"We're at war! No one wants to admit it but ME2 is under attack! One very specific mod maybe all that stands between ME2 and the greatest threat of its entire life!"Pacifien wrote...
This forum makes me sad in that I have to look at just about every thread and there is a surprisingly large number of them that have posters that make reference to the inferiority of ME2 versus their expectations. They criticize me often for constantly steering such topics to the Disappointment With Mass Effect 2 thread because they fail to realize just how pervasive such discussion is. They're only mentioning it in one or two threads, yeah? Only then someone else is also mentioning it in one or two threads. As is someone else. And someone else.
And people who browse through the forum might then think "does everyone dislike this game?" Perhaps it is only six people participating in 18 different threads, making it appear as if 18 different people dislike the game. Or perhaps it is 18 people participating in six different threads, keeping the ongoing discussion of their displeasure going strong for others to note.
Perhaps Mass Effect 2 was akin to the release of The Phantom Menace, where a legion of fans eagerly awaited the followup to their beloved series only to have Jar Jar Binks crush their dreams and hopes. Only a select few are willing to see Jar Jar for the harmless character he is.
It is also said that it easier to find fault than praise. People could very well have enjoyed playing Mass Effect 2, but the longer they ruminate upon their playthrough, the cracks start to show through. You focus on the cracks and start to see the hairline fractures. You put pressure upon it, and it shatters. You could have left it alone, but cracks are ever so distracting the more you look upon them.
What is there to say to the people who'd rather not focus on such disappointments? There are several who participate in the strategy forum. They have their strategy-specific complaints and recommendations for the next game, but overall they are dedicated to the game. Perhaps that fact fuels the argument that Mass Effect 2 was significantly altered from its predecessor to cater to a particular clientele, but that doesn't change the fact that the strategy community was strong for Mass Effect 1 and that liking a game for different reasons than your own somehow makes the people and the game inferior to you.
There are several people who participate in the character discussion forums, devoted to their favorite characters who were introduced in the second game. Is it wrong to enjoy a game so thoroughly simply for the love of a character, a game that was described by its developers as being about the characters? Or perhaps it is wrong because your favorite character was from the previous game and was overshadowed with subpar replacements.
A game is a sum of its parts. How many parts failed you probably dictate your overall impression of the game. I dislike threads that focus on the general nature of the game because those threads are all-encompassing. You could discussing anything and everything in a thread open to generalities. If you create a thread dedicated on the extremely broad topic of "overall story," you can then be incredibly selective in what elements you choose to bring into your argument to prove your point.
For instance, winter is horrible. The temperature is freezing for months on end. The days are short. The winds are biting. Snow turns to grey mush along the roadside. The driving conditions are hazardous. There are no watermelons.
But the holiday lights are bright in the long nights. Snow can glisten when freshly fallen. Children go ice skating. People build snowmen. There is pumpkin pie. Perhaps as a whole, winter is truly inferior to summer. But my point is that winter is a far-reaching concept, and I could pick and choose various elements about the season that put it in a bad light.
As such, I encourage the development of threads with very specific goals in mind. There should not be one thread to discuss all things krogan. Perhaps one thread discusses the genophage. Another discusses the blood rage. Another discusses Clan Weyrloc. Or with Cerberus, it is easy to create one thread just to discuss Cerberus. But there are so many things about this organization that can fuel their own individual threads.
And so we come to ME2 in general. Sure, you could throw every single reason why you didn't like ME2 into one thread. And I will simply close the thread and redirect you to the disappointment with ME2 thread. Why? Because you are speaking in generalities, and that thread is for speaking about the game in generalities. Even if you created a thread simply to discuss ME2's story, you are talking in too broad of terms because ME2 is a game of many stories and one story. Are you discussing the stories of the 12 squadmates? Are you discussing Shepard's story? Are you discussing the story of the Reapers? Are you discussing the story of the Collectors?
So for the people who enjoy Mass Effect 2, I simply advise to avoid threads of generalities. I encourage you to create your own threads. Not just threads to state your enjoyment, but why you enjoyed it. What beliefs of yours did you bring into the story as you played it? What is it about a singing salarian that pleases you so? What is it about Omega's ambience that gives you the feeling you are wandering through Hong Kong?
"The complainers are still out there, if we lose Pacifien, ME2 fans may follow."
"Then see to it that we don't lose Pacfiien"[/i]
We will stop at nothing, even if that means our lives! We will FIGHT FOR ME2!
I think I can count the number of things that I didn't really like on one hand compared whilst the things I loved about it I would need more hands than I actually have to count that number.
I agree with what your saying Pacifien about how it would be good to see more topics about individual likes about the game, although I don't think this topic is too harmful, but then to me it's always nice to see people saying how they enjoy the game considering all the annoying 'negative' topics there are. To some extent you could consider this topic a counter to the fair number of topics where people have ranted about the combat in ME2 because the way I read the topic title, the OP is basically stating that the combat made the game even more awesome than it was even if the combat hadn't been there...
Anyway am now going to create my Team Cerberus topic, because I ain't seen one (though probably not done a thorough search of the other forums).
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