Dear idiots at Bioware and pretentious morons everyone.
Stop using the artistic integrity excuse. You fundamentally shifted the priority and dynamics of the series away from a story driven Bioware game with (quite poor at the time, but could have
been improved on) RPG and TPS mechanics to a flat out shooter fan chasing Gears clone.
YOU. HAVE. NO. ARTISTIC. INTEGRITY.
Just because its shitty writing doesnt mean its somehow sacrosanct compared to the rest of the game.
The ending is abrupt, leaves you with about a thousand times more questions than it answers, nearly of of which are the negative "what the fuck is going on there" variety.
This whole debacle HAS set a dangerous precedent for the industry. Contrary to what the whiners who are whining about the whiners when they try and defend this fundamentally shit ending would have you believe, for gamers, its a positive one. It sets the precedent that for game developers, their fanbases now may not just lie down and take a piss poor ending with shitty, confusing writing and next to no closure. Particularly if you have LIED about the ending. Bioware can be in denial all they want, but they LIED about the ending, fundamentally.
The fans who complained and asked for more from the ending didnt expect too much, neither are they entitled. They are simply victims of a developer who promised too much, and clearly didnt have the talent, or maybe just the inclination to make good on those.
Now we will doubtless have more shit writing to justify shit writing.
Like an epilogue that explains why your squad inexplicably fled like cowards aboard the normandy to make a miraculous escape. Or that the fleets maybe werent destroyed by the same force that crippled the normandy. And subsequently if they survived then they didnt simply just starve to death (especially the quarians and turians) or did from infighting or whatever.
But still, a very small minority of people had sufficient lack of taste to tolerate the shitty writing and general lack of closure that was the ending, so I guess that means its perfectly fine, and to alter the ending is to violate its artistic integrity. Even if you arent a moron, and know that games go through many iterations in development, and even in some cases like Mass Effect take a massive shift in game design to cater to the third person shooter market. But changing the series to cater to shooter fans doesnt violate its artistic integrity. No sirree. But asking for probably one of the worst endings in modern video game history to have some effort put into this time in the form of a rewrite definitely does.
But hey, at least the free DLC will probably add a few more badly written epilogue style question marks to hang over the huge, fucking terribly written question mark that is the ending itself.
And then Bioware can take that shitty ending thats damn near ruined the universe and make an FPS spinoff series or something awful like that. But I wont care. I wont even be able to replay the magnificent ME1, because I know what a giant turd it leads to in ME3.
Stop using the artistic integrity excuse. You fundamentally shifted the priority and dynamics of the series away from a story driven Bioware game with (quite poor at the time, but could have
been improved on) RPG and TPS mechanics to a flat out shooter fan chasing Gears clone.
YOU. HAVE. NO. ARTISTIC. INTEGRITY.
Just because its shitty writing doesnt mean its somehow sacrosanct compared to the rest of the game.
The ending is abrupt, leaves you with about a thousand times more questions than it answers, nearly of of which are the negative "what the fuck is going on there" variety.
This whole debacle HAS set a dangerous precedent for the industry. Contrary to what the whiners who are whining about the whiners when they try and defend this fundamentally shit ending would have you believe, for gamers, its a positive one. It sets the precedent that for game developers, their fanbases now may not just lie down and take a piss poor ending with shitty, confusing writing and next to no closure. Particularly if you have LIED about the ending. Bioware can be in denial all they want, but they LIED about the ending, fundamentally.
The fans who complained and asked for more from the ending didnt expect too much, neither are they entitled. They are simply victims of a developer who promised too much, and clearly didnt have the talent, or maybe just the inclination to make good on those.
Now we will doubtless have more shit writing to justify shit writing.
Like an epilogue that explains why your squad inexplicably fled like cowards aboard the normandy to make a miraculous escape. Or that the fleets maybe werent destroyed by the same force that crippled the normandy. And subsequently if they survived then they didnt simply just starve to death (especially the quarians and turians) or did from infighting or whatever.
But still, a very small minority of people had sufficient lack of taste to tolerate the shitty writing and general lack of closure that was the ending, so I guess that means its perfectly fine, and to alter the ending is to violate its artistic integrity. Even if you arent a moron, and know that games go through many iterations in development, and even in some cases like Mass Effect take a massive shift in game design to cater to the third person shooter market. But changing the series to cater to shooter fans doesnt violate its artistic integrity. No sirree. But asking for probably one of the worst endings in modern video game history to have some effort put into this time in the form of a rewrite definitely does.
But hey, at least the free DLC will probably add a few more badly written epilogue style question marks to hang over the huge, fucking terribly written question mark that is the ending itself.
And then Bioware can take that shitty ending thats damn near ruined the universe and make an FPS spinoff series or something awful like that. But I wont care. I wont even be able to replay the magnificent ME1, because I know what a giant turd it leads to in ME3.