Are you seeing this Bioware?
Long rant (forgive me if my rants are full of errors and in need of better lines editing, it's late):
What's with the ending?
Apparently Dragon age 2 wasn't enough of a wake up call? Poor RPG franchise downsized to something "mass consumers" and shafting your loyal fans...
And now we have 1 ENDING. I SAY ONE. Yes bioware, ONE.
Shephard always dies/seperated from allies or something similar. You want to have this ending? Sure, just make sure you have a backup happy ending. Why? Because gamers tend to smile on happy, sappy, make your heart tickle ending for big damn frigging heroes. We played as the first person, not a third person gamer.
What do I mean?
Take for example, Final Fantasy 10, a game that has a so called bittersweet ending, that xxx spoiler immortalized such a remarkable love story. For this genre, a bittersweet ending is acceptable, because we are reading it as a THIRD person story. We have no control and no investment as much as a first person RPG. All of us are heading into a direction that we have not much of an idea of what's going to happen, and we accept every line and sinker.
Mass Effect transited more and more to an area where it seem to mash between 1st person and 3rd person, making it ridiculously stupid. The so called big AAA title is out of control, people. I'm pretty sure there's many writers on the Mass Effect ship, but none of them seem to understand the mindset of gamers, or developing a certain way that embraces creativity.
You are treating us like young kids by slapping us some ****ty "bittersweet ending" and "because it's a war, duh." ending.
What. Is. This.
I also know of the "secret" ending but still wrong answer, Bioware. As you have gathered by now, people in your forums want a strong resolution of a better, happier, warmer ending for Shephard. Removing the "epic" battles between the reapers and focusing on a stronger ending will have a better lasting experience, mainly because your titles have ME 1 and ME 2 to back it up. It's already a blockbuster, but your ending turned the experience into garbage.
There's also the part where even the ending sounds illogical. The created shall always rebel against the creator, but are you sure that's 100% all the time?. That's like parents having a kid. Does your kid always disobey you, all the time?
Chaos, order, your kids start to murder your parents blah blah blah....the writer who came up with this idea needs to go back to writing school. This is so of the lulz that it turned everything into a joke. A massive and disappointing joke.
Oh. My. God. Bioware. (please note using God's name, is merely of a shocked/surprised expression, not calling anyone's God or to that effect)
There's so much wrong in Mass Effect 3, even more than the good. Sigh.
Pros
- Good cinematic
- Good flow of action
- Some good grey areas.
- Interesting array of weapons and quite a lot of rewards to be found for doing side quests.
Cons
- Ending sucked big time.
- Shift of genre. ME 3 tries to increase Shephards thoughts and even had a "cinematic action" game system where all the decisions are made. RPG fans are effectively shafted in some sense. FPS fans might be happy with this (hint: Mass console downgrade)
- Fetch quests, here and there.
- Intrusive Origin system, War assets, multiplayer.
- DLC day 1 content.
Eyebrow raising moments (remember I skip most plot points, so it might be inaccurate)
- Male Dude: My husband died, shephard. *sob*.
Look, I have no issues with a male gay shephard, heck I even cheer on it a fair bit, but suddenly romancing a married dude whose husband died kinda jumps the gun a fair bit. Makes it even touchier when a war's happening and all the warning flags suddenly pop out like this... And if I am not wrong, I actually remember hearing through the grapevine by one of the crew on board, saying this crew has an issue, and WOAH, this issue is huge.
Somehow the idea romancing a guy whose spouse just died isn't... romantic. Very. Much. So.
- The sudden usage of Call of Duty moments. You know... I'm reminded of call of duty 4... also reminded of max payne 2 dream sequences... The entire series never had this, and it was not a good way to introduce it in ME 3, makes it a little too much artistic shift.
- Generally the DLC and Origin checks every time. The fans are unhappy, Bioware. Fix it.
- Characters dying here and there. Left and right. Up and down. The so called heartstring pulls fail here, mainly because it has been 2 years since ME2. I wasn't remember Mordin very well, Legion somewhat (knowing the fact that Legion can attack Shephard with specific choices was not good. I thought that machine like him a lot.). More died along the way, etc...
- The cinematic Kalros (sp?) fighting Reaper was very, very cool. But I still prefer the *better ending please* statement.
Final score for ME 3:
7.5/10
Modifié par SilentWolfie, 11 mars 2012 - 06:07 .
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