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Weekend Confirmed 105 - Journey, Mists of Pandaria, Mass Effect 3
by Garnett Lee, Mar 23, 2012 11:00am PDTAfter a long look at Mass Effect 3 last week, Jeff, Jeff, Andrea, and Garnett turn their attentions to Journey, the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, and other games. However, they cannot ignore the interesting turn the controversy over the ending of Mass Effect 3 took with BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka directly addressing fans to promise them "clarity" and "closure" through new content the team will create. We also catch up on the announcement of an Epic Mickey sequel along the way to wrapping up with Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 105: 03/23/2012
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Comments
Creatively and intellectually speaking, ME3's ending was terrible!
Point; you do not introduce something so pivotal at the very end of a 100+ hour story that pretty much undermines the entire threat with circular nihilistic arguments that more or less unravels everything you've done and are talked down to by a narrator that's more or less Casey Hudson, hopped up on his ego.
And for pete's sake, if you're going to invoke the mental masturbation that is 'it's not the destination, but the journey that matters', understand that the ending is just as important.
Honestly, it's getting so very tiresome to hear the gaming press belittle and insult the playerbase that have the sheer audacity to call out Bioware when they not only fail spectacularly, but try and claim that the BS that pretty much invalidates everything you done and have chosen, in a series lauded for it's freedom (or illusion) of choice is in any way acceptable.
The bottom line is; the genius who thought that the ending was good was trying to pretend they were Stanley Kubrick and they ended up looking like M. Knight Shamalan.
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I've not played the game but I've heard several people make this argument and it always reminds me of a speech in "Murder by Death" - a 70's comedy starring Peter Falk. The host of the mystery dinner that is the movie's setting tells the mystery writers he's invited, "You've tricked and fooled your readers for years. You've tortured us all with surprise endings that made no sense. You've introduced characters in the last five pages that were never in the book before. You've withheld clues and information that made it impossible for us to guess who did it."
I don't know if this is what Bioware did, but if it is anything like this, I would agree that it is bad writing.
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