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#9426
Reptilian Rob

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balance5050 wrote...

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ok everybody I don't think this is the thread to b**ch about how bad the endings are. go to another thread. This one is about the ending being an indoctrination attempt by Harbinger and the evidence that supports it, or the evidence that does not.

****ty ending is evidence enough that this is not going to end as expected, I know what BW was going for and they failed. 


go somewhere else. this is a great thread, very interesting.  you not adding anything to it.

Look at my previous posts, where I lay out solid evidence against this theory. 

Calm down captain forum cop. 


dude we get it you don't like this theory. now man up and leave the thread alone.

I'm sorry, I was under the impresion this was for evidence and COUNTER evidence. If you don't like the reality of the situation that's fine, but don't project your anger. 


Please write down your evidence again so we can crush it.

Most likely this is the situation, like it or not. And before you say the "Tweets" have merit, I'm fairly certain it's just BW saying to hold on to your games so they can chrage you more for DLC later on down the line. I am fairly certain this is how the entire thing went down, verbaitum. 

The script was leaked months ago, thus forcing BW to change the ending into the one we have now. Because of their commitment to release on time they threw together these nonsensical endings in the hopes that we the players would be stupid enough to fall for their "Well it's all just interpretive" convoluted endings. Whether or not they choose to rectify this with future DLC is invalid, the game should have been shipped in a full package, not a giant troll and speculation bait jar. You can glorify the writing and indoctronation theory all you want, I have yet to see a developer who thinks making your consumers wait for the full project as being a great idea. 

The sad truth is that this is probably just a lot of wishful thinking and trying to escape from the terrible endings we got, and the inevitable end to this (most likely) is that Bioware could really care less. They have your money, that's all that matters. It's not Bioware anymore afterall, EA has turned them into something else entierly. 

Modifié par Reptilian Rob, 13 mars 2012 - 11:27 .


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Just started my second play through. I don't have the means to record but did anyone else notice that the ME main title after you escape earth, the MASS letters get overlaid with ghostly trees? I just noticed it but have no way of taking video of that. Anyone else able to?

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So here's a thought adding a bit more support on how the kid doesn't exist.

When you see the kid in the vent at the start of the game, he's facing forward, towards the opening of the duct. Considering the vent is big enough for him to turn around, Shepard only looks away for a brief moment. S/he turns back, the kid's gone.

Fine, he shimmied away - kids are fast. But wouldn't you have heard him scramble away? There was nothing, he literally vanishes.

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This is really Ironic. I've not finished the game yet and I'm spending more time during the day on this thread and the twitter feeds than the game.

Seriously, following this thread has been almost as much fun as the game.

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balance5050 wrote...

*posting again so everyone sees.*

You guys need to see this, Bioware employee pointing customer to a thread that SUPPORTS indoctrination theory.

http://social.biowar...ex/9872108&lf=8


This has been posted 3 times...go back to page ~300 xD

Modifié par FrostByte-GER, 13 mars 2012 - 11:28 .


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Descedent wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

*posting again so everyone sees.*

You guys need to see this, Bioware employee pointing customer to a thread that SUPPORTS indoctrination theory.

http://social.biowar...ex/9872108&lf=8



you are half a day late to the party... that was hourssssss ago


HAHA ok, just making sure, it's still good news right?

#9432
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[quote]UKHaz wrote...

Looks like Mr. James Vega finnaly got his N7 armor and is pulling Shep out of that mess :)[/quote]

IMO, this is after the indocrination/hallucination ending, with the Shepard from the dream sequences pulling the real Shep back up; as if to say, "You've broken the control they had on you, now finish it!!!"

:D

[/quote]

Oh man....that would be so damn Epic.

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thatfilmgirl wrote...

Just started my second play through. I don't have the means to record but did anyone else notice that the ME main title after you escape earth, the MASS letters get overlaid with ghostly trees? I just noticed it but have no way of taking video of that. Anyone else able to?


SOMEONE.  PICTURES.  NOW.


... um please. :o

#9434
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Reptilian Rob wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

cyric085 wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

Prince Keldar wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

Prince Keldar wrote...

ok everybody I don't think this is the thread to b**ch about how bad the endings are. go to another thread. This one is about the ending being an indoctrination attempt by Harbinger and the evidence that supports it, or the evidence that does not.

****ty ending is evidence enough that this is not going to end as expected, I know what BW was going for and they failed. 


go somewhere else. this is a great thread, very interesting.  you not adding anything to it.

Look at my previous posts, where I lay out solid evidence against this theory. 

Calm down captain forum cop. 


dude we get it you don't like this theory. now man up and leave the thread alone.

I'm sorry, I was under the impresion this was for evidence and COUNTER evidence. If you don't like the reality of the situation that's fine, but don't project your anger. 


Please write down your evidence again so we can crush it.

Most likely this is the situation, like it or not. And before you say the "Tweets" have merit, I'm fairly certain it's just BW saying to hold on to your games so they can chrage you more for DLC later on down the line. I am fairly certain this is how the entire thing went down, verbaitum. 

The script was leaked months ago, thus forcing BW to change the ending into the one we have now. Because of their commitment to release on time they threw together these nonsensical endings in the hopes that we the players would be stupid enough to fall for their "Well it's all just interpretive" convoluted endings. Whether or not they choose to rectify this with future DLC is invalid, the game should have been shipped in a full package, not a giant troll and speculation bait jar. You can glorify the writing and indoctronation theory all you want, I have yet to see a developer who thinks making your consumers wait for the full project as being a great idea. 

The sad truth is that this is probably just a lot of wishful thinking and trying to escape from the terrible endings we got, and the inevitable end to this (most likely) is that Bioware could really care less. They have your money, that's all that matters. It's not Bioware anymore afterall, EA has turned them into something else entierly. 

Except the endings in the script are the same as in game with a few slight differences...

#9435
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balance5050 wrote...

Descedent wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

*posting again so everyone sees.*

You guys need to see this, Bioware employee pointing customer to a thread that SUPPORTS indoctrination theory.

http://social.biowar...ex/9872108&lf=8



you are half a day late to the party... that was hourssssss ago


HAHA ok, just making sure, it's still good news right?


Seems to be yes.  I hope we are not just over interpreting it.

#9436
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Pathero wrote...

thatfilmgirl wrote...

Just started my second play through. I don't have the means to record but did anyone else notice that the ME main title after you escape earth, the MASS letters get overlaid with ghostly trees? I just noticed it but have no way of taking video of that. Anyone else able to?


SOMEONE.  PICTURES.  NOW.


... um please. :o


WTF? Need pictures too!

#9437
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Pathero wrote...

This is really Ironic. I've not finished the game yet and I'm spending more time during the day on this thread and the twitter feeds than the game.

Seriously, following this thread has been almost as much fun as the game.


BioWare are apparently masters of meta-games and elaborate ARGs inspired by getting kicked in the nuts multiple times. When I say nuts, I mean your mental and emotional nuts. It's symbolism and philosophically deep. and stuff.

Wish they were half as good at figuring out this ending situation.

#9438
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balance5050 wrote...

You guys need to see this, Bioware employee pointing customer to a thread that SUPPORTS indoctrination theory.

http://social.biowar...ex/9872108&lf=8


Wow guys check THAT out, seriously if that isn't a massive boost to this theory then I don't know what is!

#9439
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Reptilian Rob wrote...

The sad truth is that this is probably just a lot of wishful thinking and trying to escape from the terrible endings we got, and the inevitable end to this (most likely) is that Bioware could really care less. They have your money, that's all that matters. It's not Bioware anymore afterall, EA has turned them into something else entierly. 


There's not much of a point to saving X place or getting Y crewmember if they just die anyway. They're not going to sell many DLC if nobody wants to pick up the game again.

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FrostByte-GER wrote...

Elenterx wrote...

http://oi44.tinypic.com/2jtjkl.jpg
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hmmm...The description means that Shepard walks over the dead bodies from Cerberus. But there were no dead bodies from Cerberus on the floor....

My english skills are limited. I'm not sure if this dead corpes text was real or only a concept that has been deleted and replaced with the actual ending?


Originally TIM was going to Saren out on us and be a huge boss fight.  But they didn't like him as a final boss so they scrapped the sequence.

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byne wrote...

Rip504 wrote...

The game tells you there will be DLC. So do the devs,it doesn't mean it is ending dlc,just dlc.

Maybe they think an epic fight on Omega will turn our heads...


Why would I (or anyone else) pay money for a DLC to retake Omega, when in the end, it will just be cut off from the galaxy like every other system?


Something is weird afoot on Omega though - I mean Aria and Omega are really the only major loose ends (as far as potential storyline explanations go) covered ALOT between ME2 and ME3 and also left dangling in ME3. I was looking at Omega and to me it kinda looked is shaped the same way as the crucible if it were joined with the citadel. Also, Omega is "referrred to as the Terminus Systems dark-twisted counterpart to the Citadel" in the Mass Effect Wiki entry (have no idea where the quote came from). And why did the Illusive Man want it so bad??? I dunno, just seems weird that was never answered and it obviously ties in with ME3 given the release of Invasion around launchtime. But who knows how or if that means anything to a possible end-game scenario.

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Also, where can I get the indoctrination siggy? I can't seem to find it in the bajillions of posts in this thread.

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I don't know if this has been said before, but could Anderson and TIM represent paragon and renegade in the dream. As in Anderson is the closest thing I guess to a role model for shepard, and TIM would certainly be a good model for renegade Shep. This could fit in with the dream as well, as Harbinger twists Shep's mind to see Control (TIM's choice) as paragon and Destroy (Anderson's) as renegade, confusing the already strained Shepard into indoctrination?

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wookieboy15 wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

You guys need to see this, Bioware employee pointing customer to a thread that SUPPORTS indoctrination theory.

http://social.biowar...ex/9872108&lf=8


Wow guys check THAT out, seriously if that isn't a massive boost to this theory then I don't know what is!


