Wow, this thread really derailed.
Was the ending really a hallucination, partial recap of evidence:
Fact:
* There is a save file entry for "Lives to fight again" if you choose Destroy with 4000+ effective war assets. Use GIBB save file editor to view this. It's probably the most significant piece of inarguable evidence that further post "end" content is likely in DLC or sequel form. see: svn(dot)gib(dot)me, as much as I'll provide as posting a link to it is probably a forum policy violation.
Evidence that does not guarantee anything but is an attempt by the OP and others to analyze what may be hints and subtle forshadowing by the writers and development team:
* There are several inconsistencies with the space-god-reaper-kid at the beginning of the game. He travels up the building way to quickly, Shepard is the only one to see him or acknowledge him, husks do not react to him, he makes eye contact with shepard from an absurd distance, and as someone pointed out recently, he has no shadow.
* There is only three ways the god-reaper-child can appear to shepard as this boy from the beginning:
- The "guardian" is interfacing with his mind directly and can create shepards reality in these scenes at the end. There is quite a bit of circumstational evidence pointing to this like anderson's lead when moving through the ****ed up citadel that looks like past game environments, the 1m1 reversed images, magically appearing TIM, substantial difference in the design of the Citadel=Crucible connection point as seen earlier as they dock (if that even happened), and no "blue or other color" mass effect shielding to protect shep from vacuum. I'm quite sure I've missed some.
- The "guardian" is simply reading Shep's mind not directly effecting it, and appears as the child to be more approachable.
- It's all a completly independent hallucination on Shep's part as he bleeds out under rubble in London.
* The normandy crash scene requires that the normandy some how make it to the Charon relay before the crucible is activated as it runs away from the battle on Earth. Why did they run, what are they running from if shepard succeeded, etc.?
* The survivors shown after the Normandy crash are always the love interest, joker, and whomever you TALKED to the most during the game. Note I said talked to, not brought with you on missions. This appears to be Javik if you have the DLC and exhausted all conversation until the NPC's repeat themselves after every mission. Not surprising, Javik seems to have the highest number of unique statements out of all the crew followed by Joker then EDI. Note: if you choose the "Synthesis" ending EDI will be a survivor.
The point here is: why did Bioware bother with a a complex algorithm to decide who shows up when the Normandy crashes if it has no further meaning? It's possibly meant to infer that the 2 people Shep was closest to plus Joker survive and is possibly his own wishful thinking fed by the god-reaper-child. I mean Joker had to survive, he makes cool
Hunt for Red October references in game.
* The destroy option is the option that is impacted the most by your previous choices in all 3 games ( via the war asset system and the requirement for 4000+ to get an extra scene showing shepard breathing and that entry in the save file showing he lives to fight again).
The point of this thread was never to provide some
guarantee that Bioware was going to provide us with more. It's always possible that Bioware provided these clues to further fuel speculation that this is the answer to those that look.
I still find it likely that a post-end DLC or sequel will happen, not because of artistic greatness on Bioware's part, but because like Square-Enix with FFXIII-2, Bioware has completely bought into the money pot presented by serialization of their franchise via DLC. Why end a story with proper denouement and an epilogue when you can continue to feed the consumer more at further cost? This is where gaming is going just like the multi-player addition was more about the those $2 spectre packs than because it was a good idea.
I hope you enjoyed my wall of text, and regardless of any further content from Bioware perhaps you can take away from this something positive that allows you to enjoy replaying the games in this series you have already bought.
For those of you trolling this thread, I'm off to write some forum software that allows the OP or his designee's to permanently kick people from his thread. Thanks for the inspiration.
edit: bbcode bites as usual, can't get rid of the indentation.
Modifié par mooney6023, 14 mars 2012 - 07:03 .
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