Mass Effect 3 : Your Theories

[DaDrum]

i have a suspicion that shephard will be in some galaxy/ies that have already been lost to the reapers, and you'll basically set up some kind of a rebellion against the reapers in that area

EDIT: and this will most likely be the last, as i remember it being mentioned that the me series was intended as a trilogy

 

[Twilight_guy]

I think somehow at the very end Sheppard will kill all the reapers. His choices will also affect the ending of the game. Outside of that... don't know.

 

[RatRace123]

My theories are irrelevant and would take too long to explain, just know I hope for Wrex to have a larger role than in ME2.

And, hope to see Tali's face.

 

[Tattaglia]

Force/trick them back into black space.

Set and Match.

Four words: comically oversized space mirrors. Put a few of those up and the universe is saved.

 

[ecoho]

No yeah, I know all about the dialogue, and it kind of bugs me too, becuas eLegion is one of my favorite characters too. I think they made dialogue before they decided which characters were gotten when. Maybe so they could make changes if they felt the need without any trouble, or maybe just for modders for fun? I dont know if ME2 is even on the pC...

But yeah, Legioon is really awesome, which is gonna make the choice between Geth and Quarian that much more difficult. The Geth are cooler and have Legion, who is awesome, but the Quarians are kind of less awesome but I fucking love Tali, so what am I supposed to do?

Yeah its on the PC, which is why it was possible to see the dialogue choices in that video, since you can play around with the save files. Thing the video makes me wonder about is the Kasumi dlc, since it appears that all the data for the character might be in the game, so all we paid for was a key to unlock her, and her loyalty mission, but thats a whooooole other discussion heh.

And if there is a choice like that in the 3rd game, I'll be in the same boat as you. Legion pretty much had to represent the sane Geth, when all we've seen up to that point were the Heretics, and he did not disappoint in actually showing how humane they were, even with their logic. Qurians on the other hand, as a race they've always been iffy with me, Tali is a nerdy badass though, and I simply can't say no to her either... and it helps they also have Kal'Reegar (only seen him a couple of times in ME2, but he is still one of the best to me of the race).

Nope, I think the choice is definetely happening. In any bioware game, in a time of war do people just start working together to defeat their common enemy? Nope. TO put it in Morrigan's words: It seems that everybody has decided that wartime is the best time to start killing each other. At least some quests will involve gathering allies, and this is definitely one of those. I am obviously very confident this will happen.

All weve seen from Quarians are techies, politicians, and Reegar, so seeing more like him would be cool. He does seem like kind of a bad ass, so he may actually be the deciding factor for me.

ok time for my actual theory ok here it goes if you did everything right (IE use ether paragon or renigade every time it came up) you shouldnt have to chose between any of the races. heres why first if you kept rex alive he think of you as a brother so hes not gonna betray you and he leads the krogan, now the rachni promised their suport when you freed them they arnt gonna back out after that, and finaly the reason i quoted you my friend IF you kept both tali and legion alive in ME2 they will keep them from fighting each other see they want to make tali an admeral and legion is a geth they share a mind the second he reconnected boom instant allys.Now i beleave the final battle will actualy take place on the reaper home world and you have to kill the first ever reaper who is the only thing keeping the reaper fleet together after you kill it they become completely unorganized and maybe even start fighting each other theres my theory hope i can get a few nods

 

[PauL o_O]

Force/trick them back into black space.

Set and Match.

Four words: comically oversized space mirrors. Put a few of those up and the universe is saved.

Not matter how stupid that is, I couldn't be mad at them for it would be such a successful trolling.

 

[Kortney]

I think (I know your not gona like it) you should start as someone other than Shepard and for the first half of the game. You hire some mercenaries (comedic ones) and go plundering and run into Shepard and join him. He was off in deep space searching for the reapers. Epic battle, a few deaths, and I will sit back and be satisfied.

Well I can assure you, you are going to be disappointed. Mass Effect is a story heavy trilogy. A character saga focusing on Shepard.

There is no way in hell that they would go through 2 games (with character changing and game changing events been transfered over) to introduce a new playable character in the third installment.

 

[gl1koz3]

About the plot part... +99999

Playing ME2 was WTF after WTF, again after WTF. And more WTFs. Not to mention it went so WTF, I stopped WTFing and even cared to register on their forums to yell at 'em bastards.

Now I hope they stop smoking (whatever they were) and do a proper, coherent piece of non-WTF.

Is there any way you could repost that so that it actually means something? A series of WTFs does not a coherent statement make....

Probably posting the link would be a better post, but I like impulse. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/103/index/1472797

 

[Druyn]

Nope, I think the choice is definetely happening. In any bioware game, in a time of war do people just start working together to defeat their common enemy? Nope. TO put it in Morrigan's words: It seems that everybody has decided that wartime is the best time to start killing each other. At least some quests will involve gathering allies, and this is definitely one of those. I am obviously very confident this will happen.

