Sorry, Mass Effect 3 complainers

[johnnnny guitar]

well thanks for saying sorry but Im done with Bioware no matter how good or bad they "fix" the ending with The Extended Cut DLC.
On the other hand I should thank bioware for helping me find all the great personalities on the internet that were upset about the ending aswell seriously their are some great video out there that fully destroy the argument that the ending should stay the same.

 

[Darkmantle]

Wow... So messed up. Something being art doesn't automatically mean you should love it. I never said it excuses anything. Don't make up words I never said.

A child's scribbling and the endings to Mass Effect 3 are both art. They're not good, but, they're still art. A single line on a piece of paper is art. But, no one can tell you weather or not you should enjoy it.

Mass Effect 3, like all videogames (even Big Rigs, for crying out loud), is art. That doesn't mean everything about it is perfect.
Stop putting words in my mouth.

Might as well be yelling into the wind with this one. Most gamers don't understand that there is bad art and good art. Calling something art isn't a defense against criticism and it isn't assumed that something is good because it's art.

unfortunately that seems to be the stance many "industry people" have taken about ME3s ending. You can't complain about it, because it was the artists vision and you should respect that. Well I don't respect it, the ending is bad, and whoever wrote it should feel bad.

 

[Darkmantle]

unfortunately that seems to be the stance many "industry people" have taken about ME3s ending. You can't complain about it, because it was the artists vision and you should respect that. Well I don't respect it, the ending is bad, and whoever wrote it should feel bad.

I've heard that more as a stance against people who want the ending changed. I really think this whole thing is just a breakdown in communication between the average gamer and the gaming media.

Gamers seem to think that when the media says you can't demand Mass Effect 3 change it's ending because it's art, that they means they don't have the right to criticize it.

Couple things

the "we only mean the people who want it changed" thing is silly. I want it changed, because I think it's just badly written and handled, and I don't think that's the story they wanted to tell, it sounds too forced and rushed. But I know how companies work, and EA won't admit it's mistakes, so a "rewrite" is never going to come on it's own

and the defence of it's only " against people who want the ending changed" would hold up better if any of the reviewers and critics weren't singing the praises of the ending and how it all made sense and were pulling the entitled card on anyone who disagreed, whether or not "demand" was in the argument.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

It wouldn't be such a problem if people we allowed to edit the game and change the ending to a way that they preferred. However, Origin will ban anyone caught modifying the game without question. This is a lifetime ban by the way.

 

[FFHAuthor]

Actually, I'm still of the opinion that some - some! - of the complainers are being childish and acting like brats. I've seen forum posts screaming about how they deserve more than this, how BioWare are "stupid fags who hate their customers", how they will never ever buy a BioWare game again because this one was worse than the Holocaust, etc. It's hard to argue that behaviour like that isn't the work of entitled children.

Well, it's the internet, what more can you expect than there to be a larger than expected portion of over the top nutjobs.

But kudos to you for being willing to step up and say 'oh, I do see your point' after getting a better grounding in the entire issue.

 

[Savo]

You are right that we already had our ME3 playthroughs spoiled by the ending. The feeling of playing through the entire game and coming to the highly anticipated final battle only to get slapped in the face by star-kid and his poorly written monologue can't be undone.

However, Bioware can still make it up to the fans. The damage that the ending did to the rest of the series and future games can still be undone. At this point, I view it as them repairing the series as a whole so that future ME games can hold to the same quality of the first two and 99% of three.

We may have had our playthroughs of the Mass Effect series spoiled, but that doesn't mean that future fans and upcoming entries in the ME series need to suffer the same fate.