@Tennmuerti said:
@Seppli said:UGH@xyzygy:
If you mean by 'explain' the ending, that they will reveal the epic mindfuck and PR-stunt that is Shepard's temporary indoctrination? Then yes - they will 'explain' it. That's what's happening. If it's anything other than that, then the Bioware dudes in charge of the ending clearly have lost their marbles. All of them, and thoroughly.
Indoctrination would be an absolute worse fuck you then the current ending. I'd rather accept the fact that Bioware has fucked up in a culmination of all their fuckups. Then they would actually deliberately make ME3 the epic conclusion to the trilogy without an actual end. Because if the indoctrination theory is correct, guess what. It's all a dream from them moment shepard gets lazored to the moment he wakes up. Meaning the Crucuble never fired. We all failed, Reapers still be reaping. Welcome to 100+ years of galactic war and suffering while everyone gets harvested, with humanity in front of the que. Everything you did is now even more meaningless. Sweet! Well either the above situation or no end period, is the result. Pick your poison.
Ever slept for a minute and spent hours in a dream/nightmare? I sure have.
Shep was prolly just out for a brief moment. Lots will have happend, but the war/battle isn't lost, respectively the initial plan of getting onto the Citadel and sorting things out is still a-go. Plenty opportunity for awesome decision-making à la ME2 suicide mission, sending in Krogan, Geth, Salarian, Quarian, Asari, Turian, Batarian, Rachni and god knows what else into battle at key decision moments, while we fight through a fully 'awakend' Citadel - the mother of all Reapers (if that's truely so), constantly shifting and rearranging, and talking smack and metaphysics like GLaDOS. And then fucking kill/enslave all them Reapers, or fail to varying degrees.
That's what it had to be, it's a shame it wasn't that way in the intial release - the indoctrination mindfuck is the only way they were able to undo the plot spoilers which happend - at the benefit of some insane quantity of 'free' PR and the whole deal being somewhat culturally relevant like that Orson Welles UFO-scare 'War of the Worlds' radio show. Messing with a couple of million heads certainly is memorable and a befitting monument for the Mass Effect trilogy. Likely they also didn't have the time to do the ending 'right', so they were glad to postpone it for a couple of months to work on doing it properly.
Of course it could just be a screw-up like Dragon Age 2's final chapter and ending, but I doubt it. It's just too incredibly horrid to be what they intended. Hence, it didn't actually happen. Everything past Shep getting a Harbringer Suntan is extremely surreal. None of that happend, for sure. If it wasn't in the context of a Indoctrination Nightmare, all of that is just too fucking horribad - it just can't be '4 realz'. The guys at Bioware would not fuck up that badly. Not Mass Effect.
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