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Yeah. But like most fan theories it falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.
It actually doesn't. They even make a point of showing that Shepard came in close contact with a Reaper artifact that indoctrinated scientists in the ME2 Arrival DLC that was sold as a setup for ME3. I think at least one of the writers originally intended for indoctrination to be a major part of the ending.
You do realize you can import a save from ME2 where you didn't complete Arrival and instead a random Alliance strike team takes Shephard's place, right?
Indoctrination never worked like that, it required multiple days of constant exposure to have any noticeable affect
They literally rewrote it because the fans predicted it, moron.
Source?
ah your ass.
I liked it a lot, way better than what devs served us
Theorygayging is the most goofball shit ever
It was always a form of cope. Coping that yes, BioWare's authorial intent was absolutely straightfaced and moronic.
Try and disprove it, I'm waiting.
it was fun
Crazy how frickjng bad Mass Effect 3 and Final Fantasy 8 were to make their fanbases go delusional and call the creators of the game wrong on the stories they wrote.
It's a bad ending, that's all there is to it. Making up theories and discussing them is fine but stop treating them as anything more than fan theories and interesting "what if" scenarios. That's just what they are.
Nah, FF8 was a masterpiece even without schizo fan theories. It's easily the best RPG ever made, and possibly the single greatest thing to come from the eastern hemisphere.
Lazy bait but here's your pity (you)
I think not liking FF8 is the real bait. You're probably one of those kid diddlers that likes 9.
>FF8 was a masterpiece
Sure if it's the only JRPG you've ever played in your life
>It's easily the best RPG ever made
See above
>possibly the single greatest thing to come from the eastern hemisphere
Sure if it's the only thing you've ever come into contact with from the eastern hemisphere
Those are all true statements, but my statement is also true without your conditions. Seethe, weeaboo.
Name 5 things that make FF8 deserve such praise
>Rinoa is best girl
>Zell is best bro
>Selphie is best little sis
>Robin Williams is best dad
>Edea is best goth mommy
Not really related to what you said, but I just started another modded playhthrough of the trilogy and I'm using the Children of Rannoch mod and it has made me ponder. It's a fan mod, but it's so good and such a cool improvement on the base game (based on concept art apparently) that I actually think they should adopt this look or something similar for Quarians going forward. I wonder if we will ever see this in the future, fan made ideas being adopted into the canon of a series?
>modding games other than visual upgrades
How homosexual are you?
There are so many mods for ME3, that it basically goes 3/4 into what the game should have been like on release. But we're still not where the game should have been.
Even then, the games are unbearably old. Baldur's Gate honestly feels and plays better, because it doesn't try to do what Mass Effect does.
>He plays VtmB without community patches
>He plays Melty Blood without rollback
>He plays Total War with default camera
>He plays vanilla dawn of war without daemons, inquisition and tyranids
>He never tried out a Mountain Blade full covnersion
You are not a real person. You haven't lived yet.
Played VtMB once at launch. It sucked. Never played the others.
>fans determine what game should have been
That's going to be a good result -600000% of the time.
Lmao get a load of this Black person trash.
Sorry. It's not my responsibility to do shit to fix broken games.
>fans determine what game should have been
>That's going to be a good result -600000% of the time.
How you liking that Mass Effect Andromeda?
Anthem?
Maybe you'll like that new Star Wars game more.
>cites shitty games to somehow argue that fanfiction is better
You're not going to win a war of attrition with that army, sir.
You know, by that metric, you're giving fanfiction a good name.
You do understand that, right?
That's not even an argument.
Also, a lot of good franchises that have been around for a long time, whose original creators have moved on, and have had actual fans come in and work on those franchises, are the ones that actively thrived.
Otherwise, you get shit like TLoU2 and whatever the frick happened to Halo.
Or you get the old blood going woke. Like Bioware over the past 10 years.
And when they left, they propped other wokies to take over, in their spot.
It's rather funny how you actually assume this franchise has a future. Let alone Bioware adopting anything that fans want or care about.
Well yeah I know, I was just thinking about the inevitably shit one in production atm, but then on games in general and that concept.
yeah, I unironically believed it until they put that extended ending that confirmed that they were indeed really that moronic.
As I got older, I tihnk the normal endings are fine
Yeah I remember demotivationals
An elegant format from a more civilized age.
I miss the pre 2010 internet so fricking much
Demotivationals were trash and every moron I knew made them. Meme culture is actually funnier now because the surreal nature of it is less comprehensible to any idiot off the street, and I say this as someone born in the fricking 80s.
I liked lolcats and winrar over 9000 internetz shit. It was innocent and good natured. Most of todays memes are either
>It's funny because it's not funny
>Post ironic meta sarcastic jak posting
>epicly owning trannies/chuds/polcels/libtards/boogeyman of the week
I thought the reveal was going to be Reapers = Incubators from Madoka Magica, whose goal is preserve the universe, and they were in every galaxy in some form
>mass effect uses dark energy
>dark energy holds galaxies/clusters together (supposedly)
>use too much = universe expands until Big Rip
>use too little = universe contracts into Big Crunchy
>manage energy usage = universe reaches equilibrium
from what I recall something along that line was the intended reason for why the reapers culled life every once in a while to keep a stable level of dark energy, but at some point it got changed to the current robot revolt shit
no it wasn't to cull life to keep stable energy, it was rather that the Reapers farmed new civilizations for new insights to assimilate into their collective knowledge in order to try and fix the dark matter problem
It's why they have set up the galaxy with mass relays and the citadel trap, they accelerate the advancement of newly space-faring civilizations, encourage cooperation between them and then harvest them in the hopes one of them managed to get a fresh perspective they hadn't considered
I wouldn't explain why the Reapers do what they do. Just say they're expanding their hivemind every time they eat a civilization. This also creates extra stakes because failure means the next cycle will have to face an even stronger version of the Reapers if the current cycle fails.
>spend three whole games trying to kill the reapers
>finally about to do it
>writers asspull some horseshit in the last 20 seconds of the franchise, fully expecting me to do a full 180 and go "ACTUALLY, LET ME RECONSIDER THAT"
Blue and green endings were 100% glorified indoctrination game overs, no doubt about it. I'd rather believe that over accepting the fact Shepard is a complete lumbering moron.
mental gymnastics of the highest order to cope
also was dumb as frick
The final two words in the mass effect trilogy are downloadable content.
I don’t think you really need to say more.
Don't forget the final boss of the mass effect trilogy
>no real final boss
>because it's too "video gamey"
the fact that bioware still has fans over 10 years later is insane
Shepard not having been indoctrinated after encountering so many reaper artifacts, even being inside one, is colossally stupid and it would've been nice to have that payoff later but at no point is it ever hinted at or shown that Shepard was being mind controlled and all that stuff about the kid and those stupid dreams were just really bad attempts at pathos by the hack writers.
After the last game had you fighting a moronic giant with 3 eyes someone on the dev team had the sense to pushback against including another god awful final boss. But I will never forget the brave soul who stood up when others stood back.
I'll never forget Marauder Shields.
What was his fricking problem?
He was trying to protect you from the ending
Gamers have an odd obsession with theories that completely invalidate your entire experience playing a game and any emotions you might have felt within the narrative for the sake of a "gotcha".
Probably derived from most video game players being the same morons who wrote shit like "coma theory" creepypastas.
in this case it was mostly because the ending to three was such a shitshow that pretending it didn't actually happen was a far better outcome
This. People didn't want to believe it was that bad there HAD to be something they were missing. 3 hour long theory videos with 'evidence' being a character scratching their nose had millions of views and getting picked up by all the gaming outlets. To the point that openly denying it became the heretical stance for a time.
It's an actual mass cope and would probably make a good subject to study to understand sociology. As far as I know there's been nothing quite like before or since.
Remember this?
Some things are just unforgettable.
I know what you did.
I feel like this is all the proof we need for indoctronation theory
>We did it ghost boy, we saved the galaxy!
homie tf you mean? Joker is fricking dead bro
>Nuh-uh I made the blue explosion!
This could have propelled ME into Halo levels. If only they hadn't blown up the galaxy, and the franchise, in ME3.
This would've failed miserably like every multiplayer FPS that isn't CoD, Halo or CS
This is literally just UT3, aka the default UE3 preset
Remember when Bioware actually made good games? That was before I even had grey hair. What's it been, 20 years?
14 years since the last game that released to universal praise.
I bought Andromeda at launch, full price. A miserable fool I am.
Wasn't there a cutscene like this with a character blatantly holding a gun backwards? That whole thing was a complete wreck.
Who would do such a mistake?
I hope you had fun, at least.
I refuse to believe this was approved as anything but an intentional joke, not even the most out of touch executive would ever greenlite this shit thinking it would be well recieved
There's so many great moments in Andromeda.
Like, that's not even the best.
Still makes me giggle like a little kid. I really wonder what they were thinking as they were making this stuff.
Probably wondering how this game even boots up, at all.
I think a lot of them knew, it's just that they wasted too much time prototyping shit without much direction and when EA forced them to adhere to a dealine they had to cobble something together last minute. Same thing happened to Anthem.
I've never played Andromeda but I really enjoyed Sara Ryder memes.
Me too, anon. me too
>mfw its been 7 years since andromeda and more importantly, andromeda memes were a thing
ayo rider your sister is a milk truck my g
Why not do a live action?
Because it's 15 years too late, and some of them don't even sound like that.
I think the setting is rich enough to explore beyond recreating the game's plot
Maybe when the whole ESG thing dies.
i enjoyed ME3 up until the exact moment where anderson dies
I hardly enjoyed anything in Mass Effect 3, but I gave up after the Citadel coup, when Kai Leng showed up.
