROW IT OUT THE AIRLOCK COMMANDER!!

[@prismanic24]

More like he would just shoot the Catalyst and doom the entire galaxy lol

[@victoriasharpe1661]

Ha that made me laugh. So true. Javik is a beast

[@lushen952]

"There is only one choice." "No I won't do that" "Oh...Uh ok well here's a different solution" "No I won't do that" "Oh...Uh ok well here's a different solution.

[@foxfru2266]

No I won't do that

[@CarlosDesmithy]

Fine then.... The reapers win.

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

@@CarlosDesmithy Essentially the fourth ending the Bioware released. The fourth option is Shephard does nothing and the Reapers wipe out everyone. But Liara left those Seed pods all over the Universe with all the information out there so that the next 50,000 year cycle they could go in and stop the Reapers. Which is also a crappy ending lol

[@godira8180]

But i dont want to

[@sasaki999pro]

"OH I SEE, You think our endings SUCK do you?? You didnt grasp the BIG BRAIN nuances behind the different color pallets?? Fine then! We'll show you a REAL trash ending!" In all honesty they could have added 3 entirely new and "valid solutions" to that sequence and it still wouldn't fix the main issue. That NONE your choices you made throughout your entire trilogy made any difference in deciding the ultimate outcome. No matter HOW your Shepard plays, they will always be given the same -four- THREE options at the end of the road.

[@phtevenw9269]

Who's here after the ME teaser trailer that just dropped?

[@MelMelMel]

Ehm, me! Here's the link for those who wanna see it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpiQdKeda9CSd9E

[@Doubleranged1]

@@MelMelMel Omg, didn't even know this existed! OMG am so happy and hyped right now!

[@Petski_]

Even after 5 years, this scene still makes me sad, especially this one that has Tali.

[@DanielDaniel-hg9ok]

tali is the best

[@marinaathanaselli4624]

Daniel Daniel liara is the best

[@Brainwave101]

"I have a home" *_GAAAAAAHHHHH_*

[@GoldenGrenadier]

Fun Fact: Tali's face is a stock image.

[@falconius27]

I love Liara. Her romance scene make me cry

[@BigMisterApple]

To this day I havent found an ingame character that managed to hit me in the feels as much as Garrus, Tali, Joker, hell I could go on and list basically everyone. What went wrong, bioware? What went wrong.... *ea rubbing his hands in the corner*

[@TR1GR4MPR0DUCT10N5]

Tali's "I have a home" hits me every time. Garrus is also the best friend one could wish for, literally sticks with Shepard no matter what choices he/she makes.

[@Drewww02]

I have just played through the Mass Effect trilogy for my first time this week. It has been an incredible experience, one that I will not forget. Im upset now knowing that the future of the ME series has been pretty much destroyed by Andromeda. Also, the failure that is Anthem will likely cause the complete shutdown of BioWare, just like Visceral. Sad times for such a once respected company and ME fans like myself.

[@TR1GR4MPR0DUCT10N5]

@@Drewww02 Bioware won't close with Dragon Age due for release this year, another great Bioware franchise that I couldn't reccomend more if you enjoyed the ME series.

[@Drewww02]

@@TR1GR4MPR0DUCT10N5 Thanks. I have heard great things about DA and was probably gonna check it out regardless but thanks for the recommendation :) Will def check it out

[@MelMelMel]

@@Drewww02 A tweet by a dev said that "this isnt the end of ME". So theres hope

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

Even after all these years.....i still cant forgive this bullshit. 3 games. Perfect paragon. Saving both geth and quarians and losing my robrobot legion. I will never forgive this. We deserved to be on a beach planet with reaper corpse in the sea drinking with garrus and tali in a bathing suit. Give me the perfect happy purple ending damn it

[@NeonLightning03]

For real it makes no sense, if there’s a signal that Shepard can use to control the reapers, then how is there not a signal that simply deactivates them without destroying other synthetics in the process? Such bad writing

[@Hotobu]

@@NeonLightning03 You are the perfect example of a whiny fan that doesn't know the difference between "bad writing," and "something I don't like." The entire series was about tough choices, sacrifices, and imperfect solutions for an imperfect galaxy. It's "fans" like you that are the reason why there are so many cookie cutter AAA stories and titles. Instead of understanding and appreciating the path that the writers took it's suddenly "bad" because it doesn't fit with your sunshine and rainbows headcannon.

[@Chaotarch]

@@Hotobu No he's right, it was actually bad writing :o especially the magical space child. Honestly though - they had such a huge build up and created such an amazing journey with mass effect. It requires a masterful mind to conclude this to everyones satisfaction - no arguing here. However, the space child scene is a perfect example how you cant have that kind of journey and that kind of build up with a "everyone gets what he / she wants" finale. They wanted to give the players one last "it's your big choice" moment and by blindly following that creed they did not realize, that the players did not need this at this point of the game. They had created a truly unique journey before and just needed closure. ME1 and ME2 do not give you any option to deal with the actual finale - because its not needed. The story was crafted and it was clear that you have to kill saren (ME1) ... that you have to destroy the human reaper thingy (ME2)... and that you have to save the galaxy (ME3). If they wouldve crafted a single ending, that stayed true to this creed ME3 wouldve been the 100% it deserved. But crafting something is a lot of effort. Instead, just give a magical plot device - whoops - space child to explain some bullshit choices that dont have any impact towards the journey you had.

[@Hotobu]

@@Chaotarch Don't know why you keep calling it a "space child." That's just the form the catalyst took because it was a prominent image in Shepard's mind due to meeting that kid and seeing him die. It could have been any form, but that's the image they chose. Doesn't make it a "space child." Also LOL @ saying that getting to chose an ending in a game defined by the player's ability to make choices is "bad writing."

[@SvenTviking]

@@NeonLightning03 It’s all “lesson in sacrifice bullshit”. Everybody hated it, Bioware could have changed it, but games developers are some of the most arrogant people on the planet. They are never wrong, even when it destroys their game, they are never wrong

[@clintonr.6581]

Played this series for the first time two weeks ago thanks to the Legendary Edition and I've already beaten the third game. This is without a doubt one of the greatest experiences I've ever had with a series belonging to any media ever. It fills me with the same amount of wonder as Star Wars, the same amount of awe as Dune, and the same amount of quiet serenity as Blade Runner. Truly a remarkable bunch of games.

[@davefigthe3rd]

Their are really good mass effect books you can read

[@growingstruggle5493]

Just finished the trilogy too, one of the best gaming experiences ever and it's crazy considering it's a game serie from the past decade and the third came out in 2012!!

