Caz Tirin wrote...
At this point, with The Announcement only a couple days off, what I'm to say is akin to beating a dead horse. However, I wanted to have this posted before The Announcement was made. I actually wish I had made this post a couple weeks ago when it first occurred to me, but oh well.
Do I agree with IT? No, I do not. Part of why is irrelevant to what I'm about to say but part of it is what lead me to this conclusion. That part being the way the story was delivered and laid out. If BioWare uses IT as their explanation, it's not because that was their intent all along, but rather a lazy, easy out. There have been interviews and articles about where the game was originally planned to to go and IT was never mentioned. Dark Energy was, however. Nothing else in any of the three games is delivered with such exaggerated subtlety as IT is. Indeed, to claim that was the intended ending shines further light on the fact that BioWare did a poor job writing the ending. If you need evidence of this, just look at these forums alone and the resulting backlash. If IT were the intended result, there would have been clearer clues.
So, if they use or claim IT, it's not because it was their intention all along, but rather because it gives them an easy out.
I don't expect this point of view to be popular and because of that people will attack me and insult me. But the purpose of this post was to put this out there before The Announcement. Good day, folks.
Now I personally believe that, the game as was presented to us never intended to end with Indoctrination. However, there is proof that Indoctrination was mulled around as a possibility in the end, but later "scrapped" due to wierd game mechanics (seen in the Final Hours App).
This got me to thinking the other night -- the whole argument on speculation and what not. What if they merely only scrapped the "uncontrollable Shepard" game play because it made the ending way too obvious? One of the requirements to believing indoctrination is that the player (or the indoctrinatee, perhaps?) has to believe that they are in full control. People here have been saying it all along - any MORE evidence would make it too obvious - it would feel scripted and cheap, and probably have a worse backlash then the ending has now, because then we would know that we were NEVER in control of the story.
Now, the second part of indoctrination theory - that they intended all along to release the "real" ending, is the part I do not believe. To me, the whole "speculation" thing proves this. The stargazer ending, to me, was to reassure the player that the Reapers truly were defeated. I still believe, however, that this was meant to be it - the end. The player was supposed to decide for him/herself whether or not the ending was true, or whether it was all a "dream".
Ah, I guess we shall see if/when they release something at PAX in a few days.




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