Seriously, I can't think of a single press comment that doesn't say "This is the beginning of the Galactic War." Everything says Shepard's story is done, but no hints that this is the end of the story begun in ME, in terms of fighting the Reapers.
Who knows, but it's kinda ominus, when you think about it...
This is the end of Shepard's story- Is it the end of the Reapers?
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Nayt Navare
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 07:12
Aedan_Cousland
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I hope so.
Shepard's victory will feel incomplete if he's only postponed the next extinction cycle. Bioware should wrap up the Shepard Trilogy with the Reapers being completely destroyed, and never to return.
I'm all for future Mass Effect games after ME3, but they should have new villians.
Shepard's victory will feel incomplete if he's only postponed the next extinction cycle. Bioware should wrap up the Shepard Trilogy with the Reapers being completely destroyed, and never to return.
I'm all for future Mass Effect games after ME3, but they should have new villians.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 07:15
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Ah, an ancient machine race that sits in the cold outer rim of our galaxy lying in wait to assimilate organic life in order to optimize it's programing. If the Reapers are too dumb not to reserve some of their forces, then they are not very good at calculating probable failure. I would hope the Reapers would be patient enough and resourceful enough to keep some element of their forces in reserve. They are supposed to be good at this whole genocide thing.
Perhaps they even have elements of Reaper forces in another galaxy? Distances may be vast between galaxies but there are theories around that.
Perhaps they even have elements of Reaper forces in another galaxy? Distances may be vast between galaxies but there are theories around that.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 07:23
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Not quite sure how I'd feel about that.
On the one hand, it would make sense that the reapers cannot just be destroyed. They should be powerful enough, maybe not to win but at least to sustain a level of threat. Additionally, somehow I think a simple "we destroy all the reapers, win the fight and everyone lives happily ever after" ending will cut it for the ME storyline (at least in my opinion).
On the other hand, after three games of struggle, Shepard must score a decisive and meaningful victory (at least if the player didn't screw up all the decisions). And it has to be more decisive and final than the battle we won against Sovereign in ME1, it must top that by at least an order of magnitude.
IMO here are two good possibilities to achieve a compromise:
1. Shepard defeats the reapers in the galaxy but that is not the entirety of the reapers. Maybe there are more in other galaxies, in any event, these others should not pose an immediate threat but it is hinted that they may return on a long timescale.
2. (and this is what I prefer) we get an interesting and unconventional solution to the problem. Anyone remembers Babylon 5 and the end of the Shadow war? Now I am not suggesting something like this for the ME universe but that is a good example of a solution that goes beyond the generic "we find the super weapon and kill them all" cliche. If BW manages to pull off something along these lines, something we didn't expect but that still makes sense, I will be truly impressed.
On the one hand, it would make sense that the reapers cannot just be destroyed. They should be powerful enough, maybe not to win but at least to sustain a level of threat. Additionally, somehow I think a simple "we destroy all the reapers, win the fight and everyone lives happily ever after" ending will cut it for the ME storyline (at least in my opinion).
On the other hand, after three games of struggle, Shepard must score a decisive and meaningful victory (at least if the player didn't screw up all the decisions). And it has to be more decisive and final than the battle we won against Sovereign in ME1, it must top that by at least an order of magnitude.
IMO here are two good possibilities to achieve a compromise:
1. Shepard defeats the reapers in the galaxy but that is not the entirety of the reapers. Maybe there are more in other galaxies, in any event, these others should not pose an immediate threat but it is hinted that they may return on a long timescale.
2. (and this is what I prefer) we get an interesting and unconventional solution to the problem. Anyone remembers Babylon 5 and the end of the Shadow war? Now I am not suggesting something like this for the ME universe but that is a good example of a solution that goes beyond the generic "we find the super weapon and kill them all" cliche. If BW manages to pull off something along these lines, something we didn't expect but that still makes sense, I will be truly impressed.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 07:45
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I agree. It would even be interesting if Shepard survived and could help in further games though I don't think that will happen. I am pretty sure that after the Reapers are destroyed that it will be the end of Mass Effect though sadly.Aedan_Cousland wrote...
I hope so.
Shepard's victory will feel incomplete if he's only postponed the next extinction cycle. Bioware should wrap up the Shepard Trilogy with the Reapers being completely destroyed, and never to return.
I'm all for future Mass Effect games after ME3, but they should have new villians.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 08:50
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It may be that the Reapers are not the entire cause of a on-going galactic war anyway. Who's to say that, in the cause of saving the galaxy from the Reapers, you don't step on a lot of toes - it might be that in doing so you ****** off some races enough for them to kick off after the Reaper threat is over.
I'd imagine there might be the choice to 'pick sides' in ME3 - get one race on your side, perhaps at the detriment of another. Maybe once the dust has settled, that other race will be gunning to re-address that balance? The Krogans and the Salarians spring to mind, but there's obviously going to be Cerberus still kicking around. There's plenty of potential if the Reapers are defeated, which I doubt they will be entirely, tbh.
I'd imagine there might be the choice to 'pick sides' in ME3 - get one race on your side, perhaps at the detriment of another. Maybe once the dust has settled, that other race will be gunning to re-address that balance? The Krogans and the Salarians spring to mind, but there's obviously going to be Cerberus still kicking around. There's plenty of potential if the Reapers are defeated, which I doubt they will be entirely, tbh.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 08:54
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Maybe the reapers could be destroyed once and for all, i've read some post about the reapers being too smart, but they're not, they are the most powerful things in the galaxy and they have destroyed every single especies every 50000 years, so they are the most confident of all races, which makes them one of the most naive ones, one clear example is the roman empire, at the beginning they were the strongest civilization for a very long period of time, but being too overconfident eventually made them vulnerable to any kind of attack because they never did acknowledge the organization of their foes which basically made their empire to fall, so it's the same with the reapers, they are not expecting that the different races come toguether as one in the means to destroy the reapers, inevitably they will fall by the hands of the organics.
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 08:54
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Nope. With the increasing probability of MP in M3, you can bet they'll drag the Reapers invasion into a MMORPG or something.