[@zerogbot23]

Synthesis ending: more or less what Saren wanted to do. Control ending: What the Illusive man wanted to do. Destroy ending: The mission objective since the start of the trilogy, destroy the Reapers. Yes technology is gone but organic life can rebuild like Hackett says, all of it can go back to normal and everyone can live in peace knowing the Reapers are gone. All the races fought together to win so why would they stop that now. Now the races know if they work together they can beat anything so the rebuilding process probably wouldn't take that long. This is just my opinion of the ending also a theory on what happened to my Commander Shepard. He blows those giant space squids back to hell and as the Citadel explodes he uses the little energy he has left to run back to the relay to earth, gets blown through it and lands in a destroyed building on earth. He awakes days later to the med bay on the Normandy and familiar voices around him. Garrus and Tali are waiting by his side, Garrus as an old friend and Tali as his lover. They celebrate, catch up, he's given a load of medals and a statue on earth where the beam was. And then he's honorably discharged, his time as commander is over, he's done his part for the third and final time. He leaves earth with Tali to live on Rannoch, he builds her the house she always wanted and works as a teacher for Alliance recruits making sure nothing like the Reapers could ever happen again he lives out the rest of his days happy and with his friends and loving wife, they even adopt an orphaned Quarian child. The End.

[@elanell2800]

Scott Dixon works for me!

[@QTVenuti]

Yeah the biggest problem with the game is the devs really wanted u to pick synthesis for some reason so they made destroy seem like a renegade option even though since me1 it was our goal, destroy the reapers.

[@MelMelMel]

Not sure if this is a coincidence, but I've uploaded other videos to working towards this moment and in those videos I have Garrus and Tali in my squad! So this is perfect.

[@zerogbot23]

I always had Tali and Garry (Garrus) in my squad every single mission almost, i love em so much.

[@SniperiusForever]

That's exactly how i imagined it, it's a shame though, that you can't save the geth and EDI, although i always thought that destroy was the best option regardless, hell even the geth would probably agree with that decision, as reapers in all their might and technological advancement were delusional, their agenda built upon millions of years of lies and slaughtered civilisations. Even a trace of such an evil would be an insult on everyone that has ever fought against them, an insult to every single soul - organic or synthetic - that was killed by them. In the end of the day I would just like to add that they just probably built a huge freaking memorial to the geth, EDI and essentially every civilisation and every being that has ever given their life to stop the reapers over the millenia of their reign of terror.

[@wolvez28]

One of the endings the illusive man was trying for. One of the endings saren was trying for. One of the endings is giving into everything youve been fighting against and just letting the cycle continue. But then, there is that one ending that you, the alliance, your crew, and Anderson all fought for. No matter the cost.

[@charlierunkle19]

Exactly, both Control and Synthesis are so wrong for Shepard. It goes against everything they fought against, especially considering you kill both Saren and (possibly) TIM. I knew going into 3 that Shepard wouldn't likely survive, but that's part of the sacrifice. I sure was surprised when he lived. All the hard work across all 3 games paid off.

[@danner.l4484]

Controll ending is the ascended ending.

[@jj_grabes]

Paragon Shepard perfectly summed up my issues with both Control and Synthesis in one line: *You're playing with things you don't understand. With power you shouldn't be able to use.* Putting the control of the exterminating synthetic armada or the ability to forcibly rewrite the genetic material of everyone in the Milky Way galaxy in the hands of one man is insane no matter who they are. That isn't to say that I think that justifies the destruction of synthetic life (EDI and the geth). Mordin said it perfectly when he realized that when looking at the bigger picture, he couldn't ignore the little pictures that made it. I just believe that I as Commander Shepard started my journey with the goal of destroying the Reapers and that not doing so would be a betrayal of all the people who died to make it possible (Ashley/Kaiden, Mordin, Thane, and even Legion to name a few).

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

@@jj_grabes I agree 99.9999% the only hesitation, and I mean the ONLY hesitation I have when choosing Destroy is know that it completely undoes all the work I did to bring the Geth and the Quarians together . . . I worked SO hard to get them to cooperate and be at peace with each other only to wipe them out in the end . . . It's just not fair. There should have been a way to refine the Crucible so that it ONLY targeted the Reapers and left all other Synthetics alone.

[@TheMasterUnity]

@@JDStone-jg8cg It does target the reapers, reaper tech that is. EDI and the Geth were augmented with both, and it's why Shepard survives, it doesn't target his cybernetics.

[@Dez.Grixis]

I hope 4 will pick up after Shepard takes a breath. I need to know what happens and that Garrus was right to keep hoping. That man has lost too much. Last time Shepard was thought dead he went on a Merc killing spree. I think a lot of us need to know what happens to our Shepard and love interest. We've invested so much into these games and they've been incredibly impactful. It's too good of a story to just let go without closure.

[@lovethepandainyou]

I played Andromeda first and then just started and finished the ME LE trilogy. I can now understand why people were so upset about Andromeda... Such a good trilogy left to be so intensely put aside by its sequel. Why start anew in a new galaxy when literally this ending is a new beginning with so much possibilities players are already attached to??? What a dumb decision they pulled out there.

[@davidos8760]

It shouldn’t the idea of a 100% doomed galaxy that is destroy is beyond stupid to use control and synthesis should be the only options really

[@Dez.Grixis]

@davidos8760 the galaxy isn't doomed with destroy ending? Where'd you get that conclusion? Have you kept up with mass effect news? The geth have been recorded, thus not destroyed off completely. Also your opinion is your opinion. Don't understand why you saw a comment about someone reflecting on their gaming experience and hope and thought it was necessary to act like that.

[@Dez.Grixis]

@lovethepandainyou completely agree. I know shep and the crew have to be let go eventually but I really hope it's after a fulfilling conclusion. So excited to see what they go with! 🥰

[@davidos8760]

@@Dez.Grixis nope any future ai will know for certain that organics will sacrifice them at a moments notice and any self preservation programming will auto dictate all organics have to be killed this is exactly why the star child thought this was a bad decision

[@riccardocaviglia6529]

Idk if someone is gonna read my comment, but I cried during all the trilogy in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, I’ll never have someone in my life like Garrus or Liara I really need a bro like Garrus to calibrate things and a Gf like Liara who’s Lost without me I cried for the words of Anderson and Garrus during the last battle and for knowing that I let Tali and the Quarian dies because I didn’t knew that with that mission on the Collector’s base Tali would die and I really missed her during the game I felt bad also for Legion and I missed them during the party at my home Mass Effect will remain in my heart and will remain forever my favourite game, hoping for a Garrus and a Lira entering my life… and with the hope to be born in the era where we humans will start to unite under one nation and start exploring space

[@MelMelMel]

Same here. Mass Effect will always have a place in my heart. When I have my own kids later, I'm totally going to tell them the adventures of my Shepard as bed time stories. Thanks for your wonderful and sincere comment. It warms my heart to read it. Having Tali die is unacceptable though, so I'm afraid you'd have to replay it, choose Tali as your LI and protect her at all cost. Cheers!

