I will tell you that I have been an avid Bioware fan since Mass Effect was first released. To be honest it was Mass Effect that really turned me on to their games and universes as a whole. I can’t say I have followed all of your games like some. Whether that lends credence to this Message or not I leave up ultimately to the reader and his or her own decisions. Just know that the Mass Effect Universe is a place I have spent many hours thinking and devising reasons for why everything exists. I’m an avid believer in everything having a story to tell, big or small, heroic or harrowing. This was something I came to appreciate from the Mass Effect world.
The loving details are what make a Universe whole, not just a sum of its part.
Mass Effect is a fantastic example of not just a character driven story but a world creation as well. We see that in the universes most of all with some of, in my opinion, the most defining Location’s in any Scifi franchise. Namely the Citadel and the Mass Relay’s, When I think Mass Effect, those two are paramount, some of the first images that come to my mind. For me they are as much characters of the Story as Shepard or Garrus. They may not be the most unique in concepts but fantastic in execution, and most especially were given fantastic design.
Bioware, you crafted three fantastic games in a Universe I’ve come to admire and quite frankly, love. So when I say that I think feel like you ended this trilogy in an improper way. I say it with a heavy heart. While I hate to emulate anyone on this forum, I have to tell you that what happened at the end of my Mass Effect 3 left me feeling like I had just been stabbed and left to bleed out on the floor; leaving me completely unmotivated to play the game through again.
It was a fantastic ride, it is a Fantastic game, but its end isn’t bitter sweet. It’s as close to depressing as I have ever seen a game come. The effect it had on me, like I explained as visceral… just not in the way I think you had hoped for.
Mind you I am not a person who minds a bittersweet ending. I don’t want gumdrops and Rainbows in my endings. I don’t want happily ever after. I wasn’t expecting that. This was a War, how many people died, how much civilization was burned because of the Reapers. No, I knew happily ever after wasn’t going to be the end of this game. That said though, all I wanted was resolution to the story, something that let me know that even if the trials ahead were as hard as the events that brought us to that point, that Shepard would have his friends, lover and mates there to back him up. That’s all I really wanted to see.
However my hurt is more than just the way things were left with my Squadmates and the Normandy. I watched the Universe I loved and admired literally be ripped apart in front of my very eyes. Like I said, the Mass Effect Universe is more than the sum of its Parts, but there are things that tied me to the world you crafted as much as any character. For two of the three endings I watched as the Citadel, a place that in my opinion is one of the most awe inspiring locations in Sci-fiction was ripped apart along with every Mass Relay in the known universe. Only one ending leaves the Citadel intact, but leaves my Shepard gone. Then combine that with obtuse nature of what happened with the Squadmate’s I fought valiantly with side by side and did everything I could to protect… and well, I am left with a hollow feeling were my hope had once been.
Before that point Bioware I would have thrown my money at you to create an MMO, set in the Mass Effect universe. I love DLC, and new addition anything that continues the expansion of my knowlage of the Mass Effect World. Now however I have little desire to set foot in your Universe. Almost everything I had come to know and Love about the Mass Effect Universe is gone.
I understand that this war was supposed to be costly to everyone, but for me Bioware this was too much.
I love your games Bioware, I love your stories and you’re Universes. I will never forget them, however what you did to the Mass Effect Universe was more then I can take. I’m not foolish enough to believe that my words will sway you one way or the other, or that you will even read this. I won’t tell you Mass Effect 3 is a horrible game, because it wasn’t. I won’t even say I will never buy one of your games again, because that simply won’t be the case.
However I will tell you that you may have irrevocably damaged my view of the Mass Effect Universe, and the hope that resided in me for it.
Rest in peace Citadel, and all those that died in this War. You will be missed. More then you know.
-The former Sean Shepard of SSV Normandy.
Modifié par Daithin, 10 mars 2012 - 11:09 .
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