frudi wrote...
Well, I've slept on it, I've thought about it, I've read plenty of comments on it... and I'm left pretty torn about it.
I do appreciate that Bioware went to the trouble of releasing EC, it does improve on a few things and most importantly it does explicitly show that the galaxy recovers, might even end up a better place in the end. The new epilogues are emotionally a lot more satisfying than the original ending, dare I say even uplifting, and I understand that that is enough for a lot of players to be able to overlook the numerous things that are still wrong with the ending. I can't really blame anyone for that, after over three months of anger, pessimism and apathy any gleamer of catharsis and emotional satisfaction is more than welcome.
Day two for me too, and I think my true feelings have settled. I think I'm one of the people who are choosing to overlook the remaining problems. Regarding Mass Effect, I feel like I've been holding my breath for months, waiting to see what really happened. The answers I was given trump the overall wrongness of the ending. I am aware that this is me taking a "White Fang" approach. There was a line in the book that I remember reading as a kid about White Fang perciving not getting a beating as kindness, not knowing what true kindess really was - it was just not getting your skull cracked. In realitly, the overall ending to the series wasn't good, but I will now see it that way because I didn't get another punch in the ****** from Bioware.
Heck, I even felt better after Jessica tweeted the words "nobody starves" so it wasn't going to take much to make me at least content.
frudi wrote...
So where does this all leave me... in a way I've realised that EC actually did bring me a great deal of closure; but it is not closure with regards to Shepard's story, instead it's closure for my relationship with Mass Effect. It's like ME had gone missing back in March and after months of anguish over what had happened to it Bioware have finally called me to tell me they had found the body. Not really the kind of closure I think Bioware were aiming for. The ME franchise is dead to me now, I think I can finally accept that and move on. I'll stick with fanfics and headcanon, but since yesterday I've lost every bit of desire to replay any of the games; even ME3 MP which I really enjoyed before has lost all its appeal. Maybe if they come out with some DLC with good Liara content I might check that out.
Well, maybe I'll get over this and come back to it someday... maybe.
I hope that you are able get over it, because your love of the series is obviously geunine. You've gotten to know the characters, paid close attention to the story, and you're a contributing member of the fanbase. Even your comment about fanfics and determining your own headcannon shows how much you care about these games.
So maybe Bioware didn't call you to tell you they found the body. Maybe they called to tell you that Mass Effect was badly hurt and while it was touch-and-go for a while, it is now in a stable coma. So you should probably go home and rest for now, for your own sake. They will call you if there's any changes.
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Incidentally, until about '09, we did get a lot of the war wounded... but that's switched to Bristol, AFAIK
) and while we get no reunion scene, at least it is implied that it can happen in the destroy ending.
