(03-26-2012, 06:35 PM)Lissa Wrote: Think of it this way Jester, you've spent 300 hours on something, you add another 30 or so hours to that, and then everything is completely invalidated in 5 minutes, wasting all that time you spent.
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Literally, everything you've done up to the ending, all the time you've invested, is for naught.
If I thought of it that way, I'd be miserable. I'd have to change my whole perspective on why I play video games. I didn't start playing the Mass Effect series all those years ago as an investment for this one moment, which will pay off or not in the final minutes of ME3. I played them because I enjoyed them at the time. If I've got 329 hours of really neat gaming (okay, so the Mako hours can be subtracted), and an ending which does not satisfy, then I'm a reasonably happy camper. The one not-so-great moment does not travel back in time and erase my past happiness.
Quote: And as you pointed out, ME 3 almost parallels KotOR 2 (difference being that ME 3 is more polished and finished), where it leaves more questions than answers when it finishes.
You know, I'm actually okay with that. I don't have a closure obsession. Things can remain mysterious. Sometimes that's even for the best. Perhaps not here, I don't know. To put it in context of an unambiguously good game with a highly ambiguous ending, I'm really perfectly okay without knowing what the final fate of the Nameless One is. Kind of better that way, really.
-Jester
Afterthought: If you're thinking of Inside UFO 54-40, I actually really like that idea. Doesn't frustrate me at all - reminds me of Borges, asking interesting questions about what, exactly, it means to be a reader, before French postmodernists came and ruined all the fun forever.