Pr3ying M4nt15 360 wrote...
Karrie788 wrote...
Pr3ying M4nt15 360 wrote...
Karrie788 wrote...
I'm picking red. And making sure Shepard dies in the process. No way she would want to live forever alone anyway.
I never thought I'd be so upset about this. I need hugs.
Gives you a hug. Yeah I know the feeling. They went too far :/
Thank you.
I'm still trying to understand how they could possibly think we would feel happy and rewarded with those endings.
Yeah that's the part I'm struggling to understand. Apparently Mac Walters has a very different idea of what satisfying and rewarding is to what we do. Call me old fashioned but I'd have been fine with a reasonably happy Bioware ending with varying degrees of success based on your choices. Too much time invested in the story for it to end like this.
Bad Hollywood cliffhanger for future MMOs... They think they are smart

. Probably CEOs forced them for these endings. Because the original leak allowed you to save the relays or so they say...
They are to make money not to make fans happy.
Dumb endings won't prevent this game to sell well.
And only journey matters because for mainstream players gameplay matters and plot does not matter.
Walters says otherwise it would be a player choice based customized ending. He deliberately prevented that he says, for better drama, creativity, action, tension he implies. But it should be a customized ending for each player. That is the point. It is not that hard either. If you do everything right you should have a happy ending, if you do wrong you get these unsatisfying endings ala ME2. Customized endings are not mililons of different scenarios that Bioware could not integrate.
In Star Trek 2 they tried to kill Spock. When Nimoy leaked the script Spock returned. These dumb endings are the usual Hollywood crap. Since video game industry is corrupt I am not amazed.
Bioware prorably thinks that bad overdrama is justified because outrage and surprise will also atract people.
At the end we can be sure of one thing. They thought that this game would sell well anyway and these endings would ensure other spinn-offs to sell well.
It is a company what did you expect really? What about if they anger fans? New fans will come, young people will come, we get older. We won't be the main demographic. Young people are impressed easily with the new fancy (!) they will spew (next games I mean).
Consider did poor quality Star Wars prequels destroyed Star Wars franchise or did dumb Jar-Jar made Star Wars to sell more?
We can say we are all mature and sophisticated people but at the end whatever the Mature rating says games mainly sell to children and children usually don't care about the endings, only gameplay. They aim mainstream first. Mainstream is FPS guys. The rest is embellishement to try to keep at least some RPG fans to maximize profit. We are a side note.
Modifié par Ksandor, 02 mars 2012 - 08:37 .