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It is a bad game, its not the worst thing ever. But it failed to meet the hyper and did not live up to its former glory. To me that makes it a bad game and it makes Bioware a bad game developer.
Name one game with a massive ad campaign to pull gullible chumps into praising the game prerelease that actually met the hype.
Not a one. I don't care if Final Fantasy 55 is the greatest thing mankind ever produced and it also gives you BJ's and pudding, there will still be a legion of miserable people online who will rage for years about how it didn't meet the hype. Gamers are an obnoxiously insatiable bunch, that's a fact of life as far as I'm concerned.
So where is similiar levels of rage over Call of Duty or Halo who hype there games up much further than ME and have far bigger fan bases?
This whole "people are disappointed because of hype" arguement is garbage, and is repeated by dittoheads for every franchise to put down those with legitimate gripes. No game that was hyped this much and was actually a great game has received this level of backlash. People will always be disappointed, but the Halo fans who were angry about the disappearance of the pistol in Halo 2 and it's bad ending are nothing in comparison to the people who hate the ending and think ME3 is a mediocre title.
I don't know what makes you think the Halo series is a good comparison. When was the last time you saw a Cortana romance fan thread with over 2K pages of people talking about how awesome the character is? The point is that there are people out there, much like the fans who peruse these forums around the clock, who have invested ALOT both emotionally and time-wise into this series, of their own volition. These people are the kind who get involved in the hype, and unfortunately, they make up the majority of these boards, creating an echo chamber where unpopular opinions are taboo.
Clearly you've never been to the Bungie.net forums. People used to rave over Cortana all the time. However it's died down since she's you know, over 10 years old...
You have no idea what hype is. People who spend time here and invest a lot of time in the game has nothing to do with hype. They simply like playing and discussing the game. Those are the people here right now voicing their dissappointment and lobbying for changes. As far as unpopular opinions being taboo, well, duh? I mean, you said it yourself, the vast majority on these boards are those who've invested a lot of time in the series. Naturally, they are the ones who really dislike what we got.
You have to stop thinking this is all because of hype, because it's not. It has to do with the theme of game, the direction it was taking, and how the ending just betrayed all of that. In addition, numerous parts within the game were poorly done and rendered many past, meaningful experiences with consequences entirely moot. THAT, not hype, is why people are mad.
Listen. I'll say this one more time, because you apparently missed it the first time.
Stuff SAID, NOT officially written down by employees before the game is released, is SUBJECT TO CHANGE. THis applies to ANY industry.
Honestly, how gullible can you be? "But... but... they said the game would do this, this and this." AND?
Molyneux has been blowing his games out of proportion for years, and over time, people learned to not listen to industry hype and judge for themselves when the game comes out, with no preconceptions.
And despite all this, you think Bioware is gonna remark on the not-so-great aspects of their upcoming game instead of focusing on the cool bits, maybe blowing them out of proportion a bit? Hell no. They are a business like any other, despite what the old Baldur's Gate fans will tell you. 'Back in my day, Bioware didn't care at all about profits and existed only to satisfy their fans!' Oh, please. Grow up.
Moral of this story: You wanna learn about how good a game is? Here's a thought, don't listen to the company making it.
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