SE JN wrote...
You know, the more I think about it, the angrier and more anxious become.
With my canon Shep, he saw his parents killed by Batarian slavers at 16, only for his little sister to die aboard their vessel before being rescued. But he held his sh*t together when he became the hero of the Skylian Blitz. And then he became a Spectre, lost a friend on Virmire, made a bunch of hard choices, but stayed strong. Fell in love with an Asari scientist, came back from the dead after saving the galaxy, and is personally responsible for the deaths (either in self defense, making command choices or accidentally in Arrival) of, what, say a million lives? And then, THEN he keeps going, having overthrown the Shadow Broker, stopped a crazy VI interface experiment, and all this, and then he WILL save the Earth, but... what? No silver lining? The person he loves, and the people he cares about are stranded Walters-knows-where? Why?
Why is it that this game, which is DESIGNED to be based on OUR CHOICE, my character, who has gone through hell and back, then eff it, WENT BACK AGAIN, can't at least end up with his love? Forced drama?
And look, I know people keep saying "Wait till it's out," but I'll point out this; Everytime there has been an issue like this, it has ALWAYS proven true when Bioware didn't step in to explain. PS3 for ME2. Multiplayer. Was it Feb 1st, last year, for the DA2 inserts? At this point, Bioware has lost my trust, and is damned close to losing my respect. This from a guy who has a Mass Effect 2 wallet, and fist bumps everyone when they buy ME1 or 2. Seriously, I don't need this grimdark crap from my favorite (once favorite?) IP. It is beyond me why they thought THIS was a good idea.
Its things like this that bring me to 2 conclusions
1) bioware threw us under the bus for the easy meal ticket that is CoD fans
2) they're finding creative as hell ways to leake false information so we think the endings suck so they're safer about the actual stuff (with EA's funding I'll bet it could work)