Hello everyone, as many of you may have realized, the ending was at worst horrible and at best unexpected.
However for many the problem is it's not what the developers promised it would be, least, not unless you look from a very specific viewpoint and even then the 'viewpoint' they want seems to be a bit intelligent and thus capable of pointing out the problems with using such an ending/aesop/plot device in a universe like this.
What I and probably others expected was something like this:
Less than minimum or only minimum EMS: The Reapers are victorious, harvesting all organic life over centuries, each race fights to the last man, woman, and child only to be converted into resources. It would take several milennia for new intelligent life to appear...at best...and there was no guarantee that Liara's beacons would last to then much like the prothean beacons were degrading.
Above minimum or less than maximum EMS: The Reaper fleet and their husk armies are eventually defeated but at what cost? Many of Shepard's friends died around him as well as their people falling in droves, whole races dwindle to but a few or are wiped out in their entirety, cultures, governments, all gone. But the Reapers are gone...so life can begin to rebuild.
Maximum EMS: The final battle was long and bloody but the Reapers could not stand against the might of an entire galaxy bearing arms against their arrival. Even to this day dozens of ships float broken around the various systems, but all life is preserved, civilization will rebuild itself. Commander Shepard knows that if the Reapers were to ever return some how, in any way, that they could not stand against them a second time. The origins of the Reapers must be discovered and the remote possibility of their revival must be prevented at any cost, there is no rest for this old soldier.
A better format for the ending.
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deathscythe517
, mars 11 2012 02:09
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:46
KoRnAh
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deathscythe517 wrote...
Hello everyone, as many of you may have realized, the ending was at worst horrible and at best unexpected.
However for many the problem is it's not what the developers promised it would be, least, not unless you look from a very specific viewpoint and even then the 'viewpoint' they want seems to be a bit intelligent and thus capable of pointing out the problems with using such an ending/aesop/plot device in a universe like this.
What I and probably others expected was something like this:
Less than minimum or only minimum EMS: The Reapers are victorious, harvesting all organic life over centuries, each race fights to the last man, woman, and child only to be converted into resources. It would take several milennia for new intelligent life to appear...at best...and there was no guarantee that Liara's beacons would last to then much like the prothean beacons were degrading.
Above minimum or less than maximum EMS: The Reaper fleet and their husk armies are eventually defeated but at what cost? Many of Shepard's friends died around him as well as their people falling in droves, whole races dwindle to but a few or are wiped out in their entirety, cultures, governments, all gone. But the Reapers are gone...so life can begin to rebuild.
Maximum EMS: The final battle was long and bloody but the Reapers could not stand against the might of an entire galaxy bearing arms against their arrival. Even to this day dozens of ships float broken around the various systems, but all life is preserved, civilization will rebuild itself. Commander Shepard knows that if the Reapers were to ever return some how, in any way, that they could not stand against them a second time. The origins of the Reapers must be discovered and the remote possibility of their revival must be prevented at any cost, there is no rest for this old soldier.
This is what should've been the whole time.
Still, maybe now they work for EA, they got pushed into a 4th release. In wich case, all that happens after you get "hit" by the reaper on the last run before the citadel is all a dream or hallucination.
If this is the case, the ending is great and what you said should be the real ending in a later release. If it is not, it's Bioware's biggest fail.
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:52
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Indeed.
If someone plays through the first two games for the expressed purpose of brokering alliances and preparing to unite the galaxy for the final battle they should be rewarded with seeing the might of a united galaxy defeat the reapers in conventional combat. In fact I felt this outcome was forshadowed by javik who says, the weakness of his cycle was that all life conformed to prothean tactics. If the races of Shepard's time were still truly independent and had their own tactics, then they had a chance.
I might have read too deeply into DLC content but to me that just screamed "unite the galaxy and defeat the reapers without needing the crucible".
If someone plays through the first two games for the expressed purpose of brokering alliances and preparing to unite the galaxy for the final battle they should be rewarded with seeing the might of a united galaxy defeat the reapers in conventional combat. In fact I felt this outcome was forshadowed by javik who says, the weakness of his cycle was that all life conformed to prothean tactics. If the races of Shepard's time were still truly independent and had their own tactics, then they had a chance.
I might have read too deeply into DLC content but to me that just screamed "unite the galaxy and defeat the reapers without needing the crucible".
Modifié par Umbrellamage, 11 mars 2012 - 02:54 .
