One thing I never see UA-camrs taking into account is the fact that FTL comm signals can take decades to travel across the galaxy without the use of the mass relays and we're most likely hearing OLD signals from the Reaper War hitting the galactic fringes long after the fact. This is most likely misdirection from BioWare to keep all but the most hardcore fans guessing. Thank you for noticing and covering this fact.
Nice analysis! A "many worlds interpretation" plot might mean that not only every ending is canon, but that every decision made from every different Shepard is simultaneously canon and non canon, depending on the universe. What you experience is just one of the many possibilities. Maybe there's an universe where the Reapers were defeated early because the Council chose to believe Shepard instead of being obstructive bureaucrats at every turn. That would be kind of funny.
The many worlds interpretation though kind of feels wrong, it means that original Shepard is done and gone in universe where we played original trilogy. This Shepard Liara and folks then go pick it up again from the crash site is no more Shepard than the clone Shepard is in Citadel DLC, that ends up dead. Why not just recover this clone instead, his body is probably in much better shape? Both come from same pile of meat that was recovered, I mean the Citadel clone Shepard, and this speculative interdimensional corpse that would be new Shepard. They are identical twins to real Shepard, but neither of these other Shepards has done anything in Mass Effect 2 and 3. So yeah, we'd have blank slate Shepard, who has no friends, no achievements or relationships after saving the Citadel, no deeper understanding of Reapers, and no galactic hero reputation. Easy character to write on because ME2 and 3 can be ignored from character perspective, only leaving plot history in place. But why stop there either, now that there's this parallel universe, why not have whole game there instead, rewriting the plot completely as well...
@@jarivuorinen3878 Agreed. This is why multiverses are doomed to fail as a narrative conceit. Once everything is possible, nothing matters any more. It's kinda the whole point behind Rick and Morty, y'know
If bioware enable us to transfer mass effect legendary edition savefile toward next game and continue after conclusion we done in me3. That gonna be great as hell
For folks my age Richard Feynman was the guy that gracefully displayed why the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It was quite a traumatic event as I watched it live on tv in my 2nd grade elementary school class. Hmmm. 🤔 Two famous space ships that met violent and shockingly untimely ends 🤔
Just admit it Atharia - you're a part of the writing team and you are undercover using the channel to mess with us 😅 This analysis video makes too much freaking sense to be JUST a fan theory! Can't wait for the ME5 release day when you suddenly go "Psyche, I was one of the writers all along" 😄
We actually need more creative thinking/writing like hers. Where writers, producers, developers put actual effort in creating something, and not just slap classic straight forward, dull, fetch quest galore (khm....Andromeda mission design...khm) "rpg". If they want grinding game put some sense into it, sense of progress and actual payoff.
I'm speechless. This was amazingly well done, it must have required a ton of time and effort to organize and dig through all of this. And after everything that was covered in the video, the final playthrough of the trailer gave me chills as much as the first time I watched it. Hype!
If Shepard wasn't coming back before, he will be now just so he can record a "This is my favorite UA-cam channel on the Internet" voiceover. Amazing video 👏
Voices 4 & 5 are the Kett. It sounds identical to them & even what they say sort of makes sence. "They do match" meaning(the species here match them that turned up in Andromeda) & "Upon an unknown horizon" possibly meaning(they are coming towards our galaxy) which would be an Unknown horizon.
It would also fit the themes surrounding the kett - imperialism and colonialism a la 17th-19th century British. In Andromeda, the angarans were deliberately meant to remind us of Caribbean and Austronesian peoples (the dialects, the climate of their worlds), and the _other_ major British colonization was North America, which had just suffered a major crisis and wasn't in a state to defend itself.
@@adeptdamage3669 No they weren't. Just the dialogue writing was bad. The character of the archon was bad. But the concept of the kett as a villain and species is GOOD. A parasitic species is GREAT, similar in some ways to the reapers. They only exist by converting other species into more kett. Fundamentally horrifying as a species. But can we attribute morality to them? Lot of fantastic philosophical questions at play.
@@miavaughn2393so we’re getting an enemy that converts us into them? We had it with the darkspawn We had it with the reapers We had it with the kett in andromeda
No offense but I really don't think it would be a Shepard from a parallel universe. Because the Shepard we love and want to see again is the Shepard that went through the trilogy with us, the one that faced down the reaper in all 3 games with us, not a different one from another universe. And I think bioware knows that. It wouldn't be smart to revive a Shepard that we have no emotional connection with.
Are you an incarnation of Sherlock? You did an insanely lot of investigation and it's a well put together video with a professional outlook. Awesome work! The N7 Morse code is a cool detail. Those audio snippets are really hard to understand. I have to listen to them a few more times. That's our local cluster? Damn. Mass Effect: Homecoming Some crazy-unhinged-not-to-take-seriously ideas that just popped up in my head during the video: What if in the parallel universe the Jardaan are the Reapers and trying to achieve synthesis by creating the Angara. What if in the parallel universe Liara took Alec's offer (and that's him in the background) and went to Andromeda so never met with Shepard. Also there would be two Liara on the Mudskipper. 😂 The parallel universe's Shepard can feel like cloneShep. In the case of Perfect Destroy there would be two Shepard. But why would they look for the other if they have the original? 🤨 The main storyline have to be the same for everyone. Will they find the otherShep accidentally while investigating the aftermath of the Crucible beam?
Appreciate it, thank you! I did some serious thinking on whether aspects of parallel worlds will be a huge part of the next game's plot, and from what we've seen so far, I don't think it will be. There's enough plot threads from Andromeda to continue the story, IMO. So as of right now, I think the parallel worlds (if it's even a thing) will only be used to get Shepard back for the Synthesis and normal Destroy playthroughs. What we see in the trailer might not apply to all players (like if Perfect Destroy Shep is alive, then Liara wouldn't need to hop to a parallel world to grab a different Shep).
@@paragonseven Yeah, but hopping into a parallel universe (if it's a thing) is quite a big event that can change the world state drastically. Like finding the Prothean ruins on Mars. So IMO it has to happen in every possible playthrough (regardless of Shepard) even if the main plot won't be around it. Also I'm happy to see more Andromeda.
@@dorottyapapp Definitely agree on all playthroughs having parallel worlds, but I'm not sure it's necessary if the writing team makes Perfect Destroy, and Shepard living, valid. Unless the parallel worlds plotline is bigger than we think...
@@paragonseven I aggre that it's not necessarily at all. And everything depends on what BW decided to happen. (Who knows if this will be the main topic of MENext??????) I personally don't want parallel universes or time travel in ME for the sake of narrative problem solving or just to bring Shepard back. (I believe they are creative enough to write themselves out of this mess.) But if they chose this route it should occure "naturally" (that grows out of the game's worldbuilding), based on the Crucible beam's aftereffect, the scourge, black holes, etc. Which means it can happen even if they let Shepard rest in peace or if Perfect Destroy is canon and Shepard is well and alive.
I think the biggest stretch in the video is the Feynman theory. The description says "24 moons", the trailer only shows 2 instead of, say, 9 or more. While it's more important to humanity than most others, the evidency is shaky at best. And regarding the quantum mechanics, what stops Liara from collecting tens, hundreds, thousands of Shepards, if she has an easy access to timeline traversal? What does she need this parallel Alchera Shepard for (or any dead Shepard for that matter if there're worlds with alive ones)? And again, this theory completely disregards the original "omg Shep is alive" moment, so why not show that one instead?
I agree the wrinkles don't mean that Liara has gotten a lot older. When you look at Benezia, Samara, and Aethyta, all of them are matriarchs and they don't have those wrinkles. Also, when doing the crash site mission, you can find your old helmet and you take it back to your cabin. Also, during Project Lazarus, they say that the helmet helped keep his brain intact or something like that. So when Liara found Shepard's body to give to Cerberus, did she leave the helmet? And if she did, you can find the same helmet on Alchera during the memorial mission. With all of that, I find it very hard to believe that that is Shepard's helmet. If it were, it would be on Earth or on the Citadel. The helmet is the most confusing part to me.