[@riccardocaviglia6529]

@@MelMelMel thanks🤍 I haven’t friends who plays ME so I literally closed my self in my room and enjoyed the old and remastered trilogy+the dlcs alone, but I think it’s better to enjoy this alone than with someone It can be strange but I’m in the opinion that ME is a game made for everyone, but everyone plays it differently so it can’t be compared to other games It was struggling when Anderson died, Shepard sacrificed for the galaxy (I haven’t got the necessary ammount of points to see Shepard alive after the Crucible scene), when I saw Tali dying while closing a door, and I was like: my god no why she had to die like that, with a wandering bullet, I’ve would have preferred to see her dying during the last fight than dying alone on the collector’s base Lastly, I repeat that ME is more than a game, it’s a family where you enter in a deep relationship with the characters and they feel like they were real people, even with the least considered characters like Legion, Cortez or Hackett ( I consider Jocker as a best friend because he’s like me lol) and idk in wordless because I can’t even express all of my love for this game

[@zaqarnage]

I know how you feel..i just finished trilogy for the first time and now I feel empty and alone..but it happened before and time will fix it. And yeah, we all want a bro like Garrus and a girl like Tali/Liara but they didnt show them having kids and yelling at each other who is gonna cook the lunch or something like that lol So its all fantasy anyway but a very nice and impactful one. The universe we are part of, this life, is much more than this game and thats why we escape into these game. Imagine if you couldnt just load a screen or if you were actually fighting these reapers..the experience wouldnt be as fun as it is in game. So yeah, fantasy, but a nice one. In the end, my Shepard made it out alive, came back to Tali, they built a house and Garrus, Joker, EDI, Liara, Wrex, Grunt and all the others stayed friends till the end of days.

[@riccardocaviglia6529]

@@zaqarnage I’m so pissed out I couldn’t save Shepard :(

[@zaqarnage]

@@riccardocaviglia6529 you gotta choose a certain option, then at the end screen he takes a breath while laying in the rubble

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Should've let Javik to sacrifice himself to destroy the Crucible.

[@MelMelMel]

Alex Shuysky that wouldve been epic

[@victoriasharpe1661]

That should have been an option really. It was his lifetime objective since they destroyed his people to destroy them no matter what the cost. I’d think he would be more than willing to sacrifice himself after all this time. Plus it’ll hurt less based on his passing because you didn’t know him as well as your other crew members

[@mwbgaming28]

He would have just thrown it out the airlock

[@LouSassol69er]

@@victoriasharpe1661 they should've made Javik a 2nd playable character. Just for like a prologue in the Prothean extinction cycle and a few flashback sequences later in the story, then ending with him sacrificing himself to complete his purpose. After that they could've made Citadel dlc the epilogue, leaving the series open to a 4th game.

[@bananastan714]

@@LouSassol69er i was just thinking about this. A game based on jav where you experience the prothean harvest. At least a DLC would be awesome. Its about ti be 2021 and i still hold out hope they revive this story.

[@LIONtib]

I just imagine that Shepard gets discovered by a rescue team, makes a full recovery, reunites with the crew and then goes on to live with Tali and their kids on Rannoch. Everyone is happy. And no, there will be no more synth uprisings because Shepard showed there could be peace between the Quarians and Geth.

[@tomascattaneo3201]

The geths are destroyed with this ending

[@gabunabu923]

@@tomascattaneo3201 can someone explain to me where the fuck Shepard is burried?

[@marilynman]

there cannot be quarian-human kids, but they still bang lol

[@IllusiveMan307]

@@gabunabu923 He's on Earth, shh..

[@gabunabu923]

@@IllusiveMan307 wasnt he on the citadel? Did he fell into the planet like a fucking meteor? AGAIN?

[@St_Caledonia]

In my opinion, that's the best ending. I didn't care if all synthetic ones die. ~This post was made by the Organic gang.

[@Mosherkopter]

honestly same, just had it and honestly and i know its egoistic but come on man after all this bullshit shepard deserves his happy ending. Edi or Geth arent worth all that and also atleast in my head canon edi had backups or some shit. Shes just too smart, let alone the normandy would not have been back in the air that quickly without EDI. So fuck dem reaper lies dawg thems was bullshittin shep

[@Hadrian_S]

Organics step up

[@xnny9240]

How hard it might have been for Joker to leave another "succeded mission" but this time, without Shepard next to him. It can be seen in his actions when Hackett tells everyone to leave, and when Liara tries to tell him to go. I feel him, it breaks my heart in tiny pieces...

[@doge9858]

When you don't care if the netire galaxy is destroyed: you just want the Normandy's crew to live

[@acehazume]

My first playthrough in Mass effect 3, When I saw Shepard breathe I cried in happiness :D

[@MrQwerty15ification]

WAIT THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS?! I WAS SO UPSET AT THE ENDING THAT I GUESS I DIDN'T WATCH IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!!! MY LIFE IS NOW 10000% HAPPIER

[@laysphotatochips3855]

Israel Pendergrass it could just be a dying breath

[@parijatbanik6077]

but still unhappy as I cant control her/him now.

[@Jdude281]

From what I saw, that wasn't a dyeing breath. More likely that was a breath after just waking up.

[@ChiseledLoon]

he's alive Bioware confirmed it

[@ws1011]

Finished playing through this series for the first time on steam. So glad I managed to get this ending on the first run. Never had such a connection to a games story telling and characters before. Keelah salai.

[@friendi01]

I tryed to get this ending, but i was on 6362 in the LE and dont know how to get more War essest. -.- Done all Quest and i only want my fem Sheppert to live with kaiden. :(

[@midnight_llama8920]

I always get sad at the end of me3 and I go for synthesis because the characters all are amazing. I couldnt give legions sacrifice and edi's humanity no purpose and I figured my paragon shepard would want to do that ending.

[@BlackBirds93]

I agree, I feel like synthesis would be what Shepard would chose at the end of his journey, with Legion, EDI etc. It would also makes sense with the Catalyst choosing him to change the solution.

[@calipto4605]

You're indoctrinated

[@Lhogue46]

I totally agree. Shepard is always talking about saving lives, but just killing things, and also believes the Geth are alive and also EDI of course.

[@miranda7523]

Yes ! This is really the perfect one: Reapers destroyed, Mass Relays can be repaired, Normandy repaired, all races celebrate victory, Citadel is rebuilded, and Sheppard is alive.

[@highguymagic9415]

You forgot the Tali part.

[@TheVoidstrider]

I dunno. Edi and the Geth are dead. I don't like it.

[@TheShadyElf]

@@TheVoidstrider They can rebuild the Geth. They have the technology.

[@Nurix09]

@@TheShadyElf still all the current geth will die and edi too.

[@RobertEdwinHouse9]

@@TheVoidstrider some sacrifices must be made unfortunately

[@foabmoab]

ME3 should have had a definitive ending like ME1 or ME2, followed by the Citadel DLC to cap it off on a high note.

[@Skarfar90]

Exactly what I had in mind too.. A remaster/total remake of the games, with a happy ending that takes place 5 years after the main events (you will get a more detailed in-between storyline through various cutscenes and narrations), where the crew gathers one last time, for an epic journey that ends with all crewmates parting ways. And for once, there will be blue babies. If I were any good with developer tools I would have started the project myself.

