未经确认，质量效应系列首席作家Drew Karpyshyn，关于质量效应的最终结局的另一个说法

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不管我们喜欢还是讨厌,不得不承认人们对3代结局很有争议.成群被激怒的粉丝占领了bioware的官方论坛整日抱怨希望能迫使bioaware修改结局,有些人甚至声称3代最后十五分钟毁了整个系列.
质量效应系列的前首席剧本Drew Karpyshyn出面维护游戏的结局,否定了结局在他调职以后被完全更改的说法.
Karpyshyn和Mac Walters曾经共同负责1代的剧本,并且对2代的剧本也有极大的贡献.后来Karpyshyn被调去了星球大战旧共和国online.

在粉丝间一个比较流行的说法是3代结局是在Karpyshyn调职以后仓促完成的,完全改变了他更有内涵的,以黑暗能量(dark energy)为中心的剧情.一个解释"原版"剧情的片段被发在Something Awful论坛,署名bioware内部人士:
黑暗能量的设定是会在宇宙中不断蔓延并最终吞噬整个宇宙.收割者的目的就是阻止它的蔓延.2代中就有对黑暗能量的铺垫.
收割者的每个个体都是由一个国家规模的生物个体以最恐怖最残忍的方法拼接在一起组成的(2代最终战役的把人类"化掉"变成基因片段注射进收割者框架).人类收割者的重要性在于人类有最多样化的基因(2代Mordin提到过),将这些基因组合在一起的人类收割者将是拯救宇宙的唯一希望.
原版结局的选择本来是:1.杀掉收割者,相信银河众生将能找到另一个方法拯救宇宙,
或者2.牺牲整个人类种族,制造收割者来拯救宇宙.

但是根据Karpyshyn的说法,这个所谓的原版结局只是几个可能的原稿之一.不像粉丝想象的那样是最终定稿.
"我们有段时间确实想加入黑暗能量"他在twitter写道,"但是最初的构思只有收割者和质量中继器".
虽然他还没玩过3代,但是Karpyshyn认为游戏里的最终结局和他当时的构思的那个是一致的.
"从我听说的情况看,这个结局和我当初想的一样,不过细节上有所不同"他说.
Karpyshyn还表示他如果留在质量效应系列没走游戏的结局应该不会有太多变化
他说"有意思的是,有些失望的粉丝说3代前面都很棒,可惜被结局毁了.他们声称如果我还留在这个项目里应该会好很多.但是也有粉丝抱怨我写的旧共和国武士的小说前面都很棒,但是被结局毁了.所以看来我在不在都一样".
行了,知道了吧,质量效应系列剧情的核心人物都亲口说了.你喜欢也好讨厌也好,别拿人家当替罪羊就行.

名词解释:dark energy(黑暗能量)
在质量效应系列的设定中,dark energy是"第五种力(这个第五种力一直都是各种神秘小说或者科幻作品的重要设定之一,比如神秘调查班...)".与万有引力和电磁力一样,能对一切物质产生影响.质量效应里的常见物质0号元素释放的就是黑暗能量,这个过程产生的力场就是"质量效应场(mass effect field)"
2代在帮助面罩女tali的任务中她提到过,那个恒星加速坍缩的原因可能就是黑暗能量,Gianna Parsini(1代冰雪星球里那个卧底女秘书)也提到过最近关于黑暗能量的流言甚嚣尘上.


以上消息未经确认，加粗字体是能在英文网页上找到的部分，大家随便看看就好，反正我对现在的结局很不满
http://pc.131.com/games/zlxy3/xinde/1042677_1.html
http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/17086/mass-effect-writer-drew-karpyshyn-reveals-original-mass-effect-3-endings

lucio1019

still as bad as the ending we have now. not make sense at all. why reaper harvest advanced life form? if only humanity need to be scarified, why not just target human? and if just because the DNA of humanity is that special, why not just clone one? so many other ways to do it. why this way? and in arrival, the reaper claim to doom humanity, no reason stated. THIS ENDING DOES NOT FIT!

easysic

反正这代结局是挺坑爹的，一代、二代最后都有BOSS战，这代主角直接被REAPER打残，简直让我无语。而且，最后就跑出一个小屁孩，号称自己是REAPERS主人，主角怎么选择都是一个死……

liyuefrank

其实原文是说Karpyshyn 透露了他最初对这个结尾的构思 就是上面说的dark enegy  单是中文的短评里直接把其变成了Karpyshyn支持现在的结局,作者加入了很多的个人想法,我觉得会误导一部分读者.

Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn revealed his original intent for the ending of Mass Effect 3, which involved the concept of Dark Energy, which was hinted at in the previous two games, such as on Haelstrom during Tali's recruitment mission, when she commented that the planet's sun was an advanced age for no scientific reason.

The Dark Energy was a force that was going to consume everything. According to Karpyshyn, "The Reapers as a whole were 'nations' of people who had fused together in the most horrific way possible to help find a way to stop the spread of the Dark Energy. The real reason for the Human Reaper was supposed to be the Reapers saving throw because they had run out of time. Humanity in Mass Effect is supposedly unique because of its genetic diversity and represented the universe's best chance at stopping Dark Energy's spread."

The original choice was between killing the Reapers and trying to find a way to stop the Dark Energy threat with what little time was left before it consumed the galaxy, or, "Sacrifice humanity, allowing them to be horrifically processed in hopes that the end result will justify the means."

This still doesn't change the main sticking point of fans: all of the recruitment, all of the alliances, all of the sacrifices, were essentially moot because they essentially were inconsequential to the resolution.

原文 http://www.strategyinformer.com/ ... ss-effect-3-endings
并且这个报道的source 在这里 http://www.oxm.co.uk/39736/revea ... ned-before-release/  

netsphere

不针对楼主，看完這個解釋第一個想法就是
那為什麼Reaper每50000年來一次，輪迴已經幾百萬年了Reaper是未雨綢繆?
Reaper為什麼要消滅Prothean empire，如果說Reaper真的是要解決Dark energy問題那他們應該讓Prothean繼續發展科技，少說都還有50000年的時間而且Javik也說目前的輪迴水準偏低不如他們的。
Human reaper要怎麼對抗Dark energy，難道Human reaper的特性是智商超高?

不過這是有可能當初要開發Mass effect系列企畫的劇本候選人之一，不過沒有採用就是了。

一直围观

我一代二代都很仔细的玩过了，没看到什么“黑暗能量”或者有关的东西，当然，不针对楼主~~~~~~~~~~~~~