The Grey Nayr wrote...
Epic777 wrote...
I will just say be real. Bioware couldn't pull of choice in this trilogy. Don't expect Bioware to honor all the choices in ME4. Expect alot of recons, cutting and marginalizing.
ME3 took in over 1000 variables between ME1 and ME2. And the events of the game, from beginning to end, have several variances depending on those choices.
Nobody ever promised you a big grandiose difference for each decision. It's the little things that matter, they make up the whole of the game. Just because your choices didn't affect the last three missions of the game, does not mean they didn't matter. The Genophage, Geth/Quarian, etc stories were wrapped up in plenty of variances based on your choices. And were wrapped up beforehand, in order to bring everyone together to fight the Reapers. If you hadn't done any of it, you wouldn't have gotten it done.
Making snap judgments about the future of the franchise is not "being real." It's just a lame ass assumption. Pure ignorance.
Even if you're right. You'll buy it anyway, you'll play it anyway, and you'll probably enjoy it anyway, even if you don't admit it. Biggest thing I notice. People hate on the ending, hate on Bioware, and hate on everything Bioware puts out; but I don't see them leaving, I see them buying and continuing to buy.
Oh, apparently you are psychic.
And wrong. Bioware promised a vast variety of endings-that it would be like no two people were playing the same game.
And last I checked only registered owners were allowed here. That means every one of us posting here owns the game, paid money for it, and since it is a product we bought, we can complain till the cows come home about how that product failed us. We can also point out the unfulfilled promises made by those that created it-promises that in any other industry would be considered non-negotiable and not something that is just ignored by those buying the product.
Bioware promised these things. They specifically promised there'd be no ABC endings-so, gee RGB is nothing like that, right? They promised that all our questions would be answered. Please, don't make me repeat the questions that are out there hanging that they seem not to even want to consider answering. And, no that promise was not kept-in fact, instead of answering all questions, they created more that I'm no longer sure they are able to answer, nor am I sure I want them to even try. Because every time they do they forget some other piece of lore that THEY created. No other industry would be allowed to disregard the hype they used to get people to pre-order, ruses they used to get the money in hand before the game was released to ensure buyer's remorse was less likely to result in returns.
It is partially because the endings ignore THE major and really only stories within ME3 that are also continuations of stories from ME1 and 2 that the endings are so bad. Those choices did matter until the gawd awful kid showed up and made the problem one of Shepard just not understanding the reapers and that they have only been trying to help. What a crock.
The attitude Bioware has shown towards fans is that we're stupid. One example is the mass relays. They showed and said in the game that their rupture and/or their destruction would destroy the galaxy. Mac Walters said it would do that. The Final Hours said that would happen. People saw the original endings and saw the relays blow up, meaning the galaxy was screwed. But, incredibly the Normandy crashed and oh, happy day. People said, "WTF?!!" People knew the citadel had a relay on it and it was close to Earth, but the Earth could survive. People said, "WTF?!!!" Bioware went on twitter and said the explosion of the relays wasn't that bad, the galaxy would survive it. They attempted to retcon the whole thing on twitter.
However, they never changed a codex entry that still exists that says the galaxy should be screwed. Instead when the EC was being released, Walters and Hudson said they had no idea why people thought the relays blowing up would destroy the galaxy and that they never meant for that to happen. Right, so people are idiots for thinking that something shown in the games, specifically said (in Feb) will happen, did happen. But Bioware that wrote the damn games and that said this stuff, had no idea why people thought this way. They can't even remember what they say four months after they've said it, on video, in a behind the scenes app, and in the games they wrote. But, it's the fans that are wrong.
And you wonder why people get angry with them. They say that ambiguity is closure. They say a lot of things that contradict things they just said and then it's the fans that are wrong. Apparently they think this kind of stuff is teasing or playful, but it isn't.
Yes, we ended the genophage and geth stories prior to the game's ending, but the choices made there were ignored at the end, and they have relevance. Also, BW set up this ability to create Shepard's (with dialogue they wrote) that has certain ideas, values, morals, thoughts about consequences, but that was irrelevant. I could play completely different from you and get those same awesomely cool, super de dooper amazing choices. Who in hell ever wanted these games to end with a choice? And what brainiac thought that was a good idea? Oh, right someone who does not think we'll notice the similarity between ABC and RGB. Same people that don't know why we'd think the galaxy should be a wasteland after the original endings.
And please point me to that fight with the reapers that all those things that were brought together helped us with. I missed it. Perhaps it's because I fell asleep near the end of the game. The place where all the excitement should be boiling over and where the conflict is coming to resolution and where all questions will at last be answered and where the snowball rolling downhill is picking up speed and more snow. The amazing action and gameplay and fun just put me to sleep and the choices I woke up to were the exact opposite of anything my Shepard wanted to do in three stories based upon dialogue choices Bioware wrote.
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