It should be about Marauder Shields in the far-future after the multi-colored endings. Possible that he would have lived the longest to see a lot of races go to ruin or rise to power.
I am not even joking.
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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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It should be about Marauder Shields in the far-future after the multi-colored endings. Possible that he would have lived the longest to see a lot of races go to ruin or rise to power.
I am not even joking.
I purposefully missed the bottle in my first run. I couldn't shit on Garrus like that.
IT WAS PLANNED ALL ALONG, GEOFF KEIGHLEY WAS JUST A SIMPLE COG IN THEIR DARK MACHINE!!!
I would somehow love a game in the pre-council stages.
There isnt a ton of room to work with beforehand, cause they decided to make humanity so super special and get ahead int he galaxy so fast and they'd never do a game prehumanity, even though everyone is more interested in the aliens than the humans.
Same here. I'm impressed by the number of people on NeoGAF that missed the bottle. I always get the impression that there is a large number of renegade players on this board and yet Garrus is able to unite everyone in the end.
brianmcdoogle
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I'm Commander Shepard and this is one of my favorite scenes in Mass Effect 3.
I shot it. You got show who the bitch in the relationship is.
Making a game during the First Contact War seems pretty obvious.
Seriously. I've yet to see anyone try to explain how Shepard would have survived re-entering orbit.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Starchild.
I dont think people would be as gungho for a game with only turians and humans involved.
I thought the movie was going to be about that. With a competent writer/director it still could turn out great.
The idea with that theory is that he never left Earth, thus, Reapers are still on full attack mode.
Didnt stop Shepard in ME2. Just a quick Lazarus operation and bam.
but basically nothing happened there thanks to mac walters, I can count the number of times turians and humans engaged in battle on one hand.
Cerberus cyborg. He is not even the real shepard as we have learned from the video recordings during the cerberus base mission.
(grasping at straws)
Garrus is my best bro and everything but I'm competitive. I beat his ass in that shooting competition.
Especially a war where nothing really happened but a few really small skirmishes. Also if they stick to their own lore we won't even be able to understand the Turians, unless they choose to ignore that like they did in their comic.
Except for the mythical Dudebro McGamer, EA's long-sought-after audience.
I wish they would go in a pre-humanity direction. Or First Contact War. Or just being a C-Sec cop on the Citadel. Just nothing with ancient robot squid conspiracies to harvest and kill billions so they can save us.
Should have pick the secret fourth ending. The Citadel fails to fire but the Rachni come to the rescue in Gundams and kill the reapers with shining claw attacks.
So the waking Shepard is the one that was lost in space in at the beginning of ME2? I WANT TO BELIEVE.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Welcome, brother.
I went with control because I recall Star Child guy say that choosing to destroy would destroy all synthetics which means Reapers, Geth, AND EDI, as well as the Mass Relays. I didn't want to destroy the Geth because I tried so hard to save them. Why'd they hafta get rid of my bro Legion?
yeah i missed also
ppl connect alot with the characters............
its a good thing bioware closed the series so well(lol)
Don't forget that EDI is in the Normandy, it's just her body that is getting destroyed. I think?
Nah. It was always a conflict where very little fighting happened. The ME1 codex detailed it. Than the comics fucked it up. I can forgive fucking up how space battles work, cause the codex's pseudo realistic approach would be more boring or harder to convey (but I would have sung their praises if they had stuck with it) but the comic version of the first contact war was dumb as hell.
All of the Geth are basically Legion at that point. He imbued them with his personality.
Unless of course Tali killed Legion in your game and the Quarians destroyed the Geth fleet, lawl.
And really, while I'm at it, Earth is the most boring place I have ever seen. I know it's all "EARTH IS IN RUINS" but shit, everything was so square and well aligned. Makes you wonder if they did that level last, just ran out of time and started placing square models with a texture.
And what the fuck, that sequence with the old man and the "small old man". That's one terrible voice-actor. WHY IS THAT SCENE EVEN THERE!
And what the fuck, that sequence with the old man and the "small old man". That's one terrible voice-actor. WHY IS THAT SCENE EVEN THERE!
Rebel Leader
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No. The AIs all get fried. It wouldnt matter if she was in a slutty robot body or inside the ship. Her blue box would be fucked. After all, geth can live in servers or be uploaded into ships, they dont have to be in platforms.
Yeah it's stated at certain points that the Geth aren't hardware - they're software.
Its rare for the endings of games to be super detailed cause resources usually go more towards the front end (more players will see it) and it usually a place where you are preoccupied with shooting things, unlike a hub area. It was really gray though and disappointing. Didnt really invoke "the star trek utopian city in ruins" like I thought it would (should).
Disheveled_Zen
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The thing is, with the destroy ending, the fact that you are alive means that either:
A: The kid was lying
B: It never happened.
Don't really see any other alternatives, I doubt he just simply made a mistake.
A: The kid was lying
B: It never happened.
Don't really see any other alternatives, I doubt he just simply made a mistake.
Than EDI should be safe too? ... Crap.
But I choose the Synth. ending too - why would I screw up my new Geth friends? Legion would have "died" for nothing.
Didnt he give them individuality? So it would be his personality. Maybe his ideas.