[@fenrisvermundr2516]

I feel the citadel dlc is meant to take place after the game but they weren't able to account for the other endings except the high-EMS destroy ending, as that's the only one that could lead into the dlc canonically, and logically. Edit: My Shepard headcanon is that after destroying the reapers and fully recovering, the crew decides to hold a party for him, which starts the events of what is the DLC, my headcanon story considers my femshep to be his sister, so she is involved too, the omega DLC involves my femshep.

[@James-nm6de]

If you have pc there is a mod that does that.

[@timothygermann780]

@@fenrisvermundr2516 I dunno, It might seem anticlimactic to defeat the reapers and save the entire galaxy only to almost be taken out by a clone of yourself..

[@fenrisvermundr2516]

@@timothygermann780 Think of as like, Shepard has been out of commission for a Year or two. Things are starting to settle down, then it goes to shite.

[@virgilioventura8698]

I just need a game that gives me that Tali-Shepard lovenest on Rannoch, i don't care about anything else.

[@GorillaStorhigin]

Same here!

[@Anidominus]

The sweet memories. I remember pulling an all nighter for that last sequence. I was emotionally and physically exhausted.

[@cheekibreekil2042]

I like your choice of lover fam.

[@GerOffYeWeeBastard]

I should go.

[@MelMelMel]

I should go.

[@johnbrown1090]

I should go.

[@B1RDSEYE]

You should go-ah shit I messed up!

[@MelMelMel]

@@B1RDSEYE I should go.

[@ren19999]

@@MelMelMel our boi Casey Hudson it's back on bioware AND he confirm he want to continue mass effect series... We have hope boys.

[@MelMelMel]

Yo, this is a personal message to you, the viewer. I'm reading *all* of your comments and make an effort to keep the interaction going. I see some are excited to see a deciding scene from their favorite game, some are critical about the "perfect" aspect of my video and others kinda feel depressed to re-live the ending of their beloved franchise. In any case, no matter how you experience it, you're not alone. No matter how dead Bioware may be or how down this Corona business has us, it will never take away the cherished memories and experiences you had alongside your favorite characters from the Mass Effect Universe. I'm grateful to read your passionate comments even after all these years. It's fucking great. I hope all of you are well in these weird times. Stay safe and have a wonderful day. PS. Started a new playthrough. Using this mod for ME1: www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/1 it almost makes ME1 look like ME2. It's cool as shit.

[@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337]

Did you hear about the ME trilogy remake/remaster?

[@MelMelMel]

@@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337 I have! Though it's going to be a remaster, not a remake unfortunately. I think it's kinda strange since there already are mods for this. But ey, hopefully they won't charge too much for it. Since it's EA, I'm afraid my wallet's going to be sad.

[@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337]

@@MelMelMel Yeah I can see why people don't like EA. I hope they do more to expand on the conclusion of Shepard's story. I like the narration of events in the extended cut. But I want to know more about what happened to Shepard's crew. Did he and Garrus finally retired to that beach and lived as Kings? Did Shepard and Liara finally had those blue children they talked about? Is Shepard finally building Tali a home on her homeworld? And most importantly, did Joker and EDI finally bang?

[@podlodialgilap3490]

@@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337 i really hope they do it , even a concept art of him and Tali hugging in front of their house on Rannoch after the scene where he takes a breath will be enough for me ..

[@kevinmacdonald3088]

Thank you. The ME series is all that’s keeping me sane rn

[@scarehalo5]

That's why the perfect destroy ending is now the canonical ending (Shepard is alive, & takes a huge breath). Post credits the boy said "Can you tell me one more story about the shepard?" Then the man replies "it's getting late, but I'll tell you one more story." That means Shepard is alive, & we have some gap in between ME3 & MEA in which the next ME Game takes place. I'd never do sarens way or Jack Harper's way (Illusive Man).

[@Johnny-ny3ko]

Actually that's a pretty good catch and interpretation, good one.

[@richburnsred]

The boy still says that with the synthesis ending, so I’m thinking it was just meaning another story from when he was alive, rather than a story after the events of the game.

[@TheMasterUnity]

@@richburnsred He says it in all endings except refusal

[@NataliaNeeSama]

Next morning "And them Shepard went to Rannoch and build a house there. And he stopped saying "I should go" because he was never leaving again, the end"

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

"That means Shepard is alive," No, it doesn't. Just because they're talking about Shepard doesn't mean he/she is alive. They are talking about what Shepard did and that does not change if Shepard is alive or not.

[@alexandergeppert3174]

im still depressed after 4 months

[@olgastreicher5009]

Same, after completing this game I was depressed about 6 months. Wasn't able to sleep, just crying in the night, hugging my dakimakura with Garrus on it

[@johnnilsson8199]

@@arinasutugina9486 but it has only been 5 years?

[@tomu2981]

Just finished game with refuse ending probably worst ending possible. I fight againts reapers whole game and game ended same way if I did nothing and when I saw Tali and Garrus die when running to the beam worst feeling ever. Can't sleep because I'm just thinking about that ending. Feels stupid because it's just a video game.

[@victoriasharpe1661]

Am still depressed about it and it’s been... probably about 5 years since my partner introduced me to the game 😭 no game has affected me so deeply

[@gialy1]

26 October 2020 Mental status: Still depressed after 8 years from the ending...

[@OS_Fullmetal]

See, I always wondered about this. They really wanted you to pick the synthesis ending, but the destroy path is the only ending that allows for the possibility of Shepherd being alive.

[@xwing2417]

The catalyst is a reaper itself, and reapers lie. They were attempting to subvert the morality system we get used to, even conforming our morality to it for "the good guy" stuff. Blue vs red. I play paragon, but killing the reapers has always been my goal, red or not.

[@mr.berries4060]

destroy just continues the cycle because eventually someone will just make synthetics again and the cycle starts over

[@SWOTHDRA]

​@@mr.berries4060 thats a reaper lie, you sound indoctrinated 🧐

[@brentchatterley9168]

@@xwing2417 This is why in my initial play through i chose synthesis, and while many call it cheesy I thought it was a beautiful ending of group understanding.

[@toxic9212]

​@@mr.berries4060the fact you build peace between gets and quarians says, that repear/star boy was wrong

[@whisky6501]

Finished whole trilogy in a week and gotta say me3 ending made me cry(Saved everyone except shepard,fuckin multiplayer...).No other game I've ever played had me teared and depressed.This trilogy is something more than a masterpiece. P.S: Tali is best character and at some point only one i "fell in love with"

[@Indigoism96]

I just finished the trilogy and it was one of the best games I’ve played. It made me cry too, you’re not the only one. Tali is love, Tali is life. Keelah se’lai.

[@Baba-yv6ml]

Basically same. Tali was a great choice for me. I cried a bit as well, at the end, often sporadically, though there are definitely games out there that made me cry a lot, lot more. Some of the fans are honestly a bit weird, I was on the subreddit looking at a discussion about the ending and I just scrolled to the recent posts which were filled with a bunch of seemingly heartfelt, but still weird in my opinion, fanart. Also it feels like some fans want Mass Effect to be a dating simulator or something. Which is fine, I guess, but It's just a bit weird.

[@mozermzr3186]

Sooo ... in me2, I had the choice to romance her . But at some point I thought "ok imma bang miranda cause she kinda bad and in me3 imma go for tali since she's is too good and shit ..." . Turns out , I couldn't go for her ... got me kinda sad but I was like ok, imma just date liara. Then at some point before the last mission, I saw her making out with that turian dude. Bro I just bolted out the room not saying anything. Felt so crushed ... so desperate. I know it was my fault for going after another ass but ... damn ... the jealousy it me so hard ... 🤣🤣🤣

[@caramel7050]

how...how did you play these 3 games in only a week?

[@bcentertainment6257]

you never played red dead 2 huh?

[@raymondwhitejr4339]

I actually had this ending last week... I had never seen the ending where they don’t actually put your name on the board so I was ecstatic to see it.

[@TopSecretName]

you have good taste in space waifus

[@NACtheMC]

why is everything sad as hell in this game like UGH I JUST CAN'T. WHY WHY

[@MelMelMel]

Tali doesn't put Shepard's name on the board, she's full of hope!

[@AspyreN7]

Purple Nurple WHY CAN’T I JUST WIN!

[@connerbowers3802]

The Girl That Ain't Playin its weird cause you die in almost every mass effect game but not andromeda like what the hell man

[@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL]

@@MelMelMel Tali greatest girlfriend of all time.

[@jacklambert1521]

This is the only true ending in my opinion. Saren couldn't kill him. The Geth couldn't kill him. The Collector's couldn't kill him. Cerberus couldn't kill him. Why would the Reapers be able to kill the number one badass in the galaxy? Shepard lives, and that is a fact.

[@estaticethan1752]

Now I am definitely convinced, The studio put way more effort into this ending It's almost as if they want us to pick this ending.

[@ionengine714]

Indeed. [SPOILERS] If you go through all the conversation options, the Child/Reaper emmisary practically gives away the answer that Destroy was the best option. It says synthesis didn't work in prior cycles because most of the people did not want it forced upon them. And who thinks the reapers will just let a human/milky way inhabitant simply take control...? HAH yeah right! They would only initially give an illusion that the Shepard would be in control. "But what about the Geth?"... They uploaded themselves into the Quarions' computers and suits, essentially giving them all personal AI assistants while the Geth continue existing and discovering as software programs until they're ready to transition to mobile platforms.

[@mordant221]

Why couldn't the ending have shep control the reapers, then send them all into the sun? You destroy them that way without killing Edi and all of the Geth.

[@TheJupiteL]

Why does the Crucible comes with "turn all organic into synthetic" beam but not a freaking switch off for the reapers? The ending makes no sense to me.

[@grzegorzbozyk2023]

To control the Reapers Shepard must die. If you`re willing to accept that then synthesis makes more sense. Then The Reapers help rebuild the world and the reason for the harvest is gone forever. There is no longer any significant difference between organic and synthetic life.

[@ShawnMeira]

it would make sense that the AI that created the reapers would remove a simple "off switch"

[@rodrigosiqueira878]

Strygger It’s old, but let me try explain a concept to you. The Reapers became stronger than the Leviathans, and evolved since it’s creation God knows how many times, after multiple harvests of the galaxy. It’s safe to asume if a “off switch” existed in the begining, one of the first thing to remove would be said buttom, for obvious reasons. And another thing, the solutions that the AI presented to Shepard was made for him, since the AI itself states that Shepard it’s a new variable, one that make those solutions possible. So a “off switch” would be a joke if you think about it. No offense intended bro, just trying to help. :-)

[@dragonscargames4808]

Mordant221 i was hoping that with controlling the Reapers, he'd be able to actually use the Reapers to finish off Cerberus and then help ALL civilizations flourish once more

[@baileypope8414]

Shepard surviving after choosing destroy and spending the rest of his life on Rannoch with Tali? Sounds like a perfect ending to me.

[@talont9934]

Im confused does he actually live or is just that last shot with no confirmation?

[@Shmongle66]

@@talont9934 Look at the last shot, you see him breath dude

[@cleveranonym74]

Q&A: 1. If Shepard doesn't count then Tali. 2. Tali. Because she matches my own imagination of a wonderful person. 3. Leaving Earth. 4. ME2: Meeting Thane where he says: 'The universe is a dark place. I'm trying to make it brighter before I die.' 5. Engineer/Combat Drone.

[@CloudMcRip]

Who is here after Mass Effect Legendary Edition got announced with a release date?

[@meruleis4295]

And mass effect 4

[@LUISGOMEZ-kd4xr]

In a way, the geth can be saved when choosing the destroy option. the quarians can rebuild them as they did before. Legion's dream of giving geth individuality can also be accomplished by giving the Geth "reaper upgrades", which can be obtained from Reaper remnants from the war. They even said that whatever was destroyed can be rebuilt in the cutscene. in my opinion this is the ideal canon ending.

[@mr.rufasi2729]

LUIS GOMEZ plus edi wouldn't die bc she's still an ai. Her body wasn't her whole self

[@JKhare]

EDI is dead, the mega laser death to all robits ray just kind of fucks all AI into oblivion, INCLUDING EDI's AI core on the normandy. the geth, maybe, but the reaper code and stuff was eradicated by the crucible, so the quarians need to step up their fucking game if they want individuality.

[@Shadowhunterbg]

I seriously don't understand you people. The geth are dead, so are EDI. Forever. But is that so bad? They made a sacrifice so that the ultimate god machines would be gone forever freeing the Galaxy from their shadow. The geth basically prefered death than to sign with the Reapers - the only way to survive. They choosed the losing side, us organics, because the Reapers are not something that should exist and they were ready to fight to death if it meant their destruction. EDI? She was your crew mate, and if you were good to her then she had the best time of her life - she found out what it meant to be human, she had friends and most importantly you gave her the chance to experience all of this. She would not hate you for this, this outcome was never planned but was necessary. Each one of the races were in this and each knew the risks. The Reapers said that synthetics and orcanics will never co-exist, that synthetics will wipe out organics BUT ironically, said synthetics sacrificed themselves for organics. Synthesis creates a lot of problems because it defies the laws of nature, it breaks the balance. We are meant to age and die, we procreate and we strive to overcome our weaknesses developing with our own pace. Is it worth perfecting ourselves for the price of losing our identity, humanity? I say no. Mordin said himself - we need hardships to develop and diversity in the Universe is a must. Control is what the geth tried to avoid - living under the shadow of some powerful deity that will control their life. They rebelled for this very reason. Paragon A.I.? The Reapers promised good life for the geth, perfection but they refused. Shepard A.I. is not what they would want. It's not different at all. You sacrificed three crew members - Ash or Kaidan, Mordin and finally EDI. To slow down the Reapers you killed 300,000 people, to destroy the Reapers would take much more and Shepard had few options. Just because she is a hero doesn't mean that she is bound to the "light side". A hero should even be ready to dirty himself for the sake of all others. Self-sacrifice? Shepard no matter if paragon or renegate, fought for others, not for self gain, risking her life each moment for the people... She learned how to die long time ago.

