EDIT 6/22/12 - So I've been wanting to make a NON Mass Effect related journal, but things keep happening. XD It was announced today that the "Extended Cut" DLC pack would be released June 26, and instead of feeling like "OMG FINALLY! /excite" I just feel this pit of dread settle into my stomach... like somehow, they'll just make it worse, and show how miserable a state everything is in, and I'll just feel my soul crushed all over again. Even if it's not terrible, I'll still forever have a grudge against Bioware for Thane. I'm seriously beginning to think Bioware hates the drell. Also, I want some god damn new females for the multiplayer. Mostly I want a female krogan whatever, and a fucking female drell infiltrator, because the drell SHOULD have been in the infiltrator class to begin with. I'd even settle for another male drell as infiltrator. Also it irritates me that the MP drell are just wearing Thane's clothes basically... like I'm pretty sure Thane had his own style/outfit and not every drell dressed like that (I could be remembering wrong, but Feron and Kolyat's outfits were something different weren't they?) ... I dunno. I'm just so angry at Bioware.... hopefully this DLC isn't a worst explosion to the face as the original end was...... Anyone else worried?
EDIT 4/5/12 - Right now I'm putting together a new Bix Picks, FINALLY, hoping it'll cheer me up some as today just seems to be a Grumpy Bear kinda day. But yeah, so about the announcement this morning from BioWare about the extended ending DLC... I'm going to remain safely pessimistic so I'm not soul crushingly destroyed all over again. While I do hope it answers questions and clears up at least some of the (NONSENSE) end, I just hope it doesn't raise even MORE questions, or avoid answering the big ones. Also, I read they said they have no plans to release any true alternate ends to keep the integrity of the artists' vision, I can understand that, but I don't see why it'd be a problem to include non-canon alt endings, if just for the fuck of it and maybe to make us smile a little bit. I just feel like, if a shitty game like Final Fantasy 13-2 can have a billion alt endings (many of which I've heard are extremely non-canon and silly), why not something that had actually promised multiple ends? And it still doesn't change the feeling I have that all of my painstaking decisions mean jack shit in the end, because it all lead me to same corridor with three different colored doors that still pretty much all lead to the same place. If anything, I would have really dug it if the Indoctrination End theories had been correct, and they made a new/alt end based on that because I think it's incredibly interesting and so much could be done with it. At this point, I feel like the fans have come up with more amazing ending possibilities than BioWare (and I don't just mean ultra happy endings either, there's plenty of beautiful tragedy still to go around), which maybe is partially what they wanted/intended... but it';s coming from a bad place and lack of closure and fulfillment rather than a truly inspired one. But yeah, I'll leave you with one example, this comic which started off kinda comically about the great "last boss" of ME3, Marauder Shields,but has really started becoming something super epic, and in the end might just be my favorite ending for ME3 if BioWare flops again. koobismo.deviantart.com/galler… Check it!
Before I get into my Mass Effect obsession, just wanted to give a shout out to the mystery person who bought me a premium membership! ;o; THANK YOU! I've been slacking off quite a bit here on devart but I'm slowly managing to catch up even with my obsession distracting me a great deal. XD I'm pretty pumped, because this weekend in Con-Nichiwa here in Tucson which I'm selling at ( although actually atm I'm just feeling lazy and not in a drawing mood... hopefully I'll feel motivated/excited once I'm there XD; ), then next week I'm heading up to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con!!!
I'm just attending, not selling, but it should be great since I'm going with my sister and one of my best friends, and there's a lot of awesome guests/panels I will hopefully get to see. I've been meaning to do another Bix Picks too, just bear with me and my procrastination. XD;;;;So I'm really, hardcore obsessed with Mass Effect right now. it's baaaad.... I can't even think straight. XD; All I want to do is look at fanart and read fics all day, lol. But yeah I totally have a never ending raging ladyboner for Garrus and/or Thane. *_* I don't think I've been attracted to non-human characters before like this... I almost feel dirty, but they're just so cool/funny/sexy I DON'T EVEN CARE, HATERS GUNNA HATE. Anyway, for future reference, you can add Thane and Garrus to list of things I wet my pants over if you wanna draw me gift art ever. XD
I tried to be vague and non-specific to make this a spoiler free rant, but things slip here and there so from here on, +SPOILER WARNING+
I'm sure many of you that are reading this have either already read lots of other ME3 rants and are probably sick of hearing about it, but I just wanted to write my own (hopefully short-ish) 2 cents in hopes it'll help me cope. XD; So yes, I'm one of the 99% who hated the endings...or END since they're basically the same. First and foremost I want to say I wasn't expecting a "And everyone lived happily ever after" end, I expected there to be plenty of hard decisions, death, sacrifice, and it culminating into a bittersweet end. I went in with the feeling Shepard wouldn't survive, even though there was a tiny part of me that still hoped they would, of course (maybe even in an alternate "uber happy" ending that wasn't the true end but just there to make you smile and feel a little better for 5 minutes XD). But, I expected to feel at least all of the death and sacrifice was for SOMETHING, that all of the hardships me and my compadres had been through wasn't in vain, that we didn't just go quietly into the night, that we raged and burned against the dying of the light, and even though it was hard, we won. But no, I got to the end, and thought I must have made some sort of huge mistake or wrong decision along the way, because there's no way the choices given to me could possibly be the "good endings." I put down my controller, rifaled through the internet searching for answers... and nope, turns out I had the three ultimate choices before me. I sat there for like 45 minutes feeling so shocked and betrayed and angry that all of my hardships had culminated to nothing, wondering why my Shepard wasn't raging and challenging the rules and instead just stood there and accepted the bullshit she had just been told by a phantom AI. After that 45 minutes, I just turned the game off, without even choosing an end and retired to my bed, where I shed hot angry overtired tears at the injustice of it. XD; I watched all of the endings the next day to see if maybe seeing them for myself would change my mind, but it only made me even more frustrated at how many inconsistancies and unanswered questions there were. But yeah, I could continue ranting, but instead I'll link you to other people's rants that basically sum up my own thoughts.
