Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

So did I. It was obvious something like that would be needed.

To me ME2 was miles better than ME1. I love all 3 but ME2 and 3 are imo the best.

Because it was such a absurd concept it damaged the narrative massively by existing. You could have has a dragon pop out and do a Broadway rendition of the lion king and it would make more sense than a green wave of energy transforming all life in the galaxy into synthetic beings.

Having a beam of energy selectively destroy all synthetic tech across an entire galaxy and have Shepard, who has innumerable implants, survive the blast at close range is equally absurd.  Triggering the crucible with a pistol is also completely absurd.  It's an symbolic ending... if you don't select it, the representation of it doesn't exist in your game anyways.  Just like in my game, Shepard never survives regardless of the decision he/she makes , but I'm not whining for the elimination of the breath scene because I know other people select it.  NO one inside the game has any idea what would have happened had Shepard made a different choice.  The alternative paths no longer exist after the choice is made.

Reminder that it wasn't ME2 but ME: Ascension that retconned Cerberus. Not that I want to defend ME2, just let's get the facts straight.

Is it the official version that they built those fleets between ME2 and ME3? As far as I understand, their history was changed so deeply that they had some fleets already in 2160s (ME: Evolution's last pages).

Inb4 EDI saying that Cerberus's personnel is ~250 in ME2 – yes, another line put into trash.

Watching either ending, original or EC, reminds me of those old SNL sketches Theodoric of York: Medieval Barber. Particularly when Jane Curtin shouts at him "Why don't you admit it, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!?"

Yeah, I get that, even though I never read anything other than the novels.  So, to me, the change was massive between games.  I imagine the same is true of the vast majority of MET players.

I don't know how anyone who played ME2 and read the Codex and the Shadow Broker's files could believe that Cerberus was tied to the Alliance at any point.

What happened between ME1 and ME2 wasn't the only rewrite; ME: Evolution and ME: Invasion tell us that they are way more powerful than we were previously told and ME: Retribution makes it clear that Cerberus's existence was by no means a secret at the end of ME1 (and that they are much worse than Miranda wants us to believe ). Hell, even ME2 already changed something, moving TIM's office from some sleazy skyscraper on Earth to a space station. Rewrite is massive, multi-stage and openly admitted by BioWare, I don't know why pretend otherwise.

And then you have a Codex entry and a comic about their beginnings saying plainly that they never were because they started independently and worked at different tracks since the beginning.