All weve seen from Quarians are techies, politicians, and Reegar, so seeing more like him would be cool. He does seem like kind of a bad ass, so he may actually be the deciding factor for me.

ok time for my actual theory ok here it goes if you did everything right (IE use ether paragon or renigade every time it came up) you shouldnt have to chose between any of the races. heres why first if you kept rex alive he think of you as a brother so hes not gonna betray you and he leads the krogan, now the rachni promised their suport when you freed them they arnt gonna back out after that, and finaly the reason i quoted you my friend IF you kept both tali and legion alive in ME2 they will keep them from fighting each other see they want to make tali an admeral and legion is a geth they share a mind the second he reconnected boom instant allys.Now i beleave the final battle will actualy take place on the reaper home world and you have to kill the first ever reaper who is the only thing keeping the reaper fleet together after you kill it they become completely unorganized and maybe even start fighting each other theres my theory hope i can get a few nods

That makes sense, but i think youre a little off. ME3 has to work as kind of a standalone game like ME2 did, because Bioware cant expect everybody who wants it to go out and buy ME2 first. I mean, they could if they wanted to, but they want it to make sense on its own. So I think that there will be times that you dont have to choose based off of paragon and renegade choices in that game, but situations will be made easier or harder based upon your history from ME1 or ME2, like you were saying. I think considering how character driven the story is, Bioware wont make it impossible to recruit both sides, but the story will play out on choosing allies, like iN DA:O.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

My guess: Shep has spent most of Game 2 making friends with races the Citadel doesn't like: The Quarians, the Geth, the Rachni, the Krogan. Add the Humans into the mix and all of a sudden you have another Alliance that would have the power base to act against the current group.

Better yet, ME3 will include not only that but also convincing members of the Turian, Asari and Salarian militaries (through your relationships with Garrus, Samara (or Liara) and Solus) to get on board with you and take a fleet the likes of which this galaxy has never seen and go and take the fight to the Reapers.

 

[MarsProbe]

Is there any way you could repost that so that it actually means something? A series of WTFs does not a coherent statement make....

I believe he is referring to the forced progression of the story that ME 2 made you do. You couldn't go at your own pace for the most part, as after doing just a few things, the Illusive Man would contact you, and you'd be forced to do what mission he gave you. And honestly I agree to a point with the WTF after WTF thing, as they seemed to try and force a more active plot onto us. In ME1 we were free to explore and do the main quests as we like, but not so much in ME2.

I'm guessing you're referring to those parts of the game where you were suddenly pulled into a briefing from the Illusive Man and immediately sent of on another mission. I wasn't a great fan of them myself, it was a little jarring when you were suddenly forced into a mission whereas you were normally just able to carry them out at your own pace.

 

[Cosmic Naginata]

I'd like to think that the Illusive man himself is a type of reaper wanting to end (in his mind) an illogical cycle of extinction as well. After seeing humans throw back the more advanced Turians he started probing their potential further hence all the experiments and with Shepard (now part reaper himself) he sees a genuine chance to change the galaxy with humanity, the species who will go on to defeat the old machines acting as the foundation.

I like this idea because in a way whether you're paragon or renegade the reapers still win, the reapers dictate the evolutional direction of all sentient life in the galaxy, the ultimate fate of the galaxy is dependent on Shepard's choices who in my theory would now be a reaper himself.

Note - I look at the reapers more as an idea than a race so a reaper in my mind is any lifeform striving to be better...or something along those lines.

Other thoughts: The reapers will shed their numbers to build a relay to allow them to enter the galaxy, the remaining numbers will allow a combined fleet to win the battle.

Really though so long as Earth is not the key I'll be happy.

Who thinks Bioware will display the final fates of the characters on static screens with text?
Here's hoping for plenty of cinematics at the end.

 

[Nmil-ek]

My guess? the mass relays can actually be used as weapons so with the combined power of friendship, heart of the cards etc. All the races of the galaxy put their differances behind them and defeat the reapers.

Or they would were I not a complete wanker spreading genocide, death and mysery everywhere I go so probably they will be beat with a human made reaper from the collector base.

 

[Czargent Sane]

With Mass Effect 3 hopefully coming to stores soon, I am curious as to what my fellow Escapists think will happen in it. You all saw the swarm of Reapers coming towards civilized space, how many there were. But then again, if you think about it, they are coming all the way from dark space. My theory is that Shepard and his bros will be put in Cryo until the Reapers start getting closer.

What are your thoughts?

"all the way from dark space"? dark space starts where the galaxy ends, they could easily be very close to the edge of the galaxy.

 

[kannibus]

Reaper civil war anyone?

Think about it! Some of the Reapers go (in a definitely snarky voice): "Astonishment: Meatbags have thwarted our plans twice. Perhaps they are more than meets the eye."

Then other Reapers go (in a mechanically harmonic voice): "Irrelevant. They will be exterminated. Resistance is futile."

"Defiance: Your views are illogical. Qualifier: Purple monkey dishwasher. Statement: Termination required!"

 

[dancinginfernal]

Reaper civil war anyone?

Think about it! Some of the Reapers go (in a definitely snarky voice): "Astonishment: Meatbags have thwarted our plans twice. Perhaps they are more than meets the eye."

Then other Reapers go (in a mechanically harmonic voice): "Irrelevant. They will be exterminated. Resistance is futile."

"Defiance: Your views are illogical. Qualifier: Purple monkey dishwasher. Statement: Termination required!"

While you say Reaper Civil War, your conversation makes me think that HK-47 will crawl through space and blow shit up.

Actually, I'm going to make that my theory.

 

[whycantibelinus]

I think the Rachni and Krogan will play a large part in the destruction of the Reapers due to their short gestation periods and natural ability to wage war.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1 spoiler, sort of.

I hope that the Rachni queen that you had the option to kill or set free on Noveria will play a large role. I always set her free, even when I have evil characters.

 

[whycantibelinus]

With Mass Effect 3 hopefully coming to stores soon, I am curious as to what my fellow Escapists think will happen in it. You all saw the swarm of Reapers coming towards civilized space, how many there were. But then again, if you think about it, they are coming all the way from dark space. My theory is that Shepard and his bros will be put in Cryo until the Reapers start getting closer.

What are your thoughts?

"all the way from dark space"? dark space starts where the galaxy ends, they could easily be very close to the edge of the galaxy.

On top of the fact that they have far more advanced mass effect drives than any other known species.