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ElrondDragon wrote...
New endings!
Hold the line!
PS: I wish to have/see those blue kids!
How about this?
(repost)
Choices, Closure and the Epilogue
By far the biggest let down would be the lack of the above. I honestly think that had Bioware gave players all three, even the illogical ending would not have stung so much. Hell, I'll probably ignore everything I know about physics and happily put it all to "space magic" AND NOT BE this angry had I been given a choice, had MY choices over the past 3 games be made relevant and counted for something and lastly an epilogue (preferably epic in scale) of sorts made available to the player and say to the player, "This is what you did over the course of 5 years, playing our game and supporting it, thank you."
Instead we go the "A,B,C choice ending that was said that Mass Effect would NEVER have.
All my game saves, which includes:
1) Paragon Shepard Male, Romanced Ashley / Liara/ Miranda / Tali / Jack, stayed true
2) Paragon Shepard Male, Romanced Ashley / Liara / Miranda / Tali / Jack , played the field
3) Renegade Shepard Male ..... ect.
4) Paragade / and Renegon (mix of high Paragon / Renegade slanting towards one end or the other)
24 of them (including Femsheps) to be exact.
Needless to say NONE I now feel compelled to play, or replay with or without any future DLCs you might want to sell. Why would I since NONE of my choices mattered?
What is even sadder is that I have to come up with something, anything to "replay" at least in my own mind so that I could find some closure instead of the ending we got.
I have already posted this before on the another thread but will post here and hope it gives those who haven't seen it, see an ending complete with all their favorite characters voices imagined in their heads :
(Version 1.01c Paragon Shepard Dies)
*note: Most people should get this ending. I do have a “Paragon Shepard Lives” ending scenario floating up in my noggin but that will be done some other time.
Also my version of events scraps everything right after the combined Galactic fleet enters Earth space, assumes the player has completed all side quests and has at least 3300 EMS.
Why only 3300? I feel that “forcing” players to play Multi-player just to get the “best” possible ending is rubbish. Higher EMS just skews a slightly different cut scene of your ground troops. Higher EMS = more varied troops based on which races you have recruited to the cause.
The trigger on what causes Shepard to live or die, his personal romances.
Ideally he should have stayed true over at least 2 games to his Love Interest AND have that love interest with him at the end fight. It would be awesome if Bioware allowed for this since I have always thought that Shepard's "romances" while wonderful, still are just "one night things"
These romances in the greater scheme of things don't mean much more then fan service (and very much appreciated fan service it is!! ) Making his romance the key to his / or her living or dying. That would be awesome.
This ending also assumes you have saved every companion in ME2 (just mentally edit them out if you got yours killed) and Assumes that certain paths are followed in ME3. Again you can mentally edit those characters out of the cut scenes if yours are absent or dead.
Liara assumed to be LI and Shepard to be male. (Just switch him for her if your Shepard is female) Also this is an entire “re-write” of events in London. So no, I don’t follow the Shepard was indoctrinated” school of thought. Sorry shep-zombie fans.
And no Star Child crap either. Sorry Bioware.
Scenario :
Shepard deploys his remaining surviving followers. The final push has key points (say 4) that needs to be bolstered for Hammer to hit and kill the Guardian. This is where your assets come into play, for good or ill depending on what resources you have manged to gathered.
Cut Scene
Combined Galactic ground forces consisting of all the forces and assets Shepard has gathered. Krogan on Keiosaur mounts charging and overunning Reaper positions, Geth and Quarian engineers setting up hack proof auto turrets to lay cover fire, mercs fighting dirty in hand to hand, pistol shot to the face combat, Turian and Human infantry and armour supported by Asari commandoes led by Samara, Grissom Academy (Jack!) Biotics and Miradanda and ex-cerberus biotics led by Aresh, form a linked shield system and together they all carve a path and take down the Guardian at the Conduit.
Shepard and team go in, and it’s a race find the master control and open the Citadel Arms so that that Crucible can dock.
