Sunday, November 08, 2009

Does Anyone Really Prefer Alternate Endings?

I've just started Mass Effect (the first one, 2 years or so late), and while I tend not to enjoy this type of typical BioWare-style RPG (I couldn't get into Knights of the Republic), it was just too cheap not to take a chance on. I assume that it'll have multiple endings based on your choices in the dialog trees, and I already don't like that aspect. One of the things that I've always appreciated about Japanese RPGs is that the plots are generally always fairly immutable and very linear in their unfolding.

Admittedly, I never really liked those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, but at least they were tolerable because they were short. If you made the wrong decision and fell into a pit of spikes, you only lost about 10 minutes of your life. A game, on the other hand, has probably taken 40 hours or so by its conclusion. The general principle of assigning consequences to your actions, I don't have a problem with. But in practice, it's a nightmare, because you have no idea how some of your obscure actions will affect the ending. I hate getting the shitty "fake" ending because I didn't collect the special orb and give it to the old man who lives in the hut on the edge of the town that only shows up if you talked to the princess in the beginning and told her that she resembles your sister.

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