Kaiser Shepard wrote...
Zulu_DFA wrote...
my ME3 opening plot twist thoughts
Why don't I remember having read that? I agree with you, that would certainly be a great way to start a game.
My alternative intro:
I want the game to begin with a black screen and an unknown, damaged mechanic voice talking about an invasion of giant sentient starships and the demise of the current galactic civilization.
The screen "opens", the unknown voice is revealed to come from a Prothean VI not quite unlike Vigil, on which the camera is extemely zoomed in. As the camera slowly zooms out, it appears this is indeed a Prothean VI warning Shepard & co about their impending doom.
As the whole screen becomes visible, we see three aliens from different unknown species standing before the hologram. The hologram, which was broken like Vigil, suddenly forms into something that looks like a distorted human figure. Now, with either Mark Meer or Jennifer Hale's voice, it says "You have to stop them!".
*cue standard Mass Effect "opening crawl"*
I was thinking something along those lines for the bad ending of ME3:
Shepard watches the reapers take out whatever anti-reaper fleet he manages to assemble and starts receiving audio reports of various homeworlds under massive reaper attack.
Shepard says to the crew: "It's all over, there is only one thing left for us to do now".
Cue cinematic showing widespread reaper destruction, the wiping out of what is left of this round of galactic civilization, ending with the reapers using the Citadel to transit back into dark space.
Show a small countdown timer ticking down to 0, then activating a VI that resembles Shepard that starts transmitting:
"This is Commander Shepard. Did anyone survive? Is anybody out there, anyone at all?"
Repeat over cinematics of empty, devastated worlds, the voice slowly becoming more static filled.
Then show a team of three aliens of unknown species entering into the room with the Shepard display, which now resembes Vigil more than Shepard and says:
"Your arrival wasn't entirely unexpected, but it has been quite some time... The reapers must be stopped, and I believe I can help..... "