Just to be realistic: I doubt the developers are going to change the endings. Except there are still game developers out there who realy care about their work and how the loyal fans approve it. In this case they might consider it.
I think this minority of haters does no good to our cause, they never did. Fans should tell the developers why they dislike the ME3 endings and try to MOTIVATE the developers to ADD new ones.
A possible DLC, lets call it Mass Effect: Mission salvation.
Choosing the word "salvation" is a subtile joke. The DLC could add some kind of MISSIONS about a few hidden prothean made ME portals, though not linked to the rest of the network. We know that the protheans already build their own ME portals, just remember the final of ME1. And we know that the reapers locked down the entire network for hundreds of years, so they could take out the protheans planet by planet, fleet by fleet. Once the protheans realized that they were under attack, they may have tried to create their own portals to mobilize whatever was left of them (call them to Ilos via their transmitters from ME1 etc.)
During the Mars mission one note tells us that the protheans have been studying the early steps of mankind. It is not entirely clear why, but it could be very well related to the war against the Reapers.
If the DLC mission would be about finding one of the prothean made ME portals inside the sol system, to get some kind of backdoor entrance to help retaking earth due to a tactical advantage, this discovery would open the way for an ending with the Reaper portal network still getting destroyed, but with the early beginnings of a new prothean build network. So the big races, that helped retaking earth, wont be trapped within the sol system.
Although it will be a long way to rebuild further portals to every sector in space, just like it has been before the war.
The conversation between this child and his grandfather(?) could be replaced by a conference between the main leaders of the anti Reaper coalition, talking about how to rebuild the network with the help of the few already existing portals in prothean network. Hackett: "maybe there are more to discover".
In case Shepard survives the final, he and his LI and/or the companions he has choosen for the last fight could stand onboard a shuttle, looking down on the planet where the normandy crashed. The end sequence would change into the credits while the shuttle is flying towards the hidden planet/asteroid/nebula where they discovered the hidden prothean portal, implementing that this is the way they were able to find and rescue the Normandys crew.
This way Bioware could still use most of the default ending sequence. They would just have to delete this grandfather/child conversation and add the alternate ending for those who bought and played the DLC.
Since the player is already "teleported back in time" to the moment before he starts the earth operations, he could still finish the DLC with the same character. A small popup window, just like the existing one, should be enough to inform the player.
The more i think about it the more i like my idea. And the developers "wont loose their face" or their pride by CHANGING the existing endings. They will ADD one that should make the most customers happy without appearing weird.
Of course finishing the DLC would result in a massive increase of EMS points, since having a hidden portal, unknown to the Reapers, would mean a big tactical advantage. And so it becomes easier for the player to max out the points so Shepard can survive and get the alternate ending from the DLC.
What do you think about it?
Modifié par McBaal, 12 mars 2012 - 09:59 .
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