Mass Effect 3 journal
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8 Mar 2012, 00:12
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So completed the game an hour ago, after playing it for 21 hours. Did all the sidequests that in any way influenced the main storyline, but I skipped the "Go play scanner minigames in some system without a Mass Relay" -quests that added nothing to the plot.
The game itself was great, I think. Probably the best one to be released this year. I was very content with the story while it was in progress. However, the ending was nothing like I expected (not gonna go into the actual story here, just pondering its characteristics sort of). I'm kind of disappointed how it left several questions unanswered.
I guess a "half-open ending" would best describe it, the sort that is very common in stories in my experience. My assumption is that they wanted to leave some things open for possible spin-offs, like comic books or novels or the sort. I don't think it's a good thing, but it didn't ruin the story for me, it just sort of made me grimace at the ending. There's a very important difference between the end of the story and the ending of a story here; I didn't like the ending, the particular method of ending the story, but I certainly liked the end.
So I guess the style of the ending, a sort of open one, is what bothers me most about the game. I think stories with honest endings, ones that bring the story to an end that satisfies the reader and ends their craving for more, are the best ones. For me, this one wasn't really satisfying in that sense, but I can't really explain more into it without spoiling (which I did in the hidden paragraphs).
The game itself was great, I think. Probably the best one to be released this year. I was very content with the story while it was in progress. However, the ending was nothing like I expected (not gonna go into the actual story here, just pondering its characteristics sort of). I'm kind of disappointed how it left several questions unanswered.
I guess a "half-open ending" would best describe it, the sort that is very common in stories in my experience. My assumption is that they wanted to leave some things open for possible spin-offs, like comic books or novels or the sort. I don't think it's a good thing, but it didn't ruin the story for me, it just sort of made me grimace at the ending. There's a very important difference between the end of the story and the ending of a story here; I didn't like the ending, the particular method of ending the story, but I certainly liked the end.
So I guess the style of the ending, a sort of open one, is what bothers me most about the game. I think stories with honest endings, ones that bring the story to an end that satisfies the reader and ends their craving for more, are the best ones. For me, this one wasn't really satisfying in that sense, but I can't really explain more into it without spoiling (which I did in the hidden paragraphs).
can anyone confirm that there are no spoilers in this journal
i just love games that are made nowadays
Story-driven RPGs that take longer to finish usually have more redundancy in them: excessively long arcs that don't have anything to do with the main plot, more gameplay parts (in this case they would be the shooting parts, but you know, the time you spend killing stuff and running around in between places that advance the storyline) or some silly additions that tend to get your attention off the actual game, like certain kinds of minigames.
Think Final Fantasy, where you usually spend most of your time running on straight roads getting interrupted by random encounters that each take 1-5 minutes to complete. The actual stories in those games aren't much longer, just their completion times are because there's much more non-story stuff in it.
Personally I play story heavy games mostly for the story, so I'm not really bothered by this at all, but of course everyone has their own reasons and preferences, and thus migth like the Final Fantasy sort of games more. Completing this game took about as long as reading a book does, and I'm very fine with that.
none of your characters even have lines <3
what gives you the idea that risen2 will be able to remotely compete with anything?
PS: the real disappointment was gothic 4 :/
it was the exact same game studio that made gothic3 and who only lost the rights to the name in a fight with their publisher. hence the official gothic4 was made by another studio and was nothing like the originals.
i thought it wasnt open world enough (3 factions all of which require you to do very linear questing). mages were too weak. it took way too long to be able to accumulate loot (especially armor, none in the first 5-10hours) and many other things that i liked about the original and that i felt were missing in risen.
in fact it did flop sales wise.
with prianha bytes being let go by the publisher and risen1 not doing well i cant imagine where the money for a A level production should come from.
risen2 is their make or brake game and i fear it will be the last we ever see from them.
it brakes my heart to see the franchise go cause i still belive that gothic2 was one of the, if not the, best rpg ever made.
e: if you want a really enjoyable (but/because rather generic) RPG then check out kingdoms of amalur. 200+ hours of decent RPG fun with a solid story, good looking world, interesting weaponry and skill sets and a brand new lore that extends over thousands of years.
yep, you're right, it has been a flop sales wise, yet i think it was a decent game, flawed, but decent. (and the reason i didn't enjoy the actualy gothic 4 was for the very reasons, everything was so linear and the fighting was just too easy, only bashing buttons, no timing or ooponentselecting or aiming what so ever) i give you that, it wasn't as open as gothic 1-3 were, but still far more open than gothic 4
and true, really saddens me too to see them dying, gothic sure as hell was one of the best series ever created. still playing gothic 3 at times (with the community content it's actually a pretty decent game now)
saw a trailer for kingdom of amalur, didn't really like what i saw, when it comes to interfaces and the fighting system, seemed very much like fable 3, console style :(
it's likely to be no "awesome big sales title", sure, but yet i'm eager for a) the story and b) if they even now stick to the original conecpt or jump the wagon for generic noobish games any coma patient could play
Mass Effect 1 ran quite decent on my laptop, mass effect 2 lagged like crazy.
Mass Effect 3 has FPS lag what so ever. It's amazing. When I use the elevator, for example, in Mass Effect 2 it took so long to load, but in ME3 it's so fast and almost no waiting time.
Got to give props for that for sure. I only have played like 3hours total, but I truly like the game and thus far it's been very decent for a game that is aimed at console fags.
I always try to read those tips during loading screens but after reading the first two words the game has already been loaded, even though I dont have that good pc :--)