IT IS NOT A THING YOU CAN COMPREHEND
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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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IT IS NOT A THING YOU CAN COMPREHEND
Anticitizen One
Banned
Isn't that a remix of one of the tracks from ME 1. I believe it was the song when you land on that planet where you meet liara
But if all accounts are erased then who is neogaf? Speculation time!
I thought dark energy was kind of like a by-product of using mass effect fields. Kinda like pollution. So wipe out the races using dark energy, harvest them to make a hive mind (the human reaper) that can come up with a way to stop the dark energy. Like curing global warming or something.
I don't think so.
Anticitizen One
Banned
yea sounds similar
lastplayed
Member
Jake Tower
Banned
Yup. It showcases why the characters and universe are so entertaining, even aside from game mechanics.
If only this universe had continued to be refined in the RPG area instead of toward the action/shooter area.
RedRedSuit
Member
Any pseudo-scientific explanation like that would be fine, even if it's scientifically nonsense.
And it would give a number of reasonable paths into further Mass Effect games. If you kill the Reapers after all and are faced with a short amount of time during which to solve the next threat (the dark energy thing), then that's plenty of material for another trilogy. If you choose to not kill them, then maybe you die or become monstrous but in charge of them. This could be the non-canonical ending.
Really, it's hard to come up with a clean, beautiful, logical ending given the baggage from the dialog in the 3 games, but it should not be hard to avoid making a really terrible one like what we got.
Anticitizen One
Banned
you know what makes no sense. How can you control the reapers if your DEAD?? Shepard dies before the reapers leave earth. Who is controlling them and who gets control after shepard dies?
I got all the way to the point of downloading ME1 and 2 on Steam, and then they were done and I remembered that they mean nothing
RedRedSuit
Member
<magic>
He becomes one with them. Pretty sure Captain Phantasmo Child said that.
He becomes a reaper through space magic.
Tuchanka's last few minutes were tense and exciting. Also, the conclusion of the Genophage saga was harrowing to say the least. Rannoch's last few minutes were also quite good and you can feel the tension rising as Legion uploads his data to the Geth.
Anyway, I've been doing some thinking and the more I do that, the more I abhored the Synthesis ending because it takes away everyone's individuality and turn them into a mish mash of organic/synthesis. And who's to say that one day these mess of creatures won't create more normal synthetic that'd also destroy them?
The reason organics create synthetics in the first place was to make organics' life easier. In that sense, synthetics created in this manner should have been programmed in such a way so that they adhere to Asimov's fictional but makes a lot of sense "3 laws of Robotics".
Should a synthetic start to grow AI, then the best solution would be to give each synthetic individuality. The reason synthetics are so united in their cause against organics is because they are one collective, together in their cause. It's for this very reason we never see a Reaper ally, an individual Reaper who disagrees with the directions of their kind. Marauder Shields joke aside, of course.
In contrast, the Geths have the Heretics vs the Legions and I assume it became even more diverse after Legion gave them individuality. By giving synthetics individuality, they'll be independent from each other, have different thoughts and opinions, form attachment AND loyalty to the organics that they know well, etc.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Ending wasn't as terrible as I expected. All the hate made me thing it would be some "it was all a dream/simulation" thing.
lastplayed
Member
Shepard's chillin' with Captain Sisko in the white plane of existence. He can control them from there.
RedRedSuit
Member
Oh the irony.
WrenchNinja
Member
Does Shepard become a reaper? Is that what Catalyst said will happen? I thought he was giving one order that the Reapers had no choice but to follow and just trying to do that would kill him. Becoming a reaper sounds fucking stupid, but I guess thats appropriate for how shitty the ending.
I mean he says you will die, you will control them but you will lose everything.
I mean he says you will die, you will control them but you will lose everything.
Pretty sure that he's not a Reaper.
But if he is, it would make for a great space combat SIM.
So you want to play as survivor that say the death of your beloved friend, Marauder Shields
i replayed me3 and stoped at the last mission....
i cant see that ending again. the rest of the game i was cruizin thru....
ill probably finish it and wait to see the dlc.....
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
.... oh shit.
Exactly. Whole game feels half finished even if you ignore the ending.
lastplayed
Member
Who keeps harassing you by calling you "My Sweet".
"Soon, my sweet"
"Assuming direct control, my sweet"
"This hurts you, my sweet"
Uhm, that came out a lot dirtier than I intended.
Confidence Man
Member
I thought he becomes the catalyst/citadel, or merges with it anyway.
heliosRAzi
Banned
The Shepherd is kind of rapey
It's pretty fucked up. I'm reading that only two writers had input in the ending. Everyone else got locked out? I can't believe that would happen. How do you not get the entire writing staff involved in something as critical as the ending? Fuck I'd treat it as an episode of a TV series or something, accept submissions from everyone.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
It was decided about twenty pages back. Some dude gets to be Marauder Shields. He's going to sacrifice everyone to save everyone...I get to be Neogaf.
You can be Jessica Chobot.
Mac Walter is going to be a curse word among Bioware fans for ages regardless of any fix. His ego (which most likely caused this mess) will cause him to attempt to rationalize why there is a fan backlash, but he will inevitable fail to see that he is a piss poor writer who more or less single-handedly destroyed one of gaming's most beloved game universes.
RedRedSuit
Member
Jeez, take it easy.
LightofRohan
Member
Listening to the Adam Sessler, Kevin Vanord and other podcast discussion about the games ending. It is making me cringe...
But it makes some sense why all these journalists actually sort of enjoy the ending. I think it comes down to, when you work at a place that requires you to actively play games constantly for a living. I'm sure you get a little bit jaded and don't necassarily get as attached to franchises as someone that cherishes their gaming time.
And I think when you see Bioware do something totally out of left field, unexpected and ballsy that it's refreshing to see, instead of the classic; triumphant ending w/ ewok song or mass destruction if you screw up. So I feel like they are satisfied that it's not the same "old thing". But this goes to show, how we should not listen to critics so feverishly as we have been... putting way too much value in Metacritic ect.
But it makes some sense why all these journalists actually sort of enjoy the ending. I think it comes down to, when you work at a place that requires you to actively play games constantly for a living. I'm sure you get a little bit jaded and don't necassarily get as attached to franchises as someone that cherishes their gaming time.
And I think when you see Bioware do something totally out of left field, unexpected and ballsy that it's refreshing to see, instead of the classic; triumphant ending w/ ewok song or mass destruction if you screw up. So I feel like they are satisfied that it's not the same "old thing". But this goes to show, how we should not listen to critics so feverishly as we have been... putting way too much value in Metacritic ect.
I'm sorry. I've been spending too much time in this thread today.
Aha. No. Renegade punch!
That's true. Casey had a part in it, too.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
C'mon...don't be like that. If you look at her character model, at lease she gets to eat a large number of pies...
You changed the ending! How much money did rabid, entitled fans have to raise to get you to do it?
Hmmm...if Shepherd had punched the space child in the face...I'd have been fine with that ending.
lastplayed
Member
Now I REALLY want a Garrus spin off.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Here's what I don't understand. Javik was in my squad in the final mission and Ashley is on Earth yet somehow they show up with Joker in the ending? So Javik survived the fight to the beam and then thought "i'm going to teleport to the Normandy now"?
Space magic. You can't explain that.
Seriously, no one knows. But, from cut VO, it seems that Joker is supposed to swoop in and save the day.
And then run away!
The whole scenario is so stupid. It's insane how much was messed up in a short cutscene.
I smell the beautiful merger of two memes.
Your team mates made it back to Normandy while you were being told the facts by Space Child.
I suppose the new ending will add things like that: why the crew didn't make it with you, and why they were fleeing Earth as you destroyed all the Mass Relays.
Jake Tower
Banned
Synthesis
Ironically, the only ones placing a high value on Metacritic are BioWare themselves.
"Yeah, you guys may not like the ending, but look at all these 100s, bitches!"
ME2 Shep will always be creepy Shep.