03-26-2012, 11:22 PM
(03-26-2012, 06:11 PM)Quark Wrote: Well, 1) The entire game was the endingWhile it is technically true that the entire game was the ending of Shepard's story, I don't think that's enough. ME3 needs to have an ending to its storyline that is worthy of the game by itself, without having to consider the entire game an ending to a trilogy. Otherwise, what's the point of getting there?
Also, this "entitlement" thing is starting to annoy me. Yes, there are certainly idiots clamoring around, but that does not mean that everyone who is dissatisfied with the ending and want a new one are among them.
There is nothing wrong with being dissatisfied with something and asking the creators to change it, as long as it is done in a proper manner. Most of the people I've seen on BSN have been generally polite and mature about it (even to the point of starting a donation drive for Child's Play while explaining their issues with it).
(03-26-2012, 07:47 PM)Jester Wrote: 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.I agree that it can't erase past happiness, but it can tarnish memories of it. It hasn't done so for me, but right when I got to that final choice, I was paralyzed for a few minutes--I was thinking, "It can't end like this!" This was before even making that choice. (I felt even worse after it, and replayed the last segment over to see the other outcomes in the hopes of something else.)
After thinking about it some more, I decided that, while I still didn't like the ending and would prefer a different one, I could accept it. I still don't like it, though.
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