User blog comment:Damous/Why Bioware has NOT betrayed us/@comment-24.146.180.82-20120313094642

I think most everyone has gotten it wrong. This epic game is about one thing... CHOICE

From the beginning trailer in ME1 the last line Shepard says: It's about making the hard choices.. From that point on every game decision was about what Shepard would do, which planet to go to, what phrase to say, which action to take and at what time.

In ME2 sometimes those decisions would affect the outcome whether or not who will survive the suicide mission in the end..

In ME3, those decisions affected outcomes as to what resources and friends you have to wage the final battle.

But Bioware got a little sneaky. The last decision isn''t Shepard's, it is what YOU, the player, want to see happen in the end. You are given the choice on whether or not two forms of life can co-exist in the universe, or not.

Up until now the child AI has decided that all organic life that has reached a certain awareness and understanding, every 50000 years, would become indoctrinated, their essences collected, processed and become new Reapers, allowing new civilizations to grow and be cultivated at the next cycle.

This time you, playing as Shepard, have reached the catalyst and must decide the fate of all organic and artificial life. One decision will destroy all artificial life and most technological achievements that came from it for organics (this on the surface would be a Renegade choice). Another decision would have all artificial life lose it's free will and become controlled (TIM's choice but since this would save all life, it is considered a Paragon choice), and finally the third choice is for which all types of life can be merged. (similar to what the AI had decided but allows both side s to co-exist, instead of one reigning then the other)

A lot of people have been commenting that the correct choice can only be this one or the other. And that choosing the other decisions were because Shepard was becoming indoctrinated by the Reapers. The truth is Shepard has always been indoctrinated, he hasn't had any free choice in any of his decisions in any of the games, he was always being controlled... by YOU.

So Bioware has decided to allow you he players to CHOOSE the fate of all life in the universe.. I think that is the best choice Bioware could have made for this series. Don't you???