I would imagine that's because his ear drums were blown out. Due to the same reason why his armor is torn to shreds and he's bleeding heavily. A blast of that intensity would creat a rapid expansion of air, thus bursting his ear drums.
His ears are still working and only slightly muffled. You can hear Harbinger take off. You can hear the couple of husks you shoot. You can hear a few lines through the radio. You just don't hear any sounds of combat whatsoever, which is the part I found to be odd, because one would expect guns and explosions to make a bit more noise than a husk.
the parts you are talking about, withe husks and harbinger taking off, are what i think to be part of the hallucination, they are after the laser.
The reason I brought up the sound in that scene was because someone said the scene of Shepard waking up after the ending would have had sounds of fighting going on around him if he were really on Earth... though the lack of sound after the blast (assuming what we see is real) doesn't necessarily support that knock against the indoctrination hypothesis.
I've been wondering for awhile.. if the crucible is this giant project that hundreds of cycles have been improving on, why does half of the crucible just fall off and float into space as it attaches to the citadel? Seems like a waste of time/material to build when it does absolutely nothing, or am I missing something? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't protect against reaper attacks... those lasers cut through every ship like butter, that shell wouldn't serve as a defense... and why does it just sit near the citadel with a beam attached to it? How does that magically change the mass relay into a super beam thing?
And the RGC said that the crucible gave him more options... if RGC is really Harbringer, what could he mean by that?
could just be for ftl travel
Think of it as armor to protect the device from being insta-popped
It's crazy to watch an entirely different group of people come to the same conclusions that every else did yesterday. Every day this has happened so far.
Starting to really believe that this is what they were going for....
w00t!
Hit home by the fact that this is BSN, the place where, as Liara states it, you can have three different people posting on a thread and have six opinions total. The fact that we're almost all universally agreeing on something, espcially of this magnitude, and working together to support and prove it, is a miracle in itself.
Either way, this thread gives me the hope I so desperately need, and the more info that's brought to the table, the more it seems likely.
I'm surprised Kotaku or some other site has not talked about this thread yet, it truly is a miracle.
perhaps they already know, and were asked not to talk about it? ...DUN...DUN...DUN
Good god if any of this is true (which at this point....good lord, if it isnt this is one hell of a coincidence) they must have been planning this for years.
I've criticized BioWare's writing in the past, but this, if everything plays out how it looks... this will go down as one of the best videogame stories ever written. The guts it takes to (almost) alienate a fanbase in service of a plot-twist... heh, that's some brass balls.
If they are storytellers as they claim, they'd at least have a ME bible to follow, an end destination - even if all the pieces are unformed, there would be an end goal. I hope this is their "end goal". It would be bloody brilliant.
While I agree, I'm not sure EA would be too happy about the negativity being generated lol, which is one thing I could come up with as to why this theory wouldn't make sense.
Why? It's not like EA is a stranger to negative press/negative customer response But if Bioware convinced them thay could pull the biggest fast one on not only the fans, but thanks to our initial responses, the whole of the gaming journalism industry, even reaching things like Forbes now... wouldn't that be something? I mean a short bit of negative press, followed by the entire industry dropping on their knees and bowing? EA's a business and they want profits, sure. But they'd be stupid not to let Bioware try this.
I'm doubtful it was their plan from the start. Regardless, it is basically the community writing an entire plausible ending for them, and the consent seems to be in favor of either "sure, why not" to "**** yeah". So yeah, they have nothing to lose by this, everything to gain.
Well, so far two of the biggest bits of solid evidence i've seen (the real crap that can't really be explained otherwise) is the presence of the trees at the base of the beam, which is kinda a dead giveaway, and the lack of a difference in the ending based on your last choice in ME2 which frankly i'm not sure how we missed for so long anyway.
Enough with the trees, people. If we're going to prove this, we need more solid evidence. Half the stuff I've seen on here is just us grasping at straws and really doesn't prove anything unless you presuppose what we're saying is true. Let's find some cold hard evidence, not more speculation.
Just to point something out, the trees look exactly the same as the ones when Shepard is dreaming. I'd quote for reference but for some reason this computer won't let me.
