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First I want to say it has been a real pleasure seeing how the ReTakers handled this situation. For the most part, we were concise with our requests and kept it civil and we did get a response from Bioware which is something of note. While, I, and many other don’t believe it is the response we actually wanted, it is something.
To Jessica. We traded a few tweets back and forth and I think I came across as…well…a jerk. It is hard to communicate effectively in 140 characters at a time. I can tell you were short with me and I understand as you were just off a cross country flight and have had a long couple of days so I deserved it. But I also wanted to make a public apology because after some thought and re-reading some tweets, I was jerkish so I am sorry.
Now, to the point. In one of the tweets to Jessica, she mentioned that this decision (the extended cut) was made directly because of fan feedback. I 100% agree. No major corporation is going to do something for nothing. The consumer complained and the company responded. My argument was that sure Bbioware did something but they didn’t actually listen to what we were saying. The buzz words that I keep hearing were “closure” , “clarity”, & “better understanding.” Ummm…that is not at all what we actually wanted.
We want star child and space magic gone. It was a completely new concept introduced at the end of an epic trilogy. The ENTIRE series was about fighting the reapers. MY Shepard didn’t want any of three choices that were presented and it is faulty storytelling to spending 98% of a series to all of a sudden present a new premise during the last 2%.
Not to give Lucas any ideas but it would have been like if all of a sudden an Ewok (or Star Child forbid, Jar Jar) showed up on the Death Star and told Luke “Ok you have three choice. A) Destroy all Force users including all your friends and family
Sacrifice yourself to the force to control all the force users (Because Luke wanted that?) or C) Combine all light and dark force users into one giant shade of meh. Doesn’t make sense and neither did star child’s choices for our story and our Shepards.MY Shepard would not have chosen the Renegade option because he would not kill the geth and EDI after making sure the Geth and Quarian can get along. He would have argued this point with Star Child. He would not rewrite EVERY SINGLE THING’S DNA because a major point in the game was about diversity and forcing the different races to get along. And there is no way he would control all the Reapers since he was fighting TIM the entire game about doing just that. Honestly, my Shepard would have told Star Child to go to hell and then queue Arkis’s alternate ending.
But he was never given that option. If you, Bioware, want to argue that you don’t always get what you want, that is fine. But it is not in character for Shepard to roll over and take whatever Star Child is offering. He (or she) fights to the end.
I won’t go into all the plot holes and other issues with the ending. Other people have said it better and I don’t want this opus to go any farther then it needs too.
Bioware is treating us like we are ignorant and don’t understand what they were trying to convey so it is our fault so they are going to pat on us on the head and say “Here you go you little country bumpkin. Let the adults talk in small words and really slow (like an Elcore) and maybe you will understand this time.”
Bioware – you kept repeating the mantra “we are listening” but I would argue you just heard what you wanted to hear and didn’t actually listen to a word we were saying. I mean, if just “clarifying” space magic and star child was going to be the end result, you could have released the blog post from yesterday a month ago and wouldn’t have had to bother with new DLC since that was pretty much checkmate.
I am sure many people are going to keep “holding the line” and more power to them. I don’t think there is a line to be held anymore. You made you intentions clear. The endings are staying as they are and we are only going to add more information so you can understand them. I am going to go out on a limb and say the majority that we are getting is material that previously cut from the ending with minimal “new” material created.
All this being said, I hope that I am wrong. I loved the Mass Effect Universe. It was a sci-fi universe that was for adults not like Star Wars (*glares at Jar Jar*). It forced me to deal with issues like racism, corruption, homosexuality, death & love. I loved losing myself in the story and replaying ME 1 & 2 over and over. Hell, after Thane’s sacrifice, I wanted to play ME2 again just because I never really used him as a character so I wanted to build that relationship so when I say “that was for Thane you son of a ****” I can REALLY mean it. But after that ending…Not only do I not want to play ME 1, 2 or 3, I don’t want to play video games in general. You killed my hobby. I think you under estimated just how much your game meant to people. You took all hope away. If Shepard can’t save the universe, no one can.
I hope the indoctrination theory is true though after all that has been said, I really doubt it. Maybe you keep saying we are not changing the endings because the real endings haven’t actually happened yet. But again, I really doubt it. Not after what has been publically said. I really hope that the extended cut fixes the issues with the ending but again, I doubt it. You guys, for better or worse, are sticking to your guns with star child and space magic.
I, along with many others, think this is a mistake. You already have our money so there is not much we can do now. But, I know I won’t be buying any DLC. I know I won’t be pre-ordering any more games. I made that mistake with DA2 and didn’t think you could somehow ruin Mass Effect 3. I might buy them used after a few weeks to make sure that you “didn’t pull a Mass Effect 3” or even worse “all the caves and buildings are the same like DA2.” Either way, my undying loyalty toward you company is gone.
Bleh…after all this… I still don’t feel better. All because of some pixels and polygons. Anyway, if you need me or my shepard, we will be hanging out with Miranda is some sketchy apartment watching the universe burn. That Shep got a spoiler alert so he knows it all ends the same. He was lucky. I was not.
Modifié par Aedera, 06 avril 2012 - 01:28 .
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