I think the problem, Logan, is that we're coming at this from completely different perspectives.
*I* am invested in My Story Of Commander Shepard. It seems to me that you're invested in The Story Of Commander Shepard.
Only one word is different, but it's a helluva difference. Let me try to explain.
From ME1 and through everything since, I have shaped MY story the way I like it. To use an analogy, I have paid Bioware to produce the film of my story, but like all films, it deviates from the book. Mostly I'm okay with this, because they helpfully included the cut footage and I can splice it back together the way I like (what the *hell*, Bioware, I specifically said Shepard was *female*...). The story of MY Shepard is fundamentally different than what the Bioware crew has produced. But again, that's fine -- I didn't pay them all that much anyway and they recorded most of the bits I wanted, I just need to spend some time in the editing room.
From my perspective, it's MY story, and I can change it however, whenever, and to whatever I want.
It seems, based on your posts, that you have ceded ownership of THE story to Bioware. You're not creating it, you're experiencing it. And because of that, yeah, I suppose I can see how you'd get so fired up over 10 minutes of footage that, in my world, wound up on the cutting room floor. Because you don't feel you *have* that option. You feel it's Bioware's story, not yours -- and if that's the case, then yeah, they done fucked up a helluva good tale.
For me... I'd like to see them re-shoot the final scene. But I only paid them $50 and they've given me a couple hundred hours of spectacular footage. At anybody's going rate, I've still come out on top.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
*I* am invested in My Story Of Commander Shepard. It seems to me that you're invested in The Story Of Commander Shepard.
Only one word is different, but it's a helluva difference. Let me try to explain.
From ME1 and through everything since, I have shaped MY story the way I like it. To use an analogy, I have paid Bioware to produce the film of my story, but like all films, it deviates from the book. Mostly I'm okay with this, because they helpfully included the cut footage and I can splice it back together the way I like (what the *hell*, Bioware, I specifically said Shepard was *female*...). The story of MY Shepard is fundamentally different than what the Bioware crew has produced. But again, that's fine -- I didn't pay them all that much anyway and they recorded most of the bits I wanted, I just need to spend some time in the editing room.
From my perspective, it's MY story, and I can change it however, whenever, and to whatever I want.
It seems, based on your posts, that you have ceded ownership of THE story to Bioware. You're not creating it, you're experiencing it. And because of that, yeah, I suppose I can see how you'd get so fired up over 10 minutes of footage that, in my world, wound up on the cutting room floor. Because you don't feel you *have* that option. You feel it's Bioware's story, not yours -- and if that's the case, then yeah, they done fucked up a helluva good tale.
For me... I'd like to see them re-shoot the final scene. But I only paid them $50 and they've given me a couple hundred hours of spectacular footage. At anybody's going rate, I've still come out on top.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs