[quote]devSin wrote...
[quote]AlexMBrennan wrote...
Source or it didn't happen[/quote]Here is the
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Not somebody heard from somebody; "I was there and this is what she said to me".
Note that she's speaking for the team when talking about synthesis, not giving her own opinion.
Now you can make the case that Jessica is not exactly reliable, but I actually believe this. It's not something she would offer up if it weren't indeed true (and she spent a whole week or two up in Canada before the extended cut was released, where she met with Casey and Mac and the team), and it tracks with the way they have presented synthesis in the game (both release and in the extended cut). We also know that everybody on the team who has expressed a preference (from Mike to Patrick to Jos) has come out in support of synthesis. (You can also clearly tell when Jessica is just winging it—the ridiculous answer about how Shepard lives and even where that scene occurs, which she just has to fabricate nonsense since there truly is no answer to those questions.)
Synthesis is the ending for ME3. You don't have to pick it, but it is what will happen. You can live under the delusion that you made some principled stand against this repugnant idea, that you have given the galaxy a way forward to determine its own future, but when the next game comes (that's set in the future), you'll be revealed to have made a meaningless decision that only forestalled the inevitable and served only to cause needless loss and strife.
[quote]FFZero wrote...
Jessica pretty much said the endings we have are 100% final and if we think anything will be added to the endings after the final choice then we have misunderstood things. She equated the ending of ME3 to Schrödinger's cat, it can be IT or it can be literal, neither is right or wrong. She also said something I find quite disturbing. The reason why Synthesis is seen as the best ending by some BW people is the fact that like the Starbrat says, it is inevitable. Synthesis will happen sooner or later. She said if they were to set a Mass Effect game in the future Synthesis will have taken place, either as a consequence of Shepard’s choice or because it’s naturally occurred.[/quote]
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The problem with it is of course it still could be just some information that some have gotten that BW wants given out. She dodged some questions kinda sorta. Now, I believe the person who posted it and I don't doubt at all JM said all that. The only point is that some things get turned around 180 by the time another month passes or even another hour.
Consider also what she said, that things with DLC could go the way of DA2. I think that's often missed. Even I really missed that before. I believe if they go with Synthesis, they will regret that choice. No one in the game that was rational liked that idea. The use of tech is more as something that augments us and while there's a lot of weird stuff going on in science today, it's still a great leap to think that this would be something everyone would embrace and that it would mean what it's said to mean in ME. It kind of makes me wonder about the Doctors' departure.
Synthesis is artificially achieved, so people would have to want it or would have it happen against their will. And, as it's shown it's an impossibility to have tech inserted into every living species that exists.
And since NASA scientists (there is some dispute over this)have discovered that life based on arsenic (not carbon) exists on Earth, perhaps a new lifeform will take over when someone decides to perform galaxy wide synthesis. Or, lifeforms that are now being explored with synthetic based DNA-why not just upload all our minds into things like the geth and so on and dispense with all that dirty organic stuff?
Or maybe some energy based lifeform will just come along after the reapers and destroy the green eyed galaxy.