MegaSovereign wrote...
Am I the only one that actually plays Mass Effect because of everything other than the plot? Seriously it's never been that great. The plot doesn't deserve this much brain power.
ME2's ending was functional and didn't require an extended cut...so it works. The original ME3 ending was so bad that Bioware had to push back their DLC schedule 6 months in order to patch it up.
Neither games have amazing endings or amazing plots. What attracted me to the ME universe was the amazing atmosphere, great side stories, and awesome characters .
The plot is difficult to extricate from other elements one might care about.
For instance, if you don't care about the plot, but you care about the Shepard you have created, you cannot avoid the fact that the plot is in full control of what happens to Shepard. Inevitably, that plot thing you don't care about is going to kill your PC (unless you wipe out EDI and the geth, in which case it only might kill your PC).
Or for another instance, if you don't care about the plot, but you care about the characters, their stories, and the relationships you form with them, you cannot avoid the fact that the plot often controls all of those things as well. It might take you far away from them, or kill them, or force them into a development you don't like. The plot might dominate conversations that you'd rather spend talking about something else with them.
Plot's hard to avoid, yo.