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Post by griffith82 on Sept 7, 2019 6:02:40 GMT
Except he/she doesn't. His companions do. If you get the special destroy ending it's very open ended as who knows if he/she was found before they died. Okay why would they do a "breath" scene in only one ending if it wasn't to say shepard lived. It doesn't make sense otherwise. You can argue alot of the stuff that came afterwards but in high ems destroy shepard lives. It is your reward for working your but off in SP or for playing MP. In the original pre EC game it was incredibly hard to get high ems destroy. If you didn't import a game you couldn't get it because certain decisions were impossible otherwise. For example you needed to do ALL the side missions,do the main missions a certain way and get every war asset possible. So basically you either played MP or you worked your but off and made ALOT of hard choices and had to import a game to get it. The EC made it ALOT easier to get. So shepard living in high ems was your reward for working your but off. Yes he or she lived but you dont know if he or she was rescued. Bit I agree it would be pointless if not.
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Post by griffith82 on Sept 7, 2019 6:04:20 GMT
I dont have a link but Bioware has said the endings are up to the player and one isnt more canon that the rest. Whatever you choose is your canon. As far as no promotion saying that of course they didnt but it was made clear from the get that the big battle would require Sheps sacrifice. I knew that during ME1. Shepard dead in most endings: canon Shepard may be alive in one ending: "Okay, we'll let you interpret it that way" Sounds legit... I worded that wrong I just meant we dont know for sure if Shep was rescued or not.
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Post by Iakus on Sept 7, 2019 15:39:41 GMT
Shepard dead in most endings: canon Shepard may be alive in one ending: "Okay, we'll let you interpret it that way" Sounds legit... I worded that wrong I just meant we dont know for sure if Shep was rescued or not. This is true. However, we DO know that every other ending Shepard DOES canonically die. There is no room to interpret it any differently, and we are not supposed to. This is the disparity, the railroading. IF you want Shepard to die, they were more than willing to accommodate you. But if you want Shepard to live, you have to make do with "hope"
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Post by griffith82 on Sept 7, 2019 17:33:18 GMT
I worded that wrong I just meant we dont know for sure if Shep was rescued or not. This is true. However, we DO know that every other ending Shepard DOES canonically die. There is no room to interpret it any differently, and we are not supposed to. This is the disparity, the railroading. IF you want Shepard to die, they were more than willing to accommodate you. But if you want Shepard to live, you have to make do with "hope" Which I was fine with. I never really had a big issue with the endings.
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Post by alanc9 on Sept 7, 2019 17:37:28 GMT
I never saw why anybody would interpret Shepard as no being rescued. You can, but what's the point of it?
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Post by Iakus on Sept 7, 2019 17:54:20 GMT
This is true. However, we DO know that every other ending Shepard DOES canonically die. There is no room to interpret it any differently, and we are not supposed to. This is the disparity, the railroading. IF you want Shepard to die, they were more than willing to accommodate you. But if you want Shepard to live, you have to make do with "hope" Which I was fine with. I never really had a big issue with the endings. And if you're fine with it, you're fine with it. But other people aren't. They were p*ssed about it, and they were right to be.
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Post by Iakus on Sept 7, 2019 17:56:14 GMT
I never saw why anybody would interpret Shepard as no being rescued. You can, but what's the point of it? What's the point of watching Shepard's face dissolve in the other scenes? What's the point of graphic sex scenes for the romances? What's the point of a voiced protagonist?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2019 19:13:33 GMT
Shepard's DNA is used in the Reaper reproduction process. He has to be broken down to a molecular level to make the process work. Shepard gets turned into a husk, then he gets disintegrated. A blood sample might have sufficed for that. Reapers need the whole body unfortunately. Shepard as a whole is ascended to a higher level of existence and the pinnacle of evolution. Not just his arm or leg, but entire body.
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Post by themikefest on Sept 8, 2019 0:22:30 GMT
I worded that wrong I just meant we dont know for sure if Shep was rescued or not. This is true. However, we DO know that every other ending Shepard DOES canonically die. There is no room to interpret it any differently, and we are not supposed to. This is the disparity, the railroading. IF you want Shepard to die, they were more than willing to accommodate you. But if you want Shepard to live, you have to make do with "hope" Hope? What hope? If the guy the guy was able to tell about what happened on the Citadel in detail, someone had to be there to tell the first story. Shepard survives to tell that first story.