If you look behind you, the ENTIRE background is blurred beyond recognition and much of the area you JUST passed through appears to be missing. There is also the two dead trees that were not there during the mad dash approach to the Conduit.
Those trees are from your dreams and should be making the back of your head go DING DING DING DING DING...
This theory is pretty solid, as a whole. We'll just have to be patient and wait a bit to see if Bioware is as smart as we all hope they are.
There are trees like that to the left and right of the no man's land when you charge towards the Conduit (unlikely to be dream trees?). Are they the ones you're seeing? Or are these new ones placed directly behind Shepard (perhaps blocking their path)? I don't think I noticed trees directly behind me, but I could be wrong.
Going to analyze somethings that have been brought up before, but bear repeating.
0:40 - you hear, I'm assuming, Coates over the comm channel go 'God... they're all gone.'
0:46 - you hear the following conversation: - Female voice: Did we get anyone to the beam? - Coates; Negative. Our entire force was decimated
Now, if this was reality, Coates would have seen Shepard get up from where they had fallen and approaching the beam. Such is not the case. The comm link just goes silent from that point.
at about 1:00, Shepard picks up the magic infinte god pistol
If you look behind you, the ENTIRE background is blurred beyond recognition and much of the area you JUST passed through appears to be missing. There is also the two dead trees that were not there during the mad dash approach to the Conduit.
2:31 - You hear Anderson over the comm link, yet if Coates is correct and the team is wiped out, how is Anderson contacting Shepard?
2:55 - When asked if he is up in the Citadel as well, Anderson says he followed Shepard up, yet we did not see him ANYWHERE on the battlefield. Plus, he says 'we' distinctly, meaning others made it on the Citadel, yet we don't see them and they supposedly were dropped off somewhere else by the Conduit.
3:30 - Shepard picks up ANOTER infite god-pistol. What happened to the one he/she just had? If you noticed before, the first pistol is mysteriously gone.
4:56 - The movine panels bear a striking resemblence to the engine system on the Shadow Broker's ship. This may be just level design but if you look on either side, it goes as far as you can see and you see no other avenues of reaching the console room.
6:00 - Somehow, Anderson beats Shepard to the console room despite there being no other paths and not seeing Anderson either behind or in front of you until this point.
6:13 - The Huskified Illusive Man is suddenly right behind you and there was no indication he was even ON the Citadel. You also begin to hear whispers as he talks and the oily black shadows appear on the edges of the screen. You will also hear a Reaper like deep trilling noise accompanying this.
8:15 - TIM forces Shepard to shoot Anderson. Jump to 8:22 and pay VERY CLOSE attention to where Anderson has their hand.
Notice where Shepard's arm is and the fact that she is suddenly bleeding profusely when she wasn't moments prior to shooting Anderson? Look again when Shepard is outside the Citadel and talking to Catalyst.
Notice the blood on her arm is suddenly gone?
There are WAY too many inconsistences in just the scene leading up to meeting Catalyst for it not to be anything more than an indoctrinated halluciation. There's is symbolism in the conversaiton with Anderson and TIM, missing envrionments and added elements that weren't there before. There is too much 'wrong' with this whole sequence for it to be oversight on Bioware developers. SOMETHING is going on here beyond what we've seen.
Bumping this for those that may have missed it
In regards to the first image, I was more pointing towards the fact that suddenly a majority of London is missing from behind Shepard if you turn around and look. The entire background is heavily blurred.
"@slimavery All are good choices. And don't be too bummed about the ending. Next time you play, it may be different. ;-)"
Likely means that he can just pick a different ending than he did before.
Most likely, it's just clever PR. I haven't seen any statements yet that seal the deal for me. It still seems as though they are in damage control mode for now.
Anyone seen Contact, the movie starring Jodie Foster? What if everything that transpired after Shepard interfaced with the Geth was a hallucination? What if Legion was already under control of the reapers and tricked Shepard into voluntary indoctrination? I don't actually believe this of course, just want to throw out a crazy theory.
that's.....actually that's got a ton of merrit...wait, isnt that mission optional tho?