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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aran Thule" data-source="post: 5884189" data-attributes="member: 65879">Ive finished it twice now, and had avoided spoilers apart from knowing that a lot of people were disappointed with the ending.1st try:Choosing mainly renegade options, romancing Liara throughout. finished on about 75% on the war assets bar.The two best scenes for me were shooting Mordin in the back and his final crawl, very moving.As a follow up Wrex going nuts when he finds out that i didnt cure the genaphage.Given that i had killed the Queen in ME1 i thought it a bit cheap when they put a clone in there, as i had not opened the Grunt pod in ME2 he wasn't there but the npc replacement died heroically.Morinth appeared on earth as a banshee, but they Shepard didnt respond at all to her.Moving to the end i had EDI and Liara in my team for the final push and after waking from the beam i staggered past their bodies as they lay in pools of blood (but Shepard didnt respond or say anything even though his soul mate was lying there)At the end i only got one option(i think), to control the reapers, there then followed the cut scenes which then went blank after the door of the normandy opened.Given that i had not filled out the war assets i though this was the 'bad' ending so tried again with my other character.2nd try:Paragon Shepard who had romanced Tali in ME2Followed the path but doing all the sub missions and trying to scan planets, plus a few multiplayer games got me to 100% war assets easily.Mordin had died in ME2 and was replaced by the Salarian that you met upon arriving at the planet.Cured the Genaphage and united the Geth and Quarians, freed the Rachni Queen who didnt do much apart from add a few war assets.Expected that having full war assets would change how the final fight progressed, only thing that changed was that Morinth did not appear as a banshee on earth(as i saved Samara in ME2)On the final push (took Tali and Javak)upon awakening i did not see the bodies of my party members so hoped they had got inside...no such luck, a few minor changed to the script and i ended up near death talking to the god child.This time i got three options and of these two:Destroy AI's: after uniting the Geth and Quarian and raising Edi's humanity i did not want to wipe them out.Synthersis: suddenly got deya vu that i was playing Deux ex again, but went for this option.Cue same cut scenes with a differant colour.This time i got a cut scene after the normandy crashed, with Joker and Edi exiting and comforting each other, which worked well... until Tali left the ship behind them.My conclusion was that if you play ME3 once then the endings are ok, but playing a second time for me just revealed that your actions have very little input on the final outcome and that there are some shocking holes if you look closely.Now after looking at some other peoples views i think im drifting towards the indoctinated mindset, for the simple reason of why do you only get the Shepard survives cut scene if you choose the destroy reaper option.</blockquote>

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