Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

No. No it doesn't. There's no reasonable or even feasible way that something like that would happen, because some dumb organic activated a beacon on Eden prime, that a data cache on Mars, would somehow get activated and deciphered, when everything else in that cache was perfectly readable a moment before. Why would you even make that particular file in the cache get activated by such an obscure item, so remotely placed, which may or may not be working after all those millennia since the eradication of the Protheans, if it even gets found in the first place. That's just nonsense. The chances are astronomically low of this ever pulling through. I am more likely to be killed by a flying cow, than this sequence of events transpiring.

That final battle was annoying as fuck with all that swinging about, and anyone who remembers Contra 3 would probably laugh at the resemblance this thing had to that boss. BioWare is very hit or miss with its boss battles, and more often than not they feel really cheap, especially when the game decides to pull something dumb strictly to get a boss fight, like the mega-hopper Saren. Just like the Suicide Mission, the sequence’s best part is the big dramatic finale score. 

I didn't mind the human Reaper larva thing. Yeah, visually it looks incredibly stupid (almost as stupid as ME1 Saren hopper), but it can be handwaved as simply the core of a standard Cthulhu Reaper design that isn't finished yet

The idea of building a new Reaper to try and do what Sovereign failed at in ME1 (take the Citadel, let the rest of the Reapers in from Dark Space) at least makes sense with the setting they'd already established up to that point unlike.....literally anything in ME3

As for the boss fight itself, it could've been better designed. It's really too easy with ranged weapon platform classes (Soldier, Infiltrator) but tedious with the caster ones, where you're shooting it with your dinky guns for ages (hope you brought the Cain and specc'd into AR's for the Mattock, or the fight will take forever). That your squad doesn't help at all is also silly.

If you weren't shocked by "precisely", then there was no hope at that point. It's like all the little lights on our armor. They don't do jack, but it looks all space-age-y.

Which he never sees.


But if they were related, it would be a huge coincidence. If they were part of the failsafe the Protheans set up for the next cycle, it would be unlikely, at best, to be established or recovered, if even found.


It's a recipe straight out of the JJ Abrams cookbook. I don't like it and I think it's poor story telling.

Shepard never gets to study the Martian data cache. Liara does it. Shepard is never shown interacting with it. So even so, it doesn't help in the game.


But it's really, really implausible to happen. My mind would never follow that train of thought, because it is so far fetched, it's an asspull. I don't know how anyone would come up with this.


Let me put it this way. I am a Prothean. I have the means to provide the next cycle with the knowledge of my language, history etc. as well as the weapon that kills the Reapers. I am going to hide the plan to the salvation of the cycle in one cluster. And the key to it in an entire other cluster. Now, the Milky Way is fucking huge and according to ... ME1? we've only explored 10% of the Milky way. I'm going to hide these two things so well, that no Reaper can find them. And I throw a Hail Mary that some primitive fuck finds both, in a single lifetime, before the next cycle gets wiped out by the Reapers again, or that however many times the cycles repeats, until we hit that % chance, that both of these artifacts are still working, or haven't been discovered and subsequently destroyed by the Reapers in the meantime. I gotta come up with a better plan than this. It's a bad plan. It's a really bad plan.

No. It's thanks to Liara. Shepard finding the beacon in Eden prime had nothing to do with it.


That's not a plus. It would make more sense for Vigil to have the plans, since that was a huge, hidden Prothean installation, but we're never told or give it.


That's not how it works. There's a fuck huge number of planets in each cluster. And there's a ridiculous amount of ground to cover in each planet. And you'd have to dig all of it, to find the specific beacon that does the trick. And you'd have to do this for every planet, in every cluster you find, because you don't know where it might be. Provided that the planet's star hasn't gone supernova in the meantime, it wasn't uncovered by a Reaper in the Prothean cycle, in spite of your best efforts, that it works, when it is found, or that it survives enough cycles for the conditions to be met, to actually fulfill its purpose. I just don't believe the coincidence of it.

Sure, if that's what works better. Notice I'm not trying to say anything that I think works 'better.' I'm just trying to think of something that works at all. Liara is an expert on Prothean technology, and she has the resources to figure out what's going on as Shadow Broker, so that's perfectly acceptable. All's I'm saying here is that Liara, through mind-melding with Shepard in ME1, also has access to the Prothean vision, with the complete context of the message within. So while Shepard doesn't have to have been involved (if you like, this is entirely within the bounds of fanwankery,) you can also say that his revelation from the Beacon and subsequent context gained from the Rachni and the Thorian would subsequently pass that on to Liara, who could use that context of Prothean society and its downfall to unlock the Mars archive. I figured a way that fits into the narrative to make it work for me. If it doesn't work for you, well, that's entirely up to you. But don't say that it can't work for me either, just because you find it to be improbable.

Well, there's a narrative block that you've an easy Doylist explanation for: the writers didn't think that far ahead. For a Watsonian perspective, you're free to imagine whatever you like. I choose to believe that the facility on Ilos didn't have any access to the Crucible, and likely didn't even know it existed.

Well the relays are both located within the habitable systems. Sure, you 'could' search the entire cluster, but as luck would have it, Prothean facilities are located within the very star systems that the primary mass relay is located in. Presumably, with what would appear to be a life-bearing world within the habitable zone of the star right off the block, that's going to be the first planet you explore. And it's not difficult to imagine that there is some 'clue' that would help researchers eventually zero in on the find. After all, the Mars archive was described prior to discovery as tantamount to a Bermuda Triangle-esque anomalous location. Perhaps the same could be said for Eden Prime? I'm willing to say that it is.

As for the Protheans? Well, blind faith and luck is about all they can really rely on. As shown from the beacon on Thessia, the Protheans had multiple redundancies, and the information was located on more than one world.

As well, the Protheans were studying us, and likely believed that at least a few of the modern homeworlds were likely to become home to advanced space-faring civilizations. It's not a stretch to believe that they could leave information on the doorstep of the species predicted to be the players in the coming cycle.

All said, if this doesn't work for you, fine. It's merely a possible explanation. If you've a better one, use it. But mine does work and contradicts no lore, nor is it physically impossible. Improbable though it may be, coincidence does happen. Call it chance or fate or design, but there it is.

Well I would replace Cerberus with more High functioning Reaper Husk Enemies or unexpected Reaper Sleeper agents that are not Cerberus

Well Keep in mind that if you remember that in ME:Retribution that Cerberus was hit pretty hard by the Turians and this is in between ME2 and ME3. so Replacing them with a new faction or having Reaper Sleeper Agents within the Allied faction would be a good solutions