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Post by jklinders on Apr 10, 2011 14:56:27 GMT 1
I think Shep became a liability and security threat after the Shadow broker and Collector base regardless of the outcome in ME 2. TIM never wanted Shepp to fight the reapers but to manipulate him/her into handing over the base. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I've had this theory for around a year. Completely predictable.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 10, 2011 15:53:59 GMT 1
Nahhhhhh. I guess it would explain why TIM gives Shepard such freedoms when he doesn't have to. But if the whole point was to get Shep to hand over the base, wouldn't he have installed that 'control chip' Miranda mentioned?
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Post by jklinders on Apr 10, 2011 16:55:44 GMT 1
No, because he still had Miranda as a fail safe. The whole control chip thing was probably a red herring. I doubt there was even such a thing. But he needed someone with experience with the impossible to get Miranda where she needed to be to force the issue. He did not anticipate Shep getting her loyalty.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 10, 2011 17:08:01 GMT 1
He did not anticipate Shep getting her loyalty. So that means... The Illusive Man is responsible for the Jack/Miranda Paragon loyalty glitch! I knew it! Some plan he had, huh? Having it hinge on the person he himself admitted was charismatic enough to inspire the civilisations of the galaxy to unite behind him/her not swaying one person's loyalty was a masterstroke, in particular. Also, what about that scene at the start of the game, before Shepard dies, where the Illusive Man says they need Shepard to fight the Reapers specifically?
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Post by jklinders on Apr 10, 2011 17:16:00 GMT 1
I never said it was a good plan. I have said repeatedly in the other forum that TIM is a megalomaniac. He thinks he is smarter than everyone else and knows best. The fact the he is in fact smarter than most feeds it. TIM's plan actually made things worse with the reaper threat. He has influence with the Alliance Brass, he could have mobilized them against the collectors if he wanted to so all along it was about the base. It was risky, stupid and arrogant. 2 of those apply to TIM 24/7. The third only when he thinks he is being extra clever.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 29, 2011 0:51:56 GMT 1
I can't be the only one who's noticed this: Anders is a Time Lord. He can die in Awakening, yet comes back in Dragon Age 2, with a different face, voice and personality. "Vengeance" is probably just there because this incarnation of Anders looked into the heart of his Tardis to power himself up. At least we can look forward to seeing him in Dragon Age 3!
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Post by Cali on May 5, 2011 1:56:16 GMT 1
]MARBLE HORNETS THEORY TIME!Theory #1: The Operator is the ghost of a guy slain during a Witchunt. Jay, Alex and Jess are descendants of the hunters who executed him, which is why The Op is screwing with both of them. I came up with this after watching Entry #38, where Alex is leading Jay through a forest where criminals were executed. Theory #2: The Operator is an alien. The ark that keeps getting mentioned is his ship, and he is trying to abduct Jay, Alex, and Jessica. Theory #3: The Operator and Totheark are matchmakers! In Entry ##### I swear I can hear a heavily distorted version of "here comes the bride" playing. Is it possible Op and Masky are trying to get Jay together with Jessica, or Alex together with Jess... or dare I say... Jay together with Alex?
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Post by Mister Buch on May 5, 2011 14:16:46 GMT 1
I have absolutely no clue what's going on in Marble Hornets. I hope they're not aliens
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Post by Mr. Glow on May 7, 2011 8:26:40 GMT 1
You know that dreadful "even though character X died, they'll come back in the sequel, only they'll be wearing a mask to hide their scarred face!" theory that seems to crop up at least once in every single fandom? I'm taking it a step further! Every character that died in Mass Effect 1 & 2 will come back in the sequel, only they'll all be wearing masks to hide their scarred faces! I mean, how awesome would it be to have Jenkins, Wrex, Ashley/Kaidan, Tali, Garrus, Wilson, Miranda, Jacob, Mordin, Jack, Grunt, Thane, Samara, Morinth, Zaeed, Kasumi and Legion, all in their little masks and all pissed off at Shepard?
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 23, 2011 1:01:11 GMT 1
That doesn't really have to do with fan theories!
Please try to post in the relevant thread, folks.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Nov 16, 2011 22:11:57 GMT 1
The Illusive Man has a childlike inability to comprehend deathIt's why he pays billions of credits to have Shepard resurrected on the off chance they die just "because", and it's why he refers to them having been dead for two years as "sleeping". (And also, the white bit on his shirt really does look like a bib if you squint...)