Not as pathetic as the MGSV copers
That was me too
>doing another replay of the series, but this time on LE with mods
>get to ending of 3
>walking towards destroy ending, turn back and decide to shoot at kid for fun
>"SO BE IT"
i'm kind of shocked they put that trigger in there. anyways, i fricking love 3 and will oddly defend it until the end of my life. doing citadel dlc into the finale is genuinely great writing and is the perfect send-off for the series. yes it was a mess on launch, but you can't use that as a basis to hate the game all these years later. well, you can i suppose, but it'd be like hating modern day NMS because of how bad it was on launch.
>You can't use the launch experience as a legitimate experience
Even if I replay it today without having to have spent extra to unlock Javik, the taste of EA's disgusting smegma on my lips will never go away.
It's unfortunate but understandable. Being able to pirate it and not pay for an important dlc character is certainly nice lel. Such a bold choice by EA, frick them forever.
>getting jack horny then making out with her during combat simulator with explosions going off in background
based
>making out with jack in front of her students when you first meet her
based, that's my wife.
Launch content as the basis behind your enjoyment of a game 12 years later makes no sense. It made sense back then, yes, but it's not relevant anymore for someone picking up the game for the first time or someone doing a re-play nowadays. Which is what I'm talking about.
The fact that Jack and Miri aren't in a game, where the main antagonist for 90% of it is Cerberus, is a fricking joke.
I will never forgive ME3 for all the things it gets and does wrong.
>making out with jack in front of her students when you first meet her
One of the 3 good things in the entire game.
I couldn't stand her in 2 but she was oddly likable in 3.
>I couldn't stand her in 2
Filtered.
ME2 Jack best Jack.
>let me heal you with my penis
gigga chad shepherding space women with his staff
disgusting prostitute
God, I fricking hope so.
in 2 shes an annoying c**t most of the time.
in 3 she has chilled out a lot. also she grows a little bit of hair on her scalp and thats all she needed to do to reveal she was secretly the hottest character in the series.
But the hair makes her ugly.
Bald is peak woman aesthetic
Doesn't mean that all women should.
But Goddamn.
Some of them ...
Naw, she's rancid here. She was at her cutest as luv. Hair=based
She’s the romance option for people who were raped by their dad
>in 2 shes an annoying c**t most of the time.
Man, I must have missed that, entirely.
>i fricking love 3 and will oddly defend it until the end of my life
Bye bye.
You certainly can use launch content as a valid criticism. That's the game we were sold. Also, the Citadel DLC doesn't make the ending good. It just sucks slightly less. 3 is a mess all the way through, with a few good story beats (that were in DLC, not the base game) and good combat, but just pure tedium.
The Citadel dlc doesn't solve any of the fundamental problems that 3's story has, it is quite literally a detour from the main plot. It's a fine enough detour mind you since it actually gives you more moments with the characters everyone loves but it's still a detour nonetheless.
>Didn't fall for the Mass Effect hype
>Knew about its plans as they surfaced from the first and its subsequent anti-climatic finish with the third
so how big was the bullet I dodged?
The first three games are still a worthwhile experience, regardless of the ending and the degradation from 1 to 3. The characters, world, lore, species, politics, its all fun stuff. Brings me back to my TNG days.
>Joker gets the ship ai
>Shepard's choice were reptile man, weird blue woman, michael jackson, space gypsy, skin head
It's not fricking fair
Space gypsy is best girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm0Ss0VVgpc
Ass Effect? Yeah that game fricking sucks.
the best part was the multiplayer
was there a free demo or something? because I pirated ME3 but remembered enjoying those missions.
also, jack got nice characterization
but everything to do with the kid sucked
you would have that shitty dream sequence of everyone who died where you were forced to walk, and if nobody died it'd just be an extended waste of time.
His name was Marauder Shields.
Remember when people were making Tali from that google stock image?
Still better than the truth
even if it was true, it was poorly conveyed and executed and just cope from fans trying to make the trash they were given and years invested somehow relevant.
I do and it's one of the worst cases of a theory looking for evidence than evidence supporting the growth a theory
if mass effect 3 came out today the devs would use it as a scapegoat and say gamers misundertood their "masterpiece"
Bro.
That literally happened in 2012.
no the indoctrination theory was made by fans, what I mean is that if it came out today the devs would claim indoctrination was totally what they meant all along and that most people getting angry at the ending misunderstood their genius
yeah that actually did happen, like the other anon said. that was one of the earlier instances I can think of where game journos were widely shaming fans for not liking new thing, as well, along with Zelda Skyward Sword and Metroid Other M.
The true irony was that Bioware were indoctrinated instead
shame the story was moronic because I actually thought ME3's gameplay was by far the best in the series. playing vanguard and just using only the carnifex so your powers regenerated instantly was fun as frick.
Dead franchise, dead thread.
I try not to remember ME3.