TL;DR for the link: This is a little game I'm going to play: Can the ending be extended, clarified, and granted closure in a way that doesn't really change them, but totally changes them? I think so, and I managed to create three endings that are the "same" but different, as well as being different meanings based on Paragon, Renegade, and EMS score, plus choices made.
Now, on with the show!
EXAMPLE: DESTRUCTION:
Shepard staggers towards the red ending, raising his sidearm to fire.
CATALYST: "If you do this, you will destroy everything you've fought for."
Shepard fires a shot into the propane tank thing.
CATALYST: "There is a better way. You do not need to throw everything away. Synthesis/Control can still save this cycle."
RENEGADE INTERRUPT:
- SHEPARD: "I didn't come here to stop the Reapers. I came here to kill them." Shepard fires again..
CATALYST: "Your ship is controlled by a synthetic lifeform. It fights with you. You would destroy it as well."
DIALOGUE WHEEL:
- UPPER RIGHT - "She. She fights with me {IF GETH ARE ALIVE - "and so do the geth"}. They chose to fight; they chose to risk everything, rather than consent to your control <shows blue ending> {IF OVER 3000 EMS - "rather than consent to your vision"<shows green ending>}. EDI is my friend
{IF GETH ARE ALIVE - "and the geth are my allies"} and their/her sacrifice will be honored." - NEUTRAL - "I don't believe you."
- LOWER RIGHT - "They knew the risks. You can't scare me off with fears, kid. Not now, not ever. Today you die."
- MIDDLE LEFT: Walk away, choose another ending.
CATALYST - WORRIED: "You will die, Shepard. This is not an escape. The cycle will continue."[/list]
DIALOGUE WHEEL:
- {IF UNITED GETH AND QUARIAN - UPPER LEFT: "No." Shepard, defiant, levels his gun at the Catalyst. "You're wrong. We united the geth and the Quarians. They're fighting, right out there, together, against you! Against your blinded "solution"."}
- {IF UNITED GETH AND QUARIAN - LOWER LEFT: "I've got a couple million synthetics and organics right outside, with a couple thousand megatons of counter-argument aimed right at your "solution", kid."}
- UPPER RIGHT: "This is your doing, your creation. You can't damn every possible future because of a prediction!"
- NEUTRAL: "Maybe. My orders stand. Today, your cycle ends."
- LOWER RIGHT: "And I really don't care why you're doing this, or what you're trying to prove. Kill or be killed, and I think this cycle's just about over."
- MIDDLE LEFT: Walk away, choose another ending.
DIALOGUE WHEEL:
- {IF CURED GENOPHAGE AND GAINED SALARIAN SUPPORT AND SAVED THE RACHNI - UPPER LEFT: Shepard shakes his head, disgusted. "I understand you, Catalyst. I didn't before, but now I do. You point out every atrocity, every tragedy, and level it as evidence in need of your judgment. The Rachni Wars, the Krogan Rebellion, they were horrendous. But look out there, Catalyst. Those are united fleets, Krogan and Turian and Salarian and Asari {IF BATARIAN SUPPORT - "and Batarian"} and human. They stand, united, against you! And do you see that out there <Shepard points>? That's a Rachni ship. You turned the Rachni into a weapon, through Sovereign's control. You turned them into a plague, let them loose on the galaxy, and yet here they stand, free, and united with the Victory fleet. You've already lost. }
- {IF DID NOT CURE GENOPHAGE AND KEPT KROGAN SUPPORT - LOWER LEFT: War is hell, sure. But we survive. Always have, always will. You're just another loser in a long chain. <Shepard spits blood on the floor.>}
- UPPER RIGHT: "You assume the cycle will never change. You assume that organics are nothing but chaos. You assume far too much. We adapt, that's what we do. We adapted to fight you, we will adapt to survive another day. You threw away hope, and created this monstousity. We throw that away, and choose hope instead."
- NEUTRAL: "In another day, perhaps. Maybe we'll learn from this, maybe we'll get a little smarter, maybe we'll get a little more tolerant. Maybe not. What I do know is, we're fighting and dieing, here, together, to stop you, and I will not betray that sacrifice. Save your arguments, Catalyst. I'm not listening."
