@aerianyx said in General Video Game Thread:
So. Are you suuuuuure you want him back in charge?
If he's responsible for the amazing writing teams like DA:O, DA:A, ME, ME2, ME2:Lair of the Shadow Broker, ME3, ME3:Fuckin' The Citadel Fuckin' best DLC of any game ever, then I don't care how big of a douchnozzle he is.
The ending of ME3 was dismissive and trite, but it was fine. The rest of ME3 was not as fantastic as its predecessors but it was good.
I can tell so many stories about the ins and outs of the drama behind the Mass Effect games.
The genius of Steve Jobs wasn't that he was an innovator, but that he created a teams that were. And the man was a drama-factory.
So no, as an end user I couldn't care less about the drama. This isn't to be dismissive to people who had to live through it; I truly sympathize with them. My goal, however, is to enjoy the games that I enjoy, and when something like ME:A or DA2 come around I'm going to speak out as a member of the audience.
For instance...
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@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Like DA2, I didn’t feel that ME:A was about anything. It’s story was stronger than DA2’s, but that’s like saying this sheet of paper is stronger than a used toilet wipe.
Andromeda was okay as a video game, but it failed as a Mass Effect game.
"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
I liked Dragon Age 2 a lot. I liked Andromeda a lot. I liked Mass Effect 3 and its ending just fine. And you know this.
I liked ME3's ending just fine too. I liked it better when it destroyed the Universe.
***=Mass Effect 3 ending spoiler***
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On my first play-through, I didn't score enough points for the "merge" ending. My options were: Reprogram the Reapers or destroy them. I sat around for about 5 minutes thinking about it, and I destroyed them.
Before the patch, my ending was this: All mass effect technology was destroyed. Not "and it will be easy to fix", just destroyed. Done. Explode. All the dextro-protein aliens on Earth would starve and die. The Universe would be broken up into systems, and technology would have to be created from scratch.
And I thought: Holy fucking shit, I did it. I saved the Universe by damning it.
I felt like a god.
Then the patch came out, and it turned a major ending into a minor hiccup. It was boring.
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addendum: I think Indoctrination Theory is terrible. To me, Mass Effect is a Space Opera, grande and personal. It's about the same level to me as finding out it was all a dream.
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@roz said in General Video Game Thread:
DRAGON AGE 2 IS THE BEST BIOWARE GAME FIGHT ME
Troll's gotta troll!
... Wait, you're serious aren't you. Should we make a new thread for this, so it could be me vs. you and Gany? 'Cause it's not. And I said so.