Mass Effect 3 : Your Theories

[MiracleOfSound]

That's what I think the plot of ME3 will include. Shepard trying to round up the races to stand against the Reapers (Rachni, Krogan, Asari, Turian, Geth, Quarian, etc.), as well as the search for a weakness to exploit.

That's what I am guessing too.

ME2 - you build a squad.

ME3 - you build a motherfucking intergalactic army.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

What'll be really interesting is that since Shepard can die in ME2, that really opens up what they can do. They could finally give players a chance to play as different races, which would kick ass.

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If your Shepard dies, you can't use the save file in ME3.

 

[Druyn]

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Also yeah, I was thinking about this the other day. Im willing to bet that this will have something to do with the ending. It is wierd that they would talk about it so much and then do absolutely nothing with it. Could it be artificial maybe? Some sort of Reaper tech? Maybe a second way into the galaxy?

That was the main part of my theory. Read my earlier post:

Spoiler

Okay, my theory:
Remember this sun in ME2, the one sun which was ageing too quickly and would soon explode in a Supernova? Exactly. This was the work of some kind of Geth technology, technology they probably haven't developed on their own but which was left behind by the Protheans or Reapers. So, throughout ME3, a team of scientists will try to further develop this technology to use it as a weapon. My guess is that this team will consist of Quarians and Geth, among others, and that you'll have to help them reconcile their problem so that they work together. This will be one act of the game. Then there will be a second one, in which you'll fly around the galaxy, fighting a few small and hopeless skirmishes against the spearhead of the Reaper invasion. You'll probably also have to fight against Cerberus, who will betray you. The game will reach its epic conclusion in a giant battle. All the races whose loyalties you have earned in the last two games will unite and face the entire Reaper fleet in a last stand. The last hope is to hold the Reapers long enough in this battle, to use the new weapon on a nearby sun to blow it up. Someone remember this one Stargate episode when they blow up a sun to destroy an enemy fleet? Just like that. There'll probably be different endings in which Sheppard either survives or dies a heroic death in the blast of the Supernova.

Yeah, thats pretty much it. Except that Cerberus might not betray, because I think you might have a choice between them and the Alliance. And the First act will involve more than that. That will be a small wuest thing alongside other allegiance quests, while the second act will be more about finding a way to kill the reapers, probably involving the star. This is where I see Geth/Quarian working on it, because I really think the first act with Geth and Quarians will more involve the Quarian homeworld. That was a pretty big issue in ME2, remember? the two sides fighting on whether ot attack, or just find somewhere new?

Honestly though since they have been going the Babylon 5 route so far that is the most probable course. Perhaps even a throw in a "Cerberus is a spy!" approproach and you have yourself B5.

So you think we'll have to find about the true nature of the Reapers and then Sheppard will give them a fiery speech in which he basically tells them to fuck off, leave the galaxy and the younger races alone and then they'll disappear forever? Maybe there will also be an incredibly old being that created the Reapers and treats them as its children?
Honestly, that wouldn't be the worst idea for the end, subverting nearly all the possible clichés.

YEah, that would probably be the worst. I think Bioware is above that though, their endings usually tend to be somewhat original, am I right? I mean DA:O pulled the "no matter what you do, somebody important is going to die"

What'll be really interesting is that since Shepard can die in ME2, that really opens up what they can do. They could finally give players a chance to play as different races, which would kick ass.

If your Shepard dies, you can't use the save file in ME3.

I think what he means is that since shepard is dead, if you start a new game you might be able to make Shepard a different race, which I dont think will happen. Remember the whole Alliance military thing in ME1, and Cerberus hating aliens? Shepards humanity is too tightly cemented in there to change it up now. I think youre stuck human.

5: Protheans are coming back

Spoiler

Protheans already came back. Protheans are the Collectors.

Protheans come back AS protheans, brainiac

Possible? Yes. But I dont really want that to happen. The protheans' disappearance and clture and everything I think add to the mystery of the whole game. Id like them to stay MIA.

 

[Omikron009]

I hope that Mass Effect 3 doesn't come out soon. Me2 just came out earlier this year, and I want Bioware to have enough time to really polish Me3.

 

[DoctorObviously]

I think that might have just been to show that they are still out there but Im sure that in me3 we will be dealing with those reapers and Im pretty sure that something stupid will happen to make us win, you know like the usual "we have no hope, but oh wait, someone put a kill all of them button over here, quick press it, yay we win forever, time for an orgy"

That's what I really hated about Dawn of War II. The Space Marines were like: "Even we have all the help we can get, we will still fail." And at the end of the game they realized that if they shot enough bullets at them, they'd fall down.

Btw, you have an amazing avatar.

 

[AMMO Kid]

The reapers find a map that just shows them a way out of darkspace. Yea, then Shepard is pretty much screwed.

 

[C117]

I'm happy as long as my character, Sam Shepard, gets to live happily ever after together with her beloved Kaidan. After kicking the Reapers asses, of course.

 

[Danzaivar]

Paragon Shepard unites the various factions to send their fleets against the Reaper army.

Renegade Shepard helps finish a reaper at the Collector base and becomes the personality of it to fight off the other reapers.

Probably won't happen, but hey.

 

[Sexy Devil]

I'm going to bet that Sovereign was OP even by Reaper standards, and the ones showing up will be about as difficult to kill as that pathetic excuse for a Reaper being created in ME2.

