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  • The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up
  • The people picked up are severly injuried, but by the time the Normandy is flying away from the space magic they are fully healed.
  • In the synthesis ending, Joker still limps
  • I left Garrus at the base camp on Earth, but he somehow he gets on the Normandy, even though he was never picked up. (same could be said of other squad mates left at the Militiary HQ, however it is most glaring with Garrus, because he tells Joker to fly away)
  • The Normandy FTL jumps at the same time as the rest of the fleet, yet it is the only one not to reach the rendezvous point.
  • There is literally no reason for the crash to happen
  • That whole scene is just stupid now: Shepard takes time out during the all-or-nothing charge to get his buddies into cover and call for evac when the entire galaxy can be obliterated if he doesn't make it to the beam.
  • Walking towards an exploding pipe which you've just shot makes you more likely to survive. Even if you are bleeding out at the time.
  • Normandy isn't impeded by the small group of Reapers flying towards the beamHarby flying off
  • Anderson doesn't have a gut wound, only Shepard does.
  • Destroy ending show the citadel rebuilt, so why didn't they find Shepard? (personal theory is that a keeper stole him, LOL)
  • And if the breath scene is on Earth, how does Shepard get from the Citadel in space back to Earth, specifically London in the Destroy option? The breath scene is the most confusing thing for me still.
  • Did anyone notice someone hands Hackett a datapad and from it he apparently learns that Shepard is alive lol. Shepard didn't radio in or anything. Hackett just looks at the datapad and says "good, he made it"
  • Catalyst living on the Citadel changes the complexion of a LOT of events in all three games. If Catalyst had been dormant/in hibernation all that time (maybe it relies on the keeper signal to 'wake it up'?) then it should have been stated in the game. If not, then Catalyst needs an explanation for his inaction during the course of those events.
  • I'm pretty sure it was said in ME2 that the SR2 is too large to land on planets without significant damage to the hull.
  • And another thing, the Citadel doesn't crash into Earth - you can see it still floating up in space, though very damaged.
  • Yeah... If Synthesis is "ultimate solution" for everyone, why the hell Reapers just don't come and give us (modified) plans for Crucible letting us merge organics ans synthetics? Aren't they tired/bored with all those killing?
  • The crucible needing to be activated by the Citadel doesn't make sense because the Reapers normally start every cycle by taking the Citadel first.  ]The Citadel was left ripe for taking over when the Reapers attacked Earth.  Not sure how or why the humans could transport the crucible to it safely.
  • The idea that civilizations that share zero contact with one another could combine efforts to design a functional weapon that they don't even understand the inner workings of is wildly difficult to accept.  ]Also, that the weapon melds as a part of the Citadel all along is even more confusing.  Really the Citadel was this entity all along that the Crucible just brings out, which is really confusing.
  • If the energy wave makes the Normandy crash, why doesn't it crash every other ship in the fleet? Either it doesn't and the Normandy crash makes no sense, or they do, leaving pretty much every ship damaged/destroyed. If the Normandy just landed in stead of crashing, why?
  • If it did crash, how did the crew fix it? They'd need parts and tools they likely didn't have.
  • How does the destroy ending not lead to starvation?
  • Harbinger is blind.
  • Shepard is in a hurry, then is no longer in a hurry, then is in a hurry again, to get to the beam.
  • The Catalyst's explanations for Control and Synthesis boil down to "space magic". (It's good that there is an option to get an explanation, though. +1 for that)
  • The Synthesis and Control slideshows explain nothing, More space magic.
  • Normandy being chased by the energy wave scene now only exists to justify the musical crescendo. All the other ships made an orderly retreat, yet the fastest ship in the fleet didn't?
  • The Gilligans Planet scene now makes no sense. The characters step out of the ship like it is some momentous occasion, with a bleak and uncertain future ahead of them. But there is no way they cannot know that they'll be rescued extremely quickly.
  • Stargazer scene now makes little sense. It is implied in the dialogue that they don't have interstellar space travel, but none of the endings now involve any technological setback - instead two of them involve massive technological advancement.
  • It's almost like the Reapers want you to pick something. Starchild gets pissed when you refuse to make a decision on their demise. Why would he want that? Would make sense why Harbinger doesn't shoot the Normandy, delivers only a glancing blow to Shepard and flies away while you're still alive.
  • How did the fleet figure out that the crucible was armed? They had no idea what it was or how it did it. There was a glowing light there but that doesn't mean it's armed.
  • And even if they knew it became armed, why flee then? For all they knew the crucible needed time to charge up and they would have to cover it till it actually fired. Besides, what threat did it pose to them if it did fire and they were nearby. I guess they might assume it might damage their systems, but they had to know it would effect the entire galaxy and running wouldn't change that.
  • Where was C-Sec and the other survivors on the citadel? Over the course of the entire third game the reapers are unable to clean out any single planet, so how do they manage to clean out the citadel, which was presumably incredibly well defended, in under a day? I guess they could of taken control of the citadel systems, but if they did that why not shut down the relay network, which was the plan in the first game (and all previous cycles)?
  • The Starchild asserts his solutions will no longer work. Upon player rejection of the Starchild's new solutions, he decides to continue with the old, failed solution.
