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Post by Mister Buch on May 27, 2012 2:41:52 GMT 1
I was just thinking about the London sequences at the end of Mass Effect 3, and wondering why they picked London as opposed to Vancouver or New York or Paris or whatever.
Do you think it could be an homage to 'The War of the Worlds?' (the HG Wells novel, not the films.) I was just thinking about this. In the third game the Reapers seem more like the Martian machines than they did previously - specifically the ones on Tuchanka and Rannoch who stand on legs as you fight them - and that big red beam with the loud noise. It resembles the 'heat rays' in the book, including the loud noise. Those are both new additions to their appearance. In the third game they seem to resemble the Martian tripods quite a bit, and then you're in London with them.
There's even a bit in the novel, at the end, where the narrator finds a Martian machine in the deserted, 'dead' London and runs frantically toward it, waiting for it to shoot him with the heat ray. (Although in the book it turns out the thing is dying and it doesn't blast him.)
Have you noticed this? Do you think there's something to it? Or am I stretching it too much? I'm starting to think that the Reapers become an homage to Wells in the third game.
EDIT: Oh dude you also go to Mars in the game!
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Post by jklinders on May 27, 2012 2:52:31 GMT 1
Never saw it that way but...I think you may be on to something here. Of course there was already a pretty strong Lovecraft thing there too with the space Cthulhu and all.
But then the Starbrat kind of killed the whole "old Gods" mystique that surrounded them and made them into Saren like patsies. Just another reason why I do-...never mind. We done been down this here path already.There ain't not no good in walkin' it again.
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Post by Mister Buch on May 27, 2012 2:57:41 GMT 1
Yeah please let's not do that again. xD
There was certainly more of an 'old Gods' feel to them in the first two games, and I think it does continue into ME3.
But there is also this thing with the legs and the big, loud laser beams....
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 27, 2012 12:55:59 GMT 1
Well it also explains the bullshit ending. Flu = Crucible IMMAFIRINGMALAZOR beams.
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