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[dill72]

I am just thinking that maybe instead of the human reaper being a ship maybe it would control a ship and that would be why the ships are the same. Idk it seems logical to me.

[Vaenier]

dill72 wrote...

I am just thinking that maybe instead of the human reaper being a ship maybe it would control a ship and that would be why the ships are the same. Idk it seems logical to me.

Like how there was a giant alien corpse inside soverign? Or another giant alien corpse inside the derelect Reaper?

[dill72]

Okay good point my bad

[kmcd5722]

BiancoAngelo7 wrote...

There's no real definitive purpose given so anything we say will be speculation.

There is however, a good level of certainty that this was done after the devs asked themselves "What's the single most ridiculous boss that will garner the most underwhelming and unsatisfying reaction from our fans?"

"hmmmm"

"I got it! An unfinished HUMAN reaper that for some reason the player can kill with the weapons they have ON them! GENIUS!!!"

Seriously, when in ME1 we had to fight Saren/Sovereign I felt like I do sometimes when Im watching a really intense movie that "on the edge of your seat" feeling. When I got to ...whatever the human larvae reaper thing is....all I could do was go

-.- ...wtf?

Horrible, HORRIBLE boss experience.

Unless they did it to keep our expectations low for ME3's boss experience, in that case it was genius.

Edit: Not to mention that in ME1 the Saren/Sovereign boss combo was an ever constant threat looming over your head with tangible sensations of foreboding doom and epic face off.

While in ME2 I never even caught on that the collector "general" was actually being controlled by a reaper called Harbinger. And I kinda wish that I never figured it out because when I did, it made me wish I hadnt killed Sovereign so I could have been confronted by a reaper that said something more than "ASSUMING CONTROL...THIS HURTS YOU"....ugh.

But the point is, that this confusionary and lackluster boss interaction provided no ground work for the introduction to the final boss, leaving you ultimately underwhelmed and unimpressed. It kinda felt like a curtain reveal...TADAAAA its a Human reaper! Cool huh?....no?...not even a little?

I've got to agree.  I was pretty disappointed at the end.  I wonder if BioWare even reads any of this in light of all the praise they are getting now?  Anyways, cynical tangent aside, I didn't understand the human reaper part, or why none of the other reapers look anything like any other species besides a cuttlefish and the human reaper is different. 

The whole "the human part is on the INSIDE of the reaper" doesn't even come close to settling this issue.  The only grounds on which this could make sense is that indeed the human reaper larva was less than 100 meters in size, and a real reaper is 2km in size, but the whole "nested reaper" theory seems contrived and unnecessary.

[Last Vizard]

Maybe every 50,000 years they use make the same Reapers cause they haven't found anything better? or maybe there aren't that many different ones mixed in with the squids? the Reapers are just very advanced ships who went skynet on their creators. thats what i think.

[In Exile]

I was always partial to the idea the reapers are an entire species transformed into an ostensibly immortal AI, but that has the unfortunate implication that Shepard might have commited genocide a few times.

Terminus Pi wrote...
And now for some wild speculation: it looked to me as if Legion is some sort of prototype created to try to mimic the way a reaper works (minus the organic parts) - being able to house a much larger number of programs, therefore making it far more intelligent than his fellow Geth when not networked. And sure enough, behold that Legion also has an uncanny obsession with Shepard. What is it with highly evolved AIs and Shepard? lol

Shepard has the power of the harem. Be it man, woman or machine, no one is immune!

[Mr. Gogeta34]

The Reapers have eccentric hobbies.

[JedTed]

Last Vizard wrote...

the Reapers are just very advanced ships who went skynet on their creators. thats what i think.

That was always my theory after playing ME1.

My theory on the purpose of the Human Reaper is it was just another attempt to activate the Citadel Relay.  Perhaps a Reaper is only as tough as the genetic material used to build it and they believe a Reaper composed of humans will be stronger than Sovereign. 

I think a lot of people have the misconception that the Human Reaper, when complete, would have resembled a human skeleton.  I don't think that's the case as it would look pretty silly flying through space.  I believe all the Reapers have the same basic shape but with slight variations depending on what species built them.

[cutthecameras]

[quote]JedTed wrote...

the Reapers are just very advanced ships who went skynet on their creators. thats what i think.[/quote]

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Has anyone actually done the math here? Like, how many extinction cycles have occured? And given their frequency and the age of the milky way galaxy...the civilization that created the reapers must have been one of the first sentient beings right? They must've been around an awfully loooong time in order to have created something that advanced.

Just saying it'd be kinda fun to have a theoretical timeline of all that.

Modifié par cutthecameras, 23 décembre 2010 - 09:19 .

[Dionkey]

The T-800 boss fight was a joke, the reason given is dumb. So if you break down their DNA you have no choice but to build a frame identical to the appearance of that species? If so then the reapers must have farmed a lot of cuddlefish, because every one of there ships looks like a squid.