If you mean the character hesitating about putting up the nameplate? Why? They were quick to put up the nameplate, if ems is below 3100. Also who told them about Anderson? If the SR2 received a message that Anderson was dead, why couldn't they receive a message that Shepard survived? Or did the message say that Shepard is currently missing? So the character decides to not put up the nameplate hoping Shepard is alive? If that's the case, then why put up the nameplate if the green or blue is chosen?
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Post by Iakus on Sept 8, 2019 1:01:48 GMT
A blood sample might have sufficed for that. Reapers need the whole body unfortunately. Shepard as a whole is ascended to a higher level of existence and the pinnacle of evolution. Not just his arm or leg, but entire body. Also, I call BS. There is no "pinnacle of evolution"
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Post by Iakus on Sept 8, 2019 1:02:48 GMT
A blood sample might have sufficed for that. Reapers need the whole body unfortunately. Shepard as a whole is ascended to a higher level of existence and the pinnacle of evolution. Not just his arm or leg, but entire body. Then Reapers are morons.
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 8, 2019 9:11:41 GMT
A blood sample might have sufficed for that. Reapers need the whole body unfortunately. Shepard as a whole is ascended to a higher level of existence and the pinnacle of evolution. Not just his arm or leg, but entire body. It's a load of bollocks. Human reaper bollocks style.
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Post by alanc9 on Sept 8, 2019 16:55:06 GMT
Sure, but anyone who was really bothered by that should have checked out after ME2. Or even ME1, since this sort of crack-brained mysticism was always part of the series.
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Post by Iakus on Sept 8, 2019 17:02:26 GMT
Sure, but anyone who was really bothered by that should have checked out after ME2. Or even ME1, since this sort of crack-brained mysticism was always part of the series. Mystery=/=mysticism
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 17:50:10 GMT
Sure, but anyone who was really bothered by that should have checked out after ME2. Or even ME1, since this sort of crack-brained mysticism was always part of the series. Mystery=/=mysticism Definition of mysticism: "belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender"
So, you're going to say that 1) the geth belief in the Reapers as their god in ME1 isn't mysticism or Sovereign trash talking Shepard about the Reapers being unknowable to organics isn't mysticism.
I think alanc9 is spot on. Mysticism has always been present in the ME games.
ETA: I became distracted and missed adding two prime examples - 1) Shiala "becoming one" with the Thorian and passing on the entire Prothean essence on Shepard through a "surrender" ritual of "embracing eterinity." 2) The Rachni Queen and her "oily shadows" conversation with Shepard whiel speaking through a dead Asari.
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Post by alanc9 on Sept 8, 2019 19:30:41 GMT
I was thinking of stuff like the "essence of species." ME1 was better about this sort of thing since it wasn't made concrete very often, but it was always there.
Back when ME2 shipped we had plenty of arguments about this. My take on that debate was that ME2 was bad for people with middling standards for science in their science fiction, but good for others. With low standards, there's no problem. With higher standards, ME1 had already failed so, again, no problem, or you wouldn't have come back for the sequel.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 20:23:53 GMT
I was thinking of stuff like the "essence of species." ME1 was better about this sort of thing since it wasn't made concrete very often, but it was always there. Back when ME2 shipped we had plenty of arguments about this. My take on that debate was that ME2 was bad for people with middling standards for science in their science fiction, but good for others. With low standards, there's no problem. With higher standards, ME1 had already failed so, again, no problem, or you wouldn't have come back for the sequel. I disagree that the "mysticism" in ME1 wasn't made concrete. I've added two very concrete examples in my previous post. ME2 just took it a step further with the Lazarus project and riddling the landscape with Christian references - Ascension, AfterLife, Archangel, etc. I agree with your summation, though.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Sept 8, 2019 20:49:02 GMT
I was thinking of stuff like the "essence of species." ME1 was better about this sort of thing since it wasn't made concrete very often, but it was always there. Back when ME2 shipped we had plenty of arguments about this. My take on that debate was that ME2 was bad for people with middling standards for science in their science fiction, but good for others. With low standards, there's no problem. With higher standards, ME1 had already failed so, again, no problem, or you wouldn't have come back for the sequel. I disagree that the "mysticism" in ME1 wasn't made concrete. I've added two very concrete examples in my previous post. ME2 just took it a step further with the Lazarus project and riddling the landscape with Christian references - Ascension, AfterLife, Archangel, etc. I agree with your summation, though.
They never really did anything with Shepard coming back from the dead from Shepard's POV in ME2. They touched on it a little bit in ME3: The Citadel with some bits about Shepard's clone and in the ME3 base game but it was so late in the game that felt like a way to kill time while EDI opens a door in Cerberus HQ.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 21:38:07 GMT
I disagree that the "mysticism" in ME1 wasn't made concrete. I've added two very concrete examples in my previous post. ME2 just took it a step further with the Lazarus project and riddling the landscape with Christian references - Ascension, AfterLife, Archangel, etc. I agree with your summation, though.
