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Why the endings need to be rewritten

Blog entry posted by Gmandam, Apr 12, 2012.

Disclaimer : This represents my own opinions and not those of the site/staff or admins who manage the website.

By this point almost everyone should know about the new "Extended cut" DLC that Bioware is releasing. Along side this Bioware has also released a new Mp DLC called the resurgence pack. Both are bad idea's but I'm going to focus on why the endings need to be rewritten as compared to expanded upon.

The first reason and perhaps the most important is the actual effect it has on the Mass Effect series as a whole. First and foremost it adds problems to Mass Effect One. These issues regard the main objective of sovereign and what his motives were.

In case you have forgotten his objective was to use the citadel (at this point revealed to be a giant mass relay terminating in Dark Space) and unleash the Reapers upon an unsuspecting galaxy. However due to a issue caused by the last of the prothian scientists he had to do it manually and that meant finding a army and a agent who get him access.Thus Saren enters the picture. Saren's mistrust of humanity coupled with his burning desire to stop them from gaining any power at allowed sovereign to indoctrinate him enough into becoming sovereigns agent. Enter the geth and the idea of the conduit and we have the story of mass effect.

Now the question. The question is rather simple but damaging to the motives and purpose of Sovereign in a bad way. The question is (If the catalyst is the citadel and controls the reapers why does sovereign need to be around?) a simple question but one with a obvious answer and one quiet damming to Bioware.

The answer is simple Sovereign has no purpose. Sovereign has no reason to be the vanguard of destruction when his boss sits comfortably inside the citadel waiting for the new species arrive. Now then you have your boss siting comfortably in the one place that every space fairing species will end up in if they use the mass relays so why do you need a vulnerable (Remember he might be a reaper but even he can't face down the galaxy and win) reaper and the secrets of all your technology around a random part of space for anyone to discover?

You don't. It serves no purpose when the person who is your boss can do your job quicker and safer than you can.

Seeing as mass effect one becomes null and void (due to accidental retconing via the star child) the endings have to change and I'm not even talking about the Massive theme errors,circular logic or broken promises of devs who did know they were lying.

Disclaimer : This represents my own opinions and not those of the site/staff or admins who manage the website.