Wouldn't "destroy" be the indocrinated choise in the IT? *spoilers*

It's a trap, see? None of the choices are good, or real. If you choose to trust vent-boy, you gave in to indoctrination, and if you choose destroy you just destroyed the crucible before it did whatever it's supposed to do.

The correct choice is to just turn the game off and find something better to play.

No but really, in the IT you never leave Earth and can't have destroyed the thing cuz it all happens in your head, but I do get your logic TC, it just doesn't fit. Star-child tries to trick you with these choices that mean nothing but whether or not you become indoctrinated. He makes it seem like it's morally correct to not kill Reapers and instead control or combine them, and he hints that you'll die if you pick destroy even though that's the only one you can survive in.

Grandy12 posted...

Okay, so it's all a dream.

The option to resist indocrination is still the option where you break the only weapon you have against the Reapers. In the dream.

That's what I don't get. How is that anything but getting indocrinated?

It's an indoctrination dream, they want you feel despair and doubt. They know you've got all your hopes set on that Crucible and they're trying to trick you into accepting their terms. It has nothing to do with the actual Crucible which nobody even knows what it does. It's just that the indoctrination has taken one side in the dream and Shepard's only option to resist is to destroy it. The puzzle is all in his head, the reapers aren't trying to get him to destroy the Crucible, they're trying to trick him into becoming indoctrinated.

Grandy12 posted...
jimbomcdeezzzy posted...
It's an indoctrination dream, they want you feel despair and doubt. They know you've got all your hopes set on that Crucible and they're trying to trick you into accepting their terms. It has nothing to do with the actual Crucible which nobody even knows what it does. It's just that the indoctrination has taken one side in the dream and Shepard's only option to resist is to destroy it. The puzzle is all in his head, the reapers aren't trying to get him to destroy the Crucible, they're trying to trick him into becoming indoctrinated.

That's pretty stupid.

So it's a dream, only all imagery is shuffled around in a way that you have no logical way of knowing what option is the one you should take, and if you take the wrong one you lose.


That is luck-based gameplay if I ever saw one.

If you take the events literally and not as a dream, how can you know that destroying the thing would do any good, you're going to trust a Reaper and either blow up your last chance at victory or kill yourself in vain to try and merge or control Reapers? Neither option is certain and that's partly why Bioware ****** up. You can't trust the little kid either way, so all three endings could be a trap. At least in the dream the choices are symbolic and you can tell which one is the "screw reapers" option.

Besides it making that whole ending sequence make sense, it also adds a twist and even a way to lose the game, which is great. I don't see how it's stupid or luck based, and it's just barely gameplay. It's up to the player to see through the Reaper plot and overcome indoctrination, or just stick to renegade options.

Now, I personally don't give Bioware credit for coming up with IT, it's too good and thier ending is too crap for it to have been on purpose. I doubt they'll officially acknowledge it in any meaningful way, and if they did it'd mean their ass because they left out the real damn ending.