scrapmetals wrote...
It's as simple as that. I mean, sure, it's going to happen, but a video game never permanently screws you over for losing.
Why is it the case here? Why are we LETTING it be the case? Sure, let them have bad endings, that's not what I'm talking about, a lot of games like Mass Effect, that let you choose stuff, have bad endings, fine.
But in the end, I play a video game for one reason, and one reason only - to play a big *Zaeed* hero and overcome impossible odds. And if the Reaper's are anything, they're impossible odds. But it's a video game. So why can't I beat them conventionally?
And don't give me militaristic statistics, don't give me plans of action, don't tell me it won't work because -
It's. A. Video. Game. It SHOULD work, because it's worked before. What the hell did I spend all my time doing those side quests for? Why did I take care of my people in 1 and 2, why did I spend every moment in 2 making sure they were happy so they wouldn't die?
Just so they could, uhm. Die? Lose synthetics despite all you've done to garner peace - and for all intents and purposes, we can say you succeed. Synthesize everyone - didn't that work for the ****s? Control - yeah, because I'm going to do what the Illusive Man wanted ("it can't be forced but hey now that you're here we can do it I guess").
No, you know what? I'm a selfish, entitled brat that wanted a happy ending. Hell, I would have even taken the blue babies even though I didn't want them (I wanted the turian or krogan or maybe even prothean babies but thaaaat's beside the point...)
I killed Sovereign in the first game. Sure, there were some casualties, but REALLY, not THAT many. And I kicked the baby Reaper's ass so easily it hurt.
I don't care how many Reapers there were vs how many of us there were. I UNITED THE GALAXY FOR THIS. And when I refuse to give in the Catalyst's dumb ass logic - and it's still REALLY stupid, even MORE stupid, with the questioning, like I'm going to trust a rogue AI that ate it's creators to turn them into Reapers - I'm told that no. The galaxy I united wasn't enough.
I'm told that synthetics can never be at peace with organics, no matter what, despite what I've just accomplished between the quarians and geth, and I'm still given three bad, losing decisions to take care of the "problem".
This is what I refuse, because I don't stick with a game for 7 years, I don't come to care about it's characters and what happens next, I don't do as much as I can for those characters to make sure they survive, I don't make hard choices for the good of the galaxy and not just my team JUST for them to say...
"No. You can't. It is impossible. And no, despite what you've learned from the second game, despite what you've learned and accomplished here between the two, synthetics and organics just will never get along. Peace is impossible."
This isn't art, it's a video game.
And until Walters and Hudson realize this, I'm going back to play Fable and Fallout. There were bad endings in those, sure - but you either had to work for them, or you knew you wanted the bad endings, or there was bad mixed with good.
You still won. You still won and while you might have felt bad about some things, you didn't feel bad about EVERY single thing.
You didn't realize that everyone's sacrifice was futile.
You still won.
Like I said, I am an entitled selfish whining brat, and I'm damn proud of it. You got anything else you can call me?
I sincerely hope that you weren't one of the people who was complaining about "space magic". Because it would take a s***load of space magic to beat the Reapers conventionally. While your at it, why not have Shepard shoot dark matter out of his cornhole to destroy the Reapers? That is about as likely as being able to beat the Reapers without the crucible. Also, you basically want to invalidate everything that happened in ME3. Out of sheer desperation you get the galaxy to pool all of their resources into building a last ditch effort doomsday device not even knowing what it does, only to get to the end and say, "Hey, as it turns out, we didn't even need it. Imagine how hard we would have stomped them if we didn't build this stupid crucible thing."
No offense, but your ending sucks balls.
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