2. The meaningless (3-fold) decision at the end affected me enough to pause the game and consider the options. A moot decision since it is the end of the game and nothing is left but a cutscene. Since one can watch all of the them on youtube the decision was not of which one I really wanted to watch, but rather more than that. It came down to which decision I felt I could live with. The best part being that all the decisions were more or less horrifying, it became a haunting experience.
This being said, the cinematic experiences after decisions were complete and utter crap and failed to capitalize off of the importance of the culmination of all three games and the final choice. It might have taken a bit longer and cost a bit more to make a longer, more consequential ending but it would have been appreciated.
-Fortunately I had already in my mind determined the consequences of each action prior to making my decision, so the cutscene was more or less superfluous (regardless of whether or not I would had enjoyed it.)
3. The reason for the reapers existence was much better than I could have hoped. I had feared that it was just going to be a collection of AI who had been created however long ago who had somehow decided that hiding and waiting to kill civilizations as they arose was somehow fun or more efficient than just nuking the galaxy.
The answer that the game provided seemed very eloquent to me, and I am not really sure why this seems to be such a heated point of contention on the internet. It does not seem contradictory to destroy some life to allow for more to spread. At least no more contradictory than anything else in real life (especially including the Bible.
That being said their SERIOUS failure was limiting the problem as artificial life being a fear for inevitable destruction. If the weird God Child, [who in my humble desires is exactly that; a sentient, omniscient, omnipotent creator who sees his galaxy spiraling out of control,] if He had said that life inevitably becomes too powerful and smothers new life from evolving or growing or following its own path and creating its own cultures - I would have found a fourth damn button to allow the reapers to continue their mission. Also I would have offered advice about how to better exterminate all of us. What they do seems horribly inefficient.
4. The fact that it has affected everyone so powerfully as to either suggest or seek answers proves that it is an effective piece of art.
PS. I hate those damn ending cinematics enough to scream.
PPS. The idea of all this being an indoctrination ending would only have made it more badass, but they would have had to include the real ending or have it be proven initially for it to effective. Saving it and making it cost money only serves to make it not canon to me, regardless of what they say later.
Modifié par of Montreal, 16 mars 2012 - 03:07 .
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