jameshawking wrote...
No, I didn't belittle it, at all. You said, literally, that the last 30 minutes of the game (or so) was nothing more than a battle inside Shepard's head. Apparently people get indoctrinated by getting blasted with lasers, too. Which is simply not the case, but moving on.
from OP
That (supposed to be) eye opening moment is supposed to tell you that Shepard was never on the Citadel. He lies just where he was knocked out by the destroyer blast, in the rubble of London. This is where the confusion takes place.
Everything that happens after the destroyer hits Shepard during his charge is a combination of a dying Shepard's hallucinations and reaper indoctrination trying to take over. Right after the blast, Shepard wakes with his armor half blown off. This is not just cut scene fubar, this is the start of his indoctrination fight when everything is slightly off, as in a dream (because it is)
If you listen to the radio chatter before Shepard goes into the beam, you can hear allied forces saying that NOBODY made it to the beam, not you and not Anderson before you. This is the real world radio chatter now in the background subconscious of this hallucination.
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aditionally the blast does not indoctrinate him. He was weakended phsicaly and mentally, Hes dying, unconscience, brain cells still firing, like a scientist trying to explain seeing the light or talking to god in a near death experience. He brain is hallucinating his body carrying on the fight because hes just that BOSS. its that ALSO mixed with Harbingers sheer proximity to shep, (yards away), harby is now focusing COMPLETLY on shepard now. This is Harbys best chance for indoc, so its not a hallucination or indoc attempt, its a little of both. but its NOT real. if you choose correctly and get the "breath" ending, then shep has still never been indoctrinated, he has defeated the ATTEMPT.
Literally, Shepard sacrificing himself, starchild, TIM and Anderson dying is all part of Shepard's battle inside his head. Literally, meaning, none of it actually happened but rather is just some psuedo-conscious dream-state.
Literally you'd prefer, or you say, that the last half hour of the game never happened at all. The reapers just failed to indoctrinate Shepard, which rasies the question:
Okay, wtf happened then?
thats a different story for a different topic. one thats will be answered once we all play the DLC for oursleves. I can only say this, the breath proves to me that the indoc attempt scene and epilogue was not REAL. what is, is that Shep is hurt, BAD, and in London. Logically never actually going to the citadel etc.
Oh, wait, so we don't actually have an ending on-disc? What the hell Bioware? They sold us a game that they knew was incomplete, chopped Javik out of it and sold him to use for 10 bucks when he was literally on-disc (which means they lopped him out of it so they can sell him to us) and that they know, explicitly, is just bs. If you're right then they're just stringing them along.
Which means not only am I pissed, with reason, at being given an incomplete game, I'm pissed directly at the makers of the game for purposely giving me said game knowing it wasn't the whole thing and that they want to string me along for more DLC.
In any event BioWare screwed us.
just because an ending doesn't have answeres and leaves more questions, doesn't mean its not an ending. and its not the Real ending anyways, and if the DLC is FREE as i believe it will be (quote me on that) then what reason now do you have to complain? what if the leaked script forced them to write a new ending, what if this was the plan?
ME3 for 59.99 plus ) 0.00 for dlc put them together in on continuaous playable game, and now you have 2 endings in the game for the price of one..
Its all a matter of perspective.