Kotaku game logThe last thoughts of a Kotaku staff member about a game we’re playing.It didn’t start as something tried make. It just happened. It was 2012. I had reached the point in Mass Effect 3 where I felt I was at one or two free ends heading for the grand finale. Then, for various reasons, I stopped. It’s been almost a decade since then. Somehow, despite the galaxy of the ever-expanding infinite spoiler that is the internet, I still don’t know what the first Mass effect the trilogy ends.
Not that I didn’t like it Mass Effect 3. I did! It was a continuation of my favorite game about spending time with cool aliens, Mass Effect 2, which in turn was a continuation of my favorite game about spending time with cool aliens in bad cars and worse elevators, Mass Effect 1. But when I realize that the end is near in games where the central attraction cools with buds from the worlds beyond, I tend to pump the brakes. I don’t want games (or books or TV shows or whatever) to end, so I leave them in what I perceive to be a perfect state of stasis. Anything can happen forever. It doesn’t matter that it means I’m wasting real time with characters; brains are not rational things.
Obviously, I know about controversy. It played a part in my slow abandonment of the game. I heard the ending was bad, or at least unsatisfactory, and I didn’t want some last-minute tricks to stand over a multi-game experience that I would otherwise have liked quite well. But it was also all that someone was talking about at the time, and I was just tired of hearing about it Mass effect in general. Whether the ending was bad or not, it was discouraging to watch thousands of people shouting in crushing tympanum in unison for a studio to cancel its artistic choices. It was obvious that the whole event was setting the stage for even worse things – to become “Another Day in Video Games” every time a flock of self-proclaimed “fans” groped and harassed the developers, say, modifying a few background shots that, in retrospect, were ill-advised, of their own free will. I didn’t want to be reminded of this any longer than I should, so I paused Mass effect play through.
Initially, I avoided spoilers in the sincere belief that I would finish the game in a few weeks or a few months. Then a year passed. Then one year became two years, and two years became five. Around the age of six or seven, it became a kind of personal challenge to see how long I could avoid knowing the details of this, which had somehow become inconsequential, despite their terrifying importance to one of the first strong enough internet mobsters. to go down in history. . The moment has already passed and it would have set a miserable precedent, no matter what people were upset about. In the meantime, I didn’t feel much for my special permutation of Mass effect poured more. It had been years ago.
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It was surprisingly easy to … I don’t know. I decided to avoid the articles and videos mentioned in particular Mass Effect 3it ends, but otherwise, I didn’t really try to avoid the spoilers. I read a lot of articles about Mass effect that didn’t mean the end – including wild and erratic comment sections in which anyone could have thrown themselves at me, wild rage in their eyes and recited every line of the final scene word for word. But it never happened. Here’s what I know: there are three versions of the ending. For some reason, they are color-coded. Everyone has a name that probably reveals something about it, but I forgot about them.
I admit that, in writing this article, I probably condemned myself. Someone on Twitter will try to ruin the end for me and they will probably succeed. It will be stupid, because Mass effect the remastering rekindled my interest in reaching the end for myself. But at the same time, I spent nine years without knowing it; I will live if I ever find out or not.
As I said earlier, the reason I play these games is to stay with the characters I like. During that time Mass Effect 3 Unintentionally ending, an ant detonated, the characters in the game took – to a greater extent even than they had at the time – took their own lives and got rid of any notion of “canon” they contained. The mountains of fanatical art, fan fiction and discussions mean I could live a thousand lives with them if I wanted to. No end can invalidate this, nor has it ever been. The finals are just suggestions. I’m telling you, maybe it’s time to move on, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come back later.