Kaiser Shepard wrote...
I didn't call you a cancer, I merely did so at the collective attitude shared by people unable to tell bad writing from its better equivalent.
On the BSN, my identity is constructed entirely of my words, thoughts, and opinions. By calling my ideas cancerous, you are calling me cancerous. Sorry, bro.
I disagree that happy-ish endings are "bad writing." I'm not a literature major or anything, but I'm a nut for good writing and storytelling, and I frequently analyze everything I watch and read. I'm greatly interested in what tricks a writer might use to manipulate her audience, and I like to investigate what makes a story so good or memorable.
Allowing the player a little wish fulfillment may make hardcore literature critics frown upon the final product, but that segment of the population is so elitist and closed-minded that nothing pleases them unless it follows their specific set of rules. Hell, they can't even agree on what makes a story "good," since so much of it is wrapped in their personal preferences and opinions. However, there are so many other ways to get your audience to care and be moved in your story besides railroading a game about choice and consequence into an unavoidable death. In fact, I'd say unavoidable deaths show
bad writing, since it implies that Bioware has backed off the "choice and consequence" thing they've been pushing and defaulted on non-interactive media's worn-out bag of tricks.
Let's say Legion dies no matter what. Unless it's done
incredibly well, I wouldn't feel grief and sadness; I'd feel angry and cheated, and my experience would be cheapened because the cool guy everyone liked got the axe because ooh drama!
Also, what's so problematic about jokes at someone's expense? I mean, it's not like I'm advocating jokes about terrible diseases or people dying, but there's nothing wrong with the occassional race, gender or sexuality joke, as long as it's within an appropriate context.
It's problematic because it desensitizes people to the plight of others. And it's insulting. I should not have responded how I did, and I'm sorry, but it was a knee-jerk reaction and I didn't catch myself being an ass until after the fact.
On the flipside, what's so problematic about being curteous on the internet? It takes longer to type?
Please clarify?
I think it started with the "gays and people who engage in video game romances are sexually depraved" thing you did. That and you tend to look down on anyone who doesn't share your specific point of view.
It does, like someone said a few pages back: a winner takes all option automatically invalidatea every single "lesser" option.
How is Garrus surviving somehow a more valid ending than Garrus dying, especially if either end was the result of a difficult decision which had gains and losses on each side? And by extension, do you think including a "Reapers win" ending would be pointless since "Reapers lose" is obviously more desirable?
You seem to think that you wouldn't be able to control yourself if you knew you could keep your favorite character from dying. This can be avoided by A.) Bioware taking care not to make any choice obviously superior and to include alternative means of emotional engagement and B.) you not reading strategy guides and spoilers before or during your first run.
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