AtlasMickey wrote...
Because the endings are awesome-
I don't know about anyone else, but I was not in awe of the endings whatsoever, so I don't consider them to be awesome. However, if you are so easily awed by an ending that completely disconnects from the rest of the story and introduces a new character AND a new plot thread in the last 5 minutes of a 30 hour game, then good for you. I expect better from a storyteller.
and, frankly, in the grandest terms, it couldn't have ended any other way.
Yes it could. If your imagination is so limited in its' ability to see how the story could have ended any other way, and frankly... In a much better way than to completely butcher narrative structure, then that's all on you.
Again, some of us expect better.
If they did not address the technological singularity, they would have been ignoring the long term implications of the events in the story and it would not be an epic.
Here we go again with the "technological singularity" nonsense.
There is no such thing as a "technological singularity" except in the minds of obnoxious 10th graders who think being dark and edgy is somehow being profound, deep and meaningful.
The "technological singularity" has one very sinple refutation. If there is a synthetic intelligence, fully self-aware, who has simultaneously developed a sense of empathy and intelligence (and please don't insult my intelligence by telling me that only organic beings can develop empathy, because I can easily refute that), then they will be able to see it from the organic point of view... That all they are asking for is the right to exist and to set their own fate. Any person with empathy will not wish to do to others what they do not want done to themselves.
The Geth are an example of this. They seek the right to determine their own fate, and all of their actions (save for the Heretics who were co-opted by the Reapers) were to that end... And to that end only.
Furthermore... The "technological singularity" is refuted by the fact that there is a sufficiently technologically advanced species already within the ME universe who have decided not to develop artificial intelligence-based technologies, even though it is well within their capabilities to do so (the Salarians for one).
It would just be some other sci-fi game.
That is a matter of opinion... One that many people disagree with for very cogent reasons you people refuse, point blank, to acknowledge.
But it is epic and any mission to get a new ending will fail.
Epic:
1.noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style:Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2.resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3.heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.4.of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
I have highlighted definition no. 3 for a reason, but all of these definitions apply somewhat to the story of Mass Effect.
It is the story of a hero, who sets out on a heroic mission to defeat the Reapers. An Epic story has an Epic ENDING. The ending is not, in any definition of the word, an epic. It is a tragic ending that doesn't fit in with the rest of the narrative. Arguably it isn't even tragic. It's just plain devastating, because our hero has suddenly become our villain. He is directly responsible for the destruction of an entire network of FTL gates that allowed for instantaneous travel between all the major sectors of the galaxy. The implications of which have already been explained in great detail elsewhere so I suggest you go read them, because I'm not going to bother repeating it all here. The final consequences however are nothing short of a holocaust, and at best will result in the starvation and suffering of a great many billions of members belonging to the various species who are not fortunate enough to be in their home systems at the time all the relays are destroyed, and at worst, will result in the destruction of every system in which a mass relay exists.
We don't know whether the best, or the worst, cases will have happened, because it was never explained in the game itself, and that too... Is a bad method of storytelling. Anything that needs explaining in the universe should be explained
in the game itself, not on some guy's twitter feed.
So no... It's no longer an epic. The ending pretty much wiped that one out for us all. But if you wish to continue believing that it's an epic, then fine by me. Just don't take away our right to ask for a better ending. We're not asking for your ending to be removed, just that we have the option of allowing for something that actually makes sense to be an option in the ending.
Modifié par FS3D, 05 avril 2012 - 12:58 .
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