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5th April 2012

Video reblogged from aching just to blow aside with 222 notes

loweryi:

teamkilling-fucktard:

BioWare needs to see this video.

The best thing about this video, is that it ignores the basic problems with the ending, like the fact that the ending doesn’t give you any real choice, and that it takes away every single choice you have ever made, and that it shatters the whole foundation of the franchise. This video talks about how broken the ending is on an incredibly basic story level. How it just does not work in the most basic possible sense.

I’m just going to start regularly tweeting this (and other videos like this) to BioWare. They need to understand why adding on to the ending and clarifying it won’t work. They need to understand how they have tarnished their own intellectual property. They have ruined their own fiction, and have effectively made themselves, and the video game industry in general, look bad. The ending is a leap backwards from promoting video gaming in general as a valid storytelling medium. Not to mention, they have lied to their consumers and given them false understanding of the product that they were buying in the first place, and are following up their displeasure by saying “Well, we thought it was good! And the critics love it! Look at all the perfect scores! But, y’know what? Okay. We’ll add on to the ending if you don’t like it.” Not to mention, they’ve been deleting Facebook comments and threads and have been locking down threads on their own forums. They’ve been snarky and rude and have just generally fucked this whole thing up. I have no idea how they could make 2.9 games that were absolutely incredible, and then have that last .1 that throws everything else they have ever done out of the window, and say that they like it. I don’t know how they could say that they are upholding their artistic integrity by keeping these endings, because they may think they’re doing that, but all they’re really doing is upholding their egos. If they were really worried about their artistic integrity, they would fix the ending. Fix. Not add on to. Not clarify. Fix the broken ending. And I do mean broken.

Just watch the video. Also watch Jeremy Jahns’ video. And click that link I put up there int he middle of the big paragraph.

Wow how have I not seen this video before! It is perfect. Watch this, guys. Watch iiiit.

This sums up the issue really well, I think. 

Source: teamkilling-fucktard

23rd March 2012

Photoset reblogged from The Captain's Log with 13,158 notes

Source: blue-m00sen