The helmet could be a plot hole, or what we can collect from the wreckage of the Normady could be another one, not what s/he wore when s/he died. I bet Shepard kept spare ones in her/his cabin.
Liara getting the body back is in a comic they wrote and in fact Liara grabs the body and brings it to cerberus but she isn't the one to go to the crash site to recover it. Some Shadow Broker operatives did it and Liara manages to "steal" the body before it can be delivered. So who knows what that operative did with the Helmet. If they put Shepard in a sort of cryo stasis to avoid the body decomposing they might have removed the helmet... they might alos have removed it just so the face shows so that there is no doubt on the identity of the body ?
@@JezaGaia Honestly that last one seems most likely. They definitely were riding on a massive pay day there. How dumb would you have to be to not positively ID the body with millions of credits on the line?
Yep. In ME2, Shepard's helmet was pretty beaten, but it was almost fully intact. You'd notice if a piece from the side the helmet was missing. That's a big a$$ detail to leave out or for someone not to notice!
@jsemnikdo2229 They can do that in a blink with DNA scans that can identify "gene mods", let alone ID'ng the guy. I don't think that's going to be an issue.
Don't care what anyone says, I miss Shepard and will accept any possible reason for her return if the overall plot of the game is good Thank you for the video!
I just hope they don't bring him/her back as playable character once again...i'd rather see him/her return as some kind of major support role NPC like Anderson or Hacket, who presence would be felt throughout the entire game, instead of having brief role...but yet not being playable character...
Kill all AI in mass 3 and you see his helmet and chest moving like a deep breath so he’s probably already alive, as for the twins as weak as the game was I’d like to see them finish the story with maybe God AI shep reaching out to them.😂😂😂😂😂
Liara could be on Alchera looking for something else (like an important part from the crashed Normandy) and just happened upon the helmet piece. Just because she picks it up doesn't mean she's there looking for Shepard, so no multiverse is required.
It's one thing to bring him back and it's another to try and make it so, that it wouldn't piss off those fans, that didn't choose destroy ending as their canonical choice...
Honestly Bioware has it's hands full when it comes to figuring it out...they made this kind of mess themselves to start with and now they have to find the way out of it and the thing is x there may not even be a way out...lol
@Cinquan Shepard must not return under any circumstance! Him/her making the ultimate sacrifice is the only fitting end for the epicness of the background story. The Reapers existed for over a billion years, invaded over 20,000 times, destroyed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of species, killed at least quadrillions of individuals....and then Shepard comes along, defeats them and rides off into the sunset like after having a tavern brawl? Ridiculous. Your playthroughs only meant something if Shepard dies in the end of ME3. If Shepard survives the entire scale of what was at scope here is diminished into worthlessness.
@@Cinquan As if that would make any difference. The Bioware of old doesn't exist anymore anyway - there's basically no one left of the old team. If Dragon Age: Dreadwolf turns out to be good then I'll be cautiously optimistic that the next ME game can be good as well. If Dreadwolf is not good....well then there's little hope for ME either.
this video is by far one of the most impressive and convincing yet, especially how you tied everything together at the end with the voices etc.... keep up the great work keeping us invested
And if that is the case then it adds to this parallel world/multiverse theory because some might consider taking a different shepard from their world and plonking them in "our" world as taking things too far, simply travelling to a parallel could also be considered taking it too far given how dangerous it could be.
WOW! That's a hell of an analysis. If you are right, and next game will include Shepard, Liara and Geth... i'm hyped beyond recognition. Gotta watch out not to get overhyped. I still remember the pain after Andromeda release.
I really don't like an idea of multiverse solution, honestly. Recovering a Shepard pre-ME2 just for the sake of recovering him doesn't sits well with me.
Really interesting and well thought out video, as usual. Can see all the work you put into this. You always manage to cheer me up thinking that Shepard will be back. I'm playing again now and seeing lots of little things that are making me think....... Looking forward to your next video 😊
I would've thought the figures in the background of Liara would've been a Salarian and human, yes, but that third a Turian. Body seems slimmer than a Krogan.
You have a really unique breakdown style that really stands out from all the rest, the editing is stellar on top of that, great presentation visually and in the way you kept info tidy and easier to track to make it inclusive to people of all education levels of the franchise as you can for stuff like this. I can really feel the work you and/or your team put into this. Fantastic work. :) Sub earned for sure. Look forward to more schtuff.
Your mind really works on many levels. I live listening to your voice explaining all the Easter eggs. I thought I was a mass effect fanboy but I lay my crown at your feet.
Dont think i agree with all of your theories in your videos but one thing i definitely do know is that you really know how to edit In all your videos, you're really good at using highlighting, clips, and stuff to show/explain. It's akin to something having really high production value, but with time and effoet as opposed to money
Okay I'm going to sandwich this because I did actually really like this video. Your investigative skills are incredible and you've changed the way I think about the next Mass Effect. PLEASE stop saying 100% that annoys the hell out of me, it a theory the whole point is that its speculation I want to cry. Also I really like how you present this stuff, visually and audibly i can tell exactly what you're thinking and your thoughts translate very well. I like all of your videos keep making them you are the best of the Mass Effect community has to offer.
A comprehensive and intriguing breakdown that actually makes sense! I cant imagine how long it must have taken you to find all of these hints and so far this is the only video with no inconsistencies. Fantastic work, you’ve earned a sub!
had a thought that "It beats the heart" could be a link to the lazarus project which initially revives shepherd as well, the "its a match" could also be meaning the blood-type and genetic make up of the newly recovered shepherd which may also be needed to revive him this time as when selecting your class in the ME games you see different genetic makeup structures, blue for soldier as an example.
The more speculation videos I see on the new ME trailers, the more my confusion grows, and with it the hype. The enthusiasm of the community is awesome, and all the different speculations show the creativity and love of the creators of the vids.
I'm skeptical about the planet being Alchera just because of the Sky used for the planet, The Planet of Alchera is located in the Omega Nebula which is in the Terminus Systems on the other side of the Milky Way so there is no way you'd be able to see anything relating to the SOL system from Alchera with the naked eye.
Regardless if it's the Local cluster or not, the same cluster shown on Alchera is in the trailer, so either way, Alchera is still confirmed. Which is the crazy part anyway. :)
this is seriously some quality content - love how methodically you broke down the trailer, while still having the humility to acknowledge parts which still elude you.
15:20 I hear "a hidden probe in there" like someone is picking up a signal from something strange or somewhere strange. 16:06 im hearing "hands off the beacon" like someone is messing with something they dont understand. 16:13 I hear "your doomed now, Jacob" like a character just did something that will get them killed or their talking to themselves.
15:20 I hear “a hidden probe relay”. If not I’m 99% sure it says relay. Could be the use of relays during multiverse/blackhole travel. Possibly explaining how a black hole doesn’t destroy the ship, as you never see a relay’s effect on the structure of the ship. With the relays being crafted from an “all knowing” species (reapers), it could mean that the relay can make the ship not just travel FTL but reduce/nullify the stretching and warping of a black hole.
@@paragonseven No but seriously, your passion is admirable. It seems you're enjoying the process and we're here to enjoy the results, what a deal! And hopefully, the devs got you on their radar too. Oftentimes devs themselves have less lore knowledge than the fans. I've been following Mass Effect content since ME3 came out (12 years already 😮) and your channel has quickly become my favourite since I discovered it through Kala and Mr. Hulthen. Intriguing theories with great attention to details, and some good humor. The Local Cluster part blew my mind! I never noticed. I hope that ME5 gets released finally and you can grow your channel well. But even if not, you have a great potential regardless.
