So EA/Bioware are now on my permanent fecal roster.   Ty Franck offered me valuable advice regarding the expanded DLC for the end of Mass Effect 3.  He said he wasn’t going to download it because the company would track the number of downloads, and if there are a lot of them they will take it as vindication of their crappy ending.

So I waited for some game site to comment and upload the “expanded” endings.  Someone did.  I watched them, and — Do they think we are morons?  That they can satisfy an epic fail with a few more pictures and some thrown together voice overs?  And trust me the condescension toward the players just drips off every line of the voice overs that have been provided.

They do add a new ending where you refuse to choose and then the Reapers eat the galaxy.  Oh, that’s nice.  But the other three remain the same, but with boring V.O. by Hackett, EDI or Shepard.  It seems that Shepard does live in the destruction choice, but they are coy about it.

I just hate to see something terrific get wrecked at the end.  It happened to Battlestar Galactica with that awful angel/she’s Eve! ending, and now it’s happened to what had been my favorite game.  It had edged a nose ahead of Dragon Age because I’m more of a sci fi girl than a fantasy girl, but maybe it’s time to replay Dragon Age, and remember how a good game works.

Or maybe I’ll play Deus X, and just stop expecting coherent story telling from video games.  They really better start hiring real writers.  This is a new art form, it had the potential to be great, but not if they continue like this.

And I’ll go back to writing on my Mass Effect story.  It, at least, is fun, rewarding and coherent.