  • The creators of Starchild, used a synthetic to solve the problem of hostile synthetics
  • Also how did they know Anderson was died and not Shepard??
  • If the ghost kid is an AI why hasn’t he decided to kill all organics, as he claims all AI will?
  • If Starchild could just turn off the Crucible like that why would he even want to talk to Shepard or use it's solutions, wouldn't he just turn off the Crucible as soon as it docked?
  • When Shepard asks the Catalyst why previous civilizations failed to deploy the Crucible, the correct answer would have been "because the relays weren't active." The Crucible requires working mass relays and according to Vigil the Reapers turn off the entire relay network at the beginning of a cycle. This is the first cycle with active relays and THAT is why the Crucible can work. This should have been made clear.
  • The Reaper IFF is not working, players can be chased in the star map by reapers, this implies that the reapers can scan down the Normandy and attack it
  • Shepard gets hit by harbringer's beam... He should have died because that beam can slice through ships!
  • the beam is still originating in the viper nebula (the one we blew up in arrival).
  • Why would Hackett say: "Holy sh*t HE did it" - and then say "We have reports that SOMEONE made it"
    If he says "HE" - then I suppose that's implying that he knows who he is - and if that someone is Shepard - everyone knows Shepard.
    Wouldn't he just say "Shepard made it!" ?
  • I'm most confused about the memorial service on the Normandy, where they are putting up Shepards name on the plaque. It looks like they are still on the planet they crashed on. How could they know Anderson is dead? And my Shepard isn't even dead! If Anderson's status was confirmed, it is highly likely that Shepherds status would also be confirmed.
  • Synthesis still doesn't make any sense. Why would they not build new synthetics eventually? Is EDI not in the body or split between the ship and the body, how does that even work? How does making people green stop them from fighting each other, did they also get lobotomized and have no feelings anymore? The science of turning all organics into whatever is ridiculous, especially in this context.
  • I don't know if this is new but the Prothean VI tells you that the crucible needs more energy and thus they want to use the citadel as a catalyst to fire it. Then you get to the ghost boy and he tells you that he is the catalyst. They didn't even know he exists how can he be the catalyst?
  • Why didn't Hacket call to check up on say progress when he learns Shepard made it? You'd think that would be good to know and he obviously can since he does it later. I'm also still impressed at how Anderson manages to get onboard without as much as a scratch and apparently he is quite stealthy too since nobody reported him entering.
  • Why Did tali were her mask durning synthesis ending at the message board, she is a machine now, she dosent need the mask any longer as shown with other Quarians
  • When the fleet is disengaging to escape the Crucible's blast, why do the the Reapers patiently sit and wait for the explosion to destroy/rewrite/subjugate them?
  • In the ending sequence Wrex was shown to be on Tuchanka when the reaper got defeated while in my game he was on earth with krogan troops before the final push.
  • Why didn't the Normandy actually unload a new squad. I mean, it seems like Garus teleported to the ship so he should get out and help. Also if ships can actually fly down like that, how about some damn help by maybe distracting the reapers
  • Why couldn't Shep just use medigel on her wounded squad, and then they all reach the beam? Surely it would take longer for the Normandy to pick them up and for Harby to wait patiently for Shep and Liara to finish their heartbreaking goodbye (Thanks Harby, such a gent), than for Shep to just slap some medigel on Liara and Garrus?
  • Why are there krogan nuclear families being shown when krogan have babies in clutches of like a thousand? Why did that one baby get picked over its brothers and sisters to be part of a picturesque, anthropocentric family unit?
  • I thought no one knew what the catylist would do. So why is everyone told to leave once it is activated?
    They don't know that the mass relays are going to be effected.... Plus there is obviously fighting still going on, so why are they leaving? (is it to calm the thoughts that everyone died of starvation in the Sol system?)
  • And you're telling me that the reapers would just sit there and watch all those war assets leave without following them?
  • And if they all left, and the Normandy was still caught speeding away from the explosion...then weren't the other victory fleet ships caught too? ...And I thought that the normandy could travel at FTL speeds...and if that's the case, how is it the explosion is even catchin up to it (because the fastest an explosion can travel is the speed of light)
  • The radios from both Shepard and Anderson are still working, why they just never report to hackett or the normandy ?.
  • In the rejection ending Shepard claims that she will die fighting but is implied that she just stood there and watched while everybody gets killed, in this ending Shepards LIVES and probably fights, but we are punished for not to choose any of the color craps.
  • The kid in the stargaze scene have the same voice as the spacebieber ( I think, at least in the rejecting ending )
  • There is no Shepard without Vakarian - Vakarian ask joker to leave. The writer responsible for this will be hunt by the dark knight of omega soon.
  • IF the Normandy can land next to the beam why didnt they just fly there after destroying the AA rather then loose all there troops in a head on assault over reaper territory
  • The catalyst's reasoning is that somehow the old solution won't work anymore, so a "new solution" must be forged. Yet destroying the reapers would not constitute any sort of a new solution from the perspective of the catalyst - it would be the destruction of the existing solution, and replacing it with nothing.