I am mind blown by your video. A lot of things make so much sense, and I remember Michael Gamble replying to someone who was questioning how they would handle a story set in the Milky way with ME 3 three endings, by saying that they found a way to solve it, and the paralel universe theory seems the most likely.
Very impressive trailer analysis! Great job! @ everyone involved. Likely the best ME5 theory video out there so far. Switching (temporarily or permanently) to a parallel universe solves a lot of things, including getting rid of the felt need of some that the thousands of choices they made should be taken over, starting of fresh. Concerning the wormhole part: That's not even necessary: In that parallel universe the Milky Way and Andromeda can be closer together as indicated in the video, so you can travel between them in an acceptable time frame without cryo sleep. (Also helps a lot not being turned into a fine subatomic paste as you would going into a black hole, no matter if its part of a wormhole connection or not at least for those that consider "arriving in one piece" an important success criteria of travel. ;) )
Wow. What a breakdown! Thank you for all the hard work you obviously put into making this analysis video. Was hyped for ME5 before; didn’t think it was possible to get any more hyped for it until watching this analysis. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next one.
Mass Effect holds a special place in my heart. As a gamer, it's one of the first game series that I truly found myself loving more and more. While I still enjoyed Andromeda, the original 3 games is where my love lies the most. Upon seeing that there is a very strong chance... Our Shepard is returning... my excitement for this has gone through the roof and I cannot wait to see more information and clues to come. Thank you for sharing and exploring!
I was trying to find the legal definition of it but there is a term for when so much circumstantial evidence starts to prove or disprove a theory simply on the amount of it pointing in a direction or painting a picture. Just like in this case. You now have me convinced that they will try to find a Sheppard alive or dead in another universe and bring him back here. I’m not sure how, why, or the logistics of it but your theory disproves a lot of my explanations otherwise outside of a lazy writing explanation which doesn’t match the types of people working on mass effect. I’m concerned the 4th voice in the break down might be the new antagonist. I’m almost certain that who ever we face in the next game will likely be a form or variation of synthetic. I was talking with javic in me3 and he said that in his time the synthetic race hacked the people of a planet through implants they had surgically placed within them to increase their ability to handle the climate conditions and fix their planet. Synthetic race was even able to alter their genetics and mines essentially giving the synthetic race brand new genetic bodies that they could change on a DNA level. What if this new enemy has a version of that capability as we saw with the angara in andromeda?
Ahhh good catch on the Javik convo, I'll go check that one out! Blurring the line between synthetics and organics seems like an inevitable plot thread after MEA and SAM, so I'm curious if it'll make an appearance in MENext.
I'm SO beyond happy to see this. The entire reason I launched my channel was to make this detailed trailer breakdown, so thank you for playing Mass Effect and watching this video. :)
I guess I'd also argue that the idea that Liara caresses the N7 helmet piece because she knows WHO the helmet belongs to is something I'm still not sure is a 100% given; it's equally plausible that instead, we see Liara having a very sentimental moment over the helmet insignia because she knew an N7 once that she was fond of. Obviously, we're all just theorycrafting over What Does It Mean, Actually? so who knows, but :D
Very true. I guess the thing that sells me on it being Shep's is because the planet is definitely Alchera. Alchera + N7 insignia....too many coincidences for me. :)
@@paragonseven Sure. I guess what gets me about this from a storyworld standpoint is, like.. I just don't understand is why people in the storyworld would be going through SO much effort to recover Shepard again, or why we'd essentially be rehashing the plot of ME2 again? Like there's so much elaborate theorycrafting for HOW Shepard 2.0 is on Alchera 2.0 for a Recovery 2.0 in the next Mass Effect, and ignoring the discussions on yada yada fan cope and such, like, _why_? This would be an enormous, incredible amount of effort expended to recover Shepard once again. Shepard = Special™. It kinda slides toward the Great Man Theory, and I guess I have to ask, why should the galaxy need to bend around them? Why should they need to be the hero again? What makes Shep so important that the galaxy would place so much effort into reviving them again, other than being a player character? I feel like a lot of people overlook how much of Shepard's accomplishments is because of having strong relationships with people; I don't believe there's anything intrinsically Special TM about Shepard, other than being the right person at the right time and also having the benefit of Player Character Magic TM. And maybe it works out in that we are seeing a scenario where the next game is set shortly after ME3 and all of Shepard's friends and allies are there and waiting. Maybe. But maybe it IS 600 years in the future. Maybe most of Shepard's friends and allies ARE dead. What then? [screams]
@@moiramcbutts I am a 100% with you on this. Not everything is about Shepard. The ME universe is so big with trillions of habitants than to just stop and cry for one person. Shepard became important in her/his time, but the world moves on.
@@dorottyapapp well and I would argue that, despite the narrative of Shepard Special TM and the narrative of Humans Special TM -- the stories of the trilogy and of Andromeda are ultimately about collaboration and teamwork. No one person makes it all happen - it's the work of every person, each in their own little way, that brings it all together. Shepard might have fired the Crucible in the final hour of the war, but who made it possible? The untold millions, billions, trillions of lives that came in previous cycles who researched the Crucible? Liara, who found it in the Mars Archive? The multitude of scientists, engineers, technicians, laborers, etc, who actually built it? The many people who gave their lives escorting the Crucible to the Citadel? The many, many people who fought and died to make sure Shepard got the beam run? And gods knows who else more. But we tend to undersell their contributes, and overstate Shepard's, because Shepard is the main character, the player character, and the power fantasy in the trilogy story.
@@moiramcbutts Agreed. That's why I assume something crazier than the Reapers will be happening, which is why they feel the need to bring Shepard back. Who knows what that crazy thing could be though.
Personally, my explanation is just that either: 1. Shepard had another N7 helmet somewhere on the ship that wasn't recovered because it was destroyed in the crash 2. The helmet that you recovered was battered quite a lot, and therefore this was just chipped off of it sometime during re-entry (hence why it's not with the crash site). Also, I speculate that the krogan is actually Wrex, judging by the armor.
This is some great sleuthing! Feynman is known for path integration in quantum mechanics, sometimes called many paths interpretation. Basically, the path of a particle to its final destination is related to all possible paths to get there. It's a somewhat complicated topic, but the PBS Space Time UA-cam channel has a nice overview: "Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths"
In regards to the five voice lines that were separated, I believe the first is “emitter probe N/A” (N/A meaning not available) instead of “emitted probe in ‘A’” Just my thoughts, but who knows 🤷♂️
Has there ever been a trailer with as many cryptic hints as this one? This seems to me like giving too much credit for just a simple trailer. Regardless, your explanations are convincing and well researched. Great work!
GOOSEBUMPS!!!! Omg you've got me so pumped for this game, I'm even more excited from the fact of how many hidden details are in this trailer, not dumb writers. Let's hope they bring our Shepard back and bring them back doing them justice! Your breakdown is amazing Paragon7, thank you for getting me excited again for something I love so much
Hear me out @Paragon7. My biggest problems with this explanation are for one that Alchera is halfway across the galaxy from Earth so there is NO WAY you gonna see the Local Cluster in the sky like that, but frankly it is detail so maybe just don't refer to this nebula/cluster as LC? But mostly I'm hoping that this explanation is wrong because both backwards time travel and parallel worlds is gonna completely destroy the original Mass Effect lore which was already stretched enough by the Andromeda and do we really want to pay this price for the Shepard's return? I have another idea, what if this teaser is not to be taken literally, what if it's symbolic, acknowledging the many different endings of ME3 and maybe saying they are gonna make it up for the sacrifice of those who chose the non-surviveable endings of ME3? Because the parallel universe Shepard is just as problematic as Shepard clone. It is NOT the Shepard we know in ME2 and 3 and that is a big problem, for all we know (ahem ahem Invincible) parallel Shepard might even be outright evil.
