Remember the very ending of Mass Effect 3 where you see the man talking to the kid about "The Shepard" in that snowy ground with the two planetary masses in the background?
That does NOT take place in the Milky Way. That is actually the colony/society/whatever of mankind that went to Andromeda and the legend of Shepard was known to them.
Bioware can therefore canonize all endings without addressing anything. Seems to be a clever way of resetting the universe.
They won't canonize the ending to ME3... Yet. For now -- leave it ..
Please elaborate, I'm not sure how this is a complete solution to the endings problem. It would still require them to pick one of the 4 potential endings to ME3 as canon.
That doesn't make sense, because the endings are logically inconsistent, i.e., blender synethic/organics, Y/N?, Shep alive or dead, Y/N?, reapers continue to exist, Y/N?
I don't see how canonizing an ending would matter in any way.
They said it takes places way afterwards and that Shepard is akin to a Legend. Since the next ME takes place in Andromeda away from the Milky way...then it is a very good way of making whatever ending you made in ME3 to be the canon ending...for the milky way.
You can headcanon/believe whatever you want which is reminiscent of "speculation for everyone" that was all the rage back then. It allows Bioware to ignore any ramifications of whatever ending you choose because the Andromeda galaxy isn't the Milky way.
That is why I believe they are going to make that scene actually be in Andromeda and not the Milky Way.
Please elaborate, I'm not sure how this is a complete solution to the endings problem. It would still require them to pick one of the 4 potential endings to ME3 as canon.
Have you ever read the Gospels in the Bible? Supposedly four eye witness accounts, they're not, that openly contradict one another. Given that they are accepted, it isn't a stretch to see the ME trilogy, as you, I and everyone else played it, as the 'chinese whispers' version of what really happened.
I just asked this in another thread, but if survivors of the Milky Way got on an ark to travel to Andromeda and they left before Shep makes the final choice of ME3, then how would they ever know what choice Shep makes?
Bioware can honor your ending choice by simply saying "Survivors don't know what happened in the Milky Way. They left before Shep used the Crucible, so for all they know, the Milky Way is lost and the Ark survivors are the only living members of their species."
Then Bioware doesn't have to acknowledge the ending at all, but can still acknowledge any of the choices you made right up to before the final choice.
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