Instead, I dreaded it, hoping in vain that what I had played would not be representative of the final product. ![]() As one of the most hardcore, diehard Mass Effect fans on the planet, the demo should have had me awaiting the full game with feverish glee. Yeah, getting a sample of a game to see if you like it before plunking down the cash, that’s a consumer-friendly practice that’s nearly extinct, but I digress. The Earth prologue level in Mass Effect 3 was also the first half of the game’s demo, made available before launch. The sort of face I am likely to make when someone tells me “ Mass Effect 3 was good until the ending.” (Thanks AVGN/James Rolfe for providing such an abundance of perfectly expressed frustration to reference) Make no mistake however, game three is bad from jump, in ways uniquely divorced from its prequels. The problems, dear reader, are not contained merely to Mass Effect 3‘s ending, and to be fair, some of the baggage passed on to the third game is due to some questionable and even flatout boneheaded creative and writing choices made in Mass Effect 2. If, however, you are one of the rare individuals who has been neutral on this topic since 2012, or if you are experiencing Mass Effect for the first time through playing the Legendary Edition, then I hope this critique can help you understand what the ruckus was and is about, and why Bioware’s epic blunder should not by any means be casually dismissed, nor forgotten. ![]() If you are a journalist determined to side with the interests of a corporation instead of the people who support the industry (in this case, gamers), this article is also not for you, and I question the integrity of how you pursue your chosen profession. Ah, yes, the ending to the Shepard trilogy living up to its original potential, we have dismissed those claims.īefore I begin the article proper, I wish to preface this work with a message to any games journalists, or really anyone, who have and continue to dismiss those critical of Mass Effect 3 (its ending in particular) as “moaners” or “complainers.” This article is not for you, then, and you may dismiss yourself out the airlock.
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