Modifié par 7he Island Head, 27 juin 2012 - 03:18 .


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63. If the Normandy can land on planets and if the stealth systems and IFF works the way the fans says it does, they wouldn't even have to take out the AA guns. They could've just flown to beam in London

64.No Dragon's Teeth at all in ME3, where did the reaper forces come from? Where were the husks made? Cerberus is shown to make more husks than the Reapers.

65. If the Reaper IFF was this anti-Reaper camoflauge then why didn't they ever put it to tactical use? Go into a Reaper building area, land on Harbinger, go directly into the Citadel without landing on Earth, sneak behind Reaper enemy lines, do hit-and-run tactics 24/7, etc.

66.Directly following the destruction of the Destroyer protecting the conduit we get a cut scene depicting several reapers breaking off and heading down to Earth. If you look closely at the beginning of that scene you'll see the Citadel. The conduit is OFF. And its visbly open at the tip. So apprently the conduit can be shut on and off at the Reaper's will AND the Alliance never thought to send a specialist team of three people into that opening with a shuttle craft.

67. If the organics in the Synthesis ending have the perfection of AIs and are linked to the Reapers, how come, according to the post credit talk, details have been lost to time?

68. I didn't read through to see if it has been asked, but I was wondering, how can the Normandy even fly again if EDI is dead during destroy ending?

69. Normandy can,
- attack Harbinger, bring it down or at least divert it.
- let all crew members join the race too. This is it, the final key assault of the whole war, right?
- act like mako, take the hit and deliver people to the conduit. Normandy itself doesn't need to enter the conduit, just deliver people.
These are all better decisions than evacuating just two soldiers.

