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[Ieldra]

I think there will be endings where the war is concluded.

It is possible there will also be endings where it is not.

I would like to have both options.

[nicki92]

Im thinking they will not wipe out the Reapers.
Shepard will find a way to repel the immediate invasion and send them back to dark space.
Whatever this 'way' is, will cripple the Reapers enough so that the rest of the galaxy combined will be an equal match for them... thus setting off the long term war in ernest.

Also, Shepard will either be killed or retired to a government role for future games based on your actions. Maybe if Anderson is killed, Shep will (in the future) take over as top alliance Admiral for him or Hackett.

[Bogsnot1]

My hope: It will be the end.
Gut Instinct: EA will nickle and dime us with DLC to get rid of the Reaper threat.
Nightmare scenario: Reaper threat can only be driven off in an upcoming MMO.

[suprhomre]

I hope it will be an civil galactic war aftermath of the Reaper invasion. Maybe, some new characters can be introduce or maybe even a new antagonist.

[Medhia Nox]

The new enemy is going to be the Asari - c'mon, they're a race of girl-power space chicks... who likely have their monthly cycles ALL synced. Only - for such a long lived race - it takes place every hundred years. All of them hitting their "special time" at once... I prefer the Reapers.

Mass Effect: The Asari Rage Cycle.

It's going to be epic.

[GreenDragon37]

I hope it ends. Maybe give us some DLC if there are holdouts, but please, no Spin-offs!

[Medhia Nox]

I think Ashley will just explain the Good News of Jesus Christ to them... they will be Born Again... and all will be glorious and good in the new universe.

As humanity rides their new Reaper Crusade Engines to crush the galaxy in a grand Crusade of Conversion against the heathen aliens! Destroy the alien! For the Emperor.... wait a minute.

[Nicodemus]

The Milky Way is a big place and previous Reapings have taken a long time. We can ascertain from the start of ME3 that Batarian space is conquered, Turian and Human space are under heavy attack and that the Reapers are moving through the galaxy.

I would like to think that the end result of ME3 will be the retaking of Earth and of the Current Citadel species united in a common goal to defeat the Reapers. However I would also like to think that the war will prove to be a stalemate, the Reapers falling back to fortify an area of the Milky Way to rebuild for another assault and the council species too weak to push the fight to conclusion.

This would make a fitting end for the Shepard storyline and a good basis to start another game from.

That said, who knows what the writers will do.. it is their bag of tricks after all to play with.

[Funkcase]

I want a ending in ME3, not a build up to the next game. I hate it when games dont have a decent ending.

[The Twilight God]

Icinix wrote...


Hmm - Terrible Plot Device involving much used super weapon or race that wipes out the enemy entirely almost instantly..
-OR-
The reapers are still alive at the end of ME3 and the war is still raging.

You know, neither of those two options are particularly appealing....

But yeah, you're logic about it being the best place to hit the series and such seems to indicate its not the end of the Reaper war...bugger.

I expect a Return of the Jedi ending.

1. Huge battle over a planet between opposing fleets(Earth).
2. Ground forces up to something planetside (Anderson).
3. Hero fighting inside the lair of primary antagonist (Shepard within Harbingers shell).
4. Bad guys are delivered a crushing defeat.
5. Given the nature of the reapers players will be given the satisfaction of seeing fear and doubt in the reapers. The "gods' will be humbled and forced to retreat (and don't return for a century or two).
6. The galaxy is at peace... for now.

Personally, I would find this satisfying.

Maybe ME4 will involve the reapers coming back 200 or 300 years later with a fleet of non-indoctrinated organics who were uplifted by them.  Kind of like the rachni wars but with a religious crusade slant as they veiw the reapers as their deities. 99% of the known galaxy is unexplored. Not to mention an extragalactic threat. There are alot of possibilities. ME4 could take place after Shepard has died of old age in a time where only Wrex, Grunt, Liara and young Lyesta T'Shepard are the only ones still around (with a ME3 import of course). 

jamesp81 wrote...

