Anyway, if, for whatever reason you are unsatisfied with ME3, I am asking could the series conclude with ME2 as the 'real ending'. I think I will be able to accept this mental-leap, or at least try, since I did love the first 2 games and want to continue to love them (and replay them). Really, I think it is quite easy to take the plots of ME1 and 2 as self-contained; no the Reapers have not been destroyed but what Shepard accomplish in ME1 could easily be taken to mean that they are just going to sit out there in dark space for ever and ever - without the signal from the Citadel that Saren and Soverign were going to send they will just remain inactive until the end of time.
The Collectors in ME2 could then be seen as the Reaper's "backup plan" and it would also better explain *why* they are building a Reaper; not just to add another member to their race but to take a crack at finishing what Soverign attempted and activate the signal from the Citadel, activating the Repaers and bringing them in through the Citadel mass relay. With Shepard and co. going through the Omega 4 relay and blowing them up that's then the end of the last Reaper pressence in the Milky Way - again, the Reapers are not truly destroyed but I don't have a big problem accepting that as machines (mostly anyway) they will just remain dormant forever without the 'wake up' signal.
I think you would need to brush past (or do your best to avoid/ignore) references in conversations to "The Reapers are still coming" (usually said by Shepard in fact), mostly the very final scene in ME1 with Udina, Anderson and (possibly) the Council and then the post-suicide mission chat with The Illusive Man in ME2 and that final cutscene with Shepard looking out of a window and a cut to a view of loads of Reapers approaching. The game would instead end somewhat abruptly with the Normandy just jumping away from the Collector base but hey, better an abrupt end than the train-wreck that was Mass Effect 3's ending (imho that is, if you like ME3's ending then fair enough but this thread isn't really for you).
You would also have to probably brush-past or ignore The Illusive Man's proposal about the Collector Base or at least think of it only as being a case of whether to give Cerberus the tech for whatever they want it for, not for fighting the Reapers (since they'll never arrive).
I accept there will be a few stretches but I don't think *that* many and I don't want to "throw away" my copies of ME1 and 2 - however I really don't think I can face playing ME3 again and I certainly don't want to think of it as the canon ending. I'll just assume Shepard kicks back and takes it easy after ME2 - galaxy saved, job done, have a nice cup of tea... shame about Jack getting blown away in my suicide mission but you can't save everybody.
Retour en haut
