MSNBC responds to critics of its 10/10 score for ME3

Yeah, I get it. It's not like we haven't heard that before. We are just to stupid to understand this ending which was plastered together with gum and a few Sci-Fi tropes.

Having read Sci-fi from Asimov to Clarke, from Stanislaw Lem to Peter Hamilton, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, Greg Bear Alastair Reynolds, to name but a few, I am fairly sure that there was nothing in this ending that I didn't understand.

The audacity all those so called journalists have, to believe people could actually be too stupid to understand that ending is beyond me.
This is not Sartre or Proust, not Tennesse Williams or Arthur Miller, this is just a badly written, hastily put together excuse for an ending.
There's nothing demanding about it, it's just some pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-metatextual coppled together cliché.

Modifié par die-yng, 27 mars 2012 - 07:14 .

blakile
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Giubba1985 wrote...

durasteel wrote...

The ending didn't go ever my head. I have a doctorate degree (Jurisprudence)
and I have studied philosophy and history enough to minor in them when I was a
business major in college. I read a lot. Like most people, I have my share of
self-doubt, but one thing I feel pretty comfortable with is my intellect and
education.

I was disappointed with the ending, frustrated with its inadequacy, and really
sad that such a great game and series of games was concluded on such a sour
note. I was not angry, however, until some people began to throw around this
idea that we just didn't understand how great this ending was.

Unfortunately, it isn't just a few ignorant reviewers. Dr. Muzyka's statement
advanced or perpetuated the notion that we really just needed explanation or
clarification of the ending to the game. I find that to be insulting. As a
community, we've spent weeks pouring over the ending, studying every detail and
considering every nuance in the context of the game and the series as a whole.
What has become very evident to me is that unless the indoctrination
"conspiracy theory" turns out to be true, we have spent more time
thinking about the ending of Mass Effect 3 in two weeks than the design team
spent over the last 2 years.

We, the community, are not the problem. We didn't screw up the ending.
It is unfortunate that some reviewers and media personalities who haven't taken
the time to really understand the ending, its implications, and its context
nevertheless feel justified in labeling this a "controversy" and
placing the blame for it upon us. I suppose it takes a lot less time to call a
group "entitled" than it does to gain a thorough understanding of
what the hell you're talking about.

Many of these reviewers probably don't have that kind of time available before
they submit their review of the game, because their publisher has given them a
deadline which impacts the quality of their work. I imagine the Mass Effect
team at BioWare Edmonton can sympathize.

You are PART of the community not THE community.

You can convince yourself that 50k people that press that ****ing thumbs up
button on facebook make you THE community but it is not.

And quite frankly as part of THE SAME community as you are in, i'm
quite insulted from this continuos attempts to make like you (the hold line
movement )speak for me and people like me that do not share your opinion on the
ending.

Agreed the 50k people that act like they are the Community
DO NOT speak for me and I enjoyed the series as a whole
including the last 5 min.

Enlighten me plz!

Was it that Shepard went against his being and chose between
3 non-logical choices?

Was it that you practically destroyed the whole galaxy in 3 different and very distinct colored explosions
with all sentient life in it (you do know what happens when a Mass Relay go
boom boom right?)?

Was it that if the Mass Relays somehow non-lore didn’t go boom boom and that
you more or less had collected the entire population of the universe in Sol
with no means of returning to their home world because of the recently dismantled
Mass Relays hence leaving all to starvation/civil war/”pick your atrocity here"?

Was it the Normandy’s teleportation trick to suddenly be on route through a
Relay even though it had JUST been fighting?

Was it part of your crews teleportation trick to get on board the Normandy all
though they was with you during the final push when Harbinger hit and probably
died?

Was it the all enlightened being in shape of a little boy that popped up out of
nowhere rendering your entire play through from ME1-ME3 completely worthless by
stripping your character of all choice and making all choices up till then utterly
futile?

Or was is just the lack of closure and information of the impact you had made
on the universe after the reaper threat was diminished, so the last thing you
saw was actually you eradicating the universe, doing much more harm and damage
than the reapers had EVER done and then just… end right after that?

Just curious

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MSNBC responds to critics of its 10/10 score for ME3

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