I'm with Ankh on this. You don't want to see more? Don't look. Nobody's forcing you to. But asking for a threadlock because you don't want to see it is childish at best.
On-topic:
I read some stuff online at the time that the ending was supposedly leaked, and... I dunno. Certainly it feels more Mass Effect-y than what we actually got, but at the same time, I've /read/ Karpyshyn's Mass Effect books.
The man is a horrible writer.
It doesn't necessarily follow that he's a horrible storyteller or that his intended ending for the trilogy was in any way wrong or bad; it just means that I don't know if it would have survived the EA approval process, and I suspect the success of ME1's storyline was due to the editing process in-house at Bioware... back before they got eaten, heart and soul. Mass Effect 2 was during the EA period, and already it had signs that things were Not Right at Bioware. Truth be told I suspect that that is why Karpyshyn left.
This does not in my mind absolve Bioware of blame, and I've noted before that I don't like any of the endings that we did get. But the ride up until that last 10 minutes was very sweet indeed. I wonder how much of ME3 was set in stone before K. left, and how much was after?
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
On-topic:
I read some stuff online at the time that the ending was supposedly leaked, and... I dunno. Certainly it feels more Mass Effect-y than what we actually got, but at the same time, I've /read/ Karpyshyn's Mass Effect books.
The man is a horrible writer.
It doesn't necessarily follow that he's a horrible storyteller or that his intended ending for the trilogy was in any way wrong or bad; it just means that I don't know if it would have survived the EA approval process, and I suspect the success of ME1's storyline was due to the editing process in-house at Bioware... back before they got eaten, heart and soul. Mass Effect 2 was during the EA period, and already it had signs that things were Not Right at Bioware. Truth be told I suspect that that is why Karpyshyn left.
This does not in my mind absolve Bioware of blame, and I've noted before that I don't like any of the endings that we did get. But the ride up until that last 10 minutes was very sweet indeed. I wonder how much of ME3 was set in stone before K. left, and how much was after?
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs