[quote]Arcian wrote...
Let me clarify:
1: If you chose Destroy, you somehow wake up
magically free of Indoctrination, which according to three games of lore
isn't possible because Indoctrination is utterly permanent. No one in
Mass Effect has EVER escaped indoctrination permanently. Yes, people
with tremendous willpower can resist it for a short while, but a short
while is not the several hours required to fight the final battle. At
best, Shepard would wake up, get his/her bearings for a few minutes and
then turn Reaper Mode and attack friends and allies after being mentally
overpowered by the Reapers.
2: If you chose Synthesis/Control,
you are indoctrinated, losing the game instantly which makes Destroy a
non-choice - thus removing what little choice remained in the RGB scene.
The whole point of Mass Effect is to not force non-choices on the
player, which is precisely what the IDT is doing.
3: The Reapers
do not indoctrinate via hallucinations or mental "dream persuasion" -
they literally, physically damage the brain with electromagnetic energy
and infra/ultrasound, degenerating thought processes to make their
victims susceptible to subliminal control. Permanent. Brain. Damage.
The hallucinations and voices are symptoms, not causes as the IDT would
have us believe. By the time you are experiencing hallucinations and
hearing voices, you have already been irreversibly indoctrinated - thus,
the IDT's presumption that Destroy frees Shepard of indoctrination is
highly erroneous.
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1.Why not? Why not once on a rare while have someone strong enough to resist it? It's like the chances of life forming, but just because it's never happened before, might not happen for billions of years, doesn't mean it can't. The whole game you are constructing shepard's willpower.
2. Meh. IT doesn't make the ending a non-choice, it's merely a situation in which there is one right choice among many right choices. This is in fact repeated multiple times in the game with situations that can result in someone's death or you saving them (some side quests, sending Tali down the vent in ME2). The choices given by starbrat and he himself are an illusion by the logic of the IT. Only this time the person who might die/ become reaperized is Shepard.
EDIT: Oh wait, no it is actually definitively possible to escape indoctrination here:
[qoute]
The only person who fully escaped indoctrination's grip was
Shiala, but her case was unique; Sovereign's control was supplanted by the
Thorian's when she was exchanged for the
Cipher, which ended with the Thorian's demise—a scenario unlikely to be repeated.
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unlikely not being impossible.
3. a variant of 2
Retour en haut
No, really just pointing out that if indoc is escapable in one way why not the other. It's not as absolute as it seems.
