tuzem2 wrote...
Can please someone from the ME3 staff explain to us the endings?
Yeah, there may be 16 endings. When you remove the color differences there are approximately 5-6 with minor variations - Earth gets fully destroyed, half destroyed or not destroyed- Shepard always dies unless you get 5000+ EMS where he breathers at the end under some ruble (which seem to be ion Earth as people mentioned the Citadel is not made from concrete). What does this mean=
The EMS is basically how much you managed to recruit the galaxy into fighting the Reapers; when you consider how much there are in the Milky Way and how ginormous Reapers are, your going to need alot of assets. From a Gamer's perspective it's what you will call the perfect ending, which you have to really be stringent on getting almost every little thing in the game in order to get it.
Also why in order for Shepard to live we had to supposedly kill EDI and the Geth.
Catylyst made the Reapers to prevent chaos; by which he meant that advanced civilizations will create very powerful synthetics that will ultimately rebel against they're creators, as it was shown heavily in those flashbacks with the Quarians and the Geth; if you want Shepard to live but still destroy the Reapers, the only way to do that is to destroy all forms of synthetic life, which unfortunately includes EDI and the Geth.
Is it a happy ending? Of course not; but keep in mind the best endings are usually the ones that make use think about what the morales this form of entertainment was trying to teach, not when all the good guys like and all the bad guy dies, that would be trying to dumb down a series that has one of the richest and most complex stories in the videogame industry.
When the Mass Relays get destroyed by the Citadel beam, doesn't this also destroy the planet systems (ME2 Arrival DLC)?
The one that got destroyed in Arrival was the Alpha Relay, supposedly the first Mass Relay ever constructed, and it was destroyed by hurling a big ass asteroid into it. Quite frankly this could be a case of apples and oranges, as they way both the Alpha and Mass relays get destroyed are vastly different. IMO, I think that the original makers of the MR devices -The Reapers- were waiting for someone who would bring forth the next stage of evolution "Synthesis" and so they installed a fail-safe mechanism that would make sure the resulting explosion will be very contained if the MR's were destroyed by the Citadel beam.
Why was Joker running away from Earth? Why was my team on the Normandy after it crashes when they were just with me? Why would they leave me alone to die?
Remember being attacked by Harbinger just before reaching the Citadel? I have two theories on that.
1. Shepard was the only one who entered the pit, as his teammates decided to stay behind to make sure none of the husks would come and flank Shepard, Anderson and the other humans from behind.
2. Shepard blacked out after Harbinger attacked, the most likely scenario is that when Anderson woke up first, he woke up Shepards teammates and told them to head back into the Normandy. Why he didn't wake up Shepard is probably because he thought Shepard got killed; when we saw him in the Citadel he quite literally looked like **** and was bleeding profusely from his abdomen so it was a miracle he was still standing.
Why was it important for Shepard to die to control/synthesize/destroy the Reapers? To tell us that whatever you do you are part of the cosmic joke and your actions at the end don't matter? Who created the AI kid at the end?
Shepard is part synthetic remember? At the beginning of Mass Effect 2, he was basically reconstructed by Cerberus with many synthetic parts because his body was severely damaged after re-entering the atmosphere. Catalyst clearly stated that only synthetics can control and destroy the Reapers, while a hybrid is needed to make the step forward in evolution. Sacrifice is a dirty thing to do but as the old saying goes, it’s better to kill one to save a hundred.
How does creating the synthetic Reapers and having them kill/harvest advanced civilizations to avoid destroying all organics better that destroying all organics? It seems rather cruel, doesn't it? "Instead of killing you immediately we are going to wait until you are able to think and feel and then we'll kill you"?!
Your oversimplifying the Reapers; they’re not crazed homicidal maniacs that only want domination for snythetics. Catalyst made the Reapers to be the caretakers of the universe; to prevent they’re vision of chaos from happening, which is synthetics created by advanced civilizations rebelling against the creators and killing all organics. They only destroy the civilizations that passed the threshold of being able to create artificial life, and preserve those that are basically in it’s infancy, like us 50’000 years ago. It’s like what Adolf Hitler did with the Jews, in order to preserve and save the “Aryan Race” that were german ethnics, he killed minorities relentlessly in an very twisted form of ethnic cleansing. The Reapers were doing the same thing in context, kill the advanced organics to save organics as a whole from themselves.
What's the aftermath for the MASS effect universe when the MASS relays are destroyed?
That’s’ what Mass Effect 4 is for, 1-3 is the Shepard trilogy.
What does the "breathing" ending mean´- is Shepard ultimately dead or alive? If alive, why does this only work if you decide to exterminate a whole species?
Synthesis requires Shepard to be practically dissolved into that Stream of light and have that radiant green light aftermath to be spread through the galaxy by those Mass Relay explosions.
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