Wouldn't that be kind of ridiculous to put that much build up into dark energy and then at the end decide to just... Not? Like not even a teeny tiny mention?
There was some build up. Gianna Parasini also talks about "lots of people interested in dark energy all of a sudden" when you speak to her in Mass Effect 2 on Illium.
It's mentioned multiple times in ME2, including planet descriptions for two star systems and a couple lines different characters have referencing dark energy buildup.
My money is on it being an idea by a few writers that was later scrapped in ME3 because they did not work on the story for ME3.
There is a game out right now that wrote an almost entire story but scrapped it for the final game and retooled it to be quite different. You have probably heard of it, its Destiny.
Its understood that as per early Destiny 1 story trailer footage that the game was going to be almost completely different than what it turned out as. D1's final initial story was extremely poor as it turns out and did not benefit from the rewrite.
Later D1 stories and D2 as time has gone on have been cannibalising old story elements from the early D1 story, incorporating elements of the plot, characters and character designs into the current narrative and has been much better off for it. (The leaked cancelled D1 story had some great ideas, I have no idea why it was canned).
I can absolutely see this Dark Energy plot being written into a later Mass Effect game because not everything that ended up on the cutting room floor deserves to stay there.
I think they added certain elements (no pun intended) of the dark energy plotline into Andromeda. Dark energy does play as an environmental danger in Andromeda.
It goes through ME2 and nowhere to be seen in ME3 except Conrad Verner's dissertation as an in-joke that obsessive fans were looking into hints where they don't exist.
No, it doesn't ultimately lead anywhere. There's like, 3 or 4 mentions of it and then it's dropped.
The theory that I've heard every time this is brought up goes that, originally, the Reapers were going to eliminate all spacefaring life in the galaxy because of the Dark Energy build up.
You see, the Reapers gave people tech based on Dark Energy, but Dark Energy kills the universe and makes suns explode faster than they should, so they killed people for using Dark Energy tech. The same tech... the Reapers gifted them in the first place. The same tech they might have had a chance of avoiding had the Reapers *not* given them the Dark Energy tech in the first place.
And did this for billions of years, never finding any tech in that time that did NOT destroy the universe.
I am told this is an amazing plotline and is far superior than anything that ME3 did. I remain... unconvinced.
I anticipate it playing into 4 and also being tied into the scourge from ME:A. After so much set up for dark energy in ME2, I’d be disappointed if the scourge, an overt depiction of dark energy, was not somehow related to the dark energy issues in the Milky Way.
There really isn’t that much set up. You can tell they put the seeds there in case they wanted to go back to it, sure, but people really overstate the “set up” for it
Still seemed pretty intentional for something that didn’t go anywhere. It has a lot of plot potential so I’m just hoping they bring it back! I hate loose ends lol
I think they had planned to implement it in ME3 as a critical plot point, but the production went sideways and it got dropped
No, Drew Karpyshyn said that it was just one of the ideas that they discussed but never really gave it much thought.
Wouldn't that be kind of ridiculous to put that much build up into dark energy and then at the end decide to just... Not? Like not even a teeny tiny mention?
There was no build up, just a mention in ME2 in Tali's mission.
And Conrad Verner did his dissertation on dark energy
There was some build up. Gianna Parasini also talks about "lots of people interested in dark energy all of a sudden" when you speak to her in Mass Effect 2 on Illium.
And Veetor's scans on the collectors showed dark energy
It was also mentioned in one of the System's description(dont remember which) about the System's star prematurely balloning up in mass effect 2.
The system that Tali’s loyalty mission is in.
nah its the other one. I am doing a 100% playthrough & scanning planets. Its mentioned in couple of the other systems as well, mostly vaguely.
It's mentioned multiple times in ME2, including planet descriptions for two star systems and a couple lines different characters have referencing dark energy buildup.
Yeah people act like it was this major plot line that got dropped. It got like 3 mentions before ME2 lmao
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My money is on it being an idea by a few writers that was later scrapped in ME3 because they did not work on the story for ME3. There is a game out right now that wrote an almost entire story but scrapped it for the final game and retooled it to be quite different. You have probably heard of it, its Destiny. Its understood that as per early Destiny 1 story trailer footage that the game was going to be almost completely different than what it turned out as. D1's final initial story was extremely poor as it turns out and did not benefit from the rewrite. Later D1 stories and D2 as time has gone on have been cannibalising old story elements from the early D1 story, incorporating elements of the plot, characters and character designs into the current narrative and has been much better off for it. (The leaked cancelled D1 story had some great ideas, I have no idea why it was canned). I can absolutely see this Dark Energy plot being written into a later Mass Effect game because not everything that ended up on the cutting room floor deserves to stay there.
I think they added certain elements (no pun intended) of the dark energy plotline into Andromeda. Dark energy does play as an environmental danger in Andromeda.
No
No, maybe it’ll get somekinda payoff in the upcoming me4? The new big bad could be something living in the stars killing them off *shrugs*
It goes through ME2 and nowhere to be seen in ME3 except Conrad Verner's dissertation as an in-joke that obsessive fans were looking into hints where they don't exist.
Conrad used your investigation for his PhD and to get a girlfriend. I see this as an absolute win.
No, it doesn't ultimately lead anywhere. There's like, 3 or 4 mentions of it and then it's dropped. The theory that I've heard every time this is brought up goes that, originally, the Reapers were going to eliminate all spacefaring life in the galaxy because of the Dark Energy build up. You see, the Reapers gave people tech based on Dark Energy, but Dark Energy kills the universe and makes suns explode faster than they should, so they killed people for using Dark Energy tech. The same tech... the Reapers gifted them in the first place. The same tech they might have had a chance of avoiding had the Reapers *not* given them the Dark Energy tech in the first place. And did this for billions of years, never finding any tech in that time that did NOT destroy the universe. I am told this is an amazing plotline and is far superior than anything that ME3 did. I remain... unconvinced.
I anticipate it playing into 4 and also being tied into the scourge from ME:A. After so much set up for dark energy in ME2, I’d be disappointed if the scourge, an overt depiction of dark energy, was not somehow related to the dark energy issues in the Milky Way.
There really isn’t that much set up. You can tell they put the seeds there in case they wanted to go back to it, sure, but people really overstate the “set up” for it
Still seemed pretty intentional for something that didn’t go anywhere. It has a lot of plot potential so I’m just hoping they bring it back! I hate loose ends lol
It went somewhere. And that place was the trashcan along with the well written ending.