Mcfly616 wrote...
Seival wrote...
This request is not legitimate.
Not at all.
It is as legitimate as you two sticking to some selfish idea that you have what you want so who the hell cares about the wants of others. It is the ending in my game that is not legitimate since it does not fit the story Bioware created and allowed me to play out-dialogue and story that they created in my game.
Bioware did create this story. And in my game they also created dialogue that I chose that directed the game in a certain direction and created certain implied possibilities. They wrote this dialogue that I was allowed to choose. So, in effect they created a different story for me than for you. As I see it though they did create all games as more similar to the one I played than what you played because you'd have to ignore huge sections of what you are told in the games to come to the conclusion that the endings actually fit this story. Or, you'd have to believe in the Normandy crash tests on a jungle planet theory, or the idea of creating galactic concentration camps to round people up in, or the triple synthesis theory including a lot more Cerberus.
But so you ignore what the story was about, you decide ME2 failed because it didn't fit with the ending (truly backwards thinking since ME3 should have explained ME2). You believe that a happier ending, a win ending, that bears out self-determination is somehow less satisfying than watching the skin flayed off the hero, deciding to fundamentally and arbitrarily change the nature of the galaxy for no good reason other than because some flawed and broken computer program with delusions of godhood told you you could.
You believe that slideshows that show smiley faces after such verly likely atrocities have been committed are some confirmation of the need to make a hard choice and achieve balance is somehow less cheesier than an actual truly good feeling at having tried really hard, believed the impossible could be achieved, and that reliance on one another could save the day. In this kind of attitude, Scarface would be seen as somehow touchy feely and really cheery entertainment, family fare.
You can't have it both ways. The poster you are replying to says the endings are happy ones-he's said this before, because as proof he sites the slide shows, but then he says there should be no happy ending. Ok, makes sense to me. What we would like to see is the possibility of a happier ending that is based in reality, not super silly slideshows that attempt to show you that whatever Shepard may have done, it's all good. The galaxy is a happy place-more like they all exist in a drug induced state because there's nothing real about those slides and nothing great and good about what we now have.
Want balance? I know that Seival thinks it's all important (except when wanting people placed in concentration camps). So do I. I want the opposite of what we now have. Something a bit less demented, dark, dreary, and unsatisfying. I want something that actually remembers the themes and the stories that came before and validates all that. I also want something that includes the story I played and that considers the game and stories BW created previously. I want BW to actually write a story that fits the one they made for me to play.