SackofCat wrote...
I'd be pretty happy if you really did find the joke funny (to clarify-not sarcasm).
The reuse of assets is a possibility in making an IT and a not indoctrination ending but I wonder if their going to use the reuse assets to make different endings technique so soon, and in the same ending no less.
The most likely route Bioware will take is to make 1 EC to please as many of their fans and frustrate and anger the fewest. These are things like: making the RGB and the rest of the ending more coherent, show what happened to our friends, the races, and galaxy as a result of our choice. IT really would be a vastly different ending to a lot of, if not most of, fans. There are a lot of different interpretations of the ending and most do not require that the current ending to not be happening in the physical world, where most of the setting has been up to this point.
There are things that may indicate something related to indoctrination but it is at least as likely as those things were present for another reason altogether. Most of the points IT make are painting the ending to be a dream or vision but they do not relate to indoctrination in particular.
For example, TIM apparently makes Shepard shoot Anderson. There are several things that do not make sense about this (which I can list if you would like) but they still make more sense than these characters being personifications of Sheperd's psyche. Nothing in Mass Effect has ever happened that is even remotely similar to this.
Are you even open to the possibility that Bioware can make a satisfying not-IT ending? I don't mean to put you on the spot or rain on your parade. Even if indoctrination is non-existent in the EC, it will not take away your's and other' interpretation or the effort, affection, and/or devotion you have put into this idea. If it turns out not to be true, will it really make the work and thought that went into IT less impressive?
Well, SackofCat, I would like to be open to another interpretation but none of those interpretations are likely to give me a final boss fight with Harbinger since he was either destroyed by a Reaper off switch, controlled by Shepard (a ridiculous notion), or was a part of the synthesis that gave us peace with Harbinger (even more ridiculous) . Harbinger was one of my favorite characters in the Mass Effect Universe and the fact that he was a foot note in the game royally pissed me off. Harbinger deserves better and he deserves to be the final boss of Mass Effect 3, not the Catalyst, Kai Leng or even TIM.
Also, I would like to add that shooting a pipe to destroy the Reapers takes all of the fun out of the ending, at least it does for me. And I just can't stand behind the fact that peace could ever be achieved with the Reapers or that we would be able to control something that we don't comprehend in the slightest. The Reapers are mass murderers and I wouldn't want to make peace with them nor would I trust them in the slightest. All of the villains of the series supported Control and Synthesis while all of the good guys supported Destroy. The endings just don't make any sense to me.
Let's suppose that they do somehow manage to explain all of those gaping plotholes and nonsensical occurences. Well, that's all well and good, but that still wont make me agree with the direction that the story has taken. I wanted a thrilling final battle with the Reapers. I love my Star Wars endings. That's just what I like and who I am. Harbinger is one of my favorite supervillains and the whole thing was just a let down for me. IT allows an entirely new ending to be crafted and it is the unknown possibilities and potential behind that which excite me. Simply explaining the ending just doesn't cut it for me. I don't agree with the fundamental direction of the story.
The only other thing I would support besides the IT is a complete overhaul and scrap of the ending in favor of an entirely new one but they aren't going to do that anyway.
Modifié par liggy002, 05 juin 2012 - 04:50 .
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