Esker02 wrote...
I think this is what continues to make this so bizarre and uniquely stunning for people, myself included. ME3, like ME2 and ME before it, was FANTASTIC until the final 10 minutes. It's simply inconceivable that the same people who handled the Krogan and Turians, Mordin, the Geth conflict and Legion, Thane, the LI dialogue, and the like, for the rest of the game, put together what we had handed to us at the very end. How do you come THAT close to making perhaps the greatest trilogy of games ever and then fail at the last second. It's just so confusing. Had ME3 been horrible the whole ride through, it would have been a disaster, yes, but it would have been one that we could understand. "Oh BioWare just isn't who they used to be" ... "Oh look, another DA2" ... "Oh see, add multiplayer and this is what you get" and so on.
But they had all of those tired complaints (of which I was fully prepared to levy against them) PUT TO BED by the time they had me tearing up like a child at Mordin's death scene. I was fully prepared to admit I was wrong, to say that the masters were still the masters. And then they fumbled at the goal line... and I think, perhaps, that hurts in an entirely different way. A way I wasn't expecting, nor have I ever experienced anything quite like.
Exactly how I feel, word by word.
It is so ridiculous that I'm starting to believe they ended the game this way so that people would just focus on hating the endings, praising the rest of the game and then release proper endings, getting rid of all possible complaints at once.
I just don't want to believe that this will be the way we send off the trilogy. And why should it be? At this age of games where DLC is such a common thing. If almost all your players hate the ending, the most profitable thing you can do is to give them a new one. Because we know that they want to sell DLC, I'm sure they want to continue the franchise in one form or another and I just can't see how they can pull people back into the Mass Effect universe with all this hatred for the endings.