The Mass Effect 3/BioWare Thread

Not quite. From the ME1 team only two (2) writers remained till the end of the series. The new ones probably didn't even bother to read the scripts from previous games, and honestly, I can completely understand them. I'd have done the same if I was in their place.

 

I don't see the problem.

 

So close yet so far.

The guy misses the mark by just a bit. The truth is, the entirety of Mass Effect after Shepards got hit by a Prothean mind beam back on Eden Prime has been a dream... or rather, a fantasy. He nearly died, and since humans couldn't take the stress of comprehending a direct alien imprint on their nervous system it scrambled his brain and left him delusional and paraplegic. Losing all your SAN points, one might say. The Sovereign he saw on the planet was a geth warship. Saren did betray the Council. But the role of Commander Shepard, Systems Alliance, in stopping the second Geth incursion and Saren's betrayal ended that fateful day on Eden Prime when his mind was fried by the Prothean beacon.

All the players had seen and played through were events in a medical center that had been filtered through the character's addled brain, aided by the lingering effects of the Prothean beacon. Imagining hospital staff as the members of his party. Getting transferred to another medical center (The Cerberus Center for Rehabilitation of Orphans) for surgery to try to repair both his mind and body (didn't work, but he had a near death experience). Imagining 'Collectors' when in truth they were just a projected metaphor for his caged mind (all those frozen colonists mean something) which is unable to collect its thoughts.

By the time the third game rolls around, his subconscious has begun slowly knitting itself together and emerging as the form of the child (it's a white boy even if you are playing EXTREME Shepard/Femshep because fucking Jung or something). The Reapers are constructs of his mind that are controlled by his subconscious and given power by the Prothean beacon's effect on his mind. They are there to keep him fried (or indoctrinated, which is a big, big hint in the games that all is not what it seems) because deep down he doesn't want to regain clarity, he's afraid.

Therefore the 'Destroy' ending is the best ending because he overcomes those mental blocks and begins his way to recovery (he survives). If he becomes an AI he will succumb and not even be able to perceive the fantasy world he has set up - he'd go comatose, his mind truly no more - this is the worst ending. Synthesizing allows him to continue living in his fantasy world as a literal god as he recognizes his own power over his fictional creation, symbolized by jumping into the beam and becoming part of everything in a wave of energy; combining events of the real world and his own desires, adding his filter of bias, and synthesizing the story that we see in Mass Effect - that is the meaning of synthesis.

The DLC will only be tagged onto the Destroy ending and it will depict Shepard not being a drooling retard anymore and you have QTEs to help him with his physical rehabilitation.

 

I would pay for this game. 100% more interesting than the shit Bioware gave us.

 

Oh my, would EA really do such a thing?!

 

There's also the fact that dialog for the prothean companion was in the leaked script, showing that it was obviously planned long before the game was finished.

 

And the fact the prothen voice files were in the demo.

This shit keeps getting better and better.

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The kid is just a resized adult.

 

What was Bioware response on BSN? (If they didn't delete the thread)

 

Just bring him to the Asari homeworld quest. The Brothean is intergrated so well into the story it is almost impossible for him to be developed after the main game. Either Bioware are masters of their craft or they are lying cunts. I think we know the answer.

It's just a very transparent attempt to fuck people over for an additional 10 bucks.

The thread is still alive and kicking. Over 500 pages. No aditional answers were given after the announcement of the DLC.

Officially they are still claiming it was made after and separate from the main game. It's even credited seperately in the rolling credits after you beat the game.

 

Clearly 4chan is responsible for the prothean stuff being on the disk and the demo.

 

Everytime I visit this thread I LOL

reading about Biodrones butthurt is the best way to spend your free time

 

These filthy trolls.

 

Yeah, I've just got to that part. There's no way anybody can deny that the Brothean was developed with the main game in mind from the ground up.

 

Makes sense! It's like EXTREME version of Jacob's Ladder.

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The guy in the movie hallucinates that he's being chased by demons and shit. It turns out the whole movie was just his imagination playing tricks on him while he dies in the military hospital.

SHEPPARD'S LADDER

 

Wanna bet?

 

You know, I actually could actually side with the "Shepard was indoctrinated" camp. Know why?

The future of the franchise. If BioWare truly killed the Reapers, they'd have nowhere to go. The main Mass Effect villain would be dead, Shepard would be a hero, there'd be peace everywhere, etc. Not a great setup for a sequel, or, more likely... an MMO. See, I think this is what it's really about - Shepard fails fighting the Reapers and so the entire galaxy needs to be united against them to stop them. Rather than a war a few weeks long, it's going to play out for years at $15 a month. BioWare have expressed that they want to continue the franchise in some form or other and knowing EA, it's going to be an MMO or some other similar game - maybe a multiplayer-only shooter with a persistent online component.

It's almost too smart for EA and BioWare to actually do, granted, so I won't bet on it, but could I see it happening? Absolutely.

 

HOLY SHIT IS THAT MUSIC FROM JAZZ JACKRABBIT 2? Wow, that game was so ace. Totally offtopic.

 

I doubt BioWare could get permission to fund a MMO, with SW:TOR non-impressive numbers and ME3 not breaking the 5M barrier. At most you have 4M people that bought the game and somehow learned about it...how many of those would want a MMO, especially with Sheppard and the squad members gone? Certainly noit enough to fund a MMO, perhaps not even for a sequel to ME.

 

I should have written: "There no way any person can deny that..."

 

Asked on a BSN thread, why changing a few lines in the ini. file is illegal in BioWares eyes and got this:

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It's a dwarf, which will be a race in ME4. What, did you think the crossover Blood Dragon armor between DA and Me was just for cool looks? That was foreshadowing.



The armor was sent through time by a dwarven blacksmith who realized the planet might need a hero in the future.



The Reapers' ultimate goal is to travel through dimensions to eat all the peoples. They are attacking Earth because there's a TimeSpace Gate hidden somewhere in our planet. Africa, most likely...wait, who is that on the horizon?



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Hey... maybe I've got it all wrong.

After the human race is thrown back into the medieval age with the purging of the Reapers and all technology, the events of Dragon Age will take place and mages are in fact biotics.

 

Can't do SPACE MAJICRY without implants though.

 

"with SW:TOR non-impressive numbers and ME3 not breaking the 5M barrier."

EA stated they need a million subscribers to make SWMMO profitable. It's easily surpassed.

And, L0L, at ME3 not breaking the 5M barrier in less than 3 days. My god why is every comapny successful for Codex if they sell .5mil copies but BIO is only successful if they sell 25mil copies. Fukkin' dumbnutz.

 

And Darkspawn are just leftover Husks
...
It all makes sense now
And Hawke is Shepards great-great grandkid