jedd_kenobi
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What, the DLC is out?
Yup, I saw it on Xbox live about a hour ago.
What, the DLC is out?
Is it free? That would actually warrant a purchase. If it's extra, no thank you.
What the fuck, downloaded the DLC, now my ending save is gone. Screw this!
Well, yeah. In order to see the new ending you have to play through from the point of the Cerberus Base Attack.
Well, yeah. In order to see the new ending you have to play through from the point of the Cerberus Base Attack.
So they rehashed Portal 2.. in space?EDIT:
Here's a consideration that throws another layer onto the Starchild: he's broken. Well, not broken per se. Just fed the wrong instructions. I remember him saying during the EC end "my creators were resistant to the idea of becoming a Reaper, but I did what had to be done" (paraphrasing). Kinda gives me the vibe that his creators came up with the AI, gave it some kind of loose goal to pursue ("find balance between synthetics and organics" or something like that) and he essentially just went way too far following the cold logic without any consideration to collateral of any kind, including his creators wishes. Kind of a Hal moment I guess? "Complete the mission, even if it means failing the mission".
Might explain his stupid behavior. A being like that operating for eons on warped logic, from our standpoint, would most likely come up with very twisted solutions - bad input, bad output, bad interpretation. Of course that's VERY loose speculation. Whether that is actually the backstory of the character is anyone's guess now. One does kind of imagine BioWare would give you the option to defeat this kind of madness instead of play into it, see above. If I wrote it, I might've seen if I could get away with making the Starchild into a scared, confused, pitiable character. Or, at least, as close to that as you can make an "emotionless" AI. I'd probably fail but someone more adept... sigh.
Here's a consideration that throws another layer onto the Starchild: he's broken. Well, not broken per se. Just fed the wrong instructions. I remember him saying during the EC end "my creators were resistant to the idea of becoming a Reaper, but I did what had to be done" (paraphrasing). Kinda gives me the vibe that his creators came up with the AI, gave it some kind of loose goal to pursue ("find balance between synthetics and organics" or something like that) and he essentially just went way too far following the cold logic without any consideration to collateral of any kind, including his creators wishes. Kind of a Hal moment I guess? "Complete the mission, even if it means failing the mission".
Spoilers below for all endings (played Synthesis as I originally did, watched the others on YouTube):
- I actually found it cool that they added the fourth option - to refuse to go with the Catalyst's offer, and thus let the cycle continue. Liara's future cycles information cache being shown with that was a really nice touch.