Ok, so I can finally post (took ages to resgister ME3 on here) and vent to someone, as none of my friends have finished the game yet, and I may explode soon. All my fiancée knows is that I spent two days going from crying, denial, numbness, anger, to vague acceptance, and then anger again.
So this is what I wrote to Bioware in an email that sums up how I feel (warning, LOTS of text!):
To Whom This May Concern,
I am not entirely sure who to send this to, so if this is the wrong email, please could you forward it to the appropriate people - maybe the writing and development team?
Mass Effect as a series has blown me away, way, way beyond I would think possible with a game - the characters, plot, location, Shepard him/herself. The writing and development of the series has been that good, that I felt I was actually in that universe, actually being Shepard. Creating a world like that takes great skill, talent, and dedication, and you must obviously listen to your fan base. For Mass Effect 3, the development of the relationship with Garrus and Shepard was beyond amazing, jaw droppingly so. It was like the writers got inside my head and wrote it how I imagined it to be, it was unbelievable. As I played through, I could feel the desperation to succeed, wanting not just to save the Galaxy, but that so Garrus, Liara, Tali, et al could be happy and have a future. I was emotionally invested with them, and it was an amazing experience getting to feel that.
The scene with Thane in the hospital was tragic and touching, and Mordin's last scene sad, but I could handle that, as the way he sang to himself was the way I thought he would have wanted to go. It was like "it is what he would have wanted."
The last moments with the team were the most heartbreaking, well written scenes I have gone through - better than any film I have ever seen, better than any game I have ever played.
Then in the last 10 minutes, it actually felt that that world was being ripped from me. Sounds extreme, but many other fans can vouch for this feeling too. It wasn't so much that we had to make a choice, it was that I personally couldn't believe that there was no middle ground choice (bearing in mind no DLC has been released yet), there was no spark of light at the end of the tunnel. Ignoring what happens to Shepard herself, the outlook for the crew is a horrible realisation, stuck on a planet with no Relays, no ship, no seeming way of getting off.
And that is what hurt the most - the lack of closure. You don't know what happens to them, you wonder how the team members that were with you got to be on the Normandy, you don't get the future you had hoped. I remember thinking back to ME2 and when my Shepard is talking to Liara, and saying I want Garrus to have peace. You don't know if he, or any other player's romantic interest's, get peace. You don't know what happens to any of them, the galaxy, Earth, after the War.
So, even if the future DLC can't give what many of us hope for (a Shepard that survives, who has a happily ever after with their love interest), please, at least give us a proper chance to say goodbye to the characters we love, to hear their thoughts on the way, to just know they have a future, to acknowledge that Shepard is not with them. I think that would do it for me, just a simple talk between characters, rounding everything up. Garrus meeting up with his dad and sister, Tali going back to her home planet finally, Javic making peace with himself, etc.
The final scene just didn't give me closure, and I think that, after the massive build up in the prior scenes, was what was the disappointment was. I didn't get to properly say goodbye to the most amazing trilogy I have ever experienced, which has so much of me put towards it. Emotionally devastating is the only way I can think of expressing it.
So, if you could at least acknowledge this, maybe just reply, put out a statement, post of the forums, anything to give us fans hope.
Still, thank you for the adventure.
Modifié par Mara Shep, 16 mars 2012 - 01:10 .
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