70.Control can send signal to control, but destroy cant send signal to destroy?... puzzle me that
If destroy destroys synthetic life is literally sending the galactic community to the stone edge. Or did suddenyl ships no longer have onboard VI's? Do biotics no longer have implants, do the Quarians are in no need of their suits. Is garrus kickass face not held up by synthetic parts. Relays or not, you destroy all synthetic life and we are all dead period. Food, transport, medical care is gone. 

71.in the control and synthesis ending, The new Reapers are still going to be indoctrinating everyone (allbeit not on purpose). Because even dead repears can indoctrinate. Think about it.

72.How did they have the facilities to engrave name plates on a crashed Normandy?

73. What was the point of creating a human looking reaper ? It can't be for tactical reasons.

74. Who destroyed/killed the Reaper found in Me2 ?

75. How did Cerberus recover an other reaper IFF to recover parts of the human-reaper

76. So when Shepard dug up the 50,000-year-old diamond-head on Eden Prime, why didn't Liara understand the signals? Surely Liara also had the Cipher within her? That was the reason she came aboard Normandy in the first game: Shepard needed the Cipher to understand the Beacon, so Liara embraced Shepard erotically... err "eternity", to find the Conduit on Ilos.
I mean, didn't Sheppy get the Cipher from an Asari anyway?

77.Now for something completely on a tangent: was Mars ever terraformed in the story canon? I ask this because we see Liara running around with nothing but a face mask out in the Martian atmosphere. At least the Cerberus troops have the good idea to wear helmets.
The Martian surface is a balmy 50 degrees below zero (Celsius) with an atmospheric pressure just a small fraction that of Earth. Leaving your entire face exposed isn't exactly healthy. And inb4sheisholdingairinwithbiotics, if that's the case why is she wearing a mask? To filter out Martian germs?
In Mass 2 they also wore masks but only to areas where the atmospheric pressure and temperature aren't at such extremes. The Collector vessel was likely pressurized while the dead Reaper had an active Mass Effect field holding air in (and provides gravity, etc.).

78.Destroy ending destroys all synthetic life, then in Control it should work same way, i.e. EDI and Geth should be under control too. If not, then it's a BS, that only Reapers can't be deactivated by red beam.

79. In Synthesis ending armor also glows with this green poop. I mean does armor now have it's own dna or something? Looks stupid.

Modifié par 7he Island Head, 03 juillet 2012 - 09:05 .


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The reaper falling over should have created a giant dust cloud.

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I left Garrus at the base camp on Earth, but he somehow he gets on the Normandy, even though he was never picked up.

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7he Island Head wrote...


The reaper falling over should have created a giant dust cloud.


That's a bit nitpicky....

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MegaSovereign wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...


The reaper falling over should have created a giant dust cloud.


That's a bit nitpicky....

that one was a joke so i could bump the thread :P

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You cant get to picky. For a rush job I actually like it. But I have only seen one ending so far, and that was synthisis. and that was my daughters file. My Shep playthrough was differant then hers. I am waiting to see how my ending will be.

But I did notice a few things. Like the fact that you get to see Tali (at least I think it was her) unmasked. My issue with that little scene is that the Tali (if it was her) looks nothing like the stock photo pic BW used for the pic that Tali gives Shep. And if it was Tali she looked plain. That is my biggest complaint right now.

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The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

The people picked up are severly injuried, but by the time you they Normandy is flying away from the space magic they are fully healed.


Alot of the people I saw on the Normandy were in good health I don't recall seeing many people as heavily injured as Garrus and Javik

In the synthesis ending, Joker still limps


Out of everything wrong with synthesis you find this to be a problem...are you trollin?

The reaper falling over should have created a giant dust cloud.


Yeah you be trollin

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blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained


but if that is the case why were we chased in space? Does harbinger not have normal vision?  I mean it's one thing to not be able to detect something another to NOT SEE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE! o___O

btw no offense to you or anything

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blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????

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7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^

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It would have been a better ending if the reaper just blew up the Normandy after the pick up.