Shepard and team fights way to Citadel central command room which EDI helps to pin point. Within the Citadel itself Shepard faces a combined force of indoctrinated Cerberus forces and reaper forces.
Midpoint Cut Scene.
Harbinger’s holo appears and in the course of talking to it. Shepard learns that the Reapers were once AI meant to protect a race, created at a time when there was another war of organics and Synthetics. The AI’s primary directive was to Protect and dictate the race’s war efforts. In the course of time the AI decided that to win the war against Synthetics, organics had to become Synthetics themselves and thus the Reapers and Cycles came about.
Harbinger shows nothing but disdain for Shepard, for all organics. It demands that Shepard submit as it is the only way to salvation that it is the only logical outcome.
Shepard tells it to go to hell.
Harbinger then tells Shepard that Organic life in this Cycle had become too much of a problem, that order was disrupted when Sovereign was destroyed and later the planned entry point in Batarian space blocked.
That it has decided that the best solution for the current situation now, is for the galaxy to reboot itself and life and the Cycle can start anew.
Shepard is confused by what it meant till Admiral Hackett communicates that reports are coming in that Charon's Mass Relay is powering up, gathering Charge at a rate that make it go critical and cause Ultra Super Nova.
Harbinger tells shepard that it will cleanse reboot the Galaxy one relay at a time once its down here on earth.
Everyone is shocked and horrified by the implications.
Harbinger gloats that order will be restored and the Cycle can start anew again.
Shepard Speech.
Chooses final Squad members and forges on.
Last checkpoint.
Shepard Meets Illusive man who holds the final key to unlocking the Citadel. The Illusive man lays it all out, from what he has pieced together. The Citadel is not only a huge mass relay, it is also the Reaper’s command and control centre from which the reapers direct their systematic “cycles” and that means it’s also one big galactic broadcasting device and that some ancient race finally figured this out and came up with the Crucible which is not a weapon but a signal modifier and booster carrying code that is essentially the Reaper's "kill swtich”. This signal however can also be used to take control of the Reapers. This old race figured out that you can send the signal from the Citadel but such a signal would only effects its local space for the signal work galactically, the signal needs to be sent simultaneously across the galaxy using the Mass Relays as piggy back signal towers.
Illusive man tries takes control of Shepard’s implants.
Illusive Man Makes Shepard shoots both squad members and they are out of combat (not dead)
If Love interest is in squad however, Shepard finds strength to resist after he shoots the first squad member and when the illusive man tries to make Shepard shoot his LI. (Love has to count for something ya?)
Boss Fight.
One on One Shepard vs Illusive man or two vs one if
Shepard is with LI
Shepard wins, Illusive Man slumps to the ground.
Cut Scene.
Harbinger arrives at the Conduit and starts blasting at ground troops. (poor EMS = more die, not just nameless troops but Jack, Grunt, Wrex and any other non-squad companions from previous games at the scene, we will however assume high EMS for this cut scene) More Reaper Destroyers land and starts blasting as well.
Jack plays mother hen and orders Asari commandoes around to help bolster the linked shields so that ground forces can hold ground. She refuses to leave but realise her shields cannot withstand too many direct hits from Reaper cannons. Reluctantly leaves when Miranda tells her, “Shepard will find away, he always does.”
Meanwhile on the Citadel, Shepard with EDI’s help shuts down the Relay Nova sequence and call's Hecket to keep the Reapers off while they try to dock the Crucible.
Harbinger realises what is happening and take offs along with most of the Destroyers headed towards the Citadel.
HUGE fleet space battle ensues!
(I thought about making the boss fight againt Harbinger for Shepard but, the Illusive Man should be Shepard's Boss fight while Harbinger and his guardian's should be Fleets, they came all the way here to Earth after all, its only fair they show off what a combined Galactic force can do)
With enough (that 3300 mark) Assests, they keep the Reapers off. With low casualites.
No or low assests, reapers break though and Crucible gets destroyed, "Failure cut scene plays, showing more reapers arriving and decimating Galactic fleet.
Mid point assests, fleet still hold off the reapers but major leadership dies giving shepard a chance.
Crucible docks.
Harbinger’s Avatar appears one last time, but this time it shows fear. It knows death is imminent and it doesn’t want to die. Harbinger admits that perhaps its assessment is wrong and gives Shepard a choice, instead of killing every reaper, it asks Shepard to shackle them.
Each Reaper would then be Humanity’s tool and weapon against anything or anyone, organic or synthetic. Through them, Humanity would achieve power unimaginable and through humanity’s control of the reapers, order be imposed on all organic life. (Renegade Choice of course)
Shepard refuses.
Takes the Paragon path and triggers the kill switch.
THE CITADEL DOES NOT BLOW UP, BREAK APART OR GETS DESTROYED.
(Final moments / epilogues)
Garrus : “So Shepard, do the honours?”
Shepard: “I thought you’d do it, I mean, isn’t that why you calibrate stuff so much?”
Garrus : “The guns. Are. On. The. Normandy. Shepard.” ”But now that you mentioned it, why not? I could never resist pushing big red buttons... Uhhh There is a big red button right?”
EDI. : “No Garrus. Just your standard VI overlay”
Garrus : “Pity. Well Palaven isn’t free of Reapers yet while we stand here talking.” *reaches up and touches controls*
Signal beam goes out to the Charon Relay, Relay pulses then shoots out beam to other Relays.
”RELAYS ARE NOT DESTROYED.*
Pretty colour signal rings Galactic map display depicting each relay receiving and sending the kill switch out. Reapers across the Galaxy flat lines. Cheers from ground troops in Palaven, Asari on Thessia, everywhere, troops emerge bloodied but not beaten.
*Everyone in room cheers*
Ashley : “We did it! We finally did it! It’s all because of you Shepard, I am sorry I doubted ….”
*Sound of rapid auto gun fire. Shepard’s Shields flare, then in slow motion, HEAD SHOT*
(1) IF Shepard has been true to his LI and did not go dipping into the pond so to speak, depending on LI they'd see TIM, and will do a number of things, taking the hit (NOT FATALLY but unknown to the player at the time) example. Liara sees TIM, cast Singularity but the bullets fired richochets and hits her / Tali sabotages his gun but TIM manages to get ONE shot off at her, Ashley simply stands in the line of fire and pushes Shepard away ...different things from different LIs - - - back to the show!
Liara : “Goddess! Noooooooo…”
*everyone turns to see a shakily Illusive man standing with a modified machine pistol in hand .. Everyone unloads their weapons into Illusive man. All except Liara, who is cradling Shepard and crying.
*Fade to black.*
*scene opens 5 years later. We see a small Asari child playing in the grass on Thessia laughing and giggling with another Asari child. She turns when she hears someone approaches and it is Liara and Matriarch Aethyta. One of the girls run up to Liara.* Child : “Mother, Aria here says that everyone is nice to me only because my father is famous. Why do you never talk of him?
Liara : “Oh Hannah, *breathes in deeply* your father was the most important man in the galaxy. He is why we still have Thessia, our home.”
Hannah : “Aria says he’s human. Aria’s mother says humans are at best century flings. I don’t understand….*looks up and sees Liara in tears* I am sorry mommy. I didn’t mean to make you cry. *stays silent for a few seconds* What was he like, my father?”
Liara : “He was …he was….*breaks down and cries*
Aethyta : “ He was a man. Had a quad on him for sure but he had heart, he….."
*scene cuts to Garrus at SPECTRE Academy*
Garrus : “ … was not just a SPECTRE, he was THE SPECTRE. I was there when he took down Saren, when at the time we Turians still thought all humans were only good as cannon fodder."
Spectre trainee: “But sir, surely he was JUST a human....”
Garrus : "Son, on Rannoch, Shepard played tag with a reaper, on foot. He won. *touches side of his face* You see this, got this from a Gunship’s rocket in Omega. Shepard took it down, with small arms and saved my life. No, I learned from the best and that was Shepard. I learned that no matter how good you are, nothing is better than a true friend guarding your back and Shepard was …”
*scene cuts to Wrex and Grunt*
Wrex : “….an Honorary Krogan because I made him so! Arrrhharrhahhaaa!”
