Mass Effect 3: You're wrong, but that's ok
I often find myself in conversations with people who seem to think that a particular game really ought to be played and enjoyed by everybody . These people are wrong, but that’s beside the point. In spite of being wrong though, they allow me to bring up a better point: some games just aren’t meant for some people. Before we start, let’s all just agree that it’s okay to have different goals and different emphases and it’s okay to be someone who enjoys some parts of a game and not others. Still, what I’d eventually like to say is that it’s not okay to misinterpret that dislike for some kind of fundamental error in design logic and subsequently disregard the quality of the game as a whole, because what that does is shut your mind off to the possibility that you might actually enjoy something that doesn’t meet your expectations. Case in point: Mass Effect 3 . It’s no coincidence that I’m using Mass Effect 3 as an example here. This article is a direct response to t
