Just as an example, BioWare compares ME2 to Empire Strikes Back (if you want direct proof of that then look for the bonus content videos, you'll often hear some of the devs say that out loud), and we know that ESB is the "darkest" of the old Star Wars trilogy, and that despite Luke being saved at the last moment from death with one of his hands gone that pretty much the whole movie was "daring" and tough against the Rebels and the good guys in general, especially considering that the opening of the movie is pretty much a decisive Galactic Empire victory against the Rebel base, that despite the heroics of some Rebel pilots against the AT-ATs they (Empire) still managed to defeat all opposing forces and all that... we know the story by now... so it's indeed similar in ME2, the decisive "bad guys" victory is pretty much having managed to blow up the Normandy SR-1 and in the process getting Shepard spaced and being pretty certain that he or she is dead (and that WAS the case for some time), and the rest is dark despite whatever Shepard accomplishes since thousands of humans had been lequified successfully before Shepard was brought back to life, during his or her actions and up until the very end when despite being "there in time" you still witness at least one person being lequified (Lilith in that case).
So at one point we were wondering just how the public, the fans would react in general would ME3 end in the complete genocide of all organic life and that despite everything we have done until that point to stop it from occurring the Reapers still manage to win and that perhaps only a very small pocket of "resistance" or rather "survivors" manage to escape in some ultra-secret base like the Protheans did themselves, and that again the cycle restarts, that perhaps Shepard and some very lucky team and scientists with him/her live on for a couple of years trying to figure out what went wrong and can't do more than create some sort of long-lasting dormant warning message for whoever might end up discover it in a couple of thousands of years to... once more... "try it against the Reapers" in the far future, and instead of Vigil speaking for those futuristic species it might end up be Shepard's hologram delivering a last warning speech that he or she had recorded about 50,000 years ago during the events of the ME trilogy or more precisely at the end of ME3.
Now of course we aren't naive, we KNOW that such an end would suddenly throw the whole trilogy amongst the worst ones there ever was and that with such a depressing ending BioWare would end up being hated by lots of people who wanted to see the Reapers getting defeated in the most predictable-yet-desired manner there is, probably with some galactic-scale alliance against the Reapers, something the Protheans didn't manage to do since they were cut off from each others from the very start and most of their empire wasn't even aware that the invasion began when at the last minute their respective world's sky was darkened by the Reapers coming at them, so for the very first time in the whole genocidal cycle of the Reapers we could have an actual stand against them whilst the Citadel doesn't end up being the invasion's catalyst and so on and so forth, that in other words the allied organic forces SOMEHOW manage to defeat the Reapers in - perhaps at worst - what could be the most far-fetched way there could be... BUT... as long as the ending is happy, as long the LI can be married and banged near the end before death might be possible and as long as we can see what the heck do the Quarians look like THEN people will be happy, in general... that's what we told ourselves.
Well... I don't know, to be honest. I mean I don't know how I myself would react if the lead writer decides to... you know, take control of his (or "their", since they're two on it now) story and make the Reapers win and ultimately tell us that the events occurring in ME was «just another cycle of destruction against which no one could do anything about as much as countless others tried before», but then what would have been the freakin' point of the whole thing anyway? Is it only worth it to even bother creating such a vast and complex universe if in the end the very creator(s) of that universe wishes to see it end violently and abrubtly? Is it even worth it to create a story if at the end the guy doesn't end up kissing the girl with the crowd clapping in joy at them? Is ME "condemned" to have a happy ending? Is it "alright" to have a happy ending just because the masses would prefer it that way even if the Reapers just cannot ultimately be defeated in the lead writer(s)'s mind?
How would YOU react to a "sad" ending in ME3? I'm just curious, I'd like to read about your thoughts on this.
Modifié par Lyrandori, 20 février 2010 - 04:59 .
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The organic races that were wiped out leave no legacy through which the next cycle of races could use against the reapers
