"It's the journey that matters"
1. "The space magic is nonsense, but all the game is sci fi nonsense as well, so it's ok"
2. "I'm not a crazy person that dissects everything that happens in the game, like you crazy people"
3. "You are probably supposed to hate the endings anyway"
4. "There IS choice, you choose red, green or blue, duh"
5. "I didn't need to think through what happens after I choose an ending, I just think that it matters because what I chose during the game matters"
6. "It's better than just ambiguously fading to black with no answer at all" (well, no shit)
I found it really hard to agree with almost anything he said.
Just to elaborate on this (even though some of it is taken out of context).
1. Ok sci-fi/fantasy requires you to put up with some bullshit in order to follow the story and this sometimes leads to plotholes in the long run, depending how much time you invest in the 'universe'. However,
it is basic storytelling 101 that you NEVER shoe horn a character in a story at the last possible second and then give him exposition the main character can't refute without and expect the audience to be ok with that. It just never works well (see The Matrix: Reloaded).
2. Listen, I am lax on story as well in games. As long as I have fun who cares, right? That being said there are even moments I was playing at the end and I just raised my brow at what bullshit they were shoveling at me. The key example here being the 'Xzibit' paradox, aka, building sythetics to harvest advanced races so synthetics won't kill...advanced races...
I don't see how anyone could have run this PAST the editing department. It is like someone had a mini-stroke when writing that and they just let it pass. I can understand missing a point stated a few games/novels/movies ago but
you don't often see something that contradicts itself in the same god damn sentence. The best example I can think of this is the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen math when 5 Decepticons go under water 1 is killed to revive another and 6 come out of the water. A lot has already been said about Shepard never accepting this and the geth (synthetic) peace example so I won't dive any further into this.
3. Well mission fucking accomplished. If you want to be a Debbie Downer for no reason at least make the ending make sense
AND COMMIT TO IT. None of this Normandy surviving on a stranded planet bullshit or the Earth being saved when in reality the people on earth and almost all the aliens there are doomed to die a horrible death. And if Shepard has to die in the good ending as well as the bad endings then so be it. I wish I had a good example of a sudden tonal shift ruining something but I am drawing a blank at the moment.
4. No there is ONE ending with very slight variations and the exact same ramifications at the end. That is not even getting into the details on why ANY of the endings would make sense. One has a dead Shepard controlling the Reapers the other has the Reapers just leaving because synthetics and organics are now one for whatever reason despite that not being physically possible in the first place and the laughable idea that this is the 'apex' of evolution. My choice destroy, seemed to be the lesser of 3 evils so I chose that but it still made no sense because it destroyed all synthetics including the geth which made no sense, what would be the ramifications if I theoretically blew up all machines? How would destroying synthetics and building new ones still doom us (this goes back the the Xzibit paradox)? I could go into more depth but this would require me to put way more thought into the endings than I would like.
5. The 'it is all about the journey' excuse doesn't fly here. Why? Because almost every choice you can make pretty much goes against everything you have done up to that point making everyone's sacrifices pointless. Again a lot has been said about this so I won't go into it any further.
6. Is it? I mean if they wanted speculation then why the fuck not. The taste the rainbow endings are the visual equivalent of fading to black anyway with no wrap up (aside from Buzz Aldrin's awful VA) and no closure on what happened to any of our heroes. At least with the Sopranoes most people can say with confidence Tony died when the series ended (since the series ends when he 'ends') but we don't even get that with Shepard. Instead we get a half-hearted teaser with a breath in one or two endings which ultimately means nothing with the ramifications of the endings dooming humanity anyway.
Sorry I wrote so much on the subject but I just wanted to give my two cents on the topic before I went back to joking around.