Rbz wrote...
HokutoCorpse wrote...
Explains the ending very well. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9720265/1
Definitely agree with that post. The poster uses an analogy involving Star Wars and I'd like to submit my own: it's like when George Lucas fucked up Star Wars with the prequel trilogy. The story of the prequel tainted the story of the sequel. In the case of Mass Effect, the sequel taints the prequel:
In Mass Effect 1, there comes a point in the story where the true enemy is revealed and you figure out that Sovereign is not just a pimped out ship, but a sentient machine. I've been playing ME1 recently and that conversation with Sovereign is still creepy as fuck. The best part is that Sovereign was an enigma. All we knew was that it had mindfuck powers and presented itself as a malicious entity determined to gangrape all life to death.
The Sovereign convo:
If you know ME3's ending, apply it to that. More specifically, apply it to these quotes:
Sovereign orally wrote...
Rudimentary creatures. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension.
My kind transcends your very understanding.
You cannot even grasp the nature of our existence.
This dialogue makes Reapers seem like Lovecraftian beings; an unfathomable evil. They would be the ultimate evil whose threat compelled Commander Shepard to unite the entire galaxy against them. It's like Dragon Age: Origins, but way more epic. The revelations in ME3 fuck all of this up the ass, stubbornly refusing to apply lube. It's like Sovereign was telling us all along that Reapers made no fucking sense and that bothering to elaborate would put a hurr in your durr.
Sovereign wrote...
We are . . . Independent.
ME3 wrote...
Cool story, bro.
Fucking Applause. I wish I knew how to put up that gif of Kane clapping furiously, but I would. Shit, I
am.
No matter what your opinion of the game is, THIS right here is the untouchable truth.
...Also because the game apparently ripped off Revelation Space which I am told did the "Inhibitors" way better, but I don't know.
Either way, Rbz fucking nailed it.
Now, just a week after its release, the consensus is pretty much:
I don't know about you, but I'm kinda proud to be a gamer right now. Seeing so many people angry at this means they CARE about the story of a game more than fucking multiplayer or how pretty it supposedly looks. Everyone says you can just slap guns on a game in the West and we'd chug the bitch down lovingly even if it was shit firing those big guns.
All this anger has proven them wrong
[size=10]mostly[/h]. As furious as I am at Bioware and EA, I'm just a little proud to see the appreciation of narrative still holds strong.