For me it's a story that took a character of my own making to places unlike any I had seen before. Mass Effect is the only Sci-fi game that has managed to make its way into my all time favorite games. When I first saw the ending to Mass Effect 3, I felt neither unhappy or overjoyed. Like many I had questions about things, How did this happen?, and What about this? I mostly kept to myself in pondering how things could have happened, but sometime later the extended cut came out. I could smile seeing how my LI got away safely, to hear her plea to want to come with me to finish everything, then to hear her touching words of "I have a home.", and finally "Come back to me." It only further fueled my zeal to ensure the destruction of the Reapers. The Geth, Collectors, Cerberus, Reapers, and whatever other threats are or were out there, were not going to keep my Shepard from Tali.
I know its only a game, but its a game that has managed to touch a part of my spirit like it has done for others. We have those who like the endings, those who hate them, and those who are still on the fence about them. The Pro-Ending folks claim the Anti-Ending people as whiners, the Anti-Ending people claim the Pro-Ending folks as Indoctrinated idiots - (In truth they all call each other different things, this was just easier for me). Both have love and passion for this game series, both have a right to agree or disagree with the other side, and both are right on several things, both are also wrong on other things.
Then we come to those of the four choices. Do we become a Guardian of the Galaxy? Do we turn the Galaxy into a Utopia? Do we bring justice to the Reapers? or do we take our chances and gun it out with the enemy? Which one is to be the true canon ending? We take what we felt was right to do.
To become a Guardian, we had to pretty much enslave another Synthetic race to our individual will.
To make a Utopia for all, we had to take the voices of many races away and force a choice upon them all.
To Destroy our enemy, we had to destroy a whole race and s young relationship.
To take the chance to gun it out with the enemy, we made all efforts, the efforts of the others, and the sacrifices of many mean nothing in the end.
The war with the Reapers has driven us to do some very unthinkable things, but this is the price of the war that we fight (or) fought. Everyone may not like it but not all will disagree with it, but we all agree on one thing - The Reapers need(ed) to be stopped.
Then we have the Theorist people. We've heard Indoctrination, Conventional Victory, and other understandable theories from many people. Some agree, some disagree, and some make their own minds up on what needs to be done. All of which should be respected and left to be judged by other individual minds.
If you have read this far I am sure you want me to go ahead and get to my point of all of this. So here it is.
Pro-Ending...
Anti-Ending...
Control...
Synthesis...
Destroy...
Refusal...
Indoctrination...
Conventional Victory...
and other things...
All have parts of the community passion tied up in them. Pro-Ending or Anti-Ending, both respected positions. Control, Synthesis, Destroy, or Refusal all have respectable reasons to choose them. Indoctrination Theory, Conventional Victory Theory, and other theories should all be respected even if disagreed with. Because in the end of it all, we will either have to wait and see what Bioware does or respectfully depart from it entirely, both choices respectable in their own rights.
Is this where the story of Shepard ends?
Is this where the stories of the Mass Effect universe ends?
Is Shepard to be the Guardian of the Galaxy?
Is Shepard to be the bringer of a Galactic Utopia?
Is Shepard to be the destroyer of the Reapers?
Is this cycle to be wiped out for the next to finish off the Reapers?
Are any of the theories true?
Will any of the DLC ideas the community has come up with be used in one form or another?
Only Bioware truly knows the answer to these things and in my honest opinion? They will not reveal what they're doing for a simple reason; How can we be surprised with a DLC if we know what is to come next?
I choose to wait and see what Bioware brings for us. I welcome the company of those who wish to join me in the wait and wish the best for those who choose to depart.
Wait to see what the dawn brings or depart from it all? The choice is yours.
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-Sign, Dunabar. Proud Member of the Mass Effect Community.
Modifié par Dunabar, 03 septembre 2012 - 03:19 .
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I'll just keep coming on here every couple of days and denigrating MacCasey and their standin in the game until their artistic vision is burned to the ground.
