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Covenant cruiser victim
Reminder that Bioware's official word on ME1 was that the final cutscenes of the game made Sovereign look TOO powerful and blamed it on miscommunication with the studio that made the cinematics
Could Bioware have actually done anything to satisfy the fans at the end
>>731044610not made 3
>>731044610>say you're going to make an ending that respects the choices you've made throughout the trilogy even though, let's be honest, it was impossible and 2 already proved it wasn't going to happen>don't even try>call your fanbase entitled for listening to your lies and then refusing to even try and live up to your own wild claimsThe reaction to 3's ending wasn't just because it was bad. It's because it was bad after setting impossible expectations of it being good. It did that because it needed to justify its own hype and the millions blown on marketing it.
>>731044610>>731045628I feel like the only way they could have made all those choice feel like they matter at all is turn the overworld into some grand strategy type game where the units you have, the buffs you have, the planets you start with on your side are based of what you did in the past. And that way at least you get to feel like all the planets (and people on those planets) you failed to save are your fault.But adding a new game genre on top of what people where expecting out of the game would probably also piss off a portion of the playerbase who doesnt want to do a strategy game on top of their action-shoot-rpg game
>>731044610Probably not, but that attitude isn't conducive to a good narrative. The Reapers should've been written as the inevitable winners. It would've made for an actually interesting ending.
>>731044553Could Teal'c fist fight an Elite? 5.7mm ain't doing shit
>You will be pleased, I think.>Very good things I have, you will see.
>>731044610The promise that "your choices would matter" over the course of three 15+ hour long games was just not logistically possible. You cannot have a hundreds of endings for each permutation of choices.
>>731044610they took every wrong turn on purpose, they could have but chose not to
>>731044610Should've just gone with the dark energy plot even if it was leaked
>>731042212Making these the big bad of the series ruins the whole franchise and makes it extremely myopic and small.
>>731044375Source?
>>731048663I'm guessing some shareholder "person" decided that this plot would be too confusing for double digit IQ turbonormies. That's why Matrix had the stupid "humans as batteries" plot point.
>RAAAAAAAAH
>>731044553SG1 can't pull it off. An Assault Carrier is way bigger than a Ha'tak (its over 5 kilometers long) and its crewed by tens of thousands of aliens who are actually somewhat competent and armed with useful weapons as opposed to extremely retarded Jaffa with garbage weapons.They could pull it off if it was a much smaller Covenant ship and they had their typical plot armour. MAYBE a corvette although it still took two Spartans and a bunch of marines to hijack one.
Codex: space combat takes place at hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of kilometersGameplay: the sentient spaceship cannot hit (You) right in front of its stupid fucking face
>>731049047whyd it choose a human skeleton?
>>731048809his ass. sovereigns portrayal at the end is completely consistent with the lore up to that point
>>731044610No. They wrote themselves into a corner with them being as strong as just one Reaper is and the implication there'd have to be thousands of them. You're left with no other way to win but a giant deus ex machina that kills all of them at once. It also didn't help Bioware thought they could pull off "your choices matter" on such a large scale and them not even knowing how they were supposed to deal with the Reapers coming. Hate 2 all you want but the trilogy was fucked the moment 1 ends with Shepard and Anderson/Udina telling players that the Reapers are coming and you're going to fight them and win.
>>731048620you could have more than one with three different colors
>>731044610Indoctrination theory. Don't care. It was more interesting than their shit.
>>731044610No, at least not in the way they wanted to. ME3 should have been about finding a way to stop the Reapers from invading and end the cycle. Having the Reapers invade at the end of ME2 so now they're an actual force you have to fight completely ruined everything.
>>731049213At least she didn't job on protecting that nuke from the Geth
>>731048663The dark energy plot was never actually fully fleshed out, it was just one idea because they were making the whole thing up as they went. It's also just as stupid, stupider even, than what we actually got.
>>731042212A bad guy gets defeated by the good guys!?!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!!!
Heh, you now remember that stock photo they removed a finger off of and called Tali; and that CGI render background that had a silhouette of an adult male model shrunken to the size of a child; and that BioWare intentionally posed as ESL, or a student, to get permission to use a dude's artwork so they wouldn't have to pay royalties.
>>731050535>you now remember that stock photo they removed a finger off of and called TaliGlad I wasn't a Talifaglol lmao at wanting a space gypsy
>>731049047This shit was so dumb
>>731049047>nukes youThe M-920 Cain was hilariously broken for specific encounters in ME2
>>731042212OH SHITOH FUCK
>it's nearly been 15 years>still mad about the end of ME3Will it ever stop?
>>731049961sure didn't. Kaidan did
>>731042212Reapers should have been a spooky background element and not the main plot. Would have been better if it were about cold war spy drama between Citadel Races and Terminus Systems bloc.It's like the Expanse. Things were interesting before before protomolecule shit starts taking the front page.
>>731050735Some people like that Australian anti me2 fag died with hate in their heart about muh wasted potential with the franchise rather than just get over it and move on. Kind of sad when you think about it.
>>731050735>>731051263I've been mad about the beginning of ME2 for like 16 years now
>>731044610Not make ME2 and ME3.
>>731044610Of course. They could have set out to design a game that culminates in a great big climax sequence, designed specifically around creating novel gameplay interactions based on past key choices. They could have chosen to make that game, sat in an office meeting with a whiteboard full of key narrative choices from the last 2 games and talked their way through it.They chose not to, because whoever was in charge just wanted to create another game exactly like the previous two and not worry about continuity or expectations. It was a blithe and soulless assembly line that in their hubris they believed coutjust pump out an ME-like for Christmas every other year until the heat death of the universe and anyone else's opinion be damned.It wasn't some impossible game design puzzle, just a classic instance of a developer mistakenly believing that the success of a new flagship title had allowed them to outgrow their core audience, and that they would be accountable to no one as long as marketing herded the goy into GameStop at the correct date. The 2010s are littered with examples of this phenomenon.
Don't care, fucked my husband.
>>731051120Tbh I rpefer the protomolocule part and not really the space drama
>>731051120I haven't watched past them going through the portalLove Drummer though
