I'm wondering if there's still a chance that we'll see more: I'd resigned myself to Bioware having binned its popular franchises since Hudson apparently dedicated their efforts to pursing his Great White Elephant, whatever it's called, but just heard that there is a Dragon Age IV (actual name TBA) in the works which suggests to me that they may do more ME as well.
I suppose I feel almost trollish for suggesting it, though it honestly isn't my intent, that the best chance of recovering the series is just to admit they absolutely screwed up in every way with ME3 and that it should no longer be considered canonical; I guess a bit like the Peter Cushing Doctor Who films, which I loved but which are kind of problematic for the franchise as a whole. ME3 was so clumsily handled and just stripped away the mystique of the series in a very man-behind-the-curtains sort of way. Interesting how those first three MEs kind of mimic the Alien series in terms of how they were: first was much more deep, mysterious and a bit scary; second was much shooty and more gung-ho; and the third just suffered too many re-writes without knowing either what it wanted to be or where it was going.
It's not the only game where I feel the same way. Another one is Bioshock Infinite, which is itself a controversial choice, especially as some felt it was Levine's attempt to say "this is how Bioshock II should've been done": but my opinions are perhaps already controversial in that I prefer II to the original in some ways! But the post-ending DLC, as much as I loved playing it, really didn't sit well with me for various reasons: it was a really fun "what if...?" but redacted and retconned too much stuff from the series to be taken seriously. And I hated its ambiguous and seemingly fatalistic ending.
As I suspected, though seemingly as a minority opinion, she didn't actually die, as confirmed by Levine himself; though sadly with a "just because she's awesome" explanation rather than some of the rather more elegant theories put forward by players.
Blimey, I am meandering about rather a lot with this. It's obviously that time of day. Weren't we talking about chainmail bikinis or something?
