Sunnie22 wrote...
TMA LIVE wrote...
Sunnie22 wrote...
TMA LIVE wrote...
What I'm saying is that if given a choice, you're not going to get anyone killed. It doesn't matter if they're optional, you're going to save the people that are closest to you unless you actually do want them to die. Like with the Suicide Mission.
What is so bad about giving players a choice? Is it so obscene for you to think that anyone would want things happier than you do?
I sense a lot of entitlement with your comments over the last couple weeks, especially when it comes to options people want that you clearly don't agree with. You got things your way already, yet you make eluding negative comments directed at anyone who wants it to end on a higher note. Is it really necessary, does it "really" cheapen your enjoyment of doom and gloom if teh option for a lighter end is available?
Well, it's a debate between do you want everything being a choice, or do you want the story Bioware wants to tell? Example, a movie has a certain ending, whether you like it or not. It's what the director or writer wanted for the experience. And though games are different in that we can personalize the experience with choices, we're still going down the path of what the creator's want. Not what we want. I guess it depends on what do you believe. Should everything be optional, or should we get the intended experience.
Except this is not a movie where the consumer has little or no investment when it's made. This is a long term series where the player has a significant investment of both time and money. Once you cross that investment threshold, comparing these games to a movie rather short sighted. When a company creates a "for profit" product, it's wise for that company to make try to make the majority of it's consumers happy. This isn't about art or artistic integrity, it's about a product that is offered as a commodity (yes it is an accurate term to use), a way to make a profit.
Again, why are YOU so against a choice for a different lighter and happier ending, even if it does not change the end you prefer that is already there? Are you so selfish that you think it's OK to get what you want and nobody else? Really?
It can be compared to movies, or even a TV series. People have invested in Lord of the Rings, or the Matrix, or Star Wars. Yes, we make choices to personalize the experience, but we still became Spectres because that's what the creators wanted us to do. We still joined Cerberus because that's what the creators wanted. Not us. We still interact with Liara, even though there's people that clearly didn't want that. We still got crap from the VS, even though some wanted them to make up, and join the Normandy in ME2. At the end of the day, even though we can personalize the experience, we're stuck going down the same path that was laid out. Including the endings. And the series is going to do where Bioware wants it to go. And whatever alternate choices we've been given in the past, we still only picked the choices they gave. The choices they wanted to give. And if this is how they want to end it, then that's their choice, since it's their product. It's your choice to buy it or not, and recommend it, or not recommend it. Or think it's broken. But if they want to fix it, it should be their choice, including how it's done. At least that's what I believe.
I'm only against a happy ending, where everyone, including the Geth and Shepard are alive, because I think it cheapens everything else. It makes everything that happened before in the past the way it was, because they didn't have a hero to make all the right choices. That that's what it all comes down to. Picking "right" choices. Because what isn't right gets you bad results.
Now on Shepard lives: the other thing I don't like is what people are willing to do the get that "Shepard Lives" ending. I really don't like that it's attached to killing the Geth. Not because you killed the Geth, but because a lot of people are probably picking that choice, because it equals Shepard living. Which I've actually seen. People changed their minds, and committed possible genocide, just because Shepard lives. And that because he lives, this is somehow the "right" ending. Not because they thought that was better choice of the three if Shepard's life wasn't apart of the deal. Even people used the Indoctrination Theory as a way to say that was the "right" choice, and others were Bioware tricking you. Which is a concept I don't like at all.
But enough of the ending. That's just my thoughts.
But that's just my opinion.
Modifié par TMA LIVE, 08 avril 2012 - 11:37 .
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