Good video Im in the middle of my second trillogy replay and i finished 2s main story yeasterday and something i noticed during the replay was that even back in Me1 they where setting the seeds for Protheans surviving to the present. So there could defnetley be something to the theory that the Jardaan are Prothean I can totaly see some Protheans getting together and forming their own version of the Andromeda Initiative.
In a few of your videos I've consistently said I don't like or want a multiverse Shepard. But I have to admit that this is a coherent argument for what's been presented in the teasers. One problem with Liara being able to breathe on Alchera is that it seems like the salarian can too. The salerian appear to be un-helmetted to me. Don't know if that's meaningful though. I really hope Bioware doesn't totally butcher wormhole theory by putting black hole to black hole travel in there. For black holes to be traversable the other side needs to be a white hole, not another black hole. Nothing escapes a black hole, not even light, ergo you can't leave a black hole you can only enter. But black hole / white hole connections are hypothesised as briudges between universes "In the case of a black hole possessing an electric charge ψ ** Ώ ** ώ (Reissner-Nordström black hole) or an angular momentum, then the white hole happens to be the "exit door" of a black hole existing in another universe." So if Bioware wants to use "science" it can use black hole-white hole concepts for multiversal travel (for Liara to go to Alchera), but should not use it for quick travel between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
The salarian isn't necessarily unhelmeted - we've seen salarian space helmets, and they're usually shaped like the salarian head shape with visors/goggles that fit the eye shapes, probably to retain their vision.
Eventhough the parallel world explanation is a possibility, i really don't like the idea of leaving our shepard back. Finding some way for our shepard to return would be the best imo.
I don't know how I stumbled into this channel but WOW. What an amazing video. Just trying to comprehend the logic process, investigative skills, research, fact finding, deductive reasoning, and then the immense time and energy spent on this.... sub'd and liked .... jfc parts of my brain are still numb...
13:14 That's the Omega-4 Relay. It's the same relay we jumped into at the end of Mass Effect 2. The system to jump there was in the Hawking Eta system. That's Reaper space, or the space the Reapers go to when they aren't on an extermination mission between civilizations.
Genuine question, but are you a lawyer/ have you considered becoming one? Minus the fact that law school breaks everyone’s spirit and actually being a lawyer is a miserable way to live… you might actually like it lol 😂
Incredible work. Incredible editing. Love it all! But gods I hope that last part about a parallel Shepard is wrong and that the writers dont go there. Way of you to take somebody on such an emotional rollercoaster, haha. 10/10 for presentation and execution.
I hope Shepard is not returning. I feel like it would really take away from the Ultimate Sacrafice in ME3 and honestly BioWare has been so trash recently, I just don't want to see them violate the legacy of the OG trilogy along with Shepard's character.
wow that was something! Especially this period that i count the ray of lights from bioware, are they still capable? Your analysis show a packed with clues trailer... that requires effort and gives substantial hope bioware is alive ( also your effort recording all these wow) Now some thoughts perhaps? Feynman is not exactly quantum mechanics but quantum electrodynamics! He build his own theory much more precise than quantum mechanics and idk if that tell us anything, but i wonder. I see the point that the mass relays could break but whatever interconnection persisted? create space time singularitiies to move among parallel universes? [Be that reason for that purge in helios cluster in Andromeda that was everywhere?] also somehow merge all four possible endings? HOWEVER I HATE TIME TRAVEL OF PARALLEL UNIVERSES - i hate, hate hate this plot device! it feels lazy and cheap and that's why i don't like star trek (except picard). I can see it working for mass effect, but in the name of god , i appreciate time loops when it comes to time travel not uncontrolled random parallel universes that make the timeline you experience irrelevant. I am not sure though about in the end being the tempess crew , could be? but why not grab mordin, from this junction of the universes? someone else could have done it wrong!
Have to admit that Shepard returning is a bad move. Building on the original is OK, but doing another resurrection is lame. So it should be a new N7, or the advancement of the after-reaper story.
Possible... Though, this indicates, that perfect destroy was *not* the canonical ending to ME3, Neither was synthesis.... Which solves the reason why a parallel Shepard is being recovered.... Control was the canonical ending. And given the insane amount of materials and resources required to open a bridge between universes, Something happened with control that requires Shepard to fix. Shepard v Shepard folks (that's chilling); to put the galaxy right. (assuming shepard wasn't recovered by Miranda and the alliance and either healed or restored after Priority Citadel 2) And if that's the case, then this game is designed front to back to revisit the end of me3 and settle once and for all, the correct ending. Which I feel would be superclever, "Oh you didn't like the rgb ending... lets explore the wrong choices.")
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I wonder if game developers ever wander onto channels like this and think “Man, that’s good. I wish we had actually thought of that.”
Actually, yes. Multiple devs have said so publicly, including Bioware!
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@@DBJ468 I’m not denying it but can you show me where they said that I would like to read it, for mind blowing purposes lol
Scott does it regularly with Game Theory.
In my own experience, yes, quite a few of us do this regularly.
One thing I never see UA-camrs taking into account is the fact that FTL comm signals can take decades to travel across the galaxy without the use of the mass relays and we're most likely hearing OLD signals from the Reaper War hitting the galactic fringes long after the fact. This is most likely misdirection from BioWare to keep all but the most hardcore fans guessing. Thank you for noticing and covering this fact.
I can't help but think of the ME:A Ghost Riders trailer.
Wow!! I'm truly speechless, amazing work!
When you showed the visible local cluster on Alchera I started giggling like a 5 year old 😭
That's awesome hahaha that was the response I was looking for! :)
Great investigative work!
Nice analysis! A "many worlds interpretation" plot might mean that not only every ending is canon, but that every decision made from every different Shepard is simultaneously canon and non canon, depending on the universe. What you experience is just one of the many possibilities. Maybe there's an universe where the Reapers were defeated early because the Council chose to believe Shepard instead of being obstructive bureaucrats at every turn. That would be kind of funny.
The many worlds interpretation though kind of feels wrong, it means that original Shepard is done and gone in universe where we played original trilogy. This Shepard Liara and folks then go pick it up again from the crash site is no more Shepard than the clone Shepard is in Citadel DLC, that ends up dead. Why not just recover this clone instead, his body is probably in much better shape? Both come from same pile of meat that was recovered, I mean the Citadel clone Shepard, and this speculative interdimensional corpse that would be new Shepard. They are identical twins to real Shepard, but neither of these other Shepards has done anything in Mass Effect 2 and 3. So yeah, we'd have blank slate Shepard, who has no friends, no achievements or relationships after saving the Citadel, no deeper understanding of Reapers, and no galactic hero reputation. Easy character to write on because ME2 and 3 can be ignored from character perspective, only leaving plot history in place. But why stop there either, now that there's this parallel universe, why not have whole game there instead, rewriting the plot completely as well...
@@jarivuorinen3878 Agreed. This is why multiverses are doomed to fail as a narrative conceit. Once everything is possible, nothing matters any more. It's kinda the whole point behind Rick and Morty, y'know
If bioware enable us to transfer mass effect legendary edition savefile toward next game and continue after conclusion we done in me3. That gonna be great as hell
You know it’s going to be good when there’s a research paper about black holes mentioned in a Mass Effect video
To be fair, going through a Reaper War would age anyone a few centuries.
For folks my age Richard Feynman was the guy that gracefully displayed why the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It was quite a traumatic event as I watched it live on tv in my 2nd grade elementary school class. Hmmm. 🤔 Two famous space ships that met violent and shockingly untimely ends 🤔
Just admit it Atharia - you're a part of the writing team and you are undercover using the channel to mess with us 😅 This analysis video makes too much freaking sense to be JUST a fan theory! Can't wait for the ME5 release day when you suddenly go "Psyche, I was one of the writers all along" 😄
I know exactly what I'll do for April's Fool's day next year... 👀
@@paragonseven Please don't. I couldn't take that.
