4stringwizard wrote...
MassEffectFShep wrote...
LeandroBraz wrote...
1 - you don't need to explain every single detail of a story, somethings are better if kept as a mistery. Today we have this wrong sense that everything must be explained, this isn't truth. Actually the more you explain, the bigger is the chance that you will f*ck up with your story. Some misteries should remain as mistery.
Sure, not explaining some things in excruciating detail is probably wise. Obviously we don't have an inifinite amount of time (or desire) to learn all the intricacies of the ME universe.
That being said, it's important to make sure you explain the important stuff. Players expect that key parts of the storyline (e.g., the Crucible, what happens to Shepard post-rubble, etc.) will be explained. At a time in the game when I should have gotten all my big questions answered, and was expecting an "a-ha!" or "whoa, that's so crazy how it all fits together" moment, I got nebulous dialogue from a character I just met who talked me in circles until I was so confused that I just wanted to get it over with and have the credits roll. Mysteriousness is interesting up to a certain point, and then it becomes confusing and boring and the player will likely disengage, oftentimes in aggravation and resentment.
Exactly. I'm not asking for everything explained, but the Crucible is a pretty friggin' important part of the plot. We don't know what it does, how it works, or who built it. At least tell us what it is. Something that big deserves at least some explanation, not relegated to a deus ex machina that comes off as lazy writing.
Instead it's just "Have a problem with Reapers?? Here's a huge freakin' space gun that will solve all your problems!!!"
So lets talk about the crucible.
They never explained how exactly the Mass Relays work, we know only what it do, but exactly how it works is unknow even for the characters in the game. What is the crucible? A device that exploited the technology of the Mass Relays. If Bioware never explained how the Mass Relays works, why they should explain how the Crucible work if it's the same technology? We know what it does, as it's described by the catalyst:
"The device that you refer as the crucible is litle more than a power source. However, in combination with the Citadel and the relays, it's capable of releasing tremendous amounts of energy throughout the galaxy. It's crude but effective and adaptive in its design"
So, what we know about about the Crucible? It use mass relay technology to work as a power source that is higly adaptive (which allowed the catalyst to use it in the way he saw fit). What you want Bioware to show you? A schematic? It's like the Mass Relays, nobody know YET how it works.
The origin is the part that is better if kept as mistery. We know it's concept emerged in an older cycle, and it evolved through the cycles. Someone, at some point found out about the catalyst, and saw a way to use it with the crucible. Someone, at some point probably figured out exactly what it would do once joined with the catalyst, but that information was lost, all our cycle had was a schematic inherited of the protheans, that didn't knew that much about it too. This is the point where, the further Bioware goes, the bigger is the chance that they will f*ck up the whole thing even more (personally I like the concept, even if it is not what I wanted for ME3). There's no need to show exactly who and how.
Then we have a fact, if the crucible is merely a deus ex-machina, or a lazy device used for lazy writing, what good it will do if they explain detailed everything about it? The entire crucible concept is what you dislike, building over it will never give you the closure you are looking for, it will just give you more material to complain about. What you want is a ME3 without crucible, and that won't happen, it's done. The best thing now is to let it go and hope that ME4 will start a story as good as ME1 started, and will lead to an end better than ME3.
About Shepard, what happen to him is up to you. It's like "El laberinto del fauno"(2006) film. They don't have to tell if Shepard survived, it's open for your interpretation.
Modifié par LeandroBraz, 07 février 2013 - 08:42 .
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