It didnt happen in ME3, It happened loong before that for me. Let me explain.
It started with ME2, no doubt, being brough back from DEAD by some miracle machine, then Shepard saying "this pistol doesnt have a thermal clip in it".... thermal what? Whats going on? I managed but the whole Lazarus thing was really stupid. And not being able to quit Cerberus was just railroading, didnt sit well with me.
A moment for me when I kinda knew "this is it, the series took turn for the worse and theres no going back" was at ME2 in the Citadel, when the council just went, "Ah yes, Reapers" and basically just ignored the whole thing that ME1 ended with. That was it. It was even worse if I let them perish in ME1, the new council didnt even bother to meet me. Laziness. I knew from that point forward this is how most of our choices will go. They dont really matter.
From that moment on I got a case of "lowered expectations" and it stuck with me ever since, I collected 12 squaddies, which tough were cool, took a major chunck out of the main plot with their "daddy issues" and left it bareboned. I played though the collector plot that didnt advance the story at all really, I played though the stupid human terminator reaper. I played through the dlc, which did more to bridge the games than the main game. And they didnt really matter, cause even if you dont do them, someone else does them for you, whether its Liara or the N7 squad.... bah.
The atmosphere changed too, from the mysterious vibe of ME1 to some generic galactic action flick with comic book writing. Oh yeah, Mac Walters...
This is why i wasnt too strung up by the "betrayed promises in ME3". It was just a continuation what they had decided, a cake that was too big to chew. And it didnt come as a surprise, at least to me. The thing turned from an immersive experience to merely a fun game for me, thats just a game. But boy did they really manage to ****** everyone off now.
I wished the rest of you could have seen this coming, somewhat. Might have taken it all a bit better without going into deep deep depression.
Im kinda with Smudboy on that one where he said " The overarching bookends of destruction didnt start with the intro of ME3, it started with the intro to ME2. Thats right, those 2 games succesfully destroyed the overarching plot and thus the entire series. ME1 was destroyed by ME2 by having nothing to do with anything, whose events impacted nothing and whose dlc apparently had more meaning. ME3 invalidated ME1s sovereigns plot and destroyed the galaxy(this was before EC). Theres nothing of value here."
"I like that fans want to retake ME3, but I say Retake Mass Effect!! Give us a real space opera series which doesnt go bipolar and doesnt go suicidal. "
Modifié par Armass81, 03 janvier 2013 - 08:09 .
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