@Kingjames11 Well said. One should also note that publishers go in and dictate what direction the game being made will take, so already in that early stage, the artist's vision has already been altered, in most cases I would suspect to fit the market.
The thing all these gaming journalists do not seem to understand is that people aren't (well okay some people are) angry at BioWare for making an unhappy ending, it's because they made an ending FULL of plotholes and that it changed the rules of the universe in the last 10 minutes. The plotholes are so apparent that you notice them the first time you play the last 10 or so minutes. I was shocked that this ending was something that BioWare had produced as it is quite frankly, below them. They don't need to change the ending as much as they need to clear all the plotholes.
If you have womb, you're a woman, if you don't you're not a woman, if you have are a woman and have a sexchange operation to become a man, but still don't have any seed to impregnate a woman, you're not a man. Some of you might say some women can't bear children either for various reasons, well, atleast they still have wombs. So there. Also I don't have to like transgender people, which I don't, but I still tolerate them and think they have a right to choose and I would support that right. Some might be offended by what I say, well, so what? What's wrong with being offended? You can't die from being offended. People are so sensitive.
I kept myself completly out of the loop when it came to ME3. I didn't watch trailers, screenshots, didn't read interviews and watched previews. I kept myself away from poor marketing ploys and what not. It seems my experience with ME3 has vastly benefitted from this. I think I may stick to this plan in the future...
McInnis hits the nail with this article. The AC series is a good example of corporate greed ruining (or atleast starting to, Revelations was still a good game) a franchise. I can only hope that ACIII will be what ACII was in 2007, a marvel of modern gaming.
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