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[KMYash]

If they were so stuck on the idea of it being something 'traumatic' or 'heartbreaking' for Shepard they should have used characters that the players knew. Maybe the Virmire Dead Squaddie or any of characters that die between 2 and 3 (since most of the ones you care about that die can die in either). The idea of the dream sequences and the Catalyst Kid still rub me the wrong way, but maybe turning the dreams into the dead accusing Shep/Shep trying to save them in their dream would be less out of the blue than the kid. Plus I'd imagine the end ghost thing to be constantly shifting between forms which would make it more obvious that it was borrowing forms rather than, 'huh I wonder if that kid is god'.

Add in all that depending on who's dead you have a decent spectrum of aliens as well as humans. At the very least you have the Virmire death, Thane, Mordin, and I think Legion. This way its not just 'Look humans are the only important ones and even though you have lots of alien friends and never interact with kids we think good ole Shep will be most affected by the human kid"

[Adsinjapan]

Ebannaw1 wrote...

I think bioware's answer to this is something along the lines that whoever or whatever the catalyst is, recognizes that the kid is a troublesome part of Shepard's imagination and manifests itself as such. Sort of how like in the movie contact the alien manifests itself in the image of jody foster's dad.

Bloody hell! I was going to mention Contact too but you beat me to it!
Folks, this isn't a good thing if ME3 makes you think of THAT movie!
If the Catalyst actually read Shepherd's mind to come up with that form to present itself, then it also should have realised that Shepherd wasn't about to take any of it's bulls**t!
As a scifi fan, I enjoyed the movie Contact and what it set out to address. First contact with an alien race.
Up until the finale it set the pacing very well, THEN came the "daddy moment".
Everything that lead up to that point was just pissed on because even after all that work of deciphering the signal, the aliens thought that the humans weren't ready and Jodie Fosters character get's sent back to earth to be a babbling lunatic societal martyr. All that work for nothing.

Pretty much how ME3 ended.
Cheers Bioware.

Modifié par Adsinjapan, 11 mars 2012 - 07:36 .

[Unender]

Der Estr Bune wrote...

Unender wrote...

Legion only was able to make things familiar because he was plugged into directly into Shepard's brain, the catalyst was not. Thus the conclusion that it's an extension of that makes zero sense.

As others have stated, the Reapers' entire system of indoctrination indicates that they've (and presumably the God-Child too) got some way to engage with your mind.

Reapers only have the ability to plant thoughts into your head. not read them.

[ElitePinecone]

Reign762 wrote...

Creating synthetics to destroy organics before they could be destroyed by synthetics had my head spinning.

This. 

[Starspiral]

Mr. Gogeta34 wrote...

I think Bioware dropped the ball pretty hard at the end...

Not only dropped it, but went on to nuke it from orbit. 

[Smiley556]

The reaper chooses to manifest as the kid as it has been haunting shepards mind for so long. It represents his guilt. It was the best way to try and sway shepard to make the wrong decision (ie. not destroy the reapers) and complete the indoctrination.