Whether you think Mass Effect 3's ending is good or not, the real issue is that 50,000 gamers apparently no longer consider it a work of art.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
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That whole "work of art" debate is getting old. I agree with what Hideo Kojima once said about games not being a work of art, but having artistic elements. I think it was something like that, but that article was read years ago and I'm getting old.
I don't know if it is art or not. I don't care. But it's definitely a product.
Also, they kinda threw the whole "artistic integrity" thing out the window when they wanted $10 more dollars to unlock one of the characters.
If Mass Effect is a work of art, then many more games are works of art than usually get mentioned in those conversations.
The idea that art is sacrosanct (in a world where nothing is really held as sacred), and is never to be revised is absolutely stupid.
Exactly my point. If you want Bioware to change the ending, and have EVER defended a game that people wanted changed because of violence or sexual content, you're just a hypocrite to me.
Developers shouldn't be allowed to write whatever they want if it's good and we like it. They should be allowed to write whatever they want PERIOD.