New epilogue : "we look forward to sharing further adventures with you in the Mass Effect universe"... yeah, suuuuure. Once Casey Hudson has resigned or I get a full refund for ME3 on grounds of
dishonest marketing.
As for more positivity... well, the thing is, that Bioware didn't change anything - which is exactly what they said in the original press release, and many subsequent ones. It does make it clear that not everyone dies, however.
Sure. this is necessary because, without it, you wouldn't have been able to tell whether we'd won or lost without Casey's twitter statements. However, it doesn't change anything for me, and presumably most other people in this thread because we're already assuming the best possible outcome that is consistent with the events shown in the game.
What it doesn't change is that this isn't the end to the series I had wanted - the entire premise "Reapers invade and we beat them" was very bad idea from the start; presumably, they wanted epic space battles for their 3rd person shooter (with RPG elements) and figured out that it would be a good idea to glue the two together with a massive deus-ex-machina weapon to covert Shepard's skills (killing dudes by hiding behind cover) to the task at hand (taking out an armada of superdreadnoughts). It renders everything in ME1 completely irrelevant - we could just have let Sovereign do his thing and have had it out then and there.
Short of a complete rewrite (starting halfway through ME2 for good measure), that's not going to happen. But between the grim tone, inane dialogue (I disagree with half of Shepard's lines, and just want to shout "And how do you know that?" at the other half) and, to be honest, sub-par graphics, I just don't want to play the game any more.
Finally, what's so sad about this is purely due to Bioware's pride. Showing a reunion would, I have to admit, been enough for me to overlook many of these problems. Bioware knows this. Yet, they decided to take a stand on artistic integrity. Well, good luck with that because at the end of the day it's still the consumer's money paying for their mortgages.
Modifié par AlexMBrennan, 26 juin 2012 - 08:41 .
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