Official Mass Effect Website
http://masseffect.com/about/story/“Experience the beginning, middle, and end of an emotional story unlike any other, where the decisions you make completely shape your experience and outcome.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
HALF-TRUE - The decisions you made did shape the experience and outcome, but they didn't do so completely, as was claimed.
[quote]Interview with Mac Walters (Lead Writer)
http://popwatch.ew.c...-3-mac-walters/“[The presence of the Rachni] has huge consequences in Mass Effect 3. Even just in the final battle with the Reapers.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE - The presence of the rachni did have consequences in Mass Effect 3, but huge was obviously a gross exaggeration, and they had no presence in the final battle with the Reapers other than an implied one.
[quote]Interview with Mac Walters (Lead Writer)
http://business.fina...-all-audiences/“I’m always leery of saying there are 'optimal' endings, because I think one of the things we do try to do is make different endings that are optimal for different people”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY FALSE - While not entirely a lie, the endings weren't different enough to be optimal for different people. But was this a Mass Effect 3 promise, or just Walters talking generally about how he approaches games?
[quote]Interview with Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)
http://www.computera...missing-in-me2/“And, to be honest, you [the fans] are crafting your Mass Effect story as much as we are anyway.”[/quote]
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE = The Mass Effect story has largly been crafted by fans. Fan reaction to certain elements introduced in ME1 influenced what they worked on in ME2, and the same for ME3. Not an untrue statement, since he was talking about the Mass Effect overall story, not just the conclusion to ME3.
[quote]Interview with Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)
http://www.360magazi...ferent-endings/“There are many different endings. We wouldn’t do it any other way. How could you go through all three campaigns playing as your Shepard and then be forced into a bespoke ending that everyone gets? But I can’t say any more than that…”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE = Whether you want to accept it or not, Mass Effect 3 did have multiple endings. Even if it had 100 different endings, eventually some people would start to get the same endings as others. Though the differences in endings are slight, that wasn't the promise that was made in this sentence.
[quote]Interview with Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)
http://www.eurogamer...me-people-angry“Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens."[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = Whether you want to accept it or not, in ME3 every decision makes an impact. Do the Geth live or die? Do you cure the Krogan or not? Do you shoot Kaiden in the stomach or let him live? Do you kill Wrex and Mordin or not? Not only that, but decisions made in previous games carry on to ME3. Does Kirahe help you on the Citadel or not? Do you save Maelon's data or destroy it and does Eve die or not?
But only mostly true, because while the player is the architect of what happens, they lose some control at the very end.
I also find it funny that this article was called "Bioware Mass Effect 3 ending will make some people angry"
[quote]Whether you're happy or angry at the ending, know this: it is an ending.
BioWare will not do a "Lost" and leave fans with more questions than
answers after finishing the game, Gamble promised.[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE = This goes without question.
[quote]“You'll get answers to everything. That was one of the key things. Regardless of how we did everything, we had to say, yes, we're going to provide some answers to these people.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = Whether you want to accept it or not, ME3 did answer nearly every question out there. The problem was the answers were either unacceptable, or unbelievable, and that they created more questions than were answered. Still, this is a mostly accurate statement.
[quote]“Because a lot of these plot threads are concluding and because it's being brought to a finale, since you were a part of architecting how they got to how they were, you will definitely sense how they close was because of the decisions you made and because of the decisions you didn't make”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE
NOT ENOUGH CONTEXT = Really, a partial quote with little to no context is being used as BioWare false advertising? For shame. Fix this quote or remove it entirely.
[quote]Interview with Casey Hudson (Director)
http://www.gameinfor...s-effect-3.aspx“For people who are invested in these characters and the back-story of the universe and everything, all of these things come to a resolution in Mass Effect 3. And they are resolved in a way that's very different based on what you would do in those situations.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = Again, whether you want to accept it or not, many of the character's personal stories are resolved before the ending. What happens to the Quarians. What happens to the Geth. What happens to the Krogan. What happens to ME2 characters. Most of them were resolved... BEFORE the ending, and they're resolved differently depending on your decisions. What makes this statement partially untrue is that it's rendered mostly moot in the final minutes.
[quote]Interview with Casey Hudson (Director)
http://venturebeat.c...fans-interview/“Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get some closure, a great ending. I think they’re going to get that.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE = Though not for a lack of trying. It seems they tried, and failed hard. But not a malicious lie, so I don't know why this belongs here.
[quote]“Mass Effect 3 is all about answering all the biggest questions in the lore, learning about the mysteries and the Protheans and the Reapers, being able to decide for yourself how all of these things come to an end.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = Whether you accept it or not, the game answered big questions in the lore, and the players did decide how things come to an end. The problems is the answers were unsatisfactory, there were more questions created, and the ending kinda sucked.
[quote]Interviewer: “So are you guys the creators or the stewards of the franchise?”
Hudson: “Um… You know, at this point, I think we’re co-creators with the fans. We use a lot of feedback.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE:
UNDENIABLY TRUE = The Mass Effect series has been largly shaped by fan-feedback. Characters the creators didn't think were breakout characters were given bigger roles because of fan-feedback, just as a small example. Why this quote is in the list boggles the mind.
[quote]Interview with Casey Hudson (Director)
http://www.gameinfor...PostPageIndex=2Interviewer: [Regarding the numerous possible endings of Mass Effect 2] “Is that same type of complexity built into the ending of Mass Effect 3?”
Hudson: “Yeah, and I’d say much more so, because we have the ability to build the endings out in a way that we don’t have to worry about eventually tying them back together somewhere. This story arc is coming to an end with this game. That means the endings can be a lot more different. At this point we’re taking into account so many decisions that you’ve made as a player and reflecting a lot of that stuff. It’s not even in any way like the traditional game endings, where you can say how many endings there are or whether you got ending A, B, or C.....The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
NEARLY COMPLETELY FALSE = Sorry Mr. Hudson, but despite the fact that there were 16 different endings, maybe two or three with big differences and the rest very subtle flavours of each other, we pretty much got an A, B, or C, ending.
[quote]“We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = I can promise you that the way I've played the ME series and the choices I've made throughout the entire series, my story is different from yours. There's just a better chance that the way it ended was the same as yours.
[quote]Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)
http://www.nowgamer....in_bioware.htmlMass Effect 3 will shake up the player's moral choices more than ever before, even going so far as allowing the Reapers to win the battle for Earth, according to BioWare's community representative Mike Gamble.[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY TRUE = Aside from the endings, of which I can't recall any had the Reapers winning... tho one did have the Earth destroyed, there were some very gut-wrenching moral choices to make in ME3.
[quote]Mike Gamble (Associate Producer)
http://www.nowgamer....ry_details.html"Of course you don’t have to play multiplayer, you can choose to play all the side-quests in single-player and do all that stuff you’ll still get all the same endings and same information, it’s just a totally different way of playing"[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE = As far as I know, you need to play the multiplayer a little to get enough points for the best ending, if you insist on playing a certain way.
[quote]Casey Hudson (Director)
http://gamescatalyst...active-stories/“The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.”[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
COMPLETELY TRUE = Whether you want to accept the fact or not, you have control over major races in the Galaxy. The fate of the Quarians, Geth, and Krogan are in your hands, not to mention the fate of several individual characters.
[quote]Casey Hudson (Director)
http://www.computera...ly-good/?page=2“There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a classic game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.”
[/quote]
TRUE OR FALSE?
MOSTLY FALSE = Sorry Mr. Hudson. You were right just up until the end with that last sentence. Yes, there's a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game, but it wasn't different for everyone who played it. The journey, perhaps, but not the ending.
Well that was fun.
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