Honestly ADlegend I think that motivation is kind of pushing it, granted I get sick of the self righteous way some Garrus and Tali fans shove in our faces the fact that their favorite characters returned and ours didn't hence their's are just 'better' but frankly I think we should take the high ground and not stoop to that level.
Besides which I really hate to have to say this but Horizon WAS a mistake on the VS's part, they didn't have to come with but they could have done a better job listening, not that Shepard did a great job explaining but all the same, not great.
Thing is I LOVE Ashley in Mass Effect and while Horizon wasn't enough to qualify as a dealbreaker I have to accept the fact that it was a resoundingly negative thing, not nearly enough to make my Shepard give up on Ash but a negative thing regardless.
I can like something while also criticising it, it shouldn't have to be all or nothing.
All this kind of stuff does is just make us on the same level of immaturity and obnoxiousness as the people who brag about Gali's inclusion into Mass Effect 2 and really we should be better then that. I don't like that I have to consider myself 'against' Garrus and Tali. I LIKE Garrus and Tali, more Garrus though, and I don't see why I can't praise them for coming with me while at the same time being forgiving of Ashley for her reaction on Horizon?
Why does it have to be muturally exclusive like this? Why can't I have it both ways?
Why can I not support Team Dextro without having to condemn Team VS and why do I as a member of Team VS have to be resentful of some of my favorite characters? Yes the fans can be obnoxious but two wrongs don't make a right.
I'm just so sick of the
fighting, so bloody sick of it... I remember there was a time not so long ago when we were all
friendly towards each other. I could stop by and give a friendly bump to the Garrus thread and they would give the Ashley thread one back, I remember just after the release of Lair of the Shadow Broker lots of Liara fans dropped by expressing hope that we of the VS group would get similar treatment.
I could drop a post supporting Jack and could support both her and Ashley without having to pick between them. What the hell happened to those days?
Nowadays if an outsider makes a post on our thread it's usually an attempt to incite or just outright trolling. And if someone supports Garrus and Tali they HAVE to drop a line insulting us and in turn we have to adapt an all or nothing hatred towards those two characters and their entire respective fanbases. We've even started alienating our friends with this kind of attitude.
Ashley fans and Kaidan fans have managed to stay tightly packed together all this time because ever since Virmire the characters have been stuck in the same situation, on the same boat as it were. Well come Mass Effect 3, we are
all in that same boat,
everyone is wondering who will live or die,
everyone is concerned about how their LI's are going to be resolved and
everyone is wondering about the ending of the game.
Who cares about the past and petty squabbles like this? We are now all part of the same bloody club with the same basic hopes and dreams for our version of Mass Effect 3, so I guess my big question is this:
Why the Hell can we not just get along?
ADlegend understand that I mean no offence to you directly, I understand that you made that post as a sort of retaliation towards all the crap that's been pushed in our faces by the Taliarrus fanbase(s) respectively. Most of that post I made wasn't even directed at YOU as much as it is this entire situation, so please do not interpret this as a personal attack, because I do not mean it to be so.
I just think it's time to take the high road and not stoop to the haters and the troll's levels. Maybe if we do take the moral high ground and just accept the fact that no one should need to get into fights like this, others might join in. At the risk of sounding like a hippy, throwing back insults like this only widens the gap between fanbases, a gap that ought to be closed.
A united fanbase is a good fanbase, I think there can still exist debates on the boards of course but this whole 'my character is better then yours' macho BS has got to stop.
I'm sick of the widening of the gap.
Modifié par V-rex, 28 octobre 2011 - 10:46 .
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