CoolioThane wrote...
You do understand though, labelling someone's beliefs as retarded is one of the mot offensive things you can do.
Well, maybe, but I can't help myself. I've read a few of those religious holy books from cover to cover and I can't help but wondering how people can actually believe this crap.
With regards to religion it's an incredibly dangerous point of view to hold.
How so? Because some religious terrorist nutjob might blow me up? It's that's why it's dangerous?
I for one think no beliefs are retarded, even if I disagree with them. It's their life. Could you explain why IT is retarded though?
Fair enough. And yes, I can explain why I think IT is retarded.
First of all, BioWare has never shown any particularily deep writing in Mass Effect. It was all pretty basic, standard and sometimes even shallow space opera stuff. Sometimes they bring up a philosophical subject about "what is life" and that sort of stuff, but never anything I haven't seen before in other blockbuster space operas. The IT does not fit within this picture. It's so completely out of style that I think it's obvious the writers never intended it that way.
Remember, we're talking about Mass Effect here, an action-packed be the epic hero and choose your own adventure blockbuster type of game, not some other kind of artsy-fartsy cult type of game (I'm talking about
this cut, not
this cult).
Second of all, if the IT is true it means BioWare has basically shipped a game without an ending. The game would be incomplete. Surely BioWare wouldn't be crazy enough to go that far, would they? It also goes against all known conventional story writing setups, which is something you can expect in a cult movie of indie-game, but not in an international bestselling blockbuster series.
Third, I think it's clear that BioWare is aiming at the mainstream gamers with ME3. They try to appeal to the so-called "CoD crowd". An unorthodox ending (that isn't really an ending) is nothing something you do when you try to make a best-selling blockbuster that appeals to the "CoD crowd".
Also, with the release of the EC I think it is clear BioWare never intended to pull of a stunt like the indoctrination theory. BioWare also said they're not going to change the endings, period.
Based on the fact that BioWare did not come up with the IT themselves, nor do they plan to change their endings because they "believe in the artific vision of their team" , I think it's very clear that we can simply put the IT to rest. It's not gonna happen. Yet people keep insisting that the IT is true. I find that stubborn and slightly retarded.
I believe you to be wrong there. IT wouldn't render your ending invalid, as each choice, according to the IT, does something to Shepard. Whether indoctrinated or not, your choice still matters. I still don't see how anyone could be angry at that.
How does the IT not invalidate my choice for Control? If you guys get what you wish, it would mean my ending leads to sudden death for Shepard and a lame-ass Game Over screen because I chose the wrong answer, now my Shepard is indoctrinated, trololololololol.
You see, with the current endings, there are no wrong choices. In fact, there never was a single wrong choice in Mass Effect, just different approaches, which is what I loved about Mass Effect. I could be who I wanted to be and not being punished for it in any severe way. I could be myself and still manage to save the galaxy. That's awesome.
That's another reason why I think the IT is retarded. It would invalidate 3 choices, 3 different choices leading to a "game-over haha your Shepard is indoctrinated lolololol you should have picked Destroy sucker trolololol" -screen or ending. That's totally NOT what Mass Effect is like and it's also completely pointless. Why in the world would BioWare ever make 3 of their 4 endings obsolete? Why can't you see how bad that would be?
No, I know pessimists can be happy, it's just the negativity spreads as much as positivity, and negative people can really bring people down, even if they themselves are happy. Not calling you selfish or anything, just saying it can affect people in a negative way (ignore the pun)
I don't see myself as a negative person. I don't think pessimism = negativity. But that's just me. Maybe pessimism isn't the right choice of words. I rather call myself a skeptical person.
Yeah, that's what I am, I'm skeptical, not pessimistic persee.
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