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Old 04-23-2012, 12:33 PM   #68
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On one level, the indoctrination theory is interesting. But I think it's only interesting IN CONTRAST to the poorly thought out regular ending. The main point it has in its favor is that, unlike the actual ending, it actually follows from some central, genuine themes throughout the games, unlike the unconnected and pulled out of the ass feeling from the real ending.

But it comes with a gigantic point against it: IT IS NOT AN ENDING. If it was actually true the game ended when running towards conduit, or perhaps earlier or later depending what version of he theory you believe. It actually magnifies some of the worst faults of the real ending. Instead of having no clue what happens to most of your companions, the fleets surrounding earth and not knowing why the Normandy is high tailing its way far away from you, you have nothing. You don't know what happened to them, how the war ends, if the war ends, who survives, who dies, there's nothing. No closure whatsoever.

Unless they finished it with more DLC, which sets an EVEN WORSE precedent. You have a developer shipping one of the biggest games of the year without an ending, and perhaps even charging for it later. There's a big enough problem with shit being stripped out of games and sold as DLC. We don't need to have that start happening with endings.
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