This post will be buried soon. This is still such a hot-button issue. I only just beat the game though.
I'll just throw me voice in the choir of us who loved this game SO much only to see it collapse on itself at the pivotal ending. I don't like the ending. None of them make sense, give closure, or affirm any of my previously pain-staking choices about how I'd help shape this galaxy I've come to love.
So many promises that are impossible to keep, so many beloved friends I've personally doomed by my actions in the ending, so many hopes and dreams crushed, and so much misery brought about.
The ending of the game was not what my Shepard would have done. He would have resisted the demand to conform to only three options. He would have done what he has always done; defied everyone that told him he couldn't do things the way he would want. We got no option for that, no chance to use logic, no option to question and investigate, no resolution to our play style.
I don't know what happened, but in the final moments of the game MY Shepard disappeared and some strange new Shepard I was unfamiliar with showed up and made choices I didn't agree with.
And maybe that'd be fine for ONE ending, but it's insulting to play every game to 100%, buy every DLC, do every mission, get every achievement, buy every tie-in comic and downloadable game, and carefully make my paragon choices, only to get the same bloody ending that any nitwit could get if he rushed through everything and played as a full-on satanic renegade. The same ending at the end. The OPTION to have a meaningful ending was denied to us, and the sad things is, the entire franchise has thrived on giving players those options.
ME3 is one of my favorite games of all time. If it weren't for the ending, it WOULD be my favorite game of all time. It's not, though. It can't even surpass ME1 and ME2. It all boils down to the finale of the game, the last lingering moments the game gives us.
Rather than finishing the game with my friends by my side and fighting for them, I instead have all that I love stripped away from me and replaced with a series of brand new faces I've never seen before, care nothing about, and serve only to muddle and confuse what had been a very clever, epic narrative.
I'm disappointed. Very disappointed. The galaxy is far worse off, and it saddens me to know that no matter what, my Shepard became an active participant in giving nearly the entire galactic civilization a death sentence and crushing their dreams of fighting for and reclaiming their homeworlds and their people's futures. It's not sad, or bittersweet... it's just hollow and empty and frustrating and insulting.
Which, again, is so much worse considering everything up to those final 10 minutes was such a joyous, perfected, emotional experience.
Modifié par Garlador, 24 mars 2012 - 09:13 .