Gamers Find "Leviathan" DLC Inside Mass Effect 3's New Ending

[4173]

Oh boy, a rogue Reaper! Maybe he can go team up with all the rogue Cerebus cells.



(Or, you know, fight Batman Inc.)

 

[Zydrate]

Every war has its traitors.

 

[Wicky_42]

... who cares if we get him in the final battle? It's not going to change the endings.

Yeah - when there was still stuff to fight for, gaining a new ally made sense and was interesting... but it's over now, you know the endings, and 'humanising' the Reapers just kinda undermines the whole thing a little bit, don't you think?

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I'd make a comment on the ending, but others have already voiced exactly what I had in mind.

With that said, I do think the DLC sounds interesting in and of itself, but the ultimate sense of pointlessness pervades every and all future DLC that doesn't address a post-end/ending-retcon scenario. :/

I'm sorry, Bioware. I just don't want it anymore.

 

[Roboto]

You know, this would've brought up the question of "with an actual Reaper on our side, maybe there's a small chance we can win this war"

...if we didn't already know how it all ends.

So unless this adds another ending possibility, what's the bloody point??

It's about the journey, not the destination.

Anything that adds more lore and backstory is fine by me. They left plenty up to the imagination.

 

[A Raging Emo]

My favourite colour is red.

Surely that I'd also end up destroying Leviathan?

 

[hermes]

Good. Mass Effect 3 needs more single player content of the scope of Shadow Broker and Overlord. Enough time and resources has been diverted already for this expanded ending DLC.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

My first thought: 'How exactly in a platform for a collective consciousness supposed to defect?'

My second: 'Actually, I don't care. I can have a Reaper on my side? Fucking sweet!'

 

[Fappy]

Meh. Unless I get an overwhelming urge to play through Mass Effect 3 again, and only as much as I did 1 and 2 (which is a lot), I'll probably pass on this. I usually don't get DLC for games I don't repay somewhat often and so far ME3's disappointing ending only managed to squeeze 2 playthroughs out of me. I have so many ME2 Shepards that will never get to take back Earth

 

[Riff Moonraker]

On one hand, this sounds really cool.

On the other hand, who cares if we get him in the final battle? It's not going to change the endings.

Or.... what if it did? What if it was planned to put another ending in the game all along? Far fetched, yes... but its not an unreasonable line of thought, either.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

You know, this would've brought up the question of "with an actual Reaper on our side, maybe there's a small chance we can win this war"

...if we didn't already know how it all ends.

So unless this adds another ending possibility, what's the bloody point??

Erm, even with one Reaper on your side, it's still one against about 100,000, and when the entire combined might of the Galaxy was pretty clearly only enough to act as an effective diversion for one battle...

Yeah, even if you add one Reaper to that I'm still not liking those odds.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

Probably won't bother, never bought any DLC for this series before. I'll probably try Extended Cut, and buy the inevitable trilogy edition fully decked out with the DLC, but I just don't feel like ramming in another chapter after the game is finished makes any sense at all.

You should try it. Its free, and while not perfect, I personally liked it ALOT better.

 

[Doom972]

The story of ME3, already had some gaping plot holes that they mostly managed to plug with the EC. Let's hope they won't manage to mess it up again in this DLC.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

On one hand, this sounds really cool.

On the other hand, who cares if we get him in the final battle? It's not going to change the endings.

Or.... what if it did? What if it was planned to put another ending in the game all along? Far fetched, yes... but its not an unreasonable line of thought, either.

Not unreasonable, but I doubt it will happen.

 

[Draconalis]

I'm glad I was never interested in Mass Effect's play style... because I don't have to deal with this nonsense.

My own thoughts merely echo those around me. What's the point of adding another chapter that does nothing to change the ending.

Yay! You have one more ally who's going to die with the rest of you or something.

Or maybe he'll be there on that planet they all crash on to betray your crewmates and turn them all into reapers.

Once a traitor always a traitor. If you recruit him, you're killing your crew! Think about it!

 

[-Dragmire-]

Gamers Find "Leviathan" DLC Inside Mass Effect 3's New Ending



The script includes new lines for each of Shepard's companions that help shine some light on the details of the mission. One line, which appears to be delivered by EDI, implies that the mission may reveal new information about the Reapers' creators, a topic mostly untouched in the series so far: "So the Reapers did not fully exterminate their creators. That suggests they are fallible, even on large or long-term scales."

My money's on the Keepers being the original creators of the reapers. I'm curious to find out if this is true.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

So they won't change the endings but they'll happily shove inconsistent, potentially story-changing chapters into the middle of a game we have already completed.

The Reaper threat has ended. Why would I want to go back and play this? We know that our choices don't affect the endings so what incentive do we have to go back, play this DLC and finish the game again? What will change?

This Reaper DLC better come with a brand new "You own a Reaper? You own EVERYONE!" ending, in which Shepard rides to victory on the back of a Reaper defector and everyone eats indoctrination cake in 3 different colours.

EDIT: More fuel for the Indoctrination Theory people? If this Reaper could be "recruited" from the beginning (depending at what stage in the game you play this DLC) it could be argued that it's been indoctrinating Shepard for the entire game.

 

[Bat Vader]

This sounds pretty interesting. Hopefully they release more details and a release date soon.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

You know, this would've brought up the question of "with an actual Reaper on our side, maybe there's a small chance we can win this war"

...if we didn't already know how it all ends.

So unless this adds another ending possibility, what's the bloody point??

Freaking this. And someone else may have mentioned it, but if it's possible for Reapers to "defect," doesn't that sorta-kinda poke a(nother) hole in the blue ending?

It's about the journey, not the destination.

For me, it's about the destination. The journey might or might not be fun and worthwhile as well, but the destination is the reason you set out on the journey in the first place. In fact, it seems to me that a journey without a destination isn't a journey at all--it's just aimlessly farting around.

 

[AbstractStream]

I'm interested (I might even pay for it), but doesn't this kind of add a plot hole?

...my Shepard still "dies" regardless. It won't matter D: