kain_kusanagi said:
Sal.Paradise said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Sal.Paradise said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Thanks for posting it, but I'm not going to watch 40 minutes of complaints, most of which I doubt I will agree with. I'm not going to watch it or seek out other videos and articles like it for the following very good reason. I liked Mass Effect 3's ending so I'm not in need of information about why it sucked.
Mass Effect 3's ending is polarizing. That means people like it others don't. That means it's a matter of taste and nobody is right or wrong about their opinions on it. Some guy talking for 40 minutes is going to change my mind just like my reasons for liking it aren't going to change your opinion.
I do still suggest that people let it go and stop taking it so serious. Some people are acting like it's some great injustice that they don't like the ending. There are people who hate the ending of the Hunger Games trilogy, I liked it. Any time you have a beloved franchise with people invested in long running characters, when it all comes to an end, there will be people who are disappointed that it didn't go the way they envisioned. Those people need to let it go and realize that it wasn't their job to envision an ending, Bioware where the visionaries and they made it the way they wanted. I liked what they did, you didn't. Both are valid points of view.
Personally I hope they don't change the ending too much because even though it might make fans happy I'd hate to see their art changed by popular vote. Art is supposed to be taken as is.
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The complaints about the ending are numerous, but plot holes and inconsistencies are not a matter of taste or polarization, they're just bad.
I don't want to make you hate the ending by watching the video, I want you to understand why I and many fans of the Mass Effect franchise did.
And don't throw the art excuse around, I can guarantee you that the corporate influence of EA had a bigger effect on Bioware's 'artistic vision' than any fan complaints ever could; it's comercial art, nothing more.
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I guess you are probably right. EA is just an evil corporation that wants you to hate their games and Bioware has no artistic integrity. The reason you hate the ending is because EA made Bioware replace the one you would have loved. ;)
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Actually, the ending was purely the fault of Casey Hudson and one other writer, who decided it best to rush the ending in a room by themselves instead of submitting it to the rest of the team for peer review as they have done for years. Sigh.
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Well which is it. Did EA ruin the ending for you or did Bioware? Casey Hudson and his writing team are Bioware after all and the rest of Bioware produced what they wrote. If everyone at Bioware didn't like what they wrote in the script it wouldn't have made it to the disc. At this point I don't really care one way or the other. You seem to hate the ending and you have all your ideas of way. That's fine. I liked it, you're just going to have to deal with the fact that not everyone agrees with you.
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"you're just going to have to deal with the fact that not everyone agrees with you."
As I said before, I don't want to make you hate the ending by watching the video, I want you to understand why I and many fans of the Mass Effect franchise did. I know some people are fine by the ending, I don't mind you not watching the video either because I don't want to ruin it for you, but I just wanted you to understand why there's been such an unprecedented backlash against it, that's all ^^
While Casey made the stupid decision to rush the ending with only one other writer, the reason he had to rush it was because he did not have creative freedom over the project.
EA giveth (money) and EA taketh away (freedom).
It's all conjecture from me really, but when a company changes direction so radically after over a decade of solid performance and a very particular style of game, I have to assume the obvious. In a perfect world, money that went on developing the multiplayer mode, DLC content, modelling and voicing IGN staff, pre-release promotional shit and iOS software would have instead been used on allowing the game a proper development cycle and making it the game it could have been. Of course, as I said, under any publishing corporation the team would have had to compromise their vision in some way, and most likely the EA money and direction made Mass Effect a bigger hit commercially than Bioware ever could have, but EA has a track record of particularly nasty business, and I feel sad to see (in my eyes) the quality of their games drift away.
