Talk:Sentient/@comment-26836737-20150819021707/@comment-24210901-20150822042215

Not to reignite old wars, but... the problem with the Catalyst is one of choice. You can accept his pronouncement that organic and synthetic life cannot co-exist, or you can die. You can't do what, at least in my playthrough, do what Shepard did at every point throughout the previous three games: end wars and forge peace. The "best" ending to nearly every quest in all three games has you find the third option and get the mega-happy ending. Not every time, of course, but for nearly every "intractable" situation that came up, where there were two sides were pitted against each other with no clear resolution immediately available, you could almost always find an answer that would end the conflict to the benefit of both sides.

But not with the color-picker quest. In the last and most important choice you can make, you don't have the option of refuting the Catalyst's basic premise—despite the fact that if you did things "right", you just got finished proving him wrong.