Mass Effect 3 Theories (ME1/2 Spoilers Alert)

[Erttheking]

that doesn't make too much sense

You will find these words to sum up every Mass Effect 3 spoiler that has been leaked.

...so did the ending of the game that I've just been waiting months for just get spoiled?

 

[boag]

that doesn't make too much sense

You will find these words to sum up every Mass Effect 3 spoiler that has been leaked.

...so did the ending of the game that I've just been waiting months for just get spoiled?

I would recommend, you do not ask anymore questions, unless you truly want to bear the responsibility of having such knowledge revealed to you.

 

[Erttheking]

that doesn't make too much sense

You will find these words to sum up every Mass Effect 3 spoiler that has been leaked.

...so did the ending of the game that I've just been waiting months for just get spoiled?

I would recommend, you do not ask anymore questions, unless you truly want to bear the responsibility of having such knowledge revealed to you.

...So everything in that post was true....FUCK!

 

[boag]

that doesn't make too much sense

You will find these words to sum up every Mass Effect 3 spoiler that has been leaked.

...so did the ending of the game that I've just been waiting months for just get spoiled?

I would recommend, you do not ask anymore questions, unless you truly want to bear the responsibility of having such knowledge revealed to you.

...So everything in that post was true....FUCK!

Dont misinterpret.

I said, that if you dont want to have it spoiled for you, it would be best if you stop asking questions right now.

 

[Erttheking]

that doesn't make too much sense

You will find these words to sum up every Mass Effect 3 spoiler that has been leaked.

...so did the ending of the game that I've just been waiting months for just get spoiled?

I would recommend, you do not ask anymore questions, unless you truly want to bear the responsibility of having such knowledge revealed to you.

...So everything in that post was true....FUCK!

Dont misinterpret.

I said, that if you dont want to have it spoiled for you, it would be best if you stop asking questions right now.

So they're not 100% true?...thank you, you just took a massive weight off of my chest, shutting my mouth now. Note to self: do not look up ANYTHING ME3 related.

 

[boag]

there's that whole bit about the Prothean not using the weapon

I'm guessing the weapon might be missing a part, and Shepard will have to retrieve/make it.

and if the Council was indoctrinated, how come they didn't just open the portal for the reapers.

Admittedly, I don't know why they didn't either.
However, you have to admit, the Council has hampered Shepard's efforts against the Reapers repeatedly. So it's not unreasonable to assume they are working for the Reapers (indoctrinated, perhaps partially, at least).

I dont feel the concil did this on purpose, there is some logic behind not going after your best agent when some race that just barely started exploring space condemns him.

The bit about hiding the reaper in ME2 yeah that was a stretch, but I imagine that each of the council races, had to work in secrecy and try not to get the entire galaxy into a mass panic, while covertly developing weapons and defenses for the coming war, for example the Turian Thanix Canons, and the Asari Plating.

 

[Yassen]

Considering the entire plot was leaked you could probably have all your answers if you searched for them. I haven't looked it up myself, I want to see what happens firsthand. However according to some opinions I've read from others.... it's not impressive. Guess we'll see.

Indeed, its kind of hard to enjoy a speculation thread when most of the answers are already out there in a nice .txt file.

The question then becomes should people share this information in speculation threads, or do you let them continue to have their "fun", creating theories that would only fit in the confines of fanfic.net

That's a good question, the whole point of a speculation thread is to speculate, so dropping in and showing what really happens undermines the fun and mystery of it all. I was just noting it's all there on the net and if he truly wished to know he could find it.

It's funny you mentioned Fan fiction though, I've read some fantastic fan stories that very neatly tie the whole story together in very clever ways. But then that would be way easier to write than it would be to craft as the plot of a game with multiple paths and choices.