They never really did anything with Shepard coming back from the dead from Shepard's POV in ME2. They touched on it a little bit in ME3: The Citadel with some bits about Shepard's clone and in the ME3 base game but it was so late in the game that felt like a way to kill time while EDI opens a door in Cerberus HQ.
Other than make jokes about it, you mean. Still, the name Lazarus is a clear Christian reference. There was less mind melding, but Kasumi's relationship with Keiji took on a bit of a mysticism vibe and did the Firewalker DLC with the strange orb at its completion. Samara was also surrounded in mysticism regarding the justicars and the ardat-yakshi.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 21:52:20 GMT
This is true. However, we DO know that every other ending Shepard DOES canonically die. There is no room to interpret it any differently, and we are not supposed to. This is the disparity, the railroading. IF you want Shepard to die, they were more than willing to accommodate you. But if you want Shepard to live, you have to make do with "hope" Hope? What hope? If the guy the guy was able to tell about what happened on the Citadel in detail, someone had to be there to tell the first story. Shepard survives to tell that first story.
If you mean the character hesitating about putting up the nameplate? Why? They were quick to put up the nameplate, if ems is below 3100. Also who told them about Anderson? If the SR2 received a message that Anderson was dead, why couldn't they receive a message that Shepard survived? Or did the message say that Shepard is currently missing? So the character decides to not put up the nameplate hoping Shepard is alive? If that's the case, then why put up the nameplate if the green or blue is chosen?
The story is told in the same detail all the times Shepard dies, so why do you suddenly say "someone had to be there to tell the first story" in the case that there's hope that Shepard lives when someone certainly doesn't have to be there to tell the story with any of the other endings in which Shepard clearly dies? Also, Stargazer practically admits to embellishing the story when pressed by the child if it all really happened. He qualifies his answerr by admitting that the details were lost. Since when has archaeologists finding a scrap of a sentence in an ancient ruin every prevented Hollywood from constructing finely detailed full-length movies about ancient heroes?
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Post by themikefest on Sept 8, 2019 21:58:43 GMT
With Shepard dying in the green and blue, how does the guy know what happened on the Citadel? Someone had to be on the Citadel and up in lala land to know what happened before Shepard made a choice.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Sept 8, 2019 22:41:47 GMT
With Shepard dying in the green and blue, how does the guy know what happened on the Citadel? Someone had to be on the Citadel and up in lala land to know what happened before Shepard made a choice. Synthesis: Catalyst tells people. Control: Shepalyst tells people.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 22:51:16 GMT
With Shepard dying in the green and blue, how does the guy know what happened on the Citadel? Someone had to be on the Citadel and up in lala land to know what happened before Shepard made a choice. No, they don't... since the Stargazer is embellishing the details (by his own admission). Stargazer does have the benefit of knowing 1) what the status of the Reapers are after the battle; and 2) whether or not (read NOT) Shepard and Anderson are seen at all after the battle. He can be filling in the details just to make a good story to tell the kid. As I said, when has lack of information stopped Hollywood from filling in details they have no way of knowing about? Answer - It hasn't.
I know you don't want to hear this, but - Because what happened in detail is not known, the Stargazer is at liberty to make up anything about the status of Shepard he wants. Let's say the Stargazer knows that neither Shepard nor Anderson are heard from after the battle, but he still wants to give the kid hope that the hero survives but he wants to stop short of point-blank lying to the kid by describing a rescue that never happened. As a result, he leaves off at a "mystery" breath and describes a scene that says the crew never gave up hope. None of it has to actually happen the exact way the Stargazer lays out... as long as what he tells the kid "fits" the world state that the Stargazer knows came out of the war itself... which the player currently decides.
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Post by themikefest on Sept 8, 2019 23:05:21 GMT
With Shepard dying in the green and blue, how does the guy know what happened on the Citadel? Someone had to be on the Citadel and up in lala land to know what happened before Shepard made a choice. Synthesis: Catalyst tells people. Control: Shepalyst tells people. Really?
Since the thing is still around when the green is chosen, does that mean it has the organics under it's influence? If not, how would anyone believe what it says without Shepard there to defend him/herself? What would the thing say that would get me to believe that Shepard chose the green?
