Good ol'
Mass Effect 3, currently the biggest punching bag in the gaming industry. I finally beat the game and encountered the dreaded ending. It actually wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but I won't go into it here because I promised no spoilers. Today I want to talk about some nagging questions that popped up during my first play-through of ME3, feel free to comment about any unanswered questions that bothered you about the game, as a big fan of the series I'd love to hear them!
1. What happened to all the mechs? |
| The very first species to go extinct as a result of the Reaper invasion. |
I know that everyone has been complaining about the game's ending, and how most of it goes unexplained, but oddly the disappearance of the mechs that were so prominent in
Mass Effect 2 has nagged me from the very beginning. In ME2 mechs were everywhere: the Citadel, Omega, random planets, you name it. Then
Mass Effect 3 arrives, and we find that they have all but vanished without a trace. It's not like the events of ME3 happen twenty years or so after the ending of ME2, so I find it hard to believe that galaxy wide technology can be completely wiped out in only a year or so. Even the Reapers would be jealous of the speed at which the mechs were exterminated.
Sure you might argue it was mentioned that Aria's mercenary groups would bring their mechs into the battle against the Reapers, so I guess these groups somehow stockpiled an entire galaxy full of robots.
2. Why do Brute husks look like Elcor when they are explained to be a Turian/Krogan hybrid? |
| Amused. Silly human, you can't hurt me. In Pain. Put down the shotgun human. |
I might be nitpicking here, but I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance between the Elcor and the Brutes. They have a similar shape and a similar hunched-over gait. They even have the same need to state every single emotion they feel while they are trying to kill you (only joking!). Brutes are obviously much larger than Turians and Krogans, while only being slightly larger than the Elcor. I find that fact notable since the other types of husks are mostly the same size as the races they are created from. I guess the short answer to this question is that Bioware needed to find some way to rip off the Hunter from
Halo, the Berserker from
Gears of War, and the (insert giant bad guy that charges at you) from (insert popular game here).
3. What happened to the all-human Council?Ambassador Udina lied to me, damned politicians! At the end of
Mass Effect 1 after I let the original Council die, Udina stated that the new Council would be composed entirely of humans. During ME2, the Council didn't make an appearance (well it did, but that was when I played through as a nice Shepard who saved the Council in ME1), so I let it slide. But in ME3, you find that the original Council has been replaced by another Council made up of a Turian, an Asari, and a Salarian. Who needs continuity? Certainly not us gamers who bought the Mass Effect games just so we could see how our choices had consequences throughout the whole series...
4. How is the Reapers' armor so damn tough? |
| Shepard ponders the mystery of Reaper-brand sheet metal. |
Seriously, throughout the game you see the giant capital ship Reapers casually shrug off heavy weapons fire, making it seem as if the races of the galaxy equipped pea-shooters on all their warships. How is it possible to make steel plating so durable? Maybe the Reapers were built inside a black hole, with the extreme gravitational pressures making the material extra dense. Die-hard Mass Effect fans will surely defend this by saying the Reapers have incredible force-field shields surrounding their ships, but their toughness still bothers me. Also, why do the humans never fire off some nukes at the Reapers orbiting Earth? If anything, it would eliminate the thousands of
Oculi swarming around the Reapers.
On a side note, am I the only person who wondered how the Reapers would hold up against the Molecular Disruption Device (Little Doctor, Dr. Device, etc) from Ender's Game?
Good ol'
Mass Effect 3, currently the biggest punching bag in the gaming industry. I finally beat the game and encountered the dreaded ending. It actually wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but I won't go into it here because I promised no spoilers. Today I want to talk about some nagging questions that popped up during my first play-through of ME3, feel free to comment about any unanswered questions that bothered you about the game, as a big fan of the series I'd love to hear them!
1. What happened to all the mechs? |
| The very first species to go extinct as a result of the Reaper invasion. |
I know that everyone has been complaining about the game's ending, and how most of it goes unexplained, but oddly the disappearance of the mechs that were so prominent in
Mass Effect 2 has nagged me from the very beginning. In ME2 mechs were everywhere: the Citadel, Omega, random planets, you name it. Then
Mass Effect 3 arrives, and we find that they have all but vanished without a trace. It's not like the events of ME3 happen twenty years or so after the ending of ME2, so I find it hard to believe that galaxy wide technology can be completely wiped out in only a year or so. Even the Reapers would be jealous of the speed at which the mechs were exterminated.
Sure you might argue it was mentioned that Aria's mercenary groups would bring their mechs into the battle against the Reapers, so I guess these groups somehow stockpiled an entire galaxy full of robots.
2. Why do Brute husks look like Elcor when they are explained to be a Turian/Krogan hybrid? |
| Amused. Silly human, you can't hurt me. In Pain. Put down the shotgun human. |
I might be nitpicking here, but I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance between the Elcor and the Brutes. They have a similar shape and a similar hunched-over gait. They even have the same need to state every single emotion they feel while they are trying to kill you (only joking!). Brutes are obviously much larger than Turians and Krogans, while only being slightly larger than the Elcor. I find that fact notable since the other types of husks are mostly the same size as the races they are created from. I guess the short answer to this question is that Bioware needed to find some way to rip off the Hunter from
Halo, the Berserker from
Gears of War, and the (insert giant bad guy that charges at you) from (insert popular game here).
3. What happened to the all-human Council?Ambassador Udina lied to me, damned politicians! At the end of
Mass Effect 1 after I let the original Council die, Udina stated that the new Council would be composed entirely of humans. During ME2, the Council didn't make an appearance (well it did, but that was when I played through as a nice Shepard who saved the Council in ME1), so I let it slide. But in ME3, you find that the original Council has been replaced by another Council made up of a Turian, an Asari, and a Salarian. Who needs continuity? Certainly not us gamers who bought the Mass Effect games just so we could see how our choices had consequences throughout the whole series...
4. How is the Reapers' armor so damn tough? |
| Shepard ponders the mystery of Reaper-brand sheet metal. |
Seriously, throughout the game you see the giant capital ship Reapers casually shrug off heavy weapons fire, making it seem as if the races of the galaxy equipped pea-shooters on all their warships. How is it possible to make steel plating so durable? Maybe the Reapers were built inside a black hole, with the extreme gravitational pressures making the material extra dense. Die-hard Mass Effect fans will surely defend this by saying the Reapers have incredible force-field shields surrounding their ships, but their toughness still bothers me. Also, why do the humans never fire off some nukes at the Reapers orbiting Earth? If anything, it would eliminate the thousands of
Oculi swarming around the Reapers.
On a side note, am I the only person who wondered how the Reapers would hold up against the Molecular Disruption Device (Little Doctor, Dr. Device, etc) from Ender's Game?
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