 

[gregitaly]

Anti-Shepard.
So we have a series, with a main character who is only referred to as Shepard (Shepherd), who dies and comes back to life and is now our only hope for salvation. Who could this possibly be a reference to? Hmmmmm.
With that in mind I think it would be a huge misstep on Bioware's part to not introduce a "Anti-Shepard character as an agent for the Reapers. Whose personality is the polar opposite of however you played your Shepard these last two games. If you played Paragon, he's Renegade and vice versa.
I think I'm expecting to much, but would be cool nonetheless.

so if its an antithesis and you played an assholish female sheppard that was a total slut, then she would be confronted by a male righteous sheppard that was saving himself for marriage.

Would the only way to stop the counter part is to steal his virginity?

Lol this is why I didn't get to excited about it being a possibility after I thought of it. It just seems way to complicated to implemenht.

 

[boag]

Major ME3 Spoilers:

Spoiler

Protheans have a magical super weapon that can shut down Reapers. Yeah, that's it. One Prothean is still alive, and he has access to it. Guess what happens there?

As for the Illusive Man, he isn't indoctrinated. The entire Council is though. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you imagine it to be.

And for the Collector Base, as far as I can tell, not much changes. Shepard accuses Illusive Man of 'failing' if you don't blow it up, and the Illusive Man says that you're too short sighted if you do blow it up.

Do you know where I could get my hands on the leaked info? I tried looking for it a few days ago, but I could only find people reporting on the leak. Not, you know, the actual leak.

Here is a nice thread with a summary of SPOILERISH information

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3449196

 

[gregitaly]

Anti-Shepard.
So we have a series, with a main character who is only referred to as Shepard (Shepherd), who dies and comes back to life and is now our only hope for salvation. Who could this possibly be a reference to? Hmmmmm.
With that in mind I think it would be a huge misstep on Bioware's part to not introduce a "Anti-Shepard character as an agent for the Reapers. Whose personality is the polar opposite of however you played your Shepard these last two games. If you played Paragon, he's Renegade and vice versa.
I think I'm expecting to much, but would be cool nonetheless.

so if its an antithesis and you played an assholish female sheppard that was a total slut, then she would be confronted by a male righteous sheppard that was saving himself for marriage.

Would the only way to stop the counter part is to steal his virginity?

Lol this is why I didn't get to excited about it being a possibility after I thought of it. It just seems way to complicated to implemenht.

 

[Erttheking]

Major ME3 Spoilers:

Spoiler

Protheans have a magical super weapon that can shut down Reapers. Yeah, that's it. One Prothean is still alive, and he has access to it. Guess what happens there?

As for the Illusive Man, he isn't indoctrinated. The entire Council is though. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you imagine it to be.

And for the Collector Base, as far as I can tell, not much changes. Shepard accuses Illusive Man of 'failing' if you don't blow it up, and the Illusive Man says that you're too short sighted if you do blow it up.

Do you know where I could get my hands on the leaked info? I tried looking for it a few days ago, but I could only find people reporting on the leak. Not, you know, the actual leak.

Here is a nice thread with a summary of SPOILERISH information

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3449196

...that's the leaked info? That's all? Whew, I took a look through it and the stuff I was worried about wasn't there, I guess I'm in the clear, thanks man, you just saved me from two months of stress. Heck I knew about most of that stuff already.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Major ME3 Spoilers:

Spoiler

Protheans have a magical super weapon that can shut down Reapers. Yeah, that's it. One Prothean is still alive, and he has access to it. Guess what happens there?

As for the Illusive Man, he isn't indoctrinated. The entire Council is though. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you imagine it to be.

And for the Collector Base, as far as I can tell, not much changes. Shepard accuses Illusive Man of 'failing' if you don't blow it up, and the Illusive Man says that you're too short sighted if you do blow it up.

Do you know where I could get my hands on the leaked info? I tried looking for it a few days ago, but I could only find people reporting on the leak. Not, you know, the actual leak.

It's been too long, sadly. You used to be able to find it easily via Google, but now talking about the leak is apparently significantly more important than the leak itself.

 

[The_Lost_King]

*********Mass effect 3 spoilers********

Cerberus was really just trying to controll the reapers for "the good of humanity" Proof: In the newest game informer they talked about this in the demo.