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7he Island Head wrote...


  • The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up
  • The people picked up are severly injuried, but by the time  you they Normandy is flying away from the space magic they are fully healed.
  • In the synthesis ending, Joker still limps 

[*]Harbinger still flies away, careless that it's nemesis is still breathing.[*]It is STILL not explained how the f*** Shepard can survive the Destroy ending, despite being partly synthetic and mortally wounded. Oh and walking into the exploding pipe, surviving atmosphere entry and somehow not being crushed by any Citadel rubble whatsoever.[*]Star Child's voice suddenly changes if you reject the "solutions"... Why?

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MissMaster_2 wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^




The IFF masking the Normandy's presence IMO sounds better than  "Harby is teh stoops"

Besides I watch alot of anime...scenes where the bad guy is waiting for the main character to pay attention to him are common

Modifié par blooregard, 26 juin 2012 - 06:53 .


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You missed one. The Normandy FTL jumps at the same time as the rest of the fleet, yet it is the only one not to reach the rendezvous point. There is literally no reason for the crash to happen

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blooregard wrote...

MissMaster_2 wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^

The IFF masking the Normandy's presence IMO sounds better than  "Harby is teh stoops"

But it still doesn't change the fact that the Reapers acknowledge you as an enemy and still pursue you when you're scanning systems.

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blooregard wrote...

MissMaster_2 wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^




The IFF masking the Normandy's presence IMO sounds better than  "Harby is teh stoops"

Are you saying that super advanced space squid robot monsters couldn't use other means to see the Normandy? And why did it stop shooting and Shep and the other alliance forces?

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How was the Normandy so close to the battle when Shep calls for evac?

That whole scene is just stupid now: Shepard takes time out during the all-or-nothing charge to get his buddies into cover and call for evac when the entire galaxy can be obliterated if he doesn't make it to the beam.

Somehow the Normandy flies right in (where in the hell was it, exactly?) and lands right in the middle of the carnage so the other squaddies can be extracted. It then flies off without Harbinger interference.

...okay.

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TK EL wrote...

You missed one. The Normandy FTL jumps at the same time as the rest of the fleet, yet it is the only one not to reach the rendezvous point. There is literally no reason for the crash to happen


This. What is the point of the crash besides maybe a "Normandy Gets Lost then Found" DLC?

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blooregard wrote...

MissMaster_2 wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^




The IFF masking the Normandy's presence IMO sounds better than  "Harby is teh stoops"

Besides I watch alot of anime...scenes where the bad guy is waiting for the main character to pay attention to him are common


Occam's razor simply says its bad writing. I think the oddity of that scene must have been apparent to them, but they must have convinced themselves everyone would be too caught up in their emotions to notice. Shepard could have gotten in one last lay right there and then and Harby would still not have fired lol

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7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

MissMaster_2 wrote...

7he Island Head wrote...

blooregard wrote...

The Normandy isn't shot at by the reaper in london when it picks people up


If I recall the Reaper IFF masks the presence of the Normandy and probably made Harbinger think it was another Reaper...Still a bit of a stupid scene but it can actually be explained

Then why do the reapers chase me when i try to scan stuff in the star map?????


That^^




The IFF masking the Normandy's presence IMO sounds better than  "Harby is teh stoops"

Are you saying that super advanced space squid robot monsters couldn't use other means to see the Normandy? And why did it stop shooting and Shep and the other alliance forces?



As I said I watch alot of anime...scenes where the bad guys are waiting for the main characters to pay attention to them are common.

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Why dosent harby shoot the living crap out of the Normandy as it stops, stationary, right in front of him it.

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The whole Mass Effect 1 plot. Why the **** do the reapers need to attack the Citadel in the first game?

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Oh yeah, how about: HOW THE F*CK DOES SHEPARD SURVIVE

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AvagerShepard wrote...

The whole Mass Effect 1 plot. Why the **** do the reapers need to attack the Citadel in the first game?


The First rule of Mass Effect 1 is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT MASS EFFECT 1.