Zangerfang wrote...
I can agree with some points you make like the pr guy. People are entitled to their own opinions. However most people who dislike things like the EC or certain things in the game fail to understand the most important reasons why bioware didn't give the ending that those players wanted.
Don't get me wrong, like most everyone else I would love for them to release a dlc even if I have to pay for it where its possible for Shepard to survive along with a bit more closure to some of the things they didn't touch on in the EC or in the game. This does not mean I did not fully enjoy playing the game to completion.
I look at it this away though. Bioware designed the game the way they thought it should be because it is Their game not ours. We pay money to play it yes but in a sense its just the same as if it were a book that you bought in the store. The author of the book writes it based on how he or she wants it to be. Its up to the reader to choose whether he/she likes the book, but it will not change the author's view if the people reading the book decide they don't like how it ends or what happens during the different chapters, the story is told through the talents and imagination of the writer not the reader. Asking bioware to change the ending would be like reading a book then going to the authors house and asking him to re-write his book with a happier ending because you didn't like it. If the reader wants something different then they should write their own book the way they want. Bioware releases great games and though I may not always agree with how one of them should end or some of the content that is in the game it does not change the experience that I get when I play one of them. Every mass effect game is full of great storytelling and gets you completely involved with the characters. The experience as a whole is what matters to me and If one person on this forum that has something to complain about can honestly say to themselves that this game completely sucks or what not, then they should probably not be playing it in the first place because they do not appreciate the time and effort that the authors spent to bring us this masterpiece of storytelling. And obviously they did not enjoy anything about the game at all otherwise the Ending wouldn't kill the whole game for them.
The comparison to a book is frankly wrong. Same to a movie comparison. A video game is interactive. The developers set the world and we are to have fun in it. There is one thing that Mass Effect 3 did not consider, the player. ME1 and ME2 had freedom, you could essentially do what you want and things could go very badly if you didn't muck around. ME3 was on some pretty present rails and honestly i did enjoy most of the game up until the cerberus base. But things like kai leng and his ridiculous plot armour and every cutscene making Shepard do something contrary to what he would do(aka pulling terrible weapons out of his arse while being a terrible shot). And people do change endings of books and movies, you say "you don't" but if i thought an ending to a movie or book as ridicuous enough, yeah i would, cause i'm not passive. Dubly so if the author has proved they can write and end well.
I wasn't expecting a happy ending, I WAS expecting an ending that makes sense. I cannot say that any book/series i have read didn't make sense in the end. Movies that do it are generally just annoying. Its why i didn't like prometheus much. Generally the involvement wit the characters was toned down from Mass Effect 2, which is stupid as hell. The immersion just isn't there for me and by the time starkid shows up i was downright cynical. I actually began to hate the game for wasting my time after he finished talking.
Mass Effect 2 would be a masterpiece in storytelling Mass Effect 1 as well to a lesser extent. ME3 is like their deformed little brother. Parts of the story is good, but more of the story is stupid and ridiculous. Partuculary both earth missions and the end part of thessia.
I can't speak for everyone but the ending kills the series for me, because it makes me feel like everything was useless, that everything i did, didn't matter because in the end, its all up to some super ancient AI that appeared from nowhere with a stupid reason for existing, and kills the mystique of the reapers and makes me very very sad regarding harbinger, who was awesome and replaced by crap.
Mass effect's choices system is pretty meaningless in the third game, you either do a good decision or the decision which nets you less good stuff. The game actively punshes you for half its its choices.
There is a reason ME3's ending has been called the worst ending in storytelling.
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