I realize I've posted here once before, but I feel like there's something I forgot to address.
There are those who have said that the endings offer "three choices with very different implications."
Okay, fine. But as it stands, given what we KNOW about Mass Effect's cannon, those implications are almost exclusively bleak. The logical problems have been picked apart and debated to death already by many commentors (including myself in my previous post), so I won't repeat them all here.
My issue with the ending has nothing to do with 'not liking puzzles.' It has everything to do with feeling that the endings, as written, represent a massive tonal shift that takes everything I love about Mass Effect and throws it out the window, including the rest of the things I loved about ME3s overall story.
And yes, I'll admit, I didn't come into this looking for a puzzle. I came looking for resolution. If I wanted a puzzle, I'd embrace the indoctrination theory as an acceptable answer to that puzzle. But as I see it, the indoctrination theory is merely a brilliantly constructed attempt to salvage the experience of ME3 and rationalize the massive plot holes...
I admit, I don't want to guess, I want to
see. If Shepard breathing at the end in what appears to be London rubble is the TRUTH, I want to see that, and I want to play out the rest of the story - including Shepard's real victory. I bought ME3 on faith that this would be what I'd be getting. Not 30 odd seconds of confusing images followed by a 5 second mind screw.
I get that the game is a 'series of endings.' That's fine. I liked hearing from Tali how well the peace with the geth was working out, for instance. But the implications of the three choices at the end undo half of them, and that ISN'T fine... nor is it what we were expecting when we were told that our choices 'matter.'
Maybe we have different definitions of what 'mattered' means, but when I find out that no matter what I do the mass relays are destroyed and Wrex is probably going to be stuck on Earth and never see his child... that's the oposite of letting my choices matter.
I understand that some people like the endings as they are, but I don't much like feeling mischaracterized...
Modifié par Xarathos, 17 mars 2012 - 09:16 .