Davik Kang wrote...
LineHolder wrote...
Well since this thread is about the breath scene, people want an adequate elaboration on it because all other endings are unambiguous about Sheps fate. I admit that I'd like that too.
Especially when the EC talks about the Geth and Quarians returning to Rannoch and Grunt and Wrex returning to Tuchanka which keeping the state of the relays in mind means that a lit of time has passed. Wouldnt the fate of the savior of the galaxy be determined by these people if he was alive? And if he isnt going to survive or be found what is the point of that scene? That is where you are being asked to headcanon.
Thats what the criticism is about as far as I can tell.
Yeah but what could we have had then? Shep building a house with Tali? What if I wanted Shep to go hunt down Kasumi instead? How about a retirement shack on a beach somewhere? But my Sheoard would never retire!! etc. etc.
We could have Shepard standing up
Shepard being rescued by an Alliance team
The Normandy receiving a report that Shepard was found alive
Shepard waking up in a hospital
Or do MEHEM's Shepard at the memorial putting Anderson's name on it.
There's a hundred and one different clear ways of showing the Shepard survived rather than one shallow breath from a faceless torso in some hidden area of an abandoned Citadel. Houses on Rannoch and blue babies not neded.
The straightforward implication of the scene is that Shepard lives on, but if it makes a more poetic ending to your journey that Shepard perished there, knowing the Reapers were finally defeated, or whatever, it's fine. It's cool. You can't expect Bioware to come out and say that people who thought that are wrong. Of course they will dodge questions like this. Trying to read something into CP's (or anyone else's) comments is entirely pointless. And he even came into this thread to reiterate that!
The scene is simply too vague. For a lot of people you have to metagame to understand that this means Shepard lives. I don't want to have to look through file names or go "well this scene doesn't play in lower EMS endings, so..." in order to "get it"
If Shepard survives, let's see Shepard
survive. As it is we don't even get to see Shepard's face.