apieros wrote...
The Charnel Expanse wrote...
As long as the part about having to resolve the conflict between organics and synthetics remains in place, it's doomed. It completely alters the theme of the series at the worst possible time.
To expand on what's wrong with the Catalyst:
The Catalyst is presented as the solution to an inevitable problem: synthetics will always rebel, and they will always wipe out all life in the galaxy. Thus, the entire ending of the game is an attempt to solve this inevitable conflict.
On its face, this is a bull**** contention. There is nothing in the real world which indicates this to be the case. It's like asserting an inevitable genocidal conflict between ice cream and caterpillars. This makes it hard to build a game around.
But, if you want to do so anyway (in direct contradiction of reason and common sense) you have to establish that, in your own fictional world, this assertion is actually true. You have to give examples of it, in the present and the past. You have to personalize it, in the form of characters and ongoing problems.
You have to give the player chances to solve it (or smaller instances of it) and show how their attempts are futile. Keep increasing the stakes of the conflict. From personal, to planetary, to galactic.
Thus, by the end of the game, players will accept it is a real conflict, and care about solving it, and be desperate for a solution. Enter the Catalyst.
That's how you establish a central theme.
Did they do this with the "inevitable conflict between synthetics and organics"? No, not even a little bit.
Did they do it with anything? Yeah, the Reapers. See the problem?
"Inevitable blah blah" is not only false on its face, the game itself never establishes the conflict as being of critical importance. The conflict between the Reapers and galactic civilization, on the other hand, is the central conflict of the game, and it is that central conflict the ending should have resolved.
That's the problem with the entire Starchild sequence.
I have no idea what you are going on about let alone why?
How about, it's bull****, everyone's dead and the starchild, you write a fanfic that instantly becomes a hit across the entire internet and soon Hollywood make a movie you live happy ever after.
Apologies, maybe it would be just easier to tell us what you want because you are arguing about a story someone else is telling, if they retcon it they retcon it, we've just had some great little tidbits of info from an official source.
So, it's bull****, in black and white by someone who disagrees with whatever you're trying to accomplish, that makes it fact and you can put it in any codex you want and your signature.
Help me out here? Please?
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let's also not forget about quantum communication...or the incredible store of food rations that the Normandy has.
Please please do your best to address what we want to the best of your ability.
