Obadiah wrote...
ImaginaryMatter wrote...
David7204 wrote...
First of all, the Catalyst has no reason to lie. He gains nothing whatsoever from it.
Second of all, Hitler eating sugar does not mean sugar is bad.
Sure he does. It would be no less more contrived than the actual ending for the Reapers knew to know Shepard was close to activating the Crucible which would kill them, like their was a 'activate Crucible' button Shepard just had to press to obtain victory. So, in order to trick Shepard the Reapers use the Citadel to project a hologram which fools Shepard into either blowing up the Crucible through firing upon a vulnerable fuel line (destroy), or killing himself by electrocution (control) or jumping into a beam of energy and disintegrating (synthesis). With Shepard dead or the Crucible destroyed the Reapers have eliminated the only threat to them and the Reapers win.
This seems just as likely as Shepard instantaneously trusting an entity it just met which claims to be the boss of his mortal enemies and keeps talking in vague or contradictory statements. That isn't to say I as the player don't trust the Catalyst, because the writers clearly want me to trust the Catalyst. But there is no in game reason for Shepard to do so and there is no in game reason for why the Catalyst has to be telling the truth.
Is there an in-game reason to trust any of the leaders you encounter? You don't know most of them, and leaders have repeatedly turned on Shepard before. You needed them, just like you need the Catalyst to stop the Reapers.
Those are different, Shepard has much more information about those characters, he can talk to them ask them their motives and such, and/or other characters in the game can talk about them; also these characters are established by some form of alien government or military which lends them credibility, and even though their motivations, methods, and priorities may be different they are established to have the same general goal as Shepard. These characters are established in the game. The Catalyst has none of that (the only time he is ever mentioned in the game is at the end), he admits to being the leader of your enemies and then gives you a bunch of revelations, which are often contradictory to what Shepard has already experienced, and the
only source of these claims is the Catalyst himself, there are no Codex entries, other characters, or any other kind of data that adds to the validity of the Catalyst, except for the Catalyst himself.
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