You kind of have to face facts. Your ending was the ending to a side project, a Casey Hudson fan fiction he was writing on the side that he arbitrarily injected into this game. You didn't end Commander Shepard's story, and you sure didn't end my story.
A couple weeks ago I called this precisely. I said we're getting the same ending from a different camera angle. It's a joke suggesting that you are not taking this ending fiasco seriously, but the bottom line is that's about what we're getting.
I want you to take into consideration what you are arguing:
You are arguing that not only is every action (not choice, action) leading up until that final moment is literal moot. You're arguing that every NEW action you created in this game is moot. What's the point of having us cure the Genopage? The Krogan will never see the fruit of it. What's the point of bringing peace to the Quarians and the Geth? You'll either arbitrarily wipe the Geth out or you'll all become Geth anyway, gutting the entire philosophical meat of the story of "Can synthetics and organics coexist?"
Well, you actually kind of answered that. Rather than relying on truth, plots, and character development, you took five minutes to tell us, "Everything you learned about those two is a lie, synthetics and organics can't get along." Then sun glasses fell out of the sky and you told us to deal with it.
There's no point in romancing anyone, all that you do is break that character's heart at best. You doom them to a dark age of despair as the entire galaxy we fell in love with goes away in a single moment.
Hell, what was the point of introducing any of the Reapers in their Lovecraftian, doomsday fashion? It turns out they're just here to protect us from...look it doesn't even make sense, you know it, I know it.
But the worst of it is that this isn't your artistic vision. You're lying if you say otherwise, because you didn't have a clue how this game was going to end. The plot did not lead us to this point and you've admitted as much. You created the Reapers with the idea that they were world destroyers, then you didn't know how to wrap up their story, so you altered it at the eleventh hour.
You want to fix your ending? Have Commander Shepard die next to Anderson. With a high enough EMS, Hacket says, "Commander, the Crucible is charging up, we need you set its guidance systems," and you use what last life you have to turn them on and the Reapers are gone forever. Without a high enough EMS, you lose your strength and Earth is wiped out in the process as you sputter blood out and look like Mordin trying desperately to fix the sabotage after being shot in the back.
But no, Casey Hudson thinks he's an intellectual, and he thinks his ending has meaning.
Hint: he's not. Hint: it doesn't.
It means that he falls in line with all the other self described artists out there that hang out at the Metaphor Cafe and think that because their parents didn't give them a $20 increase in their allowance they have now explored the depths of human suffering and want to demonstrate it in poetry they defend by calling it avante gard.
Up until a single lift of an elevator, you were writing the Sci Fi War and Peace.
As soon as that elevator lifted, you turned it into a 5 year story composed entirely of Jack's poetry from Lair of the Shadow Broker.
Good job, you have no artistic integrity, and your ending sucks.
Deal with it.
Modifié par Vromrig, 05 avril 2012 - 05:18 .
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