BatmanTurian wrote...
Xavendithas wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Xavendithas wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Xavendithas wrote...
Okay, I have only finished one play through of the game so my memory is a little fuzzy. I have been watching clips here and there in connection to the theory about Coates but, at any point does any of the other characters actually acknowledge his presence? In all the clips I've watched there is not one character that responds to anything Coates says.
If I'm not mistaken, Anderson is the one to introduce you to him.
I'm trying to find a video of some of those sequences but, seriously in every video I have watched no one acknowledges him. They don't even look in his direction while he is talking.
If you're right, then Coates exists only in Shepherd's head, which might start blurring the line when the hallucination begins...
I found a clip of him and Anderson talking back and forth. I still find it strange that none of the Normandy crew members ever seem to acknowledge him. It only seems to be Anderson and Shepard that interact with him.
It might be an oversight, or it might be intended. Maybe your crewmates feel awkward talking to a Human from Earth they don't know? The way Coates acts, he would make me feel awkward too. He's kind of a do*che and a buzzkill.
I've managed to skim through the bulk of the Priority:Earth mission on youtube. At no point during the entire sequence does a squad member look at or even seem to hear Coates speak when he is with you. There are the brief one sentence interactions you hear with him over the comlinks. Even the scene when he gets off the shuttle with you and Anderson is a little fishy. You don't see him step off the shuttle with the rest of the squad, and when the camera pans back around he is standing 15-20 feet off to your left. He then waits until Shepard dismisses the squad before coming over to talk to you.
I may be grasping at straws here but I'm seriously starting to reconsider if anyone but Shepard and Anderson can even see him.
My tinfoil hat might be a little too tight.