In the blue, how do I know Shepard wasn't indoctrinated before choosing the blue? Would the thing part 2, the former human called Shepard, tell everyone the part where it, or rather he/she, told TIM 'cause we're not ready' all of sudden decided we are ready?
I doubt any of the characters that surrounded Shepard throughout the trilogy would believe Shepard choose the blue or green.
With Shepard dying in the green and blue, how does the guy know what happened on the Citadel? Someone had to be on the Citadel and up in lala land to know what happened before Shepard made a choice. No, they don't... since the Stargazer is embellishing the details (by his own admission). Stargazer does have the benefit of knowing 1) what the status of the Reapers are after the battle; and 2) whether or not (read NOT) Shepard and Anderson are seen at all after the battle. He can be filling in the details just to make a good story to tell the kid. As I said, when has lack of information stopped Hollywood from filling in details they have no way of knowing about? Answer - It hasn't.
I know you don't want to hear this, but - Because what happened in detail is not known, the Stargazer is at liberty to make up anything about the status of Shepard he wants. Let's say the Stargazer knows that neither Shepard nor Anderson are heard from after the battle, but he still wants to give the kid hope that the hero survives but he wants to stop short of point-blank lying to the kid by describing a rescue that never happened. As a result, he leaves off at a "mystery" breath and describes a scene that says the crew never gave up hope. None of it has to actually happen the exact way the Stargazer lays out... as long as what he tells the kid "fits" the world state that the Stargazer knows came out of the war itself... which the player currently decides. Aren't you the one who kept moaning and groaning about me bringing up the guy say the details have changed? So now you've done a 180 and believe he's embellishing the details. Fine. That means if Bioware wants to have a sequel to ME3, i8t wouldn't be hard at all especially if they use the line the guy says about the details have changed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2019 23:18:04 GMT
Synthesis: Catalyst tells people. Control: Shepalyst tells people. Really?
Since the thing is still around when the green is chosen, does that mean it has the organics under it's influence? If not, how would anyone believe what it says without Shepard there to defend him/herself? What would the thing say that would get me to believe that Shepard chose the green?
In the blue, how do I know Shepard wasn't indoctrinated before choosing the blue? Would the thing part 2, the former human called Shepard, tell everyone the part where it, or rather he/she, told TIM 'cause we're not ready' all of sudden decided we are ready?
I doubt any of the characters that surrounded Shepard throughout the trilogy would believe Shepard choose the blue or green.
No, they don't... since the Stargazer is embellishing the details (by his own admission). Stargazer does have the benefit of knowing 1) what the status of the Reapers are after the battle; and 2) whether or not (read NOT) Shepard and Anderson are seen at all after the battle. He can be filling in the details just to make a good story to tell the kid. As I said, when has lack of information stopped Hollywood from filling in details they have no way of knowing about? Answer - It hasn't.
I know you don't want to hear this, but - Because what happened in detail is not known, the Stargazer is at liberty to make up anything about the status of Shepard he wants. Let's say the Stargazer knows that neither Shepard nor Anderson are heard from after the battle, but he still wants to give the kid hope that the hero survives but he wants to stop short of point-blank lying to the kid by describing a rescue that never happened. As a result, he leaves off at a "mystery" breath and describes a scene that says the crew never gave up hope. None of it has to actually happen the exact way the Stargazer lays out... as long as what he tells the kid "fits" the world state that the Stargazer knows came out of the war itself... which the player currently decides. Aren't you the one who kept moaning and groaning about me bringing up the guy say the details have changed? So now you've done a 180 and believe he's embellishing the details. Fine. That means if Bioware wants to have a sequel to ME3, i8t wouldn't be hard at all especially if they use the line the guy says about the details have changed. He's says, in fact, "Some of the details have been lost in time. It all happened so very long ago."
You're trying to make it prove something that is not proven. I've not done a 180 at all. Bioware made that scene ambiguous enough that it would fit any ending the player possibly chose. They deliberately framed it in the setting of an old guy telling a kid a story... a yarn... a tall tale, only loosely based in fact. I say they can go ahead and continue Andromeda as a sequel and keep all the endings possible. You're the one who wants to lock it into only the one possible. In my mind, it's just as likely that Stargazer is Scott Ryder, telling his kid a story (read highly embellished story) about what he found in the ruins of the Milky Way when he returned more than 600 years after the end of the Reaper War... and the details are very, very sketchy because another catastrophe that happened within that 600 years wiped out a lot of the records. Regardless of how Scott ends the tale, Shepard is more than 600 years dead.
Perhaps "our galaxy" now refers to Andromeda and not the Milky Way. From the image, we are certainly not standing on earth.
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