A big collection of the evidence for the Indoctrination Theory and judgements on their viability. With so much evidence it'll be amazing if the developers shoot the theory down.
Although the guy pisses me off when he argues the Geth don't have a soul. >:C
Also Spoony believes in the IT and mocks anyone who doesn't agree. I knew I liked him for a reason.
Spoony vs the Internet: Mass Effect 3.
He starts talking about it 5 minutes in and then spends about an hour arguing with dudes about it.
After Mass Effect 3‘s ending sparked widespread outrage among fans of the franchise, accusations of false advertising made it all the way to the Better Business Bureau.“If you had purchased a game for $59.99 or $79.99 for the digital download version and were told that you had complete control over the game’s outcome by the choices your character made and then actually had no control over the game’s outcome, wouldn’t you be disappointed?!” asked the BBB’s Marjorie Stevens in a blog post on the matter.
“The issue at stake here is, did Bio Ware falsely advertise?” she continues. ” Technically, yes, they did. In the first bullet point, where it states “the decisions you make completely shape your experience”, there is no indecision in that statement. It is an absolute.”
Eventually the issue made its way to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA.) While the agency did note that the game didn’t quite live up to its stated goals, they determined that EA was not guilty of false advertising.
“The ASA acknowledged the belief that players’ choices in the game did not influence the outcome to the extent claimed by EA,” the ASA said in a statement.
“However, we considered that the three choices at the end of the game were thematically quite different, and that the availability and effectiveness of those choices would be directly determined by a player’s score, which was calculated with reference to previous performance in the game(s).
“We also acknowledged that there appeared to be a large number of minor variations in the end stages of Mass Effect 3, and that those were directly impacted by choices made by players earlier in the game(s).
“Whilst we acknowledged that the advertiser had placed particular emphasis on the role that player choices would play in determining the outcome of the game, we considered that most consumers would realise there would be a finite number of possible outcomes within the game and, because we considered that the advertiser had shown that players’ previous choices and performance would impact on the ending of the game, we concluded that the ad was not misleading.”
Apparently the radioactivity from Japan has reached UK borders.
The extended cut will be coming out June 26th. Very surprising that it's that soon.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/22/mass-effect-3-extended-cut-coming-next-week
I do not care what other people say about this: I really like Bioware, even more now than ever, for their actions. Even if they do not make the majority happy, they still made the effort. That tells me that they DO care about their paying customers and they want to make them happy. Bioware (EA) will get my money in the future for games I like. 😄
Originally posted by dadudemon
I do not care what other people say about this: I really like Bioware, even more now than ever, for their actions. Even if they do not make the majority happy, they still made the effort. That tells me that they DO care about their paying customers and they want to make them happy. Bioware (EA) will get my money in the future for games I like. 😄
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No Choice, No Change: BioWare’s Ending DLC Interview Disappoints.
oh noooooooooo cry
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This however, I like. Its so cool that ME has these things embedded in the mythos, waiting for us to speculate over.
Originally posted by Nephthys
No Choice, No Change: BioWare’s Ending DLC Interview Disappoints.
From that aritcle:
"Yes, the irony of professional storytellers asking the audience to rely on their own imaginations to fill in the gaps they didn’t bother to cover..."
Gah, that is not a very intelligent statement as regards story conclusions. Some of the best stories written have open interpretation.
When I finally play through ME3, as I am sure I will one day (especially if they Steam it), I suspect I am going to side with The Spoony One here, at least in part.
I personally agree that Hudson and co were stupid to expect the audience to just figure things out. The ending
Spoiler:
blows everything up and makes everything really bleak and hard to speculate about because the entire setting has been changed.The Normandy's on some random planet and the galactic fleet is stuck on Earth with no Mass Relays. How are we supposed to figure out how things go from there?
Well, you posted the Spoony video. Isn't taking the ending literally possibly a mistake?
In any case, you can argue that it is good or bad, but the idea that professional writers cannot leave an ending open is ridiculous- of course they can. It can be done well or badly, but it is absolutely legitimate to try it.