(November 28, 2012 at 10:04 am)Napoléon Wrote:(November 28, 2012 at 5:11 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: The extended cuts weren't much better...SOME substance, at least, but not nearly enough.
They didn't exactly leave you feeling like all the characters had their stories wrapped up, as opposed to say, Dragon Age Origins.
Yeah, seriously. What happened to, say, Tali? Ok, say you were, well, me, and you romanced Tali [fuck you I love nerdy girls with wide hips, sleek bodies, and luscious accents who can also blow you away with a shotgun expertly]. What happened afterwards? Given that the love she had had a crush on for years prior to it ever happening has just fucking sacrificed himself for the entire galaxy?
What about Garrus? Your best friend [or if you were a female Shepard who did him, lover] and loyal sidekick throughout the series? What the fuck happened to him after his best friend/whatever dies? How did he take it?
What about Joker? "I swore to keep you safe!" he says in ME3 during a surprisingly heated conversation between him and Shepard. What happened with him?
WHAT HAPPENED with any of the characters whose stories were not cleared during the timeline dictated by the game itself? I know Mordin died [depending on choices] and LEGION died [depending on choices] but...the rest? There's all these fucking loose ends not tied up and they promised that they would, and they never did! And when we, the fucking customers, the ones who signed their fucking paychecks, DEMAND better endings out of service to, again, US, the only reason they fucking have jobs to begin with, we get...barely anything more.
And now we're expected to fucking buy their DLC? Fuck you, Bioware. Fuck you and your Day 1 DLC shit, fuck you and your Space-Cthulhu shit with Leviathan and...I unno what is happening with the new one and I find myself not caring.
And fuck you especially with these attempts to make us do microtransactions in the multiplayer.
God DAMMIT!! I don't normally get so invested in games but this game series was specifically designed to make the player get PERSONALLY INVESTED in the plot and then they pull this shit where all your investment pays out to getting a fucking undercooked hamburger! THE HELL?!
I just...no. I can't recommend ME3 for GotY. AC3...maybe. Once I have finished it, I'll know for certain.
'Til then, Dishonored seems my most likely choice...its Half-Life-esque artistic design, open-ended experience, Bioshock-reminiscent style [and anything that reminds me of Bioshock is doing something right as far as I'm concerned], and its mixture of steam-punk, diesel-punk, magic, and sci-fi just makes it perfect.
