The Mass Effect series truly set Bioware in the video game industries for good.
Baldur's gate series and neverwinter night was good, but not enough for Bioware to become that big.
The whole advertisement around Mass Effect series was the choice of the first and second would had huge impacts in the third. The story, the strongest point of Bioware, so they say, was their selling point.
The thing that is illogical here is how little the choice truly affect Mass effect 3. Most of the choices from the first two game have little impacts, because how similar the ending are. The true problem is with the citadel part and after. The illusive man encounter was good with the number of option you could get, but again his whole story lead only to one point.
For exemple, there's is no ending where the illusive man truly win. He had a gun, two wounded man, controlled their though, and still didn't manage to win so close to his goals.
Other points in the story lead to the same conclusion. What about the geth ? What about the xenophage? What are the repercution of those action on the long term, good or bad? We only do the action, but don't see how they come out.
All our choices ended in the same way, in a rushed ending where we barely see what happen, there is no conclusion, just some thin hint. Why? Was it rushed? Did the storytellers suffered from burn out? Depression?
This is why I say that on a bussiness stand of view the conclusion of the mass effect serie seem illogical. They sold this game with how much effect your choice change the galaxie forever. I fail to see that in the ending. It doesn't take long to realise a lot of the fan base feel betrayed because of this. Read the story forum, almost 80% of the thread are on the ending. They do not write because of the poor ending, they write because they feel betrayed. They bought not one but three products, wich the first two advertised themself for the third. And it really didn't delivered what was promised.
So my advise, Bioware have to remake the endings and give it for free. From a monetary point of view you would gain a lot more than leaving like this. Think how many costumers for your next products you lost just because of this 0.2% of the game that was poorely made. But that 0.01% from the whole serie was more important than 99.99% of the content.
Thank you for reading this.
PS: Sorry for my english, my main language is french.
Modifié par Darktifo, 10 mars 2012 - 10:10 .
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