Mass Effect 3 was a perfect game in every single way up until Shepard gets blasted by the Reaper (is it Harbinger?) at the Conduit and enters that weird wounded/dreaming/what-have-you state. While I could accept that weirdness (although I would have preferred fighting through the Citadel with my squad, opening it up and using the Crucible as an anti-Reaper death-beam) what really broke it for me was the Catalyst/Guardian.
I can even accept a rehash of Saren's death-by-dialogue through The Illusive Man and the inevitability of Anderson's death. But not being able to stick it to the kid? Of being forced to take one of three awful options? The Shepard I created would never follow TIM's footsteps or eradicate all friendly synthetics for victory. That left synthesis as the only option, and I found it equally unpalatable for the character whose journey I followed. So I took it anyway. It was nice to see EDI and Joker together at the end, but everything else was just one moment of massive confusion. Why is Joker flying away? Why is Liara (who got blasted with me on Earth) on the planet? Why didn't the destroyed relays kill everything around them (as per the Arrival DLC)?
Before I finished the game I was excited - this was the best game I had ever played. I was going to do my Renegade run and I was even going to stomach my hatred of the Mako and do both Paragon and Renegade complete FemShep runs. But now, all I can ask myself is "what for?" I don't see the point of it anymore - the endings are functionally identical and accomplished through space magic/deus ex machina rather than Shepard's actions, which have been the driving force for Mass Effect since the beginning. The ending left a bitter taste in my mouth that I can't wash out, and unless something is able to do that for me I'm afraid that Mass Effect will be ruined for me. Although the only other BioWare game I've played is KOTOR, I love the company for the amount of choice they let us have. To have that choice obliterated in a single dialogue scene feels against everything the rest of the series stands for - your galaxy, your choices, your fate.
Modifié par ColossusCrusher, 12 mars 2012 - 10:54 .
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