Nopes. He isn't even one of the best characters in his series.
Really? How can the IT supporters be so happy with Mass Effect 3 because that is the ending they think they got? You are happy you were given a game that didn't have an ending? The theory basically states everything after the beam is a dream. In which case the ending never happens. In which case you have to wait for a fourth game to end the trilogy(huh?) or dlc to end the game. I mean that isn't ingenious. That isn't clever. That isn't revolutionary. That is a jerk move.
I think most people did to be honest with you. I personally follow the story because it's quite funny/interesting. The story surrounding the ending that is. Most people that indeed hated the ending seemed to have moved on though. Most comments regarding Mass Effect articles nowadays seem to be people that hated the ending to the point they took it personally and people that will defend Bioware regardless of what they would ever do. To the point you wonder if Bioware has unpaid interns and...
I think they'd have to actually apologize in order to be forgiven right?
A sincere and humble apology would show fans they care. Hell honestly majority of the "change the ending" fans, would have been satisfied with a sincere and humble apology. Not satisfied but understanding. Instead they had to be stubborn and give a forced apology of an "extended ending".
"We're sorry you didn't like our game(ending). We promise to try better next time. To take a step back from where we are and try to get back to our roots. To ...
They said the same thing about the Virtual Boy! But now who's laughing!? Well probably no one that actually still owns it. All two of you.
(looks like my last post here, so I'll try to make all my points with this one post.)
"That's a pretty sappy and unrealistic ending in my opinion."
People would have liked the option to destroy them. Also the option to not destroy them. In short, what is the point of the entire game if you can't win? What is the point of the entire game if you can't see what you spent your entire game doing play out for you?
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Indoctrination theory is a slap in the face fans are begging for. "The ending was great because it wasn't the real ending. Bioware made an incomplete game and I can't wait to pay more money to get the complete game and the real ending!". This is the indoctrination theory in a nutshell. Even if it were true, I'd doubt they would go through with it now. Unless they would release majority of their single player dlc for free. Which is probably the only option left in order t...
If you mean they are in fact coming out with "true ending" dlc. Holy crap is that going to piss people off. Even more so. I mean I know a good portion of the small portions of fans happy with the ending are in the IT camp. However they are basically saying, "Thank you Bioware for an incomplete game. I can't wait to pay more money for the real ending!". So if they do indeed come out with DLC that supports the IT or anything that says, their game was incomplete. Well, fi...
Well it can make the story weaker as a whole. Which it did. You can judge a trilogies story, regardless of game play and graphics and anything else you can think of. Personally I felt the entire Mass Effect 3 game was weak when it came to story and dialogue in general. The ending just capped off a mediocre experience with a horrible finish. So while yes, the first two games were great if not better. The third did make the entire story of those first two, rather pointless.
Uhh no. Who on earth told you that? They could have easily set up the DLC to take place at any point and time. Just like any DLC to any game. The ending was monumentally flawed in that the protagonist didn't have to die. They fixed that. You could make an argument Mass Effect 3 had so much wrong with it, that it is hard to compare to any other game. In which case, fair point. Otherwise, you are wrong.
They didn't have to do anything. Correct. Just like anybody doesn't have to apologize for anything wrong they did. This is their forced apology. Their, "I'm sorry I guess. Now you better buy our single player dlc!". Chances are this extended cut did nothing for that or them, though. They should have just come out and said, "we're sorry you didn't like our game. We'll try better next time." Instead of coming out like passive aggressive children who w...
You know those phony forced apologies parents make their kids give after they did something wrong?
All the endings reek of, "We're sorry". Only no parent is around to tell them to say it like they mean it.
So you are in the two wrongs make a right camp when it comes to thinking? The trick is telling it in a new way. They did that with the first Mass Effect. Gave more meaning to it all in ME2. ME3 was a phoned in pile of mediocrity. Avatar was only two hours of superficial fluff you paid ten bucks to see. ME3 was almost twenty(felt a lot less) hours of superficial fluff you paid sixty bucks for. More if you paid for the on the disc "dlc".
You mean they listen to the wrong fans to start with and the right fans too late? I mean fans come up with plenty of innovative, clever, or simply fun ideas. However a lot of them are also your standard, "Transformers is the best movie ever!" fans.
Not to mention Bioware got pretty arrogant. It happens from time to time. After the back to back, backlash over their two big titles. Their next title will probably fail something fierce. I mean eventually they'll be...
To me a hardcore gamer would be the equivalent of a movie nerd and/or movie buff. Someone that goes out of their way to find quality and doesn't settle for fluff. Your fans of the Transformers franchise and such would just be people who want something to watch(nothing wrong with that). Where as your fans counting the days away to your latest Park Chan Wook movie, are movie fans of a more discriminate taste. People that want to see movies made to the best of their ability.
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It seems the entire genre game is dying out period. It isn't like movies where indie and foreign movies can bring you the true genre piece. Video games need money to be great. I mean you do have your indie games but very few are capable of bringing you something revolutionary or ambitious. Nowadays though everything seems to come as a hybrid. To its credit though Dishonored does look like it'll bring you some stealth heavy options to play its game. I too am waiting for a new Thief gam...
Krogan home world, Geth/Quarians, crucible, etc were consistent with hopelessness? All were clearly meant to give hope, I reckon. The ending is where all hope is gone. I mean their cut scenes are meant to clarify but really outside of, "Normandy crew lands on planet, fixes ship, goes back to citadel and live happily ever after. Mean while it turns out all other races aren't stranded or killed, we found a magic portal underneath Earth ruins nobody bothered to look under before that ca...
To be fair, ME2 was more about character progression and emotion. Though I'd easily agree with the idea that it could have been handled better, ME2 served a completely different purpose from ME1. ME1 set up the story. ME2 made you care about it. ME3 ignored those two and phoned something in to make a quick buck.
Mass Effect 3 has always leaned on their story due to their at best average game play. So we judge it more harshly on story than anything else. With that said the complaints about Gears Of War 3 and Deus Ex are some of the exact same complaints found in Mass Effect 3. How oblivious can a "writer" be?