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[Potato Power]

So I've been thinking about how the final battle might play out in Mass Effect 3, and I can't even come up with a reasonable theory for it. :pinched:After seeing the "Reaper Fleet" cutscene at the end of ME2, I wonder if the Citadel Races are going to have to face the threat head on.
Will there be an epic space battle? It's unlikely this is a good solution, since there are what appears to be dozens to hundreds of Reapers, which would, shall we say, PWN EVERYTHING.
What role will Shepard play? He'll obviously have to be the hero, unless ME3 is an uber long Joker segment. xD
What will Shepard have to fight? ZOMG SHEPARD IN SPACE GOING MIKE TYSON ON HARBINGER!!!! That would be fun...
How WILL the Reapers be stopped? I have no clue, so let me and the forums know what you think.

Modifié par Potato Power, 22 février 2010 - 12:44 .

[The Angry One]

It will turn out that in all the millions of years this has happened, nobody has ever politely asked the Reapers to please leave.

Shep does so, and the galaxy is saved.

[Jarcander]

Final bossfight inside a Reaper... a dark form stands at the far end of a large room. He turns and slowly walks into a spotlight...Turian Council member: Ah yes, the Reapers.

Modifié par Jarcander, 22 février 2010 - 12:46 .

[Potato Power]

Jarcander wrote...

Final bossfight inside a Reaper... a dark form stands at the far end of a large room. He turns and slowly walks into a spotlight...Turian Council member: Ah yes, the Reapers.

As much as that made me laugh, fighting INSIDE a Reaper is something that never occured to me... Which is weird because as of ME2 Shep HAS been inside a Reaper.

[Schneidend]

Well, if you're a Vanguard Shepard, they simply modify the mass relays to allow Shepard to Biotic Charge through them, impaling reapers with your own body.

[Jarcander]

Potato Power wrote...

Jarcander wrote...

Final bossfight inside a Reaper... a dark form stands at the far end of a large room. He turns and slowly walks into a spotlight...Turian Council member: Ah yes, the Reapers.

As much as that made me laugh, fighting INSIDE a Reaper is something that never occured to me... Which is weird because as of ME2 Shep HAS been inside a Reaper.

Oh, I'm sure there will be plenty of Reaper battlegrounds in ME3. They are built with interriors for hauling brainless minions.

[The Angry One]

Seriously though I'm betting it's going to involve the Normandy/EDI turning into some sort of counter-Reaper and facing down Harbinger.

[Skilled Seeker]

You will headbutt and falcon punch the Reapers to death. You must have headbutted the Krogan and punched the reporter to earn these skills though otherwise the Reapers win. The end.

[Eradyn]

Epic Final Battle vs Reaper Fleet



Partially joking. ;p I honestly have a difficult time imagining what it really could end up being. I think we might have to find a way to fight the Reaper fleet (amassing all the fleets of council and terminus systems space, perhaps), but I think to take them down will require something more "up close and personal" or "hands-on," which is where Shepard and crew would come in.

[Schneidend]

The Angry One wrote...

Seriously though I'm betting it's going to involve the Normandy/EDI turning into some sort of counter-Reaper and facing down Harbinger.

Considering kinetic barriers don't seem to do much of anything against the might of the Thanix Cannon, I'd say you're probably right, Angry. Just based purely on tactics and technology, rather than the obvious parallels between EDI and a reaper, the main reason Sovereign seemed nigh indestructable was because he had an absurdly powerful kinetic barrier. This is why the reapers placed the relays, so that galactic civilization's most advanced technology would be based on something the reapers can specifically and completely counter.

[TagImIt]

I had this strange theory behind the Citadel being involved. That perhaps the citadel itself is a Reaper, or like the anti-reaper. That it somehow becomes the ship that Shepard helms against the Reaper fleet. Again, this is just a wild theory.

[TheBull]

Your theory makes sense in some way. In my playthroughs, Chorban has sent me always the same message regarding the Keepers and the Citadel that it might havent been created by the Protheans

and another thing well shepard could become a reaper agent, you know like saren was (hehe)
what would be even crazier if Kaiden or ashley (depends on who died during the first game) become your enemies, reborn like shepard or the complete opposite of yourself in terms of Morals, behavior and hystory. Would be something interesting to experience. Thats just my opinion and my speculation.        


                                                                                                                                                                 

Modifié par TheBull, 05 avril 2010 - 06:59 .

[cachx]

Ok, a list of possible ending scenarios I just invented (some of them are silly, but hey, they might be right):

1. The united galaxy fleet(turians,rachni,quarians,geth, etc.) vs. the reapers on an epic space fight. (Additionally, Harbinger or whoever the "boss" reaper is, might take another agent ala Saren, wich could be someone of the crew for added drama).

2. There are "rogue reapers" that try to stop their brethren and join forces with Shep.

3. The weapon that destroyed the 'derelict reaper' is rediscovered and Shep&co have to find it and activate it in the last possible moment.

4. The "dark energy" thing that the quarians were investigating is used as a sort of bomb to take the reaper fleet out (Additionally, someone has to stay behind to activate it, maybe Shep or one of the crew).

5. Rocks fall, everyone dies.

[DarthCaine]

Hmm... something that would beat a Zombie Cyborg and a Giant Terminator ....

A GIANT CYBORG ZOMBIE DEMON CHICKEN REAPER

Modifié par DarthCaine, 05 avril 2010 - 09:17 .

[Jack Package]

The final boss will be a reaper.



But it won't be just any reaper...

[Sky Shadowing]

The final boss will probably hearken back to ME1 where Shepard's fighting the Final Boss as the endgame rolls out around him (similar to the cutscenes where the Alliance fleet is destroying Sovereign, if you need a refresher- though hopefully without the "pop back in and Final Boss has full shields")



I can foresee every decision (major decision, at least) you've made rolling around. Saved the Rachni in ME1? They show up. etc.



