User blog comment:B1littlehero/Speculation of the Origin of Species/@comment-24013204-20140611172200/@comment-160529-20140612010353

It said that it solved the problem, but it never really said how... it just sort of presented this nazi future idea of everyones DNA being the same (even though it doesnt work that way)

and said "problem solved"

The game is either lying, and it didnt solve the problem... or it removed the causitive component which is... free will. And dont give me this "it just gave everybody wisdom" bullcrap, forcing everyone to have the same opinions and morality is the same thing as stealing away everyones free will.

The point of Mass Effect was all these different races and people coming together to fight a common enemy, overcoming their problems through negotiation and hard work.... realizing that their differences make the universe worth it. And synthesis says, that all of our differences cause all of the problems in the universe so those differences need to be removed.

Sure you have peace with synthesis, but you lose literally everything that makes peace worth it... you lose the quest for knowledge, you lose your mortality, you lose the flavor of the different lives and cultures... I loved getting to know all the different cultures, all teh different senses of morality.

These were different people, from different worlds, working and living together in a beautiful expansive universe... and that is what made Mass Effect great... and then synthesis crumbles it all into a tiny ball and says "lol, erbody the same and there is no conflict"

And to make it worse, it comes out of nowhere... the conflict in the game was never "organics vs all machines" the... the PRIMARY ANTAGONIST IS NOT EVEN A FULLY MACHINE RACE! The reapers are partially organic and partially synthetic, BEHOLD THE GLORY OF SYNTHESIS AS IT RAINS DOWN HELL FROM THE HEAVENS KILLING ALL!

There is no beauty in it, because its forced... its out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the game... there is no solution in synthesis, because there is no problem presented. The central conflict of the games was replaced in teh last five minutes with idiotic pot smoking hippy bullcrap that removes everything that made the games special.

The catalyst doesnt even provide new solutions to the problem he faced, he just provides the same solutions he has always provided. The ending was a god awful monstrocity where you are called upon to play psychiatrist to an insane deranged AI program.... and you are not allowed to play psychiatrist to the insane deranged AI program.