Just a few more suggestions regarding the ending:
-The ending should -not- depend on whether you played MP or not, it should be possible to improve your readiness rating through other means, if need be paid DLC, but while I don't dislike the MP option, I do not want to grind for hours just to improve the readiness rating, which doesn't make sense anyway. Also, I feel it would be much more interesting to play towards a single goal for each mission, battling the way through a facility or somesuch and clearing it out, much more like the game itself, not fightin wave after wave after wave of attackers. There should be a reward for reaching the final stage more quickly. I've also read that the readiness rating is calculated when you start the game and is random, that should not be the case. Basically, the longer the fight is drawn out, the lower the rating should be as the Reapers are winning, they are too advanced and battles are fought everywhere, concentrating somewhere means losing elsewhere. Taking out Cerberus, or at least the Cerberus command hub in the semi-final chapter should have had a measurable effect, with Cerberus becoming fragmented, even if TIM had a contingency plan, it has to be plain now for even his most fanatical supporters that they are on the wrong side. Allied forces engaged with Cerberus forces should now be able to redeploy and commence operations against the Reapers instead.
-More attention to actual strategy and tactics, no frontal assault on the strongest position, especially not by a small force like Shepard and his team which should just attempt to infiltrate. Hammer is basically a distraction/clearing a path.
-Option to countermand / court martial Major Coats' regarding his order to retreat ( if that is really real). Perhaps -he- is indoctrinated? Everyone has to be clear, there -is- no retreat, this is the final and only attempt, they need to win now or they lose anyway.
-Team comes up from behind and helps Shepard up, continues up to Citadel
-On the Citadel, the Citadel Defense force is fighting a losing battle, choices made previously will affect the shape they are in. Also remember, Liara's 'father' is on the Citadel and she's a Matriarch, so I'm sure she can kick *ss and take names. Shepard helps them to fight off a wave of Reapers, CDF helps Shepard to continue the mission, there is some part of the Citadel, preferably one we haven't been before, where the Reapers have set-up shop. Perhaps there is even a full-size Reaper (Harbinger? Although Harbinger was supposedly in London) inside the Citadel itself, like the way Sovereign intended to dock with it.
-What follows is an epic battle, perhaps even inside a Reaper, which ends either with Shepards' death / the destruction of the Citadel / death of all Reapers and victory, whether Shepard survives or not. Shepard not even reaching the citadel could be a fifth option, Shepard's love interest dying but Shepard surviving another. That is at least six completely different options right there. If Shepard is truly indoctrinated, the rest of the team has to take over and the player can play with one of them instead.
-Supposedly, the Citadel plays a key role in the Relay network, shutting it down gives the humans control of the network. Alternatively, it enables the Reapers, through the mass relays, to communicate/coordinate
with eachother. In either case, shutting this system down gives the various races a huge advantage. Alternatively, the Crucible, when docked with the Citadel, fires, more or less as shown in the current 'ending'
and fires -through- the relay pathways into the various systems, wiping out all or at least most Reapers within a certain distance from a relay. Reapers are mechanical beings, they are not all-powerful, they must
have a weakness. A beam of sufficient power or a certain line of code could disrupt their operations.
-Full resolution regarding fate of Mankind / Reapers / fellow squadmates in aftermath
-If Shepard lives, Shepard either retires or keeps fighting isolated pockets of Reaper resistance (in DLC or sequel), showing whether or not Shepard's love interest survived and for instance either building a house with Tali or having blue babies with Liara.
Modifié par TheCinC, 03 avril 2012 - 05:36 .