Still don't buy the indoctrination.
If he was indoctrinated, Shep have gone for the option the Reapers wanted him to go for, just like TIM, just like every other person ever indoctrinated.
If he had gone for the destroy option despite being indoctrinated, whichever Reaper was watching over the whole thing could have wiped that hole section out with a swipe of its main weapon before he got near it.
Saying something is this or isn't that at the moment is silly. No one knows for certain except the guys who made the game. Insider information or not, since the last time anyone quoted inside information they were wrong due to supposed "last minute changes."
Of course we don't know right now, but there are lots of little hints for people to speculate. One way or the other I still love the game and I have no hatred or animosity towards Bioware because I was somewhat disappointed in the ending.
In regards to the indoctrination theory, if Shepard chooses synthesis or control he becomes indoctrinated. If he chooses destroy, he is not indoctrinated which is why you see him back on Earth in the rubble taking a breath. This seems to indicate he never was on the Citadel and it was attempted indoctrination.
I've always seen it as the implication being for the control or synthesis ending, Shepard has to give his own life to merge with the Crucible to start the process. Can't become indoctrinated if you're dead.
Though, to be honest, in every ending the Reapers lose. Destroy = they're all destroyed, Synthesis = all synthetics get merged with organics = essentially the Reapers cease to exist, and control = Shepard, or whatever he becomes, gains control over the Reapers, so again they lose.
It'd be kind of silly to indoctrinate the guy then offer him three choices in which they lose every time.
But he is never on the Citadel, the reapers are never destroyed, the destroy option shows this as his body is in the rubble of London after the beam attack from Harbinger. That is why the attempted indoctrination theory does make sense, IF Bioware did it that way.
The reapers are just trying to get you to choose the synthesis or control option because if you do you become indoctrinated with your body still on Earth. If you choose destroy which the reapers are trying to convince you not to do you defeat their attempts at indoctrination. All the while though you are still on Earth, everything is in your mind.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I already wrote two massive posts a few pages back, so anything I say is just going to be me repeating myself, which I hate to do.
As I said, if it turns out to be an indoctrinated delusion I'm not going to complain as long as they can do it well. I have no problem admitting I'm wrong, but until then, I'm sticking by my own interpretation of the ending.
And you call me delusional!
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I already wrote two massive posts a few pages back, so anything I say is just going to be me repeating myself, which I hate to do.
As I said, if it turns out to be an indoctrinated delusion I'm not going to complain as long as they can do it well. I have no problem admitting I'm wrong, but until then, I'm sticking by my own interpretation of the ending.
And you call me delusional!
Yes. Yes I do.