The Lightspeaker wrote...
Read this blog of mine and you'll feel better. 
So, this was very well written, as I said. It's...taking a bit to process the strength of what you've made me realize, but I want to say
something on this subject. You've covered it so well, I feel a bit at a loss of words though. I would
like to be able to write up one of my really long posts on the subject, but it's hard to add on to what you say.
I will say that, you're right. The trilogy
does manage to evoke very powerful,
real emotions in people, regardless of what they may want or think otherwise. And, for many, it's hard to accept that. I don't
want to say I feel these emotions over a game - you point out that phenomena - yet I
do. It doesn't matter.
I have admitted to being invested in the series. That's not hard. I have never been this invested in a fictional series, game or otherwise. Also not hard to admit - but it's something else entirely to really go as far as you do, and admit to the power of the emotions it can pull out of me, whether or not I really want it to, because there
is that level of shame that goes a long with admitting that a game can do that to you. It's not
supposed to, right? But it does, and that ME can - and even tried to - is why it's such a strong series. Games just never really
try to do what ME did.
This goes back to a post I quoted earlier - about why people get so upset about the endings. The point made in my post was about how the universe, races, and characters feel so
real that you get an honest desire to want to learn more, because it's truly a place you can want to live in, and more than that, can
imagine living in, because it's so well fleshed out you get an idea of how that would be possible. That normal life can happen, even in this fantastic sci fi universe.
But people aren't going to care about that if they are not also so invested in the series that it's causing them to really feel about it, as you say. This is also related to why the ending was a failure - because it torched everything that evoked these
real emotions in people, and so violently and quickly.
The characters and races are so fleshed out, they have their own flaws and react in realistic ways, that they really do seem real, too. They don't just act as one note, shallow gimmick characters like you might see in other fiction. Compare the aliens of ME to the aliens of Star Wars, for example. Liara, especially, is extremely fleshed out and reasonable, without being an over the top stereotype or cliche. So she
would draw out these emotions and connections in people, regardless of what they think or
want to happen.
I'm starting to repeat myself here, I think, so I should probably stop, but it's out of a desire to say something. My thoughts on this aren't collected too well, but man, you're right about a lot, and it's powerful. Just saying.
Modifié par Aristobulus500, 22 avril 2012 - 08:50 .
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