The trailer has the words "The battle for earth has begun" and then it has "decide how it will end"

Decide how what will end?

Modifié par The Twilight God, 16 juin 2011 - 03:29 .

[Ianamus]

I wouldn't like to say whether or not Mass Effect 3 will end the reaper conflict. On the one hand, if they end it now then future games will not have the 'big threat' that the current games have. That said, considering Shepard can potentially sacrifice whole species... I don't see how they could create any games set after Mass Effect 3 without establishing a canon, and they have made it clear that they don't want to do that.

I hope it will end the Reaper conflict, personally. So far there have been two cliffhangers and two long waits for the next game to continue/finish the story. I don't want another one.

Modifié par EJ107, 16 juin 2011 - 03:38 .

[The Twilight God]

EJ107 wrote...

I wouldn't like to say whether or not Mass Effect 3 will end the reaper conflict. On the one hand, if they end it now then future games will not have the 'big threat' that the current games have. That said, considering Shepard can potentially sacrifice whole species... I don't see how they could create any games set after Mass Effect 3 without establishing a canon, and they have made it clear that they don't want to do that.

I hope it will end the Reaper conflict, personally. So far there have been two cliffhangers and two long waits for the next game to continue/finish the story. I don't want another one.

I doubt your decisions can render an entire species extinct. The reapers cannot perform such a task in such a relatively small timeframe. And that would end the promise of any further games unless Bioware was willing to face the Canon Brigade. Perhaps some species may have their populations descimated more than others, but not wiped out completely.

I suspect any future ME games will take place in a smaller relatively confined area like an L.A. Noire on the Citadel and/or will take place hundreds of years in the future and may even have a save carryover option similar to DA2. It changes some reference dialog, but the core story will take place far enough in the future that they can start from stratch with a new foundation.

And neither ME1 or 2 have cliffhanger endings. Halo 2 has a cliffhanger ending. Big difference. HUGE difference.

[Icinix]

The Twilight God wrote...
I expect a Return of the Jedi ending.

1. Huge battle over a planet between opposing fleets(Earth).
2. Ground forces up to something planetside (Anderson).
3. Hero fighting inside the lair of primary antagonist (Shepard within Harbingers shell).
4. Bad guys are delivered a crushing defeat.
5. Given the nature of the reapers players will be given the satisfaction of seeing fear and doubt in the reapers. The "gods' will be humbled and forced to retreat (and don't return for a century or two).
6. The galaxy is at peace... for now.

Personally, I would find this satisfying.

Maybe ME4 will involve the reapers coming back 200 or 300 years later with a fleet of non-indoctrinated organics who were uplifted by them.  Kind of like the rachni wars but with a religious crusade slant as they veiw the reapers as their deities. 99% of the known galaxy is unexplored. Not to mention an extragalactic threat.

Yeah, I can live with that.  Crushing defeat, or only a few stragglers left.  Something that has at the very least a short term victory that prevents further conflict for the remainder of Shepards life.

Its the endings like if Shep stands on a saved Earth, picks up their gun and heads off to keep up the fight that would drive me to head banging madness.

There are alot of possibilities. ME4 could take place after Shepard has died of old age in a time where only Wrex, Grunt, Liara and young Lyesta T'Shepard are the only ones still around (with a ME3 import of course). 

LOL! But - if they did have that AND a carry over save where your avatar is a descendant of Shepard (Asari, human, adopted - whatever) could end up being an amazing feat of gameplay development.

[DarthSliver]

I think ME4 will take place on the next consoles that replace the 360 and PS3. With that said I dont think i want the Reapers to be defeated and I might be happy if they make this into a quadilgy rather than try to give us an unrealistic defeat towards the Repears. All honesty, I dont see how we can beat the Reapers unless Shepard pulls out a special gun that kills them in one shot lol.

[EternalPink]

I dont think it will be the end, once the reapers are gone the balance of power will forever be changed depending on how much damage the reapers did to the galaxy.

