MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THIS AND KOTOR:
Honestly, you know that the ending reminds me of (if it is, in fact, forcing the player to 'fight' indoctrination')? It reminds me of the scene from KotoR where they capture your ship and stick you in a torture room. I remember thinking, you can't torture me (the player, Sage), cause I'm on this side of the screen. But when they start in on my teammate, I just about died. It was everything I could do to not give in to Carth's screams. It was horrible. BUT it was amazing writing. I was no longer outside the game looking in. I HAD to care, had to hurt, too. Incredible writing, and a breakdown of the barrier between me and the game world.
IF this ending is what some are suggesting, then it's basically the same. It's forcing us to fight, too. I mean, I'm a fairly 'nice' gal, but as I was playing, I was shooting that gun thinking, "SCREW YOU! I am going down fighting 'til my last breath and we're taking war and blood on our terms or nothing at all. BLAM BLAM BLAM!"
Yeah, the inside of my head was a fierce, scary place at that moment.
Ahem. For me, the Crucible wasn't just me making Shepard say, 'I'd rather die fighting than live as a slave.' <-- one of my fave lines from the game, ever, btw. I had to LIVE that line, along with Shepard.
The ISSUE I would see remaining is that your previous choices don't count - or rather, they DON'T YET count. They may yet. We only know what Shep is up to. We don't know about the rest of the battle. That may be forthcoming.
The other Issue is that IF red is the only 'right' ending, the only way to keep playing, then that's kind of...I don't know. That was my gut instinct and I went with it. I know some folks were annoyed that if you didn't take that renegade interrupt to shoot tIM in the last scene, you just DIED. They were mad there wasn't another way out. But then, you keep being told there may BE no other way out but the brutal way out. The game kept honing your survival drive from moment one.
One of my fave lines in this game was when Garrus asks you if you're ready to sacrifice millions to save 2 million. I hesitated for just a moment, then said, "Yes." This is why Kyrie ended up so renegade. I don't think her inner moral compass changed at all. On the contrary, I feel like Shepard has become more convicted, more steady as the games go on and that's part of why I've gotten so attached to her. I feel like that's true of a lot of Shepards. Yeah, there's fear and hesitation, but it's being burned away as the fires grow hotter.
As the Crucible grows hotter?
Anyhow, forgive my rambling. Point is, if the game's ending was meant to be a true Crucible - as in a test by fire - then I realized I can't think of a better way to merge my reasoning with Shepard, to fuse the character of the game with me as the player in a more immediate and raw way. There are flaws, yeah, and I'm still reeling from that ending. But if it's not the end, and I suspect now it is not, it was incredible at getting me to invest in a way I had not before. But if it was the end, my Shep went out fighting, and that is a victory to me, too.
But like I said, mostly, I'm still reeling.
Modifié par sagequeen, 14 mars 2012 - 04:30 .
I missed Harby in ME3 actually. We had something special going on! Guess you can't really appreciate what you have until it's gone, or something. 
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