Double post! Sorry guys but here's the results of the N7 weekend: basically, everyone did their part. Three million brutes got nullified so everyone can expect two unlocks coming their way tomorrow at 5pm PST, provided you participated and won at least one game
Looking forward to the next challenge weekend as this one was a ton of fun. All in all I think i had about 15 extractions against Reapers on Silver - here's hoping this weekend's events has taught some of the new blood how to act accordingly when facing down a banshee charge. (probably not, but a man can dream)
Being honest, I can use the basic premise from the Endings and produce something vastly different instantly and it would only take the group of Bioware developers an afternoon. Most time consuming would be getting the voice actors to read out the new lines. This is what I would do different on the fundamental level:
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The Star Child doesn't exist, it is simply Harbringer.
Now this rips open all the new possibilities. Such as the Blue choice and even worse, all the supporting evidence for this is in the game already as if it was planned then cruelly snatched away.
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Don't you think it is hilarious how the Illusive man is some how the Paragon choice at the end? How "Star Child" said he cannot control the reapers and what not but "you" can? And it doesn't explain the very beginning of the game either. Restart the game or even the Demo, and watch the child very carefully. No one helps him aboard the "ship", he simply disappears from the Ducts with accompanying Reaper noise. It says in the Codex about indoctrination producing ghostly images. All in short, Shepard is indoctrinated. The whole thing about going for the Blue is so the Reapers end up actually winning and absorbing Shepard's essence, owning the Galaxies best. Then they just proceed to destroy everything once and for all.
Anyway, I will leave the Green for abit, then I will go for the Red:
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This is apparently the choice Anderson would take, somehow, the best Paragon of Virtue in the Entire series is doing the "Renegade" choice and what better way for "Star Child" (Harbringer) to do then trick Sheperd into thinking Anderson is the bad guy in all of this, and not the illusive man. Also, the Reapers are on a totally different system then the other synthetics, such as the Geth and apparently afterall, the Star Child owns it all, he could simply go "Star Child, stick it in your torpedo tube". So the Red ending is technically the best ending as you defeat the Reapers, this is why Harbringer is trying to persuade you away from it towards the other two options which also outright kill you, this is why the Red ending gives the "gasping scene" at the end as you defeat Harbringers influence and thus free yourself.
Green Ending:
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Congratulations, you just turned everyone into Husks. Unlike the Blue ending where the Reapers simply outright win, the Green is the "Organics will join the Reapers", so everyone is effectively turned into Husks. So whilst you "save them", they are now enternally bound to their Reaper Overlords. A very bittersweet ending.
Now for the brand new cut scenes for the End.
New Blue:
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Commander Shepard gets absorbed by the Reapers, Harbringer grins as he looks on his successful task. Now possessing the galaxies most important figure (yourself), the Reapers now get that very crucial upperhand and simply smackdowns on the super armanda, then just rips apart the world. The whole Galaxy quakes in terror as they have Commander Shepard upon their television screens telling them that the reapers have won and to embrace them. It cuts to a scene where the council are in an emergency bunker under attack, "They got to him... Sheperd was indoctrinated, we were fools." "Clearly we were outmatched by a superior foe, a sound strategy.". The Crew people of the Normandy are like - Tali: "I cannot believe it.. Sheperd... indoctrinated..". In short, it isn't a twist ending, it is an ending which simply tells the player "Damn, you are dumb. You couldn't see through the obvious? I mean really.. Illusive Man is the good guy all along?!"
New Red:
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This one is very similar to the current. If you got bad war assets, you end up wiping out everyone including the reapers by blowing the galaxy up to due to the number of "mistakes", but if you do everything, you unllock the ME equal of the Deathstar to use against the Reapers, thus having the firepower to wipe their behinds off the face of the galaxy.
New Green:
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Everyone gets assimilated like the Borg. It is a stalemate, a "Draw" ending, where the Reapers "Basically Win", but they do not fully get their way, and Organics? Well, they just survive as part of the Reaper Collective now.
