@AncientDozer TOTALLY agree with your post. For anyone who thinks all pro-change ending fans are monstrous trolls, please browse this 800+ page thread in the Bioware forums: http://social.bioware.com/language.php?return_url=%2Fforum%2F1%2Ftopic%2F355%2Findex%2F9727423%2F1
@billlabowski " Just a bunch of whiny kids who think their opinion actually means something. " This post just proves that no matter how intelligently you argue your opinion, no matter how respectfully you disagree, no matter how many points you make regarding contradictions and plotholes, a majority of the people who disagree with you are gonna plug their ears and scream "ENTITLED BABIES!!!" Well if you're that determined to throw me into the entitled bandwagon, then hell yes. I am entitled. I am entitled to share my opinion. I respect the fact that you may disagree with me regarding the ending, but all I see from most people who are defending the endings is name calling and "ENTITLED BASTARDS!" *RAGE RAGE ANGER BOO HISS* Call it what you want, try to rationalize it as much as you want. Bioware stated they made the game with fans in mind. If they didn't, Garrus and Tali wouldn't have been added as love interests. Therefore, it is not too appalling they would make DLC for the customers who want it. By the way, if game is art and is not to be changed (which, LOL, because art is changed sometimes to fit clients' interests; music, visual, etc), then DLC needs to end completely, meaning game journalists should also bash DLC instead of reviewing it and saying "Go buy it it's awesome!"
@jollybest1 The more questions I start to have, the more frustrated I get. And after replaying ME1 and ME2 this week, the question list just keeps growing and growing...LOL. And the contradictions seem to keep coming.
@Drakkengoth I agree with getting closure for ME3. Bioware has shown us that it can be done (Dragon Age: Origins's Epilogue) so it just shocks me. I think it's also because of the changes in the people who helped develop the games this time around. It's sort of similar to what happened when Will Wright and other major players left Maxis and stopped helping with The Sims. Lots of radical changes to how things were done and more DLC/money grabbing concepts used (AKA The Sims 3 Store, as opposed to getting objects for free for certain EPs like with TS1.)
This one makes me laugh: "Tyler Winegarner @THE_REAL_TYLERW Now I gotta play ME3 before they **** up the ending with kittens and rainbows and lesbians holding hands? So much for playing on MY time!" ^^ There's always an option of NOT DOWNLOADING the DLC. It's downloadable content...I don't know why people are acting as if it's the end of the world. But we clearly see what he views as the real problem with ME3. I wonder what @Kevin-V thinks of that comment.
Oh let me also point out how paradoxical it is that we are in a country where everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but then when people voice it, especially disliking the ending of ME3, then we're "entitled" in a bad way. I still play ME3. I already gave them my money for the game. I'm not getting it back. 95% of the game I absolutely love. I dislike the ending. I just block it out now. I disagree with people who say the game is completely and utterly ruined by the last 10 minutes to the point where I wouldn't play through again, but it definitely doesn't make me want to play the end game or even care about EMS or War Assets enough to go and be a completionist, and sure as hell doesn't make me want to play on Insanity. Many people will say "Pay for the DLC and Bioware wins." Guys, they already won by getting us to BUY THE GAME. I'd rather buy the ending/closure DLC and win myself. I'm not sworn off of Bioware games for the rest of my life, but I will not preorder them and I will wait for aggregate opinions on them and demo them if possible before I make a decision. Meaning the last Bioware game I preordered was DAII and it shall remain unless somehow they magically make a game as great as DAO or ME1 when they first came out.
[spoiler] And honestly I am fine with Shepard dying. I prepared myself for him to possibly die. When he survived it was intense and shocking...what I am NOT fine with is the missing puzzle pieces. How the hell did one of my squadmates who was in the final run to the citadel with me make it back on the Normandy when I got raped by Harbinger's beam and they were behind me? What happened to Joker and why is he magically in some other system? I know they were saying retreat and regroup, but I find it hard to believe he would magically be on a ME relay while traveling back to Sol and then land in another system...because with those two moons it's clearly NOT earth. BTW, what about the Krogan and Turians? Or the quarians? Salarians? Everyone I friggin left in the middle of space...people who are basically stranded there unable to go home...? Not to mention the whole idea of Godchild controlling ALL of the reapers himself contradicts Sovereign in ME1. Sovereign says each reaper is like an individual nation...but magically they are no longer sentient and cannot speak for themselves like Sovereign and Harbinger did in ME1 and ME2, respectively? In ME2, Harbinger kept being put as the big boss you'd have to fight in the final game, similar to Sovereign in ME1. Now he's controlled by some AI and never utters a word? I was fine with Stargazer's scene too. But I just had too many questions about everyone else before that. [/spoiler]
I don't understand people complaining about them changing the ending. We all know it's gonna be DLC that you'll either 1) have to pay for, most likely, and/or 2) will be an optional download, not forced upon you, just like the rest of the DLC. Dragon Age Origins is an example of a bittersweet ending. If you die, you still at least figure out what happens afterwards in an Epilogue summary. I just want to know WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE SHEPARD LEFT BEHIND. I had no problem with DA2's ending, and that was because you got a summary of what happened after. I personally received closure. Also, it is not the end of the series or the end of a trilogy. The only closure you get in ME3 regarding the characters are the ones who die during the course of the storyline. Especially up on the Citadel. Bittersweet, but you had closure with the character who died. The rest...just *facepalm*
@dakhudson Or someone who cares about the rich storyline could be a playwright or a writer or an actor who loves a good story. No one says anything about people who read books. Hell, the name geek isn't even an insult anymore as everyone who was a "geek" is now a boss who has the "jocks" working for them. Your immaturity shows by having to name call people just to get your point across.
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