 

[Joccaren]

Personally, I got this bad feeling the Rachni will turn against you. They seem to be easy to indoctrinate - that Asari in ME2 basically spells out for you that they only attacked the council races as they were indoctrinated (Maybe that's where Saren found Sovereign! In Rachni space during the war! [IDK, but it works... I think]) - and I doubt anyone would notice a reaper above an uncharted planet when no-one but the Rachni are there. Then Shepard will call them in for help, and find out they're indoctrinated.
Other than that, the Quarians are looking for a new homeworld thanks to my input, but that crazy admiral Xen or W/E has got an insurgent force that is pushing to try and reprogram all the Geth. Its up to Shepard to stop her and save the Geth, or help her succeed. My guess anyway.
Turians and Salarians v Krogan - pretty damn likely. That genophage cure research I have stashed in my pocket comes in handy though somehow.
Information is leaked about the Alliance from Kasumi's grey box - or more likely is being used to blackmail the Alliance - and Shepard has to stop that.
That Batarian from ME1: BDtS is running around being a terrorist again, largely in retaliation for ME2: Arrival, so Shepard has to stop him again.
I've probably got more, but I can't be bothered remembering them right now.

All my guesses, I have no clue how they correspond to the plot that was leaked.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Do you know where I could get my hands on the leaked info? I tried looking for it a few days ago, but I could only find people reporting on the leak. Not, you know, the actual leak.

Yeah, it's pretty annoying. Here's a reddit thread about the whole ordeal: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/m494l/entire_mass_effect_3_story_and_script_leaked_link/

Here's the link itself:
http://pastebin.com/KYJNWGug

Copy and paste the links into your browser, otherwise they won't work. The story is fairly underwhelming but whatever. Also, people, if you don't want spoilers don't read the leak. It's that simple.

 

[Steampunk Viking]

Major ME3 Spoilers:

Spoiler

Protheans have a magical super weapon that can shut down Reapers. Yeah, that's it. One Prothean is still alive, and he has access to it. Guess what happens there?

As for the Illusive Man, he isn't indoctrinated. The entire Council is though. Yes, it's exactly as stupid as you imagine it to be.

And for the Collector Base, as far as I can tell, not much changes. Shepard accuses Illusive Man of 'failing' if you don't blow it up, and the Illusive Man says that you're too short sighted if you do blow it up.

Interesting... I doubt some of that is true though. I already kind of guessed point 3 since, you know, they kind of ellude to it in the second game anyways.

The Illusive Man not being indoctrinated is possible, I mean, as far as I can tell, the Shadow Broker wasn't indoctrinated and still sided with the Reapers. Or maybe he was subtley indoctinated. The Council being indoctrinated is an intriguing prospect thought, especially as they hinder you so much in the first game, then suddenly have no qualms with reinstating your SPECTRE position in the second game. It's possible the Reapers are more subtle in their indoctrination towards certain other people, probably to manipulate people easier (Saren, for example, was a straight up action type, blatently indoctrinating him would seem more appropriate).

As to point 1, I doubt this quite a bit. The Protheans were around, what? 50,000 years ago? And in the first game, there's a VI that states they couldn't survive any longer in the stasis pods because they ran low on energy and had to start deactivating pods just to keep any of them alive long enough. The probability of 1 Prothean surviving is nigh on impossible, their numbers were too small to breed enough.

It is possible the Protheans built an Anti-Reaper weapon when they woke up though, although I speculate that this would work like the ship upgrade in ME2. It's a war asset that helps. Why would Bioware bother making the Galaxy At War system (which calculate your assets and probability of "winning") and a Co-Op that affects your chances of a perfect ending if they're just going to throw a weapon in there that destroys all the Reapers anyways? Makes no sense.

Also to answer a question earlier, I meant for this to be a speculation thread, not a "this is what happens" thread - I don't want to know what definitely happens, but it's fun to speculate

 

[johnnnny guitar]

Well as someone who has read the story I can say that a lot of your main choices if it?s from ME1 or ME2 don?t mean jack-shit for some reason
I hope they fix some of the stupid writing just some because a lot of the outcomes now in ME3 are completely pointless