Solo4114
Master Member
I haven't played the game. I haven't even played Mass Effect 2. However, I know myself pretty well, and I know that when the ending to a story sucks, it pretty much kills my enjoyment of everything that came before. Don't bother arguing with me about that, it's just how I am. Moving on.
My question here is as follows:
If, from the sound of it, nothing you do in the game series matters as far as providing different outcomes -- and by that I mean the ENTIRE series -- then is it really worth it to play Mass Effect 2, its DLC, and Mass Effect 3? I've heard the ending was INCREDIBLY disappointing both because of its existentialist-nihilist connotations ("Haha! Stupid humans. You think anything you do matters?! Pfft. Whatever. The only thing that matters is what you decide matters because you have no ability to affect the universe around you in the grand scheme."), and because something about the ending is a real bummer anyway (I guess the hero dies? Can't save their significant other? The bad guys win? I dunno. Like I said, I haven't played it).
The actual facts about WHAT the ending is aren't as important to me as the impact the ending has and whether it's just bad -- again, both in the sense of "unsatisfying because it's a downer" and "unsatisfying because they basically invalidated all player choice/input/actions and left a bunch of stuff unanswered".
So, with that in mind, is it really worth it FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME (as in someone for whom a bad ending will make you say "Well that's a whole lot of time I'll never get back. ****.") to play the other games in the series after the first one?
I quite enjoyed the first game and was really digging the notion of my choices in Game 1 affecting stuff that'd happen in Game 3 even, because it seemed such an ambitious and cool concept. If the truth is "Nah, doesn't matter that much," then I'm less inclined to bother playing. If the truth is also "Oh, and the ending is a huge downer" then, yeah, still not interested in playing.
So, should I bother, or just play other stuff instead?
My question here is as follows:
If, from the sound of it, nothing you do in the game series matters as far as providing different outcomes -- and by that I mean the ENTIRE series -- then is it really worth it to play Mass Effect 2, its DLC, and Mass Effect 3? I've heard the ending was INCREDIBLY disappointing both because of its existentialist-nihilist connotations ("Haha! Stupid humans. You think anything you do matters?! Pfft. Whatever. The only thing that matters is what you decide matters because you have no ability to affect the universe around you in the grand scheme."), and because something about the ending is a real bummer anyway (I guess the hero dies? Can't save their significant other? The bad guys win? I dunno. Like I said, I haven't played it).
The actual facts about WHAT the ending is aren't as important to me as the impact the ending has and whether it's just bad -- again, both in the sense of "unsatisfying because it's a downer" and "unsatisfying because they basically invalidated all player choice/input/actions and left a bunch of stuff unanswered".
So, with that in mind, is it really worth it FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME (as in someone for whom a bad ending will make you say "Well that's a whole lot of time I'll never get back. ****.") to play the other games in the series after the first one?
I quite enjoyed the first game and was really digging the notion of my choices in Game 1 affecting stuff that'd happen in Game 3 even, because it seemed such an ambitious and cool concept. If the truth is "Nah, doesn't matter that much," then I'm less inclined to bother playing. If the truth is also "Oh, and the ending is a huge downer" then, yeah, still not interested in playing.
So, should I bother, or just play other stuff instead?