Royi wrote:Spoiler ??? (does there need to be a tag for almost 3 months since release?)
Eh.
Heavy MASS EFFECT 3 SPOILERS below.
Well, just in case.
Royi wrote:I never understood if synthetic life goes boom, couldnt the races just simply reinstall the batteries in the machines or create new motherboards for them or something to make them turn back on?
No, because the machines in question had fully developed AIs (at least in EDI's case; the Geth were still a choice....but for the sake of completion, let's say they had them). It's like how Legion was gone after Rannoch.
Plus the space magic used to blow up the Citadel and the mass relays apparently only targeted the machines, but if the Crucible was built poorly, it'd hit the living beings too. Which is of course a big reason people were pissed off about the ending, because wth? Anyway, the idea is that "everything got blown up and couldn't be replaced."
Royi wrote:Aren't they allegedly planning a remake or a extension to add on for the ending? I kinda lost motivation for ME3 after I beat it (even multiplayer)
There's going to be free DLC that "explains the existing ending further." No indoctrination theory; they're just going to confirm that theory isn't canon.
(In case you're unfamiliar with it, that theory basically writes off the existing ending as the Reapers trying to control Shepard's mind; those who chose the destroy ending would fight the attempt and get Shepard to wake up to fight the end of the battle. Whether the deaths at the end actually happened or not is questionable.)
Basically, there's no good way out of this for BioWare. Some people were satisfied with the ending, but the more discriminating types who saw that a good deal of it
made no sense and that there was no actual choice to make are going to be unhappy no matter what. Even if IT were true and we really did get to actually fight Sovereign, there are a good number of people out there who would be unhappy that the game they initially purchased was unfinished. "Artistic integrity" was just a red herring. -_-
My opinion is that if you worked hard for the best ending, you should get more of a choice than the person who didn't bother. But instead, BW decided to send the message that "No matter what you chose, none of it mattered." Shepard dies in almost all scenarios, and in the one where s/he lives, it's terribly unsatisfying.
I find the entire bit with Joker flashy and the most illogical part of all. No amount of IT or ass coverage can erase that nonsensical sequence from my mind.
Sigh. Yeah, I haven't bothered finishing my last playthrough or starting my "canon" playthrough because I just can't stand playing toward nothing. (I'm on the very last mission....the enjoyable parts are over.) Still love the series and ME3 in particular...minus the ending. It's not even that it's a downer of an ending...it's that it makes no sense. -_-