Holy hell, the staff is just as clueless. I hope Bioware doesn't completely change the ending, because then they've missed the point as well. Just make the damned thing make sense! They claim to have read into the constructive criticisms, well, that's the only one! Who really expected Shepard to live...or wants him to live bad?[spoiler] Even if you had the secret ending where he supposedly survives, that didn't help any. It only added to the "WTF just happened?" [/spoiler] I didn't know it was completely acceptable, of a trilogy. Thanks for bringing me up to speed GS Staff, how so very credible of you guys. I'm sorry, but where the hell does artistic integrity, fan entitlement, and all this other bull**** come into focus?
I guess leaving people stupefied by your work can give those members of the audience who think "I totally get it" the idea you've concocted something brilliant.
Funny, I was wondering what inspired BioWare to give players the option to play Mass Effect 3 through as a third person shooter (no dialogue options) or solely for the story making the combat sequences incredibly easy. Now I get it.
@Dreizel nothing is wrong with the article. The abuse was completely unwarranted considering how late it is was, and worse than that, she was suggesting giving players a . How dense were these players that they couldn't even appreciate those two facts. I really can't take this community sometime (). It would seem anytime developers try to improve their game or take it to the next level by adding gameplay, all the fans do is piss and moan about how it's going to degrade the experience, then you guys turn around and s*** on Call of Duty for being the same game year in and year out, and then it makes billions, WTF. I guess money talks and bull**** tweets. The only conclusion I can begin to draw is that the hardcore userbase has lost so much influence to the masses, they've been driven incredibly mad and their initial reaction to this change is to lash out at just about anything that isn't original or is too inclusive for their taste.
@mdchapel9 NASCAR, Formula 1, and Motorcross isn't sitting on ass, they are driving. If you're that interested you can research the demands imposed on the driver by the vehicles and race tracks, but I'm not that big into racing either (I do love cars though). Playing a video game is not a sport (an athletic activity), I disagree with you about that.
I don't know of any athletes who don't know how to read in this day and age and cheaters and criminals exists everywhere, I didn't go as far to say every athlete is a role model or insinuate that I would like these people personally. Even then, it's not about respecting the individual, it's about respect for the craft. I don't see your point. I was explaining why I, "the average Joe", doesn't care for professional gaming. I know a professional gamer and I still don't care for it. I don't take gaming that serious. I compared pro gamers to athletes because the writer calls professional gaming "e-sports" which is ridiculous, there is zero relationship to sports. I also made the comparison because I can't go from watching people play sports competitively to watching people play video games competitively, it just doesn't make sense to me, even though I enjoy playing competitive multiplayer myself. The co-founder of MLG knows this already, this is why he said it's not about people 24-30 (no, I'm 21), but the next generation. I thought I was being very clear, but instead you took it as an attack on pro gamers. My message is, play your heart out, I'm just not going watch-I have no reason to.
If the sponsors want to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on professional gamers, that's their prerogative. If pre-teens to adult men want to dedicate their entire existence to playing a video game, in hopes of going pro, then I wish them good luck. God knows they'll need it, it's not the healthiest lifestyle (until you hit those six figure contracts and can afford to buy your life back, so to speak). As for spectating, hell no. The writer of this piece tried damn hard to make watching a Street Fighter match sound interesting, but no, watching the pros play is about as fun as sitting on the couch watching your friends play, except you don't have next on the controller and the people you are watching are complete strangers.
Maybe it's because I watch so many different sports and marvel and respect what athletes put their bodies through and transform themselves into, but I have no interest in watching some guy who sits on ass and plays Halo 14-15 hours a day, sit on ass and play against another guy who who does the same. The fact they get paid is just a bad joke on whoever is signing their checks.
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