Mass Effect 3 SPOILER THREAD: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE
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Except now you probably have billions dead or dying due to the lack of relays and millions stuck in sol, like the entire quarian fleet.
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I guess that would make sense if the hyperion cantos was a choose your own adventure series.
You can pretty much live on those ships, it's all good.
dragonelite
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I dont know it was one of the things, a special way of almost instant traveling i liked in Mass effect.
Do they mention how fast Mass relay traveling is.
Javik was a warrior born well into the harvesting phase of the Prothean's cycle. It's kind of a convenient way for Bioware to not let his character give too much information and shift the plot around.
mjemirzian
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Well I was rather disappointed with the ending choices. Where's the option to destroy all organic life?
Homeworld was actually about the Quarians after ME3
heliosRAzi
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You have to be synthetic to choose that option.
True, but what else do we need to do in the Shepard-era galaxy? I'm much more interested in what happens next to the whole galaxy then how EDI and Joker will have that baby.
I would see a fanart of the latter though, just saying
I liked the game ending, so yeah, maybe.
HarryHengst
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unfortunately, there also arent any people or other species left that want to blast around the universe. :lol
they'll make it.
I *hate* the destruction of the relays. ME established early that, like in a lot of intergalactic sci-fi, having FTL travel is still not enough to get you very far. It's great for tooling around your solar system and visiting the system next door if you're lucky enough to have neighbouring systems exceptionally close or have a few years to spare. To me the best thing about the ME universe was the whole citadel culture that was allowed to grow because the relay network existed beforehand. With the relays destroyed not only can the various council races never really visit each other again (assuming their species don't go extinct on their shattered homeworlds, cut off from most if not all their colonies) but they can only communicate via a few quantum entangled devices.
And to get out of this dead end the writers will need to skip eons of time, or reduce the story to humanity and small pockets of stranded aliens who are far from home. I guess an even more far-far-far future ME universe can be cool, but it will have to be so different from the really great one they already have, I just don't understand the need to destroy it.
I hope the krogans army brought some ladies with them.
nope, gonna have to deal with the Asaris.
Billions? Way to exaggerate. The fleet is at most comprised of millions, and it's not like those ships are immobile even without relays. Someone posted somewhere it would take ships in the ME universe 25 years to travel between the furthest points in the Milky Way. That still seems pretty goddamn fast to me. Certainly the Normandy flies between systems without relays all the time. Plus, the Quarian fleet can just grow their own food on those liveships.
I doubt that. For one thing, didn't they estimate destruction of all spacefaring civilizations in this cycle would take about a century?
The most interesting angle for the next Mass Effect game would probably be trying to visit another galaxy. See what Andromeda's been up to.
Honestly, removing the Mass Relays would probably speed that process up. By forcing the races to develop their own fast travel systems, it also encourages them to travel outside the Mass Relay network.
Honestly, removing the Mass Relays would probably speed that process up. By forcing the races to develop their own fast travel systems, it also encourages them to travel outside the Mass Relay network.
When I say billion I'm talking about highly populated world that, without the ftl travel, probably can't sustain themselves without all the imports coming in.
heliosRAzi
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You're also forgetting that when a relay blows up it takes out an entire solar system
Most of the species' homeworlds are completely mined and farmed out though so reducing everyone back to just their home system would cause a lot of problems. Plus Tuchanka is a nuked out wasteland. Like you said they could probably get back but they wouldn't be able to rebuild the damage and grow food for billions of people without their colonies and other planets.
The magical light isn't them blowing up. In the destroy ending the marines are fine when the light reaches them but the reapers are vaporized.
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I see Tuchanka being a wasteland as a good thing, now that the genophage is gone, it'll keep Krogan numbers in check
ME3 best one. seriously.
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Neither did I
That's assuming that said ships are actually in the condition for long-distance flights after the battle's aftermath. When considering that the energy wave sent out by the Mass Relays could somehow damage the Normandy to a severe extent, I highly doubt the other fleets got so lucky.
Plus, that does nothing to help the races who might be stranded on planets outside of the sol system, which not only might have little resources after the Reaper attacks (looking at Palaven and Thessia), but ships couldn't travel fast enough to make trading for supplies actually feasible.
Escape Goat
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I feel so dumb for asking this but I never played ME1. What exactly is a mass relay?
And those ships could live on earth. How many millions died in the reaper attacks? A lot I'd wager.
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The huge machines teleporting you all over the galaxy.
TheGuardian
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Those big glowing stations you use to jump around the galaxy
3 would have been the best if it didn't fall on its face at the end. But it is a better constructed game than 1 so fuck it I'm going with a tie.
1=3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2
I see Tuchanka being a wasteland as a good thing, now that the genophage is gone, it'll keep Krogan numbers in check
True. I knew making that choice that it was probably going to fuck us all in the future. Turians and Asari are in trouble though. Humans too I guess. Their home planets were hit really hard.
ME3 > 2 > 1
ME1 > ME3 >> ME2.
Even if ME3's ending wasn't so terrible, ME1 still had that special something for me. I loved its exploration and total immersion.
The thing that accelerates your ship in the cut scene when traveling between systems. It enables ftl.
Were it not for the ending, I'd rate ME3 better than ME1 (and that's saying a lot) - ME1 is my favourite game ever.
My stupid attachment to the synths and art style of 1 is the only thing that's keeping it up there above 3, even though 3 is pretty much superior in all areas.
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