I think this will be a love it or hate it game.

Ok calm down I never treated anyone of snowflake, like NEVER. I said something before about that but I will have to repeat it : I was speaking about the extremists.  If you just thought mass effect 3 was bad, its not a problem. you can think whatever you want about mass effect 3, you can write a novel about how bad you think it is if you wish so. As long as you don't insult the people who don't think differently than you, that is totally fine.

The problem are about the extremists who see conspiracy the second someone gives a bioware game a good review, you may disagree with angry joe when he gives ME 3 an 8 out of 10. Totally fine to disagree with his score, I myself don't always agree with him, and that is fine. BUT accusing him of corruption and being paid by EA, even if he never miss them when they do something shitty  : 

It has happened A LOT, some people cannot accept the fact that other gamer THINKS theses games are good, their only explanation for the good score is "these people are paid by a corporation to say that" the ockham razor theory never comes to their mind that MAYBE that person just thinks these products are genuinely good games. For the extremists (not the one who makes constructive criticsm) its impossible that someone sees thing differently. Well here I am, thinking all bioware games have been good since the very first mass effect (with the exception of dragon age 2) and I am certainly not paid to say that. And just to be more accurate, I SEE THEM AS GOOD GAMES, not just enjoy them, I think they are good and I am not ashamed of that.

Nobody forces you to think like angry joe or projared when they both putted mass effect 3 in their top 10 games of 2012, my point was about the extremists not the people who don't think much of ME 3, and yes there is a huge differences.


And I never said that people should never except criticsm on the internet, I actually never even spoke that, I spoke about the paranoid conspiracy theorist. But you apperently thought it was about you for some reasons? If you think the writing is not good in ME 3, well all right, but that was not the subject AT ALL. It was not about the criticism of the game, it was about the extremism of some people. Thinking and criticising ME 3 is not a problem and I never said it was, I actually written that not all people who disliked mass effect 3 are extremist.

Now about the spoiler, you see when I was in school, I had to read an Agatha Chirstie novel and I did not wanted to do that, like REALLY NOT. You know what I did? I decided to read the last page to immediatly know who was the killer to make sure my experience would be as boring as possible. Because some people were telling me that this novel might no be as boring as the other books, but I was thick headed and I did not wanted this experiece to be good, so I sabotaged it myself by spoiling the story. 

When you decide to not care about spoiler, well YOU decided to spoil yourself the story, YOU decided to have  no surprises with the plot, YOU decided to not have an experience where you will discover the word that is suppose to be unknown to you. You see that's the thing, some story elements are made for you to not know them before playing, if you know them before, you ruin a part of your own experience. And that is not bioware's fault if you decided that, you decided to have no surprise and therefore having a lesser experience.

For exemple in mass effect 2, someone who did not watch ANY trailers would have a better experience than the ones who decided to watch all of them. Because the trailer showed grunt as a korgan companion, however you are not supposed to know that before you play, you are suppose to think that warlord okeer is going to fill that role. But since grunt appear in the marketing and not okeer, you knew okeer is not going to survive the korlus mission and his subjects will be your companion, therefore making the situation much less effective and is death predictable.

Same for the archangel mission, its suppose to be a surprise that he and garrus are the same person, but since the marketing make sure to spoil that scene, the reveal is not effective at all. we identify far less with sheppard when he is asking question about archangel because the player knew who he was and therefore all the situation, all the questioning on him before he removes his mask were pointless because there is no feeling of discovery or anything. we already know what its going to lead to.

Now I am not saying you would have loved mass effect andromeda even while not spoiling yourself, maybe you would have hated this game even by not watching any trailer or clip, that is possible. BUT what happen here is that because you feared dissapointment so much, you thought it was worth spoiling yourself the feeling of discovery or surprise. You decided to sacrifice a bit of your experience just to be 100% sure to not have dissapointment, and that is not bioware responsability if you decided to do that while you could have chosen to not do it. 

And I want you to think of this, the people who decided to not spoil themselves are probably going to enjoy this game more than you do. because they are going to discover it when they play, NOT with trailers or clips. There is going to have a sense of discovery for them, a feeling of surprise that you won't have because you decided to not care about spoiler. So if someone come with a good review of MEA, would you understand why maybe they had a better experience than you had? Think about this.