First things first, this is about a
review of the ending of a game. It's basically the definition of
spoiler. I don't expect many people to care, but I felt the need to
inform you. Second, if you haven't heard of Mass Effect or are
familiar with a lot of the jargon, I tried to make it as jargon free
as possible, but it still might not make any sense. Finally, yeah, I know. No video, I could've made an amazing one for this too. Maybe next time.
“If you're like me, you have invested
so much time in the Mass Effect trilogy and now you've beaten Mass
Effect 3(further referenced as ME3)..... and you hate the ending.”
That is the general idea of the video made by JeremyJahns on YouTube.
His thesis, however, outlines in much more. He'll give his opinion on
the endings, why they sucked, and what they could have done to make
them better. Bam! The three ideas of the video in a sentence.
Alright, so he first talks about why he
hated the endings. Oh, right, if you didn't watch the video, he
expresses a deep hatred for the endings, first talking about choice,
or the lack thereof. He continues on to say that the three options in
a game that was all about telling your own story were not up to par.
His evidence is that, the way they are presented to you, you aren't
given a choice as to why each of them are there. To quote one of the
complaints “In everything I know about Commander Shepherd ~
Commander Shepard would be like bullshit! How about we've earned the
right to shut the reapers down!” He continues to poke holes in the
endings by pointing out that they had the resources to follow through
with the suggested ending and conclude it right there.
His next argument was why the endings
suck. The best I can tell, this is a strawman argument. He
begins with “People have told me, and it is said that there are 16
different endings in ME3.” Next, he completely destroyed the
argument. He confirms that, yes the endings are different, of course
he elaborates by saying “....if by 16 different endings, you mean
one ending that is 95% the same ending and varies slightly in certain
different parts.” A little research into the endings I haven't seenyet on YouTube reveals that, yes, there isn't much of a difference inthe endings. That link will take you to a playlist of every ending. Enter at your own risk. Finally, he decides to make sure the argument is set in
stone brings logic into the equation. After the endings, all the mass
relays have been blown up and the armada you brought in to defend the
earth are all stranded in Sol Space(the part of space where earth
is). This leads a large rant about how all those alien species can't
survive long on just the resources of Earth, so those species that
came are all going to starve to death. After saving the galaxy.
Because you blew up their ride home. Yeah.
So, his final body is about how they
could've done it better. First: If you brag about the massive amount
of possible endings, make them different. Second: Make your choices
matter. At the end of ME2, you have to decide to give the collector
base to the illusive man or blow it to space dust. Maybe you give it
to the illusive man and at the end of ME3, when you've won, he's on
trial for war crimes, you and Anderson are there “throwing the book
at him.” This part of the video doesn't have much more to present
other than possible endings, so I'll continue on.
A lot of the points he brings up, I am
familiar with because I've played the games several times over again,
of course, it helped that YouTube was there to show me the way to
each ending. Most of this stuff you can find watching let's plays or
just reading a summary of the game or watching video clips. It's as
simple as typing “Mass Effect 3 endings” or “Mass Effect let's
play” into YouTube. I should also mention this is an old video and,
several months after the game's release, Bioware released free DLC
that elaborated on each of the endings. I haven't watched them yet,
but it could've remedied the problem.
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