Syrellaris wrote...
1 serious question, what if bioware comes up with a big DLC expansion next month or perhaps a small post saying that the Indoctrination is what really happened and that thus the story aint finished yet. (Regardless, the indoctrination theory seems to be real, there is simply to much evidence and facts stating that it is true)
How will you all feel?
Bear with an impossibly nerdy analogy for a while.
Take the franchise as a function of the number of possible, plausible outcomes over time, i.e. y = |Possibilities|, x = t, with the slope of the curve representing how believable a narrowing or broadening of possibilities is, i.e. dy/dx increases with how "unbelievable" a shift is.
Then for the most part, we follow a slow, steady increase through the game from a single defeat outcome when nothing is known of our opposition to a collecton including some hopeful outcomes to one including even the prospect of outright victory, even if at heavy cost. There are some abrupt jumps and drops, like Project Lazarus allowing the progression of ME2 or the inability to consult the council w.r.t the Rachni in ME1, but for the most part, each time an opportunity is closed or opened to us, it, I dunno, "flows right".
So at the end of our journey, with a global maximum of |possibilities| open to us, comes the Star Child, and our collection of endings is reduced in a catacylsmic drop to a singleton through Shepard's railroaded acceptance of SC's logic. This drop, and the restriction of choice it represents, is almost impossible to believe given the nature of the curve up til this point. Furthermore, this singleton possibility does not exactly open itself to "speculation for everyone" that leads anywhere but a charlie-foxtrotted galaxy. Abstracting the idea of |possibilities| to soem measure of hope, one can see why this would be disappointing.
Now, assume Shepard was indoctrinated. Heck, assume further that he was indoctrianted and
there's no further content. Such an ending still leaves a larger number of possibilities and avenues for "lots of speculation for everyone" than the current ending. The fleets might still be successful to some extent, whether by retreating and evading the reaper's notice long enough to pass their knowledge onto the next cycle like the Protheans before tem or byachieving a terribly Pyrrhic victory or by weakening the Reaper forces so their successors have an easier time of it. More improtantly, some of these lines of tought even leave a modicum of hope.
It's like the concept of potential energy. An indoctrinated Shep is a rock at 10 meters above ground. The current ending is the same rock at one meter. "Speculation for everyone" is work. Which of the two former allows for more of the latter?
TL;DR: Yes, I'd be more satisfied with the game if it ended with indoctrination and nothing further than if it remains as is. That said, I'd still not be terribly satisfied.
Modifié par Jamesui, 19 mars 2012 - 07:33 .
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