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Weekend Confirmed 104 - Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, GDC remainders
by Garnett Lee, Mar 16, 2012 11:00am PDTMass Effect 3 tops everyone's list. There's no way the Weekend Confirmed crew couldn't talk about it, but there are no spoilers... hell, Cannata's not even finished with it yet and we wouldn't want to do that to him. It's no secret, though, that the game's ending has rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way. What we want from game endings and the difficulties faced in putting a conclusion on a story we've invested so many hours offers a lot to consider. We also take a first look at some of our impressions from the game being careful to not give anything story-related away. Other things are happening as well. There's the Diablo 3 release date announcement, finally, and we've got a bunch of stuff left over from GDC last week as well. It's a non-stop ride to Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 104: 03/16/2012
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Whatcha Been Playing Part 2 00:58:15 – 01:26:09
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Comments
It's Bioware's story. You got to play along and make some personal impact along the way.
My problem with the ending isn't that it's out of my control, only that it's handled poorly. A fatalistic ending such as the one in ME3 has to be EARNED, and while Bioware did a great job throughout the series of making the Reapers seem terrifying and almost unbeatable, the ultimate build-up toward the final actions felt rushed and robbed of any poignancy.
But I think we're ALL overlooking the most shocking part of this discussion:
GARNETT LEE COMPLETED A GAME!
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Apparently everyone thinks I'm dumb if I hate the ending, but they also think I'm dumb if I accept the ending because I kind of like the whole "Indoctrination Theory" going around. Have you guys watched that video?
There are a lot of sound cues and "dreamy" things that happen in this game, especially, to lead some people to think perhaps Shepard was indoctrinated all along, or just came really close to it during ME3. I'm suddenly back in the rubble of London after being on the Citadel? Why didn't I burn up on re-entry, if it was real? The ME universe has no teleportation.
Also...the Normandy and my crew randomly teleport to a nice jungle planet? Is this an afterlife analogue (I hope not), since all the mass relays exploding would undoubtedly destroy most life in the galaxy? Why are they so smiling and happy? They're stranded, the ship's busted, and even were they to get back into space, the relays are gone, leaving them a travel time of many-hundred years to return home.
And the post-credits scene....just bad.
I hated the ending, but I don't support all the asshats demanding a new one. Plenty of things have had terrible endings. Maybe they just weren't as hyped as ME3, but that doesn't give everyone the right to pressure Bioware into making something less shitty. The game up UNTIL the end was fucking great, IMO.
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