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[Extra-Planetal]

 I would just like to know, has there ever been a community backlash against a game as severe as this one is?

I mean bad endings and people (EA) ruining franchises is common (take Crysis 2, BF3, C&C4), but as far as I can remember there hasn't ever been a backlash this severe?

[FatalX7.0]

The backlash is so big that Bioware/EA tried to spin it as positive advertising.

"Biggest fan reaction evar! Yay!!1!1111onederpaherp"

[dunre646]

we the fans have been lied too and too many that justifies the backlash.

[FatalX7.0]

FatalX7.0 wrote...

The backlash is so big that Bioware/EA tried to spin it as positive advertising.

"Biggest fan reaction evar! Yay!!1!1111onederpaherp"

Which could actually indicate that they are quite scared of the backlash.



They tote their "75 perfect scores" right over it. That whole thing really comes off as desperate to me.

[Extra-Planetal]

I just checked metacritic

For some reason they don't seem to be advertising a user score of 3.9...

[Orumon]

Because there were both incredibly high expectations for the game, and Bioware not only fell short, they lied to hype the game.

[Zombie Chow]

Does anyone know if Fallout 3 had the same backlash? It's also an RPG, a shooter (mostly a 1st person rather than 3rd person), famous for its predecessors having multiple endings.

I know they eventually made Broken Steel as a paid DLC as a result, but not sure if the fan reaction was the same initially. I played Fallout 3, heard it had a bad ending, experienced it, but didn't quite feel as strongly about it at the time.

[richard_rider]

It's the biggest I've ever seen, usually players just say f**k it, and move on, but this was pretty big...

Modifié par richard_rider, 08 mai 2012 - 01:55 .

[UrgentArchengel]

Just like the guy that wants ACIII stopped. You **** with some bodies franchise, your gonna get f***ed with. Just sayin'.

[Fredvdp]

I think Dragon Age II got it worse.

[JamesFaith]

Gothic: Arcania was also heavily critized by fans, I remember there were even less people defending it then here.

[goofyomnivore]

Biggest I've seen. Two months in and the rage is still going hard, not at the nuclear level it was, but it is still here.

[antares_sublight]

There have been huge backlashes in other games as well. For example, Star Wars Galaxies had a brutal long-lasting fallout, more than one actually.

[kalasaurus]

Orumon wrote...

Because there were both incredibly high expectations for the game, and Bioware not only fell short, they lied to hype the game.

This.  It was the most anticipated game of the year and fell short of many fans' expectations in the end.

[eddieoctane]

JamesFaith wrote...

Gothic: Arcania was also heavily critized by fans, I remember there were even less people defending it then here.

I think the defense of a game that tends to revolve around calling anyone critical of the game stupid in some way to be rather peculiar. Either many "supporters" are dumb as oxes, or they can't accept that the game was as bad as it was and are simply defending it out of sheer denial. I'd rather the latter be the case, but I have little faith in humanity any more.

[MadRabbit999]

Extra-Planetal wrote...

I just checked metacritic

For some reason they don't seem to be advertising a user score of 3.9...

That;s because only bots, morons and pedophiles uses "User scores" as a valid way of scoring

[-Skorpious-]

Fredvdp wrote...

I think Dragon Age II got it worse.

No, DA2 wasn't the conclusion to the DA series, so many fans simply told Bioware "do better next time" instead of raging for two solid months. Plus, the DA devs actually talked to the fans during the entirety of DA2's development cycle and post-release; it took Mike a bit to open up and admit the game had faults, but he did eventually. 

Modifié par -Skorpious-, 08 mai 2012 - 02:21 .

[TheClonesLegacy]

Yes the ME3 Ending has caused NerdRage the likes that God Has not witnessed upon this earth

Modifié par TheClonesLegacy, 08 mai 2012 - 02:19 .

[Walsh1980]

Zombie Chow wrote...

Does anyone know if Fallout 3 had the same backlash? It's also an RPG, a shooter (mostly a 1st person rather than 3rd person), famous for its predecessors having multiple endings.