We actually need more creative thinking/writing like hers. Where writers, producers, developers put actual effort in creating something, and not just slap classic straight forward, dull, fetch quest galore (khm....Andromeda mission design...khm) "rpg". If they want grinding game put some sense into it, sense of progress and actual payoff.
I'm speechless. This was amazingly well done, it must have required a ton of time and effort to organize and dig through all of this. And after everything that was covered in the video, the final playthrough of the trailer gave me chills as much as the first time I watched it. Hype!
If Shepard wasn't coming back before, he will be now just so he can record a "This is my favorite UA-cam channel on the Internet" voiceover. Amazing video 👏
*they since femshep also exists :)
Voices 4 & 5 are the Kett. It sounds identical to them & even what they say sort of makes sence. "They do match" meaning(the species here match them that turned up in Andromeda) & "Upon an unknown horizon" possibly meaning(they are coming towards our galaxy) which would be an Unknown horizon.
It would also fit the themes surrounding the kett - imperialism and colonialism a la 17th-19th century British. In Andromeda, the angarans were deliberately meant to remind us of Caribbean and Austronesian peoples (the dialects, the climate of their worlds), and the _other_ major British colonization was North America, which had just suffered a major crisis and wasn't in a state to defend itself.
The Kett were awful brining them back is a terrible idea.
@@adeptdamage3669 No they weren't. Just the dialogue writing was bad. The character of the archon was bad. But the concept of the kett as a villain and species is GOOD. A parasitic species is GREAT, similar in some ways to the reapers. They only exist by converting other species into more kett. Fundamentally horrifying as a species. But can we attribute morality to them? Lot of fantastic philosophical questions at play.
@@miavaughn2393 They're not. They're just a boring re hash the aftermath of The Reaper has far more narrative potential.
@@miavaughn2393so we’re getting an enemy that converts us into them?
We had it with the darkspawn
We had it with the reapers
We had it with the kett in andromeda
No offense but I really don't think it would be a Shepard from a parallel universe. Because the Shepard we love and want to see again is the Shepard that went through the trilogy with us, the one that faced down the reaper in all 3 games with us, not a different one from another universe. And I think bioware knows that. It wouldn't be smart to revive a Shepard that we have no emotional connection with.
Are you an incarnation of Sherlock? You did an insanely lot of investigation and it's a well put together video with a professional outlook. Awesome work!
The N7 Morse code is a cool detail.
Those audio snippets are really hard to understand. I have to listen to them a few more times.
That's our local cluster? Damn. Mass Effect: Homecoming
Some crazy-unhinged-not-to-take-seriously ideas that just popped up in my head during the video:
What if in the parallel universe the Jardaan are the Reapers and trying to achieve synthesis by creating the Angara.
What if in the parallel universe Liara took Alec's offer (and that's him in the background) and went to Andromeda so never met with Shepard. Also there would be two Liara on the Mudskipper. 😂
The parallel universe's Shepard can feel like cloneShep. In the case of Perfect Destroy there would be two Shepard. But why would they look for the other if they have the original? 🤨 The main storyline have to be the same for everyone. Will they find the otherShep accidentally while investigating the aftermath of the Crucible beam?
Appreciate it, thank you! I did some serious thinking on whether aspects of parallel worlds will be a huge part of the next game's plot, and from what we've seen so far, I don't think it will be. There's enough plot threads from Andromeda to continue the story, IMO.
So as of right now, I think the parallel worlds (if it's even a thing) will only be used to get Shepard back for the Synthesis and normal Destroy playthroughs. What we see in the trailer might not apply to all players (like if Perfect Destroy Shep is alive, then Liara wouldn't need to hop to a parallel world to grab a different Shep).
@@paragonseven Yeah, but hopping into a parallel universe (if it's a thing) is quite a big event that can change the world state drastically. Like finding the Prothean ruins on Mars. So IMO it has to happen in every possible playthrough (regardless of Shepard) even if the main plot won't be around it. Also I'm happy to see more Andromeda.
@@dorottyapapp Definitely agree on all playthroughs having parallel worlds, but I'm not sure it's necessary if the writing team makes Perfect Destroy, and Shepard living, valid. Unless the parallel worlds plotline is bigger than we think...
@@paragonseven I aggre that it's not necessarily at all. And everything depends on what BW decided to happen. (Who knows if this will be the main topic of MENext??????)
I personally don't want parallel universes or time travel in ME for the sake of narrative problem solving or just to bring Shepard back. (I believe they are creative enough to write themselves out of this mess.) But if they chose this route it should occure "naturally" (that grows out of the game's worldbuilding), based on the Crucible beam's aftereffect, the scourge, black holes, etc. Which means it can happen even if they let Shepard rest in peace or if Perfect Destroy is canon and Shepard is well and alive.
I think the biggest stretch in the video is the Feynman theory. The description says "24 moons", the trailer only shows 2 instead of, say, 9 or more. While it's more important to humanity than most others, the evidency is shaky at best. And regarding the quantum mechanics, what stops Liara from collecting tens, hundreds, thousands of Shepards, if she has an easy access to timeline traversal? What does she need this parallel Alchera Shepard for (or any dead Shepard for that matter if there're worlds with alive ones)? And again, this theory completely disregards the original "omg Shep is alive" moment, so why not show that one instead?
I agree the wrinkles don't mean that Liara has gotten a lot older. When you look at Benezia, Samara, and Aethyta, all of them are matriarchs and they don't have those wrinkles. Also, when doing the crash site mission, you can find your old helmet and you take it back to your cabin. Also, during Project Lazarus, they say that the helmet helped keep his brain intact or something like that. So when Liara found Shepard's body to give to Cerberus, did she leave the helmet? And if she did, you can find the same helmet on Alchera during the memorial mission. With all of that, I find it very hard to believe that that is Shepard's helmet. If it were, it would be on Earth or on the Citadel. The helmet is the most confusing part to me.
The helmet could be a plot hole, or what we can collect from the wreckage of the Normady could be another one, not what s/he wore when s/he died. I bet Shepard kept spare ones in her/his cabin.
Liara getting the body back is in a comic they wrote and in fact Liara grabs the body and brings it to cerberus but she isn't the one to go to the crash site to recover it. Some Shadow Broker operatives did it and Liara manages to "steal" the body before it can be delivered.
So who knows what that operative did with the Helmet. If they put Shepard in a sort of cryo stasis to avoid the body decomposing they might have removed the helmet... they might alos have removed it just so the face shows so that there is no doubt on the identity of the body ?
@@JezaGaia Honestly that last one seems most likely. They definitely were riding on a massive pay day there. How dumb would you have to be to not positively ID the body with millions of credits on the line?
Yep. In ME2, Shepard's helmet was pretty beaten, but it was almost fully intact. You'd notice if a piece from the side the helmet was missing.
That's a big a$$ detail to leave out or for someone not to notice!
@jsemnikdo2229
They can do that in a blink with DNA scans that can identify "gene mods", let alone ID'ng the guy.
I don't think that's going to be an issue.
Great video as usual!
There’s not much I wouldn’t do for more Liara and Shepard, so fingers crossed.
Don't care what anyone says, I miss Shepard and will accept any possible reason for her return if the overall plot of the game is good
Thank you for the video!
I just hope they don't bring him/her back as playable character once again...i'd rather see him/her return as some kind of major support role NPC like Anderson or Hacket, who presence would be felt throughout the entire game, instead of having brief role...but yet not being playable character...
