Mass Effect 3
- Thread starter nightshade
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The bean counters almost certainly are not ... the original plan was to end Shepard's journey, not the ability to use the universe in a remotely recognizable way for future games (again, only writers like prequels). I've said it before, somehow the producer was asleep at the wheel ... the writers should have never been allowed to do this.
dragonelite
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They should really look a this fan made flowchart seems like something i can appreciate and expected the ending to flow in ME3. It's a shame bioware themselves couldn't make it.
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http://i.imgur.com/JhtqY.jpg
What i expect to get is dlc before cerberus base which drop on a unknown planet or the citadel where you get exposed to the Vent-kid for like 3 mission. So it seems like vent kid didn't come out of no where.
Edit:*Does contain spoilers*
http://i.imgur.com/JhtqY.jpg
What i expect to get is dlc before cerberus base which drop on a unknown planet or the citadel where you get exposed to the Vent-kid for like 3 mission. So it seems like vent kid didn't come out of no where.
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Who knows ... office politics, vacation, the writers talked in to him until he started thinking prequels were a good idea ...
L. Scofield
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Well, not the ending itself, but the final battle is a master touch of Bioware.
The so called indoctrination theory shows how, in this incredible new video fans made.
Reapers make you believe Synthetics or Control are the best options, and Destruction is the Renegade options. It's their choices, not yours, so their options are highlighted as paragon, and destruction is Renegade. The whole process is explained here.
I don't mean it in the sense that people will be so disgusted with the ending they won't buy other games ... I mean in the sense that their universe became unrecognizable and constrained at the end.
L. Scofield
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DuckThor Evil
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I hope that is true and I want to believe
I know they are capable of great twists as evidenced by Kotor, but at the moment I just can't let myself believe it. I mean that theory makes way more sense to me than if it's not true, but still I believe it when I*ll see it. The video is well made, only drops the ball a bit in few places.
If Bioware bows to the pressure and changes the ending, it'll only set a bad precedent. Once the armchair writer can override the professional writers, I don't see any reason why a writer would want to work in the business. You'll get the most mediocre risk-free writing. Not that I think games are particularly well written as is, but I can only see these preventing gaming from taking the next step. The people who sit at home writing their own flow charts that describe how a story should end are exactly the kind of people I don't want meddling in the games I play.
The Muyzka post suggests that what they plan to release is a sort of an appendix that will describe in detail what happened to the rest of the squad, all the species, and everyone else, after Shepard made his decision.
I for one am disappointed that gamers are still not grown up enough to appreciate an ending that dares to go outside the box. But then again, cinema also took decades to mature...
I for one am disappointed that gamers are still not grown up enough to appreciate an ending that dares to go outside the box. But then again, cinema also took decades to mature...
Cinema is a $10-$20 affair that spans two hours of passively watching someone else's story. Mass Effect is a $100-$200 dollar experience that can last hundreds of hours and spans 5 years of you being interactively involved in a story line where you shape some of the details and the experience itself. Comparing Mass Effect to a TV series like Lost or the Sopranos would be more logical since fans of long running TV series tend to more emotionally invested.
Motion pictures as a medium is over a 100 years old and is still capable as ever in spouting out some of the most horrific examples of the medium known to mankind. Maturity has nothing to do with it. Some people have a problem with the way Mass Effect 3 ended in terms of it not ending in the way they would of wanted. But Mass Effect 3 ended in a way thats not really conducive to proper resolution, which a lot of people have a problem with.
Mass Effect's plot is mostly character driven so for the resolution to be short and general in nature it is bound to upset a lot of people. Whats happens to the galaxy is of less importance than what happens to Shepard, Liara, Garrus or any other character that might not of had an on screen death.
The Mass Effect ending went outside of what box exactly?