Grunt : “Bah, I knew that before you. You remember? He fought beside me on my Rites of Passage and at the time he said he was “my krant” *does finger air quotes* …huh. When that Thresher Maw popped up and he didn’t flinch, just stared down that big ass rifle of his and shot, I knew then, that he’s no one’s Krant. That I was lucky to be his.”
Krogan : “Clan Utnev says The Shepard is human and they spit on humans.”
Wrex Grunt : “SHEPARD IS URDNOT! Shepard is why our women are whole again!
Grunt : "WHO IS SHEPARD?!!"
Krogans :" URDNOT!!"
Wrex : "WHAT IS SHEPARD?!"
Krogans : " KROGAN!"
Grunt : "AND IF THEY SPIT ON SHEPARD THEY SPIT ON...."
Krogans : "UDNOT!! SHEPARD IS KROGAN!! SHEPARD IS...."
*Scene cuts to Samara on Thessia now chief caretaker of the Ardat Yakshi monastery
Samara : " ......... honour personified."
Falere : "Is that why you left us, and followed him, his honour?"
Samara : "He helped me kill Morinth..."
Falare : " So he murdered my sister too .."*bitter*
Samara : " Your sister would have murdered him."
Falare : " So how did it feel, to have the great commander Shepard do your dirty work for you?"
Samara : " Shame, that is why I almost....why I wanted it all to end. I used him Falare. In the end I even when I tracked Morinth down, deep down in my heart I did not want to kill her, I ....knew that if Shepard was there. I would have to do what I swore to do."
Falare : "Is that why you almost...."
Samara : " I could not kill another of my Children. So I thought there was only path left to me. And Shepard stopped me. He still believed Falare, that I had honour."
Falare : " I ....I guess I misunderstood, Shepard is....."
*scene cuts to Tali. ALL Qurians have their helmets off*
Tali : “ ….the most compassionate man I know.”
Quarian girl : "What is it like travelling with the humans? With Shepard?
Tali: “Trying. Often you just want to shoot them. *she grins* Sometimes I don’t get them at all but when I see Shepard I see the best humanity has to offer. Let me tell you of a story about a Quarian named Lia’Vael nar Ulnay a young Quarian girl on her pilgrimage. She went to the citadel but before long, her money was stolen, she was beaten and people spat on her. All because she was Quarian. We met her while a Csec officer and a Volus had her held for questioning and NO ONE wanted to help. Shepard did. He cared. He didn’t see us as Quarians or aliens but as people. As someone of worth and Lia was someone worth helping. I asked him afterwards, why did he helped. He just said “It’s what I do.” *Tali falls silent for a bit, eyes with a faraway look, wishful*
Quarian girl : “Was he dreamy? *giggles*
Tali : *flushed* “Uhhh.... what? …Shepard was …”
*scene cuts to Aethyta*
Aethyta : “…. Many things to many people. But most of all he was hope. He never stopped trying. They took away his ship, they took away his command they took everything that he was but they could not take away his spirit. Your mother loves him very much because of that spirit. Hell, if your mother had not already claimed him, I would have been tempted to myself! Bet I can teach him a thing or two…”
Liara : “Aethyta!”
*Hannah climbs into Liara’s lap*
Hannah : “He sounds wonderful. I wish he was here.”
Liara : *wraps arms around Hannah and hugs her tightly*
“We all do, little dove, we all do.”
*FADE TO BLACK*
END CREDIT ROLL.
(Only did those few companions, would have, Jack, Miranda, everyone who is still alive retelling Shepard as they saw him..... Different "memories if Shepard was Renegade and of course a VERY different one if Shepard Lives)
But to me, it would have been epic even if my Shepard died ( I'd play to keep him alive of course though) and we have all the people he touched speak of him and their memories of him? What better end can you think of?
Anyways, if you have been reading this far.
Thank you.
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