Mass Effect Thread: Leviathan is out, buy it, it's great

[lestatdark]

Khuutra said:

lestatdark said:

 

Having finished the game myself, I have to say that the entire ending sequence just felt "off".

Not because it created more questions than it answered, but because a lot of things didn't add up. I have a strong belief that we haven't seen the end of Shepard, especially after seeing that he's still alive at the end of the Destroy ending. But he was alive in the midst of a pile of impact rubble, and that leaves a very, very large room for interpretation. My interpretation? He's still alive after Harbinger's laser hit him and that whole sequence happened in his head.

Got to process this a bit more, but the ending didn't made me angry, sad or pissed off. On the other hand, it left me curious, extremely curious as to what's going to be Bioware's handling of the game in the future months.

 

Half the denizens of the internet have concluded that Shepard is undergoing indoctrination in the ending, and only the Destroy option rejects the indoctrination - but even that's metaphorical. The other half of the internet has latched onto this theory as being essentially true, though hope for ending DLC varies from person to person.

I've read the indoctrination theories and they do seem to have some fair points. Indoctrination or not, it is a fact that they made Shepard to be alive at the end of the Destroy ending and that the enviroment in which he seems to be alive has to be rubble from the impact of Harbinger's laser as there's no way that he could have survived a potential destruction of the Citadel, if the endings really happened.