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[Binary_Helix 1]

Let's put it to a poll.

social.bioware.com/poll.php

[mumba]

I feel a debate rising.

[The Exiled Paladin]

Yes, because sometimes having an enemy we don't understand in a game is a good thing. Just like the Shivans in the Freespace games, their motivations were a complete mystery which is what made them so damn cool as a villian.

Modifié par The Exiled Paladin, 10 novembre 2012 - 01:17 .

[Leonardo the Magnificent]

No. When you design an antagonist that is portrayed as powerful and unstoppable as the Reapers, you're practically required to have some sort of reveal for their motives. Especially so when this antagonist shows a keen interest in the protagonist.

[mumba]

A Bethesda Fan wrote...

Saying yes pretty much means you would have preferred Mass effect 3 to have a different plot.

Good thing I selected yes, then.

[Leonardo the Magnificent]

A Bethesda Fan wrote...

Saying yes pretty much means you would have preferred Mass effect 3 to have a different plot.

I say nay and I still prefer that ME3 have a different plot. I'd also prefer ME, ME2, Borderlands, and FO:3 (esp. FO:3, that was abysmal) to have different plots, but what can you do?

[David7204]

No.

[AdrynBliss]

after the uproar from not getting enough closure from the endings, if bio hadn't revealed the reapers motives the internet would have burned down.

Modifié par AdrynBliss, 10 novembre 2012 - 01:32 .

[KingZayd]

I voted "yes", but what I mean by my vote is:
Their motives should have been hinted at, and not explicitly stated. Ultimately left up to interpretation.

[Heimdall]

I said yes, though I really mean that they should have been hinted at and been kept vague, not entirely unexplained.

[Binary_Helix 1]

Stuff like the Reaper motive is something better left for speculation not the f'n ending and the entire state of the universe.

[TheScott1987]

Yes, because there's no way they can make a reason good enough to live up to all of the "you will never understand" comments made by the Reapers. Any reason would (did) cheapen the Reapers. The best villains are those whose motives are kept silent anyways. They're better as Lovecraft-like horrors.

[Endorlf]

Depends on the execution. I don't think this is a yes or no answer.

[DirtySHISN0]

Developing ideas and imagining your own answers is infinitely greater than receiving disappointing ones.

[MegaSovereign]

No. That would have been lame.

[111987]

No. Well, if they were going to not explain their motives, they shouldn't have had Harbinger hint at it at all, or had the Human Reaper reveal. Then the player wouldn't be expecting to learn their origins/motivations.

[_aLucidMind_]

I was quite content with the Reapers' motive being them trying to make everyone evolve early into their perception of the "pinnacle of evolution"; themselves. I wouldn't have liked them to just be trying to kill us to kill us, which is still kind of how ME3 was pre-DLC.

[sharkboy421]

A Bethesda Fan wrote...

Saying yes pretty much means you would have preferred Mass effect 3 to have a different plot.

I don't think so.  The Reaper motive could have been vaguely hinted at while we were building the Crucible.  Then at the ending, depending on a variety of factors determines just how well the Crucible works.  It could flat out fail, kill everything, kill only Reapers, kill only humans, the list goes on.  Same plot just not awkward conversation with the catalyst AI.

[liggy002]

yes, definitely

[HellbirdIV]

Yes. The Reaper's motives were hinted at in ME2 and then ME3 decided to completley **** it up. Better to keep it vague than have this idiotic explanation.

A Bethesda Fan wrote...

Saying yes pretty much means you would have preferred Mass effect 3 to have a different plot.

I would have preferred ME3 to have a different plot, yes. It was really quite bad. However I disagree that the Reapers motives are relevant to the plot overall.

The Reapers are the antagonists because they want to destroy us, and will never accept surrender or compromise so the only way to win is to fight back with everything we have.

Knowing what the Reapers want doesn't change these facts. Do they want to destroy us because God-baby is a moron? Maybe. Do they want to eat us all with a healthy helping of nacho sauce and mozarella? Quite possible. Do they want to hate-rape us until we bleed to death from every orifice? Absolutely.

Regardless what their motivation is, their actions remain the same.

Modifié par HellbirdIV, 10 novembre 2012 - 04:12 .

[grey_wind]

As I've said before, the hints ME2 and Harbinger gave were enough. They were a solid foundation for the good kind of speculation, and ME3 should have at most given some more hints towards it. The Reapers' origins and motives never had to be explicit.

[TheJediSaint]

To define is to limit.

[DirtyPhoenix]

MegaSovereign wrote...

No. That would have been lame.

[M Hedonist]

Definitely. Besides, we already had enough hints to make our own theories of it. How about this: They reap civilization because that is how they reproduce. Simple and elegant, and no conjecture required.