Re: Most Disappointing Ending Since Mass Effect 3 (SPOILERS)
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:23 am
I'll be honest--just hearing that Dominic's ending was bad no matter what killed most of my excitement for the game as a whole. That's the path I was most excited about playing, and even though I was excited about some of the other ones, the excitement-killing effect of hearing Dominic's ending was bad was not a precision weapon. My overall feelings about the game just went from "Ooo!" to "Oh. =\" I fully admit that it's irrational, but the fact is that I have had no motivation to start a new game since reading that--despite the fact that I bought Anne's version and haven't played as her yet. (The fact that my one playthrough was Sally who has the other bad ending didn't help.)
I agree with a lot of Rooke's points above, and I don't get the argument that you can just romance someone else if you want a good ending. Deciding who to romance should be based on which personality you're most interested in, but this turns the choice into "do you want a happy ending?" For me, having one romance path have a bad ending and the others have good endings is like having the game tell you "So you know how you thought so-and-so was compatible with your character? YOU WERE WRONG." Which is not a nice feeling to get from a game, and does not engender positive feelings towards the game as a whole.
Jack, you say people should focus on the main arc of the romance rather than the epilogue--but I don't think everyone can separate them out. I can't enjoy the romance arc if I know the relationship is doomed in the end.
I agree with a lot of Rooke's points above, and I don't get the argument that you can just romance someone else if you want a good ending. Deciding who to romance should be based on which personality you're most interested in, but this turns the choice into "do you want a happy ending?" For me, having one romance path have a bad ending and the others have good endings is like having the game tell you "So you know how you thought so-and-so was compatible with your character? YOU WERE WRONG." Which is not a nice feeling to get from a game, and does not engender positive feelings towards the game as a whole.
Jack, you say people should focus on the main arc of the romance rather than the epilogue--but I don't think everyone can separate them out. I can't enjoy the romance arc if I know the relationship is doomed in the end.