g_bassi13 wrote...
Okay, I have a question to pose. Why do I keep hearing arguments about the ending of the game posing an "impossible choice", or the "illusion of choice"? I mean, I get why people would cite this as a reason they like the ending, because there's a weird sort of emo, hopeless, artfulness to it (and some people are weird like that). What I don't get is why they cite this as a reason that we should all shut up with the complaining and accept the endings too. I could list a dozen reasons myself as to why I think it is so blatantly wrong, but I thought it better to see what points you guys have.
I personally prefer tragedies and in no way consider myself emo. I also love having to make tough choices in any game that makes me stop and think about things. Fable 2 being a fairly good example of such.
Revive innocents
Revive your family
Get rich.
I admit I would have exchanged the get rich choice with "Immortality" or "Power" or something that I wouldn't have been able to get outside of that choice (because lets face it by the time you got to that point in the game you were already a rich property owner anyway)
It actually made me pause and think for the first two options. I wanted for Sparrow to be happy and have the family back. But I also knew it was completely selfish to just revive the people important to me when thousands or millions had died building the spire.
I had to make a choice that really put me on the spot, so to speak, and I enjoyed it.
Mass effect 3's ending on the other hand has you make a difficult choice, not because you have to morally choose weather to be selfish or sacrificing, but because all three slices of life genuinely SUCK
Option one, control Reapers and Die (how that works I have no idea) but it boils down to you die and you'll never be able to see the people you worked so hard to save again.
Option two, Synthesis and you die. Again. For your character personally, this is just a **** choice. After all your hard work you die with very little catharsis or a feeling of "right" involved.
Option three, kill the reapers, die and kill EDI and Geth as well.
So essentially its Die die die, with a slight variation on what happens afterwards.
Furthermore the events AFTER the game are left so ambiguous that whatever feeling of satisfaction you COULD have gotten out of knowing what came out of your sacrifice simply doesnt exist. Because all your knowledge after Shepard's death just cuts off. BOOM gone. So you literally know nothing of the events after your death. Which is fine in real life but in storytelling as we've seen doesn't exactly work for an audience member who wants to KNOW. Not have it be left up to "speculation for everyone" because then it just forces you to take what bare minimum you know and draw your own conclusions. And considering that everything blew up, also leaves it pretty bleak.
Essentially what I'm getting at is that Tragedy, or Bleak endings need to have a silver lining to work. They NEED to have that faint ray of hope cutting through the darkness so that people can be satisfied that "life will go on" so to speak, if not for the protagonist then at least for the side characters.
Mass effect 3 fails in that regard completely. And the people who say that the endings are fine as is because of how "dark" it is, really don't know literature very well, don't know the ME lore very well and imo are just trying to make themselves feel smart.
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