OH GOD BIOWARE WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE

[Professor Smarmiarty]

The last 100 years of human history has of lshown an increase in eroticism in all facets, I call this sexification. If I extrapolate this trend out to the future of Mass Effec I can conclude that everything will be sex all the time.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

The last 100 years of human history has of lshown an increase in eroticism in all facets, I call this sexification. If I extrapolate this trend out to the future of Mass Effec I can conclude that everything will be sex all the time.

wait, no it hasn't. sure things are more sexualized then say, the 40's, but have you seen the crap they got away with in the early 20th century?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yes. Have you been on the internet?

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Yes. Have you been on the internet?

thats just silly, internet is full of sex, know what there is even more of? Kittens and zombies and Chuck Norris and for the love of god don't combine these things.

[BitVyper]

But I invested far too many hours into my fucking Shepards

I don't understand why this would make you want to play them in what is rapidly being revealed as a shitty fanfiction. Sunk costs is one thing, but all you're getting here is slap in the face, and I don't really know how that will grant you closure. I don't know how such a shitty third act as this is looking to be will really qualify as more of an ending than just your headcanon ending. I mean, if the ending basically disregards everything that came before it, is it even part of the same story?

Like I mean, you're basically proving Bioware's strategy right.

[Marc v4.0]

I, for one, am not going to pretend I am not going to buy it and love it anyway.

[Osterbaum]

I'll buy it. I'm still hopeful. But I'm prepared to be disappointed.

e: like the biggest obstacle between me and buying the game is actually none of the complaints voiced here, but fucking Origin

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I don't understand why this would make you want to play them in what is rapidly being revealed as a shitty fanfiction. Sunk costs is one thing, but all you're getting here is slap in the face, and I don't really know how that will grant you closure. I don't know how such a shitty third act as this is looking to be will really qualify as more of an ending than just your headcanon ending. I mean, if the ending basically disregards everything that came before it, is it even part of the same story?

Like I mean, you're basically proving Bioware's strategy right.

But this is the new thing with Bioware. They get close to releasing a game, you look at it, yell about how much it is going to suck based on various pieces of media that may or may not have any more than a tenuous connection to the finished product (early and unfinished versions of the scripts, in this case), or things that are so far out of context/were already in previous games that it's just ridiculous to get your panties in a bunch (crew mates, chobot), and then you play the finished product anyway only to find out it's either fine, or it's shitty in ways that have nothing to do with your pre-release bitching.

See SW:ToR (fine, not great, but not measurably worse than any other launch MMO, and better in the story department) and DA2 (many many problems, but none of them have to do with what people were bitching about pre-release which was mostly it getting more 'actiony' and dumbed down for console, while the problems lied more in reused areas, things not changing enough in the city, and poorly balanced combat encounters, which all had to do with a short dev cycle and nothing to do with dumbing it down for consoles).

First Dragon Age even saw this for a bit Pre-release, and I'm pretty sure ME2 did as well, but I'm foggy on that. I know it got a lot of shit over Grunt not being Wrex, but then Grunt was fucking fantastic.

Originally Posted by Marc v4.0

I, for one, am not going to pretend I am not going to buy it and love it anyway.

On the other hand, didn't you enjoy Duke Nukem Forever?

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I don't understand why this would make you want to play them in what is rapidly being revealed as a shitty fanfiction. Sunk costs is one thing, but all you're getting here is slap in the face, and I don't really know how that will grant you closure. I don't know how such a shitty third act as this is looking to be will really qualify as more of an ending than just your headcanon ending. I mean, if the ending basically disregards everything that came before it, is it even part of the same story?

Like I mean, you're basically proving Bioware's strategy right.

This is silly, the mass effect novels show that if anything the fanfiction is far more capable of keeping the setting intact and not shitting all over the timeline, technology or characters. So to that effect I'd say it's pretty clear the fanfiction is better than the actual novels.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Krylo

On the other hand, didn't you enjoy Duke Nukem Forever?

I enjoy any game that I can play and actually have fun playing. I enjoy a lot of games that gamers and critics alike find terrible. It isn't the same as enjoying, say, Skyrim or Bastion. That is a more immersive and fufilling sense of enjoyment.

I wouldn't begrude anyone their indulgence of the less-than-fantastic things in art and media. You can enjoy crappy B-Movies and cinema classics, and neither should invalidate your opinion or the other.