- LOWER RIGHT: "You'd be dead. We'd survive. Seems like a pretty solid victory to me."
- MIDDLE LEFT: Walk away, choose another ending.
CATALYST: "You cannot do this! Without a solution, without the cycle, chaos will consume everything. Order must be applied! We are that order! We are your salvation through destruction! Shepard, you would destroy everything! You must not! You can not! Shepard! We beg you, stop!"
{IF PURE RENEGADE PLAYTHROUGH - RENEGADE INTERRUPT:
- Shepard stops shooting, and grins wickedly. SHEPARD: "You know what, kid? You had me. I was bleeding, dying, pointlessly, right below our feet. You'd won. Everything was in your favor. And yet, you brought me up here, showed me this, and I had to wonder, "Why?" Why give me this chance, why take this risk? I figured it out. You didn't want to beat me. You wanted to break me, didn't you, Harbinger? You wanted me to crawl down your tunnels and beg you to beat me. You wanted the pleasure."
- CATALYST - PURE PANIC: "Shepard! Don't-"
- SHEPARD: "I didn't know machines could feel pleasure." Shepard raises gun, smiling broadly. "Apparently, you can feel fear, too. And to think, that once, we feared you."
- Catalyst makes reaper-screech/wail, Shepard fires one last time.}
- Shepard stops shooting, and lowers gun slightly, looking suddenly at peace. SHEPARD: "I don't believe you."
- CATALYST - DESPERATE: "We have foreseen-"
- SHEPARD: "Everything you've said is a lie. You said organics were nothing but chaos, but we've organized a defense. You said organics and synthetics must destroy each other, but we've united against you. The Rachni were your tool, corrupted by you to attack us. The geth were your pawns, twisted against us. Saren was your victim, thinking he could Synthesize a solution. The Illusive Man was your plaything, gambling he could control your evil. Every proof you have is a lie. Every example an illusion. You are the problem. You are the fault. I reject your solutions! I reject your assumptions!" Shepard raises his weapon, defiant. The Catalyst recoils slightly, eyes widening. "I reject you, and I deny you and your lies!"
- CATALYST: "There can be-"
- SHEPARD: "I say they live! I say they all live!"
- CATALYST: "Another solution can be-"
- SHEPARD: "Here's my 'solution', Catalyst! Turn it off!!"
- CATALYST - CONFUSED: "I don't understand-"
- SHEPARD: "No, you don't! Turn it off! Turn them all off!" Shepard points to the Reaper fleet. "They're your solution, right? Well, if your solution is so vital, then turn them off, right now, or you lose everything!"
- CATALYST: "I cannot-"
- SHEPARD: "No, you will not. There's a difference. We all have a choice."
- CATALYST: "Shepard! There is a compromise-"SHEPARD: "Not with you. Not today. Not ever. Here's my solution.Shepard fires one last time.}
CUE ENDING EXPLOSION - RED. CUE *HOPEFULLY EXPANDED* FINALE CUTSCENES AND NEW EPILOGUES.
END EXAMPLE.
Now, that's simplistic, only covers one ending, and was written on the fly. However, it keeps the ending, while, I think, making the meaning quite a bit richer, giving us more choice, and letting us tell starbaby to shove it. A similiar ending (different tone) could be done for Control, fleshing it out. Not so sure about Green Space Magic, but that's my personal bias creeping in, since I *despise* green ending in principle and in execution.
And if you're wondering why Paragon talks so much more than Renegade, well, I always felt RenegadeShep let bullets doing the talk for them.
So, whad'ya'think?
EDIT: Added "Extended Ending Example: Control" later in thread. That one was a little more difficult, but I think I got it to work.
EDIT: Added "Extended Ending Example: Synthesis" later in thread. This one took me a LOT longer, and wasn't quite as clean, but I do believe I established a version of Synthesis that I can live with. This one required the most retcon and alteration, so I don't think it quite qualifies as "extended" so much as "fanon", but, hey, let me know what you think!
Modifié par Fapmaster5000, 28 avril 2012 - 04:53 .
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