Why does Shepard always die?
Alright, I've played through each and every ME. It's unfair to have her, I played as a female, die almost every time! I understand wanting to end the trilogy. Start something new with the vast cultur...
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Personally, I think it is right that Shepard dies in ME3. It is consistent with the themes of the rest of the series. Throughout the mass effect trilogy, we see a great deal of undeserved death and suffering. This ranges from the sacrifices of Williams or Alenko in ME1 to the many heart-wrenching refugee stories in ME3. If we had a happy ending, it would suggest that the hero was immune to the suffering affecting everyone else, and would make that suffering less real.
Oh, I agree, paiforsyth. I didn't have any problem with Shepard "ending" in all three of the offered choices.
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The only thing that really bothered me about them was that the Synthesis option was so out-of-left-field. We've spent three whole games with the Reapers as the (un)known enemy. We've sacrificed strangers, comrades, and perhaps loved ones, fighting them. Even though I might actually prefer the "Green" outcome for the Galaxy, if I'm being honest with myself and true to the Shepard I've created over those many, many hours of gameplay, there's no way I choose anything but "Red" in that moment. None.
There's just not enough from the Catalyst (the real power behind the Reapers, remember) to make me want to "join" with it. Be gone! And good riddance. Between EDI, and the Geth/Quarian détente, we know that cooperation with synthetics is possible. And it was two humans (Joker and me) who accomplished those minor miracles ) So take that, Mr. "I know better" machine-with-a-child's-face!
But once having decided that to my own satisfaction, the MEHEM offers a change of tone to my last memories of what has been an amazing, multi-year ride with my all-time favourite computer game character.
Here's to Shepard!
