Mass Effect 3gets a lot of flak for its ending, but most of the criticism is usually aimed at its colour-coded attempt at summing up three games with only a handful of disappointing options.
In a recent Reddit thread however, fans of the games discussed which parts of series lore and mysteries they would have preferred to have left unexplained.
The most popular answer was about howMass Effect 3spelled out the Reapers’ ultimate goals in explicit detail, something that players would have apparently preferred to have been left a little more vague.
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“Unanswered questions drive me nuts and I want to understand as much as I can. But the answers can be so stupid that it’s equally annoying as not knowing,” repliedone user. “That would still apply to the Reapers. I hate what they ultimately gave as an answer, but I like the initial ideas they were toying with.”
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“This was my exact same thought. The explanation we got inMass Effect 1was more than enough,” repliedanother.“We are the harvest. They are the Reapers. Their motivations are beyond our comprehension.”
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This is all in reference to the reveal towards the end ofMass Effect 3that the Reapers caused universe-wide destruction in a bid to… permanently preserve life, apparently?
As some pointed out, the more vague and straightforward answer given inMass Effect 2was far more satisfying than the actual answer we got at the end ofMass Effect 3.
“When I first playedME2, I thought the Reaper larva in the Collector base was the answer,” notedone user. “And I liked it. No big epic plan eons in the making, no special destiny. We’re just raw resources grown and harvested for their reproductive cycle.”
As others in the thread pointed out, the disappointment is probably as a result of the Reaper’s end goal being changed. part way through development.
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User While-Fancy gave a pretty detailed breakdown of exactly what the previous mission was implying that the Reaper’s original intentions were.
“They are referring to the rapidly aging sun subplot inME2on Tali’s recruitment mission,” they saidin reply toanother commenter. “The reapers were basically allowing civilisations to rise and cutting them down and recording them to prevent the galaxy from going dark.”
Topics:Bioware,Mass Effect,EA
