Heads up: SPOILERS for Mass Effect and the ME2 teaser. You have been warned.
Alright, so I just got finished with my second play through of Mass Effect. I have to say, the game left me pleasantly surprised. I got it for 15 bucks in the used bin, and after hearing some awful things about it, was prepared to hate the thing. But it was by BioWare, creator of my precious Baldur's Gate and the original Neverwinter Nights (we just forget all about the awful sequel). And here's the thing: it didn't suck. I heard people whine about the combat, but I found it pretty easy to master once you get into a rhythm. And talk about cinematic. It felt like a seamless merger between old adventure games and RPGs...turned into a movie. And the voice acting was solid enough to make the cutscenes insanely watchable. In short, I loved the game.
But that's not really the purpose of this post. I played through the game once before looking up anything about the sequel, not wanting to be spoilered on the ending. Then, of course, after watching the teaser, I played through a second time to see what I might glean.
The big thing I noticed was the Cerberus logo all over the teaser site. Cerberus has, in ME, purposefully infected their own staff with some bad mojo and generally gone about as emulators of the Dr. Doom school of science. But we never actually met anyone affiliated with the group (unless it's in one of the side quests I haven't done yet). Now, since the principle threat of the first game were the Reapers and the geth, and the latter features prominently in the teaser, I'm betting Cerberus has to be involved with the Reapers. But how? Is there another Reaper hiding out in space, affiliated with the scientists of Cerberus? Did the researchers stumbled onto a Reaper and are now doing its bidding? I'm very curious to hear your theories.
Sorry if this has been done before. I did a search, and I looked through the past 7 or 8 pages of the threads and didn't see something like this. If I failed a spot check, my sincere apologies.
Alright, so I just got finished with my second play through of Mass Effect. I have to say, the game left me pleasantly surprised. I got it for 15 bucks in the used bin, and after hearing some awful things about it, was prepared to hate the thing. But it was by BioWare, creator of my precious Baldur's Gate and the original Neverwinter Nights (we just forget all about the awful sequel). And here's the thing: it didn't suck. I heard people whine about the combat, but I found it pretty easy to master once you get into a rhythm. And talk about cinematic. It felt like a seamless merger between old adventure games and RPGs...turned into a movie. And the voice acting was solid enough to make the cutscenes insanely watchable. In short, I loved the game.
But that's not really the purpose of this post. I played through the game once before looking up anything about the sequel, not wanting to be spoilered on the ending. Then, of course, after watching the teaser, I played through a second time to see what I might glean.
The big thing I noticed was the Cerberus logo all over the teaser site. Cerberus has, in ME, purposefully infected their own staff with some bad mojo and generally gone about as emulators of the Dr. Doom school of science. But we never actually met anyone affiliated with the group (unless it's in one of the side quests I haven't done yet). Now, since the principle threat of the first game were the Reapers and the geth, and the latter features prominently in the teaser, I'm betting Cerberus has to be involved with the Reapers. But how? Is there another Reaper hiding out in space, affiliated with the scientists of Cerberus? Did the researchers stumbled onto a Reaper and are now doing its bidding? I'm very curious to hear your theories.
Sorry if this has been done before. I did a search, and I looked through the past 7 or 8 pages of the threads and didn't see something like this. If I failed a spot check, my sincere apologies.