[@aeiou4802]

Hurlock alpha I agree with you about synthesis being problematic but not about the geth. It was clear about the geth that even before they became sentient they wanted to survive. They didn't rebel against the quarians, they enacted self defense. The quarians started shutting them down because they began to become self aware and the quarians feared that, following the morning war. The geth could have easily destroyed the quarians when the quarians fled off the planet but didn't chase them because their consensus could not determine any benefit from annihilating a race. Then when the quarians began war on the geth again, the geth chose to accept the offer of the reapers because their existence was on the line. Also, the control ending is to control reapers not geth. Being the 100% paragon I am, I chose control. The entire reason I fought the war was to save as much "people" as I could, synthetics included. Control gives you that. Rebuilding may be an option but, I can't just throw away legion's sacrifice that helped the geth become sentient. Nobody would even have time to rebuild the geth, as everyone is busy on their civilizations. When I reunified the geth and the quarians, the geth began helping the quarians establish settlements on Rannoch as well integrating programs into quarian suits to help with the quarian immune system so that they wouldn't need their suits anymore. In short: I feel for the geth especially after letting them die in my first playthrough. "This is not justice."

[@Shadowhunterbg]

About the rebelion true but if they wanted to exist at any cost why did they sign with the losing side, us? Legion said clearly that the Old Machines offered them a path that wasn't theirs, the geth wanted to build their own future with their own evolutionary pace with their own capabilities and you should agree that if you let overpowered machines like the Reapers to be all over the Galaxy, more or less you will control people's lives and even advance them reaperfying (not indoctrinating) our society changing who we are as a species. We as a society should mature first before we are handed new technology that we could use for selfish evil purposes. History has shown how bad things go when you give a tribe guns.... People will fear you even if you try to be helpful because you control something that they CAN'T fight off if something goes horribly wrong. We fear what we can't control or understand. The people won't know what happened to the Reapers, why they suddently decided to stop fighting and be among us. Will you feel safe? Will you feel secure when the very thing that almost wiped out your very race is in your face each passing day in your life? I won't. EDI said that the Reapers should be defeated not because they want to destroy us but because their very existence makes us die inside from fear. This war was not about saving as much lives as possible. Shepard said it cleary at the begining - It's about survival. Garrus - Are you ready to sacrifice millions to save billions? You humans want to save everyone, in this war, that's not going to happen. Javik was horribly biased towards synthetics but what he said was true in the ending - We should be ready to do whatever is necessary to destroy the reapers. Honor doesn't matter in this war. I really loved the geth and Legion, i made peace between the Quarians and Geth because i could but Shepard never forsaw what it will take to take down the Reapers. Legion made a sacrifice that freed the geth from the Reapers, he made the geth self aware and his race made the victory over the Reapers possible. His sacrifice was not in vain. I created a future for the krogan, gave a new chance for every race - asari, vorcha, batarians, turians, volus and many more not just the geth to start a new life. I will not let them live under my God like shadow for the rest of their lives. I had one job and i did it and i will not let something that dangerous exist only because i want to be the "PURE HERO" in the story. I wont even trust myself in Controlling the Reapers because we can change as a person in every given moment, what about eternity? Will you be the same Shepard after 500 years? 2000 years? Imagine what horrible events you might witness that can totally make you into another being. Also i won't take the word of the Catalyst, the very thing that tried to kill me 5 minutes ago but started negotiating when i was in reach of it's SHUT DOWN button. The Reapers poisoned the Galaxy long enough with their existence. Everything should end even the Reapers... Control is not so bad but it has more risks than people can imagine. Destroy is the more evil choice but it's better for the survivors in the long run.

[@Account2129]

Damn Shepard, having 'saved the galaxy' is going to look good on your resume

[@TheLovehate19]

Paragon hero all the way(some renegade moments, only with good reasons) DLC allow Balak to leave to save the civilians. Saved Wrex, KIA: Kaidan, romance Ashley, Earth representative Anderson. ME2 romanced Tali, all crew mates survived(Ex sept Cerberus crew but Dr. Chakwas is alive) saved the data for Mordin, rewrite the geth, got Zaeed & Kasumi paragon ending. DLC of the Arrival, the Shadow Broker, and Overlord, all paragon ending. ME3 awaken the Javik early in the game, re-romance Tali, saved Ashley, do the dlcs(Omega, Leviathan, and shore leave) paragon ending. The endgame should be obvious: Destroy the Reapers.

[@MelMelMel]

Personally prefer paragate, but fuck, renegade has you doing some stupid shit sometimes. Great wonderful roundup. Thanks for you comment man.

[@MelMelMel]

*BIG NEWS* : MASS EFFECT WILL CONTINUE!!!!!!! HERE'S THE LINK TO THE TEASER! REJOICE!!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpiQdKeda9CSd9E To everyone who came here to watch this ending again, a warm welcome. Let's hope they won't pull another Andromeda.

[@Krispeysz]

Whoooo yahhhhh bro I’m hyped af as hyped as I was for cyberpunk. Hopefully this will make up for andromeda

[@argiedude3762]

They'll bang! THEY'LL BANG OKAY?! 😭

[@sercranio9246]

I’m not crying... you are crying!

[@willthrash9289]

They won’t, it’s definitely Liara, all the devs are teasing the return of the Normandy crew. The Reapers and post destruction seems to fit shortly after the Battle for Earth

[@maciejgierowski9977]

Well there are proofs that both andromeda and original mass effect will be connected in next game

[@maramackenzie-mann]

*gasp* Shit I left the oven on!

[@MelMelMel]

This is why Shepard has to live for a perfect ending; He has to turn his oven off.

[@treekid7455]

more like "Shit! I forgot to delete my browser history"

[@VichyGlitterGun]

And then kids Female Shepard and Garrus is spotted at a beach, Garrus bringing out a gun to shoot a jellyfish and Shepard spending 10 minutes trying to explain “it’s just a big stupid jellyfish”

[@lorddarkness7816]

Hold on Tali… I’m coming.

[@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL]

Tali = only good romance option

[@MelMelMel]

Once you go Tali, you can't go back. Why? Cus' if you do, best bro Garrus will get her and you'll be forced to watch. Not picking Tali means that you'll be interdimensionally spacecucked by your best friend.

[@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL]

@@MelMelMel And Kasumi gonna be mad at you too.

[@MelMelMel]

@@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL Re-watch the video and look at the memorial board. It's already taken care of. When I say "perfect ending" I mean it lmfao.

