http://blog.bioware....012/03/21/4108/
After reading the statement, I felt a little insulted by the way that he worded his statement. While i am not out and out offended, or feel truly insulted, I found that they way that he went about this statement was a little demeaning to fans (that don't like the ending) such as when he said that they want to point to the critics and say that 'These people liked our game and gave it a perfect score.' He then goes on to say that instead, they will allow themselves to be 'humble' by accepting the criticisms and feedback of the fans. I am sorry, but critics and fans will point out two different sets of problems when addressing a game.
Critics:
- Gameplay: How well the game handled, as well as how easy the controls/functions were within the game.
- Graphics: How everything looks and how audio matches up with visual, and watching for any visual bugs
- Sound: How well the music matches the gameplay, and how well sound effects match up.
- Entertainment: How well the story works, and how satisfying it is to solve problems/kill things/do whatever the point of the game is
- Replayability: How likely they are to replay the game after playing through it.
Fans:
- Continuity: How well the game matched up with the game's direct predecessors. This includes matching up information presented in the series of the games, and how decisions/choices in the other games carry over into the current game.
- Realism: How well the game matches up with how it has been portrayed/how it is compared to logic. This includes matching up how the character(s) act in previous games as compared to the current one, as well as how realistic everything is.
- Practicality: How well the game makes sense. This includes plot holes that may appear in the game, as well as any elements that show up because they were the only way to drive the plot in the way that the game went.
- Replayability: How likely they are to replay thegame after playing through it.
Another thing to note about these two, is that a) critics are paid to play these games. This doesn't always mean that they have played the previous games, and if they have, they are more likely to be detached from the game since it is their job to write unbiased reviews.
Fans pay to play these games. This brings about a sense of responsibility for your character(s) and what they do, as well as a bias towards going 'in-depth' in the game and developing an emotional attachment to the storyline, character(s), or lore.For this reason, I believe that when a fan has a problem with a game, they should not be pointed at critics, and vice versa. If critics have a problem with a game, they shouldn't be pointed towards the fans of the game. Fans and critics provide two different view points on the game, and how it should be viewed/reviewed.
One thing that also irked be a little about Dr. Muzyka's statement, is that he said that he wanted to preserve the 'artistic integrity of the piece.' I understand what it feels like to want something that you have created/helped create end the way that you want them to, but I have to say that the artistic integrity of Mass Effect 3 fell apart in the ending due to the fact that it strayed so far away from everything else that has happened in the game, in addition to create a couple major plot holes that don't make sense to even some of the most avid players/lore studiers. I mean no offense by this, but I think that if BioWare truly wants to preserve the artistic integrity of the Mass Effect series, they should seriously review the ending and at least try to find ways to close up the plotholes/make the ending more in line with the rest of the game.
In closing, I would like to discuss the last two paragraphs of his statement. In the second to last paragraph, he sends most of the time discussing how people have become 'destructive' in their criticism and have 'individually attacked members of the team.' I am sorry that people have attacked the team, I truly am, because I know that they hurt how the rest of the fans are viewed, but in all of my time forum-surfing, I have seen very few personal attacks on members of the BioWare team. With this being said, most of the people providing criticism have been civil about their views. If anything, the fans are more likely to start 'attacking' each other as they try to say why their view is 'correct' then they are to attack a member of the BioWare team. If any member of the fanbase is in a minority, it is the people that do what Dr. Muzyka mentioned. However, in his statement it appears as if there are a lot more people that are creating 'attacks' on the BioWare team than there really are.
The final paragraph is one that I find most insulting however. " I urge you to do your own research: play the game, finish it and tell us what you think." --Dr. Muzyka. I am sorry, but I find this to be a rather...distasteful sentence. Everyone that is complaining/providing criticism about the 'ending' of the game, has a) played the game, and
finished it. How else would they know about the ending/want to complain about it? Sure, there may be some people that didn't play the game and simply went out on youtube or such and watched the ending, but I don't think those people are going to be going around saying how much they don't like the ending as much as someone who actually played the game. After all of this has been typed, I would just like to say that I am not trying to attack Dr. Muzyka personally, nor am I trying to be uncivilized. Instead, I have provided feedback on his statement, in what I am hoping was a civilized manner, so that he or anyone else that reads this, can understand that I feel that as a fan, I have been insulted, if not directly/on purpose, but through word play and probably on accident. I felt like posting this because I would like to see what others have to say about this, and whether or not they can understand some of the reasons why I feel a little offended.
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Modifié par Kataigida, 21 mars 2012 - 09:38 .
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