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I Want It Now!
13 years ago
A world that loves it's irony...
I will begin this journal by stating I have not played Mass Effect 3. I don't know the problems with the endings, but the hub bub has brought up a sore spot for me that today's culture doesn't seem to ever talk about, or if we do we talk about it in passing, spitting tones.
You can't always get what you want.
There are some things you don't put up with. You don't put up with violent bullying, discrimination, or active hatred toward your person. You don't put up with unadulterated rudeness, you don't put up with being treated as a lesser than.
What you do put up with his shitty endings to things in pop culture. Why? In the end, it's a movie, or a book, or a video game, and while an ending can wreck something of a shorter length, if you've invested years into something, a bad ending won't detract from all the good times you had playing or reading or watching whatever it was.
You are allowed to be upset that the ending is not what you want. I was upset at how J. K. Rowling ended Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and I voiced my opinions to other friends who had read the books. What I did not do is begin howling madly at Rowling, and Bloomsbury, and anyone else even vaguely involved in the process of creating and producing those books.
The current state of our culture not only allows, but fosters this sort of blatant self-centered bullshit. Yelling loud enough will get you what you want, that is what we're being taught not just by the uproar of Mass Effect 3, but by politics, and Wall Street, and other far bigger influences on our lives than the video game industry. Working yourself into such a tizzy that you feel the need to petition BioWare, and in some small and extreme cases sue the company and petition the FTC, that is a waste of your resources as a human being.
Deal with it being a shitty ending. Maybe send a quiet e-mail to BioWare expressing your distaste, go and bitch to friends. But do not become a violent mob wanting some retribution you are not entitled to. You have no throne to throw this lightning from.
Sometimes, the things you love don't end up the way you want them to. When companies and people cave because you're holding your breath until you turn blue in the face, you're not gaining anything. You're losing self-respect and losing the want for people to make things for you. Move on to something else. Enjoy the parts you loved, and fuck being so bratty and pouty.
It's just a fucking game, Veruca Salt. You don't get what you want.
Lu out.
You can't always get what you want.
There are some things you don't put up with. You don't put up with violent bullying, discrimination, or active hatred toward your person. You don't put up with unadulterated rudeness, you don't put up with being treated as a lesser than.
What you do put up with his shitty endings to things in pop culture. Why? In the end, it's a movie, or a book, or a video game, and while an ending can wreck something of a shorter length, if you've invested years into something, a bad ending won't detract from all the good times you had playing or reading or watching whatever it was.
You are allowed to be upset that the ending is not what you want. I was upset at how J. K. Rowling ended Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and I voiced my opinions to other friends who had read the books. What I did not do is begin howling madly at Rowling, and Bloomsbury, and anyone else even vaguely involved in the process of creating and producing those books.
The current state of our culture not only allows, but fosters this sort of blatant self-centered bullshit. Yelling loud enough will get you what you want, that is what we're being taught not just by the uproar of Mass Effect 3, but by politics, and Wall Street, and other far bigger influences on our lives than the video game industry. Working yourself into such a tizzy that you feel the need to petition BioWare, and in some small and extreme cases sue the company and petition the FTC, that is a waste of your resources as a human being.
Deal with it being a shitty ending. Maybe send a quiet e-mail to BioWare expressing your distaste, go and bitch to friends. But do not become a violent mob wanting some retribution you are not entitled to. You have no throne to throw this lightning from.
Sometimes, the things you love don't end up the way you want them to. When companies and people cave because you're holding your breath until you turn blue in the face, you're not gaining anything. You're losing self-respect and losing the want for people to make things for you. Move on to something else. Enjoy the parts you loved, and fuck being so bratty and pouty.
It's just a fucking game, Veruca Salt. You don't get what you want.
Lu out.
Having said that, there's one big difference between ME3 and something like Harry Potter. When reading a book, you get what the author's giving you. No more, no less. But before ME3 came out, the developers were very vocal about telling fans, "Every choice you've made in all three games will come to bear on how the ending of the game plays out." They went so far as to say that people playing the game were essentially 'co-authors'. So when that really, really didn't happen, and fans started comparing their various endings and realizing that the last 10 minutes of the series was virtually identical (and nonsensical) for all players no matter what your choices, I understand the frustration. But I'm not out there starting protests or demanding a refund, considering how awesome and epic the other 99.9% of the game was.
It really makes me ashamed to call myself a gamer when people like this call themselves that too.