Kill all AI in mass 3 and you see his helmet and chest moving like a deep breath so he’s probably already alive, as for the twins as weak as the game was I’d like to see them finish the story with maybe God AI shep reaching out to them.😂😂😂😂😂
@@fox0yeah410 So we would play as Ryder but not, because reaperShep is ASSUMING CONTROL! 😂 A good one! The trilogy's essence in Andromeda's gameplay.
@Summon256 Oh so kind of like Dragon Age 3.
I love how the fact that the andromeda and Milky Way are so incredibly close together and nobody seems to have noticed
I remember a post on Bioware where they were asking where were we traveling to. Then it said something like if they only knew where we were going.
Liara could be on Alchera looking for something else (like an important part from the crashed Normandy) and just happened upon the helmet piece. Just because she picks it up doesn't mean she's there looking for Shepard, so no multiverse is required.
I really do want Shepard to return. If he/she does, then all of my play throughs would have meant something. 😊 And that makes me happy.
It's one thing to bring him back and it's another to try and make it so, that it wouldn't piss off those fans, that didn't choose destroy ending as their canonical choice...
Honestly Bioware has it's hands full when it comes to figuring it out...they made this kind of mess themselves to start with and now they have to find the way out of it and the thing is x there may not even be a way out...lol
@Cinquan Shepard must not return under any circumstance!
Him/her making the ultimate sacrifice is the only fitting end for the epicness of the background story. The Reapers existed for over a billion years, invaded over 20,000 times, destroyed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of species, killed at least quadrillions of individuals....and then Shepard comes along, defeats them and rides off into the sunset like after having a tavern brawl? Ridiculous.
Your playthroughs only meant something if Shepard dies in the end of ME3. If Shepard survives the entire scale of what was at scope here is diminished into worthlessness.
@@HH-hd7nd That’s your opinion, take your opinion to BioWare and talk to them.
@@Cinquan As if that would make any difference. The Bioware of old doesn't exist anymore anyway - there's basically no one left of the old team.
If Dragon Age: Dreadwolf turns out to be good then I'll be cautiously optimistic that the next ME game can be good as well.
If Dreadwolf is not good....well then there's little hope for ME either.
What an incredible analysis video, bravo! 👏I was already pumped for the next chapter but now my anticipation is through the roof!!
Tysm! Join the club, the hype is real!! 😤
this video is by far one of the most impressive and convincing yet, especially how you tied everything together at the end with the voices etc.... keep up the great work keeping us invested
I think voice 3 is a concerned man saying “We’ve gone too far!” Great breakdown, lots of cool details to think about!
Oooh great guess, could totally be it!
And if that is the case then it adds to this parallel world/multiverse theory because some might consider taking a different shepard from their world and plonking them in "our" world as taking things too far, simply travelling to a parallel could also be considered taking it too far given how dangerous it could be.
WOW! That's a hell of an analysis. If you are right, and next game will include Shepard, Liara and Geth... i'm hyped beyond recognition. Gotta watch out not to get overhyped. I still remember the pain after Andromeda release.
I really don't like an idea of multiverse solution, honestly. Recovering a Shepard pre-ME2 just for the sake of recovering him doesn't sits well with me.
Really interesting and well thought out video, as usual. Can see all the work you put into this.
You always manage to cheer me up thinking that Shepard will be back.
I'm playing again now and seeing lots of little things that are making me think.......
Looking forward to your next video 😊
I would've thought the figures in the background of Liara would've been a Salarian and human, yes, but that third a Turian. Body seems slimmer than a Krogan.
You have a really unique breakdown style that really stands out from all the rest, the editing is stellar on top of that, great presentation visually and in the way you kept info tidy and easier to track to make it inclusive to people of all education levels of the franchise as you can for stuff like this. I can really feel the work you and/or your team put into this. Fantastic work. :)
Sub earned for sure. Look forward to more schtuff.
No team, just me! And sometimes my much more artfully talented sister helps with my thumbnails. :) Appreciate the kind words!
@@paragonseven A family business! Beautiful. You're welcome, remember them when times are tough.
So, what I heard was “Anomaly Readings across Geth space” with the “Geth” audio being much lower
You are absolutely magnificent. An incredible analysis. Thank you for the time it has taken you to theorise and share it with us.
Your mind really works on many levels. I live listening to your voice explaining all the Easter eggs. I thought I was a mass effect fanboy but I lay my crown at your feet.
Yes !!I've been waiting for this video, you hyped me on it in a stream so glad it's finally here :D
Dont think i agree with all of your theories in your videos but one thing i definitely do know is that you really know how to edit
In all your videos, you're really good at using highlighting, clips, and stuff to show/explain.
It's akin to something having really high production value, but with time and effoet as opposed to money
Appreciate it, ty. A lot of work went into this one. :)
@paragonseven after this video I went back and watched a lot of your older ones. The quality is so good in all of them
@@callumrobinson33 Glad you enjoyed them! :)
Okay I'm going to sandwich this because I did actually really like this video. Your investigative skills are incredible and you've changed the way I think about the next Mass Effect. PLEASE stop saying 100% that annoys the hell out of me, it a theory the whole point is that its speculation I want to cry. Also I really like how you present this stuff, visually and audibly i can tell exactly what you're thinking and your thoughts translate very well. I like all of your videos keep making them you are the best of the Mass Effect community has to offer.
A comprehensive and intriguing breakdown that actually makes sense! I cant imagine how long it must have taken you to find all of these hints and so far this is the only video with no inconsistencies. Fantastic work, you’ve earned a sub!
had a thought that "It beats the heart" could be a link to the lazarus project which initially revives shepherd as well, the "its a match" could also be meaning the blood-type and genetic make up of the newly recovered shepherd which may also be needed to revive him this time as when selecting your class in the ME games you see different genetic makeup structures, blue for soldier as an example.
The more speculation videos I see on the new ME trailers, the more my confusion grows, and with it the hype. The enthusiasm of the community is awesome, and all the different speculations show the creativity and love of the creators of the vids.
I'm skeptical about the planet being Alchera just because of the Sky used for the planet, The Planet of Alchera is located in the Omega Nebula which is in the Terminus Systems on the other side of the Milky Way so there is no way you'd be able to see anything relating to the SOL system from Alchera with the naked eye.
Regardless if it's the Local cluster or not, the same cluster shown on Alchera is in the trailer, so either way, Alchera is still confirmed. Which is the crazy part anyway. :)
this is seriously some quality content - love how methodically you broke down the trailer, while still having the humility to acknowledge parts which still elude you.
I really hope that if your theory fits that Garrus is also there 🙏🙏🙏 and all the others from our crew 😊
and really amazing work 😊
Wether you are right or not, the research behind your analysis is truly impressive! I really enjoyed listening to you!
Let's hope dragon age doesn't fail so hard that we lose mass effect
This video blew my mind, I'm in tears. Every Mass Effect fan should watch this video.
15:20 I hear "a hidden probe in there" like someone is picking up a signal from something strange or somewhere strange.
16:06 im hearing "hands off the beacon" like someone is messing with something they dont understand.
16:13 I hear "your doomed now, Jacob" like a character just did something that will get them killed or their talking to themselves.
15:20 I hear “a hidden probe relay”. If not I’m 99% sure it says relay. Could be the use of relays during multiverse/blackhole travel. Possibly explaining how a black hole doesn’t destroy the ship, as you never see a relay’s effect on the structure of the ship. With the relays being crafted from an “all knowing” species (reapers), it could mean that the relay can make the ship not just travel FTL but reduce/nullify the stretching and warping of a black hole.
Also @paragonseven
I just jumped in MA fandom and when I watched this video I literally got goosebumps haha. That’s amazing. Thank you!
Mass Effect Universe Sherlock strickes again 🤯
Idk how you're doing this but amazing work as always!
