- Is Shepard indoctrinated near the end? The dream sequence and the all-too-familiar appearance of the Catalyst leads me to think that is a great possibility. It makes me think that the Reapers are really and truly godly-unstoppable, and can therefore not be destroyed, and all what we've seen afterwards... was an illusion. But maybe only the Catalyst appearing as a boy was an illusion, and everything else was real.
- The Reapers were the good guys? See, that's what scares me: the Catalyst and the Reapers believe that they are doing the best for organic species by preserving them and preventing them from being annihilated by the synthetics they create, in the process most likely destroying the synthetics as well as their masters. Suddenly, Saren doesn't sound like a raving, deluded fanatic, but a savior of organic species... albeit not in the way that most organics want. This pattern is something the Catalyst created, through the construction of the mass relays. Remember what Vendetta said: the universe has seen this cycle repeat itself in the same patterns of evolution and the same valleys of dissolution (something that isn't merely by chance). What if the Reapers and the Catalyst were gods who repeated these things? What if there are larger forces at play that are manipulating how people believe in religion and the like? Notice the similarities between the Asari-Prothean and Salarian-Krogan relationships? Notice anything between the Prothean AI's who rebelled and the Quarian-Geth conflict?
- Was the galaxy saved or destroyed? I thought at once that because the mass relays were destroyed, that meant all solar systems were, too. But they weren't rammed by asteroids. They got destroyed AFTER they POWERED UP and PROPELLED the Crucible transmission to another solar system, a self-propagating chain that was broken as you went along it. The energy stored in the mass relay was used to propel the dissipated Crucible signals arriving at the next solar systems, and after propelling this UNQUANTIFIABLE energy, it shatters in the process, most likely sparing the solar systems as a result. Even scarier is what happens afterwards. Will the Krogans go to war against the Salarians if you cured the genophage? What will Quarian life be like without the Geth and vice-versa? Better yet, what will Quarian life be like when all synthetics are DESTROYED? What will Quarians do without the geth ON RANNOCH? With the Citadel council no more, and space travel a myth, how will my Shepard be remembered by the races of the galaxy?
BioWare hasn't broken any promises: they've given us closure on most if not all of the issues during the game. Even if they did... SCREW THEIR PROMISES. They gave us an amazing game regardless of what they promised. I played the game with zero expectations and was satisfied to find that the lore and all the plot details were satisfied. Mass Effect 3 in its entirety was THE END. We saw what happened to the Krogans after we cured the genophage: Eve got pregnant. We saw what happened to the Quarians after they embraced the Geth: some geth uploaded themselves into Quarian hardsuits to allow the Quarians to better adjust to Rannoch. That's the best closure I can get from MY perspective as Shepard. I didn't expect that I would make it out of this fight alive.
This experience has been one of the most personal, and the trilogy left me with a lot of questions. As such, it means that I will never forget it because these are things that stick to my mind. If I knew what happened to the krogans afterwards, I'd just nod then forget about it. I've got the closure I wanted, and was left with even more questions. I wasn't aggravated by the game. I was aggravated IN it: the world gave me the same reaction as Deus Ex did with its cast of characters. Why should BioWare give us a run-of-the-mill PowerPoint presentation? I don't want to be able to wrap my head around something that is galactic in its scope. I'm only human, and my story is done. What happens to the rest of the galaxy is up to the rest of the species, and only my imagination limits the possibilities.
THINK about YOUR ending for a change, and then post your interpretation here... please.
Modifié par saracen16, 14 mars 2012 - 03:53 .
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