Skippy wrote:Mafro wrote:Mass Effect 3's nonsense and the utter disdain from Bioware and the games press towards longtime fans of the series completely killed my interest. This will have to be one hell of a game to suck me back in.
In the whole ME3 furore it was the gamer's at most fault for demanding Bioware go back and change the ending. Yes the ending was terrible but you wouldn't ask an author or film director to go back and change the ending of a story if it was gooseberry fool. You'd wish they had, but you wouldn't expect them to. Bioware should have had more balls and stood by what they did rather than pander to a bunch of entitled pricks.
The ending sucked, oh well, move on. The whole mess that occurred was just embarrassing
They didn't exactly change the ending though did they? They just added a few things to actually make it make some sort of sense, and remove the blatant continuity errors. It was clearly rushed and felt like it was something thought up at the last minute by someone who had no involvement with the rest of the story. It was also pretty much everything we had been promised it wouldn't be, some of the pre release quotes made about what the ending would and wouldn't be were hard to believe, and suggest something went very wrong towards the end of development.
It had nothing to do with vision, or artistic integrity, the ending was broken in it's original state, and an insult to the money and time fans had invested into the series up to that point. Sometimes companies just make mistakes, or individuals ruin things for everyone, it appears this is what happened at Bioware and it would have been an even bigger mistake to not address it. The fact is they did address it, and people can move on and look forward to future games.
Skippy wrote:The ending was awful, really really awful. There's no denying that. The press knowing that the gamers were in the wrong doesn't mean they were sucking up to anyone - though some outlets clearly did in a very patronising and sickening way. The entitled pricks thing was only so prevalent as to become "tedious" because so many people were saying it. The reason so many people said it? Because it was true!
I don't see how someone demanding a storyteller change the ending of their own story can be seen as anything other than them being entitled.
Edit: Insinuating that the press can't go against their own readership sounds like you're saying gamers are infallible, which simply isn't true.
Sometimes things are handled so badly, that it really is justified to be publicly against it. If Disney decide to end the next star wars trilogy by having Luke unzip his skin to reveal that underneath he is actually Darth vadar all along, was actually his own father, which is possible because his mother was actually an ewok and mating with one creates a rift in time and space, then there would be a justified negative reaction towards it.
The people making death threats and demanding changes at the top of their voice are simply the vocal minority that always gather the most attention, it doesn't invalidate the majority of fans who felt completely betrayed by the false promises and broken ending.