Soooo....Mass Effect 3

[Lissa]

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Today's Extra Punctuation:

But I doubt the fanbase of Mass Effect were dismayed because they wanted an appropriate ending to the story. Rather, they wanted some kind of appropriate closure for the many-storied and I would argue unnecessarily lengthy process up to this point. Perhaps some epilogue where we get to see what all the characters we met along the way got up to after the events of the series, which I imagine would be easier if they hadn't pretty much all been killed off. I've been given to understand that Bioware are talking about changing the ending under the massive pressure from the idiot fanbase, and I hope like hell they're just talking about doing something like that, an epilogue appendix style thing just to square away the subplots.

Because it would set a horrible precedent if they're serious about actually changing the ending in line with some kind of democratically agreed upon alternative, rather than merely expanding or adding to it. I'm not as incensed about this concept as Moviebob has been on Twitter lately, but I can definitely say it's a bad idea. Because if it's established that the creators of a story can be pressured by constant browbeating by the audience, then the sanctity of the creator's original intention is made meaningless. The series will effectively have no ending, just a big gap with the words "Audience: Fill In Your Preferred Ending Here". This may be a time of politically correct inclusion of all points of view, but sooner or later the cockheads of the world are just going to have to accept that there are people who know better than them. You know. People who don't have cocks for heads. (emphasis added)

Well, there are now rumors (I haven't seen confirmation as yet), that people inside BioWare say that the ending is as it is because it was rushed out. There is commentary that Hudson and a couple others said that there was s'posed to be more commentary between Sheppard and the Star Child. So, it's possible (supposition on my part) that they did have an ending, didn't like it, tried to do a new ending, ran out of time, and shipped which blew up in their faces.

Also, looking at the DLC character, in my mind now, they were lying that they worked on this in the midterm and then added because they had time. Typically with the other DLC characters like Zaeed and Kasumi, there wasn't much interaction between those two characters and the other normal characters in ME 2 (showing that there were truly seperate from the story). The DLC character for ME 3 has a lot of interactive dialogue with the other squad members (one that is incredibly humorous with Tali - "emergency induction port!" the new multipass) and even other NPCs which Zaeed and Kasumi never had (the only Zaeed/NPC intereaction, outside of the loyalty mission, I can think of is if you took Zaeed to get Garrus in ME 2 and when talking with the Blue Suns, the head of Omega's Blue Suns had a short chat with Zaeed). Is the DLC character needed to complete the game, no, but you can definitely tell that it was probably removed from the main game, and if it was truly an after setup, they pulled in a lot of voice actors for that one DLC character.