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WiiBox3 on 18 April 2012
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fillet said:
WiiBox3 said:
I really think the Indoc. theory for the ending is correct. I thought the ending was ingenious, meant for the hardcore fan. All 3 games emphasize Indoctrination of whoever has contact with the Reapers and Shepard has a heck of a lot of contact with them. Just before the final scene he comes in contact with Harvenger, the most bad ass of the Reapers.

As for closure with your friends, I felt that was what Mass Effect 3 was up until the end. You find closure with everyone you had come in contact with over the last three games before taking on the final mission, the suicide mission.


I think you mean Harbinger ;)

Ingenious? I'd say I'm pretty hardcore, having completely ME1 and 2 previously and not having kept a save for ME3 and still taking the time to complete ME1 and 2 again including ALL side missions...Baring in mind I have hardly completed any games whatsoever in the past few years.

Am i not a hardcore ME fan? I'm as hardcore as they come when it comes to ME and your drawing interpretations from absolutely nothing, much like a child would draw interpretations from sonic the hedgehog and wonder why robotnik didn't just build a 20 foot brick wall in the green hill zone and stop sonic progressing.

Your theory on indoctrination doesn't wash, plot props like that are made obvious, in any fiction. You don't leave stuff like that open to interpretation without aluring to it in some way at the end, even if aimed at intelligent people. If your theory were to be correct the ending would be even worse than it is because of that. I think you're missing the point with what people are actually complaining about.


My bad Harbinger. ;)

I am surprised you accuse me so quickly of drawing interpretations from nothing, when I am drawing them from many subtle hints throughout the game. There are a lot of plot props throughout the series and even in ME3. The biggest of these that I noticed are the dreams that Shepard has chasing the child, the mechanical sounds he often hears and him becoming more and more parinoid.

I am not saying the ending was perfect, I think it needed to put in more hints for the player to figure out what was happening. Also, with the good ending there should have been a showdown of what actually happens after Shepard breaks free of indoctrination. Since with the indoctrination theory the ending is just choosing wether or not Shepard can fight it off and has nothing to do with actually destroying the Reapers or not.

Also don't tell me that I'm missing the point why people are complaining. I'm just saying that was a non issue for me. I said I thought the ending was ingenious and why I thought it. I'm not tell you that you have to think the same way. I thought the ending to Lost was awesome too, does that mean that I am missing the point why other people were upset with that as well?

Seriously check out this video. Right or wrong it's interesting:

http://youtu.be/ythY_GkEBck