So, dust has cleared (a bit) and things have quieted down a little, so, since it's close and this PAX presentation is highly waited by the fans and gaming press alike... let us discuss it for a bit and what the future reserves for Mass Effect.
Right off the bat, let me address the most popular cop out, the indoctrination theory. At first i didn't buy it one bit, not at all... and i still kinda don't. I say kinda because i saw this video
It's SO well made and polished... it amazes me how people manage to pick and twist oversights of production and programming and turn them into these amazing parallel universes within the game.
Now, i'm 100% sure bioware will -not- go that route. However, it would be a fun nod to the audience if they added extra scenes to the end of the game absorbing this explanation into the canon of the original ending. Not going back and changing it... but going beyond and changing it.
What i would dare to bet it's more simple... the talked "Take back Omega" DLC... as we all know, there is quite a lot of room in the game for this mission to happen in DLC form... it's actually a bit sad that it's not in the main game, because it sure as hell alludes to it !
What i think Bioware will try to do is sell us the Omega DLC. And it's going to be a big one. And if you buy it, and play it... then, there should be some modifier in Omega that going there and taking it back from the illusive man, would trigger a completely new ending(s)...
That way, Bioware wouldn't negate it's own product, it wouldn't change it... instead, they would add to it, expand it. Maybe this way is not the best... but there are no perfect solutions now.
I lot of people talk about Bioware's artistic integrity... but at least for me, the way they are doing it now is fully in accord to it. I mean, Mass Effect as a gaming franchise is an oddball in the gaming market... it's just strange to market an entire franchise towards "Your choice makes the story" and then start complaining that the player has zero authority on how the story should end... "You can play and mold this unniverse and these characters the way you want it, but the ending is OUR vision, not yours"? I don't buy it.
So, i do salute Bioware for what they are TRYING to do... if they will do it right though, it's a completely different beast. All i know is that i'll be watching what happens on April 6.
So, put my bet down for "Omega DLC with new possible endings and nods to the fanbase"