Battarians that could have never matched the alliance may suddenly be able to.

Volus, Elcor, Hanar, Drell which only rated a embassy may all suddenly find themselves being courted for the council to shore up weakened council fleets

Pretty much any colony system that wants to turn independant of its species main empire won't have to worry about big fleets showing up to prevent it.

Could even go the other way and humans plus whoever helps them decide that if they can take the reapers perhaps a galaxy with them fully in control would be for the best.

[Conquerthecity]

Bogsnot1 wrote...
Nightmare scenario: Reaper threat can only be driven off in an upcoming MMO.

All my rage if this happens.

I want ME3 to end with the defeat of the Reapers.

[Zanallen]

There is a good chance that finishing the Reapers would leave the main council races weak enough to open the way for a coop. I could see some opportunist group from the Terminus Systems trying to take the Citadel.

[TheRealJayDee]

Khayness wrote...

It's the end of Shepard's story.

Then he will spend his days as a Faction Leader boss on the Citadel in the upcoming MMO what will feature a Galactic Stalemate between the forces of Survivors and the Indoctrinated!

Don't say something like this, you scare me. I'm nearly crying now...

[SafetyShattered]

I hope this is the end of the reapers.....but I bet they won't. ME has been very successful I wouldnt be surprised if they tried to milk this for all its worth.

[Foolsfolly]

I'm of the mind that the Reapers need to be defeated out right. That's why I don't like the whole "save Earth" story. We have something bigger happening than just one invasion. We should be gathering an army to destroy the Reapers not save one homeworld while Palaven's already fallen and who knows how many other planets and homeworlds.

Now's not the time to save Earth. Now's the time to strike hard against the Reapers. How? I have no clue. But if we focus on saving one planet we doom every planet.

It best not end with the liberation of Earth. It should end with Shepard destroying the Reapers, no matter the cost (either personally or at the expensive of others; Paragon/Renegade).

If all this has only been about the story of how Shepard saved the Earth for a while during a mass genocide of all thinking organism in the galaxy...then that's not really a victory at all.

[LetsGoToMyHouse]

At 0:47, Hudson says, "this is the beginning AND THE END of all the really big events in the ME Universe."

IMO, that is a good indicator that ME3 will wrap up the threat of the Reapers.

Modifié par LetsGoToMyHouse, 16 juin 2011 - 10:48 .

[Icinix]

LetsGoToMyHouse wrote...



At 0:47, Hudson says, "this is the beginning AND THE END of all the really big events in the ME Universe."

IMO, that is a good indicator that ME3 will wrap up the threat of the Reapers.

Hey..he does too! Excellent. But with my paranoid mind, I'm noticing the emphasis on ME3 being the beginning, and the reluctance to declare the end of the Reapers.

In all the interviews, I haven't heard someone even BEGIN to mutter that its the end of the Reapers.

Fingers crossed though - if would have to be one hell of a well done ending to NOT end the Reapers in their entirety and be acceptable. Otherwise it will feel like a cash cow cash in. I mean, hell, the blight ended in one game!

[The Twilight God]

jeffoconnorJeff Zero O'Connor
@CaseyDHudson There's a lot of concern over a new PC Gamer article regarding the possibility of a Mass Effect MMO... it's the way Muzyka says "ME3 is the beginning of a galactic civil war. The future is looking bright." People are now worried that you guys aren't going to give fans the definitive trilogy ending we're looking for. I don't suppose you could comment for us?

CaseyDHudsonCasey Hudson
@jeffoconnor The full-blown galactic war ignites at the start of #ME3. The game is about deciding how it ends. As definitive as it gets.


That's as definitive as he is willing to go.

But why did he have to say "The full-blown galactic war"? As opposed to another kind of war that will continue on? Whatever.



Anyway, new topic.

Kai Leng: Hunting Shepard or hunting Shepard-Commander?

I have to wonder if he is another surprise squadmate.

 

Modifié par The Twilight God, 17 juin 2011 - 08:30 .