Something similar to the whole "hold the line" segment of ME2. Where if you exceed a certain "defense rating", you get a really good ending- or else Shepard has to die to save everything. There'll probably also be at least two "unlockable" endings that I'll call Ultimate Paragon and Ultimate Renegade that take previous endings into account.

[sergio71785]

Harbinger will assume direct control of a cybernetic clone of Shepard. At the same time, something will happen to make the artificial gravity/weapons in the room not work.

Thus, Shepard and the cybernetic version of him will battle with their fists while floating in the air, all while the song "Neodammerung" plays. 





What? Stop looking at me like that.

Modifié par sergio71785, 05 avril 2010 - 08:11 .

[Jack Package]

sergio71785 wrote...

Harbinger will assume direct control of a cybernetic clone of Shepard. At the same time, something will happen to make the artificial gravity/weapons in the room not work.

Thus, Shepard and the cybernetic version of him will battle with their fists while floating in the air, all while the song "Neodammerung" plays. 





What? Stop looking at me like that.

We're looking at your hat, it's awesome!

[TheBull]

[quote]sergio71785 wrote...

Harbinger will assume direct control of a cybernetic clone of Shepard. At the same time, something will happen to make the artificial gravity/weapons in the room not work.

Thus, Shepard and the cybernetic version of him will battle with their fists while floating in the air, all while the song "Neodammerung" plays. 


Why are they floating in the air??^^

Modifié par TheBull, 05 avril 2010 - 08:24 .

[NKKKK]

Harbringer

[Xpheyel]

The cutscenes will probably be cool but the boss fight will be wonky somehow.



ME1 - All kinds of awesome happens running up the Citadel tower while Sovereign gets snuggly with it. Then you talk Saren to death or he flies around on a purple platform like the Hobgoblin from Spider Man. I always beat Sovereign by running in circles around a tiny room spraying bullets and powers like a total spaz with complete abandon, meanwhile he hops around a tiny room like a total spaz with complete abandon.





ME2 - YMMV on the awesomeness of the suicide mission but it always gets me. However the actual boss is the Terminator Reaper.

[LOST GAM3R]

The reapers indoctrinate your LI, so you must kill them to get to whatever "main control centre" there is to shut the Reapers down. This would make for a very nice moral choice, hehe.

[JMA22TB]

What I hope happens is something similar to the Suicide Mission but taking your choices from the game throughout to determine the Final Battle.



Examples:

-Save Rachni, have a surprise attack that gives the Normandy a clean shot at Harbringer. They come in at the last second to flank the Reaper fleet from a dormant relay at the battle spacefield lol

-Save Council and destroy base, end up getting the turian fleet to help you, which is supposedly gigantic. Alliance cooperates but only after Cerberus is put down after they attempt to convince the Alliance they need them.

-If you let them die and saved the base for Cerberus, the events of the story give Alliance fleet time to upgrade their weapons and armor on their most capable warships, negotiating (with brute force) further domination on the Council's front. Cerberus becomes heavily involved with Alliance again.

-Save Council and base, you end up having to put down TIM and turn the base over the Council, who only has time to upgrade the Ascension. TIM wants humanity to rise to the top, and the Council sure as hell won't let that happen.

-Mordin can start working on genophage cure if you kept it, which combined with Grunt's Rite of Passage and whether or not Wrex lived, allows the increasingly unified male portion of Tuchanka to put up arms, knowing those left behind will be able to replenish their population. The more you didn't do out of that, the more likely it becomes that the krogan become effecitvely extinct in the fight

-Quarian and Geth tension reaches tipping point and whichever action you go for in ME2 combined with ME3's portion, determines if both coexist peacefully on homeworld, or one wins. If you didn't push for peace in ME2, you don't get to stop the war.

-I would add the Batarians to the fold in ME3, since they have such a distinct identity in the series as the nasty villain race who'd rather kill your wife and children than fight you straight up. Supposedly their government is overbearing and their people are subjected to endless anti-Citadel and human propaganda, so if you dealt with them you'd either have them fighting with you or out of the way. Not sure about the Leviathan of Dis, might just be teaser from BioWare to mess with us.



Just some thoughts

[kreite]

 he could find out some coveinient weakness of the reapers and exploit it maybe they can't fight for very long and we only need to hold out or maybe a big space station has a core that keeps reapers alive and we destroy that 

[BoormanTheChauffeur]

From TVTropes:

Mass Effect's story is very similar in many ways to Welsh astronomer/author Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space, which details a Jerk Ass archaeologist's study of a long-extinct alien species. Eventually it turns out that they were suddenly and completely wiped out by a race of sentient machines called the Inhibitors, who appear to destroy any species which has become sufficiently advanced. Which is in of itself a Shout Out to the late Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers series.



There are a lot of similarities to Frederick Pohl's Heechee saga. The parallels are numerous. In Mass Effect, the Protheans fill in for the Heechee as precursors who have mysteriously disappeared, and like the Heechee, the Protheans have also retreated to the Galactic Core, albeit under different circumstances, and the Mass Relays function essentially the same way as the Heechee ships. Similarly, the Assassins/Foe fill in for the Reapers as the hive minds that live outside the galaxy and from time to time eradicate all sentient organic life.

Also:

One of the quarian admirals is from a ship named Qwib-Qwib. This just happens to be the name of the lone anti-Berserker sentient machine in the Berserker universe. Bonus points in that the Berserkers are eerily similar to the Reapers in some ways.

My guess is pretty obvious, i think. Along with the Gondor Calls for Aid trope, of course.