Mass Effect Universe Sherlock is not something I thought I'd be called, but here we are! 😁
@@paragonseven No but seriously, your passion is admirable. It seems you're enjoying the process and we're here to enjoy the results, what a deal! And hopefully, the devs got you on their radar too. Oftentimes devs themselves have less lore knowledge than the fans. I've been following Mass Effect content since ME3 came out (12 years already 😮) and your channel has quickly become my favourite since I discovered it through Kala and Mr. Hulthen. Intriguing theories with great attention to details, and some good humor. The Local Cluster part blew my mind! I never noticed.
I hope that ME5 gets released finally and you can grow your channel well. But even if not, you have a great potential regardless.
@@ChaviChoffChop Thanks for the kind words. 😊
I am mind blown by your video. A lot of things make so much sense, and I remember Michael Gamble replying to someone who was questioning how they would handle a story set in the Milky way with ME 3 three endings, by saying that they found a way to solve it, and the paralel universe theory seems the most likely.
Sounds way too good! Here's for hoping this isn't another fans constructed a better way, again!
Very impressive trailer analysis! Great job! @ everyone involved. Likely the best ME5 theory video out there so far. Switching (temporarily or permanently) to a parallel universe solves a lot of things, including getting rid of the felt need of some that the thousands of choices they made should be taken over, starting of fresh.
Concerning the wormhole part: That's not even necessary: In that parallel universe the Milky Way and Andromeda can be closer together as indicated in the video, so you can travel between them in an acceptable time frame without cryo sleep. (Also helps a lot not being turned into a fine subatomic paste as you would going into a black hole, no matter if its part of a wormhole connection or not at least for those that consider "arriving in one piece" an important success criteria of travel. ;) )
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite trailer breakdown on UA-cam.
I love that analogy! She is one smart cookie and I will be coming again!
Thank you for your take on the new Mass Effect! Kudos!
This is insane amounts of detective work
Wow. What a breakdown! Thank you for all the hard work you obviously put into making this analysis video. Was hyped for ME5 before; didn’t think it was possible to get any more hyped for it until watching this analysis. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next one.
Great work. I'm sold!!!
Wow, amazing and wonderful work, perfectly argumented. This video make me chills and my hype levels are insane 😂
Or that mudskipper crew is also from that parallel world which never left the Milky Way.
Mass Effect holds a special place in my heart. As a gamer, it's one of the first game series that I truly found myself loving more and more. While I still enjoyed Andromeda, the original 3 games is where my love lies the most. Upon seeing that there is a very strong chance... Our Shepard is returning... my excitement for this has gone through the roof and I cannot wait to see more information and clues to come. Thank you for sharing and exploring!
I was trying to find the legal definition of it but there is a term for when so much circumstantial evidence starts to prove or disprove a theory simply on the amount of it pointing in a direction or painting a picture. Just like in this case. You now have me convinced that they will try to find a Sheppard alive or dead in another universe and bring him back here. I’m not sure how, why, or the logistics of it but your theory disproves a lot of my explanations otherwise outside of a lazy writing explanation which doesn’t match the types of people working on mass effect. I’m concerned the 4th voice in the break down might be the new antagonist. I’m almost certain that who ever we face in the next game will likely be a form or variation of synthetic. I was talking with javic in me3 and he said that in his time the synthetic race hacked the people of a planet through implants they had surgically placed within them to increase their ability to handle the climate conditions and fix their planet. Synthetic race was even able to alter their genetics and mines essentially giving the synthetic race brand new genetic bodies that they could change on a DNA level. What if this new enemy has a version of that capability as we saw with the angara in andromeda?
Ahhh good catch on the Javik convo, I'll go check that one out! Blurring the line between synthetics and organics seems like an inevitable plot thread after MEA and SAM, so I'm curious if it'll make an appearance in MENext.
Fantastic Atharia. This analysis is just incredible. Keep on keeping on girl. Love from India. ❤
Hell yeah! Cant wait for Shepards return 😊
I just finished playing this trilogy for the first time, and watching your video on the breakdown on this trailer was everything I needed!
I'm SO beyond happy to see this. The entire reason I launched my channel was to make this detailed trailer breakdown, so thank you for playing Mass Effect and watching this video. :)
I guess I'd also argue that the idea that Liara caresses the N7 helmet piece because she knows WHO the helmet belongs to is something I'm still not sure is a 100% given; it's equally plausible that instead, we see Liara having a very sentimental moment over the helmet insignia because she knew an N7 once that she was fond of. Obviously, we're all just theorycrafting over What Does It Mean, Actually? so who knows, but :D
Very true. I guess the thing that sells me on it being Shep's is because the planet is definitely Alchera. Alchera + N7 insignia....too many coincidences for me. :)
@@paragonseven Sure. I guess what gets me about this from a storyworld standpoint is, like.. I just don't understand is why people in the storyworld would be going through SO much effort to recover Shepard again, or why we'd essentially be rehashing the plot of ME2 again? Like there's so much elaborate theorycrafting for HOW Shepard 2.0 is on Alchera 2.0 for a Recovery 2.0 in the next Mass Effect, and ignoring the discussions on yada yada fan cope and such, like, _why_? This would be an enormous, incredible amount of effort expended to recover Shepard once again. Shepard = Special™. It kinda slides toward the Great Man Theory, and I guess I have to ask, why should the galaxy need to bend around them? Why should they need to be the hero again? What makes Shep so important that the galaxy would place so much effort into reviving them again, other than being a player character? I feel like a lot of people overlook how much of Shepard's accomplishments is because of having strong relationships with people; I don't believe there's anything intrinsically Special TM about Shepard, other than being the right person at the right time and also having the benefit of Player Character Magic TM. And maybe it works out in that we are seeing a scenario where the next game is set shortly after ME3 and all of Shepard's friends and allies are there and waiting. Maybe. But maybe it IS 600 years in the future. Maybe most of Shepard's friends and allies ARE dead. What then?
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@@moiramcbutts I am a 100% with you on this. Not everything is about Shepard. The ME universe is so big with trillions of habitants than to just stop and cry for one person. Shepard became important in her/his time, but the world moves on.
@@dorottyapapp well and I would argue that, despite the narrative of Shepard Special TM and the narrative of Humans Special TM -- the stories of the trilogy and of Andromeda are ultimately about collaboration and teamwork. No one person makes it all happen - it's the work of every person, each in their own little way, that brings it all together. Shepard might have fired the Crucible in the final hour of the war, but who made it possible? The untold millions, billions, trillions of lives that came in previous cycles who researched the Crucible? Liara, who found it in the Mars Archive? The multitude of scientists, engineers, technicians, laborers, etc, who actually built it? The many people who gave their lives escorting the Crucible to the Citadel? The many, many people who fought and died to make sure Shepard got the beam run? And gods knows who else more. But we tend to undersell their contributes, and overstate Shepard's, because Shepard is the main character, the player character, and the power fantasy in the trilogy story.
@@moiramcbutts Agreed. That's why I assume something crazier than the Reapers will be happening, which is why they feel the need to bring Shepard back. Who knows what that crazy thing could be though.
4:20 looks more like a stellar accretion disk.
Edit: Also, a Dyson bubble is shaped like a, well, bubble.
Or a Halo lol
Personally, my explanation is just that either:
1. Shepard had another N7 helmet somewhere on the ship that wasn't recovered because it was destroyed in the crash
2. The helmet that you recovered was battered quite a lot, and therefore this was just chipped off of it sometime during re-entry (hence why it's not with the crash site).
Also, I speculate that the krogan is actually Wrex, judging by the armor.
This is some great sleuthing! Feynman is known for path integration in quantum mechanics, sometimes called many paths interpretation. Basically, the path of a particle to its final destination is related to all possible paths to get there. It's a somewhat complicated topic, but the PBS Space Time UA-cam channel has a nice overview: "Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths"
In regards to the five voice lines that were separated, I believe the first is “emitter probe N/A” (N/A meaning not available) instead of “emitted probe in ‘A’”
Just my thoughts, but who knows 🤷♂️
Has there ever been a trailer with as many cryptic hints as this one? This seems to me like giving too much credit for just a simple trailer.