Uh...all he's doing is directing the user to the thread where he should be posting those sorts of questions, not supporting the theory itself :P

#9445
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FrostByte-GER wrote...

Pathero wrote...

thatfilmgirl wrote...

Just started my second play through. I don't have the means to record but did anyone else notice that the ME main title after you escape earth, the MASS letters get overlaid with ghostly trees? I just noticed it but have no way of taking video of that. Anyone else able to?


SOMEONE.  PICTURES.  NOW.


... um please. :o


WTF? Need pictures too!


Just bumping because I want to make sure I'm not crazy!

#9446
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You know what gets me? What if they didn't have anything planned and the ending is the true ending. Now we have done all the work for them to fill in the plot holes. Maybe we should asked to be credited? lol

#9447
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Reptilian Rob wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

cyric085 wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

Prince Keldar wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...

Prince Keldar wrote...

ok everybody I don't think this is the thread to b**ch about how bad the endings are. go to another thread. This one is about the ending being an indoctrination attempt by Harbinger and the evidence that supports it, or the evidence that does not.

****ty ending is evidence enough that this is not going to end as expected, I know what BW was going for and they failed. 


go somewhere else. this is a great thread, very interesting.  you not adding anything to it.

Look at my previous posts, where I lay out solid evidence against this theory. 

Calm down captain forum cop. 


dude we get it you don't like this theory. now man up and leave the thread alone.

I'm sorry, I was under the impresion this was for evidence and COUNTER evidence. If you don't like the reality of the situation that's fine, but don't project your anger. 


Please write down your evidence again so we can crush it.

Most likely this is the situation, like it or not. And before you say the "Tweets" have merit, I'm fairly certain it's just BW saying to hold on to your games so they can chrage you more for DLC later on down the line. I am fairly certain this is how the entire thing went down, verbaitum. 

The script was leaked months ago, thus forcing BW to change the ending into the one we have now. Because of their commitment to release on time they threw together these nonsensical endings in the hopes that we the players would be stupid enough to fall for their "Well it's all just interpretive" convoluted endings. Whether or not they choose to rectify this with future DLC is invalid, the game should have been shipped in a full package, not a giant troll and speculation bait jar. You can glorify the writing and indoctronation theory all you want, I have yet to see a developer who thinks making your consumers wait for the full project as being a great idea. 

The sad truth is that this is probably just a lot of wishful thinking and trying to escape from the terrible endings we got, and the inevitable end to this (most likely) is that Bioware could really care less. They have your money, that's all that matters. It's not Bioware anymore afterall, EA has turned them into something else entierly. 


Well... that was a waste, I thought you had evidence against indoctrination. Not, your gripes about the company. May I friend you so that I can rub it in your face when they make the "True End" DLC?

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thatfilmgirl wrote...

FrostByte-GER wrote...

Pathero wrote...

thatfilmgirl wrote...

Just started my second play through. I don't have the means to record but did anyone else notice that the ME main title after you escape earth, the MASS letters get overlaid with ghostly trees? I just noticed it but have no way of taking video of that. Anyone else able to?


SOMEONE.  PICTURES.  NOW.


... um please. :o


WTF? Need pictures too!


Just bumping because I want to make sure I'm not crazy!


Just rewatched that scene and no, the letters just get darker and fade out.

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Reptilian Rob wrote...

balance5050 wrote...

Reptilian Rob wrote...
I'm sorry, I was under the impresion this was for evidence and COUNTER evidence. If you don't like the reality of the situation that's fine, but don't project your anger. 


Please write down your evidence again so we can crush it.

Most likely this is the situation, like it or not. And before you say the "Tweets" have merit, I'm fairly certain it's just BW saying to hold on to your games so they can chrage you more for DLC later on down the line. I am fairly certain this is how the entire thing went down, verbaitum. 

The script was leaked months ago, thus forcing BW to change the ending into the one we have now. Because of their commitment to release on time they threw together these nonsensical endings in the hopes that we the players would be stupid enough to fall for their "Well it's all just interpretive" convoluted endings. Whether or not they choose to rectify this with future DLC is invalid, the game should have been shipped in a full package, not a giant troll and speculation bait jar. You can glorify the writing and indoctronation theory all you want, I have yet to see a developer who thinks making your consumers wait for the full project as being a great idea. 

The sad truth is that this is probably just a lot of wishful thinking and trying to escape from the terrible endings we got, and the inevitable end to this (most likely) is that Bioware could really care less. They have your money, that's all that matters. It's not Bioware anymore afterall, EA has turned them into something else entierly. 


Thats not a collection counter arguments - thats just your opinion.

#9450
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Wow I caught up! What a crazy thread. For now, while I have my reservations, there is far more evidence pointing to the ending being Shep's fight against being indoctrinated. There is NO WAY they wrotte the entire game, and then made that ending. There are far too many odd things that go down in those last 5 minutes. Even if there is no DLC, but the ending is confirmed to be indeed Shep's indoctrination, I would like it. If it's literal, I have to agree it's sh*t. Now, let's see that patch/dlc Bioware!