Mass Effect 3

[Pants]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I definitely understand and empathize with this sentiment. ME was nevw and as novel as a space opera gets. Aside from the gameplay, I love the latter part of the second and early third act of ME 3, when you see Shepard plugging away but slowly deteriorating (mentions of metabolic scans on his armor showing tremendous stress) under the, literal, galactic weight of his/her burden.

Have you seen the theory that BioWare's original plan was to have the Reapers win? As I understand it, they made the ending way more ambiguous but it can still be construed as Reaper victory. In order for it to work, you only have to consider the possibility that everything taking place after London was all in Shepard's indoctrinated mind. The notion is rather unappealing to me (as it probably is to the rest of the stupid masses) but the evidence is out there and is pretty convincing.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The codex entries are definitely worth reading all on their own.

I've thought about buying Karpyshyn's (sp?) novels, but never actually pulled the trigger.

As an aside, I find myself wasting too much brainpower considering how Ender Wiggin would have fought the Reapers, because, goddamn, do I hate deus ex machina.

Is that a double entendre? Haha.