Anastassia wrote...
Koobarex wrote...
Answering the question the topic... The people who actually liked the endings are pretty much divided into three categories.
1) There are people who really liked the endings. They are surely not "stupid", not "misinformed" and I actually resent anyone having a grudge against them for having a different opinion - what's likely is that they just care less about the lore and its consistency, or provide BioWare with a wider freedom of changing everything the games were about in the last 15 minutes. Which is good for them actually, less hours of sleep lost over these horrible endings. We all live by different values, some of us hate toast bread, I love it, some of us are vegetarians, I just can't wait for my juicy stake, we are conservatists, liberals, centrists or simply not giving a quack about politics - remember, our diversity will save us from the Reapers, variety of opinions = good.
2) Then we have the "alternative croud". Lots of people are shouting about the endings being horrible? Well then, I'd better like 'em and like 'em hard, I'd better make sweet, sweet love to them with the use of this here purple-colored space magic! I have a cousin who is exactly like that, so I've witnessed this mechanism first hand and it is pretty fascinating up close, actually. Need to do more research. More subjects required. Need not share data. Someone else could get it wrong.
3) And here's the final group... This will sound paranoid, but believe me - it doesn't have to be, remember that monstrous amounts of money can be lost here. There are companies in the world offering fast reaction to any PR crises via what's called in Polish "the whispering marketing" (direct translation - I have no idea how it's called in English). Create accounts or use dormant marketing accounts use only during a crisis, flood the internets with "counteropinions" and "opposite reactions", creating a sense that's "hey, it's not all bad, there are people who really love to hear that their wig company dumped a ton of orange paint into all the rivers around Chicago". During my work in advergaming a company I worked with was responsible for doing a similar PR stunt for a Polish political party and a... windows manufacturer (windows as in "stuff made of glass, wood and plastic that you use to look outside instead of going out when you're holding the line").
Of course, I don't say with any certainty that this is what's happening here - I'm just saying that when fat cash was at stake I've seen it happen, and it was always sudden and pretty effective. Do not get paranoid and don't get accusing good people of doing this kinda' thing - just be aware that stuff like this... happens.
I liked the endings, and care deeply about the lore and universe. I was heavily invested in my Shepard, in Garrus, in the whole galactic community, and I have no regrets about how it ended. I don't fit in any of those.
You're in a minority of a minority then - which should only mean that you deserve respect, but the basic three groups are still pretty much holding up.
I am sure, however, that upon closer inspection you'll find a lot wrong with the endings in regards of the lore - like synthetic DNA, the purpose of the Reapers contradicting what we know already (and their use of the Geth from the first game), the effect that blasting a mass relay has on a system (as seen in "Arrival") amongst many others. I simply cannot agree that the ending did not destroy the continuity of the lore, as they managed to create an astounding amount of errors both in those 15 minutes as in the last ME book.
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