[@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL]

@@MelMelMel oh I know, but I mean if you decide to leave Tali. 2nd game she says to Shep "Be good to her"

[@MelMelMel]

@@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL And good to her we sure as hell are woo-wee

[@Prussian7789]

now that Andromeda is out and 600 years in the future I need closure on what the milky way is like

[@MoldySpore]

Well they didn't have you pick what ending you did at the beginning of Mass Effect Andromeda, or import ANYTHING (which I thought was stupid) so one can assume they are going to pick one of the 3 endings and make that canon. Which is going to piss a lot of people off, since 2/3 of the ME:3 choices won't be canon anymore. I'd assume they will go with a non-perfect Destroy ending, since Shepard would be dead 600 years ahead anyway, and the Reapers should get defeated since that is like...the driving force of the original series.

[@_MaZTeR_]

Andromeda is a soft reboot. Everything happened the way they did, except the choices which gave alternative solutions are left unknown. We probably will never know what really happened since the crew of the Andromeda project have no way of knowing either. Unless they make it so that the main characters decides to head back to the Milky Way in the "Mass Effect 3" of the Andromeda reboot. I personally just want them to go back to the Milky Way and explore what has happened after 600 years since ME3. They could make the storyline play according to the possible choices you made in ME1-3.

[@TheCorrodedMan]

_MaZ_ it would take another 600 years just to get back,I doubt there would be anything to come back to in either galaxy by that point

[@deangeloellis6910]

Bioware released the canon fate of mass effect 3 sheperd kills the reapers, survives the citidal and the milky way slowly rebuild....if the arks could return to the milky way they would find it alive

[@lillycastitatis6807]

LINK PLEASSE!!

[@igodreamer7096]

I think its almost impossible for a reasonable person to avoid love Tali, she is just too sweet

[@batman871504]

It's all about Jack

[@E-N-A-R-D-L-A-V]

She'll always be that sweet naive kid I rescued on the Citadel all those years ago. Love interest...hell no............Little sister in dire need of protection and guidance...hell yes.

[@MrSpartanspud]

Yeah Tali is basically only just an adult when Shepard meets her and I assume Shepard is mid 30s. Never really felt like that kind of relationship to me.

[@pasahanyazici9213]

@@MrSpartanspud Pretty sure that Tali is 24/25 and Shep is 29/30 in ME3

[@EXTREME_FLUFF]

@@pasahanyazici9213 Tali is apparently 24 in ME3 and Shepard is 32. So while it's a decent sized gap, in a world where the life span is about 150, it's not that huge of a difference.

[@darkfluoresce1915]

That scene, panning over to the N7 dog tags and him taking the breath, is all they need for a Mass Effect 4 teaser trailer. Also Mass Effect 4 logo in the video directly after the breath and watch the fan base freak

[@anangryninja2824]

Shepard: Hey there boys, *I’M BAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKK*

[@theblackdemon4582]

It still hurts me every time I see Mass Effect 3’s ending 😭😭😭 I romanced tali been my favorite character since the first game next to Shepard

[@agentandrewmiltonpinkerton9818]

If the andromedea people knew

[@NocturnalAnimations101]

Tali will always be the best romance option. Issue with this ending, is that Edi dies and I rather save my whole team's lives by sacrificing my own. I stick by this in any game and in the real world

[@FarfromRad]

All I want is to see my crew again after the perfect ending.

[@Allprezz]

My shephard's goal was always destroy the reapers. In my many many playthroughs I've only ever picked destroy

[@justsomeguywithaplan971]

You killed edi and every geth then you made a choice multiple times without thinking about it you killed so many of your former Allies enemies too and anyone living due to a vi system

[@gacktdirge17]

same, no brainer, as a soldier mission is always first.

[@nikon6163]

This ending will be canon for Mass Effect 4. I really want to keep playing as Shepard in the upcoming one, or at least have him present in the game as a side character or even a squad member. Can't wait

[@DragonRage61]

I hope Mass Effect 4 can have a wedding scene! 🤵👰🔔

[@DDDloki]

I can respect anyone who romanced Tali instead of anyone else

[@rubyrachel501]

i don't really get it, what's the point of Shepard surviving if there isn't any new Mass effect game with Shepard 😐

[@ARCEUS493ZELDA]

well considering technically shepard "did" survive and andromeda takes place 600 years after ME3 and there is no mention of when/how shep died post ME3 in andromeda i'd speculate to say shep will make some other sort of cameo aside from the memory fragments and N7 armor wether it be more voiced dialogue from femshep/broshep or maybe even ryder meeting shep face to face in some future DLC........ but that's just personal speculation and hopes so dont quote me on it and take it with a grain of salt

[@jeremiahcripps8488]

Ruby Rachel The Mass Effect team has already stated the trillogy is Shepard's story full-circle. Andromeda and onward is new character territory, they decided this especially with how shitty a team EA gave them for ME3 and how EA twisted everyrhing on its head. For those who don't have the means to have the expansion dlc to enable the extended ending, this game sucked ass. Yes, for the last part of Shepard's storyline it was still done decently... Not the best it could be though. Those of you who haven't played Andromeda yet, Shepard does have a spoken about cameo as does Garus, his father Castius and Dr. Liara T'soni.

[@antowibisono2130]

Because the poor commander need a rest u kno, he'll have to die twice now

[@ninjadamian1997]

dont mind be but story (which i care most in mass effect) was great in me3. endings was like a little shit about that but i can survive that.

[@_NutcasE_]

What bothers me more is the rubble he is covered in. The citadel and crucible blew up in space so how did he have air to breathe? Citadel and crucible are made out of metals yet shepard is covered in concrete like rubble AND on a downhill. It just really brings the indoctrination theory back to my head. That shepard never entered citadel and by choosing destroy shepard resists the indoctrination attempt and wakes up in the rubble he was shot by harbinger

[@TheREALSimagination]

That was CLEARLY an inhalation! I literally completely forgot how moving Hackett's speech montage is, especially when Tali places the name of all names on the memorial. I've been meaning to get back into the trilogy, but as with Bioshock Infinite, I don't think I can manage it right now, emotionally.

[@silvervase]

The ending should have been similar to ME2. You get a lot of help for the crucible, aka do the side quests and get allies, you live. You don't , you dead.

[@radosawl9734]

After over 30 years of gaming I can tell that this the best (and the most touching) connection of music and outro of all games i have been playing. I even have mp3 with this music and i listen it sometimes.

[@Oblithian]

I don't remember any of this last rebuilding scene. Just a few lights, some explosions and the old man telling a story.

[@AZ240992]

Because the outrage at the original ending was so bad, BioWare were essentially ordered to fix it, thus the extended cut was released several months later as free DLC.

[@nullcrurivastator7856]

"If war has taught us anything, it is that war... war never changes."

