Blueprotoss wrote...
iakus wrote...
Just the opposite. Canon means that set events happened regardless of our decisions. Udina always becomes the Human Councilor. The Alpha Relay is always destroyed. "No canon" means our choices do matter. We shaped the outcome.
If an ending became canon then our choices really wouldn't matter. If High EMS Destroy is canon, then Shepard never takes control of the Reapers. Earth is never destroyed, and the Reapers never become allies. Our chcoies will not have mattered.
To be fair we don't shape the outcome because we don't have overall control over the framework thats put in front of us. Either way there's still a lot of canon that gets established in the ME series.
Choice wouldn't be removed with an established ending esecially when ME1 pretty much had 1 ending just like ME2 pretty much having 2 endings.
iakus wrote...
You realize that a lot of people are afraid that's exactly what's going to end up happening? And if/when it does, even you will admit the poopstorm will be major.
Thats a red herring especially what happened with ME1 and ME2.
iakus wrote...
Depends on how elaborate we want to get. Attaching a few seconds to the breath scene or a line of dialogue into a scene probably wouldn't be a big deal. What I'm talking about is simply a few audio/visual queues to validate a particular aspect of an ending.
Actually it would be better if nothing was added to it because it would be another farce thats used to say that "choice doesn't matter".
As far as I know, there are very FEW things that are cannon in the game:
1. Shepard stops Saren and Sovergien. The Reaper invasion is delayed.
2. Shepard is killed by the Collectors, recovered by Liara, and revived by Cerberus.
3. The Alpha Realy is destroyed.
4. The Collector Base is attacked and taken down by Shepard.
5. The Reapers invade.
6. Cerberus goes crazy.
7. Udina is made Councilor, then dies in the failed Cerberus coup.
8. Thessia falls.
9. Cerberus is destroyed.
10. The attack to take back Earth begins.
THESE are the only things in the game that are cannon. Everything else HAS no cannon.
And cannonizing one of THOSE endings for ME3 is like juggling grenades. If those endings didn't kill the series, cannonizing one of them WILL, as it will be like, "Now we don't even get a CHOICE in what garbage ending we get?!" The endings invaladate playing and importing from ME1 & 2. Cannonizing a spicific ending will invaladate playing ME3, making the entire trilogy seem worthless playing!!!
Cannonizing a spicific ending is the worst possible move they could make, and I pray to GOD that they aren't stupid enough to do that.
2. ...What????
That's not true. They NEVER cannonized any of the spicific ending choices for any of those games.