User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-5687135-20121031201025/@comment-5687135-20121101235853

I can't help but notice no one wants to speculate on Bioware going back and adding another ending (they have already) to refusal. They could easily say Paragon wins by a narrow margin while Renegade loses. Don't argue my points, though. Just keep tossing out "No no no no no" and hope it wins my imagination over. Tip to save you time: It won't happen.

Consider this for one second... If you chose refusal and lost, you die, right? But no cycle can win without using one of the options. With the refusal ending, the story teller says the Reapers were defeated by the next cycle... SO now what happens when the current cycle makes synthetics? The whole thing starts all over again? So then we're back to square one. History repeats itself and they may as well not make another Mass Effect since the same things will just continue in a loop. When it comes down to it, you just have to let some things slide when it comes to science fiction. There are no rules set in stone that the writers can't write themselves out of. Even if some fans don't like it, they can just shrug and say "we tried to please as many people as we could with a broad strokes approach".

Bioware has already added an ending for refusal. Bioware can still add a caveat for your Paragon/Renegade status for refusal. Even if they don't, saying what they will/won't do isn't a part of what we're discussing. What we're discussing is what we'd like to see; not what Bioware will or won't do.

How is it mass speculation on whether some people might not like being synthesized? If you fundamentally changed everyone in the world today, how do you think people react? I think the star child was just assuming everyone will be happy with forced synthesis. It never mentioned brain washing to accept the synthesis. And it doesn't know exactly how it will work since these are new functions. It also can't predict how trillions of individuals from different cultural and religious background will react to being forcibly changed. You saw Joker all happy with it, sure. He can move about like normal people without shattering his bones. He and Edi can be an item now, yippy! He's happy cause it worked out for him. What about others?