 

[phohouse]

Is the supernova sun the one from Tali's loyalty mission? I vaguely remember someone saying something about a sun during that.
Never mind, someone confirmed that.

 

[tristow]

Human scientists (it'll be human, count on it) find a way to communicate with the keepers, and de-activate their programming that keeps them mindless. As the original constructors of Mass Relay tech (who the reapers stole it from when they first arrived, as the Reapers are tech-thieves) they were used to keep it going. The citadel BEING a giant mass relay is used to hurl shepard and the normandy AT the reapers with some Deus Ex Machina like object that can only be recovered/constructed after Shepard visits 4 worlds that contain the unobtanium needed. Shepard detonates macguffin and dies, the Reapers go SCREEEEEEEEEE (for like 10 minutes, it'll be like when the T-1000 dies in terminator 2, or when you kill The Beast in Homeworld Cataclysm) and then it'll fade to black with a speech (Captain Anderson will say it) about how kickass Shepard was.

This is definitely what will happen. No doubt.

i could see this happening with maybe the bad endging being Shepard joining the Reapers

 

[Worgen]

I think that might have just been to show that they are still out there but Im sure that in me3 we will be dealing with those reapers and Im pretty sure that something stupid will happen to make us win, you know like the usual "we have no hope, but oh wait, someone put a kill all of them button over here, quick press it, yay we win forever, time for an orgy"

That's what I really hated about Dawn of War II. The Space Marines were like: "Even we have all the help we can get, we will still fail." And at the end of the game they realized that if they shot enough bullets at them, they'd fall down.

Btw, you have an amazing avatar.

yeah, dow 2 was great but the ending was definatly too convenient, I mean at least they had to sacrifice a battle barge but compared to how great the rest of the game was the ending was weak

 

[ImprovizoR]

All I know is that ME3 will have more DLC then actual retail content. That seems to be the cool thing these days and it's pissing me off.

 

[Ascarus]

I too think there will likely be a heavy dose of deus ex machina, but I can't really imagine them dealing with the reaper fleet any other way. There has to be some common weakness that the turian/asari/human fleets can exploit, though if the ending of ME1 is any indication (where Sovereign fucks up pretty much everything he wants), it won't be all that simple.

That's what I think the plot of ME3 will include. Shepard trying to round up the races to stand against the Reapers (Rachni, Krogan, Asari, Turian, Geth, Quarian, etc.), as well as the search for a weakness to exploit.

this is my feeling as well. but when you present an enemy that is as ancient and powerful as the Reapers have been portrayed, and place them against "lesser" races, one of three things will happen: 1. you will lose (which would make ME3 unique, but pretty depressing), 2. you involve a heavy dose of deus ex machina or 3. in those incredibly rare, but truly inspired instances you solve the problem in some unexpected, but believable way. and it's the believable part that is hardest to develop.

however, if ME3 turns into another game where i spend the vast majority of my time "recruiting" help, i will be quite disappointed.

 

[imaloony]

What'll be really interesting is that since Shepard can die in ME2, that really opens up what they can do. They could finally give players a chance to play as different races, which would kick ass.

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If your Shepard dies, you can't use the save file in ME3.

Bioware never said that. I heard that you would need to make a new character if Shepard dies.

 

[Anonymous Overlord]

I think that might have just been to show that they are still out there but Im sure that in me3 we will be dealing with those reapers and Im pretty sure that something stupid will happen to make us win, you know like the usual "we have no hope, but oh wait, someone put a kill all of them button over here, quick press it, yay we win forever, time for an orgy"

Umm.... you seem to be confusing Bioware with George Lucas.


Personally... since the Reapers are still in dark space, I'm betting they have a back-up way into the galaxy... just in case the Citadel stopped working. Meanwhile, in an attempt to prevent the races of the galaxy from completely uniting against them, the Reapers activate some sleeper agents that either Sovereign or Saren set up... there... that should cover the first half of the game. The last half could be interspersed with either space combat sim or rts elements to stand in for the actual war against the reapers. Whatever resources you have available at this point depend on which and how many races you managed to unite under your banner.

Sleeper agents like Garrus Vakarian!!!! DUN DUN DUN!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

What'll be really interesting is that since Shepard can die in ME2, that really opens up what they can do. They could finally give players a chance to play as different races, which would kick ass.

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If your Shepard dies, you can't use the save file in ME3.

Bioware never said that. I heard that you would need to make a new character if Shepard dies.

They did say it in various interviews I read in magazines.

In a Dragon Age 2 interview this month in X360 magazine they say that they are adamant that the trilogy is Shepard's story. No Shepard, no Mass Effect. I'm reading it as I type.

Casey Hudson also recently said at a showcase that Mass Effect 3 will 'complete the story of Shepard'.

I also definately read it somewhere that you cannot use your save file if ME2 shep dies. Will try and find it for you

 

[Dr. Paine]

Honestly, I have no idea how it might turn out, other than 'The Illusive Man is the G-Man,' and that's... really not going to happen.

I dunno, maybe the Reapers pull other races with them into dark space and it's a fight for survival/trying to get to the next galaxy.

I just know I want some resolution to that thing with the Rachni... and hope you get a chance to leave the original ME love interest for the second one.