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Nov 16, 2011 22:39:53 GMT 1
Maybe TIM just loves winning.
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Post by Cali on Mar 6, 2014 9:42:53 GMT 1
Splinter Cell series: Anna Grimsdottir is a master of disguise.Every single game she changes her appearance drastically, most likely to throw off rival or enemy agencies. The fact that she shows significant knowledge of the art of field work apart from spectator and eggheaddery suggests she might have been in tougher shit than one might think. Of course, it's more likely UbiSoft is just trying to make her more appealing in the T&A factor, knowing them.
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Post by Cali on Mar 5, 2016 9:16:24 GMT 1
Content Warning: Watch_Dog spoilers ahead. Also this will get a tad political, but not in a soapboxy kinda way. The entire plot of Watch Dogs is a Silent Hill 2-esque allegorical tale (heavily spiced and sauteed to be more glorified and interesting) of a socially inept, incredibly boring man who chooses not to better himself in the end. Sound too familiar? Well let me explain further. - Aiden Pearce is your typical bitter white dude who's got more than a few axes to grind. He sucks at his job and alienates or leaves everyone hanging out to dry. He may as well be a stereotypical channer or gator, taking his anger out on the world through very indirect means. - Lena Pearce, Aiden's niece's death, is an allegory to a less traumatic and extroverted experience in which Aiden felt wronged. He could have been friendzoned, he could have been bullied to a pulp, or he could have just been owned once on a message board and never got over it. - Aiden's family represents the family of a man who's concerned as hell about his general stupidity, lifestyle and aloofness. - Clara represents a fellow social outcast whom Aiden chooses not to give a shit about her and pushes her away. The scene in the metro is quite telling of his anger toward the female sex, and her having a hand in the death of Lena Pearce represents bad experiences related to this. Clara's death is rather an indicator of him not realizing his redpill advice wasn't working, thus allowing another potential friend to slip away. - Damien Brenks is a thinly veiled reference to Aiden's social obligations and responsibilities, and basically a driving force which he blames all his problems on. - Jordi and T-Bone both represent people Aiden could have been; Jordi, while a bit of a sociopath is far friendlier and optimistic than Aiden could ever hope to be. T-Bone is just better at his job, and represents the success Aiden could have had. - Other fixers represent angry message board posters that he got into flame wars with. Including that one dude who crank called his family, probably would do so or have pizzas delivered to his sister's house. - Aiden's Fight Club-like dislike for capitalism is thinly veiled. CToS represents the corporate world and its influence. The clothing stores where Aiden can only buy different colors of the same clothes represents his disdain for consumerism. - The Chicago Club represents what channers refer to as "oldfags", forty year old wizards and Commodore 64 era elitists who look down on even Aiden, and Aiden's anger for not being able to gel with them, as he looks up to them. - The Viceroys represent the archetypal "cool and hip" black people in the world, whom thoroughly continue to irritate Aiden due to the fact that the culture they manufactured is as influential as it is in America and around the world, as opposed to his beloved traditional and exclusive nerd culture. Iraq represents a black man appropriating his dank memes and successfully becoming tech savvy, which pushes Aiden over the edge and causes him to go after him. - DeadSec, as well as the hacker Default, represent the new prog-geek internet (or alternatively for a lack of a better word, what some call "Ess-Jay-Dubyas"). Aiden's resent for them wanting to create a better internet is evident by his selfishness and willingness to go for the status quo. - Aiden doming Brenks with a 9mm, pushing Jordi off the edge of a lighthouse, wasting Default, telling Dead-Sec to suck a dick, and letting T-Bone fuck off due to his indirectly causing everything to fuck off, is him finally turning his back on everything. - The epilogue with Aiden deciding whether or not to blast the triggerman who iced his niece, and the fuck-all impact it has on the game or his character represents the futility of changing the way he is. He then returns to his empty life as a horrific sociopath with the personality of a crooked mailbox in a town called Rat's Ass, Iowa.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 5, 2016 12:19:45 GMT 1
I prefer the fan theory where Watch_Dogs, Assassins Creed and Far Cry all take place in the same universe.
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