True. But then again I never shared the experiences with those other Geth! Legion rocked my N7 armor, was awesome in ME2, and he also went into Tron land and gave me some awesome backstory. That was why I choose to allow him to do his thing. Then out of nowhere, he decides to kill himself to allow every Geth to live. Then the ignorant Quarians go all out and get themselves killed. THEN TALI loses all hope. I mean they take everything away from me right there and I just killed a Reaper. Let me celebrate with my pals!
Yeah, that's how I saw it.
The destroy option seem to imply to me that even advanced tech that may be essential to operate things like spaceships and the like would be destroyed.
edit: I consider legion dead, because the prime said he was. They all may have is disposition now, but whatever made legion be legion is dead.
edit: I consider legion dead, because the prime said he was. They all may have is disposition now, but whatever made legion be legion is dead.
heliosRAzi
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C: LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE.
Seriously, you can easily attribute this to Bioware/Walters/Hudson's laziness and time constraints
Disheveled_Zen
Member
Sounds like you got the worse possible scenario there.
Welcome to the stonegae. Enjoy your human meal, Krogans on earth.
That's the main reason why I didn't choose it.
Also, the fact that I defended the ending on this thread made me love it much more: after finishing the game I thought it was just "good"
Yeah, you just screwed over civilization cause the mass relay are fucking gone and its likely the council and most of the high officials of all the major races are dead.
Except the Rachni Queen. Aint nothing to a boss.
It will probably get ignored (again lol) but here was my theory as far as what happened from the point that Shepard gets hit by the reaper laser towards the end:
The story given to us (from ME1 to ME3) ended up being told similarly to what was told in the bible. No one really knows what happened at the end of the game on the Citadel by the time you see the stargazer and some of the details of what took place have probably been embellished over time, which explains some of the weird stuff that happened when Shepard got to the Citadel at the end of the game (like being able to breathe in open space, the catalyst, etc.) From the point that Shepard beamed himself up to the Citadel to enable the Crucible after he got blasted by the reaper laser and onward, Alliance lost contact with him. There is no possible way that anyone would know what Shepard did, so it makes no sense that the stargazer would know what really happened.
So IMO, nobody really knew what Shepard did on the Citadel. Hackett never made contact with him after Anderson died because Shepard collapsed and seemingly died before that elevator beamed him up to the top of the Citadel. The fact that I've heard numerous complaints that "it stops becoming a Mass Effect story when he reaches the Citadel and is confronted by the Illusive man" gives even more credence to my theory. No one was there that could vouch for what happens after that point of the story. I think the reason the ending becomes so different from what Mass Effect is as a series at that point is because no one really knew what happened to Shepard. From that point on its a story that was made up by the survivors of the war to explain what happened...a myth passed down for seemingly generations. In that context, the ending itself is pretty cool. We basically witnessed the origin of how a new religion was created.
The story had been passed on for so long, by the time we see the stargazers after the credits he's known as simply "The Shepard" like he's a god or something
The fact that the entire series was a story told to a child by his grandfather way farther into the future confirms that for me.
My question is...if you chose the Synthesis ending and destroyed all of the Mass Relays, wouldn't that mean you destroyed almost all life all around the galaxies? If a Mass Relay getting destroyed is the equivalent of a Super Nova, that could destroy a solar system, wouldn't everything including Earth be toast?
The story given to us (from ME1 to ME3) ended up being told similarly to what was told in the bible. No one really knows what happened at the end of the game on the Citadel by the time you see the stargazer and some of the details of what took place have probably been embellished over time, which explains some of the weird stuff that happened when Shepard got to the Citadel at the end of the game (like being able to breathe in open space, the catalyst, etc.) From the point that Shepard beamed himself up to the Citadel to enable the Crucible after he got blasted by the reaper laser and onward, Alliance lost contact with him. There is no possible way that anyone would know what Shepard did, so it makes no sense that the stargazer would know what really happened.
So IMO, nobody really knew what Shepard did on the Citadel. Hackett never made contact with him after Anderson died because Shepard collapsed and seemingly died before that elevator beamed him up to the top of the Citadel. The fact that I've heard numerous complaints that "it stops becoming a Mass Effect story when he reaches the Citadel and is confronted by the Illusive man" gives even more credence to my theory. No one was there that could vouch for what happens after that point of the story. I think the reason the ending becomes so different from what Mass Effect is as a series at that point is because no one really knew what happened to Shepard. From that point on its a story that was made up by the survivors of the war to explain what happened...a myth passed down for seemingly generations. In that context, the ending itself is pretty cool. We basically witnessed the origin of how a new religion was created.
The story had been passed on for so long, by the time we see the stargazers after the credits he's known as simply "The Shepard" like he's a god or something
The fact that the entire series was a story told to a child by his grandfather way farther into the future confirms that for me.
My question is...if you chose the Synthesis ending and destroyed all of the Mass Relays, wouldn't that mean you destroyed almost all life all around the galaxies? If a Mass Relay getting destroyed is the equivalent of a Super Nova, that could destroy a solar system, wouldn't everything including Earth be toast?
C. Writers: "Oops."
WrenchNinja
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Why? Only humans consider it a war. Everyone else considers it a joke skirmish. Nothing happened.
The "you are alive" sequence is a small "gift" from Bioware. It means nothing outside of your mind.
Shepard story is over, he's irrelevant outside of ME3.
You can't be serious. :|