Anyone struck by how eerily similar this situation is to KOTOR 2? The ending of that game was almost entirely unexplained in the vanilla version. It was only until dedicated fans set to work rebuilding what had been cut because of time constraints that the game became complete.
So the moral of the story seems to be, give devs more time. I seriously doubt that the whole Catalyst scene nonsense was something planned to be there from the beginning. If it was, it probably wasn't as abrupt as it is now. I mean, let's look at the facts as we know them, from getting lased by Harbinger to the very end:
- The screen fades to white (same as the dream sequences). You can hear people yelling in the background, yet Shepard hears no more from them after that.
-Shepard is not wearing the Blood Dragon armor that I had him equipped with throughout the invasion of Earth. He is also miraculously equipped with a Carnifex that never chews through its extremely limited thermal clip.
- After traveling through the energy column, Shepard is suddenly left standing in a totally random part of the Citadel, surrounded by piles of dead human bodies. Huh? Why the hell would the Reapers wholesale slaughter so many humans without harvesting a single one? Where are all the aliens?
- Anderson is suddenly aware of what the Collector Base looked like, despite never having seen the base, nor having any ability to have seen it (no one on Shepard's team takes photo or video of it). Again, the piles of bodies makes no sense in this regard, either.
- The Citadel looks vaguely like the Shadow Broker's ship, with the moving lightning panels. Granted, the design is slightly off, but not enough so as to prove it's different.
- Anderson says that he followed Shepard, yet there seems to be only one path leading up the control station. If he were warped in ahead of Shepard, then how would he have seen the bodies? He doesn't mention seeing any, yet he does say that it looks like the Collector Base. The only other telling sign therein is the biological appearance of the base, which the Citadel clearly does not share.
- Assuming that Anderson was teleported in as well, then why is the Reaper Beam not set to send each incoming victim to a stationary point? If the delivery is random, wouldn't that pose the risk of someone finding the Catalyst area, or getting to the control panel?
- Where did TIM come from? What in the world was he doing standing in the control room? Where was he standing in the control room? I certainly didn't see him.
- There are noticeable black bars around the edges of the screen. The picture is fuzzy, and there is a definite ghostly whispering in the background. This is consistent with the dream sequences.
- What is TIM doing when he tries to control Anderson and Shepard? He looks like he's sending some kind of black energy toward them, yet this energy is never explained. His control mechanism is based on indoctrinated agents, so if Shepard is not so, then how can TIM control him? Same goes for Anderson.
- Are not Anderson and Shepard standing in open space in the control center? When Shepard ascends on the elevator, he is clearly standing in open space. No one could survive in the vacuum of space, if you recall Shepard's death in ME2.
- How is it that the Catalyst is even speaking to Shepard at all? Where is its control console? If it is corporeal somehow, where did it come from? How is it able to take the form of a child that Shepard has been obsessing over? If it is merely a program, it could not have known of the child's connection to Shepard. If it is more than a program (a Reaper), then it clearly is not telling the truth.
- Of the three choices presented, only one is an actual free action. Synthesis and Control are presented as being intrinsically more viable than Destroy. Yet, destroy is the only choice that truly defies the Reapers. The other two are a placation of the enemy.
- The Normandy is mysteriously absent from the fight on Earth. Why did it leave Sword behind? How did the squadmates I took with me in the final battle get back to the Normandy?
The whole thing just reeks of fish, to me. If anything, I'd bet that the team ran out of time to pull all the loose ends together the way they wanted, and decided to present the endings in a way that they could be revised later.
To that end, I stand with the people saying that these endings are a fight against indoctrination, or a simple blackout nightmare. The clip showing Shepard breathing fits in very well with the aftermath of Harbinger's attack, and totally refutes the idea that Shepard was actually on the Citadel. If he was, how in the world did he survive in an open vaccum after being caught in an explosion, traveling at what must have been terminal velocity upon Earth entry? Impossible. Unless of course that clip was more of a bone to the people like me, a "Make your own ending up" type of thing. That would be equal parts insulting and perplexing.
Modifié par MrAtomica, 12 mars 2012 - 03:47 .
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