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Or they chance going out of business tying up manufacturing lines that have to be paid for in advance and storing merchandise that doesn't get sold. Like THQ did with the uDraw. It sucks, that much is for sure, but since people DON'T just buy every Nintendo thing ever no matter what, they have to be conservative and hope they can ramp up production later.

First, Palpatine was already a soulless brutal dictator. It's a testament to his planning (or plot device) that the Rebellion wasn't larger.

-The Empire itself was a corrupt government now controlled by a theocracy with no oversight.

- Palpatine initiated the bloodiest war the galaxy had ever seen, putting into place all the pieces and players needed to make sure it WAS the bloodiest war. That was the point, to overwhelm the standard response mechanisms of the Republic to make sure in the end he had indefinite and complete powers handed to him.

- Republic in name alone, see also Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

People have already named Sandusky. There was also the USA Women's Gymnastics doctor that apparently assaulted dozens of women/girls and was allowed to continue even after years of them and the parents reporting their issues.

On a lower level there are the numerous physically abusive coaches that get outed by footage or enough voices finally being heard like the men's basketball coach at Rutgers who was finally shown the door after video of him cursing, kicking, and throwing balls at the heads of his players came out. That behavior can't possibly have been a secret, yet nothing happened until it became a PR problem....ie it became known to people that didn't give an eff whether Rutgers basketball was good but WERE concerned that unpaid teenagers were being abused by a grown ass man.

I didn't need more aliens, just more ALIEN aliens. Reapers said a destitute galaxy would be the consequence of their absence, so it's fine this galaxy is empty. But the survivors should be CRAZY weird. I'm hoping the dark energy thing pays off.

Combat needs the pause mechanic back. I wish this game was either way more desperate colony building or a bit more TOS Star Trek exploring unknowable ancient relics from dead civilizations and encountering the rare god aliens that could survive galaxy wide apocalypse.

I think maybe they should have figured out a way to bring a couple original trilogy characters onto this story. It helped DS9 to have a couple familiar faces and I think it could have helped here, even if ME3's desire to be the greatest hits makes it hard to think of a person that could be available. I'd also make at least part of the reason the Initiative leaves is to escape the Reapers, and thus open up some ME2 characters to be available.

@tennmuerti: Heck, being dead for 600 years in another galaxy isn't exactly a prohibition from being an ongoing threat in a sci-fi universe. Your agents, your agenda, or even yourself can survive something so paltry as that.

Let's go through the obvious abilities of Cerberus. Can bring the dead back to life (ME2). Can make pretty much identical clones of currently living people (Citadel DLC). Have dabbled in supremely powerful AI (EDI), and robots that can believably infiltrate high security installations (EDI's body). The Initiative can keep people in cold storage for 600 years and has at least one fully functional AI that bonds to living minds. Any number of ways for a highly placed agent or some iteration of the Illusive man himself to show up.

Hell, just hearing about the plot from the beginning I thought the Initiative was a Cerberus endeavor. Right down to getting the Citadel races to get involved logistically, but "mysteriously" having their ships with the bulk of their numbers all get dispersed.

I still hold out hope though that species from previous Reaper cycles colonized Andromeda. Maybe even them and the native Andromedans going extinct because they keep making robot slaves...

No inside info, haven't gotten it yet, but I guess it would be the same answer as in the trilogy, ancient aliens. With maybe access to them being the difficult thing to gate your progress. One would think that the Rachni wars would also merit some caution as well.

I would hazard a guess that Andromeda will eventually come around to supporting the point of the Reaper threat. It helps explain the dearth of alien species revealed so far in Andromeda. So robots or overbearing ancient aliens will be the crux of the issues with this galaxy without the Reapers constantly scouring life...with a bit of that Dark Energy mystery from ME2 (Haestrom). Of course, even if I was sympathetic to the Reaper goal of preserving life, their methods and the likelihood that they didn't limit their efforts to spacefaring races but also worlds too far along to ignore for 50,000 years (like various devastated bronze age worlds you find if you scan) makes me hope Bioware doesn't go this route.

I was really hoping for oddball things like aliens from previous Reaper cycles making their own efforts to preserve themselves so you could have had a CRAZY selection of aliens in some Citadel Council, locked into conflict with the native species and counting on periodic reinforcements every 50,000 years. Or the Geth (or some other rebelling robots) beaming their schematics into the void and some "just smart enough to be dangerous" species decides to make these awesome robot slaves some generous dummy out there is just giving the plans out.

Yeah. They got silly in Luke Cage. The solution to an invincible hero is to present threats that can hurt him regardless of his unbreakable skin and targets that can't be taken out with super punches. The councilwoman (ie a corrupt government) seemed like the perfect foil for all the good Luke was trying to do in his little corner of the world. Brighten up the sinking ship. I kinda hated the second half of that season.

Daredevil S1 was pretty good, S2 started great then really petered out. Though in regards to S2, I will say for a guy so concerned about never crossing the line of killing, Matt kinda just went with the flow in S1 (and in S2) about the death of Nobu. Almost thought he hadn't actually died given how Matt never brought it up and seemed so adamant about arguing his side of things to Frank.

I believe Brad thought it might have been the best thing out of the last generation, though he also loved RDR.

Austin on his Waypoint podcast had an interesting run in with this very issue. Otherwise normal person randomly went a little atomic, Austin called them out a bit (in his own personable way) and long story short, it was basically about the fact the emailer didn't want their favorite game series to die, so they went out of their way to defend it, and then went a little further to elicit a reaction. I think it probably goes a little deeper psychologically for everyone who gets all up in arms (and I'm certainly not innocent of it), but I think that's ultimately close enough to the truth.

The new ports of Ubisoft's Zombi that came out recently getting ported back to the Switch would be nice, just cause I like the game and it amuses me to have it have this lifecycle.