youtu.be/4H_A7SeawU4
Also, the "Indoctrination Theory" which could explain why the ending contained so much WTF is pretty interesting, though kind of makes me more mad because in the end, it still means we were given a bullshit ending.
youtu.be/ZZOyeFvnhiI
But yeah, at least Bioware has been announcingthey're hearing the fans outcries and plan to release DLC adding closure to it all.... I really hope it does, and I hope they don't slap together a "happy ending" package thinking that will shut everyone up, because like I said that's NOT what I expected, and even though yes I would love to see Shepard rejoined with the crew to begin rebuilding their future... I know it's just wishful thinking.
On other nitpicky things, I was kind of disappointed with the characters that you actually get to use in your crew. In ME2 I pretty much loved EVERYONE and often had a hard time deciding who to take out with me. I don't know... Vega was an ok guy, but I don't really care about him or Ashley to be honest. I *LOVE* Edi's rockin' cyber babe body, but I found her to be a kinda weak companion in battle so I didn't take her very often. :/ I did however adore Javik and his asshole superiority hipster comments about everything. XD But yeah I was very disappoint in the lack of krogan on my team. :< I would have taken Wrex, or Grunt, OR EVE! Eve would have been awesome... actually a non-Asari female alien crewmate would have been badass, WTH Bioware? WHERE MY GIRLS AT? But yeah, I wanted Grunt mostly, my murderous lil tube baby. T_T And of course, Garrus. <333 And Tali too! But, I started ME3 using my save where I romanced Thane because my grand master plan was that in the case that Thane died during ME3, I would run to Garrus to comfort me (and calibrate my panties)... but then I find out you can't romance Garrus in ME3 unless you did in ME2, so instead I got to be heartboken AND watch Tali and Garrus flirt and find them in a comprimising position in the Main Battery. I was really starting to want to poison Tali, with air. XD And to add insult to injury, when Thane does pass away ( btw I locked myself in the bathroom and cried for like 30 minutes
), NO ONE ACKNOWLEDGES HIS DEATH. NO ONE. Garrus is freaking looking at the plaque in the Normandy of all the crewmates that have been lost, and all he mentions is fucking Kaiden... WAT. How about a "Oh hey sorry your boo died. :< I'll give you turian snuggles if you need them bby." NOPE. I was so bitter, I wanted to shoot someone. Then you get that love letter from Thane afetrwards, I really wanted to die after that. T_T Also I was kinda bummed his death scene seemed a little impersonal, considering he was my lovey love. 
Also, no date? I mean, making out in public is great and all ( not really, srsly gaiz imma call the PDA police > ), but I wanted MORE with Thane, especially since he wasn't going to be able to go riding around the galaxy with me. But yeah I was just irritated it seemed like every time you found a familiar face, it was like a hi and bye, or they stuck around just long enough to do something heroic and die tragically and make you hate life. But yeah, despite all my bitching, the game was mostly amazing up until the end. I loved hearing/seeing the characters interact with each other on the Normandy, even though I still felt like I want MORE conversation with them. I LOVED that you could carry one of each type of weapon if you wanted to, and the new melee attacks made me extra brave/badass to where I literally at some points (usually when I was raging XD) would just run up to an enemy, blast them with my shotgun and then beat them to death like a savage. XD Also, FUCKING.BANSHEES. D: THE HORROR~~~~ Also, pain in the ass... but srsly best new enemy in the game, for sheer terror factor. XD; The unavoidable character deaths I thought were beautiful and tragic, but heroic like I mentioned... they really touched me and I cried like a baby evey time.
Anyway I'm already getting re-distracted with Thane and Garrus stuff. XD; And I need to rinse my hair out (re-dying it, w00t)... if I think of anything else, I'll add it later haha.
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