BioWare needs to be as transparent as possible now. By telling us as much as possible directly and honestly will be the best way for them to deal with this situation and put it behind them.

Right when I saw Chobot’s character, I nearly died. So gross. I listen to your podcast at work, and when you started describing her lumpy, droopy body, I did a spit take of coffee into the top of my travel mug. It sprayed all over my face and glasses, but luckily not on my computer. HILARIOUS!

Also, I wanted to know more about the Keepers. Are they Indoctrinated and keeping the Citadel ready for their Reaper overlords? Maybe they’re the Reapers and are just too cute to suspect? Anyway, I’d like a Garrus and Shepard cop-romp, too. It would be fab. Toodles!

I’m sure we’ll get an explanation way too late and there will be a lot of DLC that has nothing to do with the ending in the mean time.

Its such a difficult situation. In a way I’m more interested to find out what Bioware does now that they’ve nailed the lid on the franchise of Mass Effect.

As for the quality of ME3, someone should have made sure the quality was there; a leader who could keep track of everything to make sure the entire story made sense, much like a director on a film.

I do hope BioWare gives us an explanation. I really don’t want retcon DLC or DLC that gives us an ending. If they do give us DLC, then I think it should be free.

Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment.

Also on the subject of art though, Shakespeare was one dude. Most art produced is written by one or two people and that includes you know books, literature, movies, music. Bioware probably has at bare minimum a dozen writers on Mass Effect 3. While I do believe games are an artistic experience, I do not believe they are conducive to artistic vision. No one can read minds and when you have an entire team of people trying to center in on multiple artistic visions, at some point it just turns into chaos and whatever metaphor or life commentary they were going for is gone.

On the other hand, there are *plenty* of possible ways the Reapers could have been killed with this theory, if you’re willing to fan-wank up from details we know: when Saren was killed the “mental backlash” disabled Sovereign’s shields, allowing the fleet to blow it up – if we assume that 1) breaking indoctrination is equivalent to dying, 2) Harbinger is “assuming direct control” during this, and 3) that (for some reason) his being the “lead” Reaper means what affects him affects the other Reapers, you breaking indoctrination could have opened up the Reapers to defeat. Less of a reach, but less fun, is simply that Anderson did, in truth, make it and used the Crucible himself (leaving the question of what the heck was up with TIM, unfortunately).

Overall, though, I just think Bioware forgot how to write games (as opposed to characters) after Mass Effect – or KoTOR if you are of the opinion that everything after that was just another rehash of it. Mass Effect 2 in particular had an *awful* main plotline, and easily the worst ending (w/r/t the rest of the game) for any game I can think of – or has everyone already forgotten Space Terminator Baby made of Colonist Slushee?