[quote]silent-man73 wrote...
This whole thing saddens me, to be honest. I would have preferred if BioWare had just stood their ground and said, "That's the ending, that's how this trilogy ends, we'll see you with the next DLC released for the game."[/quote] Why would we want to bother with the DLC if the ending leaves us frustrated and demoralized, why bother with DLC if the ending is a a powerfully negative experience.
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But no. People had to complain, they had to insist that they had to have everything their way, and they've actually managed to pressure one of the most successful game design studios in recent history into changing fundamental elements of the game.[/quote] If said elements were not satisfying their customers (the people who they work to entertain and who in turn pay their bills), this is bad...how?
If we're going to get into the hokey "artistic integrity" thing, lets shoot that down right now. Games are art yes, but art as a product. The art comes from how a product meets a consumers desires. If it failes to meet those desires, it fails as a work of art.
Additionally, player interaction and consequences/results of player choice have been a key hallmark of this game, integral to its artistic merit. The ending botches this entirely, causing it to fail as the culmination of the artistic expression of this game.
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Sure, the ending itself isn't being changed; there's no real way to do that, without having people play the game all over again to reach that ending. [/quote] You patch the game so that when you walk into the beam it changes the content after that. Not impossible at all to do.
[quote]We're being given content that will further clarify and explain things.[/quote] Which can only be done to such an extent with this ending, there's some things that just arent' fixable, or that, even if explained, aren't likely simply to highlight the sillyness of such things in the first place.
Thing is, BioWare shouldn't have had to do that. They should have just accepted, with stoic silence, the complaints of the individuals who just had to be loud and brash on the forums, and called it good. [/quote] And what good does that do anybody? It leaves the franchise off on a bad note, it leaves the company with a bad image, and it leaves players upset and angry.
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Yes, my Commander Shepard is mine. I nurtured her from becoming a Specter to stopping the Collectors to wiping out over 100,000 Batarians to stop an early "back door" invasion of Reapers, and I'm taking her along the path to this apparently-controversial ending now.
I've avoided spoilers on what that ending is; all I know is it's "bittersweet", to use Casey Hudson's words. I'll get to that ending in my own time. I haven't seen Tali's face, I've only just last night dealt with the fallout from losing Samara on the Collectors' base in ME2, I've only recently mourned the death of a loved character in closing out the first act of ME3.
And I'm fine with that pace, and perhaps in the eyes of some this means I can't complain about those who have forced BioWare to revisit the ending of this game, because I haven't yet seen that ending for myself. That's fine, they can say I'm "not welcome yet" all they like. That isn't what this is about.[/quote] it's a fairly powerful thing. I was pretty much the same way before I actually reached the ending. I avoided any and all spoilers of *any* kind. I had never posted nor visited this forum before, nor thought anything negative of Bioware or their writing/development staff until that point.
I'd urge you to actually play through it, and then compare that ending with the other possibilities (they are...very limited) and then come to your own conclusion.
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What it's about is a generation of gamers who are used to instant gratification, who think an online forum that's left open for them to interact with developers and with each other doesn't carry the responsibility of civil behavior, such that BioWare had to publish an update to the Code of Conduct for these forums to inform people that the rampant incivility which has characterized this forum for awhile now will no longer be tolerated.[/quote] Most people are being civil. Sure there are exceptions, this is the Internet after all. But *most* people aren't screaming and tearing at each other. Most people also realize any updated ending would take months, they just want to hear that the concerns are noted and understood, which so far they've only gone about half-way.
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There's a reason I'm not going into the multiplayer of this game, despite the fact that I could apparently have an easier time reaching an optimal ending if I did so. That reason is that I don't want to deal with a fanbase who would so horrifically abuse BioWare through a smear campaign via a social network that BioWare, in an effort to quiet people down and show they actually do care about their fans, is willing to make concessions to those fans. [/quote] Then why are you engaging anyone here? the multiplayer experience is fairly limited in terms of communication for the most part, especially compared to other games.
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The people who are crowing over this "victory" over BioWare should be ashamed of themselves.[/quote] And being painfully self righteous when you haven't gone through the same experience and don't understand where they are coming from is better...how?
[quote]Jebediah Springfield wrote...
Do not change it. If people
don't like the story they should write their own science fiction
stories. Don't make some crap fan service ending. Fan service is ruining
games.[/quote]Did you miss where half the content in the trilogy was fanservice...?
Modifié par Vaktathi, 23 mars 2012 - 08:10 .