Okay, I still don't understand how the Catalyst doesn't make sense. It's an AI put into place by an ancient race to attempt to broker peace between organics and synthetics, but the Catalyst's programming and abilities left it with only one conclusion. Harvest the highly advanced races into purely synthetic organisms, absorbing their culture, history, etc. into a higher form.
The first thing that makes me think that the
AI is broke is that you can't preserve a culture by, in essence, killing the people composing said culture and pouring them into a shiny nice metal Hull. (Well, considering it is just an AI and i have seen computer programs doing more stupid things...)
The Catalyst originally said it controlled the reapers, now that was changed to something that sounded like it was part of a reaper hive mind (at least i got it that way) that also doesn't work with my definition of "preserving a culture"
The next thing in what the Catalyst said which made me go
: So there was a species which found out that
all somewhat sentient Synthetics rebel against their creators, so they build another AI to solve that problem
-... Curse you sudden but inevitable betrayal!
So that are the most stupid things only considering ME3.
But, there was this catalyst AI onboard the citadel the whole time. At the place where the defacto galactic Government sits.
This AI was, without external stimuli, able to get Shepard to the Crucible, meaning it has at least limited knowledge of what happens in, and around Citadel, so it most likely had enough available data to judge the civilisational standart in the galaxy.
-So why was Sovereign left behind as a Scout?
We have seen that the Catalyst can control at least some Citadel facilities, like that lift.
-So why did it not activate the Citadel Relay in ME1?
Either it does not have that control, which is a design fault the Reapers should have been able to overcome during the millennia,
Or it just didn't want to/ had better things to do, like, ...watching Elcor Shakespeare... or something.
Heck, I don't know. I guess the whole AI thing just doesn't work for me.
Oh, and about the Synthesis Ending (That was my original Choice, too): At first it was the lesser of three evils, now I'm not sure if it is the best, or actually the worst outcome. The new explanation to synthesis sounded more like the Catalyst uses your DNA profile to be able to instantly indoctrinate everyone in the Galaxy. :roll
The new Control ending came out way better than before (well, all of the endings came out way better than what i expected, especially considering the MAss Relays don't explode any more)
What i still don'T like about it is, that the whole game you argue against TIM and the control option (there isn't even an Option to say "
maybe it
could work"),
And then suddenly you go: "Oh, he was right after all, well then..."
It also gives me a headache thinking about what the new, undead Reaper Shepard would do in a hypothetical far future, where most Reapers are destroyed due to whatever circumstances.
Destroy works surprisingly well for any Shepard who killed the Geth, or being Renegade and just don't caring about them.
If it weren't for the Geth it easily would be the best ending in my book.
The new Refusal ending is also rather good Imho. I mean, you don't shoot a Hologram and expect it to die, do you?.
But what I can't stress enough, even though there are still many problems -The new epilogues really changed my perception of the Ending(s),
And ME is finally fun playing again
