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[TripleLife]

Even beyond the "Hey, I built synthetics to kill organics so that organics won't be killed by synthetics" line of thought, all of the quarians and turians in the Sol system are going to die of starvation, Earth is PROBABLY going to be destroyed by the Citadel, the batarians are definitely going to go extinct, Palavan and Thessia are sent back to the stone age, there may not be enough quarians on left on Rannoch for a sustainable population and most colonies are probably at least mostly dependent on trade for existence, it's really not unreasonable to say the only species that really has a chance at a future are the asari and MAYBE, depending on whether or not you cured the genophage, the krogan. Plus, the geth since they're effectively immortal.

I fully expected Shepard to die and I'm fully aware that war has high costs, but, let's be real, Leningrad didn't rebuild itself in a vacuum. Berlin and London didn't rebuild themselves in a vacuum. If anything, the more I think about the ending, the more it really does seem like a defeat. At first it just bothered me because of the lack of closure. I really liked Oldboy, it had a disturbing ending, but it was internally consistent and had closure. Seven, Scarface, The Usual Suspects, all great movies where the bad guy wins. Dark I can deal with. I just want a real ending.

[jefinley]

Actually after thinking about it I don't think the "perfect" ending is a total letdown. 

Without the limitation of the mass relays, FTL travel can be focused on. 
Greater speeds can be reached by whatever means, expecially since there
are dead reapers on Earth's surface.  There will be plenty of element
zero in their cores to come up with something. 

The game codex also said that the reapers can go about thirty times faster than the fastest
alliance ships.  They traveled from where the alpha relay was to a relay
in Batarian space in about 6 months, so its feasable to travel to nearby systems in a somewhat short amount of time. 

With the threat of famine and all that other bad stuff, the urgency to get faster FTL travel is greater.  Even just at the Sol system, there has to at least several hundred of each species left to figure something out.

Modifié par jefinley, 11 mars 2012 - 05:13 .

[SpiderFan1217]

Thanks for sharing OP. I kind of figured this anyway. I mean there's only one thing left for the peoples of the ME Universe to do after the war, rebuild.

[Demyx_IX]

What? Excuse me but that means nothing unless BioWare and EA both confirm that the ending will change. Anything less doesn't soothe my wounds even not 0.1%.

Modifié par Demyx_IX, 11 mars 2012 - 05:50 .

[Valo_Soren]

manwiththemachinegun wrote...

I know we're all still processing the ending. But I thought this dev comment gave me a lot of hope for the future of the Mass Effect universe (especially since people are screaming for Dev responses).

This is from the awesome, awesome dude who wrote a lot of Mordin's lines and ME3 sidequests.

Fan Question: A'ight, you don't have to answer this if you don't want too, but is every ending you losing? The one I read was the mass relays being destroyed or somesuch, I didn't dig too deep but it sounded like the reapers got rid of effective FTL travel.

Dev response: That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that the galaxy is free from the specially limited technology that the Reapers have been using to guide evolution from time before memory.

My boss talks about Leningrad after WW2. A whole lotta dead people. A whole lotta buildings knocked down. The war really kicked the crap out of it.

I went to Saint Petersburg (aka Leningrad) back in 2004. It's a gorgeous city full of vibrant people, wonderful art, great food (and sure, crime, pollution, poverty, and all the bad stuff, too). From the end of the war, that's, what, 60 years?

A lot of planets are going to be looking like Leningrad at the end of ME3. That doesn't mean that they lost, and it doesn't mean that they've been destroyed forever.

There is light at the end of the tunnel folks.

This, totally this. 100 percent agree.

[Demyx_IX]

Except there's no light at the end of the tunnel unless they actually change the endings.

[Jack_Forest]

I am Russian and I really have to say a few words to the "boss" about Leningrad.

[Mahrac]

Jack_Forest wrote...

I am Russian and I really have to say a few words to the "boss" about Leningrad.

oh please do continue. I'll get the popcorn.

Also, if all Reaper tech, and reaper based tech, no longer works, that includes FTL, omnitools, haptic computors, construction methods, biotics, nearly EVERYTHING. and that's still if you ignore the relays-go-supernova bit from Arrival