The Fury said:
I don't think it needed flack, it was 'epic' in it's way. You fight the big fight to achieve your main goal (defeat the bad guy and stop his plans) but the rest of the outcome, the ending was not in your control. You have no say and just have to accept it. |
You just had to accept that the world may have been destroyed at the end of your epic 70 hour RPG (Talking about FFVII, here) and never knowing what happened aside from a brief video of a destroyed Midgar. You saw Red XIII and his kids a 100 years (or 300.....anyway, it was a loooooong time after everyone was dead) and your actions always led to this semi-conclusive ending. And yet, to this day, many consider FFVII the greatest RPG ever made.
Now, we get ME3, the end of an insanely epic journey. Featured a story that was beyond epic. Some people are pissed that they ever made any sort of decisions or grew attached to the characters or anything because of the ending. I can feel their pain but I really enjoyed the journey. With Mass Effect 3, this series just kicked Gears of War off of the top of my personal list as The Franchise of this console generation. The ending wasn't perfect but I don't know of any story driven game (as for the guy that said MGS4.....don't get me started.) that resolved everything flawlessly. Hell, I just finished Valkyria Chronicles and when Faldio broke out of prison and killed the final boss I thought it was pretty stupid but I wasn't mad. It was the story the creators wanted to tell. The Mass Effect journey was a wonderful one and the ending is whatever you want it to be (though it's still not a particularly happy one). I'm fine with that.
