I complained about not being given enough answers?
You mean I mentioned how I'd have liked to have seen The Geth actually doing something rather than never once seeing or hearing about them?
Let's assume this new dialogue will mention things like that. At best it will be Shepard asking 'what happened to...' and the star child saying 'oh they died, or 'oh they did this'. It still won't do what they had claimed the ending would be like and feature differences based on your choices made throughout the 3 games. It still won't explain the inconsistent cut scenes during the end like how someone who was dead a second ago steps out of the Normandy. Once you've picked a few extra dialogue choices, We're still given that poor generic contradicting cut scene to end the series.
For me, it's hardly worth bothering with.
I've no idea what it being free has to do with anything? I should be grateful they botched the ending and failed to execute their plans properly ("lots of speculation for everyone") and now have to fix (some of) it by giving a small fix away for free?
The fact of the matter is they should have got the ending right the first time. There are no excuses for that. The way the lead writer and game designer locked themselves away and came to the conclusions that the BEST possible way to end the game regardless of what the other writers thought (because why do anything less than the best right?) was to give gamers 'lots of speculation' and end it the way they did.
But yet... there is no speculation. Your ending is determined by a basic choice, It's either A,B or if you're good C, and nothing else so pick one and move along to your next game. The only theory gamers are speculating about is indoctrination. So you either buy into that... or you just sort of have nothing else to buy in to. That's not the good kind of open ending where you have multiple theories to talk about.
You have to give it to them for that though, not only a failure to deliver an ending that fans are happy with, but also failing at trying to give the fans "lots of speculation". What was it you said... you were glad they had the balls to do that.
I don't really think it took balls to screw the game up this badly. It took ignorance to ignore the rest of the writers ideas, and arrogance to think their idea was the best and was near perfection.
You feel sad that fans now look back and think that the choices they made, the stories they created... have become almost pointless. I can't talk for other people but regardless their reasons for thinking that.... it be the way the ending failed to incorporate any of their choices, the way it failed to show what happened to people, the way it contradicted itself numerous times...
If they have come away from the ending feeling it ruined the game for them. Then that's is a mission failed in my book. Not something to be applauded. You can't put the finger of blame onto the fans.
...who don't understand...
It's not that people don't understand the ending or that you understand it better than anyone else. The indoctrination/hallucination theory is just that, a theory. It's fan fiction. If a developer can't explain how their story is to be interpreted within their own game or much less by stating it themselves when asked about it, then it's clear that they don't have anything planned for that. Especially when it's supposed to be the end of a trilogy which begs for resolution.
The purpose of the ending is obviously, to any human with a functional mind, not to answer anything or resolve anything.
There's nothing anyone can do to defend that. If you want to choose to believe in this theory that people choose to believe so they can feel better about the game, that's fine.
But don't act like you're higher up on some level of understanding that everyone else doesn't get and that's why the ending is good for you.
I 'complained' (saying that I won't bother is complaining?) or rather said I won't bother with the dlc, because what they're giving us is just fluff. It's not going to blend the decisions you or I made during the 3 games into the ending scenes like they had stated the game would originally.
A few extra chat choices with some random chatter about why and who and where. I didn't need any of that. The story they gave us doesn't need any of that. The issue I had was with the way they handled the end, a standard generic cut scene and a rambling ai with contradictions.
The game fails to deliver what I had expected. Not because I'm some sort of idiot who expects the moon on a stick and gaming perfection. But because prior to release they had stated various things like how the game would have; "16 different endings" and "choices dating back to the first game would give you dramatically different endings to other gamers"...
If the ending we had all got just been 1 of a possible say 3 or 4 or whatever endings. Then that would have been amazing. One gamer might have got the high five feel good ending, another sees the universe destroyed and the reapers actually prevailed, another gets the indoctrination ending and another gets an ending where you end up getting killed by the illusive man and he saves the universe and in turn enslaves them all.
Like how in Heavy Rain, if certain people died or you failed at certain tasks... the ending you receive could be drastically different to another gamers. It was based on your game, your story, your actions. Basically like they had claimed Mass Effect 3 would end. This free dlc... also fails to deliver on those promises though.
I think that I'm well within my rights to complain about being misled originally and then being vocal about not wanting to bother with their DLC that fails to fix the game.