I know they eventually made Broken Steel as a paid DLC as a result, but not sure if the fan reaction was the same initially. I played Fallout 3, heard it had a bad ending, experienced it, but didn't quite feel as strongly about it at the time.

Fallout was a bit different, it had been many years since the 2nd one, and the game became a completely different experience.  There were plenty of people who voiced their dissaprovment with a tactical overhead rpg becoming Elder Scrolls with guns, but the game was good enough that they're pretty drowned out.  The complaints for that ending were less about it being bad and more because players have come to expect that type of game to not even have an end and let you free roam after the main quest, which Broken Steel apparently does (never played it, I foolishly bought the PS3 version which didn't get any DLC until way later).  Plus there'll always be another, which there was.

Mass Effect, this was the end of a story a lot of people put a lot of themselves into, and very well may be the end of the franchise for a lot of people depending on how they milk.... er continue it in the future.  For it to end the way it did, thematically and quality-wise being so disperate from the rest of the series, it struck especially hard.  And what it does worse than being badly done is make you wonder why the hell you ever bothered with caring if the developers obviously didn't as much as you. 

Does anyone really care what happens to Soap McTavish or Master Chief, not really, if it ends badly you might be disappointed, but in the end characters in other popular games aren't even in the ballpark when it comes to how deep Bioware's characters are, almost to the point where it gets a little scary in here (Tali sweat).  When you got to the end I think we just expected the game to feature more of what made the series great in the first place, not the war, not the enemy, but the friends you made along the way and where they end up. 

[ZtalkerRM]

TheClonesLegacy wrote...

Yes this Me3 buisness has caused NerdRage the likes that God Has not witnessed upon this earth

Yeah, he´s not ´witnessing´ us right now. Too busy posting his issues with the ´synthesis´ ending right now.
He´s probably facepalming too, seeing that writers have only gotten worse since His last book.

[TheClonesLegacy]

ZtalkerRM wrote...

TheClonesLegacy wrote...

Yes this Me3 buisness has caused NerdRage the likes that God Has not witnessed upon this earth

Yeah, he´s not ´witnessing´ us right now. Too busy posting his issues with the ´synthesis´ ending right now.
He´s probably facepalming too, seeing that writers have only gotten worse since His last book.

+1
Interwebs Unlocked

Modifié par TheClonesLegacy, 08 mai 2012 - 02:23 .

[JamesFaith]

eddieoctane wrote...

JamesFaith wrote...

Gothic: Arcania was also heavily critized by fans, I remember there were even less people defending it then here.

I think the defense of a game that tends to revolve around calling anyone critical of the game stupid in some way to be rather peculiar. Either many "supporters" are dumb as oxes, or they can't accept that the game was as bad as it was and are simply defending it out of sheer denial. I'd rather the latter be the case, but I have little faith in humanity any more.

Oh, great, another of this.

So you claiming, that people who like end and dare to say it here "calling anyone critical of game stupid" and then you say that many of them are "dump as oxes" or do it "out of sheer denial".  Obviously having different taste and opinion is out of question here.

Eddie, you are true personification of tolerance. 

[Bfler]

GlassElephant wrote...

Orumon wrote...

Because there were both incredibly high expectations for the game, and Bioware not only fell short, they lied to hype the game.

This.  It was the most anticipated game of the year and fell short of many fans' expectations in the end.

No, the release of the most anticipated game of the year is next week. And I could bet this forum will be very quiet after it.

Modifié par Bfler, 08 mai 2012 - 02:52 .

[Necroscope]

The biggest I've ever seen.

Overhyping, making promises that are eventually 'technically' true at best, releasing rushed games with many half-assed aspects, dumbing down gameplay, removing content for the sake of DLC - we all know these practices and learned to get over them. But this time they simply gone too far, insulting a lot long-time fans with such a crap and straight lies.

Even though the whole game feels rushed, many could live with that, but the endings were too much.

[Aubairjin]

Bfler wrote...

No, the release of the most anticipated game of the year is next week. And I could bet this forum will be very quiet after it.

Sorry. but .... which one ?

GW2 release isn't next week

Modifié par Aubairjin, 08 mai 2012 - 03:18 .