Il Divo wrote...
nedpepper wrote...
Now you want them to change it because it left you feeling a complex emotion you don't like. That's the disconnect.
And another thing. Everyone says the endings are "bad". Well, if it's what and Mac and Casey envisioned, and they're happy with it, who are you to demand them to change it? That's the crux of this agrument. Why is this medium the only medium where fans can dictate the vision of the story?
The only thing I was struck by upon reaching the ending was the level of mediocrity it managed to achieve. Whatever a writer wants his audience to feel at the completion of the experience, I doubt he wants it to be "wow, this was dumb".
To answer the question, who I am is the guy paying $60 a game for an experience which ended quite terribly. In short, I am the consumer, whom without ME3 would never have seen the light of day. Here, Mac's and Casey's happiness came at the expense of its audience. Bioware doesn't have to listen to me, especially as a single individual, but "artistic integrity" has its prices in the free market. Try telling your college professor that you refuse to make any changes to your work because "it's art". It won't stop him from failing you. Likewise here, this comes down to whether a significant number of fans can make their voices heard to cause Bioware to rethink their decision.
Your point is valid, here are some points to further answer Nedpepper.
Since this whole discussion started, there have been examples detailed, for almost every form of media and entertainment in existence.
Whole seasons of tv series have been retconned afterwards, comicbook heroes biographies change all the time to better fit the taste of todays readers.
Director's cuts for movies are almost standard by now, one example where the effort and demand of fans lead to it, were the original versions of the first three Star Wars movies being made available on DVD or the recut of Highlander 2, which lead the movie a long way back to the original Highlander story and away from that stupid they are all aliens bs.
There have been extended editions and gold editions to videogames, that changed the endings, we even have one or two examples for patches or DLC changing it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle changed the fate of his character Sherlock Holmes, because fans were demanding more stories with Holmes that weren't set in the past.
Author's have changed the endings for their books, when publishers demanded it, or when they made a movie script out of it.
A rather famous example is the crime novella "The Pledge" by well known swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt (well, he is well known in most of Europe), when the story was originally turned into a german movie, the ending was deemed to dark for the audiences adn so Dürrenmatt rewrote it.
The Sean Penn directed 2001 movie version retained the original bad ending, where the detective (played by Jack Nicholson) ends up as a broken man who has lost everything.
In the previous movie, he instead catches the killer and gains a family in the process.
I state again, that both versions were written by the original author, a highly lauded author of both plays and novels.
Why should it be okay, if directors, producers, publishers or art patrons demand a change in a story's ending, but it's not okay for us fans, who are quasi the patrons of the piece of art Mass Effect,?
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