Time is a very limited resource, at least to a human being. There's only so much of it in a day, and only so many days before your time runs out. For better or worse, video games tend to take a long time to finish. One of the most distressing problems that this causes is that it makes discussion difficult. A group of friends can go see a movie together, but a video game simply takes too much time for most people to enjoy simultaneously. Someone will get ahead of the other and be left waiting for the rest to catch up. Personally, this problem has helped instill a love of watching others play video games in me. This way I know everything that's happened, and can talk about it immediately. Discussion flourishes under such conditions, but it can be difficult to set up, especially as we grow older (and thus burdened with more responsibilities).
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Amongst my friends, I tend to lead the front; finishing games months or even years ahead of the others. This gives me a lot of time to analyze my experience, draw conclusions, and generally refine my thoughts on the game in question. Certainly, this has proved true with Mass Effect 3. Of my friends, I'm the only one who even owns it yet. But the internet far outstripped even myself, and I've only recently begun to catch up to the conversation.
My posts last week were written as a way for me to work out my personal feelings on the end of the game. They were a way for me to get the bad taste out of my mouth so that I could enjoy the rest of the otherwise fantastic game. Not taking the time to really analyze my experience, or catch up to the discussion was an error. A mistake. My blunder was not in making my posts, which really did help me deal with my feelings about the end of the game, but in not catching up to the current conversation. My true error was not finding about the Indoctrination Theory until now.
Read on to find more about the Indoctrination Theory and what it has to do with the ending of Mass Effect 3.
