Sunday, March 18, 2012

Massively Effective

I played Mass Effect 3 to completion a couple days ago. I have one very important thing to say to all the people "hating" on the Mass Effect ending: "Get a Fucking Life!". The Mass Effect series has been a Huge part of my life over the last  4 years or so. It is probably my favorite game. Ever. Considering that Mass Effect has de-throwned Chrono Trigger and Metal Gear Solid as "My Favorite" should add some amount of legitimacy to what I'm saying .I didn't LOVE the end to Mass Effect, but I had no inherent problems with it.It was very Okay.

***There may be Implicit spoilers ahead, but I will not include any Intentional spoilers...careful***

    The ending could not have been whatever you cooked up in your wildest Mass Effect dreams. That's just logic talking. Whatever specific things YOU wanted to see, I likely wanted to see them too, but didn't (or did) but you can't please Everyone. That is a fact. But people are pissed off that you couldn't "choose the ending". They feel that your choices are not meaningful. Here's my issue: The whole series is about Commander Shepard fighting the Reapers. The end of the game could not have ended with him/her letting the Reapers off the hook, so that ending should be off the table from the get-go. If we can agree that the Reapers should not be free to rule the galaxy with impunity, what else can be done?! Did it get (maybe) a little too esoteric at the end? Yes... I think. However, the majority of Star Wars fan seem to be unhappy with Episodes 1-3 but I never saw an on-line petition to George Lucas to re-make the ending of Episode 3. Grow the fuck up. Seriously. I feel a sad emptiness inside now that Mass Effect is over. But it's not because the ending is not everything I ever dreamed it could be, it's because a thing that I love is over.
     I've read/watched/played the ending of many things that I hoped had ended differently, but my wish for them to end differently has not changed that fact that THAT is how they ended. I'm not writing petitions because I WISHED Anikin had thrown Obi-Wan into lava. Just stop. I hate you. I really do. Your hating of the ending took away from my own enjoyment of the Mass Effect 3 ending and I hate you for it forever. Forever.

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