What is not in the cutscenes:
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Normandy fleeing or paradise planet.
On a completely separate note:
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Surely when they built the crucible they would have noticed that to some how fire a weapon, you need to destroy part of it, and the other various levers and handpanels and what not.
Last edited by Beskar; 03-20-2012 at 21:21.
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The only thing that makes it bad ATM is that all synthetics with Reaper tech in them die. Now a paragon Shepard can live with sacrificing EDI, but killing the Geth really sours the deal. (I haven't tried a game where I prevented Legion from uploading Reaper code as yet, so I do not know what will happen in that case....do the Quarians kill the geth anyway?)
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Being honest, I can use the basic premise from the Endings and produce something vastly different instantly and it would only take the group of Bioware developers an afternoon. Most time consuming would be getting the voice actors to read out the new lines. This is what I would do different on the fundamental level:
Now this rips open all the new possibilities. Such as the Blue choice and even worse, all the supporting evidence for this is in the game already as if it was planned then cruelly snatched away.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Don't you think it is hilarious how the Illusive man is some how the Paragon choice at the end? How "Star Child" said he cannot control the reapers and what not? And it doesn't explain the very beginning of the game either. Restart the game or even the Demo, and watch the child very carefully. No one helps him aboard the "ship", he simply disappears from the Ducts with accompanying Reaper noise. It says in the Codex about indoctrination producing ghostly images. All in short, Shepard is indoctrinated. The whole thing about going for the Blue is so the Reapers end up actually winning and absorbing Shepard's essence, owning what the Galaxies best. Then they just proceed to destroy everything once and for all.
Yeah I just didn't understand that. At all. It was the reason why I chose Red and said to hell with the consequences. It was far better than the alternatives.
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Seriously? I've spent all game telling this guy he's a lunatic (rightly so) and watch him murder innocent people by the thousands. By the thousands. In playing a renegade I did some stuff Shepard probably isn't proud of, but you never go as far as TIM does in ME3. And suddenly the game tells you that he was right all along and his mass-murder was the way to go? Are you ribbing?
Green was no better imo. Like you said it had a distinct borg vibe to it, the only way that even remotely made sense for imo was Red. Unfortunately it still suffers from how ambiguous the entire ending is.
I still am of the opinion (expressed on the last post of page 9) that Bioware simply ran out of time and had to scrap half the ending, almost mirroring what happened with KOTOR 2. All the signs are there.
I still am of the opinion (expressed on the last post of page 9) that Bioware simply ran out of time and had to scrap half the ending, almost mirroring what happened with KOTOR 2. All the signs are there.
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I messed up with the Qaurians and Geth with the result that the Quarians got wiped out and Tali threw herself off a cliff...yet I had the romance scene with her before the final showdown. So yeah I'm inclined to believe they ran out of time.
I've noticed a bit of unfinished parts too, there's a bunch of grey elcor shapes with spoons growing out thier heads standing around the inaccessable parts of the citadel nightclub, dont look too closely at the far off dancers either; ever seen one of those lamps that have a cloth that wriggles around in an air stream?
And have you looked around in that little area before the final push to the beam? You start out overlooking a hole in a wall where two marines are shooting through, from the angle provided by the window if you walk towards it you can see that they are shooting at nothing. If you wait around they dont ever stop shooting until you go down and join them, and even from that angle as they close the hole it still looks like they're fighting nothing, what with no returned fire.
The idle human soldiers look robotic, a row of marines salute in exact unison and dont stop saluting ever, every single soldier ends standing in the same place, even the guys who have been relieved of holding the gate are just standing like doofus' facing the wall.
Also the krogan are pretty orderly during wrex's speech, shifting thier feet, checking thier weapons, almost like they're ignoring him. And they dont cheer, not so much as a weak "raaah" in wrex's audio clip. I know wrex isn't exactly Henry V here but come one!.
Last edited by Greyblades; 03-21-2012 at 04:59.
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