It wasn't actually any religious group, as far as I can tell. Very little has been made of the game's "controversial" content since it was released on Steam. Nintendo is just being overly cautious.
I totally agree with him about the ending. Personally, I think it was one of the most unsatisfying endings to a game I've encountered in a long time. But...I don't know how to put it...these kinds of things just CAN'T be dictated by us.
If Bioware caves and gives gamers the ending that they want, then by the very nature of those actions, it ceases to be Mass Effect. Mass Effect is a product of Bioware, whether gamers want to admit it or not. If games are art, the...
Does this just look really..."meh" to anyone else?
If it's a return to Baldur's Gate, it better be a RETURN TO BALDUR'S GATE...
Mass Effect was great, but it was an action game, and DA has obviously strayed WAY off the mark at this point. It needs to be Baldur's Gate in all it's hardcore RPG glory.
Over my dead wallet.
It's not that people shouldn't be disappointed with the ending...I sort of thought it was crap, myself.
But to even suggest that Bioware needs to actually go back and change it is just the worst kind of childishness imaginable...and retarded to boot, if only from a logistical standpoint.
It was REMOVED FROM THE GAME. The files were found in the vanilla PC copies of the game. This is not "a little something extra" for the paying fans. This is content that is vital to the context of the narrative that was removed from the game and released to us as paid DLC.
So yes, people are upset.
^Yeah, you're right about that. I was probably overreacting.
Aw, no US midnight release?
It's a different brand of storytelling. That's all. They can both be equally effective in their own ways.
Obviously games like the Witcher and Mass Effect deliver a much more traditional definition of "narrative," but Skyrim's narrative comes from more than just it's quests. It comes from exploring some random cave or tricking a dragon into attacking a giant, or freezing a bear and watching it roll down a cliff. The journey IS the narrative.
Man, I never like seeing developers trash talk each other, especially when I love both developers so much.
It's not as big an issue as some people like to make it, but considering that video games are pretty much the ONLY medium that allows interactivity, non-interactive cutscenes just seem a little...unimaginative.
Still, if you can enjoy a movie, you can enjoy a cutscene. If it's entertaining, then it really doesn't matter what it is, does it? It's just not that big a deal.
Is anyone actually reading the article? It's really more about his "miraculous" conversion to the Kinect and sudden, intense hatred for traditional controllers than it is about CoD.
He's just going way, way overboard like he ALWAYS does. He's become the self-proclaimed paragon of innovation and ambition once again.
Basically he's making a Kinect game now, so to him, any mention of any other way to play a game is not only inferior, bu...
Totally agree with this article.
EA/Bioware's treatment of day one DLC is abhorrent. I know this, because I learned the word "abhorrent" just this morning.
Let me just be absolutely clear here. I'm NOT saying people shouldn't be voicing their opinions. If you don't like the ending, then by all means, let them know, but purchasing a product does not entitle consumers to dictate the artistic direction of these games.
That would be the WORST kind of pandering and it's contrary to any kind of artistic integrity in the industry.
DLC is potentially a nice feature, but if the kind of crap EA/Bioware just pulled is a side-effect of DLC, then I say to hell with it. It's doing much more bad than good at this point.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be calling the ending awful. I'm saying that to insist that they change it is childish.
It's an ending to the game. If you didn't like it, fine. But to ask to change the ending? That's ridiculous. The only writers for the game work at Bioware. Go write some fanfic you whiny a-holes.
Really? You don't think the game is going to be as good without huge bouncing boobs?
Jesus Christ. And people wonder why society stereotypes gamers.