John Walker's "What's Right With Mass Effect 3's Ending", on Rock Paper Shotgun.
Not looking for a flame-war as a result of posting this, I should point out. It's just a lovely worded piece.
There's also this follow-up which he posted in the comments section:
John Walker says:
I’m on holiday this week, so despite doing my best to read as
many comments as possible, I’m not keeping up here. But I wanted to
make a few general responses.
1. Perspective. I wrote a personal account of why I enjoyed the the
ending of Mass Effect. I did this in reaction to my having enjoyed the
ending of Mass Effect, and because we’d previously published negative
coverage and I wanted to express that I felt differently. In the post I
acknowledge that I empathise with the issues some have, while not being
affected by them. This is not a personal attack on you because you feel
differently, and while I recognise the frustration that I have the post
for my voice, and you have the comments, you are not harmed by this
post.
2. I have read no other positive coverage of the ending on other
sites, and oddly enough am not involved in a conspiracy of the gaming
press. I liked a thing you hated. I also thought the ending of AI was
brilliant, and truly understood the grotesque horror of fairytale. Yet
the world continues
3. Personal attacks on my professional integrity, accusations or
implications of corruption, and suggestions that I am controlled by
advertising/publisher relation pressure are ****ing disgraceful. I like
to imagine that any reputation I may have might slightly lean toward the
suggestion that publisher appeasement isn’t exactly high on my agenda.
Of course, I don’t expect most people to give two ****s who I am so
that’s not relevant for most – however, making wildly offensive
accusations shouldn’t be something anyone is reaching for in a
discussion over whether people liked the end of a game or not. Good
GRIEF.
4. I have no idea what Joker was doing on the Normandy at that point.
It doesn’t take a huge leap of imagination to assume something like,
“he was asked to fly to the Citadel after people realised Shepard was on
board, then tried to avoid the green wobbly bubble.” Or even that they
were helping a particular ship that was in distress. I dunno! It didn’t
strike me as the most important thing happening, but clearly that wasn’t
the case for all
5. It turns out that if the Relays were destroyed in the process of
relaying an ancient signal from the ancient race, that meant their solar
system destroying ways were muted. Phew, eh?
Modifié par The Razman, 20 mars 2012 - 02:12 .
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