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I have a question and I don't know of a better place to ask it: If you start ME1 with the default female Shepard and bring her all the way to ME3, will it let you import the look? Do they give you the new default female in ME3 or do you keep the original one?

@Saethir: Yeah, especially looking at the image that Marz posted on the first page. The wings look like they are just unnaturally growing out of its body.

I regret clicking on this thread. I never would have thought about it before, but now that I am, I realize that the 4 legged dragons sort of bug me.

@Jackel2072 said:

@FilipHolm: after doing a little digging. it seems like there are a lot of factors to getting that ending. for example my galactic readiness was only at 74% because by the time i got back to playing the game a few days later it had fallen (i was at 86% with multiplayer) and you need at least 80% and few other factors that people are not quite sure on. also i think you need to be either 100% Paragon or Renegade. because at the end i couldn't convince the illusive man to shoot him self the option was grayed out for me.

My understanding is that if you have 5000 effective military strength, you get it no matter what. This will determine what your war readiness percentage needs to be. You just have to have enough to get that bottom number to 5000. I've also heard it's possible to get it with 4000-4500 but that depends on the choices you've made. But the 5000 guarantees it.

I think that depends on how substantial it is. For all we know, this could just be a patch where they put some of the content back in that they already had and ripped out to make the ending more ambiguous.

@Tylea002: My question was asking why Shepard would still see that scene even when he chooses destroy to break the indoctrination. If he breaks out of the indoctrination and is going to wake up soon and realize that none of it happened, why would the Reapers show him the Normandy scene? There is no point.

I think I'm done arguing over this though. Seems like a waste of time since we will find out when the DLC is shown anyway.

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@Sergotron said:

@Carac: @Carac said:

If the indoctrination theory is true, they planned all of this. It would also explain why they want to wait until more people have finished it to say, "You all got tricked/indocrinated...and here's the battle that happened after the battle of shepard's will vs reaper Indocrtination that was happening in his head" (the ending we've seen).

The only ending where Shepard breathes in the rubble where he was hit by the Harbringer blast on earth was the one the reapers didn't want you to pick and the one that symbolizes not giving into indoctrincation. The left choice being that of the illusive man, and the central choice being that of Saren. We've all been played/tricked by indoctrination...I hope. I mean, why else would the trees and bushes from your dreams show up on the field around you after being hit by Harbinger's beam. Why would the narrow path to the console in the citadel be an amalgam of ship designs throughout Shepard's story (including the Shadow Broker's), all of that "Reaper vignetting" in the next to last scene. The last scene where Anderson represents Shepard's will fighting Indoctrination and the Illusive man representing Indoctrination. And the "choice of three" being the Reaper's test to see if indoctrination worked.

Wow, seeing this made me really like that ending now.

This is actually really compelling and I think is more consistent to the caliber of storytelling then to simply say, that Bioware just put a bad ending on the game. I must admit, I was not that disappointed with the ending as many were since i viewed the entire 3rd game as the ending and not simply the last few minutes. All the checks made for my decisions from previous games and how that determined the story was super impressive. In truth I only responded to make sure this video did not get buried under all the hate.

Yup, I still believe in this theory. Which, in my opinion, makes the entire trilogy amazing.

I wouldn't get your hopes up guys. The theory still has a lot of problems and means that BioWare shipped their game without an ending. I'm pretty sure the DLC they release is going to prove this theory wrong.

@GrandHarrier said:

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@Microshock said:

Yeah, they're "different" like M&M's are different amongst each other. But they're really all the same, only changing the color of the explosion in between.

If that's the only difference you were able to figure out or notice between the endings then you have given a perfect example of my point.

Here is a video that literally shows you the lack of any meaningful difference.

The difference though is not how they look or how they play out, it's what they mean for the future of the universe. You going to tell me that a universe where all synthetic and organic life are fused together into one type isn't a game changer? Or a universe where all synthetic life as we know it is wiped out?

I'm not really defending the endings here, I would have loved if the ending took a lot of our choices into account so that we all got personal endings tailored to our own Shepards, but the three choices they offer you DO make a huge impact on the universe.

@Rasmoss: I don't think the endings are great, but I also don't think I would say that the struggle against the Reapers and their cycle is a minor theme. It's been present from the start and in all 3 games' conclusions.

Also, I know you weren't completely serious about how many magical points the Geth were worth, but you have to keep in mind that not only would you not get those points, you would have to subtract them from your current strength if they were actively working against you.

@Rasmoss said:

He said his solution won't work because Shepard reached him. He doesn't acknowledge that the whole thing was needless in the first place.

Would Shepard have been able to reach him if synthetic life were working against organics instead of with them? I realize this isn't the best argument, but no one outside of BioWare really knows what else he was supposed to tell us.

In that The Final Hours thing that Geoff Keighley put together, one of the writers mentioned that the Catalyst dialogue was supposed to be an investigative one where we would be able to ask a lot of questions and he would pretty much explain everything to Shepard, but they took it out. Hopefully this DLC they are planning will explain it further.