New video!
Shows snippets of the story, and shows environments (looks gorgeous!) as well as some game play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIzH6UcoW4
Nice. I will check it out later, but I wouldn't be surprised at the lovely environments. Bioware does gorgeous details, and I love that about them.
Hey guys, think maybe isn't the place, but I gotta ask: Anyone else take the 'Green Door' ending in ME3? I did, and was totally OK with it. Does that make me a monster?
"Green Door"? You mean, the Synthesis ending?
Eh, I think it depends on whether a person believes that the ends justify the means, and whether they think it's morally right to do such things to a huge universe of diverse peoples, and whether one believes that it is a realistic situation (I personally don't).
I have already mentioned my own thoughts about the endings in the past posts, but I always thought, and still do, that the Synthesis ending was the most unrealistic (in fact, almost almost childlike in its harmonious symplistic answers to complex problems of society) and the most creepiest (in my eyes, it feels like assimilation without consent and an extreme invasion of organic people's bodies) of all of the endings.
Yes, for real. I would rather have humanity die out fighting for freedom than deal with such a non-consensual situation like that.
I think the ending is very morally sticky, and it makes me feel very, very uncomfortable (almost sickened) with its implications, but other players may think about the ending differently and interpret it in other ways (because people are different and don't think the same way, obviously
).
The devs obviously see that ending as a "good thing", for example, while I personally see it as an invasive, creepy, and morally questionable ending.
I think it all depends on how one interprets the ending, and whether one feels which ending, out of the limited choices the devs give you, is the best one for the situation.
Obviously, this is fiction, so I am not going to think someone's a monster for choosing something in a fictional game, especially when the devs make it seem like the player is right for choosing it.
But...if something like this situation happened in real life, and someone did something like that to all people of the Earth... I would definitely be one of the people who would be pissed off (and creeped out) about being altered without consent. I would feel that there would be other humans, and maybe other aliens (if aliens were real), who would feel the same.
In real life, I don't think the outcome would have end up as happy (or nonchalant) as the devs make it out to be, because I feel that would be very unrealistic. We have a world with many diverse peoples with different beliefs (and different religions) and values, etc, and I doubt all of the inhabitants would be cool with being altered like that, even if the process is done with good intentions.
After all, I wouldn't want a doctor to alter my body in any way without my knowledge and consent, even if the doctor did it for "my own good" or had good intentions. *shivers* I don't think I am alone in thinking this. I am very pro-choice, and very pro-consent about my body.
Personally, I would think there would be many wars and fights and uncomftorabtle situations to come out of that kind of ending in real life. I know I would be a very unhappy citizen in such a world.
ETA: It reminds me of the whole Krogan and Mordin situation and the conflicting morals of that situation, actually.
I just feel that altering all people without their knowledge and consent is a slippery slope to something much more dangerous.
Sorry for the rambling. Just voicing my frustrations with such an ending and the devs thinking that it's a simplisitic happy ending to the world's problems...
Hopefully, this new Mass Effect game avoids that route of thinking again, or I am going to have to agree to disagree with the devs' philosophy and way of thinking, and I would definitely have to move on permanently from this franchise...