I'm still holding out for indoctrination theory, or some other retcon. If the Reapers' motivation really is to stop a technological singularity, and the Normandy really is stranded on some shoe-horned Garden of Eden/Adam and Eve reference planet, and Shepard is DEAD, and the Mass Relays are gone and Interstellar travel is no longer possible - then they have retroactively ruined the greatest sci-fi video game series of all time.
That is unforgivable. I play games to be a part of a story, or at least to be told a good one. Video Games are the only story-telling medium that puts the audience directly in the role of the main character. Mass Effect exemplified what video games could do with interactive storytelling. The ending completely destroyed that idea, that HOPE, of what video games could become.
Turning a great RPG into a mediocre shooter, fine. Turning a huge interactive galaxy into a series of corridors, okay I can handle that. Removing any hint of sexuality from one of the few games that treated sex with some degree of maturity, okay that makes me mad but I can live with it. Turning the pinnacle of interactive storytelling into just another "buy more DLC and expansions" screen - that pisses me right the hell off.
I will write them off as another loss to the industry's current climate, and to EA's greed and disastrous demands. I will send them a calm, thought out, well intentioned e-mail letting them know that they've lost a customer, and then I will never give them another penny.
Modifié par AcacianLeaves, 03 avril 2012 - 12:43 .