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03-12-2012, 10:24 PM
RandomViper117
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It sort of does make sense, when you consider Shepard's state at that point in time- physically and mentally. He's exhausted in every sense of the word, he just got toasted by Harbinger (I still want to gut that son of a bitch), broke TIM's control, saw his mentor and best friend die, and the three-year long war that he's been fighting is taking its toll on him. He wants it to end. Even the toughest wall eventually crumbles.
It's not perfect or completely excusable, but it still makes sense.
Yeah if Shepard was just an ordinary man this would be the likely outcome. "Oh this button will solve all my problems Reaper god kid? Sure I'll believe you." But Shepard is not an ordinary man, Shepard has surpassed our level. Shepard is beyond us, Shepard is like Batman. He's a regular human, but he's beyond it as well. He can impossible things and it's alright because he's Shepard. Shepard should be able to walk into the worst hell he could imagine and still be smiling and making corny paragon speeches, witty one liners, or renegade action movie lines to the devil.
The fact that the game ends with Shepard broken enough to believe the Reaper god just makes Shepard human, he's not anything special. Any other human who was lucky enough could've been where he was. And is that realistic? Yes. In that one instant the game has realism. But that is why it's so jarring. Everything else is impossible and unbelievable. The believability of ME went out the window about five minutes into the mission to Eden Prime. Mass Effect has had so many obviously unbelievable things that when they decide to break that by making your unstoppable Sheppard break, it just breaks the series.
What happens when you put Batman in a no win scenario? What happens when you put Captain Kirk in a no win scenario? What happens when you put Luke Skywalker in a no win scenario? The list goes on, but the answer is always this. They win.
That's been true for Mass Effect. Until the last 10 minutes when Shepard stops being a sci-fi hero and becomes a real person. And that's why it fails.
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