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Mass Effect 3 Spoiler Thread |OT2| Taste the Rainbow
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You huskify a batarian and you get a cannibal??? But you huskify a human biotic...well apparently you dont do that.
heliosRAzi
Banned
Wait, if the Collectors are all repurposed Protheans, why does the Collector General look so different?
Doing my Renegade play through now, but it has taken me like a week to get over how bad that ending was and the sour taste it left me with.
Now I just pretend the last 10minutes don't happen and the last scene in the destroy ending is Shepard waking up, indoctrination or whatever else it might have been it allows me to enjoy the game again, lol.
Yeah I totally agree with this. They could probably find a way around this issue though. A possible solution could be that they somehow repair one mass relay and get launched to the nearest one and do the same thing to each of them.
Or they go many years into the future on the next life cycle and do it all over again!
I think that hypothetical ending you posted could have definitely worked. I just want more Mass Effect backstory but it doesn't seem possible with this ending.
Posted? Co-creator of LOST:
quoting for new page. too good.
Crazy physical and genetic tampering. For no real reason.
Oh, hi there. You are free to speculate about it =)
Didn't samara in 2 say that there were only 3 Ardot-Yakshi and they were all her daughters?
If you don't do that Jack mission she ends up becoming a Cerberus Phantom; would have been fun to see her get Reapified instead and be some powerful Husk.
Or they will fucking retcon the shit out of the thing cause they have done it before. Continuity, wtf is that?
Disheveled_Zen
Member
Phantoms are supposed to be Cerberus Reapified biotics. At least that's what happens to Jack if you don't save her.
King of the Potato People
Member
I just don't understand some of the renegade choices in these games.
Shepard: "He just did, without his help this war is already over" referring to Anderson, renegade points, Garrus wants you to shoot a bottle so you shoot it, renegade points, James wants to spar, you punch him and he calls it "nice" happily, renegade points.
I understand pressing down usually activates them but it still seems a bit silly.
Shepard: "He just did, without his help this war is already over" referring to Anderson, renegade points, Garrus wants you to shoot a bottle so you shoot it, renegade points, James wants to spar, you punch him and he calls it "nice" happily, renegade points.
I understand pressing down usually activates them but it still seems a bit silly.
Less interesting interrupts all around in this game.
The original question, paraphrased: How come there are no Asari or Turian or [inser here] 'husks'? There's no reason they couldn't have used regular Asari too, for instance. They'd be less capable perhaps than one derived from an Ardat-Yakshi, as I assume the other Banshees are, but still useful. Ultimately I don't care, but it is something to talk about, I suppose...
You're making my midnight cereal not sit well, man. Holding you responsible for that. Your reasoning is sound, but you're answering the wrong question.
The original question, paraphrased: How come there are no Asari or Turian or [inser here] 'husks'? There's no reason they couldn't have used regular Asari too, for instance. They'd be less capable perhaps than one derived from an Ardat-Yakshi, as I assume the other Banshees are, but still useful. Ultimately I don't care, but it is something to talk about, I suppose...
yup, she repeats in ME3 that all three daughters are Ardot-Yakshi
He's Harbinger's comfy chair.
They changed it, especially since there being only 3 sounded stupid. And you dont have to be one to be a banshee. You can have latent genes. Bioware plays fast and loose with biology.
bigace33
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0e6qaiJwos&feature=related
This is what I wanted to do to Mac and Casey after I finished ME 3.
This is what I wanted to do to Mac and Casey after I finished ME 3.
As far as I know we don't actually know.
Though I would assume seeing as we get one Harbinger collector at a time that he can't control more than one at the same time, maybe the Collector General is specially made so that he can control him during other possessings or he is some kind of entry point into controlling who he wants from so far away.
Tokubetsu
Member
Wait are those guys Reapified? Thought they were basically just indoctrinated Cerberus agents.
Haha it's all good <3
The spoilers threads have basically ran through every little Mass Effect concept and then back again.
Yeah but it notes that 1% of all Asari are Ardat-Yakshi.
Samara's three are just supposed to be particularly deadly ones, or something.
I dunno. Bioware logic.
I know the answer to my questions (the answer is they didnt fucking care) but I'm asking them cause its funny to think about.
Banshees are non-lethal ones. Not exactly the same as her daughters.
hahah you're right. but they put themselves in their own mess so if they want to please the fanbase and retcon what happened then they better find a great way to do that.
She was talking about her daughters. "There are this many of them, and all of them are Ardat-Yakshi." The phenomenon occurs in the entire population.
Must resist bringing up Reaper/Keeper/citadel signal continuity snarl.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Banshee
What makes them non lethal compared with samara's daughters? Is this in the codex, 'cause i didn't bother reading the codex in 3?
No they can be active. Thats why they went to the monastry and why there is a banshee called Morinth on Earth if you save her (how do you know though?)
Good question. Phantom-Jack talks to you, Morinth acts like all the other Banshees, from what I've heard.
Tokubetsu
Member
All are dangerous, at best they might put you in a coma, or damage your central nervous system, at worst, it's fatal. I believe they also get more powerful after each one or something like that. So even "non-lethal" ones need to be separated from the population.
whoops, skimmed too fast.
She does. I had her in my game. It was pretty lame. Nothing different at all about her except it just says "Morinth" above her health bar. She wasn't even any more difficult than the others.
The only other contact you have with her is she sends you an e-mail.
Disheveled_Zen
Member
From what I gathered all Cerberus troops by this point had begun receiving Reaper implants. Not sure if you saw the Jack bit, but basically you hear someone say he is going to tear her apart, she screams, and later you fight her as a Phantom. Seeing it was quick and painful, I would imagine its some sort of forced enhancement, much like the soldier you see on Mars.
So, I've been on a ME3 blackout since the game was announced. I was low on funds and short on time until this past weekend (three day weekend + being sick) and I finished the game. I noticed how huge the spoiler thread had gotten and was curious as to why. I kept hearing people say "the ending" as if it were singular and made nothing of it. Yet, there I was with three options to choose from. I went with the middle one, completely intending to play the game again -- until literally 10 minutes ago. Until a friend and fellow GAFfer told me that he had looked up the other two endings. I literally have my second playthrough paused in disgust as I type this. I CANNOT EVEN FATHOM HOW THIS WAS ACCEPTABLE. I'm going to have a fucking aneurysm.
Because no one in their right mind would side with her so they didnt care.
Ah yeah that's probably true. I did the Jack mission in my game so I just watched some clip on youtube of Phantom Jack attacking the player.
You don't fight a whole lot of banshees in game but they gave themselves leeway in the Codex:
What they do with the rest of the asari I have no idea.
It kind of sucked away all of the good feelings I had running through the game. Normally I would've jumped straight into NG+ or a different file but I had to wait a few days to go through the 5 stages of grief before starting it, and I still haven't found the spirit to complete it.
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Man, this thread is moving.
So watching the ME2 ending again brings to mind that until a few days ago, I had no idea why Mordin would keep dying until I sent him as the escort on my very first attempt at the Suicide Mission over two years ago. Defense value? The fuck...
ME3 Insanity isn't even as hard as ME2 Hardcore, and may be about the same as ME2 Veteran. You can min/max in this game and the controls are better and the enemies don't have as many layers of protection. Though their AI seems to be improved, they're easier to kill and don't infinitely respawn at times.
I'm actually enjoying replaying ME3 a lot, because the file I imported this time (all Paragon through both previous games) is a lot better than the first one (all Renegade). Maybe that's why the ending didn't affect me as much. I already had bummer outcomes throughout my first playthrough. If everything was working out as beautifully as things are this time around, I might have had hope.
I don't understand how you can play the game and not know what Banshees are. They're just about the only Reaper monstrosity they bothered explaining. Do people really skip missions like the Monastery?
So watching the ME2 ending again brings to mind that until a few days ago, I had no idea why Mordin would keep dying until I sent him as the escort on my very first attempt at the Suicide Mission over two years ago. Defense value? The fuck...
ME3 Insanity isn't even as hard as ME2 Hardcore, and may be about the same as ME2 Veteran. You can min/max in this game and the controls are better and the enemies don't have as many layers of protection. Though their AI seems to be improved, they're easier to kill and don't infinitely respawn at times.
I'm actually enjoying replaying ME3 a lot, because the file I imported this time (all Paragon through both previous games) is a lot better than the first one (all Renegade). Maybe that's why the ending didn't affect me as much. I already had bummer outcomes throughout my first playthrough. If everything was working out as beautifully as things are this time around, I might have had hope.
I don't understand how you can play the game and not know what Banshees are. They're just about the only Reaper monstrosity they bothered explaining. Do people really skip missions like the Monastery?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I dont think they had this trilogy planned out from a story or design point of view, its pretty common knowledge that the Protheans drastically changed in appearance between ME1-ME2 and their is so many plot holes building to this endings it like ME1-ME2 they just made the reapers sound cool and mysterious but they got to ME3 and had NO FUCKING CLUE how to give them a conclusion and thus invented a space ghost child AI to solve everything.
I cant help but see plot holes or things that dont make sense everywhere i look in the lore of the universe.
They obviously didnt have a conclusion to the reaper threat conceived and thus made something terrible up at the end.
And what the hell is the child thing about, Shepard lost squadmates and stuff and yet he cares about one single child he met for 5 seconds and that child id somehow exactly the same as the starchild...
I cant help but see plot holes or things that dont make sense everywhere i look in the lore of the universe.
They obviously didnt have a conclusion to the reaper threat conceived and thus made something terrible up at the end.
And what the hell is the child thing about, Shepard lost squadmates and stuff and yet he cares about one single child he met for 5 seconds and that child id somehow exactly the same as the starchild...
littleworm
Member
Welcome to the club.
Renegade Shep sides with Morinth
Tokubetsu
Member
It's just lazy when it comes down to it. I doubt Bungie had so many Halo games in mind going into the first one but at least they had the foresight to sit down, and try to actually hammer out a "bible" and the nitty gritty of the universe. You'd think a company that's known for story driven role-playing games would have put in at least half as much effort but I guess not.
Seriously. You should hear me screaming in my Skype call right now.