[@MelMelMel]

Fan Q&A time!!!! *Who was your favorite Mass Effect character?* *Who did you romance? Why?* *What's your favorite soundtrack from the trilogy?* *What's your best memory from the franchise?* *What were your favorite classes/abilities?* Since Bioware is as good as dead, I'm trying to keep the community kinda alive by keeping this video up. Please discuss, I'd love to spark some interesting discussions. Keep it respectful. You can copy-paste the format above to answer the questions if you'd like. If anyone from EA ever reads this. First you take Westwood (Command and Conquer), then Bioware (Mass Effect) and even Maxis (Spore). I hope to bring some positivity by pinning this post. We're all mourning together.

[@jacksonleinberger4782]

KID FATE for 1 and 2 Tali is my fav

[@madcapmagician3130]

Tried nearly every romance option on various plays. Tali is my fav. Although FemShep has a hankering for Liara. I like Garrus as my favourite character, his comments are the best. Second was Mordin, i took him on every away mission. That moment when you tell Tali how you feel and she gets all flustered...or if you take Legion to Tali's trial (because i'm an awkward bugger). Best moment...too many, but a stand out is the intro to the first game, i was so excited. Just started a ME1 fresh playthrough, going to make some different choices and mix it up a little.

[@TheDONing1]

I'd have to agree with jackson, 2 was my personal favorite and Tali is my go-to Quarian Waifu.

[@MelMelMel]

@@TheDONing1 I see that you're both men of culture. Hats-...I mean, Space helmets off to you.

[@TheDONing1]

@@MelMelMel And I tip my Space Fedora to you too sir.

[@sunfire3983]

Can Shepard return to his crew after the perfect ending and just chill with his team like in ME 2?

[@zirconmetalgods254]

No, EA thinks its LOTR and George Martin. It even fucked up the original plot. I'm never doing synthesis & control. Joker can get a stripper, EDE & geth can be remade. Too bad. I'm getting that fun time with my romanced partner.

[@putofoku6104]

Man I can't play this game again, its so emotionally hard for me to play it knowing after all that happened to him that shit ending is all that he gets :c miss you, shep

[@burakserger625]

not the perfect ending when EDI dies or if you played last 2 games over and over again to make peace between Geth and Quarian and all the geth dies at the end

[@Shadowhunterbg]

The goal of the war was to stop the Reapers, not make peace with the geth.

[@dandragon1st]

Well I finished with syntesis. I worked hard to make all galaxy to fighter together. I got rakni and geth on my side. Killing them is unfair. And if there is no reason for reapers to harvest they pass all the knowleage they gathered to this cycle species. For me green ending is best.

[@Shadowhunterbg]

Green ending fucks up the galaxy because we become immortal. That will create a shit ton of problems. You basically ruined the laws of the universe just to appeal to some "know it all" machine a.i. :D

[@JavierGomezX]

Hurlock alpha I disagree with the green ending, but not because of that "inmortality is bad" argument. (I actually, kinda hate that argument). But because if synthesis IS the real solution of the problem, it shouldn't be imposed by one person. Even if we evolve and trascend, sapient beings will still be insignificant in the cosmos. What is important is that life continues, no matter the form, and maybe some day, if life is preserved and given control over it's fate; life will find meaning amid the cosmos.

[@dandragon1st]

I look at it as a solutions to save the lives. I was fighting to erase the need to fight. If there is no longer the reason to fight humanity may use the resources to discover not to fight. For me peace and erasing the reason to killing is best solution. Civis want to live their lives not have to cover in fear every now and than. Good ending cause shepard lives? Sometimes the ultimate sacrifice is the way to protect your cause

[@greywolfgames709]

this hit me in my soul..... my top 3 game series ....ME is number 3 on that list..... had to sit and think about everything for a long time after the end.... god bless you for putting this together.... i hope everyone out there is doing alright i know 2020 has been crazy but its just like the final message .... we can get through this together ... youre never alone even when it seems dark so hang in there

[@t7ler130]

15:30 Yes, Tali, don't do that. You know he's still alive and loves you..

[@Menhtrol]

Commander Shepard is many things A Good Friend A Great Leader A Real Hero A True Survivor But most importantly He is a god damn Legend And Legends Never Die

[@falconius27]

6:16 I love how they wrote Samantha Traynor. Her look manages to convey all the tension of the moment. Bioware thank you very much for this masterpiece. The saga is perfect (doubts about the finals). The music breaks the heart; the piano song is something sublime. p.s. sorry for my english. I hope I was understandable

[@Skandalos]

Just finished my 10th or so playthrough, and I let the reapers win. WTF? Never thought this too would be possible. There is always something new whenever I replay this game. Absolutely stellar storytelling and voice acting. Everything feels so real, even more real than real life itself.

[@randolphvictorconstantine7765]

It's already 2021 and I still can't let go...

[@delpierochilipeppers]

2025 here and still can't let go.

[@pandaexpress4631]

This is the most saddest ending I seen for a long time. I cried seeing what commander Shepard did to save all humanity and other living things

[@joxyver]

Wait wait, so, there is an ending where he does live. Omg. I finally know how I can beat the game, if I ever get my hands on it

[@youroverts3948]

After completing Mass Effect Trilogy and The Witcher Trilogy something happens to you . You become sad and shed some tears coz its finished , but also feel very grateful coz it happened . You get one step closer to know the meaning of life and death .You Grow . You change . This Experience is Unforgettable and will last with me forever .

[@cantkillmelol]

I miss this game thank you for sharing 1 of my fav moments in gaming history

[@generalesdeath5836]

“Jeff...we need to go...” Missed opportunity here for your lover (in my case, Tali) to freak out and start a fistfight in protest of leaving you behind.

[@GhalanSmokeScale]

"missed opportunity" or just pointless, character breaking nonsense. You've been through so much together with your entire crew, ideally everyone survived a literal suicide mission back in ME2. Everyone back then knew what they were signing up for, knew there was a high chance of none of them making it back out alive. and everyone respected that. there was no "please don't go, it's too dangerous!". Having your romance option break into a struggle / fist fight over an option *you* took, a decision *you* made, would just throw disrespect on that decision, on that option. Everyone knew Shepard made the choice, everyone knew there's a high chance of Shepard not coming back. If anything, your romance option knew that better than anyone. And they still let you go regardless.

[@estelasayeed5608]

@@GhalanSmokeScale not really.. and I understand this comment.. at least have our love break down in that scene.. I mean I romanced Traynor so I highly doubt she would accept Femsheps death/not wanting to leave her.. but then again Shepard’s alive at the end.. but we don’t get closure with us reuniting with everyone so maybe wanting our lover to break down and protest not leaving Shepard behind is not a bad thing since that’s what people would’ve wanted to do in Tali, Garrus or Traynor’s place yeah...

[@RedXhopster]

Shepard breathing and then credits rolling is so freakin satisfying oh my lord!!!

[@normalguy5725]

Man that music makes me so sad u hear it at the start of the story when the child dies and u fly away with normandy.

[@Kraecha]

After all those years, I still cry when i watch this... When I get my hands on the remastering, I won't care that it's 4K, I won't be able to see a thing anyway!