all made up with nowhere to go

I've spent the morning (and some of the afternoon) reading the comments on this (warning: link is reddit, if you don't like the place. I avoid it usually but google threw me this link and I thought I'd check it out).

It's a interesting read and, for the most part, a pretty sensible discussion (also most of the comments here are WAY more sensible than a lot of those encountered on the BSN). Although the further down you go, the more it descends into THE ENDING WAS SHIT IF YOU DON'T THINK SO YOU'RE WRONG.

(Personally, I thought the ending was fitting, although I do wish it had been handled in a different way. I agree with them that The Catalyst feels like a cop-out, because it does. But I like being given the choice of what to do.

Also on a side note: the ME wikia for ME3 makes no mention of not having the Extended Cut installed, because I mean why would you ever play it without it you must be crazy right).

I found it interesting and happy-making to see that I am not the only person who thinks ME1 is the best. Also that there is disappointment with the actionised sequels. This is a thought that crossed my mind last night as I did the turian bomb on Tuchanka quest. I spent ages gunning down husks and a Harvester and man, I was bored out of my mind. I don't mind killing things but honestly, I don't want to have to repeatedly kill things for ten to fifteen minutes. If I wanted to play an FPS, I'd buy Call of Duty.

(I don't want to play an FPS. I was surprised enough when I realised shooting things was an integral part of the first game).

(Man, I miss running over geth with the Mako).

(Also someone in there agrees with me about Star Trek: Voyager being good. Because it was. And it was the only Star Trek I watched and enjoyed. Oddly though, Syfy are running repeats right now, and I have no desire to ever watch it again).

I do wish the Dark Energy storyline had been carried on, though, although I don't know that it would've done any good for the Reapers, if you see what I mean (one thing I like about 1 is that the Reapers are ancient and unknowable, and it remains that way to some extent throughout 2, but come 3, they have weak-sauce motivation, and I'm not so happy about that. I'd prefer that we didn't get an explanation for them, it makes for a creepier story in the end.

Here's the original article those Reddit comments are about. There's heck of an interesting comment from Hell_Toupee (they say that maybe the Reapers initially started as a small race, then evolved, and have kept committing this cycle for so long that now they don't know why they do it, they just do. Which is hella interesting to me). But check out the comment, because they say a bit more than I surmised there.

(YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS. TOO MANY OKAPIS AND NOT ENOUGH BUTTS. Thank you, Ursula V, you are the gift that keeps on giving :) )

I'm going to shut up about it now, because while I do enjoy the story as a whole, there are things about 2 and 3 that I really don't like and start getting irritated about if I stop and think about it. So I'm not going to do that. I'm going to nap instead, because I can.

(P.S. Totally not sure this post had a point, but oh well. Here it is).

ETA: Interesting nerdy stuff about the differences in endings here (from an IGN wiki) /eta