Regardless, your explanations are convincing and well researched. Great work!
BW really love to hide tiny "insignificant" details that come up later.
GOOSEBUMPS!!!! Omg you've got me so pumped for this game, I'm even more excited from the fact of how many hidden details are in this trailer, not dumb writers. Let's hope they bring our Shepard back and bring them back doing them justice! Your breakdown is amazing Paragon7, thank you for getting me excited again for something I love so much
Hear me out @Paragon7. My biggest problems with this explanation are for one that Alchera is halfway across the galaxy from Earth so there is NO WAY you gonna see the Local Cluster in the sky like that, but frankly it is detail so maybe just don't refer to this nebula/cluster as LC? But mostly I'm hoping that this explanation is wrong because both backwards time travel and parallel worlds is gonna completely destroy the original Mass Effect lore which was already stretched enough by the Andromeda and do we really want to pay this price for the Shepard's return?
I have another idea, what if this teaser is not to be taken literally, what if it's symbolic, acknowledging the many different endings of ME3 and maybe saying they are gonna make it up for the sacrifice of those who chose the non-surviveable endings of ME3? Because the parallel universe Shepard is just as problematic as Shepard clone. It is NOT the Shepard we know in ME2 and 3 and that is a big problem, for all we know (ahem ahem Invincible) parallel Shepard might even be outright evil.
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Jeez, thats so much work to bring this content
If it's true then great, I love my Commander guy being return😊.
bro im shook wth this entire vid prob took ages just incredible stuff
Good video
Im in the middle of my second trillogy replay and i finished 2s main story yeasterday
and something i noticed during the replay was that even back in Me1 they where setting the seeds for Protheans surviving to the present.
So there could defnetley be something to the theory that the Jardaan are Prothean
I can totaly see some Protheans getting together and forming their own version of the Andromeda Initiative.
Not gonna lie, when you made the connection about the local cluster, My mind just....BOOM! Excellent video! - Ash (Zoderus)
In a few of your videos I've consistently said I don't like or want a multiverse Shepard. But I have to admit that this is a coherent argument for what's been presented in the teasers. One problem with Liara being able to breathe on Alchera is that it seems like the salarian can too. The salerian appear to be un-helmetted to me. Don't know if that's meaningful though.
I really hope Bioware doesn't totally butcher wormhole theory by putting black hole to black hole travel in there. For black holes to be traversable the other side needs to be a white hole, not another black hole. Nothing escapes a black hole, not even light, ergo you can't leave a black hole you can only enter. But black hole / white hole connections are hypothesised as briudges between universes "In the case of a black hole possessing an electric charge ψ ** Ώ ** ώ (Reissner-Nordström black hole) or an angular momentum, then the white hole happens to be the "exit door" of a black hole existing in another universe." So if Bioware wants to use "science" it can use black hole-white hole concepts for multiversal travel (for Liara to go to Alchera), but should not use it for quick travel between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
The salarian isn't necessarily unhelmeted - we've seen salarian space helmets, and they're usually shaped like the salarian head shape with visors/goggles that fit the eye shapes, probably to retain their vision.
Eventhough the parallel world explanation is a possibility, i really don't like the idea of leaving our shepard back. Finding some way for our shepard to return would be the best imo.
I don't know how I stumbled into this channel but WOW. What an amazing video. Just trying to comprehend the logic process, investigative skills, research, fact finding, deductive reasoning, and then the immense time and energy spent on this.... sub'd and liked .... jfc parts of my brain are still numb...
I SO don’t want andromeda characters to be back 😵💫 but I’m afraid it’s them next to Mudskipper…
amazing! I love how ME videos are intrinsically loaded with science bits and learnable things
Your channel is so good for news and theories 🙏🏼. Shepard has to be in this new ME
13:14 That's the Omega-4 Relay. It's the same relay we jumped into at the end of Mass Effect 2. The system to jump there was in the Hawking Eta system. That's Reaper space, or the space the Reapers go to when they aren't on an extermination mission between civilizations.
Or it could be the relay from the Arrival dlc that Shepard destroyed in the Arrival DLC
Genuine question, but are you a lawyer/ have you considered becoming one? Minus the fact that law school breaks everyone’s spirit and actually being a lawyer is a miserable way to live… you might actually like it lol 😂
Lmaoo my favourite response thus far. 😂 I'm not a lawyer but I do play a LOT of Ace Attorney! 🤣
Incredible work.
Incredible editing.
Love it all!
But gods I hope that last part about a parallel Shepard is wrong and that the writers dont go there.
Way of you to take somebody on such an emotional rollercoaster, haha.
10/10 for presentation and execution.
I hope Shepard is not returning. I feel like it would really take away from the Ultimate Sacrafice in ME3 and honestly BioWare has been so trash recently, I just don't want to see them violate the legacy of the OG trilogy along with Shepard's character.
As it stands now, shep returning is the only thing that might bring me back to this dead franchise.
Voice 3 sounds more like "we've reached the ark" to me
37 MINUTES??????????????????????????????????????? u the best
This is brilliantly done!! Got me super hyped for the next game (again)! Thank you 💛
I just hope Tali returns and I get to be shepard and build her that house on Rannoch
Wow! What an intelligent and incisive video. You have given me hope that Shepard lives again.
I’m sold!
This was a tremendous effort by you, and demonstrates your passion for Mass Effect. Thank You!
wow that was something! Especially this period that i count the ray of lights from bioware, are they still capable? Your analysis show a packed with clues trailer... that requires effort and gives substantial hope bioware is alive ( also your effort recording all these wow)
Now some thoughts perhaps? Feynman is not exactly quantum mechanics but quantum electrodynamics! He build his own theory much more precise than quantum mechanics and idk if that tell us anything, but i wonder.
I see the point that the mass relays could break but whatever interconnection persisted? create space time singularitiies to move among parallel universes? [Be that reason for that purge in helios cluster in Andromeda that was everywhere?] also somehow merge all four possible endings? HOWEVER I HATE TIME TRAVEL OF PARALLEL UNIVERSES - i hate, hate hate this plot device! it feels lazy and cheap and that's why i don't like star trek (except picard). I can see it working for mass effect, but in the name of god , i appreciate time loops when it comes to time travel not uncontrolled random parallel universes that make the timeline you experience irrelevant.
I am not sure though about in the end being the tempess crew , could be? but why not grab mordin, from this junction of the universes? someone else could have done it wrong!
Good work, you slowly make me accept the alternative universe is going to be used in the next Mass Effect.
Have to admit that Shepard returning is a bad move. Building on the original is OK, but doing another resurrection is lame. So it should be a new N7, or the advancement of the after-reaper story.
Disagree, he wasn’t resurrected btw he’s survived the ending of 3.
The third voice in the Layered Voices section sounds more to me like “We’ve breached the heart”
Watch Dark Matter (2015) Syfy series y'all! Atharia is on point! Fingers crossed 😅
My mind is blown. Thank you for the amazing thought and care you put into this video!
Possible... Though, this indicates, that perfect destroy was *not* the canonical ending to ME3, Neither was synthesis....
Which solves the reason why a parallel Shepard is being recovered....
Control was the canonical ending.
And given the insane amount of materials and resources required to open a bridge between universes, Something happened with control that requires Shepard to fix.
Shepard v Shepard folks (that's chilling); to put the galaxy right. (assuming shepard wasn't recovered by Miranda and the alliance and either healed or restored after Priority Citadel 2)
And if that's the case, then this game is designed front to back to revisit the end of me3 and settle once and for all, the correct ending. Which I feel would be superclever, "Oh you didn't like the rgb ending... lets explore the wrong choices.")