It's not going to be flamed, at least not by me. I actually like different opinions because they make us think and rethink, in turn creating better ideas and logic.LordHuffnPuff wrote...
Reptilian Rob wrote...
I don't think you truly ever "grapsed" what a lot of people did within Mass Effect, what the majority did. It's not about what we want, it's about what Mass Effect deserves.LordHuffnPuff wrote...
Honestly, I would contest, that if you liked the endings, perhaps you never got it.
This is sort of a slap in the face. Just saying.
In fact, I would posit that the majority of people who play[ed] Mass Effect 3 were perfectly happy with the resolution, and that there is a very loud vocal minority that have taken to the internet to complain. When your game is selling millions of copies and only a few thousand people actively express disappointment, those thousands are not a very strong presence regardless of how loudly they yell. I would be curious to know how many of my supposed silent majority are looking at these boards going down in metaphorical flames and thinking of posters, in the words of another science fiction captain, "What a whiner."
The silent, are the minortiy for a reason.
I actually edited my post a bit while you were typing this, you can go back and check the differences. I think it applies here as well. To claim that a person didn't "grasp" Mass Effect simply because he or she did not have the seemingly earth-shattering problems that what I maintain is a vocal minority (and which if you compare the number of posters complaining to the total sales figures, you will see this is borne out -- any arguments to the contrary must ignore the hard facts that millions are greater than thousands*) had is presumptuous. I understand, you love Mass Effect. It is a series that you have sunk literally thousands of dollars worth of your own money into, if your claims of purchasing all of the merchandice are true. You feel betrayed. There is nothing wrong with that. The problem is when people start launching personal attacks on others for having a differing opinion. Saying "I disagree with you for liking [or even just not disliking] the ending, and this is what I think" is a fair and decent way to agree to disagree. Good, constructive discussion can come out of that. Saying "you just don't get it" is reductive and nonproductive.
To address your specific argument about what people want vs. what Mass Effect deserves, I find this concept a bit hard to swallow. The entire franchise is a media object produced solely for the consumption of the consumer. You can make highflown arguments about creative expression or the purpose of art, but when it comes down to it, nothing is art without a person to observe it. Thus Mass Effect does not inherently deserve anything; people want Mass Effect to resolve a certain way, or at the very least not resolve the way it did. As a result, it is entirely about what people want. When a product of culture which has reached the level of popularity that Mass Effect has reached ends, there are always people who grab their torches and pitchforks due to dissatisfaction over the conclusion. If you are currently in college, you may recall the level of outrage leveled at the Seinfeld finale, not to mention the Sopranos which has already been discussed in prior posts. The same old saws are brought out about bad writing, how this moment has ruined everything prior to it, &c. Yet in the long term, even the poorest endings don't damage the overall product as a cultural artifact. It lives or dies on its own merits. Seinfeld is still running in reruns.
I am sure this post will get flamed or
simply lost in the sea of bile that currently comprises these forums,
but this is the internet, so ce la vie.
*One might make the argument that many of these silent millions are also discontent and simply do not voice their opinions. If one does not complain, then it is assumed that nothing is wrong. This is how decisionmaking processes occur. EDIT: It seems somebody did post something to this effect this while I was typing. I would argue that less than, say, 40,000 out of multiple millions, in terms of sales figures, is not a truly significant statistic. Especially when those copies are already paid for anyway, and the majority of those upset will not actually translate into lost sales.
The Sopranos was a bad example, I'll agree with that. But think of it like this, what is 2001 ended with the kaleidoscope scene and everything up until that point was nothing more than a dream? What if, none of the context ever made sense, do you think if would be the masterpeice it is today?
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