Kotaku Games DiaryThe latest thoughts from a Kotaku staff about a game we’re playing.It did not start as something I did not try to do. It just happened. The year was 2012. I reached the point in Mass effect 3 where it felt like I was one or two loose points away from the grand finale. Then I stopped for different reasons. It has been almost a decade since then. Somehow, despite the infinitely growing spoiler galaxy that is the internet, I still do not know how the first Mass effect trilogy ends.
I do not like it Mass effect 3. I have! It was a sequel to my favorite game about hanging out with cool strangers, Mass effect 2, which was again a sequel to my favorite game about spending time with cool strangers in bad cars and worse elevators, Mass effect 1. But when I realize that the end is near to games where the main attraction is with buttons from worlds out there, I tend to pump the brakes. I do not want games (or books or TV shows or whatever you have) to be over; therefore I leave it in a state of perfect stasis. Anything can still happen. No matter, it means I miss the real time I would spend on characters; brains are not rational things.
Clearly I know about it the controversy. It played a role in my slow abandonment of the game. I heard the ending was bad, or at least unsatisfactory, and I did not want the last second to have a multi-game experience that I would otherwise have liked. But also, that’s all there was to it, and I’m just getting sick of hearing about it Mass effect in general. Whether the ending was bad or not, it was discouraging to watch thousands of people in drum-tearing harmony shout for a studio to undo its artistic choices. It went without saying that the whole event would set the scene for more ugly things to come – that it would just be another day in video games every time a wandering troop of self-proclaimed “fans” tormented and harassed developers over, say, change a few butt shots that were badly ordered afterwards, from their own. I did not want to remember it more than I had to, so I pressed a pause on me Mass effect play through.
Initially, I avoided spoilers out of a sincere belief that I would complete the game within a few weeks or a few months. Then a year passed. Then a year becomes two years and two years five. Around six or seven years, it became a kind of personal challenge to see how long I could not know the details of this thing, which somehow became unimportant, despite its terrifying importance for one of the first internet people who were hard enough to go down in history. . The moment has already taken place, and it would have set a miserable precedent, no matter what people riot about. Meanwhile, I no longer felt much for my specific permutation of the Mass effect cast more. It was years after all.
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It was surprisingly easy to just … not find out. I aimed to avoid articles and videos specifically mentioned Mass effect 3‘s end, but otherwise, I did not really do my best to avoid spoilage. I read a lot of articles about Mass effect it did not end there – including wild and riotous commentary sections where someone could strike me, fierce anger in their eyes, and recite every line of the final scene word-for-word. But it never happened. This is what I know: there are three versions of the ending. They coded color for some reason. Everyone has a name that probably reveals something about it, but I forgot it.
I admit that I probably doomed myself by writing this article. Someone on Twitter will try this for me to spoil the ending for me, and they will probably succeed. It will be a bummer because the Mass effect remaster rekindled my interest in reaching the end for myself. But at the same time, I did not know for nine years; I will live whether I will ever find out or not.
Like I said before, the reason I play these games is to hang out with characters I like. In the time since Mass effect 3’s causing the end of an anthill to explode unconsciously, the characters of the game – to a greater extent even than they had at the time – took up their own lives and escaped the idea of ’cannon’ containing them. Mountains of fan art, fan fiction and discussion mean I could live a thousand lives with them if I wanted to. No end can invalidate it, nor would it ever happen. Endings are just suggestions. They tell you it might be time to move on, but that does not mean you can not come back later.