So you're raging about how you "deserve effort to be made" yet you can't be bothered when the developers actually give that effort. Nice.
Nope. I raged about the ending and uninstalled it back before EC was released. To hell with them. I'm not going to install the game and play through it again just to see yet another bullshit ending. There are plenty of other games to play without wasting my time with the series anymore. I've given them enough time and effort. They get no more.
So you're raging about how you "deserve effort to be made" yet you can't be bothered when the developers actually give that effort. Nice.
They gave their customers a middle finger with the initial release's ending, along with the day-one DLC that they charged extra for. Their hacked up alternate ending is a day late and a dollar short.
Don't even bother trying to paint me as unreasonable. I've given them more than enough chances and all they're interested in doing is being a bag of dicks.
Nope. I raged about the ending and uninstalled it back before EC was released. To hell with them. I'm not going to install the game and play through it again just to see yet another bullshit ending. There are plenty of other games to play without wasting my time with the series anymore. I've given them enough time and effort. They get no more.
Fine, you have a reason to be irritated, I get it. You just aren't qualified to talk about the ending which now has the free Extended Cut until you, you know, actually play the ending with the Extended Cut.
You're implying the EC changed much. It didn't. The outcome isn't as drastic as in the original ending, but the concept is the same! Absolutely nothing mattered in all of the games! Also, the whole "solution" is totally out of the blue. Let me guess - I should buy some DLC (Leviathan) that attempts to prepare me for the final moments by hinting what's to be encountered? One fucking DLC in all of 3 games? Just no! And it still won't matter anyway!
I played the whole original ME3 game with extreme enthusiasm. Remembering every single detail from all games and their DLC. And then I saw the original endings first. It's something I will never forget or forgive Bioware - this wasn't a game bug or not enough QA. It was something that was released on purpose!
Never again will I buy into anything from Bioware. Invest any sort of passion into their games. Because in the end they will just slap you in the face and laugh at you - "we made you care, but we don't, sucker!"
Casey's "promise" of "16 different endings" ultimately proved untrue, but choices from previous games did effect the state of the galaxy at the end (or at least, was intended to). Sparing Wrex on Virmire, saving the Maelon's genophage research, and choosing whether or not to listen to the salarian Dalatross all effected the outcome of the events on Tuchanka (there is one outcome where, if Wrex is dead and Maelon's data was not saved, you can actually convince Mordin to not go up to the tower and instead join the Crucible project). Rewriting or destroying the geth Heretics and clearing the charges against Tali effect the outcome of the events on Rannoch. Saving Miranda's sister and giving her Alliance resources effects events on Sanctuary, saving the Rachni Queen and getting Grunt through his rite of passage effects events on Aralakh, helping Jack work through her issues effects events at Grissom Academy, etc., etc.
They don't all necessarily tie into the ending, and the fact that none of the specific "war assets" really tie into cinematics or gameplay in the final battle is a lamentable missed opportunity. But the circumstances of the galaxy are different in various ways by the end, depending on your choices, and this is reflected in the slides shown during the Extended Cut ending.
(of course, a lot of this is fundamentally undone by the mass relays being destroyed. Which is why I am glad they weren't destroyed in the Extended Cut).
Let the mindless fanboys defend their lover, Qbah.
Right, I'm mindless because I was one of the fans calling for BioWare to do something to "fix" the ending, I still think there are thematic problems with the ending even with the extended cut, and I criticize BioWare for keeping an important plot point for DLC rather than actually putting it in the game. There's a difference between "disagreeing on a specific point" and "mindless defending something from all criticism".
Ever seen the post-ending epilogues given in Fallout, Fallout 2 and Arcanum? Something along those lines would be nice.
I don't get the whole "no decisions made any difference" thing; like what do you want? A picture with a text overlay saying "And the Rachni helped too"? It's cheesy and unnecessary. Of course they contributed, it's explicitly stated in the game itself that they took part in building the Crucible and that they're being cautiously accepted by the other races. It doesn't need to be reiterated.
Each individual decision isn't important on a large scale, it's a war afterall. Nothing matters more than "how many bodies do you have", and your decisions either increase the number of people you can throw at the enemy or they don't. It's not romantic, but it is realistic. War assets depersonalizing "who" you have into "how many" you have isn't pretty or sweet, but it is real.
Right, I'm mindless because I was one of the fans calling for BioWare to do something to "fix" the ending, I still think there are thematic problems with the ending even with the extended cut, and I criticize BioWare for keeping an important plot point for DLC rather than actually putting it in the game. There's a difference between "disagreeing on a specific point" and "mindless defending something from all criticism".
No, you're a mindless fanboy because you dismiss my opinion because it doesn't match yours.
I didn't just "dismiss" it, I provided a reason for my view much earlier in the thread and you didn't address any of the points I made, and it wasn't because your opinion "didn't match" mine, I established that you didn't have much credibility on the topic of the ending because you haven't actually played the ending with the extended cut. If you come back after playing it, then maybe your statements will hold some weight.
I didn't address the points you made because I didn't read the points you made. I still have yet to care about the points you've made. I made my own points. I spent $120 and played these games spanning years making careful, thought-out decisions and replaying major portions of the game over and over to get it just right so that the ending to this incredible series would be exactly how I wanted it to be and they just didn't give a shit. They just pissed the ending into the wind.
Combined with stupid changes like the (admittedly pedantic) ammo change in ME2 and the (seriously flawed) day-one money-grubbing DLC in ME3, the OEM ending in ME3 was the straw that broke the camel's back.
They don't deserve my money or my effort anymore. I don't care if they DO eventually go back and fix the ending to include non-horse-shit scenes and actually take the time to include a customized ending based on the choices I made. I will never install any games from the series ever again. I will never give the series another dime or another single second of effort to play them.
I don't really care whether you appreciate my point of view or not, either.
At the very least, it's not spewing blood all over the rest of the body anymore.