Indoctricnation Theory is Back!

thelegend27 disagrees.

Dammit Game Theory, I thought you were better than this.



Except it doesn't really. Anything out of place is handwaved with "indoctrination" despite the fact that's not how indoctrination works. It contradicts the lore as much, if not more, than the original ending.

That they did not do this to me is the biggest failing of the series. Shepard should have battled against indoctrination at some point in ME3. Other people were indoctrinated with far less contact than shepard had (much of it in ME2, ME3 with exposure in ME1). They should have even had someone on the crew become indoctrinated. The theory was really good and god knows more fascinating than what we got.

Ew.

Nah, Indoctrination theory isn't what Bioware intended. I wish they HAD, and done more to make it more consistent than the theory currently is, but there are alot of good points in ID that (if it weren't for some handwaved BS) it wouldn't have taken much to make it the true ending. ID itself is...just too off, but if it had been Bioware's intent, and been done right, it would have beat the everloving HELL outta the endings we actually got.

we tried..it only make it stronger.

Interesting, obviously I had heard of this theory but never really understood what it was about. Wish the 2nd part of it was ready to watch.

That said, what I've seen already is far too nuanced and subtle for Mac and the current BW writers to do intentionally. More likely these small elements are just coincidence.

How many "coincidences" could there have truly been though? One interesting aspect the video hasn't even commented on yet is the significance of the shrubs in Shepard's dreams. They appear all around Shepard after he is hit by Harbinger's beam attack (they weren't there previously). There was a strong implication that Shepard was dreaming the moment he was hit by Harbinger and never actually boarded the Citadel, at least not physically.

ME3's last 15 minutes do not make sense if you try to interpret them literally. It still surprises me so many discredit the theory immediately and just assume the ending of ME3 is bad because they do not understand it. BioWare generally doesn't completely butcher the ending to its games, so it's always been odd to me how many so easily disregard ME3's ending without even questioning what it actually meant.

Oh MatPat will go to any lengths for a video, I personally enjoy them regardless if he's right or not. Plus, it's one of his patented two parters! xD

When first hit by the Reaper in Vancouver, Shepard hits a bench later seen in dreams (? ok), but as he shakes off the effects, you hear part of the dream piano music in the background - like really, really in the background. Why?

You can see my profile pic I've had for a while. Why have this position when also meeting Leviathan - in a mind realm?

A wooden stake?