Mass Effect 3: Citadel Announced

Guys, I have a theory on how this will play out!

All this stuff like the meeting the others crew members (some of them would be WAY too busy in a pre-ending galaxy) going to the Casino and so on will just happen AFTER the ending. After the choice and the following cutscenes the next thing we see is Shepard waking up in Huerta Memorial. Everything seems to be perfect around him at first, almost too perfect. Galactic peace is achieved. The reapers are gone. Everything is fine.

Shepard finds this odd.

So he starts investigating. Something seems to not want him to do that. That's our "conspiracy". In the end Shepard will have the choice (or maybe result depending on how well you investigated) to accept things as they are and live happily, or to question and discover the truth. He can discover that this place he is in is not in fact real. The reapers created it in his mind to trick him into comfort, so they could slowly indoctrinate him. (Add more and more oily shadows the further Shepard investigates for greater impact.)

Why is it reasonable to assume this? BECAUSE BIOWARE PULLED THIS SAME SHIT BEFORE. They had a "perfect dream world ending" in both Baldur's Gate II and Dragon Age! (I haven't actually played through DA yet, but I've heard of The Fade.)

This way literalists can have it their way, and we can have ours. People will discuss if maybe Shepard discovering this IS the hallucination and the Reapers actually just want the best for him. Whatever, dunno. Literalists will surely manage to twist it to their insane vision somehow. They can chose to not ask further and accept things as they are. Just like they did for almost a year now. And we, the inquisitive minds will be rewarded for our nature. Sure, some will bitch after they found out they're too dumb to get the "real" (lol) ending, but whatever Bioware do, people will bitch so no difference there.

magnetite wrote:Something else I was going to mention, if this really is a post ending DLC, I don't think they would be celebrating if the war isn't over yet. Think this may be the DLC, which we actually defeat the Reapers.

We'll have to wait and see.

noobcannon wrote:i find it interesting that they say "...after the adventure". sorry but that sounds like post ending to me. and we all know shepard only survives the destroy ending sooooooo...

could just be me being too optimistic, but this would just seems really out of place at just about any point in the game.

wrex: hey shepard thanks for curing the genophage. sorry i can't come with you on your mission; i need to lead the clans and fight the reapers........ but if you wanna take a break and throw a party on the citadel hit me up......

yeah, don't think so.

symbowles wrote:

Candalistic wrote:Noticed, that Shepard has scars on the new screenshot. Maybe nothing, but what if Shepard got this scars after lying in the rubble on Earth? I know that scars appear if you play Renegade, but still think it can be interesting.

The scar thing is being tossed around BSN right now...The scar in the pic is the same scar Shepard has in the ending sequence

noobcannon wrote:i find it interesting that they say "...after the adventure". sorry but that sounds like post ending to me. and we all know shepard only survives the destroy ending sooooooo...

could just be me being too optimistic, but this would just seems really out of place at just about any point in the game.

wrex: hey shepard thanks for curing the genophage. sorry i can't come with you on your mission; i need to lead the clans and fight the reapers........ but if you wanna take a break and throw a party on the citadel hit me up......

yeah, don't think so.

FFZero wrote:Okay this DLC looks like it's going to be good. If I get more of Shepard + squad moments I'm happy.

I'm curious though, where are you getting the 4GB thing from? Didn't see any mention of file size on the announcement other than it being larger than 2GB.

ivenoidea wrote:Guys, I have a theory on how this will play out!

All this stuff like the meeting the others crew members (some of them would be WAY too busy in a pre-ending galaxy) going to the Casino and so on will just happen AFTER the ending. After the choice and the following cutscenes the next thing we see is Shepard waking up in Huerta Memorial. Everything seems to be perfect around him at first, almost too perfect. Galactic peace is achieved. The reapers are gone. Everything is fine.

Shepard finds this odd.

So he starts investigating. Something seems to not want him to do that. That's our "conspiracy". In the end Shepard will have the choice (or maybe result depending on how well you investigated) to accept things as they are and live happily, or to question and discover the truth. He can discover that this place he is in is not in fact real. The reapers created it in his mind to trick him into comfort, so they could slowly indoctrinate him. (Add more and more oily shadows the further Shepard investigates for greater impact.)

Why is it reasonable to assume this? BECAUSE BIOWARE PULLED THIS SAME SHIT BEFORE. They had a "perfect dream world ending" in both Baldur's Gate II and Dragon Age! (I haven't actually played through DA yet, but I've heard of The Fade.)

Cyberfrog wrote:Jessica Merizan says the scar is from Project Lazarus.
https://twitter.com/JessicaMerizan/status/304673435458617346