LucasShark wrote...
Okay: Let's say everything the IT theorists are spouting is right: their little theory is correct and I'm stupid, and my mother was a ****, and everything else they've told me is correct. And I'm being VERY generous here considering the last piece of "evidence" I saw was a bloke realizing that the citadel tower chamber kind of sort of looks like a reaper if you squint and have pink-eye.
Now here's the problem I want them all to admit to right now: IT IS NOT, repeat IS NOT an ending.
Should IT be correct, and you "win" by choosing destroy the reapers, and Shepard wakes up: where do we wake up? We are plonked back onto Earth, MID-BATTLE no less, with a no doubt wounded team and reaprs everywhere. This isn't a situation that five minuts, or een 10 minutes of cutscenes or quick time events could fix. This is still a story written into a hole.
This will lead to one of two things: more post-credits DLC content, which will likely be paid for, or a new game entirely. This means Bioware lied, fundamentally in nearly all their promo material and all the raming that went into ME3. It also means, that if these items are not free, I will not get them, and even then: they will have to be delivered to my door, with chocolates and appologies before I purchase another Bioware product ever again.
pretty sure most IT'rs are fully aware that it doesn't tie up that pesky Reaper loose end at the end of the game.
if you look back, check out the threads that were here a couple months ago, you'll see that IT developed, not as an ending, but as a way to explain the horribly bad ending.
the explanation, the hope, was that the ending was some sort of giant meta-game twist. one where the devs were going to unveil the "real" ending after a short while, once there was enough hype about it.
that hope was proven wrong rather quickly when everyone was told that the endings were in fact the finale.
since the announcement of the EC dlc, the hope is now that the devs will take IT and use it to explain the scenes on the citadel. that there will be additional cinematics at the end that tie up the loose ends IT doesn't explain, such as the fact that the Reapers are still running around.
all in all, i don't expect IT will be used by the devs. the EC will simply be an air freshener trying to mask the smell of crap.
that said though, rather than let the last few minutes of the series ruin my enjoyment of Mass Effect, or become embittered to the point that i write off bioware completely (as the OP seems to be), if the EC doesn't make the ending more palatable, ill use IT as my headcanon ending... and just assume that it the Reapers were somehow defeated by conventional means afterwards.
its either that or i become a bitter shell of a gamer who will never love another series again because of the fear of having it ruined by the devs.
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